Beast Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 (edited) Per Bleacher Report Brees announces it on IG. Edited March 14, 2021 by Beast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiltonWaddams Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 An all-time great career and sure fire first ballot Hall of Famer. Sad to see him only win one Super Bowl, but them’s the breaks. You can’t say his team didn’t put everything they had behind him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 One of my all time favorite players. Class act his entire career Enjoy retirement 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whkfc Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 (edited) Saints are restructuring QB Taysom Hill’s contract to create cap room. Details are great: it’s a 4-year, $140 million contract extension - but all years are voidable and it’s a mechanism to free up cap space this year, per source. It saves Saints over $7.5M against cap this year. They are paying Taysom Hill 35 million a year. Edited March 14, 2021 by Whkfc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TailgateChef Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 25 minutes ago, MiltonWaddams said: An all-time great career and sure fire first ballot Hall of Famer. Sad to see him only win one Super Bowl, but them’s the breaks. You can’t say his team didn’t put everything they had behind him. Better than 0-4. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJB Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 (edited) I'm shocked. Utterly shocked. Edited March 14, 2021 by DJB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiltonWaddams Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 4 minutes ago, TailgateChef said: Better than 0-4. That is a fair statement. I’m pretty sure that, on this board at least, that goes without saying. In fact, maybe never mention it again and we can be friends 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah John Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Sad to see him go. At the end of last year, he was barely playing better than Peyton Manning (my personal GOAT) was playing at the end of HIS career. Both only a shell of themselves, getting by on experience, wiles, and game management. I'm afraid that a generation of fans will see the Brees of the last year or two and wonder what all the fuss was about. People will compare aged Brees or aged Manning with current Brady, and figure Brady must always have been better than either of them. Not true. Where Brady was a cunning surgeon, using a great game plan and his own great talents to pick apart defenses, Brees was a strap it on, let's go get them fighter. I admire both approaches but Brees was a lot more fun to watch. Peyton Manning could be either of those two styles, as the situation dictated, and that's why I think he's the GOAT. 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locomark Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Add another 2021 game to the obvious victory column... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsFan619 Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 3 minutes ago, Locomark said: Add another 2021 game to the obvious victory column... Let’s hope for 4-0 in their division. Just bring on TB and the Bucs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talley56 Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 To think how close he came to being a Dolphin. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Drew Brees retires from NFL after 20 seasons ESPN as well 2 hours ago, Beast said: Per Bleacher Report Brees announces it on IG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brennan Huff Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Remember when Miami signed Culpepper instead of Brees? What a bunch of losers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njbuff Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 The Bills NEVER beat Brees. 0-4 1 minute ago, njbuff said: The Bills NEVER beat Brees. 0-4 Actually, the Bills beat the Chargers in 2002 when Brees started, but Doug Flutie finished that game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transient Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 6 hours ago, Locomark said: Add another 2021 game to the obvious victory column... If you think the Saints had a better chance against the Bills with Brees than whomever they eventually roll out in 2021 you haven’t been paying attention. Brees may have finally retired, but his arm called it quits in 2019. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T master Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 He had to get with his CPA to see if he had enough cash to retire before he announced it to the team 🤔 ... He didn't want to have to down size to a 3/2 in a couple of yrs . Poor guy i hope he can make his money last !! 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thurman#1 Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 10 hours ago, transient said: If you think the Saints had a better chance against the Bills with Brees than whomever they eventually roll out in 2021 you haven’t been paying attention. Brees may have finally retired, but his arm called it quits in 2019. Yeah, great point. It's so easy to replace a QB who completed 70.5% of his passes, threw 24 TDs and 6 INTs, had 8.1 yards per attempt and a passer rating of 106.4. Not for his career. Those were his stats last year. He wasn't what he had been but he was still very very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wppete Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 Thank god 🙏!!! Enough of that guy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFunPolice Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 Class act, and a true great. I feel bad for Brees that his career ended with 4 straight heartbreaking losses in the playoffs when his team was supposed to win. New Orleans has been totally stacked for years now on offense and defense, which is why they are in cap hell now. If you think about it, the Saints just had a span of 4 consecutive seasons where they really should have been in 3 or 4 of the last Super Bowls. Can't win a 2nd ring if you're not in the game. 4 years in a row of heartbreak and coming up short... The Minnesota Miracle The Rams non called PI The Saints getting called for PI in the end zone in OT to end the game The Cook fumble when the Saints were about to put the game away against TB this year in the 3rd quarter and go up 14 Brees very easily could have retired with 3 rings, maybe even 4. But you have to get to the game to win it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locomark Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 13 hours ago, transient said: If you think the Saints had a better chance against the Bills with Brees than whomever they eventually roll out in 2021 you haven’t been paying attention. Brees may have finally retired, but his arm called it quits in 2019. That’s a bad take sorry. He is still better than Hill by far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transient Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 1 hour ago, Thurman#1 said: Yeah, great point. It's so easy to replace a QB who completed 70.5% of his passes, threw 24 TDs and 6 INTs, had 8.1 yards per attempt and a passer rating of 106.4. Not for his career. Those were his stats last year. He wasn't what he had been but he was still very very good. 67.9% 9TDs and 2 INTs, 5-1 and 72.7% 8TDs (4 passing, 4 rushing) and 2 INTs, 3-1 - those were Bridgewater's and Hills numbers in relief the last 2 seasons. That team was stacked and made a push to win a SB in 2020 with Brees, and they miscalculated, now they're having to tear it down because they're $100M over the cap. It doesn't take away from Brees career, but he looked brutal for long stretches in 2020. I live in NOLA and saw just about every game. When he came back from the rib fractures, Payton should have stuck to the running game and protected him the way they were doing with Hill, and the way Denver did with Manning. He was out of gas at the end of 2019 as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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