Brees on Sean Payton's contract situation

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"Yeah, you know honestly, I haven't really worried about that," Brees said. "It seems like there's been enough going on here for us to focus on and really try not to think about that. I'm very confident that Sean will be back here in New Orleans. So (we've) just been trying to focus on football and not think about that."

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I think everybody is making a much bigger deal out of this than it needs to be," Brees said. "I know it's a big topic and that kind of thing. We have enough motivation for why we want to win this game and everything else. Is it easy motivation that I know that Coach Payton is less than 20 miles away watching the game on TV as opposed to a couple 100 miles away? No.

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"I guess it doesn't really make a difference to us; he's always with us, even though we haven't been able to talk to him or communicate with him. That's been tough and that's been difficult. It is what it is. We've just try to manage."

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