re: Drew Brees is the 2nd Most Pressured QB in the NFL

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Ppl in LA act like we owe Drew the friggan world, last I checked teams weren't beating his door down when he left SD, we took a chance on him when ppl doubted he could play and it worked out for both parties, while he made 60 mil in the process.

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Yeah, and when we took the chance, signed him to a 6yr/60million dollar contract. Then his play outplayed his contract and not one peep of you guys said "he should get paid more than 10mil/yr". Now the question comes, did he once ever complain during those 6 years that he will hold out? Nope. He knew we took a gamble with him and he knew what he had done/accomplished, but he sat and waited while he was putting up better numbers in that span than most QBs and on equal footing with the league's best.

So yes, his 20mil is fine. Guess what too, his 20mil/yr in 2014 is ~15% of the total cap (133mil).

In 2011, Eli's 16.5mil was 13.75% of the total cap (123mil)

So really, going based off %, his cap hit means shite. He's getting off his arse a lot, wanna know why we know?

Because he's getting hit a lot by defensive lineman that are dominating our overpaid 16mil interior line.

It isn't about the money, because if it was his open market value would be even higher than what we paid him. If it was, he'd sit out and go to the highest bidder. What it is about is value and worth, and at the time a top 5 elite QB was getting paid >18mil/yr