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Posted on 2/27/13 at 2:15 pm to TigerintheNO
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So Vilma & Smith are a lock to restructure their's?
Well it is either that or they are going to get cut. They need to decide if they want to gamble on free agency + what they get from getting cut
Posted on 2/27/13 at 2:20 pm to TigerBait1127
Knowing Brees counts against the cap at almost 30 mil in the next few years really scares me. Every time I can remember a player with that size cap hit and at that age, they end up cut for much less on the cap or the team is absolutely dreadful due to a lack of talent. I'm all for the win now mind set, but even if he were to restructure his current year cap hit, it only hurst us in the long run. I don't see Loomis touching Drew's contract unless it's absolutely necessary which from the way things look...it may just be.
Posted on 2/27/13 at 2:25 pm to Bduhon55
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. Every time I can remember a player with that size cap hit and at that age, they end up cut for much less on the cap or the team is absolutely dreadful due to a lack of talent.
like when?
We don't know what is going to happen with the salary cap over the next few years
Posted on 2/27/13 at 2:33 pm to whodatfan
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Restructure what? You cannot restructure that beast of a contract. You just can't. He fricked himself teamwise and will play with mediocre to substandard teammates the rest of his career because of it.
Brees got what he was entitled to, in line with the market. It's ridiculous for you to expect anything otherwise. So Brees should be playing for league minimum? Hell, if Brees even took $10M a year, the NFLPA would be throwing his arse into an arbitration hearing. Brees is doing what every other player in sports, no- every other human being alive- is doing: using his skill sets to make the most amount of money he can.
I love when fans want players to accept less. Do you think owners work this way? The Saints agreed to pay Will Smith an ungodly amount of money for the 2013 season. He hasn't performed so guess what- he gets cut. If Colston gets in a life-changing car wreck tomorrow- he gets cut. Why do we expect players not to do the same thing?
This post was edited on 2/27/13 at 2:34 pm
Posted on 2/27/13 at 2:40 pm to Breesus
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play for free? advertising money is enough to live on
It's interesting how the most conservative, red state capitalists espouse freedom in every aspect of their lives except when it comes to their sports team. If I told you that the general public/government/other citzens should get to decide how much money a person needs to live on, most people get upset. Yet here we are, furious at Drew Brees and trying to tell him how much money he deserves to make. He's worth whatever his agent and Tom Benson signed him for.
Posted on 2/27/13 at 2:43 pm to ClientNumber9
Brees's situation isn't as big of a deal as some are making it out to be so long as the Saints are willing to suck for a year or two after he's done. They can just extend him into years that both sides know he won't be playing in, convert base salary over the next few years into signing bonuses that push guaranteed money into those "no way he plays" seasons, and just take a massive (say $20m) cap hit when they finally cut him. At that point they'll almost certainly have a QB on a cheap rookie contract that Drew has been mentoring, so you could just see it as paying our potential QB of the future Drew type money for a season in which we're probably going to suck anyway.
Posted on 2/27/13 at 2:43 pm to ClientNumber9
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. Do you think owners work this way?
if they did, they would set a salary cap for each position and increase the salary cap all together.
Posted on 2/27/13 at 2:46 pm to THRILLHO
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Brees's situation isn't as big of a deal as some are making it out to be so long as the Saints are willing to suck for a year or two after he's done. They can just extend him into years that both sides know he won't be playing in, convert base salary over the next few years into signing bonuses that push guaranteed money into those "no way he plays" seasons, and just take a massive (say $20m) cap hit when they finally cut him. At that point they'll almost certainly have a QB on a cheap rookie contract that Drew has been mentoring, so you could just see it as paying our potential QB of the future Drew type money for a season in which we're probably going to suck anyway.
Posted on 2/27/13 at 4:04 pm to whodatfan
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Restructure what? You cannot restructure that beast of a contract. You just can't. He fricked himself teamwise and will play with mediocre to substandard teammates the rest of his career because of it.
And you think Brees gives a shite about that???? He got his and to hell with the rest.
But my man is a "team player".
Posted on 2/27/13 at 4:09 pm to lighter345
DONT MAKE FUN OF KEANU REEVES , BITCH
Posted on 2/27/13 at 4:51 pm to Hoodoo Man
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Posted on 2/27/13 at 5:12 pm to fladohado
Sure he would because it would come from signing bonuses!
Posted on 2/27/13 at 6:35 pm to adono
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He got his and to hell with the rest.
I wish you ignorant fcks would find somewhere else to play.
Posted on 2/27/13 at 6:42 pm to notiger1997
These ignorant fricks are gonna talk shite now, and we win a Super Bowl they gonna be calling Brees a God.
Posted on 2/27/13 at 7:27 pm to ClientNumber9
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ClientNumber9
Way too serious
Posted on 2/27/13 at 7:51 pm to Macintosh504
Keanu is the man don't worry he thinks it's funny too
Posted on 3/1/13 at 11:33 pm to fladohado
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"I am always willing to consider anything that will help the team or the cap situation"
Brees is always willing to say the right thing.
Posted on 3/2/13 at 8:32 am to whodatfan
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