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"He sounds like a madman," Brees said about the Saints' former defensive coordinator. He sounds reckless, careless. Even that rhetoric doesn't belong in the game."

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"I wouldn't back off of that because I know that that's true," Brees said. "I know that there are a lot of guys that look at some of the things the commissioner has done, the way that he's acted, and what seems to be at times maybe a knee-jerk reaction or perhaps maybe his intentions were a little different than what is kind of claimed to be. That's something that obviously we hope can change. We hope can get better. "But I think the way the bounty allegations were handled, I thought was horrendous."

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