NFL: Brees Confident Saints Keep Key People

Dree Brees said he would be "beyond stunned" if he couldn't get a extension deal done with the Saints this offseason. He also thinks that his deal won't take away money from other key players that need to be signed. Brees said...

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"My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time," Brees said Friday by phone from his offseason home in San Diego. "We all kind of work together on this thing.

"Put it this way: I'm not worried one bit about my contract or our ability to keep guys at key positions."

"Is it realistic to think we can keep absolutely everybody? I don't know how realistic that is just because every year on a team there's turnover and I think that's just the business we're in,"

"It's been an unbelievable journey over the last six years to watch how far, not only our organization and out team, but just the mental psyche of the city" has improved, Brees said.

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