re: Schefter on Brees

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I'm not surprised one bit that this is taking till the last minute.

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Again, I'm not surprised that it's taking this long NOW. It should have been done years ago to prevent it from getting to this point.

The Saints lost any leverage they may have had by letting Drew play out the contract.

We would have signed him for WAAAAAAY less money two years ago while he still had 2 years left on a deal than we will this week.

Brees now has no reason to negotiate really. Two years ago, all he would have been looking for was a reasonable bump from his current deal.

Now, we have nothing holding him. He can basically ask for whatever he wants because if we won't pay him, someone else will.

We have NO leverage.

It's the same reason there is ZERO chance we keep Nicks if we don't have the tag available to keep him.