The relationship between a quarterback and a franchise is just like any other committed and often romantic relationship. Sometimes both individuals in the relationship are perfect and happy and everything goes hunky-dory. But usually relationships don’t work out like that. Whether the guy is a cheating bastard or the girl is a lying b****, often times one person is a much better catch then the other person and one person doesn’t deserve the catch they have.
Drew Brees is on all accounts, a smoking hot 10. I can’t imagine why there would be any tension or delay in the contract talks between Drew Brees and the Saints organization. I personally expected Brees to be all wrapped up and in a bow sitting pretty before May. This lack of communication in the deal-making process is astonishing to me. If the New Orleans Saints don’t start kissing his @$$, he’s going to break up with them in what will be known as the most cataclysmic six months any NFL franchise has ever seen.
Drew Brees is a 6-time Pro Bowl quarterback, former Super Bowl MVP, 2008 Offensive Player of the Year and just happens to be the fellow who just broke Dan Marino’s passing record last season. Not in 2009, his Super Bowl season, but this last season. Not only is this man extremely talented, but he also happens to have the worst franchise dating luck in the world.
His ex (the Chargers) was a complicated partner that was having serious father issues and Drew Brees was the one who had to pay the price. It was like a high school relationship. The were dating Brees, flirting with Doug Flutie to piss off their parents and talking crap about a youthful Phillip Rivers. This is exemplified during an unimportant and unnecessary game between the 9-6 not-playoff-bound Chargers and the reigning AFC West champs, the Denver Broncos. Drew Brees was tossed into the arena and received a heart wrenching 360-degree labrum tear from a painful and I repeat, unnecessary, ménage trois of painful tackles from John Lynch and Gerard Warren that could have ended his career. This was Drew Brees’s last gift from his first professional football relationship.
But there are more fish in the sea right? Brees must have optimistically believed the same thing as he swam into the arms of a very welcoming New Orleans Saints organization. They wined him and they dined him. They enticed him with pretty words and he repaid them with 5 Pro Bowl seasons out of the last 6, their only Super Bowl win and a possible franchise quarterback who can most aptly be described like fine wine. He seems to get better with age.
But the honeymoon is long over. The true colors of the Saints organization have been revealed in an off-season that has redefined the very term ‘penalties’ in the NFL. Brees’s current significant other has been called a criminal and a monster that has been accused of violating not only NFL policy, but possibly federal law. The dating equivalent of these implications is on par to finding out that your boyfriend of 6 years is being called a woman beating liar who secretly hid a recorder in another guys bedroom to try and learn his tricks in bed. Brees has definitively taken another look at the little guy on his shoulder from his time in San Diego. Some scars don’t heal, and some crimes can’t be forgiven. I’m not saying that what the Saints have done is irrevocable. I’m just saying Drew Brees has a lot more then a salary number to think about.
For an organization like the Saints, Drew Brees is your last chance at having an untainted face for your organization. They should give him whatever he wants and more. Throw in a fruit basket just to make sure he’s happy because if the Saints lose Drew Brees, their franchise is looking like a terminally ill patient. All of the pain that they have experienced in the last six months will become nothing to the horror that would follow if Drew Brees left the Saints. For a player like Drew Brees, the Saints organization is a risk that some people wouldn’t take.
Lets get hypothetical:
If Drew Brees hit the free market tomorrow, who would be interested? After seeing what happened over Matt Flynn, the better question is who wouldn’t be interested? I could only imagine Green Bay, Denver and New England not calling, but I guarantee you if Brees called them, they would at least pick up the phone. We just experienced quarterback mayhem in this offseason that is incomparable in NFL history. The value and the need are through the roof and Drew Brees is a top-shelf product. Look at what happened over Peyton Manning and imagine what would happen over a product that is three years younger and according to Madden has more Old Spice Swagger. No number would be too high for Drew Brees, and no contract would be too short. If Drew Brees leaves the New Orleans Saints, the sky is the limit.
The Saints are facing a situation similar to a boyfriend who just got accused of unsavory things twice in one month. And just like the dirty cheating boyfriend, the Saints should stop the charade and get on their knees and beg for Drew Brees to sign another contract. Because right now, Brees is the boss and the Saints need to realize that.
Theodore Kim
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