Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints
Any team that needed a quarterback last year had to be looking at Drew Brees. This week in Pro Football Weekly they interview Drew with an article called “Brees aims to make Saints a winner “. Did we ever think it would get to this?
At West Lake High School in Texas, Drew was the Texas Class 5A MVP. If you know anything about Texas high school football, you know it is absolutely crazy down there. They live for their football. We should have known then he would be good, but we doubted. He did not look like a quarterback.
By the time his 4 years at Purdue University were over, Drew had broken all the records. He was not only the Purdue career leader in attempts, completions, yards, touchdowns, and total offense, he was the Big Ten conference leader! Still we looked at him and we doubted.
Side Note Drew destroyed my MSU Spartans. With his quick feet and their quick pass offense, no defensive end or linebacker could come close to him. He led the nation in total offense his senior year at 258.1 yards per game.
Isn’t he kind of short? 6 foot maybe? Isn’t he kind of light? 210 maybe. Doesn’t Purdue’s offense engineered by Coach Joe Tiller just make all quarterbacks look good?…
The awards poured in and we said “well, he is a great college quarterback, but that won’t work in the pros. He will be exposed”.
The 2001 NFL draft came along. San Diego traded the 1st pick to Atlanta for the number 5 pick. Atlanta chose Michael Vick (”Now there is a quarterback”, we said). San Diego took LaDainian Tomlinson (a great back).
The Miami Dolphins or my beloved troubled Detroit Lions were supposed to pick Drew. Can’t explain why Miami passed on him, but typical of Detroit. (at least Detroit chose Jeff Bachus, a solid tackle from University of Michigan. They get one half right once in a while.). Both teams passed on Drew and he went to San Diego with the first pick of the second round. (”Well, we knew he would not go in the first round”, we said.)
Three up and down pro years later, San Diego drafted Phillip Rivers and it looked like Drews days were over. Fans complained of Drew’s lack of arm strength. (”He has a weak arm”, we hollered).
He responded with his best season and made the pro bowl. The next year San Diego made him the franchise player designation to keep him around. (”hey, we knew all along he would be a great quarterback”)
After that season, Drew went free agent and signed with New Orleans for 6 years and 60 Million dollars. (”Told you he was great!”, we exclaimed)
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