Drew Brees gets PAID
 

Chris Mortensen ‏@mortreport

,@DrewBrees, #Saints reach agreement on 5 yr, $100-mill deal, including $40 mill in year 1; $60 mill guaranteed in 1st 3 yr. More on #ESPN

Wow

Offer the Saints a 1st and Cassel and see if they'll bite. Never hurts to try!!!/dumbasses

The Beatles' "Taxman" started playing in my head

It was inevitable. Now we can move forward, secure in the knowledge, that KC isn't going to make a move for Brees and we are going to stick with Marv Kasl through this season.

Holy......

Was kinda hoping Brees would miss all of training camp. Denver plays the Saints pretty early in the season.

I still think we can get him.

Great news! Now Pioli can get the trade done and Brees is coming to kansas city!!! / CP dumbassery

Honestly, I thought he would get a little more...good deal for both sides.

Pioli missed out bigtime by not offering Cassel and a couple late round picks for Brees.

great., now that Brees has this, it's only going to make us pay even more to re-sign Cassel

Cassell is a straight bargain

That's why no playoff wins since 93

oh god no, dont even go there. :LOL:

More than $40 million for the first year? That has to be some kind of record.

:thumb:

I think Cassell was like 14 in 1993.

Let's just blame the entire franchises struggles on him, shall we?

this is exactly why his parents should've practiced safe secks.

Nothing "straight" or "bargain" about his shitty QB play.

Ok, there is The Beatles "Taxman" then there is Stevie Ray Vaughn "Taxman"


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That is all on our crappy management that loves to get shitty QBs to manage the game for us. We have had only two good QBs since 1991. One is a Hall of Famer the other didn't get the benefit of a defense.

Don't forget the one we gift wrapped to Oakland...:banghead:

defense and game managers win championships. just look at Chicago, Baltimore and Tampa Bay. / homers

and the Black Oak Arkansas version:
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Those teams winning Super Bowls is the only thing that gives me a glimmer of hope for our team. It's a different era now days of course, but if our defense and running game plays absolutely lights out and some shit goes our way, perhaps we could win a god damn playoff game...

I didn't include Gannon because he wasn't brought here to be a starter.

They don't play each other until week 8. But don't worry, following the inevitable Peyton Manning injury, they will be long out of the playoff hunt by then.

He deserved it.

LMAO

Are you talking about the 85 Bears? Chicago hasn't won a Super Bowl since then

He can pretty much say goodbye to winning another super bowl now

but he got paid

Damn $40M in the first year?

But they still talk about it up here like it was last week.

Charles Johnson of the Panthers got paid $34 million last year

http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/dish...s-nfl-salaries

Drew Brees

Cheap money for NO.

Yep. Considering all that has happened to them this year they HAD to get this done.
How much $ did they save this year due to the suspensions?

That's not an unreasonable contract at all.

He probably has 3 years at an elite level left, followed by a couple of decline seasons. They can give him his massive money up front and perhaps approach him about restructuring the last 2 years into a 5-year deal that allows him to finish out his playing years in that 'ambassador' role as they try to re-shape their offense post-Brees.

When you have an elite QB, you pay what it takes. That deal is extremely reasonable given Bree's ability and performance in NO.

These.

$40M the first year? that's more than my team makes combined in one year"!/Clark

FYP.

ouch....that one hurt to read.

40 million for one guy? Pfffft. I field an entire pro team for less than that. ****ing idiot amatuers.

[/David Glass]

exactly.
"$40?....that'll get you 3 Boomer Grigsby's, 4 Sammie Parkers, 4 Brodie Croyles, 2 Eric Warfields, 10 William Bartees, and 8 Jordan Blacks" / Clark/Carl

Well I was talkin about the Bears, Bucs and Ravens

Breese deserves every penny of the contract and it makes perfect business sense for NO to get the contract done given the recent crackdown of their franchise. Hopefully this will be a future "problem" with the Chiefs organization in getting a HOF caliber QB under contract.

Drew Brees, three years from now, to an investor: "Hey, you wanna buy the Saints with me? I've got about half the money right here in this pillowcase."

Cassel might want another big contract, and Pioli might believe hes worth it. I wish I was kidding too...Pioli cant be THAT dumb.............right? Right......?

That's doesn't mean he counts $40 million against this years cap. His prorated signing bonus, plus this years salary doesn't seem all that much for a player the caliber of Breese.

Lmao +1

Without all the typical Chiefsplanet drama, I honestly feel you know the answer to your question. Stats don't lie, and Pioli wouldn't be a smart businessman if he threw his starting QB under the bus. Had Pioli been confident in Casshole being a franchise caliber QB, he wouldn't have made a move for Manning in the offseason.

I know. I kid. I hope...

And the 2011 Packers... Their defense ALMOST got them there.

Imagine what Aaron Rodgers is going to pull.

I'de give $25 million per w/o hesitation

Matt Cassel is officially holding out.

So, this is the guy that the Chargers dumped so that they could use a high first rounder on Rivers?

Didnt they get Eli at first?

Media is in full Blow Brees mode

Athletes get paid this much to play games and entertain.




Crazy that a guy gets paid that much money to play football.

They generate 100X in revenue what they are paid.

Revenue for who though. It goes to the owners, who keep it or pay the players with it.

apparently Drew Brees is going to make more than the rest of the starting offense combined


2012 Cash Totals

Brees: $40 million

Rest of Saints offense: $37.755 million

Might as well let him chomp on that cap space now so you can go out and get players later.

And they don't make nearly as much as the top Hollywood stars.

and the Hollywood stars have doubles to take the hits for them.

They can make as many shit movies as they want and people will still come and see them. Come see Jonah Hill in yet another role as a talentless fat kid!!!

I don't even know who Jonah Hill is.

I envy you.

You envy the fact that I have no life and haven't been out to a movie in years?

Ha!!! No, the fact you haven't seen him in one of his oscar worthy roles!!

**** off, Moneyball was prime.

So with Brees getting this much, they are likely losing some of their other guys in free agency?

Brees is gonna make more this year than his entire offense put together. How much did you get paid this weekend, ChiefsPlanet? Lol

Jonah Hill is funny sometimes, he couldn't ever carry a film but he's made me laugh before