This can't be a real debate. Saints scored with 1:34 to go in overtime and weren't going to get the ball back for another possession. They had been moving the ball all over the place against a tired defense for three quarters. You can't kick and play for a tie there.
I can’t believe this is real. FOIA records appear to show Kash Patel directing his team to find accounts critizing him and respond. An aide warned that replying to “RetardFinder” would “look bad on you,” and Patel complained about the tweet views.
Flagged by @seth_hettena
Want to see a difference between Drew Brees and Tom Brady?
NGBB = Never got ball back
16 losses for Brees after a tying/go-ahead drive, missed clutch FG, or teammate fumble where he NGBB.
5 for Brady.
Go-ahead drives here:
Brees - 9
Brady - 0
He didn’t have a pro-bowl wide receiver for any of those seasons too.
There wasn’t a single 1,000 yard receiver on the Saints in 2008 when Brees threw for 5k
Jimmy Graham had 1,310 receiving yards when Brees threw for 5,476 yards in 2011. That’s somehow the most receiving yards a player has ever had during a Drew Brees 5k season.
Greatest of all time
Another big running back deal: three-time Pro-Bowl RB Jonathan Taylor and the Colts reached agreement today on a two-year, $44 million extension worth up to $47 million that includes $39 million guaranteed, per @rapsheet and me.
Taylor’s agent Malki Kawa of @FirstRoundMgmt and the Colts now have finalized the deal, giving Taylor the largest third contract any running back has received.
@Donjuan13855762@JoshChambers Saints got lucky. It wasn’t until training camp that Brees started to tell people he felt some extra zip on his throws. At the time I wrote it off as typical camp talk…
New Orleans Pelicans have seemed to make an unforced error. They signed DeAndre Jordan to multiple years. They are unable to apply the 10-year veteran minimum subsidy. This is where they would be responsible $2,449,421 on the cap sheet and the NBA would bring Jordans salary up to $3.9M. Since this is only eligible on 1-year deals New Orleans is on the hook for the entire salary for both years.
My favorite Drew Brees fact:
🏈 There have been fifteen 5,000-yard passing seasons in NFL history. Brees owns five of them. No other QB has more than two.
The New Orleans Pelicans are 13-39.
The second-worst record in the NBA.
The No. 9 + No. 10 seeds in the West are 23-27, and the Pelicans are 11 GAMES behind them. All without a without a first-round pick.
It’s an unfathomably incompetent organization. Pathetic.
@JeffDuncan_ Saints get creative with contracts, why not put a provision in Kellen Moore’s deal that he gets fired and rehired within a day at the end of each season? New coach, exempted from Hard Knocks. 😄