Saints & Drew Brees Agree To Two-Year Deal Worth...

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QB Drew Brees and the Saints have agreed to a two-year, $50M deal with $27M guaranteed to stay right where he is in New Orleans. While the contract is technically two years, it will actually be for one year with a team option for 2019, and also contains a full no-trade clause. And according to ESPN’s Mike Triplett, he took a pay cut. I guess another team was willing to give Brees a two-year, $60 million contract with all guaranteed money. Brees talked about that...

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“I’d be lying if I said it [wasn’t hard to weigh maximizing his value and raising the bar for other players versus helping the team],” he said. “Because I know that when any player does their deal, they typically look at the comps and base their deal on those — and what is ‘market value.’ … I’m sure that one of these quarterbacks coming up — Aaron Rodgers, Matt Ryan, Kirk Cousins — is going to set a new mark.”

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(Yardbarker)