Drew Brees sat down Monday morning with ESPN radio’s “Mike and Mike.”
In this segment, Brees discusses missing out on his team’s arrival to Miami, game planning for Dwight Freeney, and a new charity initiative with Pepsi.
Drew Brees sat down with Fox News Channel’s Fox and Friends this morning and talked about the Super Bowl and his experience in Miami so far.
Brees acknowledged the loyal fan base in New Orleans and the use of the phrase “Who Dat!” as a rallying cry for the team.
When asked if the fact if he’s playing in the Super Bowl had sunk in yet, Brees replied, “You know, being at the stadium last night for the Pro Bowl, and walking in and seeing the lights and just trying to visualize what it’s going to be like a week from now. If it hadn’t sunk in yet, then, it sank in last night.”
Drew Brees and Heath Evans are up to their usual tricks this week. This time they are raffling off a Super Bowl Prize pack which includes -
* 4 tickets to the Super Bowl
* 3 nights hotel stay at the Saints’ team hotel
* $5000 travel, meal, etc. alllowance
* Drew Brees autographed jersey
* meet and greet session with Heath Evans
* all taxes on prize package will be paid
All proceeds from the raffle will benefit both the Heath Evans Foundation and the Drew Brees Dream Foundation. Minimum donation for the raffle is $10.
For more information, visit the Celebrities for Charity page and click on the “Order Raffle Tickets” button.
Good luck!
Jermon Bushrod has the unenviable task of blocking Vikings Pro Bowl DE Jared Allen this week. Sure, Allen has averaged 14.5 sacks over the last couple of years. But, that doesn’t mean that his teammates don’t have faith in the young Bushrod, even his quarterback.
“Hey, that’s going to be a huge challenge for him, ” Drew Brees said of his left tackle. “But I think (Bushrod) is a guy who has gotten better every week, and he seems to have always stepped up to the challenge.”
Bushrod knows what he’s facing in the highly energetic and eccentric Minnesota defensive end.
“He’s a great player with great size and great speed, great power, ” Bushrod said of Allen. “But he has a high motor. He’s a good player who has to be accounted for on every single play . . . whether your running to him or away from, he has to be accounted for.”
But, his linemates are confident Bushrod can handle his own. Said Pro Bowl guard Jahri Evans of Bushrod
He’s done a tremendous job this year at the left tackle spot, he continues to do a great job, and it just shows the hard work that he put in, mentally, physically going throughout the week. I see him in here every week taking care of his body, every week in the film room watching extra film, extra homework for his opponent ahead.
The Saints return to practice Wednesday morning in preparation for Sunday’s NFC Championship game. Coach Sean Payton decided to give his players extra time to rest and recover from Saturday’s game, hoping the team will return fresher and energized going into Sunday’s matchup against the Minnesota Vikings.
Afterwards, catch the post practice press conference live on NFL Network as part of five hours of continuous coverage of Conference Championship Week. The Saints segment will start around 1:45 PM Central Time from the Saints’ practice facility in Metairie. Coach Payton, Drew Brees, Jonathan Vilma and Will Smith will be available to the media for interviews.
(For anyone interested, the Colts press conference starts at 11 AM CT, followed by the Vikings at 11:45 AM, then the Saints and finally the Jets at 2:45 PM)
Sunday’s game between the New Orleans Saints and Miami Dolphins was a game of two halves. The first half was one that the Saints would have just soon forgot existed as first downs seemed as elusive as a desert mirage; as a result, New Orleans found themselves down by 21 early in the second half. Then they woke up. They would score 36 second half points as they rallied to defeat the pesky Dolphins 46-34 at Land Shark Stadium.
Things were bumpy initially for New Orleans as by their fifth offensive play, they had committed three penalties. Miami would capitalize as running back Williams scored twice in the opening period from 4 and 68 yards – sandwiching a 46-yard field goal by Saints kicker John Carney – giving the Dolphins a 10-7 lead going into the second quarter.
The scoring for Miami would continue as a 32-yard FG by kicker Dan Carpenter followed by an 8-yard TD run by Ronnie Brown would pad their lead to 24-3; Saints quarterback Drew Brees would punch it in from a yard out, narrowing their deficit to 24-10 with 2 ticks left in the first half.
The third quarter found both teams exchanging scores as New Orleans safety Darren Sharper grabbed a Chad Henne interception and scored from 42 yards, narrowing Miami’s lead to 24-17; Carpenter would kick a 33-yard FG 8 minutes later, giving the Dolphins a 27-17 edge. Brees would connect with wide receiver Marques Colston on a 10-yard scoring pass, reducing their deficit to 3 with 1:09 left in the period. But Williams would score another rushing TD from 4 yards out, extending Miami’s lead to 34-24 going into the fourth quarter. That’s when the Saints would explode.
They would score 22 unanswered points in the final period as RB Reggie Bush dashed into the end zone from 10 yards out (very acrobatic, I might add); Brees would run in for a score at the 8:35 mark of the game, giving New Orleans their first lead of the game. Carney would boot a 20-yard chip shot then defense would get involved as cornerback Tracy Porter took a Henne intereception 54 yards for a score, sealing the win for the Saints.
Brees, despite the win, had his worst game of the season, going 22-of-38 for 298 with a passing TD but 3 INTs but also rushing for 2 scores; Henne didn’t do any better as he went 18-of-36 for 211 yards and a pair of INTs. Mike Bell led all Saints rushers with 80 yards on just 12 carries while Williams led the Dolphins’ rushing attack with 80 yards and 3 TDs; Ronnie Brown added 48 yards and a score.
Tight end Jeremy Shockey led all Saints receivers with 4 receptions for 105 yards while Colston caught 5 passes for 72 yards and a score; Devery Henderson caught 4 passes for 71 yards. Brian Hartline led the Miami receiving corps with 3 receptions for 94 yards while Greg Camarillo added 55 yards on 5 receptions. The Saints won the game with a price as defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis was forced to leave the game in the second quarter with a sprained right knee. New Orleans (6-0) looks to remain undefeated as they return home to host division rival Atlanta next Monday night while Miami (2-4) goes to New York next Sunday to face the Jets.
Two weeks into the 2009 NFL season a few things are evident. Tom Brady still needs to shake off a little rust after being inured last year. Peyton Manning is still Peyton Manning, just nearing the end of his career. Tony Romo still can’t win the big game, and Ben Roethlisberger can pump fake while taking a hit.
But none of them are Drew Brees.
Since the season’s opening drive, Brees and the New Orleans Saints offense have showed that they should be the most feared unit in the NFL. Brees threw for 358 yards and six touchdowns against the Detroit Lions, tying the NFL record for touchdown passes in a game.. It was the most touchdowns thrown in a season opening game since at least1950 according to the Associated Press
In week two against a much stronger Philadelphia Eagles defense, Brees only threw for 311 yards and 3 touchdowns. The Saints quarterback has thrown for a combined nine touchdowns in the first two weeks of the season, enough to tie the record for most touchdown passes in the first two weeks set by Charley Johnson of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1965.
.Ask any Saints fan and they’ll tell you that they’ve seen this coming since 2006, when the Saints signed Brees as a free agent from San Diego after the Chargers deemed him expendable after tearing his labrum in the final regular season game of 2005.
Since 2006 Brees has completed more passes, thrown for more yards, touchdowns, 25+ yard completions and 300 yard games on top of completing more passes for first downs than anyone else in the league. He also came within one completion last year of setting the single season record for passing yards and for his efforts became only the second quarterback in NFL history next to Dan Marino to throw for over 5,000 yards.
He is the lifeblood of the Saints offense, according to head coach Sean Payton, and his savvy play makes everyone on the field around him better. Not too shabby for a guy whom many “experts” hadn’t even ranked in their top five quarterbacks, until now.
Quarterbacks Drew Brees and Mark Brunell each tossed touchdown passes to lead the Saints to a 17-7 win over the Bengals in Friday night’s preseason opener for both teams. Brees threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to Jeremy Shockey in the second quarter, and Brunnell hooked up with Robert Meachem for a 64-yard strike in the third quarter. Garrett Hartley added a 54-yard field goal in the fourth quarter.
The Austin-Statesman (in Texas) reports that the 59-year-old mother of Drew Brees has died. The QB was excused from practice today:
Mina Brees, a prominent Austin attorney and former president of the Austin Bar Association who was recently subpoenaed by the Texas attorney general’s office, died in Colorado, a family member said. She was 59.
Marty Akins, Brees’ brother who is also a lawyer and former University of Texas quarterback, said he was told Friday morning that Brees died in Colorado, where she was visiting her son Reid. Akins said he did not know the cause of her death.
“It’s my understanding that she was at her girlfriend’s house,” Akins said. “That’s all I know. I just know that she passed away, and I loved her very much.”
Brees, the mother of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, a former Westlake High standout, had her business records subpoenaed Tuesday after she sent letters informing a number of prominent Austin and Houston restaurants that they had lost the legal right to use their business names — but could get them back for up to $25,000.
The mailings, bearing the letterhead of Brees’ law office and dated July 20, said Brees represented a company, Chicksports Inc., that had assumed ownership of the restaurant names because the current owners neglected to reserve them or failed to renew them under Texas business codes. The letters did not mention that Brees was the president of Chicksports or that the corporation shared her law office’s address and phone number.
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For some odd reason, Drew Brees is talking politics, giving his view on the upcoming closing of Guantanamo Bay:
“I can say this after that experience — the worst thing we can do is shut that baby down, for a lot of reasons,” Brees said. “But I think there’s a big misconception as to how we are treating those prisoners; those detainees over there. They are being treated probably 10 times better than any prisoner in a U.S. prison.”
Brees made some other eye-opening statements:
“I mean, they’re allowed to call and write letters home, and receive letters and calls. They get five opportunities a day to pray, and they have arrows in the prison pointing towards where Mecca is. And the prison goes dead silent so these guys can have their religious time. They have rooms where they can watch movies and play Nintendo Wii. So I think that just goes ahead and says it right there.”
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