New Orleans Saints icon Drew Brees may be viewed as the NFL’s version of San Antonio Spurs legend Tim Duncan.
On the daily Locked On NFL podcast, Ross Jackson and Luke Braun talked about the legacy of Drew Brees. Moreover, how the Saints legend's status will resonate through not only the franchise, but the entire National Football League.
Braun: This may be a little bit out of turn for me because I am not too familiar with the history of the NBA, but he (Drew Brees) is kind of football’s version of Tim Duncan where he was always consistently kind of good.
Jackson: The big fundamental.
Braun: Yeah. Always a contender. Always was somebody you had to get by in the playoffs if you wanted to have success in those playoffs. He was always somebody that was in the conversation, right? And even though he only won one of those Super Bowls, that is not that weird. Brett Favre only one Super Bowl after years of being dominant. He is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. He made the Hall of Fame on the first ballot. I think Drew Brees will do that. And there is a lot of kind of hubbub about his playoff record being 9-9 in the playoffs and 9-8 as a New Orleans Saint but the way the playoffs are set up and the way that single-elimination works is really difficult to get above .500 in the payoffs unless you get to the Super Bowl. Otherwise, you are either 0-1 or you get the first-round bye and lose in the conference championship game, like what will happen to a team in the AFC this year, that is 1-1 in the playoffs but that is clearly not a .500 performance.
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