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Drew Brees is still feeling the pain inflicted by the New Orleans Saints' heartbreaking loss the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC Championship Game. Not because the quality of future Hall-of-Fame quarterback's life is decided on the football field, though.
As Brees sees it, headlines in the football world are still being dominated by the no-call that many insist cost New Orleans the chance to appear in its first Super Bowl since 2009.
“It's difficult, just because it’s still so fresh,” Brees said on Friday of the circumstances surrounding the Saints' loss, per Josh Katzenstein of The Times-Picayune. “It’s all anybody is talking about for two weeks as it leads up to the Super Bowl.”
Indeed, the lack of a flag thrown on Los Angeles defensive back Nickell Robey-Coleman after he hit Saints receiver Tommylee Lewis before the ball arrived late in the fourth quarter of the NFC title game is already one of the biggest sports stories of the year.
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While Brees acknowledges the significance of the officials' gaffe, which has since been affirmed by commissioner Roger Goodell, he knows the Saints didn't lose to the Rams on that one snap alone.
“I know there were things that happened in that game before and after that call that were within our control that we could’ve done better that would’ve resulted, I think, in a win,” he said. “It’s unfortunate that the most obvious of those things was the no-call because arguably you do the math and we would’ve been kicking a field goal with 15 seconds and we’d probably be here. But, I focus more on the plays that we could’ve made that would’ve gotten us here anyway.”
Brees, 40, enjoyed perhaps the finest season of his storied career in 2018-19, throwing for 32 touchdowns, just five interceptions, and 3,992 yards while completing a staggering 74.4 percent of his passes.
