8 weeks to be ultra rich

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/----QB Drew Brees -- Chargers

-----First Rivers holds out giving Brees his only chance, then Tomlinson gets hurt with a groin pull 5 weeks ago and Brees developes into an excellent QB. Talk about opportunity knocking. In eight weeks, Brees' is on a realistic path to be rich and famous for a long time.
he was thought of 8 weeks ago as a bum. Two months--what a change.

Is it a coincidence that Drew Brees has really come on the last 5 weeks? How about the fact that RB Tomlinson has been severly limited with a groin pull. In college Brees thru all the time in the system that passed first. Brees is a super-competitor who needs to get in a rhythm. He is no where near as effective mostly throwing on passing downs.
I still feel that the main difference is that they have WRs and TEs that can catch. Schottenheimer can prove his worth when Tomlinson gets 100% healthy and he comes up with a scheme to get RB Tomlinson the ball and have Brees throw a lot. If this reverts back to Marty-Ball then things will regress.

 

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If Brees continues, the Chargers will Franchise him and probably trade him to the highest bidder (something like Washinton's Champ Bailey last year)

This year the Chargers ate all the old contracts (like WR Boston) to have approx 20 million next year axailable for the Cap.

 

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Monday, November 8, 2004

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

There were many people who predicted, especially during training camp, that this year's NFL most valuable player would be a quarterback from the AFC West. Of course, none of the pundits prognosticated that it would be Drew Brees.

No one, trust me, mentioned Brees. And now everyone, if they truly devote time to being at least semi-responsible about such mid-season matters, ought to consider the Chargers passer. There are a lot of reasons that the Chargers are 6-3 and that no one mentions coach Marty Schottenheimer as being on the hot seat, but none is more significant than Brees.


Over the past six games, five of them San Diego victories, he has completed 121 of 170 passes for 1,378 yards with 15 touchdown passes, one interception and a passer rating of 122.4. For the year, Brees has thrown 18 touchdown passes versus only three picks. Brees has now thrown 122 straight passes without putting one in the hands of the wrong team.


Much of this has come while star tailback LaDainian Tomlinson limps through a groin injury more severe than either he or teams officials will admit.


There is, to be sure, a glut of viable MVP candidates: Daunte Culpepper, Peyton Manning, Terrell Owens, Donovan McNabb and Tiki Barber. But take a look at the San Diego schedule and you begin to get the feeling that the Chargers could sneak away with the division title. Take a look at Brees, his numbers, his importance to San Diego, and try to argue he isn't a justifiable candidate for most valuable player honors in what figures to be his final season with the team.