New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees content to keep on winning
By Mike Triplett, The Times-Picayune
October 06, 2009, 10:42PM
Drew Brees understands his place in the fantasy football hierarchy. So he feels the pain of his thousands of investors who have been stunned to see him go the past two weeks without throwing a touchdown pass.
Other than that, he said, he's been perfectly content in his supporting role for the New Orleans Saints.
"For me, it's all about winning the game," Brees said. "And I enjoy seeing the way that we're winning football games, with great defensive play, with creating turnovers, giving the offense opportunities -- just playing with a great attitude and confidence level. The running game, the way it's going. The offensive line playing the way they have.
"For myself and the receivers, we talked this morning. It was, 'Hey, we're winning.' And we understand our opportunities are going to come. There's going to be those games where we have to throw it 40, maybe 45 times to win the game, and we're ready to do that when we're called upon to do it. But until that time comes, we're going to do whatever we can to win -- try to be as efficient as we can."
Brees also hasn't thrown an interception in the past two weeks. He had 172 passing yards at Buffalo in Week 3 and 190 against the Jets on Sunday in the Superdome.
Of course, the perfectionist in Brees still has some regrets from Sunday's 24-10 victory.
He said he should have held off safety Kerry Rhodes with his eyes for an extra beat before throwing to Reggie Bush on third-and-4 on the Saints' opening drive. Instead, his pass was tipped away and the Saints kicked a field goal.
He also wishes he could have "fit a ball in there to one of those guys" when the Saints were shut down by a goal-line stand in the second quarter.
For the most part, however, both he and Coach Sean Payton said the Saints perfectly executed their game plan, which was to avoid game-changing turnovers, win the field-position battle and force the Jets to work for every point. "Not to say that we weren't going in with a very aggressive mentality -- we always do -- but we just knew the formula for winning these last two games," Brees said. "And we won going away in both."
