Name: The Saints could be relying on Drew Brees' return to be the NFC's top seed | Get Up
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What is the latest on the situation with Drew Brees?

Past simple

Well, good morning, Green, I think Sean Payton, the Saints head coach, said an awful lot there.

To-infinitive

The fact that he said that Drew Brees has a long ways to go, that he's not quite healthy yet tells you that Taysom Hill is on track to start Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs.

The Saints did not want to bring back Breeze until he's close to or at, ah, 100%.

They did not want to bring him back until he's got close to full range of motion, clearly listening to Sean Payton there.

It doesn't sound like he's close to 100% at this time, and it doesn't sound like he's got a full range of motion.

And if he doesn't have those two things, then it's gonna be hard for them to put him into a spot where they believe he's compromised.

And Taysom Hill has played pretty well, did lose Sunday at Philadelphia, but before that and won three straight games.

And so it sounds like it's tracking to be Taysom Hill verse Patrick Mahomes in this great late season matchup.

Okay, so let me keep Schefty with us as well as we bring in the rest of our crew this morning and say hello to Dominique Fox Worth and Luis Riddick over here and and let's just start at the very top and then I wanna work my way through some of the other decisions.

If the doctors clear Drew Brees, do you have any question about putting him back on the field?

Green, because the doctors of the professionals and they're the ones who are in charge of safeguarding Drew's help.

That's one of those situations where, when you're talking about how information flows throughout an organization, when you're talking about player health, it has to be up to the medical staff to determine whether or not it's safe for a player to return to the field.

General managers, coaches, they can't make those decisions.

They're not licensed medical professional.

So if they say you can play, you have to trust that when you set up your organization in the first place that they're gonna give you the right advice.

You put him out there If they say he's not, you don't It's really that simple.

So Dominique, let me come over to you on that thought then, because they've got three weeks left in the season, you have a lot to play for.

This game, and these last three games are critically important to the Saints.

Yeah, I mean, they feel like almost playoff games because the Saints need to get that first round by.

It's obviously a quicker path to the Super Bowl for anyone to get by.

But with an agent quarterback, the fewer games you can play, the more important it is toe.

Get that to secure that situation, so I feel Lewis on that one.

I think you want to get drew out there as quickly as possible and we understand that Taysom Hill's won several games and has played better, frankly, better than I expected him to play.

But we also need to understand that they played a team that had a receiver playing quarterback.

They also played the Falcons and then they lost to a team last week whose quarterback was in his first start, so I'm not sure A z many games they won.

I'm not sure that this team is feeling all that confident about a tasting hill lead game into Kansas City.

So there's two pieces of this I want to pick up on.

We had a discussion here yesterday, considering the offense they're going up against this weekend.

Do you know if there was any thought given if there has been any thought given inside the organization to going with Jameis Winston this weekend, who, while obviously turnover prone, might give them the opportunity to be more explosive than Hill does?

You're not the first person to ask me that question greeny, but I don't believe it's been a conversation that's come up with any frequency or any meaning within the Saints organization.

I think they really like Taysom Hill an awful lot, despite the fact that they lost Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles.

And I think Taysom Hill is gonna continue to be the quarterback until Drew Brees comes back whenever that is and you mention it's critical to win these games down the stretch.

But it's more critical to have your 40 plus something year old quarterback fully healthy and ready for the postseason when that begins.

And so they're going to give him that time and when they designate him to return off injured reserve.

A lot of times what you see around the league is teams doing this, too.

Ramp up the players to get them acclimated, to get them ready to come back.

Not necessarily that first week like this week for Drew Brees and the scenes, but in the upcoming weeks, that's fair.

And it is a good point, however, on the other side, I would like to give you an illustration of just how important it is to them to get the number one seed, not because they need to buy as much as they need, not toe.

If you're wondering what Lambeau Field in January is like I present for you, Exhibit A.

So if you think a 41 year old quarterback needs to be playing in that coming back from 11 broken ribs and a punctured lung a month from now, I think it is less important to get the by than it is to make sure that game is not played at Lambeau Field chapter.

Greeny and the Giants won that game, and the Giants won that game.

And that was with fans in the stands, which there will be this year.

Lambeau Field is an opposing team in January, but as we've established before, this is a different team.

Okay, she won't have a chance to play in the conference championship again, even if it were in Green Bay.

We're might just go for a joke there, Adam.

You gotta take everything so seriously funny.

Not only that, I think the Packers would rather play that came in New Orleans, I e.

With no fans there, I don't think anyone wants to be sitting out there.

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