Saints haven't started contract talks with Drew Brees

Drew Brees recently confirmed that he would return to the field in 2020, and he had previously made it clear that he would only play for the Saints. So at this point, the drama that would ordinarily be surrounding a free agent QB of Brees’ caliber simply doesn’t exist. However, GM Mickey Loomis said there have been no contract talks with Brees’ camp at this point, as Katherine Terrell of The Athletic tweets. Loomis, though, hopes that the two sides will have a deal in place by the time free agency opens on March 18. New Orleans does not have much cap space at the moment, and Brees will eat into the room that it does have. Of course, Brees is only one piece of the club’s QB puzzle. Restricted free agent Taysom Hill, though he will turn 30 in August and has thrown all of 13 career passes, is rumored to be a hot commodity, to the point that the Saints may feel compelled to put a first-rounder tender (worth roughly $4.6M) on him. New Orleans has made it clear that it plans to transition to Hill whenever Brees’ c

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