Drew Brees Goes To Injured Reserve
What a week for old QBs, man. It was pretty sad to see Brees go down.
Brady gets all the headlines for being old and continuing to kick it, but Brees has been quietly right there behind him the whole time. In fact thanks to Brady stealing all the attention, Drew’s constant presence has gone very underappreciated but has still wormed it’s way into our subconscious. Enough that when he got knocked out and we had to watch Teddy Bridgewater flounder the Saints around in the Rams loss, it felt wrong not having Brees there. Brees is as much an institution to the league as Brady is. Knowing that I have to watch a Saints team without Brees for most of the season is weird. I imagine watching the Giants without Eli will be similarly unsettling.
I mean how many of you can name the QB the Saints had before Drew Brees?
It was Aaron Brooks. He started there for years. He was nothing special but still held most Saints passing records before Brees kicked them out the window and then pissed on them. Brees has been around New Orleans forever. Some may remember his San Diego days, but he’s been a Saint through and through since he put on that uniform and it’s weird to think of him as a Charger.
The Saints, an obvious SB contender until this happened, are going to have to find something inside them, fast. They can’t afford to fall too far behind in the weeks Brees is out. The NFC is suddenly a little more open. Brees himself seems about as interested in retirement as Brady does and he probably has about as much left in the tank. I do however worry that this hand injury might really mess him up. It’s his throwing hand. If he rushes back to save an ailing season or just doesn’t quite heal it properly to begin with he might not achieve the same grip he used to have and it will likely affect his throws. I wouldn’t be surprised if Brees does come back and something looks off, and he rapidly ages and retires. We might have witnessed the catalyst for one of our current greats to finally go out.
That’s a bummer.
Also fucking lol Sam Darnold way to get fucking mono
As a Falcon fan I feel bad for Brees and I feel even worse that I am happy about it.
Falcons got a shot. The division is a mess right now.
Yeah, I’d take it if I was you. I mean, that’s how the league goes. You hate it, but you move on. That being said, Falcons having a shot is about all right now. I wouldn’t say they looked great against the Eagles. But it’s early in the season. Everybody is still in the awkward, 5-6th grade dance stage of the season except maybe the Patriots and a few others.
First off screw the Saints and the click they claim. That being said I never root for injury. To see someone like Brees go down i’d rather see it be his hand than his head or legs (Alex Smith). The Saint have Teddy to be a Bridge over troubled Waters for this exact scenario, I hope he sucks.
We hope you suck too. Here’s to equally bad seasons.
Clique
Of course, Big Ben gets the pariah treatment at the IR Bar. Lol.
There should be a ‘Wall of Shame’ where every single unwelcome former customer’s photo is tacked on.
Probably should add Antonio Brown to that wall…
They’re gonna have to change the name of the bar, Foles is the only one on IR.
Think it’s going to be weird not seeing Brees out there?
Half the Patriots’ O-line is sitting at another booth in there.
Brady just called out the flag-heavy reffing on Twitter.
Might as well have walked under a ladder while punching mirrors.
The fact that BRADY of all people just called out the flag-heavy reffing is so hilarious, it deserves a comic of its own.
I thought that too.
…why is black? Is it not so much a penis as one of Cthulhu’s tentacles? Does he do hentai in his spare time?
I believe it’s black because it’s still inside his pants (which are made of a ridiculously expansive material)
Like the stuff Mr. Fantastic wears.
Unstable Molecules. The F4’s costumes are made of Unstable Molecules.
Aaron Brooks was my first Saints QB. I was a fan before him, but couldn’t tell you the names of players outside of Ricky Williams. My first big memory of him is the River City Relay, which for those of you who don’t remember is essentially every Saints team encapsulated in one play. The saints had about 5 laterals on the last play of the game to pull within a point of the Jags only yo have John Carney miss the PAT (he only missed 10 in his 20+ year career).
The next big memory is the time he passed the ball backwards. And I don’t mean at someone. He threw the ball 15 yards down field, but towards the other endzone. It’s an amazing play to watch.
My final memory of him is getting blown out weeks after Katrina which was pretty depressing. I happened to have Drew Brees on my fantasy team that year, but admittedly didn’t know much about him other than he was a stud in fantasy.
That backwards pass is the first thing I thought of when I read “Aaron Brooks”. It is more amazing than the Dan Orlovsky “Wait, where’s the back of the endzone?” safety.
I go back to the Bobby Hebert and John Fourcade days. That was when the defense had Ricky Jackson and Sam Mills and we routinely disappointed the fanbase. Back then, the 49ers were the team we could never seem to beat and the Rams were a divisional rival.
Oh my god I remember highlights of that on sportcenter the year i startde paying attention to sports. Was that 2003?
Anyone else wonder if the NFLs new emphasis on offensive holding is causing these injuries to be more prevalent this year? Supposedly Holding is up 66%, so players are probably being more careful about not commiting it which means more shots at the QB. I’m not saying it’s not a good thing, but maybe it’s a good play to look at root cause.
That’s an interesting conjecture. I didn’t realize that the calls were up that much!
Darnold got Strep and Mono at the SAME TIME!
He should be the one at the kissing booth putting on the biohazard bag
I guess Injured Reserve pre-emptively banned Ben from the establishment. lol
But Brees and Darnold were not put on IR. This comic is disingenuous.
Well Luck isn’t good at carding his patrons.
I can always dig a good Brees-Breeze joke. When Drew Brees’ younger brother Reid played baseball at Baylor, his walk-up song was Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Call Me The Breeze”, which I always enjoyed.
Well, might as well stop posting alt-text, ’cause it’s never going to get better than that one.
The return of Cthulu-Dick Nick!
Love the Rapelisberger joke, he shouldn’t be allowed in any bar really.
Big ben died too
Ahh he’s mentioned. Just got banned as seen on the poster when Brees enters
Andrew Luck would totally make that ‘A Brees just came in’ joke.
Unrelated to the comic but I desperately want Minshew to be a quality starter for the Jags for the next decade because he feels Sexy Rexian to me and the NFL needs more of that.
Looks like Antonio Brown’s played his last game in a Patriots jersey. The whole one game it lasted. His tenure with the team will be remembered like a fart in the wind.
The real question is: will Monday’s comic be about that, MinshewMania, or something else that happens after the games?
Thank God the Patriots managed to beat the dolphins with his help
Once again, Antonio Brown situation writes itself.
What’s next?
Politics
It’s really nice of Andrew to allow Sam to stay in the bar despite, you know, the massive health code violations.
Can Kaepernick be in the bar? You know the grizzled drunk who has been there for 3 years
There should be another series like IR that features has-beens that will never get work in the NFL again. Micheal Sam, Kap, Johnny Football….Teebs, TEEBS! So much could be done with it.
It could even include … dare I say…. The Dragon Unleasher himself?!?
The NFL oubliette?
I don’t know where they get their information from but Drew Brees isint on or going in IR