Drew Brees agrees to huge one-year extension with Saints

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They say that deadlines spur action, and that's exactly what happened between the Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints on Wednesday. With just one days to go until Brees was set to end negotiations with the Saints, the two sides came to an agreement on a one-year extension that will pay Brees a total of $44.25 million in guaranteed money, CBS Sports NFL Insider . According , the DeVonta Smith Jersey actual extension is for a total of five years, but Brandon Graham Jersey that will void down to two. The three extra years on the deal will give the Saints some salary cap flexibility going forward. NFL Network also added that Brees got a no-trade clause in the deal. Brees had been . Although he didn't get that, the Saints quarterback is more than happy with his new deal, which includes $24.25 million in new money. "Both sides are very happy and certainly I'm very happy. I want to play my Dallas Goedert Jersey entire career here," Brees said after the deal was announced. Before the deal was finalized on Wednesday, Brees was set to play the 2016 season under the that he signed in July 2012. If no new deal had been reached, Brees would've become a free agent after this year, which is why both sides wanted to get an extension done before the 2016 season started. Although both sides were in a rush to get a deal done, Brees made it clear that he was no longer going to negotiate with the Saints if something didn Darius Slay Jr. Jersey 't get done before the team's opening game against the Raiders on Sunday. Negotiations between Brees and the Saints weren't easy. The quarterback had some leverage: He knew that the team couldn't afford to franchise him in 2017 because the cost would be too high. Brees has already been hit with the franchise tag twice in his career, which means Genard Avery Jersey the Saints would've if they wanted to tag him again. That would've put the Saints on the hook for a one-year, $43.2 million franchise deal in 2017, which is a cost prohibitive number, even if we're talking about a star quarterback. According , Brees' new deal includes a no-franchise-tag clause. As for Brees, he wanted a four-year deal that the Saints were reluctant to give him because he's 37 years old. If the Saints had given him a Avonte Maddox Jersey four-year deal, Brees would've been 41 going into the final year of the contract. In the end, it appears that both sides got that they want. The Saints are locked into Brees for another more year, and Brees will be making $24.25 million in 2017. The final year of Brees' old deal also becomes guaranteed under the new contract, which means the quarterback will pull roughly $20 million in 2016.
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