Drew Brees initially said he’d be back in “no time” in mid-November. But now that Brees is eligible to come off injured reserve after sitting out three weeks, head coach Sean Payton didn’t sound like a man anticipating his quarterback would be on the field in the near future.
“I honestly wouldn’t be able to give you a time frame,” Payton said, via Katherine Terrell of TheAthletic.com. “He’s like a handful of the other guys that are down there working their tails off to get back healthy, 100 percent, and we’ll kind of see when that is.”
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Brees has been out with five cracked ribs and a collapsed lung, but the Saints have continued to look like the NFC’s best team, the story said, as they improved to 10-2 and have clinched a playoff berth. The Saints have reconfigured their offense to best suit Hill with Brees on the mend.
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