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Another week, another new gig for Drew Brees.
Fresh from his guest role on Fox NFL Sunday, the future Hall of Fame quarterback has agreed to become a weekly contributor to ESPN’s First Take , according to BarrettSportsMedia.com.
Brees, who worked for NBC in 2021, is gradually making a return to the broadcast space. The non-exclusive ESPN deal allows him to do other things, including calling one of the Christmas games on Netflix.
It seems to be part of a broader strategy by Brees to increase his media exposure, in the hopes of landing a prime spot on a broadcast team. Last month, Brees told Dan Patrick, “I’d step in the booth right now and be a top-three guy . Like, without question. And then you give me a few years, and I could be the best.”
That’s the same sort of confidence and competitive fire that made Brees one of the all-time greats. And he seems to be realizing that, in order to get to the top of the mountain, he needs to do one very important thing.
Start climbing.
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