It only took one season for NBC and Drew Brees to decide they were not the right fit for one another. That doesn’t mean the future Hall of Fame has given up on the idea of a successful media career. He showed plenty of confidence in a recent conversation with USA Today.
“I do love broadcasting NFL games,” Brees told Chris Bumbaca. “I think I could be one of the very best at it if I chose to go that direction.”
Drew Brees faced a lot of criticism in his one year on Football Night in America and calling Notre Dame games. There was plenty of speculation when rumors leaked that he was leaving NBC that the network had given up on him. Brees insists that was not the case.
“It just so happens to be that broadcasting NFL games is on the weekend in the fall, same time you want to be spending time with your family,” Brees said. “There’s just that balance that has to be found.”
Broadcasting opportunities are still being presented to the former New Orleans Saints QB. Recently, word leaked that Amazon was considering building an alternate broadcast of Thursday Night Football around Drew Brees.
He compared the offers and the career to being paid to watch his favorite sport. Brees said he welcomes all of them and will eventually settle on the right one.
Brees compared broadcasting to his time in the NFL. He was not the record-setting All-Pro in San Diego during the early years of his career that he eventually became in New Orleans. He told Bumbaca that he realizes he will improve in the booth the way he did on the field – by taking advantage of more reps.
“If you want to be great at anything, you have to work at it. In the booth, there’s technique, there’s fundamentals that go along with it that just take time to kind of learn, to kind of train. Just like as a quarterback. It doesn’t happen overnight.”
