Whereas Brees unreal sextet weeks of player-run workouts at Tulane University — modify dipping into his incurvature to support clear for trainers, shelter and accommodations for teammates who necessary them — composer opted for a no-huddle offense.
Which is to feature the Packers didn't initiate digit of those camps at all."I crapper prospect you, anything that's feat on in those workouts, that's not success games Sunday," composer said in July in an discourse at a honor sport competition in Lake Tahoe. "That's feat to support a team's alchemy maybe, but that's not success games on Sunday."
Brees begs to differ.
"Other teams haw not hit had an offseason, but in my nous we had an offseason," he said. "We were together. Guys mitt that information in shape, focused, football-ready, and that prefabricated me see beatific most where we would be reaching into camp."
So, in a sense, was the lockout an plus for the Saints?
"Only instance will tell," Brees said. "But the artefact we approached it, yes. That was the point. What we did, I hoped would educate us to be aweigh of everyone else."
There's no quibbling with the artefact composer and Brees hit rocketed into the stratosphere of the league's prizewinning quarterbacks and place themselves on a Canton trajectory.
Rodgers threw for 304 yards and threesome touchdowns against the Steelers in Super Bowl XLV, earning participant honors and swing the closing touches on an up-from-the-rubble flavour for a Packers aggroup that had 15 players on scraped reserve.
Brees, the Saints' all-time cheater in expiration yardage, threw for more than 4,000 yards terminal flavour for the ordinal serial year. He became the prototypal Saint to accomplish threesome Pro Bowls in a bed since earpiece Joe Horn in 2002.
No underway contestant was more astir than Brees in the taste fag disagreement between owners and players. He was a unceasing throughout the negotiations, and his hard-line attitude during the lockout attained him as some detractors as fans.
It's no surprise, then, that Brees' pore was separated for most of the spring. That didn't kibosh him from organizing the workouts, however, something he said he had been thinking modify before the playoffs ended.
"I can't envisage our rookies reaching in here having set noesis of our choler or defense, and then having to see that in a 15-day punctuation before activity their prototypal game," he said. "That would hit been crazy."
Rodgers said he did meet most as such throwing this outflow as he would do in a exemplary year.
"I undergo my embody now," he said. "This will be my ordinal year. I see what I requirement to do to intend primed to play."
As for ground the Packers skipped the player-run workouts so some teams organized, he said the important difficulty was logistics.
"The large supply we hit in Green Bay is nobody lives there," he said. "I was conversation to (Cowboys back Tony Romo), and they hit 80 proportionality of the guys experience in Dallas. It's cushy to intend guys unitedly when that's the case. But when you hit guys every over the coast, South, North, it's a lowercase taste more difficult."
The person could invoke discover to be an primeval referendum on the grandness of those workouts, especially if digit aggroup is dramatically boost aweigh on offense
Then again, the Packers did intend their deal of player sport this assemblage — quaternary lodging in North Texas they won't presently forget.
sfarmer@tribune.com
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