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The Peter King Podcast

Drew Brees and Sean Payton of the record-setting Saints

The Peter King Podcast

NBC Sports

Pro Football Talk, Football, Nbc, Nfl, Nbc Sports, The Mmqb, Peter King, Sports, Nfl Football, Pro Football, Football Morning In America

4.4872 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

A unique episode from Peter King's time embedding with the New Orleans Saints during their Saturday night meetings at the Ritz-Carlton in the French Quarter of New Orleans. King frames the evening with three passages, and coach Sean Payton and quarterback Drew Brees contribute. Payton on the imagination he uses to form the complex gameplan every week, on what goes into his process of coming up with new idea each week, on how far the weekly plan has come since he and Brees came to the Saints in 2006, and why Brees' play has improved significantly at 39. Brees on the trust he has to have with Payton the play-caller, on the imagination throughout the NFL in 2018, on the difference between the Saints of 2006 and 2018, and on why he is playing better in 2018 than he ever has.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Peter King Podcast where I tell you quite a bit about football and

0:07.2

maybe just a little bit about life and I'm really happy to be able to offer you a unique podcast. I've never really done one like this before.

0:19.2

First of all, my guests this week in two segments are going to be Sean Payton, the coach of the

0:26.6

New Orleans Saints and Drew Breeze, the quarterback of the Saints right now the hottest quarterback

0:32.1

in football, playing at age

0:34.2

39 to try to win his second Super Bowl and his first most valuable player award.

0:40.6

So I want to explain a little bit to you if I can about what this story is that I'm about to tell you.

0:48.0

If you read my column this week, Football Morning in America at NBC Sports.com and pro football talk.com you

0:56.0

would know what I did over the weekend and on Saturday night I spent three hours

1:02.0

inside a hotel, a series of meeting rooms at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on

1:09.7

Canal Street in New Orleans with an incredible number of Eagle revelers and just playing every

1:20.4

day every weekend revelers on a beautiful Saturday late afternoon and evening in the

1:27.6

French quarter and in one of the nicest hotels in New Orleans obviously the Ritz-Carlton

1:35.2

while the reveling was going on the New Orleans Saints were putting their game plan to bed

1:42.1

for their game against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday afternoon at the

1:46.7

Superdome.

1:48.2

So I wrote about that and I experienced this three hour series of meetings for the first time in my life in 30, this is my 35th year covering the National Football League.

2:02.0

And just to tell you a little bit about fifth year covering the National Football League.

2:02.8

And just to tell you a little bit about me, one of my favorite things to do is to be able

2:09.7

to experience exactly what, as close as I can to what players, coaches, teams experience.

2:19.5

I've embedded inside nine draft rooms in the last 35 years.

2:24.4

I love draft day in a draft room.

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