{"id":26927,"date":"2015-12-24T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/brees-day-to-day-with-foot-injury\/"},"modified":"2015-12-24T09:00:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T17:00:43","slug":"brees-day-to-day-with-foot-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/brees-day-to-day-with-foot-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Brees day-to-day with foot injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

METAIRIE, La.<\/strong> \u2014 Saints coach Sean Payton said Wednesday that it remains unclear whether quarterback Drew Brees will play in Sunday\u2019s home finale against the Jacksonville Jaguars.<\/p>\n

Brees injured his right foot in Monday night\u2019s loss to Detroit, but never missed a snap.<\/p>\n

Payton said Brees has had an MRI and was awaiting a second opinion from another doctor before deciding how to move forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re kind of taking it day by day,\u201d Payton said. \u201cEach day we\u2019ll gather more information and have a better idea of where he will be as it pertains to playing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Saints, who\u2019ve been eliminated from playoff contention, did not practice on Tuesday and did not have a practice scheduled Wednesday, either.<\/p>\n

Brees is scheduled to meet with reporters after practice this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Payton said Brees, who has one more season left on his current contract, would be held out if Saints trainers were concerned about the risk of worsening the injury or exposing Brees to undue contact from pass rushers because of a lack of mobility.<\/p>\n

\u201cTypically, if a player is playing, we have cleared him medically and he is not risking further injury,\u201d Payton said. \u201cIf a player has a risk to further injure himself, we don\u2019t play him. That would be in the regular season. That would be in the postseason. That would be with two weeks left to go in the season where we are at now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brees passed for 341 yards and three touchdowns Monday night, eclipsing 4,000 yards for a 10th straight season.<\/p>\n

If Brees does not play, the Saints\u2019 backups are veteran former LSU star Matt Flynn and rookie Garrett Grayson, who was the first of New Orleans\u2019 two third-round draft choices last spring out of Colorado State. Grayson was the third QB drafted last spring behind Tampa Bay\u2019s Jameis Winston and Tennessee\u2019s Marcus Mariota, who were taken first and second overall.<\/p>\n

Tight end Ben Watson said he suspects Flynn would be first in line to step in.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat would be my assumption. As far as I know, he is the backup quarterback, correct?\u201d Watson said. \u201cThe only reason I say that is because during the game (Monday night) I know that Matt was warming up. I know he was up. That would be my assumption, but obviously that would be a coach\u2019s decision once we got to the actual game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grayson has not taken a snap in a regular season game and usually is inactive on game days.<\/p>\n

Flynn is in his eighth NFL season. He has been a backup throughout his career and last started in 2013, when he received five starts for Green Bay in place of injured starter Aaron Rodgers. Flynn finished that season 1,146 yards and seven TDs passing.<\/p>\n

For his career, he has completed 61.3 percent of his passes for 2,541 yards and 17 touchdowns.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has been around a lot of football. Obviously, the coaches brought him in understanding that he could learn some of the things that he needed to do if he were to have to perform,\u201d Watson said of Flynn. \u201cGarrett has been here as well for the whole year. I don\u2019t know who it would be if Drew wasn\u2019t there. But again, I\u2019ll reiterate the fact that since I\u2019ve been here, Drew hadn\u2019t missed a game except for the Carolina game this year. He is usually pretty reliable, so the idea is that we\u2019ll just go through the week and see if he is going to be up or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and http:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_NFL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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