The Times-Picayune’s Mike Triplett is betting that the Saints and Drew Brees will agree on a five-year year contract that will make the quarterback the highest paid player in NFL history. The deal could come this week, Triplett suggests, but might be negotiated right up to the 3 p.m. July 16 deadline. The contract is likely to be between $19.2 million and $20 per year. "Only an absurd amount of stubbornness could get in the way now," Triplett writes, adding:
The Saints have already offered Brees the richest contract in league history, surpassing the $19.2 million per year that the Denver Broncos gave quarterback Peyton Manning earlier this year, though it’s not clear exactly how the deal is structured.
Frankly, that should be enough to get the deal done. And maybe it will be if the Saints refuse to give another inch over the next week.
Meanwhile, Brees and agent Tom Condon will try to push that number up to $20 million per year, and they’ll push for more guaranteed money and more money in the first three years. And good for them if they can get it.
This could be the last big contract of Brees’ career, and he deserves as much as he can get after outperforming all of his previous contracts.
But once Brees has leveraged the Saints’ final offer as high as it can go, it would be hard to imagine him walking away from such a lucrative long-term deal.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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