New Orleans Saints vs Los Angeles Chargers: Free live streams, TV options, Monday Night Football scoring updates, odds (10/12/20). One of the NFL’s best quarterbacks of all time will host a very promising rookie on Monday Night Football when Drew Brees and the Saints take on Justin Herbert and the Chargers. Kickoff from New Orleans is scheduled for 8:15 p.m.
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The Saints ended a two-game losing streak when they went to Detroit and beat the Lions, 35-29. Herbert and the Chargers have lost back-to-back games, their most recent being a 38-31 loss in a high-scoring game against the Buccaneers.
New Orleans Saints vs Los Angeles Chargers
Who: Los Angeles Chargers (1-3) at New Orleans Saints (2-2).
When: Monday, Oct. 12, 2020.
Time: 8:15 p.m.
Where: Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans (74,295).
TV: ESPN.
Latest line: Saints -7.
Announcers: Steve Levy, Brian Griese, Louis Riddick and Lisa Salters.
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Read some of what Brett Martel of the Associated Press wrote about Brees going up against the team that drafted him back in 2001.
For perhaps the final time, Saints record-setting quarterback Drew Brees is about to look across the line of scrimmage at uniforms emblazoned with the lightning bolt logo of the team that drafted him.
The Chargers (1-3), who visit New Orleans (2-2) on Monday night, essentially cut Brees loose by offering him a low-risk, incentive-laden contract extension on the heels of the quarterback’s shoulder injury at the end of the 2005 season. To Brees, a 2001 second-round draft pick out of Purdue, the offer was a flippant invitation to shop around for something else.
New Orleans stepped in with a six-year, $60 million offer — a deal that in retrospect looks like one of the greatest free-agent signings in NFL history for Saints general manager Mickey Loomis and coach Sean Payton.
What has happened in the 14-plus seasons since can only leave the Chargers and their fans to wonder what might have been if more of an effort had been made to retain Brees. https://theinscribermag.com/
“When I was drafted by the Chargers back in ’01, it was my hope, my plan, to be the franchise quarterback there for my whole career,” Brees said this week.
But Brees, now 41 and in his 20th season, has no reason to dwell on how things could have played out had he remained in Southern California. His synergy with Payton has produced some of the most prolific offensive football the NFL has ever seen. Brees won a Super Bowl and became the all-time leader in completions (6,959), yards (78,442) and touchdowns (555) in league history. New Orleans Saints vs Los Angeles Chargers NFL
Of that, 5,834 completions, 66,074 yards and 475 TDs have come with the Saints’ fleur-de-lis on his helmet.
And the civic-minded Brees also was able to take satisfaction from accomplishing such feats — and focusing charitable efforts — in a football-loving community as it rebuilt from widespread destruction cause by Hurricane Katrina less than a year before he arrived. New Orleans Saints vs Los Angeles Chargers Free Live Stream Reddit
Not that Brees, while looking for a new club, had necessarily envisioned himself moving to a community that was a picture of devastation and playing under a then-rookie coach for a team coming off a 3-13 campaign.
“There was some divine intervention there, I believe, and it brought me here to, probably then, one of the last places that I ever thought I would end up — in New Orleans and with the Saints,” Brees recalled. “And yet, when you look at the last 15 years, here with Sean Payton, and so many others, that’s the way it was supposed to be.”
In Brees’ previous 14 seasons with the Saints, they have advanced to the playoffs eight times, including three trips to the NFC championship.
New Orleans led the NFL in total offense six times, finished in the top five in five other seasons, and has never ranked worse than ninth during that span.