Via nola.com:
Q: Is Drew Brees on a pitch-count?
Payton: “I don’t think a pitch count relative to in the regular season games. Certainly during the week of practice. For the last couple of years, Wednesday’s been a down day. He’s rested his arm. I know last year there was five weeks he didn’t play and then he came back playing extremely well.
I understand the question, a lot of people have mentioned that. I just think in our game with 16 games, a little bit different than maybe basketball or baseball or even hockey. The value of each game is such, I think most importantly for us, it’s training camp and even during the work week and modifying maybe even Thursday. So the pitch count for us would be up until the game itself, but it wouldn’t include a regular season game.”
This is what happens when you have an elderly man playing quarterback. You have to maximize his reps.
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