{"id":221302,"date":"2021-03-15T07:11:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=221302"},"modified":"2021-03-15T08:13:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T13:13:22","slug":"drew-brees-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=221302","title":{"rendered":"Saints Quarterback Drew Brees retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-162107 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Brees-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Brees-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Brees-431x288.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Brees-862x576.jpg 862w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Brees-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Brees.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Brees-262x175.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Saints record-setting quarterback Drew Brees has decided to retire after 20 NFL seasons, including his last 15 with New Orleans. It comes after Brees won nine of 12 regular-season starts while completing 70.5% of his passes in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He came back from multiple rib fractures and won a wild-card round playoff game before New Orleans\u2019 season ended with a divisional-round playoff loss Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Brees is the NFL\u2019s all-time leader in yards passing with 80,358. His 571 career touchdown passes rank second behind Tom Brady\u2019s 581.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Saints record-setting quarterback Drew Brees has decided to retire after 20 NFL seasons, including his last 15 with New Orleans. It comes after Brees won nine of 12 regular-season starts while completing 70.5% of his passes in 2020. He came back from multiple rib fractures and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221310,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221302\/revisions\/221310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}