Drew Brees Tells NFL Broadcasters to ‘Get Me When You’re Ready’ amid Desire to Return

Drew Brees is looking for another shot at broadcasting two years after he left NBC Sports.

The New Orleans Saints legend wrote on X that the NFL’s broadcast partners can “come get me when you’re ready” when discussing his desire to return to the booth.

Brees also spoke about wanting to get back into broadcasting on Thursday when he was announced as a member of the New Orleans Saints’ 2024 Hall of Fame class.

Brees has strong support from at least one prominent broadcaster.

ESPN’s Joe Buck, who is the lead play-by-play commentator for Monday Night Football, recently appeared on the Sports Media with Richard Deitsch podcast to explain why Brees should get another shot in the booth (h/t Brandon Contes of Awful Announcing):

“I think Drew Brees got a raw deal. And if there’s anybody who was ever created in a computer to be a top analyst at a network, I think it’s Drew Brees and I would love to see him get another chance at that. He got one game, and he was working with a new crew and a new play-by-play guy and everybody expects brilliance. You make one comment, and it gets its own life on social media. It’s just ridiculous.”

After retiring from the NFL in March 2021, Brees signed a deal with NBC Sports to be a studio analyst on Football Night in America and game analyst for the network’s coverage of Notre Dame Football.

The network said at the time of his signing that Brees would also “work on many of NBC Sports’ biggest events, including the Olympics.

Following some rough moments during his first season as a television analyst, NBC Sports chairman Pete Bevacqua told the Associated Press in June 2022 that Brees wouldn’t be back with the network.

Bevacqua explained the decision stemmed from Brees’ desire to spend more time with his family.

“The unbelievable busyness of an NFL career and then really not taking a break at all and launching right in with us with both Notre Dame football and the NFL, it was certainly an around-the-clock assignment,” Bevacqua said. “This was definitely a lifestyle choice for him, which is totally understandable.”

Brees did have the opportunity to call the AFC Wild Card game between the Las Vegas Raiders and Cincinnati Bengals on NBC in January 2022. He has talked about the possibility of doing something similar to the ManningCast.

A second-round draft pick in 2001, Brees had a 20-year NFL career that began with the San Diego Chargers before he signed with the Saints in March 2006. He spent 15 seasons in New Orleans, leading the franchise to a victory in Super Bowl 44.