Last week, Drew Brees finally delivered the much expected news that he would indeed be hanging up his cleats for good and retiring from the NFL.
Last April, Brees agreed to a deal to join NBC, and at that time, Andrew Marchand of The New York Post reported that the network would prepare Brees “as the potential replacement of Cris Collinsworth.”
During an appearance on ‘The Colin Cowherd Podcast’ on The Volume, Marchand revealed NBC’s “secret plan” for Brees when he was asked if the future hall of fame QB and Mike Tirico will eventually replace Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth for Sunday Night Football.
“Yeah, 100 percent that’s what you should read into it,” Marchand told Cowherd. “NBC won’t say that, but NBC is doing something smart in terms of you bring Brees in, he does Notre Dame, see if he’s good and then you can elevate him. But I think that can go pretty quickly if he is good because that’s kind of their new team, and then they can work toward that next Super Bowl with Drew Brees and Mike Tirico.”
Marchand believes Brees could eventually be NBC’s color commentator for the Super Bowl.
“I got to see how Brees does. I think there’s a very good chance not this Super Bowl, next year NBC has it, but the following one four years from there that Tirico and Drew Brees would be the people.”
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However, NBC Sports executive producer Sam Flood is saying otherwise.
“Cris remains among the very best who’ve ever done it and the plan is to keep him in that chair for a long time,” NBC Sports executive producer Sam Flood told Jimmy Traina of Sports Illustrated. “The opportunity down the road is not something we’re looking at right now.”
