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Brees brings leadership to Saints

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Saturday, August 5, 2006

JACKSON, Miss. -- About halfway through the Friday morning practice here, Drew Brees scanned the field as a quartet of New Orleans Saints teammates ran deep on a "four vertical" combination route, and then he cranked up and unleashed a long spiral for wide receiver Jamal Jones, streaking up the seam, with the pass just a half-stride beyond the reach of its target. Which was, for Brees, incredibly encouraging, albeit in a rather incongruous way. The pass marked one of only two occasions d ...

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