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USA Today
24-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
ESPN analyst, former Falcons cornerback catches heat for awful Drew Brees take
ESPN analyst, former Falcons cornerback catches heat for awful Drew Brees take ESPN personality Domonique Foxworth was a guest on the Mina Kimes show, and the podcast started with a conversation around Shedeur Sanders' draft stock. Naturally, the New Orleans Saints were a topic of conversation. The Saints don't seem to be interested and neither Foxworth or Kimes seems to believe they should be. Foxworth simply doesn't believe Sanders is "a guy." He follows that up by saying "the Saints fans are comfortable. They won a Super Bowl with a guy who threw within five yards of the line of scrimmage, so maybe New Orleans is the perfect place for a Shedeur." Drew Brees may have had low air yards at the end of his career, but to place his entire career under that stigma is revisionist history. The Saints didn't win a Super Bowl with a quarterback who threw within five yards of the line of scrimmage. They won a Super Bowl with a quarterback with the second highest air yards in the league that year. In 2009, Brees averaged 8.9 air yards per attempt. The only person who had a higher number was Philip Rivers. It's not as if this was an anomaly either. Brees averaged 9 air yards per attempt nearly a decade later in 2018. Adding to the layer of disappointment, Foxworth played in the league during the earlier part of Brees' career. This take may have been acceptable from someone who started watching football in 2019, but Foxworth played Brees multiple times and even shared the division with him at multiple points. The statement wasn't hyperbolic. It was disrespectful and a poor summation of Brees career. In trying to express why Sanders wasn't "a guy," Foxworth threw in one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time and a future first ballot hall of famer as a reference point. The comparison was poor, and the point was false.
Fox News
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Jalen Hurts' agent gets last word as Eagles win NFC title after 'pretty privilege' remark
Nicole Lynn, the agent for Philadelphia Eagles star Jalen Hurts, got the last laugh on Sunday when the team won the NFC Championship to advance to Super Bowl LIX. Lynn fired back at a wild remark made by ESPN NFL analyst Dominique Foxworth earlier in the season following Hurts' four total touchdowns in a 55-23 romp over the Washington Commanders. "That pretty privilege paying off," she wrote on X. Hurts was 20-for-28 with 246 passing yards and a touchdown pass and had 16 rushing yards with three touchdowns. The touchdown pass was thrown to A.J. Brown. Foxworth had described Hurts as having benefited from "pretty privilege" earlier in the season after the quarterback fired back at reporters following the team's win against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Hurts had been criticized for his passing numbers slipping year over year. He told the media at the time, "that's what they wanted to see?" "He got up at the press conference after the game, and he acted like he was Josh Allen," Foxworth said. "Look at this man with his Kangol looking like Nino Brown… with three thousand million trillion dollars worth of diamonds on his neck, and he acting like he just went for 400 yards for three weeks in a row. "Man, you had one good week passing. And everyone forgets it when he starts batting his eyes at you." "Pretty privilege" or not, the Eagles are in the Super Bowl for the second time in three years and have to meet a similar nemesis in the Kansas City Chiefs. The major difference between the last time the two teams met is that Philadelphia has Saquon Barkley in the backfield. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
