The premature career end in sight
After his contract in San Diego expired in 2005, the Chargers Brees bound him for another year on Franchise Day. The then 26-year-old played a good season, but did not deliver his usual performance in the crucial last games. In the last match of the regular season against the Denver Broncos, the quarterback also suffers a serious shoulder injury and his career appears to be in acute danger. Some doctors only give him a 25 percent chance of ever playing football again. Accordingly, San Diego offers him only a badly endowed contract, which Brees rejects. A good decision, as shown in the following years …
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