Tonight, Drew Brees will play in his 273rd NFL game, his 272nd as a starter. The man has been in the league since 2001, for goodness sakes.
He's thrown 10,063 passes (regular season only), and at some point, one would assume, he's seen just about every coverage a defense can throw, and he's thrown just about every route known to man -- and done so 500 times apiece. At some point along the way, a mere mortal would say to himself, "You know what? I've got this NFL quarterback thing figured out. I can probably go inside now."
And that point would have arrived, oh, in 2004 or so.
Yet here we are, days away from 2020, and Brees is still out here doing this.
Simply put, this is the stuff that makes Drew Brees, Drew Brees. You don't get one without the other.
Brees could pass Peyton Manning for the most passing touchdowns in NFL history tonight, and it'll be because he's been visualizing touchdown throws the day before the game for more than two decades.