{"id":344286,"date":"2025-12-12T11:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T11:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/344286\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T11:36:09","slug":"adam-amin-says-drew-brees-is-treating-his-second-chance-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/344286\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Amin says Drew Brees is treating his second chance differently"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drew Brees told anyone who would listen that he believed he could be one of the best analysts in the business. NBC believed him, too. They hired him in 2021 straight out of retirement and put him on Notre Dame games, in the Football Night in America studio, and eventually into a wild card playoff game calling Raiders-Bengals. The network had bigger plans for him. They saw Brees as Cris Collinsworth\u2019s eventual replacement<\/a> on Sunday Night Football, someone who could bring the same credibility and football IQ that Tony Romo<\/a> brought to CBS.<\/p>\n

As we all know, it didn\u2019t work out that way. Brees was out after one season<\/a>, and it took him three years to get another shot.<\/p>\n

Fox brought Brees in mid-season<\/a> after firing Mark Sanchez<\/a> following his arrest in an October altercation in Indianapolis<\/a>, where he was stabbed and charged with felony battery. That put Brees on Fox\u2019s No. 4 crew with Adam Amin<\/a>, who joined the Awful Announcing Podcast<\/a> this week and talked about what it\u2019s been like working with someone getting a second chance in the booth.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty obvious he has studied, he\u2019s watched, he\u2019s talked to different guys, I\u2019m sure,\u201d Amin told host Brandon Contes. \u201cI\u2019m sure he\u2019s gone out of his way to be like, \u2018Hey, what\u2019s going to help me get better? How do I get better at this?\u2019 He takes coaching really well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amin would know. He\u2019s been through this before with analysts making the jump to the booth, from Mark Sanchez<\/a> to Adam Wainwright<\/a> and A.J. Pierzynski<\/a> on baseball. He\u2019s developed a reputation for getting good stuff out of recently retired athletes, and he seems to understand that the transition from playing to broadcasting requires actual coaching, not just throwing someone on air and hoping their credentials carry them.<\/p>\n

And with Brees, Amin said the approach has been methodical. The former New Orleans Saints quarterback has been self-scouting his own work the same way he would\u2019ve broken down film during his playing days, watching his calls back and identifying areas to improve.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe things that he has worked on on his own, how he self-scouts, like that\u2019s very much appreciated,\u201d Amin said. \u201cAnd that tells me that he cares. And that\u2019s half the battle.\u201d<\/p>\n

The other half is building chemistry, and Amin didn\u2019t have much time to do it. They got paired up in November without an offseason to get to know each other or any practice runs. Amin talks to Brees about his kids, about coaching his son\u2019s high school team in California, which just lost in the state playoffs. He asks about life outside of football, the kind of conversations that let you actually get to know someone instead of just working next to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s an easy way to just show that you care and show that you have interest,\u201d Amin continued. \u201cI have interest in him as a human being and I want to know what makes them tick. And the more you know about each other, that makes things easier to build that rapport and to build that chemistry because you feel trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amin\u2019s confidence in Brees<\/a> isn\u2019t just about the work ethic, though. He made it clear he understands what he\u2019s working with.<\/p>\n

\u201cDrew is right there at the very, very, very top,\u201d Amin said when asked about working with a first-ballot Hall of Famer. \u201cHe wants to be great at this and believes he can be and will be. And so my job, it\u2019s actually easier in that sense because I know what his goal is. He wants to be one of the best, if not the best, to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

That ambition is what got Brees into trouble the first time. He walked into NBC believing he\u2019d be great immediately, and when he wasn\u2019t, there was nowhere to hide. But according to Amin, Brees seems to understand now that wanting to be great and actually being great are two different things. And the early returns \u2014 for that matter \u2014 have been promising. Awful Announcing\u2019s Brendon Kleen wrote after Brees\u2019 second game with Fox<\/a> that he was \u201cfar better than I expected,\u201d noting that Brees avoided the long pauses and silence that ruined his NBC playoff debut and showed he\u2019d been studying the game.<\/p>\n

Whether that\u2019s enough to get Brees where he wants to be remains to be seen. But at least this time, he\u2019s doing the work to find out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drew Brees told anyone who would listen that he believed he could be one of the best analysts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[116498,172304,84009,399,398,396,397,62250,99],"class_list":["post-344286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-adam-amin","tag-awful-announcing-podcast","tag-drew-brees","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-nfl-on-fox","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}