Bussin\u2019 With The Boys<\/a> if he could still make it happen, Brees said his throwing arm is so shot after his long NFL career that he now throws better with his left arm.<\/p>\n\u201cI would know where to throw it, I just don\u2019t know if I could get it there,\u201d Brees said. \u201cThat\u2019s one lingering effect from the shoulder surgery. I don\u2019t throw with my right arm anymore. I actually throw left handed. I started doing that toward the end of my career with my kids, because I\u2019d come home after a long day of practice, I didn\u2019t have anything left in my right arm, but the boys wanted to play catch so I\u2019d throw left handed. I\u2019m pretty mean inside 30 with this left arm.\u201d<\/p>\n
Few arms have thrown as many footballs as Brees\u2019 right arm, as he retired with more than 10,000 NFL pass attempts, plus another 2,000 or so in high school and college, and many thousands in practice. Now his left arm is getting the work \u2014 but not at a level that would allow him to play as a 47-year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year after Philip Rivers returned to the NFL at the age of 44, could Drew Brees do…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-713520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713520","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=713520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}