{"id":16131,"date":"2019-12-26T10:55:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T15:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=16131"},"modified":"2019-12-26T10:55:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T15:55:31","slug":"drew-brees-knee-inflammation-is-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2019\/12\/26\/drew-brees-knee-inflammation-is-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew Brees&#8217; knee inflammation is &#8220;fine&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16132\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/12\/drewbrees-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/12\/drewbrees-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/12\/drewbrees-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/12\/drewbrees-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/12\/drewbrees-696x464.jpg 696w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/12\/drewbrees-1068x712.jpg 1068w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/12\/drewbrees-630x420.jpg 630w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/12\/drewbrees.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Drew Brees will be listed on the Saints injury report ahead of Week 17 but head coach Sean Payton expects the quarterback to be ready to go against the Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>Payton described Brees as being &#8220;fine&#8221; and that the injury designation was simply in case Brees put a sleeve on during practice.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Payton said Brees had some inflammation in his knee, they just listed him on the injury report in case he had to put a sleeve on, said he&#8217;s &#8220;fine&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katherine Terrell (@Kat_Terrell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kat_Terrell\/status\/1210217890617659393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With the Saints still playing for playoff seeding which could see them earn a first-round bye, there has been no thought to sit any players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drew Brees will be listed on the Saints injury report ahead of Week 17 but head coach Sean Payton expects the quarterback to be ready to go against the Panthers. Payton described Brees as being &#8220;fine&#8221; and that the injury designation was simply in case Brees put a sleeve on during practice. Payton said Brees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[37,38,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-16131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-drew-brees","9":"tag-new-orleans-saints","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16133,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16131\/revisions\/16133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16131"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}