By Daniel Bates Few teams were bit as badly by the injury/COVID bug as the New Orleans Saints in 2021. So much so that back in December, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported that Sean Payton reached out to Drew Brees about a possible return to the Saints in Week 16. As we know, Brees didn’t come back. And former Notre Dame quarterback Ian Book stepped in for the Monday night game with both Taysom Hill and Trevor Siemian on the COVID at the time. At his goodbye press conference, Sean Payton admitted that he did call his longtime QB and NBC commentator. “I spoke to [Drew Brees] at length last…