"On Friday night's edition of NBC SportsTalk on VERSUS, Saints coach Sean Payton joined the show via satellite for an interview.

He said there's no update as to the contract talks between the team and quarterback Drew Brees. Signed in 2006, Brees' six-year deal expires after the current season. Though the parties were talking earlier this year, no progress has been made in recent weeks.

But Payton also said he sees no set of circumstances in which Brees won't be the team's starting quarterback in 2012. Given that Payton has signed a long-term extension of his own, there's no reason to doubt him in any way."