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Almost leads him straight into the goal post which is less than ideal for the WR beautiful throw but not a particularly catchable ball in its own right

I’m not huge on symbolic wins. Fans overuse the idea. But a definitive win here could be a statement game. even if many of our players don’t have deep history in this rivalry, all of them are well aware who they have to knock off to be the top guy in the division- which is something.

Props to metcalf there

we have a good bit of weapons. Sure another would be good but today was a lack of converting not a lack of guys.

so most projections I see right now have them 78 over with 8 left on this years cap. so bar napkin $70m over with carryover. then you take Drew’s retirement and reduce that number further - by about 15m I believe, which takes you to 55m over (I don’t care to go look at the numbers at the moment for exact to the penny) so now you get into Thomas - his 12m salary comes out of 2021 since you aren’t paying it if you trade him. Saints then 43m over. Now his accelerated hits from signing and restructure bonuses would be $20m but 6m of that is in the 2021 cap projection you are using already already. so it’s 14 additional. again, i don’t think it is likely. But for accuracies sake I think you are double counting some 2021 numbers by putting dead money on top of a cap projection that also forecasts him as an active player and also counting stuff in 2020 twice... in addition to not acknowledging a major expected wash in drew. 111m simply isn’t the number.

I believe they were like $20m over going into that offseason. Between the two they ate $26m on a cap that was like 140m at the time (plus Grubbs and lofton added another 10 or so- it was dead money everywhere and this board kept telling me it was cause of Drew- eye roll.) if you are slashing and burning and Drew is gone you might decide to just rip the bandaid and get high picks to get out from under the contract, avoid carrying the culture issues forward and get low priced talent in house down the line. im not saying it’s LIKELY but I am saying it wouldn’t be impossible or wildly out of character for them to look at.

agreed a 3 and 5 is better than a 3 in 2 years if you even get a comp pick They made a reasonable move, the season went sideways, and they got a bit more value than if they let him walk - it’s never the dream outcome but it’s a totally reasonable move that I’d be fine with in trying to maximize our chances. We have fans that won’t support the idea of us being a contender until after we are in the game. problem is at that point you are past the window of optimizing your roster

but he does have a wiki? Better than I thought!

and if we traded for Thomas we’d call him a passionate leader because he would be our diva doesn’t make much sense for us and would be a tough pill for the saints... but they ate huge hits within a year of signing jimmy graham and junior gallette so it’s not without precedent

long term? Not particularly. in a single game this year? He could be a variable and when you have the better team you don’t like seeing wild card like him on the other side.

We just have so many good LBs that you would plY your DL out of position to make it work

and if he walks, can angle at getting back a 3 in 2022 via comp picks

That’s why some of us keep reminding y’all it should be the goal if not expectation right now

you are really forcing it to make the comparison. It’s more “I want to compare these” than “these naturally seem similar”

for a fan base buying into the process, results are the primary driver of the conversation here still.

Saints let Klein walk then cut bradham Right after signing him and now he’s on a practice squad. He’s not better.

it’s almost like there’s a lot of people here and the ones feeling empowered by the play are louder any given week.

he was 19 just 3 years ago.

ultimately, quite a few of us liked the idea of adding someone else in the front 7 and particularly off the edge. it wasn’t that I loved Clowney, it’s that I worried about this and there are only so many 6’5 260lbs athletes that can play with the hand on or off the ground. sitting here 6 in, I’d take Clowney over Murphy/Klein on the perimeter. I don’t think he’d fix the issues but he wouldn’t be a cause of it either.

He definitely won’t be a 75% guy suddenly. Where the final number lands is anyone’s guess. Probably low-mid 60s

For perspective this is the type of game that in the past people would’ve said “but if you count his runs as completed passes” and “still more TDs than turnovers” im glad the expectation has come up. I think we see a lot of good games from him this year. This one wasn’t particularly good.

We should win the division still and probably a home playoff game. That was kind of the minimum expectation for the season. we should meet it still even though a losing streak is no fun

that and resettling into a roster that isn’t in the prime “cheap qb window” im excited to ride the crest here and then really figure out where josh lands in 2-3 years with a ring.

I mentioned it elsewhere but when you are playing 110 mph and hitting people and the offense has to keep an eye on you those mis reads don’t bug me here and there you’ve got to be able to play fast mentally or physically (preferably both, but at least one) and he’s doing neither currently

we live in a pretty amazing world where damn near anything is possible. it’s a terrible baseline for discussion.