Even if the league allows the Saints to waive Cooks (as Rule No. 24 is written, it should not), there is (as the source put it) “a full-blown conspiracy involving the Saints, another team, and Cooks’s agent.”
Added the source, “They all worked together.”
And if the NFL allows Cooks to be waived despite the language of Rule No. 24, the league is part of the conspiracy, too.
This is from an NBC article I read on Saturday.
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/poison-pill-aimed-at-helping-brandin-cooks-clear-waivers-could-keep-saints-from-releasing-him