re: Saints Fire 2 Team Doctors

My only question would be, who was the idiot that hired the same doctors for two completely different sports? Basketball injuries and football injuries are completely different! Benson needs to open up that checkbook and hire separate medical staffs if he wants to keep the players healthy.

Gentleman Jack apparently posted a Tweet laughing his arse off after this was made public.

I'm guessing he didn't have a good experience on his return to the team last season.

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East and West Jefferson are arguably better hospitals at this point. Too bad they can't be sponsors, but couldn't the team still keep one of their doctors on retainer for second opinions?

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Many people will say it, ochsner may be the largest but they are not the best.

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pondexter fricking drops off the face of the earth for 2 years, without even a sighting or a mention...just ghosted. clearly there's weird doings afoot there and I hope we get the real story at some point

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Kushner has indicated several times that he knows the story or at least part of it and it is a long and crazy saga...but he thinks QPon should be the one to talk about it not him.

The way I read Keenan's tweet was that Suri should NOT be lumped in with Jones. I took that Keenan actually respected him otherwise why would he include Suri in a positive light in the tweet

That's what he said. Sorry if I wasn't being clear, I edited what I wrote for clarification.

There are most likely two different contracts. The corporate sponsorahip contract requires Ochsner pay the Pelicans/Saints. The medical staff contract is different and probably works like every other team hiring medical staff, the team's pay the system or providers. Payton has alluded to this much by saying there is no requirement for the team to use Ochsner doctors. BUT because it would look terrible to Ochsner to have the team choose other docs, it's likely the Saints/Pelicans paid little to nothing for the med staff and Ochsner takes the hit and pays the docs directly.

But now that's exactly what will happen, the team is likely to look outside for doctors. Payton will correctly defend the team and refuse Ochsner orthopedists. Ochsner will do everything it can to try and prevent this, maybe including making a showing of firing the doctors and releasing a statement on Ochsner's commitments to blah blah blah blah.

So there's better understanding of how the hiring of medical staff goes, the team of course wants the best doctors but can only hire whoever wants to work for the team. Sometimes, a team's first choice of doctor will refuse because of the commitments the team requires. These commitments may include, for example, being on site at home games. To you and me, this might sound great to have a first hand view at every game, but this can put a strain in the doctor's lifestyle to have to work games. At least this is how it was explained to me by a doctor who declined a team's offer. This means that the fired docs may not have been the team's first choices. Ultimately this should reflect worse on the individual doctors than Ochsner.

You think that's crazy, just wait until AD/DC kills Small Ball on the way to a title with Demps/Gentry at the helm.

Keenan Lewis right now on WWL very rationally and succinctly ethering the Saints.

On top of everything we know, a degenerating hip as a result of mistreatment. Hospitalization from a staph infection that wasn't caught. Payton trying to force him on the field with an injury that clearly wasn't healed, and still isn't. etc etc etc

This is the one of the only times I'm glad the Saints and Pels have the same ownership


I hope they go to Atlanta