re: ESPN: Saints Could Trade Lattimore

Well trade lattimore to the eagles for a 7th rounder

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best we can hope for is a 2nd. No way you get a first unless it is a late first

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he's a top 4-8 cb in the league bro.

Lattimore will be 28 and has played 17 games in the last 2 years combined
The Chiefs are reportedly looking to get a 2nd for Sneed.

I don’t want to trade latt because im still scarred by the days of Fred Thomas and Jason David but it feels like the bridge is burned. Of course DA’s dorky arse is at fault there too. Just give us a good pick.

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*ETA: in 2020 and 2021 (2 of Ramsey's best years) he played over 1k snaps. Latt has NEVER done this and only had 621 last year.

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The best ability is availability

one is under contract fairly reasonable for 3 more years.

the other is looking for a huge payday.

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one is under contract fairly reasonable for 3 more years.

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the other is looking for a huge payday.

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Lattimore’s avg salary is top 5 at the position ya think Sneed is looking for Mahomes $?

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I promise you the Lions would trade their first this year in 2 seconds if we could trade Lattimore right now

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I think they would too. They're picking 29? I think they'd do that. Some looney-tune the other day had them trading us 29, then 3 other picks, including, I think their 2nd. That was laughable. It may take us throwing in one of our later picks as a sweetener--we do have 4 5th rounders--but I think that would get it done.

And yeah, it would be painful cap-wise to trade him before June 1st, but we'd be done with it in 1 year and he'd be totally off the books after '24. Slo always mentions how we've fricked up the cap and are eventually gonna have to pay the piper and eat shite. This would be 1 way to start that process. It doesn't have to all come due the same season where we totally just tank and barely field a legitimate NFL squad for a year or 2. Do it gradually.

Trade Latt this year while he still has value, and that value is higher for another team more ready to compete than us at moment. He's 28, has only played 1 full season of games in 2 seasons, and is apparently, if not a malcontent, not the best guy for the Saints' current locker room. The whispers are he is one of the few that still lacks a little respect of D.A and sees him more as a substitute teacher than HC. Which is fine. Or understandable. He would be more valuable for a team like the Lions, would probably be rejuvenated a bit and his pay would get better and he'd probably be on the field more. He could really help a team like the Lions if they're going all-in and make them more of a championship contender than they already are. Worth much more to them in '24 than whatever they'd get with pick 29.

And we need to start getting younger, anyway. We've got 2 really good outside corners in Adebo and Taylor. Taylor could develop into a really good slot corner, but he struggled this year there. He's better on the boundary and probably happier there too, so it would rejuvenate his career a bit, too. And we could grab a slot corner late in the draft or sign a cheap vet.

Again, I know eating all his dead money this year would be challenging. And it would probably hurt with free-agent signings, obviously. But the cap is up, and we've always figured out a way to not just get under, but get under and still find money for a few free agents. We just may be shopping more in the bargain bin than normal.

But I still think it's a good opportunity to maximize what we can get for him--I mean, what if pulls a hammy in training camp like he is prone to do, and just doesn't feel very motivated to come back and misses most of the season. Then he's a year older and his value is way worse. Trade him now, assuming we actually can get a late 1st (I'd be less inclined if it's an early 2nd unless we can use some late draft capital to get into the late 1st--that 5th year option is really important), just hold your nose and eat shite and all all his dead money this year, get rid of a "malcontent," which may be addition by subtraction, and begin the youth movement on defense.

It's not gonna get done in 1 year, it's going to be gradual. I know a lot of us hoped (or assumed) that we'd suck this year, bottom out, fire DA, and start the re-build with a high pick next year. But as much as we may want that, that's just not the way this organization is going to go about things. It's not who they are. And I get it--they want to keep their jobs. But the thing that makes me leery of the bottoming out and rebuilding with high picks is that once you hit the bottom, there's no guarantee you don't stay there. There's a reason the same teams pick towards the top of the draft seemingly every year. You literally can't miss.

Sorry, this post got out of hand--like mine are want to do--but it's more than just about Latt. One thing that gives me hope is how many good hires we made on offense. Not just their actual hiring, but the fact that they committed to this team and gambled their career by taking these jobs knowing DA is the HC, that we're committed to Carr for another couple of years, and what we've got on the OL. They must see a better future than a lot of us do. Or think that if DA gets fired, they all get promotions.

The big issue with having to deal Latt early is 2025 is already a whopper of dead cap. If we have to deal with Ram, too, it's going to be insane.

Which means to deal with the dead cap we're going to have to extend some guys who should be gone. That can extend the cap hell further out.