Farewell to Andrus Peat

Head scratcher that he finally has a good year and we stop extending him.

People often list names like Browner, Gallette, Apple, David, Byrd, etc. as their least liked former Saints.

All terrible I agree and I’ve no love lost for them, but the thing most of those players have in common is they were only with the Saints for maybe 3-4 years, and usually less.

Project Peat was a 1st rounder that stuck for nearly a decade. He was rarely good, occasionally mediocre, and mostly flat out sucked or was injured while commanding far too high a salary. I don’t think I’ve ever heard an OL name called so much (not a good thing) and have never been more frustrated with a Saints player that was with the team so long.

Good riddance

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I'm assuming the only real chance of keeping him was negotiating a prior extension before the dead money hit.

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No

No one knows what Peats market is. He’s a LT that didn’t pan out after the draft that moved inside to Guard and had a pretty nice career there and has the ability to play LT in a pinch and proved he can survive they’re if need be last year. But is he a LT or a G? Father Time is also knocking on the door so what’s his contract value?

My guess is the Saint are doing him a favor and letting him find his market value and likely let him know they would like to have him back but don’t want him to lose out on money he could get in FA and would like a chance to match or counter if possible.

Peat did the team a favor last season by taking a pay cut and reworking his deal. Now it time for the team to do him right letting him get as much as possible. I’m sure the Saint have an idea of what they would offer him and ultimately may have let him know. It this is not uncommon for players in his situation.

Gave pest $33m guaranteed & still drafted a iOL that year lol

Loomising

I threw a beer at the side of my friends house the moment they drafted him. In retrospect that was probably an overreaction , the dude did try his arse off.