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Loomis/Cooks’ Agent Poison Pill Fails
Posted on 11/22/25 at 8:21 am
Posted on 11/22/25 at 8:21 am
Another fail by Loomis… Looks like Cooks will be on roster for rest of season unless there’s a loophole to get out of this.
NFL rules prohibit a team from creating a deterrent to waivers claims. The revision to the Cooks contract was obviously done for that reason. It gave the Saints a window to waive him before the $5.94 million became fully guaranteed in 2026, and it would have stuck the team that claimed the contract on waivers with the obligation.
Rule No. 9 means that, if (as happened here) the Saints revised the Cooks contract with the goal of getting another team to claim the contract on waivers, the revised contract cannot be waived.
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NFL rules prohibit a team from creating a deterrent to waivers claims. The revision to the Cooks contract was obviously done for that reason. It gave the Saints a window to waive him before the $5.94 million became fully guaranteed in 2026, and it would have stuck the team that claimed the contract on waivers with the obligation.
Rule No. 9 means that, if (as happened here) the Saints revised the Cooks contract with the goal of getting another team to claim the contract on waivers, the revised contract cannot be waived.
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This post was edited on 11/22/25 at 8:23 am
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Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:14 am to Morganite
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Another fail by Loomis
Not to call you a moron, but the revision was requested by Cooks' side.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:18 am to Morganite
That my be the most Mickey Loomis thing of all the things that Mickey loomis has done.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:21 am to Morganite
Of course, the NFL strictly enforces all rules even the obscure ones against the Saints.
Make him play out the season. frick all this nonsense Loomis.
Oh, Goodell, Saints fans remember how you and the NFL would not retest Saints players during COVID and technically disqualified double digit players costing the Saints a needed victory.
Make him play out the season. frick all this nonsense Loomis.
Oh, Goodell, Saints fans remember how you and the NFL would not retest Saints players during COVID and technically disqualified double digit players costing the Saints a needed victory.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:57 am to bstaceyau19
And what if we get docked a draft pick. We can blame Cooks’ agent for that?
Posted on 11/22/25 at 10:06 am to Morganite
If the Saints are penalized for this then it’s a fireable offense for ole Mick
Posted on 11/22/25 at 10:08 am to WhoGeaux
we got some dumb fans.Posted on 11/22/25 at 10:21 am to TigerBait2008
And what has Cooks signing contributed to the team this season?
Posted on 11/22/25 at 2:13 pm to Morganite
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And what if we get docked a draft pick. We can blame Cooks’ agent for that?
Again, not call someone a moron twice in the same thread, but the "punishment" so to speak is not having the release go through. There is nothing illegal going on.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 2:19 pm to Morganite
Correct me if I'm wrong - so they're trying to create a scenario where cooks decides his fate and the Saints get to recoup money but the rule doesn't allow the financial part
Posted on 11/22/25 at 2:44 pm to htran90
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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.”
Which team is it? Bills, Broncos, Rams?
Posted on 11/22/25 at 4:44 pm to htran90
Basically, it’s more to keep waivers fair. Sounds like cooks had a team in mind and the saints worked with him to try to make claiming him on waivers undesirable so he could get through
Posted on 11/22/25 at 5:10 pm to Ed Osteen
quote:Saints should have known this was against the rules. Don't expect anything to come of it though, except maybe we'll be stuck with Cooks.
Sounds like cooks had a team in mind and the saints worked with him to try to make claiming him on waivers undesirable so he could get through
Posted on 11/22/25 at 5:30 pm to Morganite
How is Brandon Cooks still playing ball. Straight bum
Posted on 11/22/25 at 7:50 pm to WhoGeaux
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fireable offense for ole Mick
In Miss Gail's world the old principal applies: "only way I'll get fired is if they find a dead girl or alive boy in my bed"
Posted on 11/22/25 at 7:51 pm to Morganite
Can Cooks just be the ball boy? Only way he should see the field.
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