re: Saints Cut Fairley

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Oh, how do you know? Like the saints training staff has earned the benefit of the doubt

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When it comes to Ortho-business, yeah I can definitely not give them the benefit considering the recent issues (Breaux, Byrd, Spiller)

but this was more medically related and Amoss earned the benefit of the doubt.

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I can’t find the article but when this fairley stuff came out it was said an independent Dr uncovered this problem, not the saints team Drs. The one I read from the other day Day mentions Saints Drs but that is not what was reported at the time

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There were two with conflicting reports last year, one that said his personal caught it when he went for his annual checkup, saints confirmed, and he sought a 3rd opinion. Another was Saints caught it on physical, he checked with his cardiologist who also looked, and then he sought a 3rd opinion.

There were 2 physicians who said its career ending and 1 who did not.

Either way, while I feel and agree that teams should perform the physical right before they sign a contract, its not uncommon practice in the NFL or professional sports to not have one done the same day.

The assumption is that the condition that wasn't found in January on his exit physicial, but was found in June would have been picked up in March. That isn't always the case either, he had a structural issue that was known, for it to suddenly become career ending points to an acute change or an new arrhythmia. Neither of which is a guarantee to show in March. Hell, might not have shown in May either.

We don't know the whole story, for all we know he might have been complaining of chest pain that day after working out and decided to get checked.


I've called for the medical and training staff's heads often the past 3 years when it came to Byrd, Spiller, and Breaux. A joint problem, degenerative hip, etc those are ortho issues compared to a cardiac issue. One is likely to be found at any point in time, the other is definitely not.