re: Easy cut/trade decisions for 2023 season

AK - easy, he’ll be in jail

Davenport

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Peat

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Peat tore a pec reading this.

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AK - easy, he’ll be in jail

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Don’t think he sees jail time, he punched the guy but wasn’t one of the 2 people kicking the guy in the head. But for arguments sake, him going to jail could actually help the Saints as long as he’s still under contract.

If they cut him, they have to absorb any deferred bonus funds already paid. So, looking at $15.3M cap hit.

If in jail, saints get to have him suspended under the commissioner exempt list. They may still have a hit for the current year bonus money, approx $5M; but won’t owe any of his salary, performance bonuses, and won’t have to eat the future deferred bonuses

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Peat

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I still don't understand why they signed him to such a deal when they did.

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I still don't understand why they signed him to such a deal when they did.

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Don't feel alone, b/c nobody else on this board does either

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You're going to see lots of restructures pushing money to future years just to get under the cap, which hamstrings us in those future years and makes us have this same discussion in 365 days.

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This is one of the reasons I like Hooker so much. Assuming he is there in the 3rd round, you can lock him up on a rookie deal and go into '23 with him as a 25 yr old rookie starter and Hill the backup. Obviously if he kills it, you have your QB1 moving forward under a rookie deal. If he is serviceable (his floor imo), you have a backup under a rookie deal and go after QB1 in the '24 draft. You would be an NFL rarity which is cash rich at the QB position for the near future.

Of course this is all contingent on Hooker being at worst, an NFL backup level QB. If he totally shits the bed, you whiffed on a 3rd round pick and likely lost enough games for it to be a de facto tank year giving you a top 10 pick. Not the worst thing long term for this team in its current state.

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still don't understand why they signed him to such a deal when they did.

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Only reason for the extension was he was a 1st round pick and they didn’t want to admit it was a failed pick. It was pure optics and should tell you the incompetence of the front office.

The whole fricking system.....we need to burn it and rebuild it.

It was a terrible idea but this is the reason

Number 1) We drafted him bc Payton is tight w Stanford coach David Shaw. There are pre and post draft articles that point towards this being the key reason.

2) Sean Payton loves to do outside the box shite in an attempt to be cerebral and separate himself from a crowd.

The entire process of drafting peat and resigning him to a bullshite deal was born of Payton’s arrogance and want to appear like the smartest guy in the room

It’s the same reason why we didn’t really target lsu players under Miles or Coach O. He sees those guys as beneath him and thought he would have to coach up the LSU players too much once they got to the NFL.