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Should we be worried about this?

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Why would you be worried?

This team isn’t competing this year. You understand that right?

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Why would you be worried?

This team isn’t competing this year. You understand that right?

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You're a dildo.

They will compete for the NFC South.

More importantly long holdouts can cause unnecessary drama.

He’s 26, Saints will cave and give him what he wants and if not Shough will not sit a year to go back in the draft and risk being a 5th round pick at 27.

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Shough will not sit a year to go back in the draft and risk being a 5th round pick at 27

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This. Shough has zero leverage. Whatever the Saints offer is the max he'll get. Saints should play hard ball, he'll sign eventually. Its still June after all.

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This team isn’t competing this year. You understand that right?

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I’m amazed we even hired a coach or even drafted a class. We should have just hibernated for 15 months

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Didn’t realize there was an entire thread on the first page explaining all this

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Surprised there is only 1 thread about it, because it is at least the 3rd time it has been discussed since rookie camp.

But at least a new thread gives a little activity to the board.

Found an interesting article about it, a few days old.

As has been stated the major holdout is because of the contracts for the 1st 2 picks:

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The Houston Texans got the ball rolling on this year's second-round signings by giving 34th overall pick Jayden Higgins (the second pick in the second round) an unprecedented contract on May 8, a day before the rookie minicamp started. Higgins became the first second-round pick in NFL history to get a fully guaranteed contract.
The Cleveland Browns quickly followed suit the next day with Carson Schwesinger, the first pick in the second round, by also fully guaranteeing his entire contract. Without the Texans breaking new ground, Schwesinger's deal may not have been fully guaranteed.

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It then goes on to state that the rest of the 2nd round is now looking at Shough who is trying to use his leverage as competing for the starting job to get his fully guaranteed:

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The second-round signings have come to a grinding halt because of 40th overall pick Tyler Shough, who was the eighth player selected in the round. According to sources, Shough is insisting on a fully guaranteed contract since he is expecting to be the New Orleans Saints' starting quarterback for the 2025 regular-season opener with Derek Carr recently retiring.

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These deals from Houston & Cleveland may also leak into the 3rd round because of Shough's "leverage" on the Saints

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Jalen Milroe and Dillon Gabriel are the only 2025 third-round draftees who have their contracts structured with minimum base salaries in the final three years where the remainder of the salary for these years is in training camp roster bonuses. The Seattle Seahawks and the Browns selected Milroe and Gabriel 28th and 30th, respectively, in the round.

The agents representing the players taken with the third through seventh picks in the second round are in a holding pattern given that they are well aware of Shough's contract demands.

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And the bigger piece of this is the pressure from the agents and NFLPA. Because if Shough, the rest of the 2nd round, Milroe & Gabriel have any success, this will leak into next year and we could see the first two rounds fully guaranteed next year, then a similar holdout situation in the 3rd after the 2026 draft

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They will compete for the NFC South.

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If you think they will compete for the NFC South and you think Shough is going to be the QB leading them to that result then I can see why you are concerned.

Personally, I think this team is going to struggle mightily and there will be no practical impact to the team or Shough if he signs late.

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Shough not yet signed

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No worries. Don't matter anyway.

let him sit out, and lose the chance to be the starting QB