New weirdness in New Orleans

[hepcat]

All I know is their offense has been hurting without Thomas and I love to see it 

[doomer]

35 minutes ago, hepcat said:

All I know is their offense has been hurting without Thomas and I love to see it 

I would say it's a lot more boring without MT but not necessarily hurting. Unless you consider 30ppg hurting.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/stats/team/_/table/passing/sort/totalPointsPerGame/dir/desc

[LinvilleGorge]

1 hour ago, TrevorLaurenceTime22 said:

Even with Thomas off the books they would still be 60m over next seasons cap.... 

They always find a way. Panthers fans have thought time and time again that this is the year they're going to have to pay the Piper but they always find a way.

[PhillyB]

he came out today and tweeted that he was out healing from his injury after a setback and wasn't coming back until after the bye anyway 

[PhillyB]

...which is exactly what you'd expect slant boy to say 

[rainwater]

It sounds like the Saints did him a solid by not "suspending" him. If he wasn't Brees' best weapon, it probably would have ended much worse.

[TrevorLaurenceTime22]

3 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

They always find a way. Panthers fans have thought time and time again that this is the year they're going to have to pay the Piper but they always find a way.

They have never been 80 million over the cap, the cap has also has never been dramatically less than anticipated..... Kick the can is all they have done, I'm surprised you don't remeber kick the can is what got hurndog fired the first time... converting base salaries to pro rated bonuses ect....

[ladypanther]

So...what was his injury status prior to the game.  He was not listed as inactive due to injury...right?

[Khyber53]

Sometimes I wonder if the years of concussions or "supplements" some athletes take just makes them frikkin' lose their minds. Sometimes you hear these crazy a$$ stories about what they say or what they do and you're like, "Nah, can't be." 

Then the next thing you hear they've gone completely off their rockers. 

It's got to be worrying someone out there.

[Captain Morgan]

The Athletic had an article about this today.  The fine wasn't about the fight.  The coaches. including Patyon,  tried to talk to him, and he yelled at them.  Other players talked to him, including Brees, but apparently same result.  The fine was to warn him not to disrespect the coaches.

His tweets, both today and in the past, aren't exactly encouraging.  Turns out this has been going on for a while, and a close teammate told the coaches before the season they needed to get him in line.  There is a problem, and how he responds over the next couple of weeks is going to tell what happens.

Hard to believe, but there are plenty on the Saints board who have no problem with getting rid of him.

 

[LinvilleGorge]

11 minutes ago, TrevorLaurenceTime22 said:

They have never been 80 million over the cap, the cap has also has never been dramatically less than anticipated..... Kick the can is all they have done, I'm surprised you don't remeber kick the can is what got hurndog fired the first time... converting base salaries to pro rated bonuses ect....

They're a lot better at cap management than Hurney and they've proven it time and time again. They'll figure it out. They always do.

[LinvilleGorge]

2 minutes ago, Captain Morgan said:

The Athletic had an article about this today.  The fine wasn't about the fight.  The coaches. including Patyon,  tried to talk to him, and he yelled at them.  Other players talked to him, including Brees, but apparently same result.  The fine was to warn him not to disrespect the coaches.

His tweets, both today and in the past, aren't exactly encouraging.  Turns out this has been going on for a while, and a close teammate told the coaches before the season they needed to get him in line.  There is a problem, and how he responds over the next couple of weeks is going to tell what happens.

Hard to believe, but there are plenty on the Saints board who have no problem with getting rid of him.

 

I don't know what it is about the WR position, but damn if it hasn't always had far more than it's fair share of divas.

[TrevorLaurenceTime22]

5 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

They're a lot better at cap management than Hurney and they've proven it time and time again. They'll figure it out. They always do.

They are the largest % over the cap than any team if NFL history we will see you are highly overating there fiscal capacity IMO.... there almost as good as congress at kicking the can.

[Captain Morgan]

1 minute ago, TrevorLaurenceTime22 said:

They are the largest % over the cap than any team if NFL history we will see you are highly overating there fiscal capacity IMO.... there almost as good as congress at kicking the can.

 

One of their reporters wrote an article before the season that showed how easily they can get back down under the cap next year.  They wouldn't have signed who they did if they didn't have a plan.  They'll let some players go, and they won't be a huge player in free agency, but don't think they don't know what they're doing.