New Orleans Saints trade TE Jimmy Graham to Seattle Seahawks

[Betterthanmost]

Hmmm... Is there an agenda to make Russell Wilson a star? What better way to get the center away, have Wilson run around and just chuck one in the air for Jimmy to go for it? It will be Manziel like and Evans.

 

[Big-T]

Add Ngata to Detroit according to Aaron Wilson on Twitter too.

 

[primetime]

Rap just said Graham was talking to New England.

Probably reading too far into it, but this could be a bad sign with regards to Revis.

 

[mayoclinic]

Lol @ the seahawks. you overpaid for a wide receiver pretending to be a tight end.

The Butler INT really got in their heads.

Jimmy Graham = soft.

Soft does not = championships.

 

[Big-T]

lol.

 

[Mack Herron]

SB loss still stingin' in Seattle.

 

[BradyFTW!]

Wow, and according to OTC the Saints only save $2M in Graham's cap hit this year by trading him.

At first glance, I think this is a no-brainer trade for the Seahawks. Giving up a first rounder kinda sucks, and it will make fitting their young guys under the cap a bit harder going forward while robbing them of a good chance to get 5 years of bargain production from a premium talent, but OTOH they're getting Jimmy Graham on a very reasonable salary for the next 3 years. Seems like a no-brainer from the Seahawks' perspective. For the Saints, seems kind of like a desperation-based cap-related move.

 

[makoute]

Haloti Ngata to Detroit Lions.

 

[Rob0729]

Add Ngata to Detroit according to Aaron Wilson on Twitter too.

I wonder if that means Fairley is not re-signing with them either.

 

[strngplyr]

Good trade for New Orleans

They can draft Devin Funchess to replace Graham, while saving a ton of money to use on defense (as long as it's not Revis)

They are only saving 2m in 2015. This doesn't help their mess of a cap situation.

 

[chasa]

I wonder if that means Fairley is not re-signing with them either.

Getting him out of the AFC is a win in my book.

 

[makoute]

lol.

Trying to toughen him up.

 

[JackBauer]

I don't like this trade for Seattle at all.

 

[Brunitus]

Doesn't Seattle still have to resign bobby Wagner ?? Also I think they were 14.3 under the cap this morning, how much were they paying max ?

 

[FrodoBagginz]

Saints are going to be giving away some gifts to get out of cap hell.

 

[BadMoFo]

why would they help the Seahawks win the NFC.

 

[makoute]

Saints are going to be giving away some gifts to get out of cap hell.

What else do they have though!

 

[Patriot Missile]

lol.

What a warm welcome. Congrats on your new teammates.

 

[50-yard-line]

I'm betting every team in the NFC other than Seattle officially hates the Saints right about now.

 

[Fixit]

Cap Hell or no, the Saints rolled Seattle in this trade.