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Content Post Let's Talk Free Agency 2024

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$1.2M? Plus the $14M bonus?..



The Saints are completely screwed against the cap, they have to get rid of Lattimore, so I would make them offers and see what happens.
 
The legal tampering window starts March 11th. But in reality I’m sure it already started.
Agreed. There's a lot of backdoor negotiating going on right now.
 
Agreed. There's a lot of backdoor negotiating going on right now.
We are going to have a lot of cap space, maybe we can upgrade to organic peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and Kirkland water.
 
The Saints are completely screwed against the cap, they have to get rid of Lattimore, so I would make them offers and see what happens.
Imagine signing Wilkins AND getting Lattimore to pair with Gonzalez. Moving j.jones to FS Marcus Jones in the slot.
That would be the best D in the league. Not top 10 not top 5 or 3. #1 in the league
 
Dude relax, money talks.
Connections with the coaches also counts.

Players like to go with coaches that already have confidence in them.
 


Mayo is a Defensive HC can't pass on a guy like this if you can get him Lattimore is a Int machine no fly zone.
 
Imagine signing Wilkins AND getting Lattimore to pair with Gonzalez. Moving j.jones to FS Marcus Jones in the slot.
That would be the best D in the league. Not top 10 not top 5 or 3. #1 in the league

I would certainly be in favor of it. Other than RB, snd possibly signing Tyson Smith at LT it’s slim pickings on offense in free agency. But there are great options on defense, starting with Wilkins, I don’t think Chris Jones gets out of K.C. And if the Bucs don’t tag Winfield I would be completely in with going after him. He’s only 25 and he’s the best safety in the game.
 
Imagine signing Wilkins AND getting Lattimore to pair with Gonzalez. Moving j.jones to FS Marcus Jones in the slot.
That would be the best D in the league. Not top 10 not top 5 or 3. #1 in the league
There are some very good players available on defense. Could turn this unit into a monster. Offense just needs to be marginally productive and not crap their pants.
 
Barkley is also a FA. Ideally Henry would be the better dude to get and probably cheaper than Barkley due to age.
 
Unfortunately, I don't think the FA board lines up great with our most pressing needs. And I think the roster is pretty barren. I just don't see a 1 year turnaround as realistic. So I think the team needs to approach FA with that mindset. You can't try to fit square pegs into round holes. Don't sign guys just to check a box at a position. Sign guys that you think represent truly good value and can fit the team/play up to their contracts. That might mean signing 3 good defensive players and leaving the offense a mess again. It's unfortunate, but you can only sign from the list of available players.

I don't want to be sitting here next year with still a weak offense and a bunch of money sunk into it because we overpaid every "meh" starter so we could go 8-9 rather than 5-12. That short term gratification (if you can even call it that) would be worse for the long term future of the franchise.
 
Just announced that both Antoine Winfield Jr. and Justin Madubuike received their franchise tags.
 


I don't want H Henry back at Top $$$$$ roll with a Draft pick please Cade Stover and Ben Sinnott.

 
All those bad Offensive Drafts came back to bite us in the @ss. We have a ways to go Offensively the Journey Starts this year.
 
Jonno Smith had 582 last year if that counts.

 
Barkley is also a FA. Ideally Henry would be the better dude to get and probably cheaper than Barkley due to age.

I’ll take Barkley, he can play all 3 downs, and removes the need for an extra back for passing downs.
 
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