Curtis Lofton to visit Saints
 

Larry Holder ‏ @LHolderCBS

Falcons FA LB Curtis Lofton is scheduled to visit the #Saints, two sources confirm.

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He was the guy I wanted when he was drafted. I was crushed when the Falcons selected him.

Part of me only wants us to sign him just to say *#&@ you to the FalClowns!

I wish we could steal at least one or two GOOD guys from ATL or TB...tired of them reaching into our cookie jar!!!

I was the same was with Weatherspoon, I really wanted him out of college

This is the guy we need!! He is a leader on the field and not a problem in the locker room!

This is a good thing !

He might be good but his after-the-tackle celebration is sissy. Pretending to eat something with a spoon is just about as silly as Dhani Jones' air guitar celebration. :billy2::airguitar:

Neauxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...

Neauxxxxx.....Need more of a lunch pail attitude out of this guy...

The fact he has an after the tackle anything proves we need him. Apparently he can tackle.

That being said, his celebration may be a product of just being in Atlanta, and their culture... Look at White and Grimes........

My guess is he's a back up plan if we don't sign Hawthorne.

Think about how awesome the LBs could be if we signed Lofton.

WLB Vilma
MLB Lofton
SLB Wilson

I can only hope this happens. Would be the Saints' best LB corp since the Dome Patrol.

I'd personally prefer:

WLB Woodyard
MLB Hawthorne
SLB Wilson

Lofton, IMO, is the best FA LB available. Hawthorne is a distant second.

I don't know about the distant part, but Lofton is ranked higher than Hawthorne, and that is why Lofton will probably ask for more money than Hawthorne, which is the reason I chose Hawthorne over Lofton.

This way they might have some money left over (from Vilma's and others' releases) to maybe go after Woodyard.

Lofton has been healthier than Hawthorne...

Now it's Sunday > is there something to announce?

Such as there will be announcement of an announcement on Monday?

Is there any new news on the LB search...?

Probably

LOL

6000 + posts came easy didn't they? ;)

i read somewhere that the saints will get the best lb available / left in aprils draft with there 3rd pick, then the rest will be dbs, with 1 pick going best player avail./as we do alot. maybe te.

Probably would have been many more if I hadn't mastered the search feature. ;)

I do hope that they sneak in a DT at the 3rd or the 4th.

I think he could be Vilma's replacement. He needs to go has digressed and surely going to the main one suspended. Lofton is good.

So where are we with Lofton?

Waiting for the market to realized itself to him?

no, the nfl is trying to ruin the saints so they suspend our contract negotiator.

Loomis is not suspended until September 1st, he's still much a part of this offseason

No one has heard anything since Sunday night when he had dinner with Loomis, Payton, etc.

Really? Leadership screwed up and is paying for it... No conspiracy going on here. The league doesn't hate one of the biggest merchandise cash cows in the last 5 seasons.

Seriously, though...

Where are we with Lofton?

Is the FP waiting for the market to convince himself of the reality of what his current earning potential?

I sure hope we offer him a monster contract and lock him up for five years. The guy's a beast!

a montster contract? We were 1.28 million under the cap before the Chamberlain signing...

We can restructure other contracts and we are likely dropping Vilma anyway, which would save about $4 million in cap space. The deadline to get under the cap isn't for months anyway. The priority is to build a great team first and worry about the cap later.

Don't forget Drew wants another 5 million...

The Chamberlain Signing clearly doesn't mean that much, We wanted Hawthorne chamberlain knows the defense though, Shanle should be released in the coming days.

I'm not totally convinced that the Saints will be cutting Vilma, because it all depends on what type of a punishment (if any) he'll get for his involvement in the BountyGate, and what his health situation is now and going forward.

Like I've already stated in other threads, if Vilma gets a year-long suspension, financially the best course of action for the Saints would be to keep him as a player, because that way they'd free up the most salary cap room.

If he can play at (at least) a 95% level this coming season and he doesn't get suspended, I do think that the Saints should go forward with him as the starting MLB, because once again it would probably end up being financially the best way to go. Jonathan Vilma playing at a 100% health level (i.e. 2009) would definitely be worth the $6.6M cap hit, IMO.