The Dude

No way in hell Hicks comes back. He’s said so a few times. Hicks laughed at Cam when Cam hit him up on twitter then told him to get the hell out of here and come to the Bears.
I can’t remember what his perceived beef with Payton and the organization was. What was the deal with that?

AsylumGuido

That beef has been over for a bit. It was there, but Hicks has said he's "buried the hatchet" and has no issues with New Orleans or any of the Saints any longer.

Akiem Hicks finally burying the hatchet with the Saints

Does Akiem Hicks still feel some animosity towards the team that drafted him? The Chicago Bears defensive lineman has kept a hefty chip on his shoulder over the years after being discarded in a trade with the Patriots, but he hasn’t kept the resentment going towards the New Orleans Saints after five years in Chicago.

“Do I appreciate how I was cast aside?” Hicks told Nathan Smith for ChicagoBears.com. “I wasn’t good enough to play for that team? No, I don’t appreciate those things. You never forget, but you can’t carry hate in your heart, you know what I’m saying? I would also say that, man, you just appreciate those moments. I wouldn’t say it loses its luster.”

A recent trip down memory lane — a highlight reel of Marques Colston’s biggest plays during his and Hicks’ time together in New Orleans — turned the big man sentimental, and he found himself catching up with an old friend in Saints captain Cameron Jordan.

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill