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METAIRIE, La. — There isn’t one day that Carl Nicks doesn’t look at his decision to leave the New Orleans Saints for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in free agency this offseason and smile.

In fact, he referred to his situation in the bay area as “lollipops and rainbows.”

While there isn’t necessarily any animosity from him towards the Saints organization, he didn’t exactly leave the franchise that drafted him in the fifth round in 2008 with mutual respect.

“Everybody thinks it was the money,” Nicks said Wednesday. “But it really wasn’t. The challenge here is to be something that the Saints didn’t look at me as; a premier player that could be a leader.”

And yet, he left after signing a five-year, $47.5 million contract with $31 million guaranteed. The contract was the biggest for a guard in NFL history.
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Nicks, for one, is looking forward to Sunday’s matchup against his former team.

“Why’s that?” he said. “For a whole bunch of reasons, but mainly so I can play the guys and play the team that let me go I guess.”

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