exile

Only on a day like today.

The Saints offseason took an unexpected turn as the team has decided to ship Jimmy Graham off to Oakland for the Raiders’ 1st, 3rd and 7th round picks in 2014. Wow. Word is the Saints will now make Eric Ebron, tight end out of North Carolina, a drafting priority come May. Graham continued to insist on “Megatron” type money and the Raiders have rewarded him with a 6 year contract for $92.5 million with $40 million guaranteed. That’s an astronomical figure that the Saints were never going to come close to paying. The contract makes Graham the highest paid tight end in history by almost $5 million per year. That is an astronomical contract for Graham and the Raiders also gave up the 5th overall pick to get him. It remains to be seen who the Saints will get with that 5th pick but there are lots of difference making options.


APRIL FOOL’S!!!



BREAKING NEWS: Jimmy Graham traded to Raiders for 3 draft picks | The Saints Nation

One thing I learned from drinking. You should always go Christmas caroling with a group. Oh, and always in mid-December.

TheOak

At least the comments below the article are funny...

lee909

If they had any sense they would have set the story as team x have offered Jimmy a contract in the region of 6 years/$12ml a year snd the Saints have 7 days to match it.

TheOak

"trade" - story fail
"picks other than 2x First round" - story fail
"astronomical" twice in the same paragraph.. fail lol

voodooido

Even know we could get a lot more this would not make me upset. JG is a stud but the Saints were great without him and we could add 3 more pieces and free up cap space......

The Dude

I'd take that deal in a split second if 2 of those picks were a first and the 3rd a second.

RaginCajun83

No way this happens but I wouldn't mind them listening to offers at least

lee909

WE CANNOT TRADE HIM WITHOUT EATING THE WHOLE OF HIS TAG MONEY WHEN HE SIGNS IT. WE CANNOT TRADE SOMEBODY NOT UNDER A CONTRACT.

voodooido

He has not signed his contract.

TheOak

Then you have nothing to trade. The Saints do not have any ownership in Jimmy Graham right now, they just have an option to match a contract with another team.

I will try to make this very simple.

Jimmy Graham is a Free Agent 1st with a Non-Exclusive Franchise Tag 2nd.
We have absolutely nothing to trade until Jimmy Graham Signs something.
All the Non-Exclusive Franchise Tag does is allow the Saints the option to match any offer that Jimmy graham and another team agree upon.

The Saints, Saints Front Office, Mickey Loomis, Sean Payton, Drew Brees, no one with in the Saints organization is or will be involved with any agreement between Jimmy Graham and another team UNTIL Jimmy signs an offer sheet.

Once the sheet is signed the Saints either match it or wait for the league to give them 2 First Round Draft picks.

In order for the Saints to have anything to trade Jimmy has to sign his FT or a contract of some sort. A FT will come with 7m in dead money to trade and a long term deal will come with a whole lot more dead money, because Jimmy isnt signing a long term deal unless it has a nice signing bonus.

BTW.. I am not picking on you, your post was the one at the bottom when i decided to reply.

To show you what interest the Saints own in Jimmy Graham right now, if the season starts when I click post, Jimmy Graham could not take the field for the Saints. He is not under any contract.