K Major

FWIW ...

Ken Crawley intercepted Jimmy Garoppolo in walk thru's today (source - Mike Triplett).

Keep a lazy eye on him and De'vante Harris tomorrow night.

The Dude

With all the hype surrounding the defense and very very little surrounding the offense other than possibly trouble at the guard position I had been a little nervous. Last night I heard T bob and Christian both say the offense looks scary good and could be close to 2011 offense.

Think about it. We have 5 top 15 players at their positions on our offense.
Drew at number 5
Strief at 16
Armstead at 4
Unger at 6
Fleener at around 6 I forgot.
That is some serious talent. Combine that with this young and seemingly deep receiving corps and it is a pretty damn spicy gumbo.

Not to mention Cam at around 4, Breaux, and a couple of other defensive players.

I know it is the local medias job to hype this team up in the preseason to garner interest and sell tickets, but the Boston media pretty much parroted what our guys said.

"Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared."

ChrisXVI

Someone asked Nick Underhill if Keenan Lewis had a setback and Nick at least confirmed it:

dizzle88

As mentioned earlier, if he's not ready by end of preseason we would be better just cutting ties.

The guy obviously can't stay healthy now.

ChrisXVI

Take this for what it's worth...

dizzle88

I've got an additional option - give back the guaranteed money, you haven't played even half a season since.

lee909

Dont think thats fair at all. We have seen him fo everything to play through injuries. Was it the 49ers game when he came out on nearly one leg and was still competitive all game. If you have not been through your body betraying you its hard to get just how frustrating it is for the person. I still cant run after being sick last year. If i tried anything more than a fast walk my legs would giveway under me. Me knees are a mess from 25 plus years of playing soccer on turf and hard frozen pitches. Its horrible when you cant physically fo what you are capable off not because of age but from your body not able to take the strain through sickness or injury

"Two receivers to the left, Garcon to the right. Manning in the shotgun, puts Collie in motion. Looks in his direction...it's picked off! It's picked off! It's Tracy Porter again! He's runnin' free! He's gonna go all the way!

The Dude

Why on earth should he? One reason they give players guaranteed money is to insure them that they are going to be paid regardless of injury. Its the whole point. Teams use it as a selling point to attract free agents and whatnot. It's not like the Saints didn't know this could happen going into this contract. It's not Greers fault, or Byrds. It's their money and they earned it. It sure as he'll isn't your money.

jeanpierre

When Westbank showed his @$$ last season during the draft, whining about not getting his guaranteed money, I felt something was amiss then...

Anytime a player goes off like that, and is uncharacteristic for that person, it should have given the front office pause to step up and guarantee money...

AsylumGuido

What good would his giving money back to Tom Benson do for the Saints? The contract is in place and the cap hit is a given. You ask why can't they just re-do the contract? Because the league has to approve every contract and there is no way that would fly.