neugey

Sounds like it was a good decision to cut Meredith now and give him a chance to catch on somewhere else. If nothing else we will still keep tabs on him, can't rule out bringing him back down the road. I think he still has #2 WR potential but the injury recovery has made it difficult.

CheramieIII

We've got a lot better options at WR.

dizzle88

With Emmanuel Butler showing the way he has so far, Meredith was already in a deep hole without any reagrrivated injuries.

I'm just hoping that Butler isnt an Adrian Arrington, lights up camp and does nothing else.

st thomas

I fell for AA becoming the next Colston after he would hang the cleats up and we wouldn’t miss a beat . He should have not come out of college early

turbo_dog

Anyone remember Onomo Ojo? I thought he was going to be a superstar.

foreverfan

But he was cheap and still not worth the money.

neugey

In retrospect Adrian Arrington didn't have the body to survive the pro game for very long. In our offense you've got to have the strength to seal off defenders and finish the routes. I think Butler has this going for him more than AA.

Rugby Saint II

If we don't need him them I'm fine with it even though I really wanted him to work out.

Cruize

Trade Thomas. Frame it as it is. They tried to make him the highest paid WR in the league and he refused. They can't completely blow up their cap for one guy. Kamara, Lattimore, Ramczyk, Peat and Apple are all soon to be looking for new deals. Thomas deserves to get paid. But, without Brees he's just very good. Of course. it won't happen. They won't mess with team chemistry and do something that might hinder this season in the ever so quickly devolving window that is Bree's career. I get it. I understand it. But, in three years this team is not going to be fun to watch.

SaintFanInATLHELL

This is one of the reasons why players hold out. What exactly does "blow up their cap" mean? What percentage of the cap for each year of the contract constitutes "blown up".

The only blowing up of the cap in the NFL has been the cap value itself. $120 million in 2011. $188 million now. Growing by more than $10 million a year for the last 4 years.

We should all know by now that NFL contracts are not worth the paper they are written on. The Saints could deliver CGM a 6 year $126 million with $66 million guaranteed and all of the following would not be true: not 6 years, not $126 million, not $21 million a year, and not blow up the cap. In fact the only real number that's there is the $66 million. With NFL contracts the only numbers to pay attention to are the guaranteed money. The rest is monopoly money that will either get restructured, or extended, or completely cut depending on the performance of the player after the guaranteed dollars are delivered. As I pointed out in my other post, that $21 million eventual cap hit is actually less percentagewise than cap hits for WR in the past. Larry Fitzgeralds 2011 cap hit of $16.8 million was 13% of the 2011 salary cap. By the time CGM gets anywhere near a $20 million cap hit, the cap will be above $200 million, meaning that the hit would be less than 10% of the cap.

Every NFL contract for virtually every elite player in every position will be the highest of all time for the 5 minutes it's the latest contract. It's just not worth getting hung up on that phrase. Just take a look at the extension signed by Kevin Byard of the Titans this week: 5 years, $70.5 million, $33 guaranteed, $14.1 million average. It tops out the contract for Landon Collins and the next safety will get even more. BTW note the relevant number is missing, $33 million guaranteed. Byard can be cut 3 years into the extension and never see the back end money.

And of course, it didn't blow up the Titans' cap.

SFIAH

Super Bowl Championships: New Orleans Saints:1, Carolina:0, Atlanta Chokers: STILL ZERO

Only Atlanta choked in an unchokable situation... Life is definitely good.