So, Adrian Peterson to the Saints? Thoughts? Floyd?
I'm not thrilled but I'm trying to withhold my dissatisfaction until his playing warrants it. I remember literally saying "FUCK!" when I heard we'd signed Jeremy Shockey in 2008 but he turned out okay despite being a snitch-ass bitch during the bounty thing (if it really bothered him that much, he had numerous other opportunities to come forward before dog piling when it was a big scandal and could decimate a division rival's chances of being competitive that season as he was then with the Panthers.)
My huge issue is that the Saints, under Payton/Loomis, have a ridiculously long track record of shipping out productive players as soon as they'll be ANY kind of hit on the cap and we continue to be cap-stricken by Brees' contract so it's basically a matter of us waving the white flag every time we have to compete with other teams to keep our proven players once they become free agents.
I just have a very hard time seeing us being competitive at any point during the remainder of Brees' career cuz Payton has 10 years of defensive ineptitude on his resume now (2007 and 2010 were good years but that's it) and we get rid of virtually every good offensive player whom isn't Brees. We've shipped out the following players:
Darren Sproles
Pierre Thomas
Chris Ivory
Khiry Robinson
Jimmy Graham
Kenny Stills
Joe Morgan
Brandin Cooks
Lance Moore
I'm not saying most of these guys did well after leaving but that's irrelevant anyway since they all were productive in our system and none showed any signs of slowing down at the time of their departures.
Also, we seem to think that Mark Ingram is always one year from turning the corner and becoming Walter Payton. I swear he must have some behind-the-scenes leverage on Saints brass in order to keep collecting 16 checks a year.
We also somehow thought it was smart to bring back Roman "Watch me get burned by even the slowest receivers, then catch up to them in the endzone gasping for air and lay down a cheap shot to show 'em who's the man" Harper. That asshole might have had at least five personal fouls every single season he played with us and as many as ten some years. One of the most horribly overrated Saints players ever.
So I've gone on way too long with this post anyway but to bring it all back in and make my final point, AP appears to be on the back end of his career so I don't expect much because of the following issues:
1. Saints offense will be rife with new faces almost every year.
2. Sean Payton will never assemble even an average defense except for the odd year once every five or so years (it's been seven years since this last happened as of now.)
3. In two years, AP will be either completely out of gas or gone for a better payday elsewhere if he miraculously is somehow still a good RB at that point.
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