N/S Jimmy Graham Tweet

The problem was that it wasn't Graham for Unger. It was Graham for Unger + years of big dead money + millions to pay Fleener + a new contract for Unger a year later.

Just sucking it up that we overpaid Graham by $3M a year would have been a lot less painful long term. But it is what it is.
Graham's last season as a Saint, wasn't that about the time that we made a ton of bad moves and went into a funk. We were a preseason favorite to go to the Super Bowl and instead started the 7-9 train of seasons. A horrible draft with only Cooks as the only redeeming quality (Jean-Baptiste, Fortt, Sunseri, Powell, Rooks). Payton's mind on his new girlfriend, Rob Ryan's dreadful sophomore season, Gallette's antics started to show. Then we follow up with another dreadful offseason - an injured Byrd, Peat (decent), Anthony, Kikaha, Grayson, P.J. Williams (keeper), Tull, Davison (good 5th rounder) Swann and Murphy. The wheels fell off pretty quickly and it took three seasons to recover. Ugh.