Jarvis Landry visiting Saints tomorrow

MatthewV said
Does the hometown discount really exist anywhere anymore? The only thing close to it I have seen in reality has been the "take less money to play for a contender."

If anyone would take a hometown discount, Tyrann's public campaign to come home would be the ideal place to do it -- and he hasn't, at least yet.

The NFL is a business. The Saints got in the Jarvis and Tyrann conversation only when the players' reported inflated salary demands became obviously too expensive for the free agency market they actually had.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the Saints have opened the door because the price must have gone down into something much closer to the vicinity of what they are willing to pay, and it has nothing to do with the hometown or how they feel about the players changing or the team's strategy changing.

It does exist to an extent. It’s becoming more and more rare by the day. Even the ones that do, rarely get publicized bc the big contract signings are the ones that catches the main headlines. Everything else are just footnotes. I only said we “could” be trying to sell them on a hometown discount is bc we are trying to be “cheap” or “fugal” with what money we have left. If we were not being cheap, then I’m sure we would’ve signed at least Tyrann at this point. There’s nothing wrong with trying every angle imaginable. No harm at all. Both of those players are very prideful about the state of Louisiana, so you never know if either one of them would be willing to sign for the home team.