Saints sign WR James Washington to one year deal (released on August 15)

Saintsphere said
we have 1 Pro Bowler at WR who hasn't played a full season since 2019, no TEs that really will move the needle besides Saints fans high on their potential, Chris Olave, another potential guy in Shaheed, and Kamara. Us signing James Washington is the reason why you just said we have the best pass catchers and he didn't even play last season!

Guys, I'm high on the potential of some of our guys too, but good lord are we bias acting like this core is the best group of pass catchers in the NFL.

And you can't even say the "I'm not just counting the top guys, I'm counting everyone". When a team has two top guys like Chase and Higgins, that is substantially a huge enough talent gap to counter the "depth" a team may have. And again, our depth isn't even that proven.

Peak fan optimism whether yall want to admit it or not lol

Right now we're approaching what I like to call "dead air", it's the time between Mini Camp & Training Camp. There's no news, videos or anything to report, so we as fans our minds runs wild, so we tend to build up these false expectations and think that every FA, Draft Pick & UDFA will have a huge impact.
The media tends to pumps this sunshine as well.

Olave & Shaheed did well for us last year. Mind you, opposing DCs will now have film on these guys, so I wouldn't go out and expect them to easily duplicate what they did last year. Also in the past we had the creative ability of SP. Given that we still have the genius of PC, I'm waiting to see how things play out.

But please stop blowing up every single move that is made. We go through this almost every year, heck I think we did it last year as well.