Saints at the top of Davante Adams’ wish list [Raiders trade Adams to Jets for conditional 3rd ; Jets paying Adams’ entire remaining salary]

GTSaint said

So many times you hear about a great player looking to be traded. But the cost is too much for the Saints. Then that player gets traded for a 6th round pick and a conditional 2035 7th rounder or something like that. Why can’t that happen for us?
Of course, the Raiders might still be mad about us not trading for Carr so they had to cut him and we were able to pick him up without compensation to the Raiders.

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That's a fair point about the Carr situation. I know their fans are angry about it, but I'm not sure if the Raiders' front office thinks the same.

I don't think the Saints were playing that game, but I do think Carr wanted to wait to become a free agent both because he wanted to pick his team and because he didn't want the Raiders to get compensation. And in the end that was the deal the Raiders negotiated so they shouldn't be mad at him for abiding by the contract.