Saints at the top of Davante Adams’ wish list [Raiders trade Adams to Jets for conditional 3rd ; Jets paying Adams’ entire remaining salary]
The current offensive line isnt good enoguh, but when we get full strength we DEFINITELY are a Superbowl contender. 100%
I'd love to think that we will get healthy. But I think the injuries are piling up and at some point it's just too many to expect "next man up" to work. Kubiak has done a masterful job of scheming around the lack of talent on the OL and the injuries, but there is a limit to what even he can do. And now we have injuries at LB and DE that we really can't afford. I mean Hill is out with broken ribs and Kamara is playing with broken ribs. We are one good hit away from having Jamal Williams getting 20 plus touches per game behind a patch work OL which isn't good. So, if we get healthy sure we can contend for the NFC. I'm just not sure we are ever going to be "healthy" this season.
And we have 3 games in 10 days coming up with the injury list we have now. Most of those guys are unlikely to come off the injury list in the next 10 days so things could really turn bad over the next 3 games due to injuries. Hopefully not, but it is possible. And coming back to contend from 2-5 would be really difficult even with Adams.
So, I'm just not sure what Adams can do to make up for that given that he is unlikely to be traded fast enough to get up to speed to play in the next 2 games. Especially since he may have an injured hamstring. (Could be fake excuse to keep him off the field.) But, if they can get him for a decent price then I'm fine with finding out. I just don't want to see this team giving up a 2nd round pick and a ton of future cap space that we could use at other positions, if it turns out that we never get healthy enough for Adams to make a difference.
And frankly, if we get healthy I think we have enough to make a run without Adams and I'd rather keep the draft assets to get a weapon in the draft at a cheaper price so we can use some cap space to get some good OL and some pass rushers in free agency.
But hey, I'm just a fan and I hope I'm wrong. If they do trade for Adams I hope he transforms the offense and they go on a run.