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

Elvis said
We do not owe those players anything but our appreciation. They get paid ridiculous amounts of money to play a kids game and have all played well and not won it all because it's hard to win it all. But there is zero reason to go all in for those guys and harm the teams ability to get better in the future. Whether it's making the cap worse than it already is or trading away desperately needed draft picks, it just isn't worth it while on a 3 game losing streak and having a backup offensive line and QB for the time being. If we were playing great all around and needed just one piece to really solidify the team, that would be something else. But that's not what this team is.

We owe it to them to not waste the 1-3 years they have left in the league. We cannot trade them due to the dead cap hits, so we are better off as a team and for them to do everything possible to try to compete. Also I feel like y’all are not taking into account how much a WR like Adams takes pressure off the QB and O-line. Being able to make tough catches over the middle on quick routes takes pressure off everyone.

SAINTSFAN said
I don't understand why you would want to burn a 2nd rounder with the thought that we may just cut him at the end of the season. A 2nd rounder for maybe 10-11 games seems steep

You burn it to see if you can make one final effort to give the fans and players a chance to compete before saying it’s time to start a rebuild. Now the rebuild may not be a bad rebuild depending on how well Spence plays, then you just need to nail the coaching staff. We have young talent in alot of areas, the biggest hurdle would be clearing the cap sheets and getting into the positive.

DSnfla said
Down with the 1st part , don't agree with the 2nd. Do that and we not only waste the rest of AK, Demario,HB, and Taysom's career but we're in for a 4-5yr rebuild and that's IF we get the right hire and hit in the draft

My idea of it is if it doesn’t work HB, Davis and Cam likely decide to retire. Kamara will probably decide he would prefer a change of scenery, so we would have a bunch of dead cap money we would be navigating.

If it does work and we make the playoffs and win a game or two, then absolutely keep Adams and Kamara and go for it for another season.