Come on guys, the math really isn't that hard. Under your premise of get him now, cut him before next year. He makes ~$1 million a week. Including this week there are 12 weeks left, so ~$12 million plus his per game roster bonuses. The Saints have roughly $3 million left in cap space for 2024. They need to keep a big part of that to work the bottom of the roster week to week. Nearly all of Adams contract would need to be converted to a signing bonus. If the trade happened today and they were forced to cut him before the beginning of the next season the Saints would have to take on that $12 million as dead cap. That would move the cap they need to shed to $93 million before the beginning of the league year, before dealing with the likely retirements of Cam Jordan and Ryan Ramczyk which will add even more.
For a guy who turns 32 in December, and is either disgruntled or injured. To a team that has a real possibility of being 2-5 by next Friday.