Week 6 Rapid Response: Go Ahead and Break the Glass

TCUDan said
Honestly--it depends on what the Saints' priority is now. The trade deadline is looming and the offense needs some juice.

I'm not necessarily advocating for it, but Adams would undoubtedly improve the offense's resiliency and adaptability. But it really depends on where the front office and the coaches' goals are at this point--and how deep they think the issues run.

I though this part of what you wrote was the most spot on:

"But this is the NFL, where injuries provide context, not excuses. In fact there is no excuse for the way the Saints mismanaged the Eagles and Falcons games, a pair of matches lost by a combined five points. Now fold in the last two games—a 26-13 loss to the Chiefs and a 51-27 thwacking at the hands of the Buccaneers—and the truth becomes much clearer.

The injuries haven’t foiled the Saints. They’ve just exposed them. Peeled back the veneer of a talented starting lineup to reveal a paper-thin team. One that lacks not only depth, but resiliency. Adaptability. A team that has done an inadequate job of replacing key departures to trade and free agency and—in some cases—retirement."

It seems to me in that context that a coach or GM looking at the long term future of the team would not trade for Adams. Yes, he might help some in the short term but I doubt he does enough to make this a playoff team. And if that isn't going to happen all he can possibly do is enough to save DAs job while also spending future assets (picks and cap space) that we need to fix the depth and talent issue on the team.

So to me trading for Adams would only be about saving DA's, and maybe Loomis', job and not about making this team better in the long run. But I could be wrong. Maybe Adams can flip the script and continue to be a great player until he's 34 or 35. But I wouldn't bet on it since it looked like at the end of the Tampa game the team just quit. The defense stopped even trying to tackle and several offensive players didn't seem to be giving full effort or to care. That's to be expected when you are down that much, but it could carry over into the next game and beyond.