Zack Baun: Top Graded LB / DPOY cand. [Why Isn’t Baun Still a Saint Thread] ………. [Eagles re-sign Baun to 3-year, $51 million contract on March 5]

You need to stop because talented players hitting FA to go to another team that's willing to pay them more happens all the time. Henry walked from the Titans and tore it up. We lost Ellis and Onyemata to a division rival just a couple years ago. Losing Hendrickson sucked but we knew the talent was there and he got paid.

Let me put it to you like this, name another time in recent NFL history where a player went from not having a role on one team, hitting FA and then becoming an All Pro without even his role changing. We had a big answer to our defense in the building but our talent evaluation was so bad we couldn't see it. That's a much bigger fumble than losing a talented player because you couldn't pay them enough.
Baun was the third linebacker in a 2-LB system

He took less money because he wanted to play - he had a contract on the table here

1 page ago he and his 3.5 sacks was called a pass rush specialist

I know hating every single thing the Saints do is chic these days but our thinking parts and our communicating parts are too closely linked for all this misfiring between them