Ian Rapoport: Saints to make a decision on Taysom Hill; hard to imagine Hill returning [T.Hill is turning 35 w/ 18M cap hit & ACL recovery]
We have a hard time moving on from certain players and I don't know if that's an HC or FO issue.
Regardless of how the Saints choose to operate, it's a FO issue. The FO should be able to step in and nudge the coach in the right long term direction.
As for Taysom, I don't think it was an issue we needed to address, until now. With the Saints continuously trying to retool, extend contracts and players, etc., they believed they were in contention. Taysom proved to be a legitimate part of our offensive plan. Now that we're obviously in a rebuild mode, and Taysom going in to his age 35 season, coming off of a serious injury, it's more than fair to say he isn't a cornerstone in any kind of rebuild. You want to establish a new offense, and forcing the Taysom effect in to it, is nothing more than a short term luxury, if he can play at his former level. It just doesn't seem to make much sense. Even if 2025 is a throw away year, I think it would be smart to have the offense start taking on it's new and post Taysom direction. Now, if we want to keep Taysom around to play a reduced roll, at a team friendly number, thats a different story. Give me a special teams Taysom and back up TE Taysom and that might work. He could be good to help Moore set the culture.