Pat Kirwan said he heard Carr didn’t want to do Saints contract restructure

Underhill and Triplet both built up sources while they were both working for other outlets. I think those sources carried over when they when they branched out on their own. An entirely new coaching staff this year and slow changes to the roster have probably eliminated most of their direct connections.

As negative as they've been about the Saints for the past couple of months, I doubt the new regime is going to share anything with either of them that they could negatively spin. I have a feeling that they are both going to be on the outside looking in a lot more from now on.

Also, players don't have complete information on most of team business, so a single player isn't the best source of information. I don't get the impression that any sports reporter looks for multiple corroborating sources before they post things on the internet.

They both have connections with agents and people outside of the Saints organization that are local, including Matt Bowers who is on the Superdome Commission. They also still have connections in the scouting department and with players. If you don't want to believe the story fine, but it's not just Underhill and Tripp reporting it, it's also 3 national guys who have their own sources.

I swear that these days people are more likely to believe conspiracy theories with no evidence or sources than they are to believe actual news reports from actual journalists with multiple sources.