It’s time to cut ties with Mathieu (9 Viewers)

[Blackcricket]

This organization is coming across to me as arrogant. It's why you hear these leakage statements from players who can afford to make them. Honey badger has a ring and knows what winning staff looks and feels like. This one won't listen to convenient private locker room talk. It needs to be made uncomfortable in order to make any movement in a positive direction. Probably why it took so long for DA to be gone.

Green Bay was humbling. Don't have a rich owner, small market but with a bunch of young dudes literally kicked our you know what.

 

[Hank]

Rizzi having to defend the Saints practice habits after Mathieu’s outburst when other players could have done the same in their post game interviews highlights one of the problems.

Neither Cam nor Demario echoed Tyrann nor dared criticize the organization publicly even if they felt that way privately, it reeks of the same scorched earth comments right before Michael Thomas’ departure and Mathieu looks similarly washed in recent weeks.

This draft is deep at safety. Move on

Honey badger, Jordan, RAM-- thank you for your service. No longer need to be playing for the Saints. Released or Retire. It will cost alot of dead money--pay and it and start the rebuild with young players.
MOG is close too

 

[Optimistic Ozzy]

I said this last year

 

[Optimistic Ozzy]

This organization is coming across to me as arrogant. It's why you hear these leakage statements from players who can afford to make them. Honey badger has a ring and knows what winning staff looks and feels like. This one won't listen to convenient private locker room talk. It needs to be made uncomfortable in order to make any movement in a positive direction. Probably why it took so long for DA to be gone.

Green Bay was humbling. Don't have a rich owner, small market but with a bunch of young dudes literally kicked our you know what.

Honey Badger needs to look in the mirror.

 

[Elvis]

Man, somebody has to say what he said. Is it bad decorum? Sure. But the team is bad and the players are still asking for answers they aren't getting. TM is a pro and has always been a pro. I have no problem with him speaking his mind at the end of this season because I'd be pissed if he wasn't pissed.

 

[DSnfla]

This what happened after Ryan Nielson left.

He was head and shoulders better than every single defensive coach on the staff including DA!

And yet he's has not been good in Atl and Jax

 

[renegadewa]

And yet he's has not been good in Atl and Jax

That may be but he was when he was here.

Maybe he saw the writing on the wall and got out while he could.

 

[ELLIASJWILLIAMS]

This organization is coming across to me as arrogant. It's why you hear these leakage statements from players who can afford to make them. Honey badger has a ring and knows what winning staff looks and feels like. This one won't listen to convenient private locker room talk. It needs to be made uncomfortable in order to make any movement in a positive direction. Probably why it took so long for DA to be gone.

Green Bay was humbling. Don't have a rich owner, small market but with a bunch of young dudes literally kicked our you know what.

Thats a legitimate way to look at it. However I must ask, when has publicly airing grievances ever made a situation “better”? Those conversations, respectfully, are better had in private, even if you’re right… yes?

 

[BayouSAINTJoe]

We got him 6 years too late. Now he's a 5'9" 180 lb safety who's out there making business decisions on who he's going to tackle and how.

Cant blame him because I would be doing the same thing in his predicament. He's paid, just has to survive this next game and he can retire reasonably football healthy.

 

[livefromDC]

Glad to hear that there are good safeties in this draft.

It's drafting goggles. Whenever fans convince themselves that one position is a greater need than others, they also convince themselves that that specific position is the deepest in the draft. Happens every year.

 

[SweetT]

Not sure if this was posted yet, but…..

 

[ELLIASJWILLIAMS]

It's drafting goggles. Whenever fans convince themselves that one position is a greater need than others, they also convince themselves that that specific position is the deepest in the draft. Happens every year.

I guffawed audibly

 

[Saints 318]

I heard a couple of times this season that he was frustrated that he’s not being used like he was in KC.
Meanwhile the whole defensive side of the ball needs a rebuild from the sidelines to the field.

 

[bigdub81]

What did he say? I went back 3 pages and into the post game threads and didn’t see anything unless I overlooked it

 

[St.Dan]

This organization is coming across to me as arrogant. It's why you hear these leakage statements from players who can afford to make them. Honey badger has a ring and knows what winning staff looks and feels like. This one won't listen to convenient private locker room talk. It needs to be made uncomfortable in order to make any movement in a positive direction. Probably why it took so long for DA to be gone.

Green Bay was humbling. Don't have a rich owner, small market but with a bunch of young dudes literally kicked our you know what.

Interestingly, Green Bay isn't a large market either and has an ownership structure that's been grandfathered in to what's acceptable for the league. According to the link, we're third-smallest among U.S. cities with a team, ahead of only Buffalo and Green Bay. (Ironically, though, both those teams are in the playoffs this year and might well be a Super Bowl matchup)....

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See which pro sports cities rank as the biggest TV markets, according to Nielsen. New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are the top three.

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But back to the actual thread topic, the ol' Honey Badger indeed has reached the end of his rope. It's his 12th season of pro ball and he's not the same player as he once was. It doesn't matter what his usage is at this point. The other posters on here who track the cap situation more closely probably know how much his cap hit is. But whatever it is, he needs to be among the veterans let go for 2025.