I guess it could happen, but the Saints appear to be imploding from within (franchising and thus pissing off Drew Brees) and from the outside (Bounty-gate, sanctions, fines and suspensions of coaches and players) on and on. The players can’t be very happy that the front office decided to take a stand with their unquestioned leader and heart and soul of the team, the city of New Orleans, and the whole goddamned state of Louisiana. Add to that the GMs suspension, the head coach’s suspension, and some of the players getting tossed as well, it makes for a clusterbomb of epic proportions. The team has until July 16th to make this happen, and then Brees has the option to sit the year and collect the franchise tag tender of $16.4 million, sign the one-year tender, or hold out for his want of a little bit over $20 mill per on a 5 year deal. The Saints offered something near $19 mill but that’s not enough apparently.
I’m sure once he;s under contract,. all will be OK as far as the team goes, but there’s still the fact that the team is without its head coach for the year. Gregg (genius) Williams is long gone anyway (sorry StL, you walked into that spinning propeller), so it’ll be very interesting to see how the team responds to the absence of Sean Payton. The NFC South isn’t exactly a powerhouse, with the Falcons unable to get out of their own way, and the Buccos pulling the full-monty reversal from darling to doormat to now an afterthought. That leaves the Panthers as the possible upstart that takes the suddenly Saintless division, should they falter. If they could play decent defense behind Cammy, they’d be well on their way to respectability Regardless of what Alex Smith says.
Forty Niners Forever 
No problem, Reno. I’ve been wrong before. I’d owe Zero $100K had he taken me up on my proferred bet two years ago (I’d been Uruguayan now). I did get Jason Pierre-Paul right, though they’d have had to have passed on A. Davis or Iaputi (imagine JPP and Ald. Smith along with J. Smith – geez scary). Jury is still out on Christian Ponder. Anyway, who cares what Joe says now; he’s even older than I – I think dementia has set it on the Great One.
I feel bad for Ponder, he has Singleneuron on his side as asst head coach.
Harvin wants out because the situation is so bad and I don’t know if “Ponder is the future” is part of the problem. I just think the organization sucks and the HC is a doofus.
I wish we could get Harvin somehow. Bye bye Ted Ginn.
Ponder looked good last year. I really like what I am saw from his back-up Webb. Webb is going to be good if he gets a chance. Ponder will be too. Question is, who will get that chance? It is Ponder’s job for now, stay tuned.
Definitely something to Ponder over…..
Ponder’s OK. How much more than that remains to be seen. He gained 20 lb this offseason? He on the barry Bonds weight gain plan?
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