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The real silver lining is if Tepper realizes it’s his incompetent ownership that cost him all these QBs he’s wanted and it humbles him into letting actual NFL football people run the franchise and build long term instead of the asinine “rebuild while remaining competitive” which fails 99% of the time

That may function now too but bringing in a 50 million dollar QB when you don’t have even close to a solid team around you definitely won’t work

Why the anxiety? Verge and that other very credible Twitter user already said Panthers have him in the bag!

You are of course correct, and if the recent records/reputations of the franchises were reversed, every other post on this board would be re-stating these obvious truths

The future of the NFL is winning with a super talented rookie deal QB, or a game manager with good FA around him. Rogers, Mahomes, Dak; their teams are not getting back

Clout chaser throwing out BS on the off chance his guess is correct so that he can bolster his fake insider credentials for the future

Wow he's telling us What We Want To Hear!

I don't think him meeting with us or anyone for that matter proves he is willing to waive his NTC at all. In fact it makes more sense that the meetings are to see if he is willing to do so

Miles better than Durnold, but Rhule would only bring out the worst Bucs Winston in him

Funny enough this is quite an incompetent move from a usually shrewd Saints team. What's the upside? You aren't competing for a championship this year, not with the lengthy suspension Watson is going to receive putting you out of playoff positioning before he comes back, especially since Brady has returned. Then you start losing players the next two or three seasons with no means to replace them

No, there are no insiders, just people pretending to be. But you don't need to be an insider to know which team a star player will choose if they will both pay him the same salary, and one of the franchises is totally incompetent while the other is well managed.

Ironically Tepper’s terrible leadership the past three years is saving himself from his terrible leadership now. When Saints are using 18% of the cap to pay for a busted DeShaun in 2025, they will be stuck in the basement, not us.

Saints swoop in and in 48 hours steal the player you’ve been trying to move heaven and earth for, for the last 14 months #JustTepperThings

Haha yeah, those small things. What a fool But my Verge! I’m coming home! You can’t outrecruit a terrible owner, which Tepper is.

If that's true, which I doubt, it's even more pathetic than I thought Tepper could get. A guy like Brady, Rodgers, champions with years of success and service to their franchises and good moral character, those guys getting a say I understand. But handing the keys over to Watson to make personnel decisions? Why don't we just let him run our drafts? Or come up with the gameplans? Or make roster decisions? Embarrassing.

he's probably a nobody reading twitter or a message board like the rest of us

Ultimately, the reaction to the Saints coming in last minute to steal your girl, or at least that's how the pro-Watson fans perceive it, is just lashing out because they haven't quite come to grips with the fact that we're now one of the worst run franchises in the NFL, with a terrible owner and even worse coaching staff. And that no star wants to be part of, naturally. It sucks, and it's hard to cope with, especially for some fans who couldn't even cope with us merely being a mediocre franchise from 1995-2019. But it's true, and that's why we've been bad, will be bad this year, and because of bad moves by the previously mentioned bad owner and coach, will probably be bad for the next few years as well. Five stages of grief, might as well just enter acceptance. Only then will they recognize that Watson to the Saints or wherever isn't the coup they so think it is, and that we'll actually have the last laugh.

Saints aren’t some big market, they’re just much better run than we are with better coaches and players. The disparity is so big even the biggest Panthers fanboys can’t talk themselves in this thread into explaining why Watson would objectively prefer us to them

So if we are “lucky” enough to get him it means we’ll be giving up even more than the massive overpay this was already? I believe it, that someone as rash and impulsive as Tepper would promise a draft day deal of 4 1sts, or 3 1sts, 2 2nds, and players. Saints front office must be having the time of their life knowing they win either way

Anyone familiar with college football recruiting message boards is aware of the phenomenon of fake insiders, they sound exactly like this with cryptic, wish washy posts that don’t put them on the hook when they’re wrong, but enjoy having a gaggle of posters hang at their every word. Some of them even have genuine connections, and maybe even believe what they’re posting, only for it to later come out they read waaaaaay too much into whatever tidbit they gleaned from their access.

When the Aints or Seachickens are paying Watson $50 million a year before their next first round draft pick is available, as he's rehabbing from another ACL tear, you'll be thankful that Tepper was saved from his worst instincts by circumstance

we couldn't even outbid the Aints if we wanted to because all Watson has to do is to say he'd rather go to the well run organization with better players than the dumpster fire we are, and suddenly the Texans are forced to take whatever Loomis throws out there. Stop flattering yourselves with fake insiders telling you what you want to hear and just use objective reasoning to see what's actually happening

If the deal were sealed we'd know it because they'd announce it now to get the horrendous PR hit washed away in the Tom Brady news. More proof of supposed insiders stirring the pot with BS

I just tweeted out When The Saints Go Marchin' In. Or maybe it was Hey Hey Tampa Bay? Just as meaningful

I'll do a lifetime ban board bet with anyone whose been a registered member for 5+ years with at least 2,000 posts that he's not coming here