Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz, senior NFL writer Frank Schwab and senior NFL reporter Jori Epstein discuss the deal by New Orleans to send Marshon Lattimore to Washington and if the team shoud’ve done more to begin the rebuilding process. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on , , or
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The Saints according to Jory are a trade deadline winner, Frank.
What do you say?
I, I need an explanation here.
Joy.
You know, I love you.
You’re one of my favorite teammates here at Yahoo Sports.
The Saints should have traded anybody who was not nailed down.
I mean, they could have just traded all 53 and I’d have been fine with it.
Uh And I know not realistic but it could have done that.
They need to start this wholesale rebuild.
Really?
They just make one move and it’s their one like player that I, I don’t know that they really should trade and that’s Marshawn Lattimore.
I do get, they, they got a nice return from him for the commanders, but the Saints not being very active in this trade deadline really confused me.
It’s, it just seems like same old Saints where they don’t want to admit what’s coming and that’s a rebuild.
I talked to someone with a pretty good knowledge of the Saints operations, uh late Tuesday night, someone who really understands what’s going on and I was like, this seems like a pretty good haul and they’re like, look, we were getting pretty good offers on several of our players.
Like people understand they two games and then they lost seven straight.
They fired their coach this week, like no one thinks that they are expecting 2024 to be their year.
And so they’re getting all these good offers.
But the person said, like, give me an example of a time when a fire sale has worked.
If you’re gonna do this, you have to leave no hostage because if you start burning things down and really showing players you are not even trying to win, not that you’re doing everything for you, you’re not even trying to win.
Then from a cultural standpoint, the next time adversity hits, players are gonna be like, oh no, they’re just gonna start selling us off.
They view us only as assets.
And so I think first of all, let’s keep that in mind is that it’s easy to say sell everyone.
It doesn’t actually work out.
You took Marshall Lamar who yes, was an anchor, but he’s an anchor who’s already really, really good in a year when you’re not there yet.
And you got from Marshawn and the fifth, a 3rd, 1/4 and 1/6 to really boil it down.
This is the team that I didn’t know if they would make any moves and they were realistic and made a move.