The annual NFL trade deadline is just days away (it’ll pass at 3 p.m. CT on Tuesday, Nov. 1, so mark your calendars), so clout-hungry social media account managers are driving up speculation on struggling teams like the New Orleans Saints. But they’re approaching it from the same perspective as pro football executives from around the league, who see a 2-5 squad in New Orleans whose record doesn’t match the talent on their roster. Could this be what drives the Saints into a fire sale?
Probably not, given the finances involved and how difficult it would be for the Saints to offload some of their star players. Even if the Saints were motivated into dealing household names like Alvin Kamara and Michael Thomas, they’ve written themselves into a corner while working around the salary cap, and it’s hard to imagine another team could present a strong enough offer to make it worth their while. They’d be paying for the player and for the salary cap penalties New Orleans would absorb in moving on.
