Two key Saints pieces are potentially already out. Terron Armstead, pro-bowl left tackle, is out 4-6 months. He was out a good portion of last year too and we have good options at left tackle. Peat can fill in. Drafting Ramzcyk also looks smart now.
Nick Fairley DT, our most important free agent signing this offseason, who had a great year last year and got something like 14 million over two years guaranteed is potentially done with football because of pre-existing heart conditions that he has had his whole life. Also, even though this condition was known about, apparently the Saints had no pass-the-physical clause in the contract..... His signing was below market value, I kind of wonder if that was the reason why. He waived some money to have that clause taken out. A lot of projections were more like 10+ million a year with 20 million guaranteed.
There is a lot of talk that something is wrong with the Saints training and medical staff. We had 300+ games missed last year by players, league average is 150.
