News: According to a press release from the Saints on Monday afternoon, Dan Morgan has decided to call it a career. "When we signed Dan, he was committed to making a fresh start, and he was making every effort to rehabilitate the leg injury that he suffered last year," Coach Sean Payton said in the team's statement. "But it wasn't responding as well as he had hoped it would. We wish him well in his continued recovery, and he will be remembered for the excellent player he was during his career."Who Dat Say: Well, so much for that experiment. We at WhoDatSay were tentatively penciling in Morgan as the Saints' starting outside linebacker. While we weren't certain he would replace Scott Shanle due to his history of concussions, we did not think the torn achilles was the injury that would eventually lead to his retirement. It's always bad to lose a player as talented as Morgan, but at least the Saints didn't give anything up for him - Morgan was a free agent. From the Saints' standpoint, he was basically a risk-free investment that just didn't work out. But many questions will arise in the wake of Morgan's retirement. First, will the Saints target any other free agent linebackers that are available? Second, would this have changed the draft strategy for Sean Payton and Mickey Loomis had they known Morgan was set to retire? Third, who is going to start at outside linebacker? In the meantime, I'm sure we will have to grin and bear it from our "friends" in baby blue and black. On the bright side for Morgan, at least he got to go out a winner.
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Morgan was the best player the saints ever had.
I am so happy that Dan waited until after the draft to retire. Brings a smile to my face and we are still months away from football season. He didn't belong in that crappy gold and black anyway. Go Panthers!
So do we go after Odell Thurman? He's on the market now...
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=AkQeVoiyWKmLLo2_au0AU8hDubYF?slug=ap-bengals-thurman&prov=ap&type=lgns
Another anonymous pussy from Carolina with nothing better to do. Just three days ago all of you fruits were telling us to enjoy the human concussion machine, and now you're his biggest fan again.
Meh, he gave it a shot, it didn't work out. Not like we paid him starting money to sit on the sidelines with multiple concussions. Who'd do that? Oh yeah, our buddies in baby blue...
Odell Thurman played MLB for the Bungles, didn't he? We've already got two that can do that. Not sure whether he'd be able to play outside, but it might be worth a look. He'll be bargain basement, and we can put behaviour clauses into the contract so he knows to keep himself in line.
Also, it might be time to start up the ol' Takeo Spikes rumours again...
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