News: Marques Colston was absent today from the team's voluntary OTA, according to nola.com. "Colston was a miss, again these are voluntary," said Coach Sean Payton, who said he had not heard from the receiver. "A lot of times guys will be traveling, in his case, probably traveling West. I'll find out today. I'll give him a call and find out what the deal is. He's done pretty well so far."WhoDatSay: Colston, who has been at all other scheduled team activities (mandatory or otherwise), picked an interesting time to no-show. Colston is in the last year of his rookie contract, and his agent has had discussions with the team on a new deal, although the extent of the negotiations are unknown. Ever since Charles Grant got in some legal trouble, the team has picked up the pace of their negotiations with Will Smith, and a new contract for the defensive end seems inevitable. Perhaps Colston now feels left out and is skipping these voluntary workouts to send a message to the team that it's time to shit or get off the pot. If we were the Saints, we would shit and shit quickly. The team is way under the cap ($25 million or so), and it's not like they do not have the money to lock up Smith, Colston, and Jahri Evans. More reasonably, we feel that now that the front office has been restructured and Khai Harley has been brought on to fill Russ Ball's expertise with salary cap management, the team will move quickly to lock up their youngest and most talented players.
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