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Forecast: Please Saints, spend money to dull the pain

Don’t think of it just as improving the Saints 2019 Super Bowl chances, think of it as improving the mental health of the fanbase.

HOUSTON — It’s March 11, and like most of you, no I’m still not over the referees missing the call and costing the New Orleans Saints a trip to the Super Bowl. The Mardi Gras funny throws, floats, and parades all making fun of Roger Goodell and the NFL made things a little better but whenever I think about it, I’m still mad as hell.

And I think about it WAYYY too much.

Get over it the rest of the world tells us? Go play in traffic I scream back. Don’t tell Saints fans how to live our lives.

Thank goodness free agency is here to at least give us something other than heartache to think about that’s football related, which brings me to my point on what Saints need to do in free agency this year, please Mickey Loomis make some big exciting news.

Saints fans need it. We need to see some Saints news to numb the anger and sadness that’s been the rain cloud hanging over us since January. It’s not like we can get excited about the NFL Draft since all your draft picks have been burned like next month’s salary at the casino blackjack table.

The best way to make Saints fans forget about how a Super Bowl was stolen from us is to go big, bold, and throw money around recklessly like a financial celebrity. Don’t think of it just as improving the Saints 2019 Super Bowl chances, think of it as improving the mental health of the fan base.

You could do one giant move or 5 or 6 smaller ones, the main thing is DO SOMETHING. Anything. It’s not like limited salary cap space has stopped y’all in the past from doing gigantic deals.

/cough 

Jairus Byrd

/cough

Listen, it doesn’t even need to be some earth-shattering move that dominates sports media news cycle like trading for Antonio Brown, although that would have been AMAZING.

Don’t pretend like if the Saints had traded for Brown you wouldn’t have talked yourself into it working out 15 seconds after the news broke. Sure, Brown seems a little self-centered and the blonde mustache is as weird as seeing those giant heads dance around at the Rex-Comus Mardi Gras ball, but the thought of Drew Brees touchdowns to Antonio Brown would’ve been a fun distraction from remembering the Saints got ripped off in the NFC Championship.

If you can’t go BIG in free agency, just do one little move every day for about a week. Announce re-signing Mark Ingram one day, then Alex Okafor the next, followed by keeping Tyeler Davison in NOLA. Sprinkle in giving Drew Brees some new toys like Tampa Bay receiver Adam Humphries or Cincinnati tight end Tyler Eifert. Then top things off by announcing Teddy Bridgewater and his prodigious dance moves are returning and Saints post Drew Brees future at quarterback is in place.

Just a steady drip of breaking Saints news to help us recover from getting gypped out of a Super Bowl.

Free agency isn’t cheap but maybe if you spent $60-70 million the next week or so you could write it off as a tax deduction for mental health for the entire Saints fan base?

Besides, the Saints are SOOO close to winning another Super Bowl, just push whatever assets you have left to the middle of the poker table and go for a Lombardi Trophy one last time with Drew Brees.

Saints fans need this.

Having images of new and exciting Saints players dance in our heads is much preferred to seeing Tommylee Lewis getting thrown eight rows deep into the Mercedes-Benz Superdome stands with no flag in site.

So just think it over will ya?

Get a little reckless with Gayle Benson’s money for a great reason—Saints fans mental welfare. 

We need this. Ok, I need it. Nothing clears up the dark football skies like the promise of new and exciting Saints players to complain about.  So get to it and make some Saints news already.

Ralph Malbrough is a Saints fan living in Houston. Email him at saintshappyhour@gmail.com, find him on Facebook, or follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/SaintsForecast or download his podcast at Itunes

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