WTF? I figured he would at least make it to training camp and then retire. It reminds me of the old saying, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” He did this to us last summer, so shame on us. I was just starting to believe he could actually contribute for the start of the season at least before suffering another concussion and retiring again.

This decision comes after a strained calf? WTF!? I can see deciding to do this after a mild head injury or concussion, but a strained calf? It’s probably for the best considering his history of concussions and the possible that he could become permanently injured or even disabled with one really hard hit. But, I am a little disappointed after hearing all this “best shape of my life” talk for the past four months.

It’s starting to once again look like a lineup of Vilma, Fujita, and Shanle. In G-Dub’s scheme, that may prove to be a satisfactory but not necessarily great starting LB lineup. Maybe some of the new guys will surprise us as well. This makes the Stanley Arnoux injury loom even larger.

This is from the updated Times-Pic post:

“I can’t speak for the player because I haven’t talked to him but I’m sure he felt frustrated after he was injured,‘’ Saints Coach Sean Payton said Monday afternoon. "I don’t think it was that severe.

“Ultimately, he decided that he didn’t want to play anymore. That’s all we know. We haven’t seen him. We know he’s not playing and we’ll move on.’’

“You don’t get surprised by anything anymore,‘’ Payton said. "With him, it’s a second go-around. But in fairness to him, the difference this time around is that he had gone through the offseason program whereas the first time there was very little invested when he decided to sit out a year.

“In this case, he had been here for pretty much all of the offseason program, seven or eight weeks of lifting and running. So, it’s a little bit more of surprise being that he had been here through it all.’’

Wow! He didn’t even bother to talk to Payton about his decision? Oh well, it was foolish for us to believe he would be a solid contributor anyway. It sounds like his heart was never truly in it.

Dan Morgan is such a weenie! he should go run a restaurant called weenie hut juniors!

is a defensive end. He grumbled his way out of Dallas because he never liked being switched to outside linebacker when Parcells went to a 3-4 (he replaced Scott Fujita as starter). He’s not a 4-3 outside linebacker by any means.

Brian Alee-Walsh reports in “New Orleans Saints LB Dan Morgan again retires; this time it’s ‘final’” that Morgan got dressed and left the facility immediately after the calf injury without seeing the trainers.

“To be honest with you, after the injury (Morgan) went into the locker room, got dressed and left,” Payton said. “Our trainers didn’t see him, we didn’t see him. I put a couple calls into him (Friday) evening to check on him. By Sunday, we still hadn’t seen him. My own take on it would be that it had to be more than just a calf injury. In other words, there might have been other reasons why he decided to do this. Look, this is not for everybody. For a player, they arrive at points in their career, they come to a decision and they move forward.”

And, it appears the Saints will move forward, too, without Morgan.

“If Dan has reservations about playing and he doesn’t want to be all in, it’s good to know now,” Loomis said.

Asked if Morgan’s abrupt departure is a loss to the team, Loomis replied: "I wouldn’t call it a loss. A loss is when you plan to have to have something in place and it doesn’t happen. That’s a loss. Our thinking all along was that if he could come back and play at anywhere close to the level that he had played like in the past, that would be a bonus. It would have been a bonus if he had been able to recapture his past.

“But we don’t have any financial investment in him. We’re not out anything, we just didn’t gain anything. Are we disappointed? Yeah, a little because he had been doing really well in the offseason program, OTAs and minicamp before getting injured. So, we were just getting excited about him and then he decided not to play. So in that respect, it’s a little disappointing.”

I totally agree with Loomis. It’s better to know now then closer to the start of the season.

is most definitely on the Saints’ radar at the moment.. I mean how much confidence can you have in Scott Shanle? I have none to be honest, sorry Scott.. It’s time we either trade for an OLB or sign one..

What would it take to get Vernon Gholston?

Is the money they were going to pay Dan Morgan count against them or do they get it back to find another player?

typically plays the weakside, so he wouldn’t be the one covering TEs. That’s Fujita’s responsibility. Still an area of concern considering the competition. Whoever we bring in at OLB needs good reactionary skills to string out outside runs. In a base 4-3, that’s first and foremost. However, Gregg Williams’s scheme employs 26 different formations, including several variants of the 3-4, so we do need ‘backers (on both sides) with versatility and the ability to get after the QB. As of today, I’m not convinced we have that on one side, much less both. On a positive note, both Fujita and Shanle are sound tacklers, which equates to quality depth, at worst. I really don’t think we’re going to land two OLBs better than Fujita at this stage of free agency. That’s something they should have targeted early on, when guys like Channing Crowder were on the open market. It’s water under the bridge now, but I still think there’s room (and a need) for improvement.