Saints coach Sean Payton seems to be unhappy with how long he’s going to have to wait to get wide receiver Michael Thomas on the field this season.

Thomas had surgery last month on the ankle he injured during the 2020 season, and Payton said today that the surgery should have been done earlier in the offseason so that Thomas would have had more time to recover and get ready to start the 2021 season.

“It appears we’re going to have to spend some time without him,” Payton said, via Amie Just of NOLA.com. “We would have liked that to have happened earlier. Quite honestly, it should have.”

Saints General Manager Mickey Loomis also said the team wishes Thomas’s surgery had been done earlier. But at this point, Thomas may miss the first half of the season while the Saints wait to get the 2019 NFL offensive player of the year back on the field.

Delayed having surgery.

Smacks of getting paid and then mailing it in.

The exact timeline is behind a paywall, but after the season ended Thomas saw a specialist about his ankle and it was decided then to do a conservative plan with a reevaluation in a month to see if surgery was necessary. That would've put the potential surgery sometime around February/March. For whatever reason Thomas never returned for that reevaluation. May have thought it was fine and didn't need surgery, or he may have been pulling a Pippen.

Just get rid of Thomas and give him...to us

Edit* His cap hits are insane...24 mil.

Yikes.

Wow that’s ****ing ridiculous.

Michael Thomas had ankle surgery that was supposed to be sooner than later. It was rescheduled so later thus postponing his return. He was expected back but now won't be back until week 4 I believe of the regular season?

Here is the article...

https://www.nfl.com/news/saints-hc-s...dn-t-happen-so

Blood thinners are a tricky thing A minor bump in the wrong place can cause a dandy bruise and internal bleeding can be an issue. I haven't had any issues other than some minor bruises, but my best friend has had a couple scares.

I'm just baffled as to why they have Niang doing LT reps?? I thought he was gonna battle it out for the RT position?? Also word is Zayne Anderson impressed yesterday aswell. Not surprised about Smith because his potential is through the roof and hopefully he continues grind hard and compete.

Yes

Once Clyde has a couple games of 150 yards rushing those safeties will have to cheat up. Then it's Cheetah time.

Where's my Mizzou man Nick Bolton?

Trying him out for the swing tackle role.

As someone who deals with injuries professionally, I’m feeling Sean Payton’s frustration.

You know it’s gonna be surgical and then they ****ing delay for all sorts of good and bad reasons.

Normally I’m pro labor, but the Saints would fine Thomas for this horseshit.

I don't have a lot of problems with Niang getting reps at LT rather than battling it out with Remmers for the RT spot. I think we all saw what happened when Fisher went down and we had to use our swing T on the left side. Remmers is servicable at RT. I'd like to see a little more depth at T besides Wanogho and Wylie. I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see Mitch come back mid-season.

Mitchell Schwartz ship has sailed… Not happening..

I’d sure like to read that he’s kicking ass and taking names