Green Bay Packers trading for Michael Thomas would break the NFL

If the New Orleans Saints are thinking about trading Michael Thomas, Brian Gutekunst needs to get on the phone right now. 

With trouble brewing on the bayou, Mike Florio fired the first warning shots that the New Orleans Saints could be willing to move on from Michael Thomas.

It’s crazy, it’s insane, but let’s indulge in the craziness.

Let’s be clear: There are zero reports that the Saints are actively trying to move Thomas or that any deal is imminent. But the idea is out there, and it’s endlessly intriguing to consider the possibilities of what putting Thomas on the trade block could end up looking like.

One team that needs to pay very close attention to these rumors is the Green Bay Packers.

Could Green Bay Packers trade for Michael Thomas?

Anyone can trade for anyone, but there’s nuance that needs to go into something as salacious as suggesting this rumor as anything more than that.

There are a number of things working against the Packers making this deal happen

But why bring logic into this? Sometimes the best thing to do is to toss aside all reason and do what your gut tells you. Adding Thomas to an offense with Adams that’s led by Aaron Rodgers feels like the type of thing that could break the NFL.

Remember what the endgame here is — it’s not to win a financial award, it’s winning a Super Bowl. To do that, the Packers will likely have to beat either the Kansas City Chiefs or the Baltimore Ravens, both of which are high-scoring offenses that would result in a shootout (especially against the Packers defense).

Moreover, this is a move both of those teams would at least attempt to see if it could make work. The Chiefs didn’t bat an eye at signing Le’Veon Bell despite how loaded its offense is and this offseason was an education in how to turn cap space that amounted to roughly three cents and a carton of milk into re-signing all of its core championship pieces for the foreseeable future.

That’s what the Packers are up against in the twilight of the Rodgers era. We’ve watched as most of his best years were wasted, but here is an opportunity to go for broke and jam a pencil in the governor plate — let’s see how fast and far an offense of elite star power can go with Aaron Rodgers.

Maybe it’ll flameout and fail, and maybe it’ll break the bank for the Packers and set the franchise back a few years. But there’s hardly anything to show for the last decade of Rodgers’ career so why not try to make something of the last few years he’s got left?