Patriots | Armond Armstead contract update

Updating a previous report, the New England Patriots have signed DL Armond Armstead to a three-year deal worth $1.485 million. He is scheduled to make $405,000 in 2013, $495,000 in 2014 and $585,000 in 2015.

Our View: Armstead could have been a first or second-round pick without a heart attack caused by Toradol, an injected pain killer. Multiple teams were interested in the CFL standout, who was an all-star in the league as a rookie last year.
Patriots | Armond Armstead contract update

Saints | Sean Payton was not going to another team

New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton said there was no way he was going to another team while his contract situation was being worked out with New Orleans. ‘There was no way I was going to another team,’ Payton said in his first public statements since getting reinstated for his role in the bounty scandal. ‘The issue was a minor technicality. There was a minor clause, (the media) had it right, there was a minor clause in there that wasn’t approved. What became more challenging really, was being out of the building and then trying to work through the specifics to get the contract done.’
Saints | Sean Payton was not going to another team