Any Saints fan oppose the team drafting nothing but defensive players?

Only if they grabbed a couple FA O-lineman.

It just depends what we do in FA man. We desperately need a right guard. The OL was good last year, and honestly we have a solid collection of talented offensive linemen, but it seems none of them can competently play RG. If we do not address that in FA, we absolutely have to in the draft.

I hate being in that position, because it is what happened last year and we ended up not filling it. You should never use the draft to fill immediate needs because rookies cannot be expected to make immediate impacts. At least with our other needs (DE, LB, CB) we have some options that are on the roster... Kikaha is an unknown, we have a few pretty good LBs like Robertson, Ellerbe and Stupar, and we have a shitload of corners who, if all healthy, could probably be a solid bunch. But at RG, there is nothing. To me that means it should be the first thing they try to fill in FA..

So if that is the case, and we get a guard, yes I would be fine drafting all defense. But I don't think they should go in thinking about something like that... They should go in with a few positions circled as "high priority" but generally stick to BPA. If they have a WR as their 7th best player or something, and a LB as their 30th, and we're sitting there at our pick in the 2nd round, I would rather them take the WR that they believe is a vastly superior talent. In the end, the teams that succeed are the ones who just stockpile talent on the roster wherever they can get it.

I am warming up to the possibility of drafting a home run Hitting RB at 11 like Fournette or Cooks. Especially if they are the best player available at pick 11. I agree a pass rusher is the teams greatest need but if they are gone before our pick and either Cooks are Fournette are there then draft one of those two.
Brees is in the last year of his contract and his aging. Father time is undated with aging players. When the end comes it comes quick. A home run hitting back with the ability to take it to the house will realize the presuRe on a aging Brees and give us someone to build the team around in case he is not resigned after next year.

I keep rememberin how drafting Duce was not drafting for need but looking back it was the right decision at that time.

I did not mean to imply that they use a numbered system, it was just easier to get my point across that way. I guess I meant it more as if they have a WR they are very, very high on available, but also a LB they are pretty high on, I would rather them take the player that they are much higher on despite need.

Not every team does the draft the same though, I think you're probably right about that style for a lot of teams but I think some teams could certainly just have a big list.

Chad Kelly in the 4th

We have had talent come through. Need better coaching. We had three first rounders on our d-line. Two were at linebacker.

That is five first rounders in our front seven. I would rather draft bpa all day. Fix holes in free agency.

outside of QB and G, we should load up on Def

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The format of how players end up ranked are used by all teams. Its the system of determining those final rankings that various from organization to organization.

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The Saints have clouds/clusters/groups of players with similar grades.

That includes players at the same and different positions, so long as they are graded out roughly the same.

Payton has talked about this before, like Vaccaro being one of 3-4 players left in a group, 2 of which were receivers iirc and I forget the other position, but the point was Jones wasn't in that group for us even though he was still on the board.

Something similar was said with Cooks about how players in that group were almost gone and no one else was graded out where our original pick was, so they moved up to get a player in that group. Otherwise they would have traded back (or tried to at least).

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The Saints have clouds/clusters/groups of players with similar grades.

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The chart I posted contains these clouds/clusters/groups of players with similar grades. Like I said before, how each team determines those grades varies.

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That includes players at the same and different positions, so long as they are graded out roughly the same.

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Correct. This is the portion labeled targets for each round in the lower left of the chart. It continues across the bottom of that chart I posted above for the latter rounds. Its a grouping of the highest rated players of all positions who they feel will be available at the slotted pick position. It's how teams narrow down their potential targets.

I don't want to come in saying draft all defensive players. I'd like a focus on defensive players. But it also depends on what we do in FA.