Anyone else really nervous about our offensive tackle situation?

Sign a vet! if not use a late rd. pick in draft.

You consider still having Strief on the right side a hole?

Maybe we could improve, but he is far from horrible. Hell he's consistently been better than Bushrod.

As far as LT, yes there is a huge question mark there. We have Brown but he's often injured and struggled at the LT spot(though played well at RT). We also have Marcel Jones who perhaps could show something there, though he is far from proven.

If we don't sign a young FA I wouldn't be surprised if they went LT early.

I'm gettin pretty pissed/angry that the saints have signed a cornerback and pretty much nothing else

It's about players' asking price vs. what teams are offering.

Obviously VERY few guys are signing at the moment because they are trying to get mid level money like years past.

Problem is very few teams have that kind of money to spend, and the ones who do mostly aren't looking at a lot of these guys because they are only spending big money on big names.

It's a waiting game. No team is wowing these guys with their offer and they don't want to take less money.

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The reason we got Lewis is because he came here on a cheaper deal. Had he wanted more money from us we likely would have signed no one yet.

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Nope. After accomplishing what we did with bushrod, why would any person with reason be worried?!! Why worry about a staff that had to make moves at center and rt and still had a top offense? If we didnt have brees and SP, then u have valid worries.

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Well Bushrod wasn't a bad player at all.

Our WRs are getting older/aren't exactly great at getting seperation.

Brees is getting older as well, although he hasn't really started to regress.

Everyone takes our "top offense" for granted but the NFL catches up quickly. We can play it off as coaching inconsistency and playcalling but our offense stalled A LOT last year and our mediocre talent on the outside definitely played a part in that. Just because we've made do with marginal players in the past doesn't necessarily mean we can/should continue to do so if the situation to greatly improve presents itself. Our nucleus is getting older/leaving. How we replace it will go a long way in determining if we make it back deep in the playoffs or not.

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Well Bushrod wasn't a bad player at all.

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He only gave up more combined pressures, hits, and sacks than ANY other FA tackle the last two years.

There's a reason they never even offered him a contract.

That said, he was healthy which is something Brown never seems to be.

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He only gave up more combined pressures, hits, and sacks than ANY other FA tackle the last two years.

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And how many of those were from teams who attempted as many passes as the saints? I didn't think he was great or even a probowler or even that we should pay him. But we can't just throw a below average player and expect things to keep humming along.

LOL! What Strief are you watching? The only time he is serviceable is when we give him help.

Not yet.