Saints Starting Lineup as of 03/14/15

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Secondary looks strong though. Who will be the nickle cb?

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Probably will be a battle between guys like Dixon/SJB(who should be imo the favorite due to talent)/Fredrick.

Could be a draft pick too

Bet Vaccaro takes over the nickel role, he's way more quick twitch than SJB.

Ellerbe will in one MLB spot

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There you go. You had the list in 4-3 alignment. We are running 3-4 alignment.

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tbh, I have no idea what our base defense is with Ryan. Too much of that amoeba formation to keep track.

Thank you for pointing out Ellbre, though.

Receiving corps is scary thin. LBs are really bad. DLine needs some work

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QB – Drew Brees
RB1 – Mark Ingram
RB2 – CJ Spiller
FB - Erik Lorig

WR1- Marques Colston
WR2 – Brandin Cooks
WR3 – Nick Toon
WR4 – ????
TE1 – Benjamin Watson
TE2 – Josh Hill

OT – Terron Armstead
OG – Jahri Evans
C – Max Unger
OG - ????
OT – Zach Strief

DE – Akiem Hicks
DT – John Jenkins
DT – Brodrick Bunkley
DE – Cameron Jordan

OLB – Junior Galette
MLB - Dannell Ellerbe
MLB/OLB – David Hawthorne
OLB - Parys Haralson

CB – Brandon Browner
CB – Keenan Lewis
FS – Jairus Byrd
SS – Kenny Vaccaro

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damn that's a lot of people for a starting lineup

We are not 4-3 or 3-4. Too much was made of that and Rob runs a multiple scheme that is mostly nickel anyway.

The starting lineup would probably be probably like:

QB
Brees

HB
Ingram/Spiller

FB
Lorig(though I prefer Johnson)

WR
Colston
Cooks
Toon/Saunders

TE
Watson/Hill

LT
Armstead

LG
Lelito/Kelemete

C
Unger

RG
Evans(for now; possibly replaced by whoever isn't LG)

RT
Strief

DE
Jordan
Hicks

DT
Bunkley/Jenkins

ILB
Ellerbe
Hawthorne(though I prefer Humber)

OLB
Galette
Haralson/Humber

CB
Lewis
Browner
Vaccaro/rest of field

S
Byrd
Bush/Warren

No real holes but definitely so so could be upgraded. Last year we had two huge holes and tried to plug them with aging vets (Goodwin and Bailey). We have a C and #2 CB now. G is the biggest question mark if Evans is released but I liked what I saw from Lelito(much better at G than C) and Kelemete.

Rob Ryan defense is like a carousel when it come to DE/OLB, and slot CB is extremely important in today's game.

Granted I just expanded on the lineup. But I hope my list gave us a hint of who they will draft.

We won the Super Bowl with garbage Wrs.

Colston, Moore, Henderson, and Meachem.

Brees spread the ball way too much to try and have a legit number 1 WR. It's not Brees' game.