re: IYO who is the most important player on this team

The Saints are a contender, that means they have many more key players than Brees and Vilma. For example, Rogers and Franklin should help the defense a lot this season, but the defense really is dependent on the corners handling their business, so as much as we'll probably want to claim the new DTs are the X factor, this defense doesn't work without shut down corners. They're all important.

The same thing can be said on offense. Sproles has supposedly looked pretty good in practice and I think he'll be everything we've wanted Reggie to be the last few years, so he'll be the offense's X factor, but he's still only going to get 10 - 15 touches a game.