re: Single best article on Saints roster issues by Grandmaster Wang

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I've pimped Wang on here for a while. Both good insight and entertaining writing.

Franchising Nicks and getting a 1st Rder, hell even an upper 2nd has always been my preferred armchair GM outcome.

Just as he said too. I love Nicks. I love Colston too. But for the $45-50mil Colston will cost could reel in a high impact defensive player. Step back and think if he was a FA on the market... gonna be 29, 5 knee surgeries (including microfracture), significant collarbone and wrist injuries, not a particularly strong vertical threat... would ya be clamoring to sign him long term?

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+1

IMO if you have to choose between Colston and Nicks then it is a no-brainer to choose Nicks. Mainly for all of the reasons you mentioned about Colston but it is also much harder to replace a guard than a WR. I also believe that Colston success is more a function of our system and Brees rather than the other way around. But the main reason that Nicks is a no-brainer IMO is that if we are going to open up the bank for Brees then doesn't it make sense to protect that investment with one of the top guards in the league. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me to pay Brees bank and then not provide him top notch protection.