re: Trading Mark Ingram, what can we get for him?

How soon people forget. PT was coming off an injury and people thought he would no longer be a Saint. We had been through about 5 running backs that year and I think our leading rusher was Julius Jones who wasn't coming back. (Didn't we also have Mike Bell and Brad Muster and Antoine Smith that year?) Bush had been injured most of the year and his contract was coming up. Ingram was graded as the best RB on the board and fell far on the board and we got a back who we thought could be a workhorse to carry the ball 12-15 times a game.

As I said earlier, if in 4 years he can carry the ball 20 times a game and let Brees not have to win every game, it will be a brilliant move. I'll trust Payton on these things.