What is your definition of rebuild? Payton and Loomis never did nor will they ever clean house completely as long as Brees is here. You can only turnover so many spots per year

You can argue semantics all you want, but getting rid of a ton of veteran leadership In favor of younger and often times cheaper replacements means your rebuilding. They certainly didn't "reload" that offseason outside of Byrd - Erik lorig, Goodwin, champ bailey

They counted on their young depth and the Byrd signing , which proved to be a terrible move.

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Posted by TigerBait1127

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Posted on 9/5/16 at 10:56 pm to GynoSandberg

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What is your definition of rebuild?

Certainly not having the expectation of contending for the super bowl in that season

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but getting rid of a ton of veteran leadership In favor of younger and often times cheaper replacements means your rebuilding.

Not really what we did

Vilma - didn't contribute. Played 12 snaps.
Greer - career ending injury
Smith - didn't contribute at all, injured in preseason
Moore - didn't contribute much. 4th receiving option.
Harper/Jenkins - expensive replacement in Byrd.

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They certainly didn't "reload" that offseason

Because we didn't think we needed to "reload" given our playoff birth and road win. We thought we added a key piece to a top 5 defense.

We also extended Graham to a pretty enormous contract. Clearly in the future plans at the time, yet traded when the rebuild actually started.

That's not semantics. Find me one article saying that the Saints were trying to rebuild before the 2014 season. Just 1

This post was edited on 9/5/16 at 11:01 pm

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