re: De La Puente Rumors

already have our center on the roster

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Charles Brown

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Wasted 2nd round pick. Hated the pick when we made it, hate it even worse today

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I'm with you here. I hated the pick then as well.

His technique was awful and he was not strong at the point of attack. The FO knew that he had athletic ability and gambled on that.

This FO has a habit of doing that in the draft and coming up short. (M Wilson, Sed Ellis, C Vaughn, Johnny Patrick, Stanley Arneaux, etc. etc.)

Hopefully ML and SP are getting better at that aspect (I think that they are). They took a chance on Armstead....but he didn't have quite the shortcomings of Brown. His technique was raw, but he had much more strength which made it easier for him to transition.

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This FO has a habit of doing that in the draft and coming up short.

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Scares me thinking they'll do that and waste our 1st on Kelvin Benjamin

If we made a great draft pick at C.. we could have an allstar OL this year

This position is too important for the Saints not to upgrade. It's because Drew:

1) is short, so the center can't allow a batted ball, and

2) likes to step up in the pocket. Drew isn't good at escaping to the outside. He needs a solid block on the DT to have room to step up.

We can't have DLP as the starter for another year. I don't mind having him on the team as a backup, though.

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This is all Matt Tennant's fault

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I try to forget that he existed. We were on such a roll with interior linemen in the middle rounds, I figured he was a surefire HoFer.

almost getting weird now that he signed with Detroit

Joique Bell
Reggie Bush
Jed Collins
Joe Lombardi

Isa Abdul-Quddus too

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