re: I had a dream that Landon Collins will be our 1st round draft pick

Collins would be a very good run stopper for us. If this wasn't a down year for elite safeties.. I'd say he'd be worth an early 2nd round pick. Don't think we can afford to pick him with the needs of the team.

With us having a top-10 pick.. we should probably go BPA and get talent period. Cooper at #10 if his combine is as good as I think it's going to be.. fapfap.. Cooper, Ray, La'el Collins/A&M guy.

Dream scenario would be trade back to #16-20 and pick up an extra 2nd round pick

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Ironically Cooper's combine is probably what will prevent him from falling to the saints. He'll run in the 4.3's and never make it past 6 or 7th pick.

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Need him to interview really really badly

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most of what i've read have said he's better than barron as well as haha which were high 1 picks too.

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That's not saying much since Barron was so bad he was already traded like their golden child Trent Richardson.

They were busts, and that alone should be reason to stay away from Bama safeties because they are ridiculously overrated. It is much like Landry when he came out of LSU. Saban's safeties are just not that good out of college.

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Saban's safeties are just not that good out of college.

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Clinton Dix has been pretty solid this year. 94 tackles isn't bad for a rookie safety, it's 52 more than the Saints board golden boy Eric Reid. Barron has been a bust, literally every other Saban safety from Alabama has so far panned out though. Rashad Johnson has had a solid career in Arizona. Vinnie was off to a good start for a 5th rounder, Lester went from UDFA to starter at one point in Carolina.

Should GMs avoid Texas safeties because Vacarro is looking like a bust? Should they avoid LSU corners because Claiborne can't cover anyone? There's a tendency to paint with a very broad brush around here by those that aren't saints fans first.

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Special teams player does not equal good start for a safety.

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I swear SJB and Fortt have spectacularly lowered the bar for him because I keep seeing it written that he showed promised this year when all he did was get 3 special teams tackles.

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Being a "starter" by default doesn't mean much.

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Hmm. I guess you weren't one of the hundreds of posters crowing when Mettenberger started in Tennessee then. Kudos to you.

Saban has put 5 safeties into the NFL from Alabama. One of them could be considered a bust. If you think Clinton Dix and Johnson have played mediocre this year though, there's not going to be any convincing you otherwise. 94 tackles from a rookie and 89 tackles and 4 picks from Johnson this year, I imagine would be welcome numbers in New Orleans. Regardless that is far from "mediocre". Time to take off the purple shades.

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No offense, but making tackles doesn't make you a great player.

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Bush and Vacarro got that memo. It's damn sure a large part of the metric. I agree it can be a skewed stat, but Clinton Dix has been solid. 94 tackles in 9 starts is impressive, not mediocre like you claimed.

Point being, every school has busts. You can't point to one guy (Barron) and say all safeties from there suck when literally nothing supports that. Trent Richardson sucks, that hasn't stopped Eddie Lacy. Brandon Lafell is a dime a dozen WR, that hasn't stopped Odell Beckham.

Landon Collins is fricking terrible and I will eat my hat if he's even in the league in 5 years. he might look like an NFL safety and will probably put up great combine stats, but he plays incredibly stiff and is constantly lost in coverage. he practically gave away the Ole Miss game by himself. I don't even understand how he starts in the SEC

in this play there's 5:30 to go in the 4th, bama is up 17-10. Collins is number 26, in the middle of the field near the 20, the one who moves out of the WRs way so he can fall into the endzone and laugh hysterically.



Wallace didn't even pump fake or look Collins off, he just stared at Sanders (the WR) the entire time and then threw it



Collins (basically on the 5 yard line near the low hashmark) also gave up the winning TD a few minutes later. again, look at how he moves, stiff as a fricking board.



here he is (top player on the number 40 toward the bottom) almost giving up another TD by angling the WR to the middle of the field where he had no help



here he's on the "s" of Ole Miss, and I'll come to his defense this time and assume saban simply has him in the wrong spot and bama players are scared to think on their own or else saban will have one of his little hissy fits.

either way, hes in terrible position. hes on the left where theres 1 WR and 1 CB instead of the right where there are 3 WRs and 2 DBs. guess which side Wallace throws to for a 55 yard gain.



and here he is (basically on the X on the 35) back peddling toward the sideline while his guy goes to the middle of the field. he's bailed out by a terrible throw.



here he is starting around the Ole Miss logo to come up and miss an open field tackle. again, everything he does is stiff.



he's back deep on the kick return late in the 4th, right around the 20, when bama fumbled and Ole Miss took over on the 31. if his job was to run in a little circle and then go backwards instead of blocking, then mission accomplished

It'd be nice, he's a great athlete at the position. Any coverage concerns come from comparing him to HaHa.

But he really wouldn't fill a need. Need some OL help.

frick that guy,,,, and his ghetto family...Saints pick him and I am done!