re: Marcus Davenport

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This was such a dumb pick.

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Hell play more than Dante Fowler did his rookie year.. could be alot worse

Pretty much all DE's and edge rushers are "projects" and take a little time to develop. It is incredibly rare for even the best to come in the league and play at a high level. So you're saying that it's stupid to draft one of the most important positions on the team. You're a smart one aren't you.

He was drafted based on measurable. Everyone that knows anything about football on draft day basically stated he was a project. He was described as a player with off the charts measurable but was raw. In other words that means PROJECT. Im not pulling this out of nowhere.

Nah.

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Its just like Mark Ingram. Retards will hate him no matter what he does because he was not a 1st ballot HOF day 1 and we traded up to get him. Same thing with Davenport. You could see the hate all offseason and it will only get worse.

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I don't know about that.

we've traded up in the 1st round before and had it blow up in our faces (J.Sullivan/Sed Ellis). I don't know what else we gave up in those particular trades but i get the skepticism. I don't necessarily agree with it in this case but I could see how some are sour on it considering the media and a lot of others thought it was a lopsided trade.

plus people have shorter fuses when it comes to patience these days. High speed internet, iphones, people playing on their phones in bars, texting and driving, etc.

if people want to bitch about something they will. This is a forum you can do that on unfortunately

i've been a real bastard myself and have made plenty of ridiculous posts on here. Sometimes it was fun and sometimes it wasn't (especially in game threads) on the bad side.

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But we don't know that he isn't an impact player yet and we won't before he gets on the field. All we know is that he's hurt. We can't go back in time and say that because he got injured in training camp we should not have traded up to get him. That's an impossible standard.

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Assuming the injury is not long term, how he ultimately plays will tell the story.

But, one of the risks in making moves like this is that injury could occur. Make no mistake, the Saints went out on a limb in making this move. And, I think it's fair to say that unless we get an impact player, it was a mistake.

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Davenport doesn't need training camp. He's a third and very long pass rusher. He needs an offseason or two to be able to play run defense and to become an every down player.

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Just point him in the direction of the QB on third down and let him go.