re: *Not, Exactly what La'El wanted.

I like the come play with Drew Bree's angle. He does put guards into the probowl

It's a need for the Saints. We need 2 Gs. Evans is about done too despite him playing this year. Really it's the only position that's a glaring hole aside from WR/TE on this team right now. I don't know how Evans made Pro Bowl last year but he was horribly inconsistent. Another year of aging isn't going to help him. I have very little confidence Lelito is good enough to start considering he couldn't push horrible C to the bench or Grubbs. Production will no doubt fall off there even if Grubbs wasn't amazing. I thought Grubbs played better than Evans at times last year...

Maybe this was all in the plans for the Saints. Make the G position more attractive so they can get a steal? That's why they didn't draft one? Doubtful but it does make us more attractive. I fail to see how someone can look at the Saints and say they don't have as good a shot as anywhere to start at G. As someone else said too, Brees gets rid of the rock fast so it's not like you'll be blocking for a guy who holds the ball too long making you look worse than you are.

Yeah cI'mcertainly not expecting full 100% closure Monday, but I certainly expect the next big advancement to happen

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"He is on our board," Payton said. "For us he's on our board as a guard. I don't know how the rest of the teams in our league see him. That's not a bad thing. He's right up the road here. We obviously have pretty good insight as to his makeup and how he plays. I'm sure there's a number of team that have him as a tackle as well.

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That's from nola.com on May 1st. So unless something drastic has changed, I could see us being one of the many many teams that will give him interest. We did meet with him before the draft so there is some familiarity there. It just depends on Collins.

If he wants to play guard then he should probably come here. But he might have his heart set on playing tackle and if so, he probably won't give us a second glance, especially after we took Peat.

I say we either have a really good chance or hardly any at all. No in between.

Probably has his bidders in place already. He knows better than anyone what actually happened. Why would they make it seem like his meeting was such a technicality if it wasn't?

He seemed to be willing to accept round 2/3 money because of the circumstances, and barring injury or flop, will still be getting that $ range with a decent designation at year 3, just not guaranteed up front. I doubt the "don't take me outside round 3" was a ploy to get someone to take him. No reason to play chicken. Again, a team that did draft, didn't have to sign him immediately and cut a check. No money would have changed hands.

What benefits or leverage have they gain since Thursday? None. I'm starting to think his team did all they could, and put him in the best place to succeed after this unfortunate incident. No way ANYONE even getting questioned in association was going in Round 1. He might have been Round 2 material anyway. Maybe BRPD was the one that suggested Monday. Maybe they have further investigating to do before then, or people to question before him.

I don't know this kid, or his situation, or his relationships, or his past, or any of it. But i hope the family of the girl who died, finds justice swiftly, and I hope La'El does too.

If you really believe that I don't know what to tell you

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He seemed to be willing to accept round 2/3 money because of the circumstances,

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I bet he would. Because it's literally impossible for him to get that this year. He gets UDFA money. The end.

I agree with venom, if it was as easy as one meeting and done, why didn't he do it before he lost out on millions of dollars. Press said last week the police "weren't ready" but that made no sense.

I would imagine any team offering him LT play will be where he goes. Any big teams who have horrible LTs? That's where the money position is and where he probably wants to play. I don't think the Saints are seriously in play but if he was smart he'd see the Saints really have 2 G openings. Lelito isn't a lock and Evans is almost done here. I don't think he'd put Evans on the bench but he definitely can for Lelito.

Didn't you tell all of us that the Saints were taking Collins at 31 and going to finish with 6 or 7 picks?

You are definitely trustworthy