re: Updates on Saints 1st Round Picks

I think Lelito will be solid

I actually think Kelemete (sp?) is a decent backup.

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Maybe the FO knows more than we do-- I hope thats the case.

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I would also certainly hope that the New Orleans Saints FO knows more than Saints Talk on Tigerdroppings.

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Peat-- drafting him and stashing him away for future use-- is that a joke? Brees is not getting any younger, and I get that we need to build for the future, but how many first round picks are drafted to sit the first year and learn?

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I don't think we drafted Peat with the intentions of sitting him his first year, but CSP isn't going to put someone on the field that's not ready to be there (like you said, Brees isn't getting younger, and he can't continue to take the hits again this year that he took last year without turning into Eli). It doesn't mean he's a bust if he isn't immediately starting. No one posting on this board knows the difficulty of adjusting from CFB to the NFL.

I mean, frick. It's week 1 of the 2015 season and people are already chastising the pick. Give the man some time.

Who are those morons that do the Saints Happy Hour podcast and what are their ST handles. They should be publicly shamed...

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Yep after day 3. Dumbest post yet...

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I just don't understand a project OL when you have a QB that has about 3 years of above average play.

Peat may be a stud in 3 years but that doesn't exactly help us now.

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just don't understand a project OL when you have a QB that has about 3 years of above average play. 

Peat may be a stud in 3 years but that doesn't exactly help us now.

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Armstead was a much bigger project and was a big reason we won a playoff game in his rookie season.

There's gonna be a learning curve for any tackle. One of the reasons it is such a highly paid position

If we think he's a franchise tackle, then it makes sense even after brees

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The Saints typically have a position they severely overlook every season. Last year it was the CB position with White this year it's going to be G. Lelito is going to be a black hole there and teams are going to abuse that hole. Watch. Never fails. Saints think they have something good enough and it always ends up being a horrible decision kinda like the C position for years.

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Your self-appointed sense of insightfulness is comical.

I can think of many question marks on this roster before the season starts, but I'd at least like to see a few snaps before making any judgments.

Peat looked much better today. He's smart and he has the physical gifts. I'm not worried about Peat or Anthony

I am also the type of guy that wants to see immediate impact players in the first round as well. Cooks was one of those picks for us IMO, just bad luck with his injury. The Saints have deferred investing in the offensive line and the LB corps in the draft for so long, paying a premium for those positions in free agency is not the way to go (especially when you were getting mediocre performance from those free agents).

Sometimes to get the most value from a position you have to go for the unlikely candidate, even with early picks. You have to look at upside and cumulative potential and not the flash in the pan. This draft was 100% that, IMO. It addressed neglected positions that have proven to be liabilities in raw performance and also in redundancy.

Lofton was a fairly expensive acquisition, was a very good run-stopper but just wasn't versatile enough to be "the guy" in the LB corps. Hawthorne still has yet to pan out or come close to what he was in Seattle (has a lot to do with inconsistency at the coordinator position during his prime years).

Our offensive line has been in turmoil since Nicks left for Tampa. De La Puente was a backup quality single-gap blocker that really got exposed when one of our Pro Bowl guards left for greener pastures. It's been comedy of failures in that unit. Ironically enough, our Tackle play has been pretty good even with losing the consistency of Bushrod. The issue his leaving created was the lack of redundancy at the tackle position. Armstead has been a huge asset, but when he goes down we lose those games. It was so clear last season, Bryce Harris didn't belong on an NFL field. He looked like he was being pushed around around wearing Flintstones-esque concrete roller skates. If I blame the FO for anything, it was not recognizing the lack of redundancy at tackle as one of our biggest threats before the season started.

Give Peat a year of practicing against NFLers and converting some of that college frat-boy baby fat into muscle, he'll be a solid backup and eventual starter for what should be a stellar unit going forward. I too would've liked to see a Guard picked up later in the draft, but you can't fill every hole in one year in the draft. You simply can't expect a 100% return on every draft pick and sometimes you have to take a shotgun approach at positions of great need. That is one of the hazards of neglecting a unit for so long in the draft, you have to over-compensate to fix a major problem.