re: What flavor Kool Aid are you drinking?

I like the picks, but I don't think our roster is an a position to trade picks away or take project players.

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Really more if Landon Turner can stick

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no way he sticks....not athletic, can't change direction and is soft 50% of the time.

Sig

Is there any type of chemotherapy that would get rid of you?

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Would be really interested to know if Kiper gets any monetary kickbacks from agents for pushing certain players on his "Big Board."

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Of course. And I don't know if he did one this year but Pollian did a free agency grade guide for a couple of years and you could see the whacked out grades were players of certain agents.

Charles Brown had a B grade after leaving us for instance.

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Your homerism won't allow you to be objective.

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that sounds exactly like my reputation on this board

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The Saints absolutely blew this draft

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naw. it may only end up being a C+ or so but i'd imagine at least one of the DL pans out and thomas is going to be a stud for us. bell? we'll see. so in the realistic "worst case" scenario we get 2 impact players and that's OK

now we have to crush the UDFA b/c we need depth b/c our front office hates accumulating draft picks. that's always the fatal flaw

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Seriously, hear me out. There is an entire faction of people who are literally subconsciously BEGGING for the Saints to be bad again. I'm not sure why. I have a few guesses, but I won't go there.

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naw the saints have been pretty bad at team building and criticism for those errors was legitimate

the saints FO is clearly not that great (and hasn't been for a while) so it makes more sense that people would have been critical over the past 5 years rather than heaping praise upon the FO, no?

now the "praise gap" is easily explained, b/c the fans over-praise the moves out of fandom. that's the exact opposite of your postulate (As a general comment)

i'm cautiously optimistic but it's a "wait and see" kind of thing as of now (esp changing the defense again)

should hopefully have a good DL and a varied secondary with a lot of pieces. anthony needs to take a step forward in a new system (remember he's a guy with a reputation of needing lots of reps to "get" a system, so this may be another rookie year)

the combination of byrd, bell, and vacarro is interesting. in passing downs i can see bird and bell way back in coverage and vac up at the line in a "honey badger" role. we need 2 outside corners and we SHOULD have that (finally). we need cam j to get a pass rush and that could really work