Why do we trust the FO?

Nobody expected Foster to be this much of an idiot off the field, and Mahommes would’ve made sense for the future at the time.

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It's now known SP wanted to take Mahommes and Foster last draft. So, the Saints got extremely lucky in that the Saints drafted Lattimore and Ramczyck.

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You just contradicted yourself. The FO didn’t draft them. I know it wasn’t an option but they didn’t. Wants and actions are different. I want to F your mom but I don’t because I have standards.

Amen.

A similar result shouldn’t be expected.... we literally hit one of the greatest drafts of all time. That being said, the fact that we wanted Mahommes (who the jury is still out on, but appears good enough for KC to trade away their starting QB) and Foster (who tore it up despite injury and off the field issues) has nothing to do with whether or not we should trust the front office regarding talent evaluations. 3 of those 4 players are studs, and the 4th very well may be.

We should trust the front office even more that they had the wherewithal to draft Lat and Ram despite the players we coveted in front of us going.

I trust Ireland !!!!

Payton & Loomis to select players..... not so much.

I agree. My post wasn't a troll. My concern is that we need all 8 picks to plug holes and fill depth. I don't want to trade up for a QB.

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A similar result shouldn’t be expected....

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Definitely not. We had 2 firsts, 1 second, and 3 thirds.

This year we have 1 first and 1 third.

That's 6 picks vs. 2 picks in the top 3 rounds.

But you can look at it as 5 picks vs. 3 picks if you count Kamara as our second rounder this year (that we got a year early). That was a knockout investment.

True. While I like Hendrickson he doesn't seem like he'll be more than a good rotational guy/low end starter. Once you start getting outside the top 80ish the talent pool usually starts dipping a lot. You can still hit, but the hit rate starts dropping dramatically.

I see this draft shaking out more similarly to the 2016 draft. We will find ways to move up into the first 3 rounds, similar to what Bone just alluded to in terms of finding top 80 talent. Giving up future draft picks to try and acquire a few picks to get us to the SB with Brees seems to fit more in line with where we are at than drafting for pure depth. We have enough young players that we will eventually have to pay them in the next few years.

We have a more pressing need to make sure we get at least one immediate impact player from this draft, and the chances of that are better by getting more early round picks. Thing is, we won’t trade back to do it. So we will either have to package players we have now that are expendable, or we will have to mortgage future picks.

I don't think CSP will let that happen. Besides handling the money...Ireland is basically already the GM. I actually like the trio of CSP, Loomis, & Ireland.