re: Worst FA signing ever

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Albert Connell comes to mind

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He was a bad signing but he was only here for a year. After we released him, he didn't play in the NFL again.

Clint Ingram?

Ingram must have really been hurt if he couldn't beat our Scott Shanle and a bunch of undrafted free agents.

Grady Jackson was pretty useless too, especially considering he has had 2 or 3 good years since he left.

good thread

-Tebucky Jones over Sammy Knight still pisses me off terribly. That was the most emblematic move of who Haslett was. Great athletes over great players. BUT he cannot be on the list. Even worse is that they traded to get the bum... a 3rd, 4th, & 7th Rd pick.

-Connel has to get mention just for level of scumbagness. The dewd was ripping off his fellow players wallets in the locker room.

-Jason David is up there when weighing the ratio of the money to what ya got out of it (+ 4th Rd RFA pick). I always blamed the FO on it tho, not him. It seemed to be a desperation move to get someone who didn't fit the scheme. In a Tampa Two he was solid.

Since we're including David as a RFA let's throw in some from the way back machine- before there was unrestricted free agency. Teams traded for players and thus the rights to sign them. The franchise was doomed from the start by staggeringly bad personnel decisions...

Traded the #1 overall pick in 1967 to "sign" backup QB Gary Cuozzo. One year and done. Couldn't even win the starting job over Billy Kilmer.

Let's plug in with that one, Saints Hall of Famer Jim Taylor. They traded the 1968 #5 overall pick to sign this used up LSU product. What did they get for that? 390yds on 130 carries.


Not even one good season of production for a #1 & #5 overall draft picks.

Was Paul Hornung ever officially a Saint?

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Tebucky Jones

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Traded for pics - not a free agent

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Was Paul Hornung ever officially a Saint?

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He was an expansion pick but never played a down. He was used up too. I think it was back problems.

They had the idea they were gonna start a team, go for it with vets, and try to compete. It would have been fine if there was real free agency then but there wasn't. It's really quite a study. In retrospect ya wonder if ya could have made so many poor moves even if you tried.

I think Ditka traded draft picks for Heath Shuler

I'd have to vote Jason David.

Also, Fred Thomas was a good corner back until he got old and hurt and the Saints refused to sign or draft anyone worth a damn. It wasn't his fault that Craft and David and the other scrubs couldn't beat him out even though he had a broken hand for almost a year. Blame the front office, not Fred Thomas.

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BRAD. MUSTER.

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Didn't he come from Chicago the same year Ironhead went to Chicago. I think he was our leading rusher for a year.

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I feel sorry that Fred gets dragged into the discussion. He was solid for most of his career and always a gamer. Several teams tried to get him away from the Saints. He did get old and slowed down the last coupla years. That's all most seem to remember.

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Me too. He was our best cornerback for a while and he and Sammy Knight were our only decent secondary players. Then he got hurt and old and everyone else the Saints drafted or signed sucked and couldn't beat him out. People only remember him towards the end of his career which is ashame.