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I’m done melting. At least Shough seems like a cool guy. I still think it was a very questionable pick for many reasons but hoping Shuck can prove common sense wrong. God help Mickey and KM if this doesn’t work out

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I think you need to just let this play out. Look at San Fran for example. They had Jimmy G who was a serviceable QB. They moved up and traded to get Trey Lance. The next year the drafted Purdy. They took Kurtis Rourke this year. Kansas City took Mahomes even though Alex Smith was the starter.

All that to say, we currently have Carr, Shough, Rattler and Haener. One of those emerges to be our QB this year and they either prove themselves or they don’t. You keep looking for a QB regardless of what happens. We aren’t anointing Shough as the next Tom Brady or anything. A guy by the way who was drafted when they had Drew Bledsoe as the starter.

QB is the most difficult position to project and you don’t know (YOU DON’T KNOW!) who will or won’t work out.

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It’s been said on here that Carr on a rookie deal is a good thing.

I think this draft and offseason was all about bringing maturity and toughness to the Saints. FAs we brought in were DT and S. Draft was all up the middle, S, LBer, DT, OT, QB and RB.

This is the rebuild everyone on here has wanted for a few years now. We will let expiring contracts clear and don’t need to tie ourselves up to big contracts or big names because we aren’t winning a bunch at the moment anyway.

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Why wouldn’t Penning be at least decent at LG next year? He was not bad at RT last season and guard is much easier to play.

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Penning plays too tall to play guard IMO. Also,

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Mickey danced around this today but said they’re going to try to get the best 5 ON the field,

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If Penning can play at the same level or a little better than last year at RT, putting Banks at LG gets your best players on the field. If Fuaga and Banks play at LT and RT, we go back to having a huge hole at LG again.

Just because Banks plays at LG this year doesn’t mean that’s his permanent position for life. Plenty of tackles play guard for a year or two before moving outside.

Playing Banks at LG gets you your best OL this year. Then next year you can let Penning walk (or sign him as depth) move Banks outside and draft or sign a guard.

I don’t know why people are so adamant that Banks can’t play guard. You get your best lineman on the field in whatever positions they can play. The issue is most people don’t think Penning can play guard.

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we had more needs than picks.

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Truth.

Also, I think they focused on getting bigger, tougher and building up the core of the team.

WR and QB are now are biggest needs. But we addressed a lot of needs like OL, DT, RB, LBer and S. Gotta start somewhere.

Watching some highlights and expected to see contested jump balls in the endzone at that size, but instead it was a lot of TE screens and a lot of settling into the open spot in zone coverage.

Looks to have really good hands and catches the ball well. Didn’t see him breath any tackles though. He played a lot in the slot. Could see him being a big part of the passing game.

Fuaga, Banks and Penning will compete for the tackle spot. I really think Banks plays LG this year then bounces to tackle next year when Penning is a FA. Penning is then let go and we draft an OG next year.

Still building up the middle. I like it!

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i still do not think they should have drafted a qb this year, they can still draft another next year. you have to roll the dice as many times as you can until you hit there.

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Great point!