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Who would your draft picks be based on needs or BPA?

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I'd like a completely overhauled scouting dept to be making the selections.....but we continue to put total faith in Ireland because he had one amazing draft in 2017

I had GPT run our top 2 picks from 2018-2025 and here's what it looks like

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Saints picks in rounds 1–2, 2018–2025:

2018 — Marcus Davenport
Bust. We traded away an additional first-round pick to move up for him, and he never came close to delivering the sustained production that investment demanded.

2019 — Erik McCoy
Clear hit. Above-average starter and two-time Pro Bowler.

2020 — Cesar Ruiz
Miss. Starting games doesn’t make someone a successful pick if the quality of play isn’t there. He hasn’t delivered what you should expect from a first-round guard.

2021 — Payton Turner, Pete Werner
Turner was a clear miss. Werner became a solid starter, but not a difference-maker.

2022 — Chris Olave, Trevor Penning, Alontae Taylor
Olave is a clear above-average starter. Penning was a miss. Taylor is a good starter, arguably above average.

2023 — Bryan Bresee, Isaiah Foskey
Bresee is borderline—some useful production, but uneven results. Foskey was a clear miss.

2024 — Taliese Fuaga, Kool-Aid McKinstry
Fuaga is still unsettled rather than a clear hit. His overall PFF grades were 65.7 as a rookie, 64.5 last year, and 54.6 so far this season. Simply holding a starting job isn’t enough to call him a successful first-round pick.

McKinstry has a stronger case. His coverage grade improved from 67.1 as a rookie to 71.4 last year, ranking 29th among qualified corners. This season, he’s down to 55.9 overall and 52.5 in coverage. I’d count him as a qualified hit based on last year, but not an established high-end starter.

2025 — Kelvin Banks, Tyler Shough
Encouraging early returns from both. Banks earned a 73.3 overall PFF grade as a rookie, so there’s actual performance behind the optimism. Still too early for settled career grades.

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When your entire salary cap strategy depends on replenishing the roster through the draft, you need those picks to become the core of your team and just aren't hitting enough at a decent clip

Obviously too early to judge 2026 but so far this season both of your top 2 picks have contributed little to nothing. Hopefully, Tyson gets right and can flash down the stretch, so you have at least one position group you feel good about going into the draft.

This was always my biggest concern with Kellen. He gives off a little bit of a Dennis Allen vibe in that I worry he might be too soft to be a successful HC.

At the same time, this roster is far from ideal, and he's gotten a lot more out of Shough than I ever expected. He deserves credit for that. But these constant slow starts and having to dig ourselves out of holes week after week ultimately fall on him. At some point, that's a coaching issue.

That said, I think he's pretty much guaranteed to make it to Year 3 regardless of how this season plays out, Mickey still had faith in Dennis Allen, so I can't see him admitting after 2 seasons this was another error.

yeah a lot of childhood memories there...doesn't sound like he was married or had kids, what's going to happen to the store?

got many of my childhood tennis shoes and cleats from there, first set of football pads for bob morgan football

how'd Noah bust Sinestro out and wouldn't the guardians be freaking out that he's out there?

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Couldn't care less about Green Lantern lore because the only super hero stuff I care about is Batman and the Watchmen but if someone were to only watch this show, you'd think manhunters were good. The show gave you no reason to even think that they are bad, much less a threat to the world. The two manhunters were just a decent person grandma and a high school kid that just wants to play football. Not exactly the bad guys you'd expect in a super hero show.

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yeah I was hoping in the finale Noah would show why they're such a threat but nope

and yeah Hal's murder was fricking retarded. It still would sucked but man could they have made it even seem like she had no choice? He was making very logical decisions, no reason to panic, and then bang bullet to the head. So OK you're telling me she went bat shite and just shot him....but then she quickly regains composure and concocts a plan to get Stewart here to investigate the death but really his true mission is to evaluate Noah? fricking stupid.

"ah so you're not going to turn me in"
"well you know we need you around to teach Noah about humanity and compassion"
"You know I literally just shot Hal in the head for no reason at all, right?"

The reddit crowd wants to defend this show; its haters are only mad because they're neanderthals that just want CGI fights. No, my problem was the finale failed to deliver on the season's intrigue . It just sort of ended in predictable fashion.

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And don't forget you spent another 1st on Penning. So really, you've invested 4 firsts and a high second in 5 years into your offensive line and you still suck.

Just think of the cost you've sunk into that group that you'd hope would be absolutely elite given the capital invested and consider the other positions that haven't been addressed in the first round in that timeframe. It makes it all the more egregious.

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And people wonder why there’s a talent issue on the team…we’ ve spent a ton of our premium picks on the OL and have virtually nothing to show for it. DL is probably next up on that list and it’s a pretty similar tale.

Jeff Ireland continues to get a pass around here because he’s lived off of one elite draft and everyone has thought the world of him since…yet somehow the talent level on this roster has been on a steady decline for years. Maybe he sucks?

I mean yeah it would be incredibly genius if you could trade back and get a guy that was already drafted….some might even say impossible

Jesus dude…this is what you’re concerned with right now ?

frick I guess I'm getting old when references like this have to be explained.....

is the nail salon guy gay? They seem to kind of hint at it

is Zoisa compromised? I couldn't tell if Harry was testing her when she accidentally confirmed it was Cooper

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which means Mirren is doing an excellent job of acting.

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just think she's too over the top. Like when Seraphina stops by and she's over the top nice to her....who wouldn't see through her suddenly being so bubbly?