Go Back   New Orleans Saints Forums - blackandgold.com > Main > Saints

New Orleans Saints Team Needs

this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; For the 2009 Superbowl Champion Saints, most core players remain from the championship year, but this is a team in transition. With a lot of uncertain free agent situations, the Saints have plenty of needs and have to re-load. DE ...

Closed Thread
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 04-20-2011, 09:51 AM   #1
Threaded by Halo
Site Donor MONTHLY
Join Date: May 2002
Location: New Orleans, LA
Posts: 20,187

Blog Entries: 45
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Rating: (0 votes - average)

For the 2009 Superbowl Champion Saints, most core players remain from the championship year, but this is a team in transition. With a lot of uncertain free agent situations, the Saints have plenty of needs and have to re-load.

DE: Will Smith’s career arc is starting to mirror Charles Grant’s career and that’s not a good thing. He’ll stick around, but he needs help. The team only got 10.5 sacks from defensive ends last year. Jeff Charleston and Jimmy Wilkerson are free agents. Alex Brown is a stop-gap player. There is very little here to build off for the future.

OLB: The position was unremarkable last year, and now the team may lose Scott Shanle via free agency. JoLonn Dunbar and Jonathan Casillas would probably be the starters if the season started today. The Saints have too many JAGS in the front seven.

OL: Right tackle Jon Stinchcomb is coming off a rough year and is a little overrated. Tackle Jermon Bushrod and center Jonathan Goodwin are prospective free agents. G.M. Mickey Loomis has done a nice job drafting offensive linemen and planning ahead for departures, but they need to keep adding talent.

WR: It’s time to start developing another wideout. Devery Henderson is replaceable, Lance Moore is a free agent, and Robert Meachem is a free agent after 2011. Sean Payton likes to have a four wideout rotation and give his receivers a redshirt year, so he could plan ahead with a mid-round pick.

Overview: The Saints have more free agents than any team in the league, including key players like Reggie Bush and Roman Harper. Either the Saints seriously draft for need in April or they will lose leverage and be desperate at a few positions when the lockout ends.

Linkback to ProFootballTalk.com

Attached Thumbnails
Click image for larger version

Name:	pft.jpg
Views:	0
Size:	7.3 KB
ID:	2813  

Views: 3363
Old 04-20-2011, 11:29 AM   #2
100th Post
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 449
Agree those are the needs at the moment. So tough to tell since essentially the draft is happening prior to free agency. OL may not be a need depending on what happens with the free agents.
BRSaintsFan is offline  
Closed Thread

Tags
profootballtalk.com

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 10:47 AM.


Copyright 1997 - 2020 - BlackandGold.com
no new posts