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I have heard lots of people wanting Saints to Pick T. Austin at #15 . What if the Saints could swing a trade for Saffold of Rams for Sproles.? Saints get a younger player,for less money and solve LT need. You would be betting that Austin could be as good as Sproles the way we use him. Then the Saints could use remaining picks on D Ilove Sproles and what he brings to the table but he is not getting any younger.

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Stopped reading when you said Sproles.....

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Thats pretty creative but I don't think losing sproles would be worth it.

Saints are being patient.

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Or we can keep the pick and get the best LT on the board at 15 and keep Sproles. I don't know much about Saffold is he better than any guy we could get at 15?

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You have to give something of value in a trade to get the other party to trade. Sproles would be hard to give up.But Austin hopefully would be up to filling the role Sproles plays in our scheme. And would fill a need at a crucial position.I wouldn't consider trading Sproles without having s player Like Austin.

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Some people have a hard on to fix things that are not broken.

You do not give up a known top producer on a "hopefully".

Your trade scenario just cost you 1.5M in dead money from the get go.

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There's not going to be much in the way of trading of anything other than draft picks and Ivory. With our cap space issues, our dead money issues and the cap space issues of a few of our competitors, we'll wait until the after the draft releases and not be sending many of our personnel anywhere. Although if we do send Sproles off, maybe we should throw Brees in as well. We could probably get a second round pick for the pair...

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I bet we could get a 3rd for Payton.

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There won't be a tackle available worth a top 15 pick! Only ones worth that pick are Johnson, Fisher, and Joeckel! The only one that has a shot at falling is Johnson and he won't fall past Arizona or definitely San Diego! So we will find a playmaker not a play protecter! I believe Austin would probably be the only offensive player Sean and Mickey will consider at 15 since they have so much talent on the defensive side of the ball in this draft! Especially what we need secondary and pass rush!

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Thanks! Leighton! B!

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Sproles would not be nearly as effective on other teams. I don't see the point in moving up either, it seldom works out. I also don't see anyone wanting to trade up for our 15. I think we will work with the picks we have and get a LT.

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Sproles ain't getting any younger. I don't. really think this will happen. Im just bored and trying to get some dicussion. going. Im really just sick of the trade talk about 2nd rd picks for Ivory. My trade is a tad more interesting.

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I still think RT should be more a priority. Zach Strief is garbage when it comes to pass blocking. I have a little faith in Charles Brown at LT.

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Get Austin this year to get him into the offense and see if he can replace Sproles and if so, Sproles can be let go next year for a younger Austin.

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What can we get for Ivory?

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A RC Cola and a Moon Pie

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That'd be for Ivory plus a box of bandaids.

The only real value we'll get is if he's bundled with a draft choice.

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Kenjon Barner in the fifth. That's our eventual replacement for Sproles. He'll turn 30 before the start of the season. It's not time to move on, but we need to make preparations.

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Im not ready to lose Sproles yet.

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Sproles already fits into our offensive spring that is quickly uncoiling.
We are still in championship form on that side of the ball.
I like replacement part when leaks develope or when things start sputtering.
Our defense is on the clock and needs to get +average really quick.
After the draft things will get a lot clearer and FA probably a lot cheaper too.
I would spend all of my efforts suring up the defense...
If we score +20, I want to win 95% of the time, not 1/2 of the time.

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Like you said at least it gives us something to think about. Thanks for sharing.