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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; Originally Posted by Rugby Saint II Yeah, me either. If DA was getting fired the front office might want to see what the boys got.....but, alas.....we'll keep doing what we're doing. Which, is struggling to break even with DA leading ...

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Old 01-02-2024, 04:13 PM   #1
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Yeah, me either. If DA was getting fired the front office might want to see what the boys got.....but, alas.....we'll keep doing what we're doing. Which, is struggling to break even with DA leading us for another crappy season in 2024.
There isn't another coach in the league that would put in an unproven rookie over a veteran when there is still a shot of making the playoffs. Not a single one.

I don't know who's going to be coaching next year, but I'll be pulling for my Saints as I have for the past 56 plus years.
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I know that this will bring the ire of a few posters here but Derek Carr really isn't the Saints biggest problem right now and he's likely better than Winston and Haener. In the next draft the Saints should focus on building from the ground up, so to speak. Work on both lines (especially the O-line) and go from there. I'd even get an LB or RB before thinking about drafting a QB.

Carr's numbers aren't bad -- I know he's got situational awareness issues-- but I think that the Saints can work with him going forward. That and they're married to his contract for a while as well.

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I know that this will bring the ire of a few posters here but Derek Carr really isn't the Saints biggest problem right now and he's likely better than Winston and Haener. In the next draft the Saints should focus on building from the ground up, so to speak. Work on both lines (especially the O-line) and go from there. I'd even get an LB or RB before thinking about drafting a QB.

Carr's numbers aren't bad -- I know he's got situational awareness issues-- but I think that the Saints can work with him going forward. That and they're married to his contract for a while as well.
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Amen.
Translation: I feel fine with the doggie doo that’s been served up all season, and I’ll be fine with it next season. And I’ll keep coming back here to try to convince y’all that it’s filet mignon.
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Old 01-03-2024, 12:23 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by iceshack149 View Post
I know that this will bring the ire of a few posters here but Derek Carr really isn't the Saints biggest problem right now and he's likely better than Winston and Haener. In the next draft the Saints should focus on building from the ground up, so to speak. Work on both lines (especially the O-line) and go from there. I'd even get an LB or RB before thinking about drafting a QB.

Carr's numbers aren't bad -- I know he's got situational awareness issues-- but I think that the Saints can work with him going forward. That and they're married to his contract for a while as well.
I tend to agree Carr is probably our best QB skill wise. Sometimes he looks like Dalton or Winston but lately he has improved, so though I am not sure he is better, he seems like the best of our bad choices today. However, he seems to be very overpaid, like if Winston costs $6 million Carr is perhaps worth $12-16 million but has $30 million guaranteed. So while Carr may be our best QB, and we may have to stick with him since his contract is guaranteed, I dont think he will ever be good enough to win us a ring. If a QB like him could win a ring it would be with an elite oline and elite defense. What we have is a very old team, a salary cap mess that makes it impossible to get much younger or add many good free agents, and a draft where we have already traded away a couple picks. Carr is not as good as Hurts or Purdy, he is paid more like Hurts than Purdy, and its virtually impossible for us to put the kind of roster Hurts and Purdy have around them around him. Just to stay under the cap we have to restructure Carr every year, which pushes his future cap averages into the Maholmes and Hurts range. So, Carr could be the best QB on our roster, but still a futile dead end.

Even if Loomis worked his Voldemort magic and we were the buggest spenders in free agency, damning the future forever, I dont think we could win with Carr. We are just nowhere close to the top NFC or AFC teams because our best players are old for their positions and breaking down. Even if we added an all pro olineman and two all pros on defense, it would probably just be a break even with our existing players like ram, lattimore, jordan, davis, and mathieu all getting older and declining rapidly. To truly suceed we need a reset with lots of draft picks and a young roster with upside. We can never win trying to run it back one more time with the oldest roster in the league that is .500 in the weakest division in the league and married to a high cost mediocre qb.
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Old 01-03-2024, 01:22 AM   #6
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I tend to agree Carr is probably our best QB skill wise. Sometimes he looks like Dalton or Winston but lately he has improved, so though I am not sure he is better, he seems like the best of our bad choices today. However, he seems to be very overpaid, like if Winston costs $6 million Carr is perhaps worth $12-16 million but has $30 million guaranteed. So while Carr may be our best QB, and we may have to stick with him since his contract is guaranteed, I dont think he will ever be good enough to win us a ring. If a QB like him could win a ring it would be with an elite oline and elite defense. What we have is a very old team, a salary cap mess that makes it impossible to get much younger or add many good free agents, and a draft where we have already traded away a couple picks. Carr is not as good as Hurts or Purdy, he is paid more like Hurts than Purdy, and its virtually impossible for us to put the kind of roster Hurts and Purdy have around them around him. Just to stay under the cap we have to restructure Carr every year, which pushes his future cap averages into the Maholmes and Hurts range. So, Carr could be the best QB on our roster, but still a futile dead end.

Even if Loomis worked his Voldemort magic and we were the buggest spenders in free agency, damning the future forever, I dont think we could win with Carr. We are just nowhere close to the top NFC or AFC teams because our best players are old for their positions and breaking down. Even if we added an all pro olineman and two all pros on defense, it would probably just be a break even with our existing players like ram, lattimore, jordan, davis, and mathieu all getting older and declining rapidly. To truly suceed we need a reset with lots of draft picks and a young roster with upside. We can never win trying to run it back one more time with the oldest roster in the league that is .500 in the weakest division in the league and married to a high cost mediocre qb.
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I tend to agree Carr is probably our best QB skill wise. Sometimes he looks like Dalton or Winston but lately he has improved, so though I am not sure he is better, he seems like the best of our bad choices today. However, he seems to be very overpaid, like if Winston costs $6 million Carr is perhaps worth $12-16 million but has $30 million guaranteed. So while Carr may be our best QB, and we may have to stick with him since his contract is guaranteed, I dont think he will ever be good enough to win us a ring. If a QB like him could win a ring it would be with an elite oline and elite defense. What we have is a very old team, a salary cap mess that makes it impossible to get much younger or add many good free agents, and a draft where we have already traded away a couple picks. Carr is not as good as Hurts or Purdy, he is paid more like Hurts than Purdy, and its virtually impossible for us to put the kind of roster Hurts and Purdy have around them around him. Just to stay under the cap we have to restructure Carr every year, which pushes his future cap averages into the Maholmes and Hurts range. So, Carr could be the best QB on our roster, but still a futile dead end.

Even if Loomis worked his Voldemort magic and we were the buggest spenders in free agency, damning the future forever, I dont think we could win with Carr. We are just nowhere close to the top NFC or AFC teams because our best players are old for their positions and breaking down. Even if we added an all pro olineman and two all pros on defense, it would probably just be a break even with our existing players like ram, lattimore, jordan, davis, and mathieu all getting older and declining rapidly. To truly suceed we need a reset with lots of draft picks and a young roster with upside. We can never win trying to run it back one more time with the oldest roster in the league that is .500 in the weakest division in the league and married to a high cost mediocre qb.

I predict that Carr will look 10 times better under a great OC. I'd stake my reputation on it.
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I tend to agree Carr is probably our best QB skill wise. Sometimes he looks like Dalton or Winston but lately he has improved, so though I am not sure he is better, he seems like the best of our bad choices today. However, he seems to be very overpaid, like if Winston costs $6 million Carr is perhaps worth $12-16 million but has $30 million guaranteed. So while Carr may be our best QB, and we may have to stick with him since his contract is guaranteed, I dont think he will ever be good enough to win us a ring. If a QB like him could win a ring it would be with an elite oline and elite defense. What we have is a very old team, a salary cap mess that makes it impossible to get much younger or add many good free agents, and a draft where we have already traded away a couple picks. Carr is not as good as Hurts or Purdy, he is paid more like Hurts than Purdy, and its virtually impossible for us to put the kind of roster Hurts and Purdy have around them around him. Just to stay under the cap we have to restructure Carr every year, which pushes his future cap averages into the Maholmes and Hurts range. So, Carr could be the best QB on our roster, but still a futile dead end.

Even if Loomis worked his Voldemort magic and we were the buggest spenders in free agency, damning the future forever, I dont think we could win with Carr. We are just nowhere close to the top NFC or AFC teams because our best players are old for their positions and breaking down. Even if we added an all pro olineman and two all pros on defense, it would probably just be a break even with our existing players like ram, lattimore, jordan, davis, and mathieu all getting older and declining rapidly. To truly suceed we need a reset with lots of draft picks and a young roster with upside. We can never win trying to run it back one more time with the oldest roster in the league that is .500 in the weakest division in the league and married to a high cost mediocre qb.
A decent game or two does not make him out best QB. We haven't seen what Haener can do yet. There is a reason the Raiders moved on from him after so many years. We already know all too well he's not worth his contract.

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I predict that Carr will look 10 times better under a great OC. I'd stake my reputation on it.
He might or he might not. A Brees he is not. We've seen our fair share of his overlooking wide open targets. He is tenured enough to be better than what he's shown however. Hence the argument on whether he's worth his contract... which is at this point not really an argument anymore.
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