Saints of the Roundtable
 

We've got a little more than a month before the draft so I thought I'd start a thread to break up all these little battles and bring levity to the site. Do what you will in discussing your favorite Saints but please keep it civil. If someone says that Johnathon Sullivan is their favorite Saints player of all time then by gum, let them love the guy.

A small list of my favorite Saints players, in no order, are as follows:
QB- Obviously Drew Brees. I was a big Brooks supporter back in the day but Drew is far and away my favorite Saints player.

RB-Deuce McAllister- A large man that was really fast but always "acted like he'd been there before" when he scored TD's

WR-Marques Colston- Quiet Storm- similar to Deuce, was awesome. Didn't need to show off. Everyone knew he was awesome.

TE- Hoby Brenner- Only because I had his poster on my wall in high school.:rolleyes:

OL-Kyle Turley-Simply because he threw that dudes helmet across the field after he tried to hurt Aaron Brooks.

DL- This is tough. I liked Norman Hand because he'd go into every play literally screaming when running head-on into another large man. Will Smith is a sentimental pick here but I'll go with LaRoi Glover. Dude was a monster.

LB- I don't blame this on recency bias because the man is a remarkable person off the field and is one of the best LB's currently playing the game. DeMario Davis.

DB- The Saints have rarely had a good secondary throughout all the years I've watched them. Lattimore is the best CB to wear the Fleur De Lis but Darren Sharper was integral for the Saints in their Superbowl run. Sharper's off-field behavior takes him off the list here so I'll pick one of the CB's from that team and go with Jabari Greer.

You can add coaches here if you'd like but this is my list of favorites.

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Your list just made me more depressed, although I thank God that I got to ride the roller coaster through the years that we had all that fire.

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I’d add in Vilma, Bush and Lance Moore.

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Drew Brees was obviously the best.

I liked Aaron Brooks a lot. I think Jim Haslett ruined him both as a poor leader, setting the example that 'there is always an excuse', and being too afraid to utilize him as a runner (which might have come at the direction of the rookie GM whose first move was extending Brooks). I think Manning or Brady would have washed out of the league under Haslett. Its not that Brooks was Manning or Brady, but under a different head coach perhaps he was Josh Allen, Russ Wilson, or Randall Cunningham.

Pierre Thomas my favorite running back. He never seemed to be the chosen anointed back to run the show but he always produced.

Colston was also very reliable. A key player along with Brees.

Tracy Porter was not an amazing talent but he came up big in the key moments and that makes all the difference.

Sorry but I liked Chauncey Gardner Johnson a lot. He was not a nice guy or a humanitarian but he got in opponents heads and made big plays in a way that was very entertaining to watch. It he had got a better offer and wanted to walk when he became a free agent fine, we could have taken the comp pick, but I was disappointed that we traded him early at a discount of less than we would have got from a comp pick because he did not get along with a coach who did not have his level of talent or motivation.

Not a player, but I respected Jim Mora's honesty a lot. I don't feel DA is honest or holds anyone accountable.

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Joe Horn

Morten Andersen

The Dome Patrol

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Dome Patrol (primarily Sam Mills), Wayne Martin, Jabari Greer, Agree with the rest for the most part. I did Like Hobie Brenner at TE.

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Pierre Thomas

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Vaughn Johnson was my favorite of the four because he hit like a truck! That Dome Patrol was awesome.

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Ricky Jackson. Absolute beast.

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Still ran the best screen game in football.

The Big Wiggle... we miss him.

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Guido Merkens. He played QB, WR, SS, FS, punter, returned punts, returned kicks, and probably drew draft beer in the concessions.

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Reggie Bush anyone?

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Reggie made me nervous as hell every time he lined up to field a punt. I always felt like there were 3 true outcomes there: TD, fumble, or injury. In the backfield he struggled north-south and could make big gains to the perimeter but could also lose yards. I wanted him to be a sensation like AP or LT2 but in the end I was much more comfortable watching players like Pierre Thomas or Alvin Kamara.

I would add Joe Horn and Alvin Kamara as other players I really enjoyed watching. Kamara is somewhat past his prime now and lacks the oline to succeed but had has been a very exciting player and is still a great personality.

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He might have been ahead ahead of his time ... did Taysom know of him, I wonder?

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If he didn't before, he definitely knows now. Lot's of comparisons out there like this:

Saints 2020 Year-in-Review: Taysom Hill SI.com

Inactive for most of his rookie year, the athletic Hill saw action on special teams near the end of that season. Intrigued by his athleticism, New Orleans coach Sean Payton devised ways to involve Hill into his offense during the 2017 offseason.

This strategy was not completely unique. The Miami Dolphins had success with converted quarterback Jim Jensen through the mid-1980s as a gadget player and on special teams. The Pittsburgh Steelers converted college quarterbacks Hines Ward and Antwaan Randle El into successful NFL wideouts. Before that, Kordell Stewart was an explosive receiver his first two NFL seasons before taking the reins at quarterback for the Steelers. Before the Dolphins and Steelers, the concept was adopted by the Saints in the early 1980s, when they used Guido Merkens as a runner, receiver, kick returner, and punter. Merkens even led the Saints in receiving during the 1981 season.

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Favorite return man?