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Maybe the team should announce Penning and Udoh as co-starters and have Penning take a field sobriety test and blow for BAC immediately before the game. If he fails, don't let him anywhere near a Carr.

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*groan*

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As much as I hate to say it, maybe Penning needs to be removed on obvious passing downs. The downside of course it could possibly telegraph plays. If I am a defender, early in the game I am calling Penning's mom a bad name, knowing it would likely set him off and throw him off his game.

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The more I think about it I can see us making a move for a veteran tackle AFTER week one. Picking up a vet prior to week one guarantees their salary for the entire 17 weeks. After week one the contracts can be week to week. We should be able to field what we have at home against Carolina.

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If we can upgrade the position we do it. No more sitting on our hands while Penning et al let defenders run unabated to the QB.

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Et al?!? You fancy. 😂

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Right there is the key conundrum. IF we can upgrade. Half the teams in the league are hoping and praying to find a tackle, or two. There are reasons why every player out there still available are indeed still available. And there are reasons why nobody would be in the market to trade away perhaps the rarest commodity in the NFL today, the competent tackle. I would, of course, love to find an upgrade at every o-line position as would, I imagine, the Saints front office and coaching staff. This is much, much easier said than done it appears. I doubt they are "sitting on their hands" when the probable fact is that their hands are tied for one reason or another.

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Having said that, it did not help that they let Cam Erving walk for $1.2 million when he started over Penning last year. I then suggested taking oline every pick of the draft, yet the Saints had 6 picks in the 1st 6 rounds and only took one oline in those rounds. Nobody is talking about how bub means, jaylan ford, or khristian boyd is a vital player who will make up for our oline issues. There is a shortage of oline but in a shortage the team that stockpiles prospers. You miss every shot you dont take at finding a diamond in the rough at a vital position, yet we shot those shots at other positions of lesser need. In the end our front office made conscious choices to make their bed with Penning and now they have got to sleep in it. They could add a vet, maybe they should, but then again many of those guys are glass.