Yeah....I am bewildered at how John Clayton could say that the Saints would select Mario Williams. Probably better than both Smith and Grant, but we have much more pressing needs.

^But the FO doesn't know how to draft anything else.

I'm not sure if I'm remembering this right, but isn't "super" mario the same guy that D'Brick beat like a stepchild all senior bowl week? Seems to me we would be happier with the LT that owned Mario rather than Mario.

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how bout a qb cuz as of this moment we still don't have one !

I was impressed with D'brick...I also liked that OL from miami Winston Justice...speaking of DT guys I looked at some draft boards today and Wroten and Kyle Williams are dropping like rocks...could they be there for our two second round picks we get for our First round #2 after we trade out of it of course when we sign brees

Fujita? The guy's decent, but by no means an enforcer at LB. Just an average NFL LB (which is still a step up for us at the LB postion). Our front office is some cheap bastards! There are much better LB's out there, but we want the cheapest guy we can sign. I mean if you can give AB a six year-$48 million deal, surely you could offer Lavar Arrington some moolah.

good sign i still wouldnt mind arrington peterson , breees draft hawk....

Good point BMG. Mario might be good, but saying he's better than Will Smith and Charles Grant right now before he's played a down in the NFL is a stretch.

And who said that Charles Grant had a bad year? He had more tackles than Will Smith, and even though his sack numbers were down, he did take on double teams almost every play that helped free up Brian Young and Willie Whitehead allowing them to amass 51 and 35 tackles a piece, repsectively. Trust me, if we get a good DT who can take some of the double teams off Grant, we'll see the same kind of guy who had 80 tackles, 10.5 sacks, and 3 FF in 2004. The guy is a BEAST, we have absolutely NO NEED to draft a DE. That is actually the only position that we can totally ignore this offseason.

Sure he's not the best LB out there, but he's the 7th best LB in FA, and he comes at a pretty reasonable price from what I understand.

Also, Brooks plays QB which demands A LOT more money than the LB position. You can't compare their salaries.

Also, Arrington has NO interest in playing here. He wants to go to the Giants, Dolphins, Browns, or Vikings (probably in that order).

[quote="TheDeuce"]Agreed... trust me I love Charles Grant. But I can sure pull up some old threads about people saying how badly he played last year and I was going with that. I told he was solid because he took on so many double teams last year... his run defense struggled a bit though but he should rebound nicely and become as dominant as years past. I can agree with everything you just said. Grant is the man...