Donnie Edwards soon to be a Saint? Ponder This.
 

Chargers linebacker Donnie Edwards returned to practice yesterday. Barring any setbacks, he likely will start Friday's exhibition finale at San Francisco. Edwards starting means that the deal with the Saints may get done soon since you can’t trade or cut hurt players. The trade may take place sooner since he doesn’t have to play in order to be traded, and the trade may take place before the Chargers final preseason game. The Saints may hold off on the deal if Peyton wants to see him play to evaluate him the same way we played Stallworth the other night.

It seems that the deal may include Bouman (high salary too expensive for 3rd string) since the Chargers recently dropped A.J. Feely, their primary backup. Don’t be surprised to see Bouman and a 4th for Edwards. Another option would be to keep Bouman and send the pick we just got from Phily so we end up with 2 LB for Stallworth.

Either way, Loomis will look like a genius.

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according to adam s. on nfl total access, the stallworth trade was done to acquire edwards..
he was confident they would send the philly future pick, a 3rd or 4th, to san diego this week and get the deal done for edwards...................smitty

We should send them Craft, Shanle, Simeneaux (cajun spelling), and a bucket of Popeyes for Quentin Jammer.

Or just all three fourth rounders......and Craft.

I would put a CB higher on the list now

If we can somehow get Quentin Jammer that would be awesome. Maybe send em some a shrimp Po-Boy and some boudin.

Jammer just signed a nice five year extention with them and he is the corner stone of their secondary so you can forget about him. they should of tradeed the Eagles for Hood instead of that sorry LB.

Gregg Rosenthal thinks DE is going to be dealt this weekend.


"Finally, the Chargers seem hell-bent on dealing IDP stud Donnie Edwards for reasons unknown to anyone but general manager A.J. Smith. He could be traded this weekend to the Saints."

http://msn.foxsports.com/fantasy/story/5922802

I agree with Rsanders24, Hood would've been way better than Simmoneau

And trading all those players for this oldie, thats crap!

I think we'd have to step it up to Southern Po-Boys' Roast Beef to get the dela done.

He'd be a big help for us! :)

I still say, leave em be!

So much for Bouman being showcased in this game. San Deigo would just take the 4th round pick and tell us we can keep Bouman.

after this game you guys still think LB is more important than CB. then you are crazy. sure an upgrade at LB would be nice but we are way under the nfl player talent level at the CB. lets not even talk about depth. at least we have improved LB position this year. the CB have not even been addressed. maybe Scott will play at CB.

Hello....if we have LB's that can pressure the QB then our CB's will automatically look a lot better. You give any QB a good amount of time to throw....and they will make ANY def. backfield look like Swiss cheese. We get Edwards....plus what we have now....opposing QB's are definitely gonna feel some pressure which will lead to some hurried passing whicvh wil lead to.......you guys ain't stupid. Yes the LB department is of major importance. We didn't go 12-4 in '92 because of our offensive power. We had LB that were forcing terrible throws all year that year....which made our secondary look like gods.

One wont be successful without the other, thats just the way it is. We got improve one to help the other 2. But we gotta start somewhere, and I dont see any good CB's or DT's on the trade block, just Edwards. So if we acquire Edwards, the biggest impact he will have is helping out the Dline and CB's. Thats my thought.....

We also ran a 3-4 with linebackers like Swilling, Jackson, Mills and Johnson. The Dome Patrol was quite a unit and I don't think the aquisition of Donnie Edwards will bring its' second coming anytime soon.

However,is is just me or does it look like the Saints are almost stockpiling linebackers for the day when they can go from a 4-3 to a 3-4?

to many one year contracts to tell.

I say grab Buckner, a few corners-like D.Wynn, E.King, and rookie Smith, and one more LB
Then release Gleason, maybe Bellamy, Phillips, Craft, and some others

There are just 5 linebackers left on the roster - Fujita, Fincher, Melton, Shanle and Simoneau. Cut were Bockwaldt, Kuale and Foreman, and on IR are Polley and James Allen. Do you think we are going to get DE now?