I Love This Draft
 

Not only did Payton out think and out play the other teams he got us players who will be stars... they are gems in hard to find places. Why do you think everyone was scratching there head. Payton GETS IT! You don't worry about the draft position and don't be set on filling needs. When you do that other teams know where you are drafting and will try and move up to get the guy you want before you. When your guy is available you take him... when the BPA is there regardless of what school he played or what national attention he got, you take him. Its about putting the right players in the right place at the right time. How else does a first year coach takes a professional francise to a confrence championship game.

You have to get players in to protect our francise... Brees, Bush, Deuce.

You score 28 points a game you'll go undefeated in the NFC South.

You also don't just build your team in the draft you also have to work FA like the Patriots and Payton did a pretty good job there as well. WE are the team to beat in the NFC.

you should be more upbeat about the coming season..............

i love this draft too! and i'd like to address all who feel like we should have paid more attention to defense than offense....in order to remain at the top of the league in offensive statistics, you must continue to build year to year...i dont think the pittman pick was a head-scratcher by any means. reggie is the future for sure, and while deuce may be right at his peak, he's not getting any younger, and does have a history of injuries. nothing wrong at all with the O-line picks...come on! you have the best offense in the league and you must protect all you have invested in brees, bush, and deuce. if we hadn't signed simmons and david, then i would question not going after the poslousky (sp?) kid, but our LBs got the job done last year, and will continie to get better. DT was not deep this year, and our DL is not too shabby, so i think we are fine there too.

its just a great feeling to finally be able to trust your coaching staff. this is not the ditka or haslett administration. we are in the sean payton era, and we need to put our faith in him...he will take care of our team.

I would agree with you but I think Cleveland hood winked us more than once. They traded up in the second ahead of us an got Wright. Then in the fourth they traded in front of us an got one heck of an OC/OG in Mansfield Wrotto. We were that close to having completed our backups on the OL. Would love to know if this is true or just me. Where is our inside connection.

Nope...I dig this draft...think it says the staff trusts their judgement and the scouts they employ. Did we work the small school angle a bit much? maybe. But what about...well...you know where I'm going with that.

We needed O-Line help. Not just any help, but young help. after the job our staff did with the guys we got last year, I won't doubt what they can do with the kids we got in this draft. Reports say they are pretty workable..that'll do

As far as secondary..Wright and McCauley had a ton of question marks over their heads. Both are talented, but I can see where the staff wasn't sold due to those points. The kids we picked up not only showed what they have to bring over multiple years, but seem smart too, or at least worth the risk at the time taken (Jones). Young did seem like a reach, but a lot of his qualities line up with a reach we had last year.

I'm happy enough to say that we came out with what we really needed...depth. Still think we could have used a DT, but the only one I really thought was a slam dunk was Okoye....Sully still has me gunshy on that.

St- I admire your passion. I am a little pissed also, we were in position to take a known prospect, and then we move back, or grab a Div 2A guy. Baffling.
We'll know what these guys can do soon enough. Meachum is a 3 who will see time; don't see much for the rest

Missile,

It is all about CAP space for the future. They found diamonds in the rough hoping to polish them! These small collage recruits won't cost as much in the SHORT term! Think about what the Saints spent in FA...Grant alone was not CHEAP. We have Will Smith coming up pretty soon!

Love It
 

If ya don't go after the small school recruits you don't get a Colston!!! The CB's are good. Sure they aren't the sexy ones from big schools but when they do the job... look out. LB's we picked up some in FA. I am so happy the OL was address it really needed to be. Some have the RB rated as the 3rd to 4th best rb in the draft... he was a steal!!!

Payton has the #1 offense in the league, and you can tell he wants to stay up there, in the top 5. You don't need a great TE, with the rest of those skill players. If this is who they wanted then I am happy they got them. I did think they would get the DT, Branch, but they didn't want him at that spot. So lets just hope they pan out like last year.

i think we went a little overboard on the gem finding thing too....i think we got good players...i just think we reached on most of them. we could have gotted better players and picked some of these guys later or gotten them out of free agency.

No, what I notice is that he is taking players that are SIMILAR to the players he has. We have all these special plays made up for REGGIE, not Generic Running Back #052, so who better to plug in if Reggie breaks and ankle than Reggie-Lite. INSTEAD of re-writing half the play book in mid-season we Plug in a unique player who can at least Sub, if not replace, another unique player. That isn't ego, that is genius.

A QB that is smart and mobile, not the biggest arm, not the tallest... Am I talking about Brees or the new Undrafted FA QB we just signed? The answer is "Yes". Starting to get the idea?

I was puzzled by a few of the picks (mainly Marvin Mitchell, that made no sense to me and I doubt he'll make the final roster), but I was equally puzzled with last years draft, and look how that turned out. Offensive line depth was a concern of mine, entering the draft. We walked out with Nesbit's replacement in Alleman, and Bushrod, who I know nothing about. But if these two turn out to be anything like Evans and Strief, my concerns are gone. Drafting Pittman was a great value, and I doubt that Stecker survives June cuts as a result. Obviously Meachem was a great pick for us, I expected him to go earlier. Before the draft, I said all he needed to do was land with a good coach that could work with him on his bad traits, and he could be something special in this league. And lucky for him, he was picked by one of the finest offensive minds in the game. I know nothing about Young other than he was rising up team's draft boards quickly, and less about David Jones.
Unlike last year, where I openly ripped into the staff for some of their selections, this year I'll take a wait and see approach.

Amen on the wait and see approach. Getting all worked up at this point is silly. These same Fo people did a very good job last year and I see no reason to jump on their azz right now when we have nothing to judge by. We did not see the workouts of these players nor did we see film on them. Let's gather our collective breath and wait and see what happens.

Honestly, I like the draft class overall. We got good value in Meacham and Pittman (Memnoch makes a good point about him filling in well for Reggie) and several of the guys (Young and Alleman come to mind) are definitely charachter guys with a lot of potential if you believe the scouting reports. There may have been some residual hubris from the Colston pick that led to all of the small school picks, but if we get one player that has 1/2 the impact Colston did, then all those picks are validated IMO.

I'll rather trust the people who evaluate players for a living and coach them on the field than someone who occasionally read or write a story of somebody overhyped.
A lot of guys was thrilled with the Hasslet draft picks and look where they're at today.