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And don't forget Jason Craft who showed improvement last year.

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Originally Posted by saintsmissile (Post 128607)

my point here is this. If Harper doesn't come back fully, we have.....Steve Gleason as our starting SS. If McKenzie goes down (god forbid) we have a rookie from Kent State as our starting CB. If Jason David falters or gets hurt, we have a guy from Wingate starting on that side.If Hollis Thomas goes down we have Whitehead or superstar Rodney Leslie as our starters. God forbid Fujita goes down we have enigma Tommy Polley as our starter or maybe Fincher could step in. Not nice scenerios are they? My point is what was more important to gettting this team better depth wise, drafting TWO project offensive lineman and yet another running back or bringing in some youth for our defense? You be the judge.

...if if if if if if if if if...

It's the NFL, not fantasy football. Every team loses someone at some position every year, and every team in the NFL is on the same boat: teams will lose 2-3 starters at some point in the season, and more often than not they will not have anyone the fans perceive as being any good as a replacement (that's why they aren't starting, right?).
Besides, If they drafted Some Player and, say, Fujita went down in week 8, you'd say "this guy is a rookie, he can't play the position, trade for someone, etc. etc. etc." regardless of who he was.

Last year people were freaking out because of the number of safeties., complaining there they didn't address the LB's. What happened? Payton got 3 LB's in August, Saints went all the way to the NFC championship.

This year people (well, you ) are freaking out because the Saints didn't draft 4 CB's and 3 SS's and traded for 3 DT's.

Until proven otherwise, I have complete confidence in this coaching staff and F.O.

Amen! And Amen!!!!!!!

missle,
getting a solid insurance policy incase deuce gets hurt again or reggie reinjures his ankle with a day 2 selection is a bad draft pick?

you HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!

atleast your not short sighted (sarcasim)

No One..........

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Originally Posted by pakowitz (Post 128564)

with us on the board at 27... who was still available besides meachem that would really be worth that pick?

puz yea, olson, maybe, but other then that i dont see anyone that i would have really wanted besides either of those guys at 27...i know chris houston was still on the board as well but i didnt like him a pro prospect and i still dont..... i think its a great pick and one that we got value for b/c he was a guy who was rated mid first round by most everyone

28(28) San Francisco Joe Staley OT CENTRAL MICHIGAN

29(29) Baltimore Ben Grubbs OG AUBURN

30(30) San Diego Craig Davis WR LSU

31(31) Chicago Greg Olsen TE MIAMI (FLA.)

32(32) Indianapolis Anthony Gonzalez WR OHIO STATE

2nd round

1(33) Arizona (from Oakland) Alan Branch DT MICHIGAN

2(34) Buffalo (from Detroit) Paul Posluszny OLB PENN STATE

3(35) Tampa Bay Arron Sears OG TENNESSEE

4(36) Philadelphia (from Cleveland through Dallas) Kevin Kolb QB HOUSTON

5(37) San Diego (From Washington through N.Y. Jets & Chicago) Eric Weddle S UTAH

6(38) Oakland (from Arizona) Zach Miller TE ARIZONA STATE

7(39) Atlanta (From Houston) Justin Blalock OG TEXAS

8(40) Miami John Beck QB BYU

9(41) Atlanta (from Minnesota) Chris Houston CB ARKANSAS

10(42) Indianapolis (from San Francisco) Tony Ugoh OT ARKANSAS

Meachem was the logical choice, before the draft everybody was saying we needed more help at the WR position, well we drafted one of the premier receivers in this years class. I for one am ecstatic over getting the 2nd best receiver in this class at the 27th pick.

Now we needed a wide out. We got one. We needed a back to spell duce. We got it. We needed a third down back. We may have done that with one pick. We need to bulk up the OL. We did that. We needed good depth at CB and we did that too. DL and LB needs are being worked on. We are better off today than we were last year. I am happy