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Originally Posted by saintsmissile (Post 128719)

what I'm getting at, but I see your point. My point is that the percentages of picking small school prospects that make contributions is always less than bigger name kids from bigger schools. Be honest man. The Saints got LUCKY with Colston. It was a after thought pick that didn't really cost us anything. If you would have asked SP if Colston would have had the year he had when he drafted him he probably would have laughed. We got lucky once with Evans and Colston, I doubt we captured lightening in a bottle twice. And yes, I would have probably picked other wr's than Colston. Course, so did 31 other teams as well. To use your analogy, the Bears should have picked a smaller school prospect instead of shooting the dice on a big school player in Hester. The draft is certainly not a science, but when you start betting the farm year in and year out with guys from Kent State, Bloomsberg, Towson, Akron, Wingate, Hofstra I can GUARANTEE you a team going downhill eventually. Listen, I hope all these guys come in and do great things, but it almost seems like SP PURPOSELY targeted small school prospects. If that is the case, it's not a very wise move.

I do agree we got lucky with Colston. I don't however think SP purposely drafts guys from smaller schools JUST because they are smaller. We did draft guys 2 guys from Tennessee and one from Ohio St.;) I just think that coach Payton is a tireless worker/scouter when it comes to the Draft. I agree that if you draft ALL of your players form D-1AA schools your team will go downhill in a hurry. But, I also believe that you must fill your TRUE need positions via FA.

I feel out needs this offseason were DT, ILB, CB, SS, TE, and K. After sigining Simmons, Kaesviharn, Eric Johnson, Jason David, and Mare the only TRUE hole we have is DT. Hopefully, Thomas or a post June 1st FA can take care of these. I truly believe that taking hte BPA is the best way to go about the draft. We FINALLY have the luxury and it feels good.

Man, I love to discuss Saints FB!!!:D

All offseason, all I heard on the Saints boards, was how the fans wanted a cornerback, in the draft or in FA. So what do the Saints do, they get a FA and two draft picks, who are CBs. Now all I hear is they should have gotten a DT. I realize now, that most people will not be happy, no matter what they do. Think about it, they want to win. So they are going to do their best, to get the players they think will help them do that. I think they did great, if they got the players they wanted, at the pick they wanted them.

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Originally Posted by saintsrule (Post 128736)

no, most fans would have been happy had we gotten cb's and dt's. i am happy either way...i can just point out that we passed up an opportunity to fill a need.

I understand the sound of the arguement of "but they had a better draft than us!", but that isn't the biggest thing.

You can only grade your teams draft versus what your team needs and plays...and Meachem was the BPA at a position of need. We HAD to get a solid WR that didn't have to be the #1 and we got what many called the #2 guy overall, behind only a dude that breaks every physical mold ever created for the position...not too shabby. Besides, Branch was the DT left that would have been picked and he had questions that made him drop past a couple of other teams that could have used him.

I mean, comparing our draft this year versus another team's, to me, is like my friend that keeps harping about how the panthers beat us twice last year...who cares, cuz in the end we were in the NFCC and they were watching. Pyrrhic victory in my mind.

I think we drafted just fine...as long as most of those guys make it through camp.