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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; Originally Posted by FinSaint It's funny how the number one thing that probably most of us are wary of with the Failclowns is Turner and the running game - and still the team gave up their whole draft to get ...

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Old 11-11-2011, 06:32 PM   #1
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It's funny how the number one thing that probably most of us are wary of with the Failclowns is Turner and the running game - and still the team gave up their whole draft to get Foolio so that they would "spread the field" during this season.

I watched their first game and I'm not sure they even tried a pass beyond 30 yards, let alone complete one.

Blank, Dimitroff & Smith.... what a sorry bunch of fools!
Fin, I think they've built a very good team from top to bottom. Julio will take pressure off of White and open things up underneath for Gonzalez.

Julio is a great kid. He played HS football right down the street from me.

I don't like them on a rivalry level, but I respect them and what they've done.
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Old 11-11-2011, 07:30 PM   #2
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Fin, I think they've built a very good team from top to bottom. Julio will take pressure off of White and open things up underneath for Gonzalez.

Julio is a great kid. He played HS football right down the street from me.

I don't like them on a rivalry level, but I respect them and what they've done.
They aren't opening up a damn thing until they get a QB. Right now they have a glorified (media) bus driver. We've seen how far 'skid britches' (thanks again Hulka) can take them. That's it. There is no more.
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Old 11-11-2011, 10:28 PM   #3
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Fin, I think they've built a very good team from top to bottom. Julio will take pressure off of White and open things up underneath for Gonzalez.

Julio is a great kid. He played HS football right down the street from me.

I don't like them on a rivalry level, but I respect them and what they've done.
oh for ****'s sake i don't believe what I'm reading on a SAINT'S FAN site?!?!?!?!?
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Old 11-12-2011, 11:06 AM   #4
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Fin, I think they've built a very good team from top to bottom. Julio will take pressure off of White and open things up underneath for Gonzalez.

Julio is a great kid. He played HS football right down the street from me.

I don't like them on a rivalry level, but I respect them and what they've done.

I'm not questioning their work overall, because I do agree with you that they've build a very good team while overcoming some very difficult obstacles in the process (f.e. Vick), but I do think that it was a serious miscalculation to basically give up their whole draft for just one player, because they had many other holes to fill also.

And Dimitroff himself said in an interview on draft day that they chose this approach because Foolio was the one player in the draft who they felt would make their offense complete and allow Matty Lice to have the option of stretching the field, which had been one of the bigger criticisms made against the Failclowns offense over the past couple of seasons... and I guess they saw it as one of the bigger reasons to why they went down in the playoffs last time around.

Trading away your whole draft for one single player is a gamble at the best of times, and it usually doesn't really work out... a concept the Saints' fans are more than familiar with.
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I'm not questioning their work overall, because I do agree with you that they've build a very good team while overcoming some very difficult obstacles in the process (f.e. Vick), but I do think that it was a serious miscalculation to basically give up their whole draft for just one player, because they had many other holes to fill also.

And Dimitroff himself said in an interview on draft day that they chose this approach because Foolio was the one player in the draft who they felt would make their offense complete and allow Matty Lice to have the option of stretching the field, which had been one of the bigger criticisms made against the Failclowns offense over the past couple of seasons... and I guess they saw it as one of the bigger reasons to why they went down in the playoffs last time around.

Trading away your whole draft for one single player is a gamble at the best of times, and it usually doesn't really work out... a concept the Saints' fans are more than familiar with.

And we know all about trading your whole draft for one player
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Old 11-12-2011, 12:10 PM   #6
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I'm not questioning their work overall, because I do agree with you that they've build a very good team while overcoming some very difficult obstacles in the process (f.e. Vick), but I do think that it was a serious miscalculation to basically give up their whole draft for just one player, because they had many other holes to fill also.

And Dimitroff himself said in an interview on draft day that they chose this approach because Foolio was the one player in the draft who they felt would make their offense complete and allow Matty Lice to have the option of stretching the field, which had been one of the bigger criticisms made against the Failclowns offense over the past couple of seasons... and I guess they saw it as one of the bigger reasons to why they went down in the playoffs last time around.

Trading away your whole draft for one single player is a gamble at the best of times, and it usually doesn't really work out... a concept the Saints' fans are more than familiar with.
They didn't trade their entire draft though.

They gave up their 2nd and 4th, and next years 1st and 4th. Its a lot of picks but its not an entire draft.
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They didn't trade their entire draft though.

They gave up their 2nd and 4th, and next years 1st and 4th. Its a lot of picks but its not an entire draft.

And that is why I said basically gave up their whole draft.
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And that is why I said basically gave up their whole draft.
So we basically won the Superbowl last year?
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So we basically won the Superbowl last year?

I refuse to bite!



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I refuse to bite!




LOL!!!
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