dizzle88

Resign, Brees, nicks and Colston

Get rid of Shanle, Will smith, Possibly Sed ellis unless there are no other DT's available and free up some cap room that way

biloxi-indian

A few musings!

IMHO, Ellis? I did not see a "significant" (operative word here) drop-off with Tom Johnson or possibiliy Mitch King!

With Dunbar and Humber, I also did not see a "significant" drop-off from Vilma (albeit he was injured).

Personally, I have had enough of Shanle. His worth has run (no pun intended) it course...IMHO.

Smith? McBride. Galette, Romeus, Jordan...sorry but again do not see a "significant" drop-off.

To me the bigger questions on D are; can Casillas stay healthy for a full season? Can Wilson pick up the new scheme of Spags? Herring, same as Casillas with regards to health? Bussey, is he ready for prime time?

Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over, over, and over again...and expecting a different outcome!

Rugby Saint II

I won't miss Will Smith........Vilma, oh I'll miss him a lot.

SaintsBro

I love me some Carl Nicks blocking, don't get me wrong. I absolutely am crazy for the guy. I hope they sign him.

But unfortunately, my gut tells me that behind the scenes, we may be seeing sort of a "soft sell" transition out of the idea of seeing Carl Nicks in a Saints uniform:

1) the fight/argument with the coaches during the Rams game
2) they gave him that one year deal in 2010, right after Jahri Evans got that huge contract coming off the Super Bowl
3) Drew's vague and bittersweet comments, about looking around the locker room and not knowing which guys will be back next year -- now remember when Drew broke the record, Nicks was the one who gave him a big bear hug and picked him up in the air
4) Nicks led the Who Dat Chant at the Lions playoff game
5) then there was that whole weird thing at the beginning of last year, August of 2010, where he got temporarily demoted to second string in training camp. Something was up with that, or maybe it was just nothing. Who knows. But I felt like it could been either Super Bowl hangover, or maybe that his frustration at Jahri getting that huge deal and not him, was reflected in his attitude during practice, the first week back, so the coaches sat him

But these things, especially #4, which assuming at that time, we were gonna go up to Green Bay, they knew it could be his last home game as a Saint, makes me wonder. We'll see, though.

neugey

I wish there were salary arbitration in the NFL. This would be a great offesason for it.

saintfan

I love a good conspiracy theory.

W. Kovacs

After watching the two Championship games last weekend, I think Nicks should be our #2 priority after Brees.

Did you see what the SF defense did to Eli? Holy Crap.

I know our Offensive Line wasn't exactly impregnable against the Niners but I definitely don't think Drew took the beating Eli did.

I love Colston, but keeping Drew healthy in the last 5 or so (hopefully many more) years of his career has to be our priority, IMHO; and keeping him off the turf would really help in that effort.

Danno

I can say without reservation that Carl Nicks is our 2nd best player on this team and he helps make Brees the superstar he is.

I hope we don't think just because we did well picking Evans and Nicks that it'll be easy to find a stud guard in the draft.

With Drew, the interior O-line is more important than the exterior. I have no problem with us paying our OG's like most teams pay their OT's.

I think Nicks/Evans are also why De La Puente had as much success as he did.

I feel it will be more difficult to replace Nicks than any other player on this team not named Brees.

HE MUST BE RESIGNED!!!

FinSaint

You get my vote!

hagan714

the only think drew can do is pull a Manning and get Benson to pay the bulk as bounce money and minimize the cap hit.

Then sign one of the two Nicks Or colston and tag the leftover and resign them the following year long term