To me, the biggest question that no one is asking is: How in hell is Spags gonna all of a sudden get a pass rush and pressure from a D-Line that hasn't been able to do it for 6 freakin years? What? is he gonna give em all some magic dust that's gonna suddenly make them all pro's? I don't think so. For 6 straight years I've been Bi....errr Complaining about our D-Line and how they needed to be upgraded. I was all for Sed Ellis but must admit he's been a disappointment as has every other DT we've had on this team since the Payton era. Will Smith is good, but not great and he's not gettin any younger and we just need to get better both there and at DT. Notice I didn't say too much else about the DE position. Why? Because we have a couple of promising players that look to be on the rise. Junior Galette was starting to come on late last year and was being very disruptive in the opponents backfield. I'm not very impressed with Cameron Jordan, this guy couldn't sack Cam Newton to save his life. Maybe a move to DT might be best for him because he's tall (Which Spags likes) and he's got a good motor and he's strong. Let's remember too, that we have Greg Romeus in the wings who we've not seen anything from but who before his injuries was considered one of the best DE's coming out. He's now had a full year to study the playbook and recover from his injuries and should be able to hit the ground running this year. Therefore, we seemingly have a pretty nice 3 man rotation with Smith, Galette and Romeus and could either go with a DT, DE, or OLB with our first 3 picks.

Strangely, I can still see the Saints making a trade. Not necessarily into the first round though that could be done by packaging say Harper and PT. More realistically and especially since we have Sproles and Payton went out of his way to get Ingram (Who I'm not very high on, hopefully that will change) which makes PT tradeable and I'd think we could get a higher 2nd round pick for him and still have Ivory, Ingram and Sproles plus Chris (Can't remember his last name) the UDFA in the 4th slot. If that could be done, we could move Quddus to FS which he is better suited for and move Jenkins to SS which he is better suited for and all of a sudden, we've got a pretty good looking defense.

Trading Harper would cost ~$17M in cap space, so I think that is out of the question.

Trading away PT makes no sense in my mind - he is cheap, productive, and under-valued - SP wants to have that 4 RB depth, and Chris Taylor is not a potential starter to replace PT.

Jordan is really good against the run and setting the edge, so I would definitely keep him primarily as a DE, who'd rotate in on running situations.

Romeus is an unknown, and we simply can't count on him being the answer to the D-Line pass rush.

There are numerous really good DT prospects in the 2012 draft while not so many good DE prospects (who'll be available to the Saints), so DE might be a position they'll have to try and improve through the FA rather than the draft.

Another area of improvement through the draft should be the LB corps, and I'd like the Saints to focus heavily on these two key defensive positions along with the O-Line depth with the draft. But if history is anything to go by - they'll probably end up picking players in other positions simply because they were the BPA when the Saints were on the clock.

In my opinion Abdul-Quddus is a SS all day long (based on his skill-set and college career) and moving him to FS would, therefore, be problematic. Jenkins, on the other hand, wouldn't fit a SS role since tackling has been one of his biggest problem areas. Jenkins is more suited to being a FS mainly because of his CB background, and I think he'll have a much better 2012 season, which will make us all forget about his shortcoming this past season.

Before I even get started, lets not forget Ramon Humber either. He definitely showed some speed and very good tackling along with a very nice violent style. I think that with today's 6'-5" + TE's becoming the norm, Martez is the perfect SLB for the new style offenses with those monster TE's. His tackling ability is excellent and he has the speed to beat most of those TE's to boot. Shanle may be kept around for vet leadership but you just can't trust Casillias to stay healthy so we're gonna need to draft someone there just in case.

To me, the biggest question that no one is asking is: How in hell is Spags gonna all of a sudden get a pass rush and pressure from a D-Line that hasn't been able to do it for 6 freakin years? What? is he gonna give em all some magic dust that's gonna suddenly make them all pro's? I don't think so. For 6 straight years I've been Bi....errr Complaining about our D-Line and how they needed to be upgraded. I was all for Sed Ellis but must admit he's been a disappointment as has every other DT we've had on this team since the Payton era. Will Smith is good, but not great and he's not gettin any younger and we just need to get better both there and at DT. Notice I didn't say too much else about the DE position. Why? Because we have a couple of promising players that look to be on the rise. Junior Galette was starting to come on late last year and was being very disruptive in the opponents backfield. I'm not very impressed with Cameron Jordan, this guy couldn't sack Cam Newton to save his life. Maybe a move to DT might be best for him because he's tall (Which Spags likes) and he's got a good motor and he's strong. Let's remember too, that we have Greg Romeus in the wings who we've not seen anything from but who before his injuries was considered one of the best DE's coming out. He's now had a full year to study the playbook and recover from his injuries and should be able to hit the ground running this year. Therefore, we seemingly have a pretty nice 3 man rotation with Smith, Galette and Romeus and could either go with a DT, DE, or OLB with our first 3 picks.

Strangely, I can still see the Saints making a trade. Not necessarily into the first round though that could be done by packaging say Harper and PT. More realistically and especially since we have Sproles and Payton went out of his way to get Ingram (Who I'm not very high on, hopefully that will change) which makes PT tradeable and I'd think we could get a higher 2nd round pick for him and still have Ivory, Ingram and Sproles plus Chris (Can't remember his last name) the UDFA in the 4th slot. If that could be done, we could move Quddus to FS which he is better suited for and move Jenkins to SS which he is better suited for and all of a sudden, we've got a pretty good looking defense.

Offensively, for all those worrying about losing Colston, I'm not. Let's not forget all those potential TD drops he's had the last 3 seasons. On top of that, we've got Joe Morgan and AA already in the wings and, there are two WR's in the draft that are 6'-5" and one of them runs a 4.4 in the 40 and the other is still faster than Colston. Additionally, Colston deserves a big pay day but we just can't afford it and I think one of these guys would be just as good if not better so we'd all better get used to seeing some of our favorite players in other unis this next season cause we don't have time to waste if we want another SB in the Payton era.

How did we all of a sudden go to the SB with ALMOST the SAME D we have now in 2009?

We had a secondary coach who made sure the corners and safeties could catch the ball? Now the DC for Denver...

And a free safety before the latest knee surgery who was a ball hawk?

I didn't say it wasn't possible, I just give more credit to the secondary coach[name slipped my mind] rather than G.W...

We had a secondary coach who made sure the corners and safeties could catch the ball? Now the DC for Denver...

And a free safety before the latest knee surgery who was a ball hawk?

Dennis Allen.

I have not been a GW supporter especially as of late BUT you can't honestly not give GW credit. He made the players believe in themselves and they had a swagger that they haven't had since the Dome Patrol.

My point is we have new blood. Spags is a PROVEN winner as a DC. A change of pace with a new dc in 09 brought greatness. It can happen again!