...from what i see today i do not see a great improvement in the team in the secondary. Porter will be missed and the saints did nothing to fill the void. nothing. Safety is unchanged. Nothing really to get excited about, they are all the same type of players.

Front 7 on defense is better through FA and the draft gave us a project and hope.

Offense goes unchanged, But they have added another good set of hands for Drew. That is always good. OL has depth added.

well let camp start and see what we got.

see me in two years.

I disagree. We added Spagnuolo to the secondary, or more precisely, his scheme. I feel he will make our existing pieces more successful right away.

Estimating the value of a certain player is very difficult because the fit of a certain player to a certain scheme can completely change the value of a player picked by team A versus him being picked by team B...but I'm definitely not disappointed with the draft considering the handicaps the Saints had.

Hope we find a scheme where Harper doesn't have to cover, even if he is a Defensive Back; but maybe Spagnuolo can improve BOTH Safeties skills and tendencies...

I think we all hope that, but I remain somewhat biased in my opinion about Harper's coverage skills or more precisely the lack of such skills.

I'm not saying he has great hands and great coverage skills among all the strong safeties around the league, but I also don't think the is as bad as is sometimes portrayed.

He was asked to do a lot in GW's schemes, probably more than he should've, but I still think that he can do a good job in coverage as long as he is not left "on an island" to defend against the top WR or TE - there are very few strong safeties who can succeed under those conditions. And lets not forget that Shanle also had a chance to brake up that pass to Vernon Davis which ended the Saints' season, so it's not like Harper was the only one on that play who "whiffed."