Football Gameplan's 2012 Draft Grades Video - New Orleans Saints

Marlboro Man · 05-07-2012, 07:46 AM

I can understand your concern about Hicks but we have a lot of bodies at that position. In my opinion this was a future pick, meaning the Saints saw the talent and know the weaknesses and plan to bring him along slowly. I think he will see some rotational PT this year as he works on the coachable aspects of his game and get him some experience in working with the new techniques. I would expect to see him looking like a true find in year 3.

Danno · 05-07-2012, 07:53 AM

Originally Posted by Marlboro Man

I can understand your concern about Hicks but we have a lot of bodies at that position. In my opinion this was a future pick, meaning the Saints saw the talent and know the weaknesses and plan to bring him along slowly. I think he will see some rotational PT this year as he works on the coachable aspects of his game and get him some experience in working with the new techniques. I would expect to see him looking like a true find in year 3.

Yep, the draft is for future starters mostly. If we want to point to some players stepping up this year, we need to look at the last 2 or 3 drafts for those guys.

Partick Robinson
Martez Wilson
Johnny Patrick
Cam Jordan
Greg Romeus
Charles Brown
Junior Galette

Its time for some of these guys to step up their game a bit.

05-07-2012, 07:46 AM	#1
Marlboro Man 1000 Posts + Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,469	I can understand your concern about Hicks but we have a lot of bodies at that position. In my opinion this was a future pick, meaning the Saints saw the talent and know the weaknesses and plan to bring him along slowly. I think he will see some rotational PT this year as he works on the coachable aspects of his game and get him some experience in working with the new techniques. I would expect to see him looking like a true find in year 3. Danno and FootballCEO like this.

05-07-2012, 07:53 AM	#2
Danno Truth Addict Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Spanish Fort, AL (via NO and B/R) Posts: 24,758	Originally Posted by Marlboro Man I can understand your concern about Hicks but we have a lot of bodies at that position. In my opinion this was a future pick, meaning the Saints saw the talent and know the weaknesses and plan to bring him along slowly. I think he will see some rotational PT this year as he works on the coachable aspects of his game and get him some experience in working with the new techniques. I would expect to see him looking like a true find in year 3. Yep, the draft is for future starters mostly. If we want to point to some players stepping up this year, we need to look at the last 2 or 3 drafts for those guys. Partick Robinson Martez Wilson Johnny Patrick Cam Jordan Greg Romeus Charles Brown Junior Galette Its time for some of these guys to step up their game a bit. FootballCEO likes this.