Mr.Riaton

You forgot ".... And willing to tackle..."! And you should have left out the "healthy" part. Other than that,you pretty much nailed it.

jeanpierre

Podcast: Debating ways to improve the Saints defense | Saints | The Advocate — Baton Rouge, LA

Holder estimates we are ~3mil under the cap

jeanpierre

Step 1, Release/Restructure Harper...

Step 2, Sign DE Vaughn Martin, SD

Step 3, OT Bryant McKinnie, BAL

Step 4, FS Michael Huff, OAK

Step 5, Roster Ready for Draft

hagan714

man o man the porter haters are coming out of the wood work. if we sign him at least you know the boards will never be dull here

Seer1

It's not hate, just exasperation. We're not some backwater team that has to play the game the good ole boy way anymore. Ticket sales are only a small part of the revenue scheme and we don't have to hire locals to make money. Now we need good solid players that'll take us somewhere, not past local heroes whose best days are years behind them, or boys whose number one selling point is they played in the SEC. We need players offering good, consistent performance we can count on, not players with good "bloodlines" or players who have had good local TV exposure. That's all. Will love Porter always, but now it's time for him to be watching the game from his living room.

; Your story isn't over yet ;

jeanpierre

Raiders to release Tommy Kelly | ProFootballTalk

Now this would be an amazing signing...

You could slide Bunkley to the end spot and you'd have one amazing defensive wall...

jeanpierre

Left Tackle

With no backup quarterback and no starting left tackle...

(Lucy has apparently injured Charles Brown agian with the pulling the football away as he tries to place kick gag)...

The Saints are really playing with fire...

Notable Free Agents available at Offensive Tackle are:

Bryant McKinnie, BAL/MIN

Max Starks, PIT

The other significant free agents:

Andre Smith, CIN

Eric Winston, KC/HOU

Jammal Brown, WAS/NO

are all right tackles with Brown having played left tackle for the Saints prior to his trade to the Redskins...

Smith is young but showed laziness coming into the league and the Bengals are bidding against themselves in a game of low-ball...

Winston is considered by some as a good Right Tackle but has been released twice in two seasons giving pause to some teams...

And Brown has not been healthy for two seasons and left NO under less than happy terms...

That leaves McKinnie, who was run out of Minnesota for attitude, laziness, sloth but has had a revival and played well during the Baltimore Superbowl run...

And Pittsburgh's Max Starks who's been an unspectacular, though solid pro for the Steelers...

With the Saints FO focused on Nnamdi, they should get out of the uptown coffee houses and do their research and make Left Tackle the priority in free agency...

It's not that my way is the right way, I just make the right way my way...

hagan714

god knows we have enough rt tackles on the roster already. all walking wounded just waiting to go on IR. put them all together and you might make it through a season. we need to address this issue one year soon.

FinSaint

Neither McKinnie or Starks are mobile LTs, so they wouldn't be much help in the upfield blocking game, which is important for the Saints' running and screen game.

That's why I think SP would still prefer Charles Brown over these guys, since he at least has good mobility even with his injury woes.

jeanpierre

So we're basically screwed at Left Tackle...

I know McKinnie was contacted by Saints per Florio News Corp...