Yes without a doubt. Hard to find backups as good as he is. He is not a starter but he can get you trough half a game if needed.

SP thought enough of Brown to start him for 13 games and leave Armstead inactive, so there is something there. I expect Brown to get a shot at winning the job

Sean Payton after benching Charles Brown: "I had seen enough," Payton said. "I saw enough. It was enough. Period. The penalties, the pressures, the sacks. Saw enough. At some point, you just can't keep watching.

Once Brown was benched SP never looked back.

Armstead was a rookie and Brown was all he had to work with that had experience.

Believe it or not, I am not a total idiot. I know how to read the salary cap chart.

If the Saints want Grubbs to restructure they have all the leverage in the world. He can do it this offseason, or get cut next offseason; we gain $4m on the 2015 cap and he loses the $22m remaining on his sweetheart contract.

And I think we all know that based on his performance he wouldn't make a third of what he's getting now looking for a new deal with some other team in 2015. We've seen each of the last two offseasons, big name vets with declining performance don't get cut any slack in the free agent market.

If Grubbs likes playing for the Saints and he likes $20 million dollars, he will restructure his deal, plain and simple. To be clear, I like Grubbs alright. Pretty good dude, pretty good player. But he's making elite guard money and he is nowhere near being an elite guard anymore. He's just not worth that contract, especially on a team that routinely plucks o-line starters in the 4th and 5th rounds of the draft.