Originally Posted by rezburna (Post 591725)

Rookie starters at center, CB, wr, and OLB isn't going to win us a Super Bowl. Nor is it guaranteed the people we pick at those spots will even work out to be long term solutions. You go after the players who you believe in. Trying to fill a dire positional need with an unproven rookie is what teams in the bottom half of the draft do.

You will never be able to fill every hole on a team.

Originally Posted by jeanpierre (Post 592313)

Originally Posted by hagan714 (Post 592318)

usual the case isn't it. for once in the mickey and SP erea i would love to see the saints walk away from a draft with picks in our back pocket for the following year. this was the draft to do in with out a doubt. but oh well i am use to it.

Originally Posted by dizzle88 (Post 592319)

Normally the teams that walk away with picks in their pocket for following years are typically - jags, raiders type teams, ones that are rebuilding over years

we are in a win now mentality

Originally Posted by mighty12 (Post 592327)

Here is why it is a good trade......most other positions fill 1 role, especially center. Cooks fills a couple positions of need. WR opposite Colston, return man, Scat back. Those positions were lost when Moore and Sproles were let go and now we have 1 player that can fill it instead of 2 or 3. As someone stated a roster is 53 players so the more versatile players are a better fit especially with this team. Also, he would not have been there at 27 because Philadelphia wanted him to replace Desean jackson.

With all that said, if the Saints would have done what you wanted them to do, who are your picks at those selections? I am not trying to be contrarian. I want to know who you would have wanted with those 3 extra picks?

Originally Posted by jeanpierre (Post 592314)

Originally Posted by AsylumGuido (Post 592334)

Call me crazy, but for some unknown reason I have this sneaking suspicion that Mickey Loomis and Sean Payton know a tad bit more about NFL player personnel decisions than our new friend Gumbeauxx and our old friend Jean-Pierre combined.

If Payton and Loomis feel that an undrafted free agent lineman can assume the duties sufficiently at center then I trust them. I suspect that they may have spent a few more minutes observing his progress up close and personal than our two cronies. Or perhaps, Loomis and Payton may have other ideas about handling the center position in mind which they have yet to approach our local forum experts for their valuable input.

I understand that the team of Loomis and Payton are new to this NFL thingy and have only managed to win one measly Super Bowl win, but I feel we should give them a chance to prove themselves worthy. Not everyone can be as well-schooled in the matter of NFL player personnel decisions as some of our learned colleagues around here.

:cool:

Originally Posted by dizzle88 (Post 592319)

Normally the teams that walk away with picks in their pocket for following years are typically - jags, raiders type teams, ones that are rebuilding over years