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.

Read the entire post, he said we were in position to trade down the position...

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.

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

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?

When you review the entire body of work of Loomis/Payton in regards to personnel and draft, they're like a powerful fourth hole hitter in Baseball...



There average is lower than most, but they do hit some homeruns...



That was an amazing draft last year...



But their flaw is they do get fixated on a player and tend to make mistakes...



The Saints were convinced Glenn Dorsey and Jeremy Shockey additions would propel them past Chicago in the playoffs...



Well they overpaid the Giants for Shockey and panicked when Chiefs' Carl Peterson sensed the desperation for Dorsey and tried to extort them...



Saints FO fell back, but still smarting, made the horrible mistake of trading with the Pats to get Ellis...



Probably passing on a great linebacker in Jerrod Mayo and could have let the Bengals spare us Ellis and his lame, lazy-@$$ game...



Just because some don't drink the coolaid, that doesn't mean they're less a fan - some just question - and that is a good thing...

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.

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