Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

The New Orleans Saints wrapped up this week's practice with a two-hour session at the Advocare Facility at the Greenbrier in West Virginia. New Orleans will travel to St. Louis tomorrow to prepare for their first pre-season game.

Saints Color Analyst Hokie Gajan observed practice from the stands again today. "I thought it was a pretty good practice overall," Gajan said. Hokie has been impressed with the progress of Saints RB Travaris Cadet: "He's (Cadet) more than capable of replacing Darren Sproles. Cadet understands the protections and he knows what to do out there." Hokie thinks Cadet will have a very good season for the Saints.

watch Cadet break one

Hokie also pointed out that QB's Luke McCown and Ryan Griffin did not have great days. "I thought the QB play was just OK... but I will say that when the Saints began to work on two-minute offense that both Griffin and McCown got better in that period." Gajan thinks that Luke McCown is clearly the Saints back-up QB right now and that Griffin will be the third string QB.

The Cajun Cannon Bobby Hebert was impressed with the play of DB's Patrick Robinson, Corey White and rookie Stanley Jean-Baptiste. "P-Rob has had his best camp as a Saints player. Now I want to see if he can continue to play well in the game against the Rams."

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Re: Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

BS..........I miss mighty mouse! :sad:

Re: Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

Lb for lb nobody can touch Sproles. Sad he wasted his youth on a team that didn't understand his value.

Re: Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

I hated to see him go but we are now a better team overall because of it.

Re: Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

Lots of people talking up Cadet. There's got to be something there.

Re: Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

I hope Cadet proves me wrong. He's never impressed me. He's not little but I rarely see him break tackles and he's not a blazer either. I admit he runs with determination and I don't question his heart or toughness, I guess I don't see elite talent.

Re: Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

We don't need elite from him when need him to be Cadet. We need him to make plays when his number is called.

Cadet has been brilliant when called upon and is is still developing. Now he gets to prove his worth with Sproles gone.

One can argue Sproles isn't elite either he fits a role that he excels at and fitted a role.

Re: Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

True, he needs to simply focus on doing his job, not trying to be Sproles.

BTW: Sproles didn't even look like the Sproles of 4 or 5 years ago. You could see a slight decline in his game last year. He's still probably a very good RB, but he's nowhere near the 2010/2011 Sproles.

Re: Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

Cadet doesn't need to be elite. I agree he probably doesn't have the big-play ability that Sproles had, but that is Cooks' job now anyway. Cadet just needs to be a solid third-down back, that's all.

Re: Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

had graham settled up earlier chances are we would still have Darren

Cadet has to prove it to me

Kiry on the other hand - give that guy the ball
start using him in the passing game too

Re: Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

Cadet surely needs to warrant a roster spot on the 53, so far I don't see the justification!!

Re: Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

He'd be on the roster anyway because he's one of our best special teamers. And honestly we don't have a ton of good ST guys. Not many of our WR's or CB's are going to be out there running down kicks so we're going to have to keep at least a couple guys just because they're good on ST.

Re: Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

Much as I hated it, I think we got rid of Sproles at precisely the right time. I've liked Cadet from the start - lets see if he can truly fill that role. As little as Darren is, those are mighty big shoes to fill.

Re: Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

i was calling on Cadet to the breakout player of the year last year. so maybe i was a year early.

all he has to do is establish himself as a player defenses must account for. that is it.

Re: Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

Cadet was the next big thing a couple years ago but kinda faded away behind Thomas and Sproles. I figure Payton must be confident Cadet can pick up some of the slack left by Sproles departure. Maybe he's still the same Cadet that was so impressive in the 2012 preseason.

Re: Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

I know I'll miss Darren. He was one of the best.

Re: Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

Sproles was a business decision. Pure and simple. I think Cadet and Cook will take his place.

Re: Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

I disagree with this. Sproles has elite quickness and hands. When LSU beat Oklahoma in the title game, K-State beat the Sooners the previous game because Soroles ran for 300yds on em.

Re: Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

We don't need the Darren of today.

Re: Hokie: Saints won't miss Sproles with Travaris Cadet on board
 

I think the 2014 Sproles isn't even close to his former 2006-ish self.