The Dude

Or at least feel better about. We all like to blame the Saints coaching staff and scouts for some bone headed signings, especially in free agency. God knows some of it is deserved, but for every crappy signing like Browner and Byrd there have been more than there fair share of surprises.

From the beginning a lot of people thought Reggie never lived up to his drift status, and I agree. We did get Colston though and IMO he gave us 1st round production during his time here. Pierre Thomas is in the mix too. We took a gamble on Shockey, it worked pretty well. We bombed on some defensive picks but got an Ivory.
Greer and Lewis worked out well for us. We took a gamble on a 3rd round project TE and got some good play out of him. Last year we got snowed on Browner but stole Breaux.

There are several others I have missed, but someone in scouting is either extremely lucky with no name signings but sucks when it comes to what looks like a sure thing or at least one person knows what he is doing. I say promote that person.