Saints Defensive Line ranked 28th by PFF
 

28. New Orleans Saints

Top overall grade : DE Cameron Jordan, 92.1

Lowest overall grade: LB Craig Robertson, 51.2

This Saints’ defensive line featured one of*PFF’s All-Pro second team defensive ends, but that’s it. Nick Fairley was the second-highest-graded player in the unit, but even he comes in at 76.9 :mad:.

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Sitting close to the bottom again which is a clear indicator of where our needs are in both players and coaching.
Brees couldn't put up enough points to overcome our swiss-cheese Defense.

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Craig Robertson didn't play on the D-line. What am I missing?

EDIT:

Nevermind, the ranking is for the front seven, not the D-line...

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** Edit alert - Defensive front 7

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Makes me want another NT even more. Allen blitzes 41.3% of the time, all that tells me is we are not getting it up front, period. Blowing up the center of an O line is a must and helps everywhere else from the DE's, lb.'ers and the secondary.

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My philosophy parallels Jim Finks' in order of importance...

1st- Defensive Line
2nd - Linbackers
3rd - Secondary

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Finks' was a smart man. I agree.

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Apparently there is a philosophy change on airline Dr. With new coaching and new players anything can happen. Who Dat! :bng:

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Going to need to spend some money on the front seven this year... I thought Robertson played well but maybe that's because it's been so long I forgot what good LB play looks like.

Re: Saints Defensive Line ranked 28th by PFF