bignic26

Remember a few years back at about this time when all the buzz in the Saints nation was about drafting Fred Smoot. That's all you heard when people talked about the draft. It was Smoot this and Smoot that. Freddy Smoot was going to be the missing piece to a Saints Super Bowl dream. Then a funny thing happened on draft day. The old front office did something that nobody saw coming. Instead of trying to fill a need with a nice CB prospect, they selected the best player on their board, a RB from Ole Miss named Deuce. Saints fans were shocked. Although they will never admit it today, most fans hated the pick, just hated it. They said, "What were they thinking, we already have Ricky". They cried out, "What about Smoot, we needed Freddy". They were disgusted by the pick but not me! I loved the it. It's true, I was expecting us to get Smoot and I was shocked when I heard Deuce's name called out, but when that shock wore off a smile came across my face. I started thinking about the future and how much another good RB would help our team. I knew that Deuce would push Ricky and if he could stay healthy maybe even take alot of carries away from that bum. Little did we know the chain of events that would follow would change the course of Saints history forever. We traded Ricky for some nice picks. Deuce stepped in and became the back that Ditka invisioned Ricky to be and more. Ricky had a couple of quality seasons with Miami and then retired to smoke weed and travel. Now we have a potentially lethal offense and Deuce is the centerpiece of our attack. And Smoot? Well Fred has turned out to be a very good, not great, player. He played very well for some very bad Washington teams and earned a big payday for that production from the Vikings. Saints fans have pretty much forgot about Smoot and the fact that we were supposed to draft him. They try to forget how upset they got when we picked Deuce. But what if we would have picked for a need and said to hell with the best player available theory? We would have picked Smoot and God knows what would've transpired after that. This is an example of why we as fans should always trust our FO. Sometimes they stike out ( i.e. Sully ) and sometimes they hit a homerun ( i.e. Deuce ). I know that we have a new regime now with Loomis and that Mueller made the call on not picking Smoot but to me they are pretty much the same. Mueller, Loomis, and Haslett all seem to like athletes with alot of potential more than proven football players who might seem as though they have maxed out their potential. No matter who's in the FO we have got to put our faith in them.