Nick Underhill's analysis: One of the Saints' biggest goals this offseason should be adding speed to the defense
 

BY NICK UNDERHILL | NUNDERHILL@THEADVOCATE.COM
Nick Underhill

FEB 7, 2017 - 3:36 PM

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Sean Payton often talks about “the game.”

He watches the Super Bowl intently to see what the two remaining teams are doing and how they got to that point. Two years ago, he mentioned how the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks played defense. Last year, the Denver Broncos' pass rush stood out.

It's time to add speed to our defense.

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Re: Nick Underhill's analysis: One of the Saints' biggest goals this offseason should be adding speed to the defense
 

Nick Underhill starring as...Captain Obvious...

Wonder if he's related to Ted Underhill?!?

Re: Nick Underhill's analysis: One of the Saints' biggest goals this offseason should be adding speed to the defense
 

So many holes and incomplete analysis in his article.

"Speed" in the NFL is an elusive thing to corral.

Scheme and discipline, combined with speed, are wonderful, but elusive things.

Who the hell knows at this point?

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Re: Nick Underhill's analysis: One of the Saints' biggest goals this offseason should be adding speed to the defense
 

Deion Jones has all those things, SP just couldn't bear to draft an LSU player and now it's proving costly for us.

Re: Nick Underhill's analysis: One of the Saints' biggest goals this offseason should be adding speed to the defense
 

All defense Speed draft

Jabrill Peppers SS/FS/OLB/KR Michigan 6002 205 4.42 #5 rSo
Haason Reddick, ILB, Temple 6014 237 4.54 #58 rSr
*Adoree' Jackson CB/WR/KR/PR USC 5105 186 4.43 #2 Jr
Jordan Willis WDE/OLB Kansas St 6041 250 4.67 #75 Sr
Isaac Rochell DE/DT ND 6031 290 4.86 #90 Sr
Jeremy Cutrer CB/FS Middle Tennesse 6011 170 4.49 #8 Sr

Still would not get us back into the playoff

Re: Nick Underhill's analysis: One of the Saints' biggest goals this offseason should be adding speed to the defense
 

Sign some fast players and "charge it to the Underhills"

Re: Nick Underhill's analysis: One of the Saints' biggest goals this offseason should be adding speed to the defense
 

He's way off base, if speed was important then the Raiders would of won 5 SBs before Al Davis passed away

Re: Nick Underhill's analysis: One of the Saints' biggest goals this offseason should be adding speed to the defense
 

Speed is nothing without instincts. See: Stephone Anthony.

Re: Nick Underhill's analysis: One of the Saints' biggest goals this offseason should be adding speed to the defense
 

Do you think it was a matter of not bearing "to draft an LSU player"? Or maybe he thought replacing Colston was a higher priority and Michael Thomas graded out as a more pressing need at the time?

Re: Nick Underhill's analysis: One of the Saints' biggest goals this offseason should be adding speed to the defense
 

Pretty much all of us have been harping on adding team speed for about a decade now.

It may be quite obvious to all of us who follow them daily, but this is the time of year when articles like this are written for the casual fan, not the obsessed psychos like most of us are.