hagan714

did well till the pats figured out what dingle berries was doing and then we went south the rest of the season.

what does dingles do in the off season? dump players and brought in his own. the slide down the rankings continued.

This defense is mess and a long way from getting the talent of that defense he started with

DA has a huge task ahead of him

This why I am against signing a big ticket FA ie CB. We need bodies to improve all away across the board the talent we have.

year after year we have jumped from 34 to a 43 to a 34 and back to a 43 yet again.

people actually believe we can purge and retool over night.

all at the cost of the one thing that works. our offense

it makes no sense.

"We may have lost the game, but you'll be hurting tomorrow." Doug Atkins

SaintFanInATLHELL

Hagan,

I think we've seen in the past that if the defense can just get to average that will propel the team forward. Some defensive 16th places last year:

3rd down percentage: 39.4% Saints were 28th at 43.3%
Points 23.6 Saints were 31st at 28.4
Takeaways: 22 Saints were 17th at 21

in some ways it's not that far off. Get the points down under 24 with small bumps on the 3rd downs and Takeaways is all the required to be competitive IMO.
I'm in complete agreement here. The biggest problem in the secondary has been injuries. The solution is more capable players and not putting all the money into a single player.

Well we're not in heading into year 2.5 with DA. Also for better or worse the IR bench will be cleared at least at the beginning of OTAs. Finally a lot of young guys got a lot of experience. All of these should point up instead of down.
I understand your frustration. But clearly the path to the next level is improvement on the defensive side of the ball.

I'm not sure the primary motivation for moving Cooks was driven by defensive improvement. My belief (which of course can be completely off base) is that the Saints decided that Cooks wasn't going to be in the long term plans of the team and that it was best to get the most value for him before having to do the heavy investment in order of the roster bonus this month, the option year next year, then presumably having being stuck tagging him or letting him walk.

Not that I'd be unhappy getting a productive defensive player with that 32nd pick.

SFIAH

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