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Saints Pick Christian McCaffrey RB at #11

this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; Originally Posted by Rsanders24 I would not be happy if we made that pick in the 1st round. We traded our most explosive player on offense to get better on defense. That is what we need to do....focus on defense. ...

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Old 03-29-2017, 01:32 PM   #28
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Re: Saints Pick Christian McCaffrey RB at #11

Originally Posted by Rsanders24 View Post
I would not be happy if we made that pick in the 1st round. We traded our most explosive player on offense to get better on defense. That is what we need to do....focus on defense. After last year we saw that you cannot have enough quality depth on that side of the ball.
I just don't see these two events being connected to one another. With Cooks, there was an upcoming long term big money investment coming starting with the $750k roster bonus due at the beginning of March. Why pour money into a guy that you don't plan to keep?

Getting better on defense is a given, but I don't believe the motivation for trading Cooks was specifically to do that IMO.

CM will probably be a good back but I'm concerned about his longevity at this level after how much Stanford used him. Also, if he's not an every down back then thats too high for him. We will use him in sub-packages and face it....we are not going to all of a sudden become a run heavy offense. I just don't think we will get the return we need at that pick. We are good at finding offensive talent in later picks. I still believe we need to go defense in the first round.
I agree. The offense/defense talent imbalance is still tilted. The defense needs more, and better, people to catch up.

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