hitta

I think Peterson is still good. I don't think he fits in our offense.

Rugby Saint II

We have three good RB's. If one goes down then we only have two.

AP might have trade value......we already traded one player who didn't fit the system and we have drafted better under Ireland. We signed him late in the draft process and his input wasn't that great the first year. His second year with us showed that he has an eye for defense and knows how to draft.

Personally, I want to keep AP on the team playing Tim Hightower's old role which I think was the original plan was for him before the schedule had us playing Minny our first game.

Halo

Our running backs don't get 2,000 yards in individual stats per year but we use them in so many other ways. They are also very important in the Saints offense, whether we fully grasp the concept or not. Although we're a passing team, our backs are used as receivers and are very important in blocking and 3rd down situations.

Usually our starters goes down mid-season because we use our backs in so many ways. Ingram has been starter for a while and seriously you need 2 starting bruiser backs in the offense SP runs. He's not prone to injury, it's how we use them that makes them prone to injury.

Kamara is the finesse back in the slot Reggie Bush made so famous with us with Sean Payton's offense.

We need Ingram, Peterson and Kamara for the offense to work correctly.
If Ingram or Kamara get hurt, AP will be of incredible value to this team.

Unfortunately running backs get hurt in our scheme right in the middle of season during division chase OR right when playoffs start.

We want to prevent what happened during the 2010 season and playoffs when pretty much we were calling up retired players and non-playing running backs for help off the street to just get SOMEONE in the 1st and 3rd down runningback slot. Kamara will never be able to hold that position alone if Ingram went down. I also think without depth at that position our offense become extremely limited and predictable.

RailBoss

This popped up..

Could Saints trade Adrian Peterson to Vikings to replace Dalvin Cook?

|Mitch|

Is everyone crazy? No one is going to trade anything for Adrian Peterson...

SmashMouth

AP for LB Kendricks?

Utah_Saint

Why not? The Dutch traded a bunch of beads for the island of Manhattan.

aquaboogie

The vikes released him because they no longer wanted him

Utah_Saint

The Vikings released him because they didn't want to pick up his $18 million one year extension and $6 million roster bonus.

FinSaint

Not true. The dollar amount Peterson wanted just didn't line up with what the Vikes were willing to pay. So, both sides moved on.

They most likely would've been happy to give him the deal he got from the Saints.

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