AsylumGuido

Sorry, but I don't have an issue at all with our draft this year. I feel some people around here have become spoiled with the overwhelming success of the past couple of drafts. A big difference this year is that the vast majority of our available picks were much further down the line in order. You rarely get a starter after the third round. It is deemed a success if any of those picks add depth and/or enhance the special teams.

Well, I see two players that are likely to make the starting lineup within the next couple of years, with both having the likelihood of making an immediate impact. Davenport and Smith. All of the rest stand a chance of displacing other players in the second half of the 53 man roster which is all you can hope for at the minimum. We'll just have to wait and see. If four of the seven make the roster I see it as a success.

The Saints were one fluke play away from playing for the privilege to go to the Super Bowl. That takes a pretty solid roster and one that gets harder and harder for incoming draftees to crack. That means you might need to take a shot at a few that you (those that are intimate in the selection process) feel could make that jump.

I repeat, I do not have an issue with this draft at all and look optimistically toward this season and the future to see how these picks fit into the next few Lombardi's that that find their way into the trophy case in Metairie.

19-0 Baby!

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill