My thought on the 2018 draft
 

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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!

:bng:

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Lets be honest we could have selected 6 punters and you'd argue it was the right call.

The people who's jobs are on the line if its bad drafts are the ones that live and die by the picks so its all fine by me. The last 2 drafts have been good previous yeats a bit hit and mixed. If Davenport is the difference maker and rest a mixed back then they have still done well.

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Now that would have been a bit of a stretch. I could see maybe three just to create a healthy camp battle.

;)

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Some of us feel like there were so many better moves that could have been made.

Staying put at 27 plus keeping next year's #1 woulda possibly gotten us Taven Bryan or Harold Landry for the D-Line. I'd take either of them AND our next year's pick over Davenport. Unless MD turns Pro Bowler in the next 3-5 years, this was not worth the price we paid.

Not much of a problem with the 3rd Rd...I still think we coulda done better with Harrison, Phillips, Cappa on the board. But I get it.

4th was completely wasted. Leonard coulda been had as UDFA. Sweat, Hurst, Shaq Griffin, and on and on could've been had in the 4th. Left too much talent on the board with taking a project OLineman who would not have been drafted before the 7th and who will be on the PS for the next 2 years. Or bagging groceries by September.

However, the Jamerson & Moore picks are solid for the 5th/6th. Both could make this team with ST play. We've also seen 5's & 6's beat out 1's, 2's & 3's as starters...not unheard of by far.

The Scott pick is definitely a "Payton Pick". Hard to tackle, Yards after contact, good pass catcher out the backfield, elusive. Love the pick.

Clapp in the 7th is a steal. Dude just blocked for Fournette & Guice the last 2 years. He also blocked some elite D-Lineman from the best D-lineman conference in the nation.

Not our best draft, but we did very well after the 4th.

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Could would shoulda...

Fact remains, no one here knows how those drafted before or after will produce compared to who we picked.

Time will tell but I'm inclined to side with the guys who've actually interacted with the prospects, not those who've fallen in love with their Youtube highlights.

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I’m good with this draft too. I only had 3 concerns:

WR ✔️
Edge ✔️
TE ❌

I’m content.

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I'm with you Guido. I'm not second guessing the front office anymore. Let's go win the Super Bowl!

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For all we know we may have. Time will tell.

And how do you know those picks could have been had as UDFA's? It is very possible, and I would venture to say very probable, that other teams had their eyes on thos players, as well.