SmashMouth

Wait.... we're not signing Ozigbo from the Jags PS? NeauxFW !

/Sarcasm

K Major

Why would we? The Saints coaching staff and Sean Payton are smart. I see talent in Ozigbo but none of us has the vision & insight as our coaches. All we see is the finished product on Sundays.

My point here is to trust the system.

The Dude

We haven’t heard anything from camp in regards to Murray aside from an injury. He played like 2 series in one preseason game which tells me they are taking it slow with him. With the Saints history of signing under performing or injured Vets/FA I don’t see why anyone would believe Murray is any different.
That’s why many are skeptical about him. I’m not saying Ozigbo is a better option for the 53 but I have a feeling we will regret losing him.

AsylumGuido

Many are not skeptical about Murray. You and Beastmode are skeptical, but that is par for the course. You two are skeptical about something or other all the time.

AsylumGuido

Since 2014, Murray's first season in the NFL, he has only missed THREE (3) out of his 80 possible games. He has played in all 16 games each of the last two seasons and has never played less than 14 games in an NFL season since 2014.

Over the past half decade Murray has been one of the very most durable running backs in the NFL.

WW_Who_Dat

There you stating facts again ... geez some people.

Beastmode

Like him missing the entire 2013 season on IR. Amazing how that critical piece of info is scoffed at like a French king. And if he is so good why does he keep getting passed around like a lot lizard but we will see. The only real fact is RB's over 30 have a horrible track record. Only a small sample has proved that incorrect.

SaintsBro

Beyond the active 53, I believe that Sean Payton (and many other coaches as well) like to keep a list of phone numbers, of players sitting at home "on the couch" that are just outside the bubble of being on an NFL team's active roster or practice squad, so that they can call these guys later on in the season if the emergency need arises. You have depth at a position, running backs, or safeties, or whatever...you have room for only so many on the 53....and then you have 4 or 5 names for each on a list below that, a few journeyman type guys that you can call back in November or December and bring them in, if you get hit with the injury bug at a particular position. That's what I think is happening here.

I also think that yeah, they probably thought that Ozigbo could maybe slide his way to the practice squad without getting noticed, but he had too much exposure on film in the preaseason, and too much attention from what he did in college (he was at Nebraska after all, it's not like he went to a low profile school like Hofstra or Arkansas-Pine Bluff or University of Urbana-Champaign, like some of Payton's other classic pet "under-the-radar" projects.

Ozigbo was a lot more well-known than a lot of Payton's other diamond-in-the-rough finds, who can usually drift their way down from cuts to the practice squad without attracting any attention at all.

Beastmode

I agree with that assessment. I also think it's going to be hard to keep a RB on the PS that is a rookie for us. It's one area we have done well in. A good pass catching RB is all the rage right now. Let's the Saints do all the work and just go take their PS RB.

Rugby Saint II

What is done is done. Move on. Don't sweat the petty stuff.....pet the sweaty stuff!