SI.com/Bob Rose | Saints Assistants Getting Attention from NFL Teams

jeanpierre · 01-15-2021, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by AsylumGuido

Tell that to the Vikings with their 15 picks. More picks do not necessarily mean better picks. If you can evaluate talent efficiently and targeting that talent means moving up to absolutely make sure you get that talent, then settling for more players deemed lesser is not better.

As for 2017, it wasn't the number of the picks, it was the quality of the players taken with those picks. I don't know if you play darts or not, but if I was given a choice of throwing a fist full of darts at one time and five darts one at a time I would bet the bank on getting more bullseyes on those five darts every time.

Yes, perennial winners do build through the draft. Those winners don't need a ton of picks to accomplish that, however.

And we all know you well enough to know how much the draft and the evaluation of the draftees means to you. No need for satellite radio to show us that.

Oh, and I listen to XM, not Sirius.

So you blatantly ignore that the Saints biggest jump from the 7-9 seasons to contender was because of the 2017 draft?

That draft yielded Lattimore, Ramczyk, Marcus Williams, Alvin Kamara, Alex Anzalone, and Trey Hendrickson?

Take any one of those players away from that haul and is this team an elite contender the last four seasons?

No. Because each one, with the exception of Anzalone, has produced at an elite level - keeping those positions from being a liability...

It was the draft and a lot of picks in that draft that put us there. It's the elephant in the room you ignore because you've got fingers in your ears and your eyes closed so you won't face you are wrong...

01-15-2021, 10:54 AM	#11
jeanpierre Site Donor 2018 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Thibodaux Posts: 43,543 Blog Entries: 39	Re: SI.com/Bob Rose \| Saints Assistants Getting Attention from NFL Teams Originally Posted by AsylumGuido Tell that to the Vikings with their 15 picks. More picks do not necessarily mean better picks. If you can evaluate talent efficiently and targeting that talent means moving up to absolutely make sure you get that talent, then settling for more players deemed lesser is not better. As for 2017, it wasn't the number of the picks, it was the quality of the players taken with those picks. I don't know if you play darts or not, but if I was given a choice of throwing a fist full of darts at one time and five darts one at a time I would bet the bank on getting more bullseyes on those five darts every time. Yes, perennial winners do build through the draft. Those winners don't need a ton of picks to accomplish that, however. And we all know you well enough to know how much the draft and the evaluation of the draftees means to you. No need for satellite radio to show us that. Oh, and I listen to XM, not Sirius. So you blatantly ignore that the Saints biggest jump from the 7-9 seasons to contender was because of the 2017 draft? That draft yielded Lattimore, Ramczyk, Marcus Williams, Alvin Kamara, Alex Anzalone, and Trey Hendrickson? Take any one of those players away from that haul and is this team an elite contender the last four seasons? No. Because each one, with the exception of Anzalone, has produced at an elite level - keeping those positions from being a liability... It was the draft and a lot of picks in that draft that put us there. It's the elephant in the room you ignore because you've got fingers in your ears and your eyes closed so you won't face you are wrong... SmashMouth, gosaints1 and K Major like this.
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