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I'm having a discussion with a fellow Who Dat... and we both want to see our Saints make it to the promise land.. but we both have our opinions on what would be better for us to try to accomplish this offseason.
We both fell that defense is our numero uno priority heading into february... but we have different views on how to fix them (our Armchair GM moment).
He feels that we should go out and spend big $$ on a solid CB... and mabe draft the best CB on the board at #10. He seems to think that flooding our secondary would eliminate the issue we have with watching opposing WRs run free through our swiss cheese secondary... and I do agree that we need an upgrade back there with MM out with that ACL, and David not playing up to his contract.
Me on the other hand... I feel that a better pass rush could help. Sure I'd like an upgrade at CB... hell I think we need 2 CBs... MM won't be 100% any time soon... and we have older guys like Craft and fred T that may not be on the roster much longer... Young is unproven... and David is "proven".
My point to him (and you all) is... if we could generate some good pressure on the QB we wouldn't need to overspend on a FA CB that won't be any better than the CBs that we already have without pressure on the QB.
My boy and I were teenagers during the Dome Patrol days, so we watched as Swilling and Rickey jackson used to kill QBs... and hurry them into mistakes... and the whole time we had CBs like Toi Cook, and Brett Maxie... and Dave Waymer.. not the first names that come to mind when you mention CBs... but with the pressure we generated it made these guys look outstanding (for the most part).
So I ask you all... if we cant get both (salary cap constraints)... which direction would you go in order to better our situation against the pass... would you go out and spend the $$ on CBs (Samuel and Trufant hypathetically)? Or would you spend money on the front 7 to get better athletes to generate pressure (Briggs and a passrushing specialist DE)?
Here's the catch... the draft does not play a part in this... its one or the other... and if you choose to upgrade the front 7 then we keep the secondary guys we have. And vice versa... if you choose to upgrade the secondary we remain stat quo with our front 7.
Our debate is pretty much based on this past season... and if we had great CBs or a better front 7... how different would our season have been?
We both fell that defense is our numero uno priority heading into february... but we have different views on how to fix them (our Armchair GM moment).
He feels that we should go out and spend big $$ on a solid CB... and mabe draft the best CB on the board at #10. He seems to think that flooding our secondary would eliminate the issue we have with watching opposing WRs run free through our swiss cheese secondary... and I do agree that we need an upgrade back there with MM out with that ACL, and David not playing up to his contract.
Me on the other hand... I feel that a better pass rush could help. Sure I'd like an upgrade at CB... hell I think we need 2 CBs... MM won't be 100% any time soon... and we have older guys like Craft and fred T that may not be on the roster much longer... Young is unproven... and David is "proven".
My point to him (and you all) is... if we could generate some good pressure on the QB we wouldn't need to overspend on a FA CB that won't be any better than the CBs that we already have without pressure on the QB.
My boy and I were teenagers during the Dome Patrol days, so we watched as Swilling and Rickey jackson used to kill QBs... and hurry them into mistakes... and the whole time we had CBs like Toi Cook, and Brett Maxie... and Dave Waymer.. not the first names that come to mind when you mention CBs... but with the pressure we generated it made these guys look outstanding (for the most part).
So I ask you all... if we cant get both (salary cap constraints)... which direction would you go in order to better our situation against the pass... would you go out and spend the $$ on CBs (Samuel and Trufant hypathetically)? Or would you spend money on the front 7 to get better athletes to generate pressure (Briggs and a passrushing specialist DE)?
Here's the catch... the draft does not play a part in this... its one or the other... and if you choose to upgrade the front 7 then we keep the secondary guys we have. And vice versa... if you choose to upgrade the secondary we remain stat quo with our front 7.
Our debate is pretty much based on this past season... and if we had great CBs or a better front 7... how different would our season have been?