Saints 2013 Draft

Yeah the Vacarro pick should pay more immediate dividends than a passrusher. Reason being is that i don't think Passrusher was ever as high on our list as it was for most pundits.

Our problem hasn't been that we don't have passrushers or guys that can rush from the edge...our problem was stopping the run consistently and creating favorable 3rd n longs for these guys to get on the field. The other part was our scheme didn't allow guys like Galette/Tez to see the field because they were tweeners in a 4-3. We were definately not void of passrushers we just needed to find a way to get them on the field.


So we decided to solve both of those problems.

1st thing was to do a scheme switch.

The second was to get bigger up front and make stopping the run a priority(which Ryan does) THat in turn will allow our passrushers more chances to make things happen.

Now with that said we already have 3 potential deadly passrushers in Butler/Junyah/Tez but our coverage ability from the safety position was lacking. Especially SS. The Vacarro pick was a major help for more than one reason.

One of the bigger reasons is when Vacarro finally starts next year middle of this year whenever it will allow us the flexibility to stay in our base defense against some nickel packages.

If we basically blitz from a 5-2 having Two safeties that can man up along with the corners outside allows us to still bring 5 with adequate coverage. You could never "in theory" do that with Harper because he would get picked on because hes a liability.


Regardless of what the pundits say...if the object was to get bigger in this draft then we passed..and that along helps out our passrush because if we can get more 3rd & 6's compared to 3rd & 2's we should see more production from our sack artist. The girth and bigger bodies up front should help that.


Still not sure where i can see Will Smith@ as an OLB and outside of this year im not sure where i see Harper. If hes going to be a package player his salary is very expensive for a guy who can't be a 3down player because of his lack of coverage ability.