To the draft BPA crowd, was Bresee BPA?

SigFreudianSlip said
Good Q, ty.

I’m of the belief that the team is thin all over (agree with Underhill on that). Given the team’s propensity to draft high RAS guys I don’t think they had Mayer as high as many boards….he’d have been one I’d have wanted if not going d-line.

I also may have taken a flyer on Levis, as I’m not as high on Carr as most. Liked the young man chosen by KC more than Bresee, personally, as well.

I do think they had a couple guys in the cloud there (DA even said so in his presser), think they went with positional value, and I really do get that. After sleeping on it I’m less upset as I 💯 believe it is/was our thinnest position on the team.

I’m not a fan of DA as a head coach but I have full respect for him as a defensive guy, so that also makes me trust the pick a bit more.

Either way I hope the young man excels and has a great career!

I just think about the war room I guess. When the pick is in nearly immediately, you know that there was nearly complete consensus and there was little consideration for moving down. I think there was a little time left on the clock (2mins?) but clearly the team took some time. Many things you could read into that (maybe Mickey was caught short and was in the toilet) but probably it was a combination of seeing a couple of prospects with similar grades, or the quandary of a slightly higher graded prospect but in a position of less/little need, and/or working through the potentials for moving down and weighing of the values there.

Bearing in mind I have no idea what the saints board looked like, I suspect White, Sanders, Porter, Branch, Mayer, Torrence and Levis came in to the conversation. It's basic logic that Bresee was the highest rated DT remaining. I don't think any of those players is clearly above Bresee to me and likely only DE (or LB/OG) is close an equivalent need.

Also, no team really picks purely BPA, always combo of BPA and need, with admittedly different weightings given to each by individual teams.