DE failures: will Granderson and Baun teach FO a lesson?

saintmike23 said
Marcus Davenport
Payton Turner
Isaiah Foskey

All picked in the first or second round, and all are busts. Foskey could turn out to be a role player but I don't think he has the drive to get better.

The prototype of the 270-300 lb DE is not working for us. I just re-watched Baun lined up at LE make a tackle behind the LOS on a shotgun run as he scraped across the field to clean up the play.

Granderson is an UDFA having a pro bowl season. Luckily, they learned from Trey Hendrickson and re-signed Granderson.

We couldn't keep Kaden Ellis. What will be the fate of Baun?

Will the draft strategy change instead of sticking to prototypes and positional hierarchy over talent?

I would argue that the combination of the three picks of Davenport, Turner and Penning is the third worse setback after losing Brees and Payton.

I would wager that finding speedy edge rushers to couple with big interior lineman would be a better combination where as having big DE to go up against big Tackles is just two big guys wrestling with each other and does not pose much of a matchup problem for the respective tackles.

What Ellis and Baun bring is versatility to a defense that is built on being versatile (especially in the secondary) but in the front seven we seem to lack that this year and part of the problem is DA not implementing Baun in the role vacated by Ellis as the 4th rusher in the 3-3-5 scheme.