Zack Baun: Top Graded LB / DPOTW [Why Baun Isn’t Still a Saint Thread]

TribuneUK said
Yeah, so I think the quotes I gave a couple pages back give a possible sequence of events in line with these quotes/articles, too. My interpretation is a little more positive towards Allen, in that he took an athlete not getting on the field enough as a stack LB and got him into another position. Then his comments related to how they were now using him, while a bit of coach speak avoided the fact he hadn't at that point turned into a stack player that could get on the field.

But I am comfortable we are both able to apply some interpretation to this and neither able to be 100% conclusive. I do think that the SP quote clearly refutes the notion that there was never a consideration of Baun for MLB. Moreover it sounds like that was all part of the plan from the outset.

Can we also agree that it was abandoned? I understand, you're saying it was abandoned because the Saints had a starter. Even if so, Allen would be very shortsighted to stop developing a promising MLB to take over for the starter who turned 32 three years ago. He was literally grooming 2 replacements for Lattimore. If he believed that Baun could be a MLB, which remember his quote from several months ago openly refutes, you'd think he would have been developing Baun to replace Davis. I think, and it's of course my opinion, Baun realized he wasn't in the plans at MLB, not now, not ever. But yes, neither of us can be 100% conclusive although the most recent evidence points to this.