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

livefromDC said

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.

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I think that abandoned might not be the exact word I'd use, more that they changed course. I suspect he'd still be asked to be ready for stack duties as well, but that's just a suspicion of mine.

I think that you can't groom everyone forever. The DBs you mentioned are ones that haven't reached free agency yet, so the comparison isn't quite timely. Meanwhile, there seems to be the indirect complaint that we paid an All Pro LB (and team leader) top dollar on a long term contract, hoping he'd remain an All Pro team leader and the crime is that... he has?

But I did say back on a very early page in this thread, that there could be a reasonable debate had as to whether the Saints should have gone with the younger option. I think the team hasn't made a bad choice given what Davis continues to do, just that people are unnecessarily caught up in a desire to say 'woulda shoulda coulda' at Allen.