Good Grief! The Saints are 14 point dogs in Green Bay

BreesusSaves said
The Packers had 11 picks in the 2024 draft, 13 picks in 2023, 11 picks in 2022, 9 picks in 2021, and 9 picks in 2020. 53 picks over the last 5 years.

The Saints in that same time frame have made 29 picks.

They're drafting almost double the amount of players the Saints do every year.

The Eagles have drafted 40 players over the last five years, the Ravens have drafted 44 players over the last five years.

I've said it before, I'll say it again and again, the draft is just buying raffle tickets and the more tickets you have the better your odds of getting players worth keeping. All these teams everyone worships as being great drafters always show up to the draft with a plethora of picks while we're over here shocked if the Saints finish a draft with the same picks they started with and didn't give up any future picks.

Exactly, the draft on every player is a 50/50 prop so the more prospects you bring in over time the more likely your hit rate is going to go up. There is nothing wrong with moving up to get someone but you don’t want to be moving to far and you better be sure you hit on what you move up for. We have just missed and that’s compounded by each move is costing additional prospects coming into the building. That’s where the depth monster rears its ugly head. We are essentially sacrificing depth and development of depth to wiff on a prospect. We are forever cash strapped so we try to offset the loss in depth with bargain bin free agents, cast offs and retreads. This is why when injuries happen we are usually screwed because oft times the replacement player is usually themselves an oft injured player.

Building via the draft is how you successfully build a roster see: Pitt, GB, Philly, KC, Baltimore. There are reasons that group of teams is always in the mix or if they are down one a year they are right back up the next year. They focus on development via the draft. You end up with a well rounded deep roster that can whether injuries.