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

SweetT said

I personally don’t get bitter about players leaving and balling out for other teams. I think the only way I would be bitter, is if a former 1st rd pick, would be “mid” here, and then go bananas for another team. Even then, I probably wouldn’t care as much. The case of Baun is strange in a way though. The only question I have is, why couldn’t DA devise a defense that allowed Baun to see the field more, at least on passing downs?!?!

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In the article i posted on the last page it talks about the Saints moving him all around and moving him from his natural position. Sounds like that hurt his confidence a bit because he thought he was good enough to be more than just a tweener.

“There was days in New Orleans where I just came home and cried,” Baun told Yahoo Sports during a recent interview in Philadelphia. “I played on the ball; now I’m off the ball. I made a couple mistakes and then I felt like I let myself down in that situation and I let the organization down in that situation. Then they moved me to [strongside linebacker] and then I’m like ‘Dang, they moved me. I must not be doing good.’ Then I’d make another mistake.

“It just snowballed in my head that I felt like I wasn’t good anymore.”