Underhill: Saints are interviewing probably 12 coaches (Tracker: officially 9 candidates) [Rapoport: Saints may add more]

sfidc3 said

3 years at a potential 50 mil is cheap? Also how often does a HOF level talent still in his prime able to walk to another team? Almost never, unless that team is the Giants....they completely lucked out getting Barkley.....

I don't disagree that OL is most important but above has to be the understatement of the year.....

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I said "relatively cheap". And, relative to his production, yes, cheap. He gets paid less than McCaffery and around the same AAV as Taylor, Kamara, and Jacobs. If you want real bargain, Derek Henry had nearly as many yards and gets paid $4 million AAV per year less then all those guys listed above.

And, it doesn't take HoF talent to run if you have a great scheme and a great OL. You will note that this is by far his best year and it happens to be when he gets into a great running scheme behind a great OL.

But, my point is that you don't have to draft a RB high to get great production from the running game and that you can get great RBs in free agency. I can name others, starting with Derrick Henry, if you want.