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

Bayouboy said

Not hindsight, but I thought it was a mistake to let Hendrickson walk. He had outperformed Davenport. I assumed it was due to our salary cap situation, but some say the Saints just weren't particularly high on Hendrickson for whatever reason. Now he's double digit sacks year after year and DPOY nominee. It's just maddening to see these guys you drafted at the top of the league in defense playing on someone else's team.

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I could justify in my head that we let Hendrickson go because of the cap. That always made sense. To hear Underhill confirm that he was let walk because the coaches didn't believe in him was like WTF. They were basically saying he inflated his stats with cleanup sacks.

What were our coaches doing? We could have had so much talent on this defense if Allen and his hand picked positional coaches weren't so incompetent. And the wasted draft picks we spent trying to replace these guys...