Hiring Moore = Ashton Jeanty as 1st rd pick?

3ParStillDriver said

I'm not so sure the Saints failed their first round picks for Oline and Dline. Theres a lot that goes into players being successful in the NFL. Constantly we see great talent look bad, go to a different coach, and suddenly their career is revived.

We know DA's coaching staff was bad and we know in some specific cases they weren't even attempting to coach up players. With the Oline, they looked lost at times. Out of sync. It's quite possible the scheme and play calling were failing them to some degree on top of coaching failing to coach them up.

Point is, I don't think we have any idea what our players in the trenches are truly capable of because coaching has been clearly failing them since Payton left. This was to be somewhat expected for anyone who watched the Oakland Raiders to a fair degree while DA was coaching there.

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Players like Turner, Davenport, and Foskey are absolutely failures for where they were picked. It doesn't matter if they go on to be stars somewhere else. It didn't help the Saints any. Penning has been a failure till this year, and it took Ruiz, what 3 years to not be terrible? Fuaga had a pretty good rookie season, but not enough to move the needle. There's still talk of moving him to guard, so he's been far from dominating at LT.

The point is that the Saints haven't drafted a real impact player in years. The only real impact players the Saints have on the team are old. The only player that the Saints have on offense that teams have to gameplan for is Hill, and he's old. And when he's down, they suck. So, if the Saints don't hit on one, or if it takes 3 years for him to develop, the new HC will likely be coaching somewhere else in about 3 years. So, if you have to overdraft a player to make sure you hit on someone, I think it's worth it - at least this year. Not every year.