Underhill article: “Saints moves are telling us what they felt the real problem with the team was last season”

NatureBoy said

Here's what we know about last season. The Saints performed at a very high level until mass injuries occured. The Saints didn't have good enough depth. The coach was held accountable. Now the team was good enough and it wasn't the coach or depth, just the injuries? Which is it?

I like Nick but this just sounds like the Saints marketing 2025 tickets. No matter why one might think the Saints lack quality depth, I don't think the reality that we do is arguable, unless its time for season ticket renewals.

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Yes we lack quality depth. But I don't know of any team that has the depth to overcome the amount of injuries we had especially to the O. We had injuries to 2nd and 3rd string players, No team has that kind of quality depth. Add to the fact that we were not great on D even when healthy, now we were good but not enough to offset the lack of production on O due to injuries.

The lack of depth comes down to not so great drafting. If Foskey, Turner would have panned out we would have had depth on the DL and better performance. If Saldiveri had stayed healthy he may have progressed and would have helped on the OL

If we had had a better, stronger HC, like an SP . The kind of coach players can rally around and not kind of half way give up the impact of those injuries would not have been so severe
Nick is just reporting on what CKM and the staff have said to him about their opinion of the team and the roster

I'm betting that we have the kind of HC and staff that can keep the team focused and weather a storm