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

SweetT said
Lol, your backups don’t have to be good as your starters. Plus, if any athlete laughs at the “next man up” mantra, then they are not worth being in a sport. No one builds a roster thinking that their backups cannot hold their own. No backup thinks that they cannot provide the help that is needed from them. Look at Cam’s recent comment about the DE depth chart. He literally believes that the entire DE unit can be contributors. Thats the difference between an A1 player who believes (and should believe) vs some talking head that is not worth the salt on a 2 day old bagel.

Of course every player thinks he can do the job. Yes who would want anyone that didn't think so. But that " Next Man Up" is a motivational tool and not reality. Reality is that almost all of the time the backup and even more so the backup's backup like we had with the OL last yr is nowhere as good as the starter. That's just the fact. And even if the backups don't have to be as good as the starters the drop off especially when you lose multiple starters is very apparent and you lose games because of it