Cowboys sign Saints FA DE Payton Turner to a 1-year, $3 million deal

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The Payton Davenport era is finally over. 3 first round picks gone and 2 training tables freed up.
 
I like Turner. I thought he had potential. People forget that his first game, he made a few impactful plays. I thought he was going to be elite. Carolina game. He injured his elbow and suffered other injuries early on that messed up his development.
 
Saint KayBee said:
I thought he would hold down one OLB spot, Victor Butler would star at the other… boy was I mistaken
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Was victor butler the one out of wake forest? Wait actually I think that was something like Stanley Arcineaux or something, and I remember Kirai Fort maybe?
 
Correction, Stanley Arnoux.

Oh god and Stephon Anthony in the first round.
 
TruSaint said:
Correction, Stanley Arnoux.

Oh god and Stephon Anthony in the first round.
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Anthony was a Ryan pick that year. It was the 1rd pick we got from Seattle as part of the JG trade. After the draft I remember Payton saying there was no one on the board he wanted at that spot and that no other team did either so couldn’t trade down. He then told Ryan it was his pick to make for the Def. I have always believed that was a major reason Ryan got fired after that season.
 
TruSaint said:
Was victor butler the one out of wake forest? Wait actually I think that was something like Stanley Arcineaux or something, and I remember Kirai Fort maybe?
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Victor Butler was a free agent the team signed from Dallas in 2013 because they were moving to a 4-3, the Saints were moving to a 3-4, and he’d be a significantly undersized 4-3 DE. He tore his ACL in his first Saints training camp then was released during his second one.

I’m not sure what the vision was for Khairi Fortt. I think they wanted to move him to 3-4 OLB, but he was injured during training camp then waived.

Arnoux was a 2009 draftee at linebacker. Another one for whom I’m not sure what the vision was, but he played middle linebacker in college and Jon Vilma had that spot locked down already, having been brought over in 2008.

I’m not a draft aficionado so I don’t like to do the “who could they have taken instead” game much. It’s just unfortunate that injuries they suffered cause them to not work out. Nobody gets it right 100% of the time.
 
Saint KayBee said:
Victor Butler was a free agent the team signed from Dallas in 2013 because they were moving to a 4-3, the Saints were moving to a 3-4, and he’d be a significantly undersized 4-3 DE. He tore his ACL in his first Saints training camp then was released during his second one.

I’m not sure what the vision was for Khairi Fortt. I think they wanted to move him to 3-4 OLB, but he was injured during training camp then waived.

Arnoux was a 2009 draftee at linebacker. Another one for whom I’m not sure what the vision was, but he played middle linebacker in college and Jon Vilma had that spot locked down already, having been brought over in 2008.

I’m not a draft aficionado so I don’t like to do the “who could they have taken instead” game much. It’s just unfortunate that injuries they suffered cause them to not work out. Nobody gets it right 100% of the time.
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I’m still in absolute disbelief that we took Foskey while Keion White was still on the board.
 

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