ESPN Article on Saints secondary (2 Viewers)

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This article is totally contradictory. It says that the Saints should've addressed their DB situation, but then it goes on to say that other than Asante Samuel, there was really no one out there and we did well with Randall Gay. I guess the point of the article was to point out that Jason David and Co. had a bad season...but what do they want the Saints to do about it, invent a new player out of thin air? Articles like this are better left to be written after the draft. What if we come away with DRC and another DB later in the draft, will they still say we didn't address that position?
 
Furor said:
They say the linebackers we signed do "nothing to solve the Saints' biggest defensive weakness -- their porous secondary". That's not true, if because of them the D is better able to stop the run and apply more pressure on the QB, they will help out the secondary tremendously...even with the same starters back there as last year.
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You can have two "shutdown" corners and if you can't get to the QB you will still be shredded.

Hopefull Vilma and Morgan will overcome their injuries and when put on the field with McCray and whomever we acquire in the draft will result in pressure in the QB this season.

If we generate pressure you can go out and get a couple of average CBs and you will be fine. Pressuring the QB consistently is the best way to defend against the pass.
 
BoNcHiE said:
This is the same ESPN that bashes the 49ers for paying Clement a ton of money without fixing the pass rush.

Talking outa both sides of their mouth is the norm.
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That's not their mouth their talking out of...
 
AintsAttack said:
I don't like how the NFL page link is called "The Saints big mistake" but the article says you can't blame the Saints for paying for two linebackers ahead of a big name corner because there was only one available in Samuel and they went after him and was apparently in the lead to get him before he signed with Philly.
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Agreed.
 
blackadder said:
You can have two "shutdown" corners and if you can't get to the QB you will still be shredded.

Hopefull Vilma and Morgan will overcome their injuries and when put on the field with McCray and whomever we acquire in the draft will result in pressure in the QB this season.

If we generate pressure you can go out and get a couple of average CBs and you will be fine. Pressuring the QB consistently is the best way to defend against the pass.
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We need look no further than the superbowl to see the truth of this statement. If we can't get a DT in the 1st round, take Dre Moore out of Maryland in the 2nd or 3rd.
 
This article just depressed the heck out of me..

I sure hope the moves we make in the off season is good enough to compete, on paper it looks good but on paper Jason David looked good too, time to drop this dude off with his final check back off in Indy.
 
The Saints' defense sent the standard four pass-rushers 71 percent of the time last year, ranking them 24th in the NFL in frequency of blitzes.


That's a good philosophy. Have bad corners that can't cover very well? Well don't blitz, you might hurry the QB and make him throw earlier! We blitzed against Seattle, and it worked. Then seemed to hardly try it anymore.
 
No pass rush AND a horrible RCB equals what everyone saw last year. You can argue either/or, but both needs improving. The good news is the Saints can improve both in the draft. If the Saints could manage to get Cromartie and Laws, I wouldn't even watch day 2.
 
blackadder said:
You can have two "shutdown" corners and if you can't get to the QB you will still be shredded.

Hopefull Vilma and Morgan will overcome their injuries and when put on the field with McCray and whomever we acquire in the draft will result in pressure in the QB this season.

If we generate pressure you can go out and get a couple of average CBs and you will be fine. Pressuring the QB consistently is the best way to defend against the pass.
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Exactly. See Denver for an example.
 
cdogg said:
The Saints' defense sent the standard four pass-rushers 71 percent of the time last year, ranking them 24th in the NFL in frequency of blitzes.


That's a good philosophy. Have bad corners that can't cover very well? Well don't blitz, you might hurry the QB and make him throw earlier! We blitzed against Seattle, and it worked. Then seemed to hardly try it anymore.
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We blitzed the hell out of the Eagles and got creamed. McNabb had his best game of the season.

I don't think there was any magic formula last year. We just needed better players.
 
Dart said:
But I do think there is a danger in the "Just improve our front seven and that'll make our secondary look amazing" argument because, in my opinion, even with a great new DT and a really effective pass rush, we'll still need more at CB.
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I certainly agree that we could stand to upgrade both positions. However, I think you're overstating the position of those of us that want to upgrade DT. It would be more accurate to characterize it as, "Just improve our front seven and that'll make our secondary look better." I think if we were to go out and get a top-shelf cornerback and do nothing else, our passing game might improve marginally. However, if we only upgraded DT and kept our current group of corners, our passing defense would improve quite a bit. Maybe not amazing but significantly better. Obviously doing both would be ideal if we can find a way to do that but I've got to believe that DT is the priority.
 

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