Film Study: Saints Should Avoid Signing GB’s Nick Perry (1 Viewer)

[Dan in Lafayette]

By Ty Anania -- Whodat Dish

The New Orleans Saints are in the market for a pass rusher. And on paper, Nick Perry looks the part.

But Perry’s numbers are inflated, and paint a prettier picture than does his tape. The New Orleans Saints would do well to look elsewhere for help along the edge.

Perry is a former first round pick, and 2016 was his breakout year. His 11 sacks are tied for 8th best in the league. And those numbers would likely be even higher if a hand injury hadn’t knocked Perry out of the Packers base defense in Week 13. He played the rest of the season with a cast, and still managed to rack up 3 sacks in those last games, having been relegated to pass-rushing duties.

Simply put, Perry has strength and sound tendencies but lacks creativity as a pass rusher. And he has concerningly slow feet. He gets easily engaged and swallowed up by TEs. And when he drops back into coverage, as GB occasionally had him do, he’s exposed.

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[Rdanderson91]

Too many already in our front 7 are one-dimensional. If he's that, pass

 

[insidejob]

LOL at someone giving a red thumb to the OP for posting an article. I guess providing links to articles about potential free agents isn't useful.

 

[ELLIASJWILLIAMS]

LOL at someone giving a red thumb to the OP for posting an article. I guess providing links to articles about potential free agents isn't useful.

Clearly Nick Perry wanted to come here until this thread

 

[Swimmer]

Clearly Nick Perry wanted to come here until this thread

LMAO!!! Brilliant

 

[Sumdude34]

GB runs that weird Nickle LB rush defense don't they? Or do they just run a 3-4? Either way, whoever we sign for pass rush isn't going to be standing up very often so I would much rather we sign someone who is comfortable with their hand in the the dirt (which ironically enough is JPP). I agree with the article that Perry would struggle here because we would ask him to be a DE basically and if he struggles with TEs then he will get destroyed by tackles and guards.

Ingram could proably work out. He played DE in college and has done some stand up rush work with SD so I'm sure we could find a way to use him. I mean, they found a way to turn Ellerbe into a pretty decent rusher this year so I'm sure Ingram would do well in this D one way or another.