Max Unger retires (1 Viewer)

[SaintlyVirtue]

Our outlook is a whole lot worse.

 

[sbadeaux]

Just when I think this off-season can’t get any worse.

Before this what exactly made it bad?

 

[PuddinheadSr]

When your LG is the 77th LG. Your center is gonna struggle to some degree trying to cover up that deficiency.

Yeah, I like PFF and all that, but I'm not totally sold on whatever methods they're using to grade offensive linemen. I'm not buying the "76 guards better than Andrus Peat" nonsense just based on the simple eyeball test alone. I never see him just really struggling for entire games or even entire possessions like I see plenty of other linemen around the league. Face it...with 32 teams in the league that only 64 starting guards left and right. Are they trying to tell me that Peat is not even good enough to start for any team in the league? Really??

 

[sbadeaux]

Our outlook is a whole lot worse.

Why because a declining center retires? Boy people here have no perspective

 

[SaintsBrah]

We die nao

 

[stquest]

the sky isnt falling saints fans,
am i wrong that the saints have always been pretty good at finding, coaching and grooming OL?
i think we have had multiple excellent OL leave and become overpaid never heard of agains.

 

[Saints 4 life]

Still hasn't sunk in, yet.

 

[NWSaint]

.. 2nd round pick, Elgton Jenkins!

.. will anchor the middle for years to come!

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NW.

 

[Saint Taysom]

Jason Kelece was considered the best center in NFL and he plays for the Eagles. Who are you thinking of?

Good point... I was referring to Alex Mack of the Turds

 

[Taker597]

Good point... I was referring to Alex Mack if the Turds

Ohhh... Yeah. His reign as being the best center ended this year. He had a nice 2 year run.

 

[woohoosaint]

he aint 65-----

But I'm sure that he has more money right now than most of us will ever have by the time we're 65 though

 

[Rickboy]

Football is tough and being a Center is REALLY tough. I suspect there are health issues that forced a decision. Unger was a real contributor and a great part of this team but Loomis isn't an idiot. He'll find a good replacement.

All I want to know is how much cap space his retirement frees up.

 

[BlackandGoldXLIV]

Me finding out the Unger news today:

 

[B-Train]

Before this what exactly made it bad?

The fallout from the NFC Championship game which featured a pretender in the superbowl that didn’t deserve to be there. Then Mark Ingram bailing on the Saints (still not sure who is more to blame for that but it doesn’t matter; it sucks). The other free agent losses/signings haven’t been bad but mostly haven’t been anything to be excited about either. The BEST part sucks of this off-season have been incredibaly vanilla.

 

[SuperSaint]

Kick in the teeth, for sure...