Payton Turner: How Do you like the Pick? (1 Viewer)

[NatureBoy]

Hate to be the party pooper but isn’t that what we all said about Peete?

Peete?

 

[Mackenzie]

My only issue is trade back into the early second round and still get him.

Or late second round. Maybe even the third round. Ughhh.

 

[Geldo]

Peete?

Sorry I’ve been up all night...it’s 6am....and auto spell and big fingers overwhelmed me....

 

[Chris]

I often wonder if his little bullshirt cute "trout look" face he makes on the sidelines during games as if to taunt Saints fans at Dome, watching at home, or to his critics who've berated him and some of his decisions over the years extends to the FO and during the off-season where he likes playing games sometimes to show off how seemingly smarter, more intelligent he is than most of us. Payton can be an arrogant, snide little shill sometimes and he's fully aware of it as our his contemporaries, his mentor at Dallas, Bill Parcells, often said "he doesn't know to calm down and lower his fever a bit sometimes" and that smug, sheet-faced "trout look" he gives, my God, there have been times,.gentlemen, that Ive wanted to smash my fist through my T.V. or throw a brick through it, or punch Payton in the face.if he were to show that in my presence.

Payton's a very good, maybe even HOF caliber HC, but he has some bad personality quirks that can be hard to ignore and often have me telling other Saints fans on SR or in real life who complain about it when I tell them on occasion that I should "I let it go", that they go fork themselves instead and I'll say it loudly and defiantly just so there's no misunderstanding.

Tell us how you really feel.

 

[Snakehead]

I think people are jumping to conclusions by calling him a Marcus Davenport clone . . .

Davenport ran a 4.58.

Turner ran a 4.95.

What's your source on Turner's 40 time? He didn't run it at his pro day. Even without a 40 time his other measurables/attributes put him at a 9.7+ RAS which is something the Saints look for with their 1st round picks since Ireland arrived. The only exception was Rankins.

 

[Mikie17]

Honestly, not a fan of the pick because I feel we should have went WR or CB there in my opinion, so I’ll be on the “wait-and-see” train...I do wish him the best though...

 

[Eman5805]

Where are people getting this 40 time info from? DraftScout.com guesses until a pro day or combine. And Turner never ran the 40 at Houston's pro day.

 

[St. Widge]

Or late second round. Maybe even the third round. Ughhh.

Turner was told by NFL teams that he would be drafted between picks 20 and 40. He was at worst an early second round pick. So, taking him at 28 isn’t totally crazy.

 

[TruSaint]

I was curious what your thoughts was seems like you have a good feel. I feel you give pretty level headed analysis on draft picks since I joined bout 10 yes ago. he looks like a player who will fit in what the saints want to do scheme wise. seems like a hybrid player pass rush dt, left de, and stand up 3/4 olb. pick seems to me they can plug him in alot of places based on game plan or injury. not big name but overall solid

He progressively improved as a player every year which shows work ethic. He has elite size, elite agility, and elite arms. He’s naturally strong and overpowers people. So if you combine his power, agility and arms with his work ethic it gives you a lot to like. Every single tool you want from a DE is there. He’s also not as raw as people are saying he is. Players his size simply do not have his agility and bend in the hips. People keep comparing him to Davenport or Cam Jordan or Calais Campbell but honestly I haven’t seen a player his size move the way he does since Julius peppers

 

[Saintman2884]

Tell us how you really feel.

Oh, if you've been carefully analyzing, and observing me, my online personality on SR for nearly 20 years, there's never been this huge secret I won't hesitate to say something controversial or sound off maybe a tad too harshly on words, rhetoric, ideas in posts that 95% of the time comes across as bullshirt, to me. I don't like bullshirt, I have an extreme toxic low tolerance towards it or what I deem or sense to be behavior suggesting it.

I'm also not afraid to cross "The fork barrier", that very thin, tenous line where someone sometimes in life in certain situations says or expresses whether forcefully, eloquently, or perhaps very bluntly, what most others want to say, feel like they should say, get so exasperated, angry, and beligerently worked up and vow to say, but back down due to inevitable blowback they know all too well they'll get once they've aired their grievances.

More often then not, even now I wouldn't be one of the guys willing to cross that barrier, but I feel confident enough to know based on past experiences, pre-existing or standing beliefs that I'm not afraid to cross it if I have too, to make a point even I risk coming across as an unlikable, grouchy butt crevasse to others. You also can't be willing to take these positions if you're not also cognizant of the possibility you'll be disliked, mocked, laughed at, ridiculed publicly, privately or afraid of it, either. If life itself were a popularity contest, we would never have to make the right but very difficult choices but also we'd never make any real progress, either as human beings in how we evolve and treat each other.

 

[treeduck]

I voted hate it but now I've changed it to too soon to tell.

 

[FatCitySaint]

Rumor has it Coach was overheard saying....Payton, great name, take him first.

 

[Cajun Chat]

Ultimately I trust CSP and Jeff Ireland. From a fans perspective this looks a lot like Davenport as many have said. People were also jumping off the bridge when we took Ram in the first round 4 years ago. It's definitely a wait and see with these young guys.

 

[Chris]

Oh, if you've been carefully analyzing, and observing me, my online personality on SR for nearly 20 years, there's never been this huge secret I won't hesitate to say something controversial or sound off maybe a tad too harshly on words, rhetoric, ideas in posts that 95% of the time comes across as bullshirt, to me. I don't like bullshirt, I have an extreme toxic low tolerance towards it or what I deem or sense to be behavior suggesting it.

I'm also not afraid to cross "The fork barrier", that very thin, tenous line where someone sometimes in life in certain situations says or expresses whether forcefully, eloquently, or perhaps very bluntly, what most others want to say, feel like they should say, get so exasperated, angry, and beligerently worked up and vow to say, but back down due to inevitable blowback they know all too well they'll get once they've aired their grievances.

More often then not, even now I wouldn't be one of the guys willing to cross that barrier, but I feel confident enough to know based on past experiences, pre-existing or standing beliefs that I'm not afraid to cross it if I have too, to make a point even I risk coming across as an unlikable, grouchy butt crevasse to others.

 

[zeetes]

i love the pick. i have no idea who he is, what he is capable of, but the meltdown is already starting to be priceless. that is worth the world to me.