Teams calling the Saints about Lattimore; Commanders, Chiefs, Chargers, & Ravens are legitimately interested & actively bidding (2 Viewers)

[AARPSaint]

Yes, and then the odds are good that he'll squander whatever future pick is acquired in a reachy move up on Day 1 of the draft.

One of the worst moments during the draft is when (just before a commercial, of course) the Saints are on the board and the TV flashes TRADE. You know it’s a trade up for a reach. We just cannot afford that anymore.

 

[ELLIASJWILLIAMS]

Yes lets trade our best player on defense while injured to the Chiefs for a mid round pick. There is no way he'll go on to a hall of fame career and we'll regret doing that. Let's ask Willie Roaf what he thinks?

Him being the best player on D isn't helping the team D. There's also the fact that the Saints have allowed fewer points in games w/ out Lattimore

Not sure how reliable this guy is so didn’t want to start a new thread

Granderson should be kept

 

[rlemieux]

Lol. The Davenport trade up was all Sean Payton.

You keep thinking so.

 

[meily]

Him being the best player on D isn't helping the team D. There's also the fact that the Saints have allowed fewer points in games w/ out Lattimore

Granderson should be kept

Trade him, we need the draft capital to rebuild/reload.

 

[AARPSaint]

You keep thinking so.

That was absolutely awful. A weak class of edge rushers, best one gone… oooh let’s trade up and get the second best. Just because he’s from a small school—well, we picked Jahri Evans—look at the measureables!!!!! Ugh.

 

[SonOfNOLA]

 

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[SonOfNOLA]

 

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[Tulsa Saint]

I’d ask for 72 and a 2026 4th from WSH.

64 or 73 from KC is fine too.

 

[soggymoss84]

Have Washington give us a third and our 6th back

 

[webster]

Loomis will trade him for a 5th round pick. We'll get robbed.

I say get the best deal possible, whatever it is.

 

[Big_L]

Trade Lattimore, who will play corner?

 

[ELLIASJWILLIAMS]

2nd or no go. I’d take the 3rd…I thought Alontae looked good in Lattimores spot. You can single him up on whomever is the #2 and then double the #1 on the side w/ McKinstry.

My issue is, who ya gonna get in the middle of 3rd?

 

[Jazz Cabbage]

You keep thinking so.

Sean Payton on why Marcus Davenport was the Saints trade he simply couldn't pass up

"It's something we felt that could help our team right now," Payton said of the trade that rocked the first round. "And obviously there is downside and you give up some compensation and you give up some flexibility next year. But we are worried about this year, too, and our focus is on winning this year, and that was the cost to move from where we were in the first round to getting really into a different part of that round."

Payton first became aware of the late-rising player -- there was little fanfare about Davenport entering his senior season -- when the Saints began what they call their "front-board" meetings to start dissecting Senior Bowl and combine participants in January. He would quickly become a player who Payton and Loomis discussed frequently, and a prospect they soon discerned would have no chance of being available at the later stages of the first round, where they were slated to pick.

There is a tangible conviction in his voice whenever Payton speaks about the thinking that led to this brash trade and Davenport's importance to their short- and long-term goals. He and Loomis have long been willing to take risks. Perhaps this was their biggest.