By Nick Underhill | The Advocate
The Saints are always focused on the next game, the next opponent, the next play.
But their moves tell you what they think, even if they won’t say it with their mouths. They aren’t just thinking about Monday night in Minnesota. They’re thinking about February in Atlanta.
That’s what the trade for Eli Apple tells you. Same with the deal for Teddy Bridgewater, and the one to draft Marcus Davenport before that. New Orleans isn’t a team that is looking to wait around for its turn, hoping things work out. It is looking to add the pieces it needs to raise another banner sooner than later, which, really, isn’t all that different than any other year.
But here's the issue: The phrase “all-in” it is being thrown around since the Saints made this deal, and that doesn’t feel entirely accurate.
All-in suggests the approach is shortsighted and done at the expense of the future. That isn’t what is happening here, even if the team is without picks in the first, third and fourth rounds of the 2019 draft right now. The approach the Saints are making are aggressively measured. ...
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