N/S Zack Baun: Top Graded LB / DPOTW [Why Baun Isn’t a Saint Thread] (42 Viewers)

[football]

Anzalone....average and horrible in coverage.

 

[jasonsw]

Why.

This is getting old. It happens to every team in the NFL.

Sometimes Players leave and become stars elsewhere and sometimes players come here and become stars.

Drew Brees and Demario became stars here, Taysom Hill has had a nice career also.

 

[Noble Saint]

Anzalone....average and horrible in coverage.

Yeah when he belly flopped on that ball in the end zone I was done with him. So athletically gifted tho. Mimbo/Himbo.

 

[Hank]

Hindsight is fun. But Zack Baun is excelling in a role that Demario Davis has exceptionally occupied for 7 years with the Saints. There wasn’t much future off ball snaps for Baun with 2 full time LBs ahead of him. He isn’t excelling as a full time pass rusher in Philly like we wanted him to be after 2023 but as the leader of Philly’s LB unit. Saints developed Baun into becoming a very good LB when he was an exclusive pass rusher coming out of Wisconsin.

Who would you rather have on your team based on talent alone?
Baun vs MOG?
Trex vs Davenport?

Poor decisions made by DA & Loomis..

 

[St. Geezy]

Who would you rather have on your team based on talent alone?
Baun vs MOG?
Trex vs Davenport?

Poor decisions made by DA & Loomis..

Trey will always be the one that got away. Just the absolute perfect storm of events transpired for it to occur.

Between the 2017 class all coming up for contracts together, the significant impact COVID had on the salary cap creating about a $25m to $30m negative swing on our obviously uniquely tightly-wound cap management style that relies on projection precision more than most teams, then Trey having a precarious injury history prior to him finally having one great year (his contract year), and us leaning in on the idea that we had a budding superstar in Marcus Davenport to line up across from Cam Jordan for several more years, it just wasn’t meant to be sadly.

Just very unfortunate circumstances. I think we all knew we probably let a good player out of the building at that time, but certainly no one knew we were letting go of some perennial pass rushing phenom that would also suddenly stay completely healthy and available every year.