N/S Zack Baun: Top Graded LB / DPOY cand. [Why Isn’t Baun Still a Saint Thread] ………. [Eagles re-sign Baun to 3-yr, $51 million contract on March 5, 2025]

[DerrickB]

 

[Bill]

It was bound to happen.

 

[BreesusSaves]

Saints can't draft though, amirite?

 

[sainthood]

The Saints misused him for the bulk of his time in New Orleans. (i.e. the Saints did not use him as a pass rusher enough.)

 

[Snakehead]

N/S

 

[Elvis]

He's part of the TJ/JJ Watt crew. He knew how to play, DA just refused to use him to his strengths. It's been obvious for a while.

 

[meily]

Saints can't draft though, amirite?

DA couldn't scheme to the talent on his roster, this defense was more potent when he had the personnel to run a 4-2-5 scheme and you mixed in Baun or Ellis as a rush linebacker, we lost all of our bite when we couldn't not replace the loss of CJG or scheme to the talents of these rush linebackers.

We had the best scheme for the talent aquired but as good of a DC as Allen was he missed that vision in the players he had on the defensive side of the ball and that's kind of shocking.

 

[Cgrob81]

Unbelievable. As bad as we needed linebackers.......

 

[dtc]

Dennis Allen. He doesn't try to fit his defense around the player's skill set. He wants to change the player to fit his defense. It's why we've seen so many square peg, round hole player's on defense. Player X did this in college, but the Saints are playing them here instead.

This is getting stupid.

You can blame DA for being anything, but pretending he's bad at defense is stupid to the point of being rEEdiculous.

Neither of those 2 were as good as the other guys in front of them and damn sure not DD and it's the price you pay for having a salary cap and covid year.

 

[dtc]

Resigning Davis had nothing to do with Allen not playing Baun to his strengths.

It has everything to do with the fact that Baun was not as good as DD until maybe this year.

 

[SaintsMan209]

I thought the eagles only signed baun to a 1 year contract. couldn't we resign him next year?

 

[meily]

He's part of the TJ/JJ Watt crew. He knew how to play, DA just refused to use him to his strengths. It's been obvious for a while.

He and Kaden Ellis

 

[meily]

This is getting stupid.

You can blame DA for being anything, but pretending he's bad at defense is stupid to the point of being rEEdiculous.

Neither of those 2 were as good as the other guys in front of them and damn sure not DD and it's the price you pay for having a salary cap and covid year.

They were pass rushers in college, played along the line, DA tried to turn them into traditional stand up linebackers (not playing them to their strengths) and the only time they got to do what they do best is when we experienced injuries at DE and they needed to create a rush so they had them rushing on third downs and they both were disruptive in those roles almost to the point where you thought that they had carved out roles on the defense but no, they went to other teams and we got Willie Gay.

 

[SAINT BIGAL]

Baun plays for the Eagles now days and Dennis Allen is no longer coaching the Saints. No reason to get riled up. It is what it is.