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Originally Posted by Saint Troy
Payton should catch a public flogging for that call, and Reggie Bush needs to worry about football and executing plays rather than getting his face in another commercial. Nevertheless the Saints are pretenders this year, the defence is a joke, gave up almost 500 yards to a 3rd stringer.
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I just love(see: hate) how out of the 8 defensive players we picked up in FA and the draft this offseason, only ONE is starting...and that one has probably been the worst player on our D(Jason David). One of the problems of the 2007 Saints IMO was Payton's absolute inability to do anything in the offseason to address this team's needs.
That 2007 Draft was a joke. I know players can't be labelled busts after only one season, but the fact it didn't produce a single starter on a team with quite a few glaring holes is ridiculous. I think Payton may have been a little too confident in himself after scoring some shockers in last year's draft coming from mid-American small schools and mid-majors in Jahri Evans, and Marques Colston(and to a lesser extent Zach Strief). Because of this, he thought he could just do it again with similar results, and picked up Usama Young, Andy Alleman, Jermon Bushrod and David Jones, all from small schools. I like the potential in Young, but overall this strategy looks to have blown up in his face.
This is by no means a "fire Payton" post, I think any mention of that is absolutely ridiculous at this point, and I still have alot of confidence in him. I just think he needs to quit out-thinking himself on and off the field in the future, and go with the obvious plays(and players) when it is clearly the right decision to do so.