Anybody else wondering WTF they were thinking??? I know Meachem had high grade, but he is basically Devery all over again. I think Olsen would have been the better pick here. Usama Young had a 4th-5th round grade. They could have gotten this guy with either of their 4th round picks. Marcus McCauley was still on the board. I think we took the worng guy, but right position here. Andy Aleeman is a good football player. I don't have a problem with this pick, but I gotta admit I was thinking Brandon Siler here. But he is still on the board so maybe I think he is better than he is. Oakland and Cleveland racked up today.
You gotta trust Loomis/Payton on the Young pick. Something is up with McCauley, cuz he dropped all the way to almost a mid 3rd round pick. This dude was being projected as a late 1st by many early on in the draft process, and he dropped on everybody's board obviously.
Honestly, I was disappointed with the Meacham pick. Horn was injured most of last season and our offense was fine. It's the defense that lost games and I wanted to see a pick that could help out there. Unlike past years when the team was being run by idiots, though, I'll take a wait and see attitude here and assume Payton and crew know a lot more than me.
SI had the Young guys projected as a UFA... I was pretty pissed when the Saints took him... Instead of Meacham, they should have traded back and taken Paulusky (or whatever his name is)... Despite the journeyman efforts of last year, the guys they have still suck...
The Poz would have been a great addition. I think the Meachem pick was fine, especially when you consider that they don't have a #1 receiver. Devery's a slot receiver, and Colston is built like a #2. Usama Young was moving up a lot of draft boards over the past few weeks. He's raw, but has great speed and has had minimal coaching. He was certainly a reach for the Saints, but you could look back on it as being a great pick if his coverage skills develop a bit more. I'm typically skeptical of speed-only CBs, but there's a LOT more that goes into the evaluation that we simply don't know. Coachability, intelligence to understand schemes, and attitude are key components for a CB that don't show up on a stat sheet. It's almost never bad to draft o-linemen, so the Alleman pick seemed good to me.
I like Meachem, but dont think they should have taken him there. He seems more like a #2. They need a legit #1.
Colston will develope into our #1. The problem I have with Meachem, is that it has taken them 3 years to get Devery where they want him, and right now they just think he is where they want him, next season will tell. Meachem is a mirror image of DH. He is a tall burner who needs to learn how to catch the football. Now DH has made huge strides and is shaping up nicely, but why draft a guy in the first round that needs that much work? He doesn't block, refuses to go over the middle and will drop any ball thrown to him in traffic. I hope I'm wrong on this, but I would have rather them reach and take Rice or Gonzales here if they were just dead set on a receiver.
I felt they should have gone with a defensive lineman. But the Saints have always based their picks on the best available talent. In recent years it has worked well for them, but I believe you draft for need.
Whether Usama & Andy end up great players or not, these picks don't make any sense to me - not when we could've picked them up much later. I'm okay with the Meachem pick, but it definitely didn't wow me.
Antonio Pittman is an interesting pick... while, yes, they do need a 3rd runningback, is this the saints saying that if Pittman works out, Deuce will be trade bait in the next couple years?
