Heads up…Daniel Jeremiah’s final Mock Draft gonna be unveiled at 7 pm tonight (1 Viewer)

[Tulsa Saint]

Quote from the article "The Saints have been calling teams to try to trade up, and I assume they want one of the top offensive tackles. I'm not sure how they have the OTs stacked on their board, but I do feel highly confident that New Orleans will be taking a bookend blocker in Round 1."

You guys do realize this could be smoke from other teams trying to drum up interest in their pick right? The Saints are a convenient target.

I believe nothing on draft eve or day

 

[St. Widge]

Why do we need a first round tackle? We've had success drafting in later rounds- and not so much with firsts. Why not scoop up Bowers if we are trading up and draft o-line with our pick 2?

When is the last time we were successful in drafting a late round OT?

 

[St. Widge]

What was nick underhill’s final prediction?

Fashanu.

 

[St. Widge]

Def could be. But the 3rd-4th best tackle in the draft is not a sure thing!

I mean, no pick in the draft is a sure thing and the 3rd or 4th OT this year would have been the #1 or #2 OT in a lot of years.

 

[Tulsa Saint]

I mean, no pick in the draft is a sure thing and the 3rd or 4th OT this year would have been the #1 or #2 OT in a lot of years.

And to add on:

Bowers has a historical headwind against him due to lack of success for 1st round TEs. You have to go back to probably Vernon Davis or Greg Olson in the mid 2000s for ones that were worth it out of the gate.

OL has a much easier path to value

 

[Snakehead]

Def could be. But the 3rd-4th best tackle in the draft is not a sure thing!

Nope, not at all. Pretty much no OT are sure things coming from college to the NFL. Although, OT have the highest hit rates for 1st round picks, it makes sense to go that route.

 

[SEREN1TY]

At this point, I’m moving on to pick 45 lol. I’m convinced one of Fautanu, Fashanu, or Fuaga will be a Saint.

 

[El Caliente]

I’m going to go on record now and say that if we trade up for a tackle it will go over as well as it did for Penning.

 

[SigFreudianSlip]

If that happens we are going to need to call for a Med Check on Infoman.

Calling teams to move up lol. I don't doubt that......if we do and it's for tackle please let it be Alt. Much rather stay put tho.

 

[SigFreudianSlip]

I’m going to go on record now and say that if we trade up for a tackle it will go over as well as it did for Penning.

Agreed, and we have to hit.

 

[Snakehead]

With DJ's pick, he assumes we are done with Penning at LT. I don't think anyone knows that except the FO. If we go OT in the draft and it's a RT, that indicates that Penning is our LT. If we go LT, then it shows that Penning is moving off LT and probably to RT to take over for Ram.

 

[SEREN1TY]

Ryan Ramczyk’s rapid and sudden health decline really put us in a bad spot. He’s only 30 and could be done. If he was healthy, there’s no reason he wouldn’t have had at least another 3 years of elite play.

 

[Tulsa Saint]

Has Nick or someone like that recently given any indication on the feelings about Penning?

 

[saintmike23]

We have to trade up for Fuaga .

 

[Snakehead]

Has Nick or someone like that recently given any indication on the feelings about Penning?

I don't think so. The only thing I read on here is that he went to some Lineman Academy (Camp) and was doing well. The FO has said repeatedly they failed him, did wrong by him, etc. This tells me they are doing everything they can to correct that. IMO, the first thing they did right was stop playing him last year knowing they were going to change the offense/scheme to go to a scheme that would benefit the offensive line. That's when it turned in Penning's favor.