Answering fan questions surrounding whether or not the team would draft more defense in the later rounds, what position we'd pick if the draft were today for the Saints and the state of the wide receiver room.
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00:00 We get a couple of these questions.
00:01 We can just do rapid fire, whatever you want to do.
00:03 But first one, do you think Saints will go defense in the later rounds,
00:06 being that they need D line help and DB help to shore up the defense?
00:10 Yeah, I think so.
00:11 And I think you're looking at those positions, too,
00:13 because they help on special teams as well.
00:16 Yeah, no, I agree.
00:17 I mean, you just need to have defensive linemen.
00:19 And look, here's the other part I'll say about those positions.
00:22 And again, we forget you got the UFL that's going to complete in a few months.
00:28 You're going to get players out of that, too.
00:29 They're going to find some undrafted guys.
00:31 I think, you know, everybody gets so wrapped up in the draft picks.
00:34 This team has had some pretty good undrafted guys over the years.
00:37 I think that's something that they might lean on a little bit more this year,
00:40 especially if they're not filling out some of these needs.
00:42 So they didn't want to have in mind.
00:45 So, yeah, I'm saying they signed Larry Warford and then they signed.
00:48 It was the defensive, the defensive player that they signed that year, too.
00:52 They had another like one other like solid say again.
00:55 I said they had a couple.
00:57 I'm trying to think. Are you?
00:58 Yeah, it was like Larry Warford and then one other signing that helped them out.
01:02 And then outside of that, like it was a lot of mid-level free agents.
01:06 And then what they did was that they got really, really lucky in the draft
01:09 and did really, really well in the draft.
01:11 And then that ended up changing everything.
01:12 But then they also had a really busy undrafted free agency that year, too.
01:16 That was like Traven Durell and Devaro Lawrence and like all those guys
01:19 that came in and, you know, ended up bringing draft picks for them
01:23 because they traded some of those guys away and stuff like that.
01:25 Like that's got to be a big part of it.
01:27 Like the entire offseason is a part of it is about getting your team
01:31 better and improving your team, not just the first week of free agent.
01:34 Yeah, absolutely.
01:37 What's another one?
01:37 Who's the Saints looking at at 14 edge offensive tackle tight end top needs?
01:42 If you were to have to pick right now, what would you take edge?
01:46 Yeah, I just probably my top thought, I think interior
01:52 defensive interior, if you guys there possibly.
01:55 I put that well ahead of tight end.
01:57 I would put that well, for sure.
01:59 Yeah, I mean, definitely tight is nice.
02:01 It's a luxury for sure.
02:02 But again, I think it's more of a luxury at this point.
02:06 I really wish they could get somebody like a George Kittle type stuff,
02:10 somebody or Travis Kelsey.
02:11 I just it just it's tough.
02:13 It's tough to get somebody like that.
02:15 I mean, we'll see how this offensive scheme works out, too,
02:19 because maybe they'll have a little bit more in there
02:21 and maybe they can unlock a little bit more jaw joints.
02:24 And I'm excited about Clancy Barone doing that again.
02:26 Yeah, see, seems like our whole wide receiver group is all speed guys.
02:29 Do we go after a guy like a Tyler Boyd?
02:32 I do. I'm writing about him.
02:34 I do like Tyler Boyd for sure.
02:36 I was really a high on KJ Osborne, too, until he just signed today.
02:39 That was kind of a little bit crushed.
02:41 Yeah, but he make a lot of sense.
02:43 Another one to give up.
02:44 What about a Michael Gallup just got released?
02:46 Yeah, that would be some issues.
02:48 Yeah, that would be a big one, though.
02:50 I mean, like that would be that would be a nice signing for them.
02:54 I would rather if I were to like power rank it, I would put Michael Gallup
02:58 about Mike Williams.
02:59 Yeah, I agree.
03:00 Their opinion, but I would put that up there.
03:03 But I've got some problems.
03:05 He's yeah, he's been able to stay healthy.
03:07 His injury history, the Saints injury history.
03:10 I don't know why I put those two things together.
03:12 And then like for me, though, like AT Perry, I don't consider just the speed guy.
03:16 I think his you know, he is a possession receiver.
03:18 Like he's a guy that could do that.
03:19 And then Cedric Wilson, who they just added,
03:21 I think probably plays a little bit more of a slot role, but could be a possession
03:25 guy for you from the slot without being much of a speed guy, too.
03:28 So I would put both of them in a category of not above,
03:32 but in a category outside of simply speed.
03:34 Yeah, but they're far from that position.
03:37 Far from that. Yeah, absolutely.