Khyber53

One of our best tacklers last season was Jaycee Horn. Yeah, that Jaycee. The fragile guy. Only guy sometimes on that defense that was trying.

We just desperately need someone who can wrap up and tackle. And 10 more of them. We had damn few of them last season.

Grab Warren if he's available at #8 and run with it. There will be quality defenders still on the board in the second and later rounds.

Let's get a performance extension first. The last half of the prior season was an eye-opener and a hope maker, but can it be repeated in 2025? But with wins?

Just thinking about Gene Hackman in The Replacements explaining his addition of a sumo wrestler to the offensive line. Appropriate considering the news today.

Let's allow someone else to deal with that. We don't have time to stop building this house to see if we can get the warp out of a 2x4. Again.

And this, right here, probably fixes a lot of problems on the list. Except for locker rooms and grass on the field.

This is the guy I've been saying we need. If he's still there at 8 sprint to the podium and call his name. We have a lot, a lot of needs on defense, and we aren't going to get it fixed in the first pick. Grab Warren at 8 and then go straight to defense from there on out, this is a deep class for DT and Edge. Warren will be a generational talent at TE, a game breaker, something we desperately need. And if we don't snag him, then New Orleans will with the very next pick and we will have to face the guy twice a year from here on out.

Live action on Netflix was pretty fun, too.

USA on Peacock/Hulu doesn't work. Been trying to watch Smackdown there for a while and you get the first 15 minutes then it cuts out. They have some kind of agreement that you can't view USA through any non-cable company or YouTube. Streaming of the channel isn't happening. Now old crappy stuff from there, sure!

The guy was a first rate Panther and it saddens me to see him headed elsewhere. Injuries have been terrible for him these last two years and we can see how his absence affected the team's play. Morgan will have to find his replacement in the draft and follow the line that he himself was part of. Draft the best linebacker in the league once again. Wish I knew who that was going to be, but surely Morgan, TD and Luke can sit down and figure it out amongst themselves.

If we took all seven picks on the D-line I wouldn't bat an eye. With the old men on the edges we have now and the rather lackluster performance other than Brown in the center, we could just take every young talent we can grab and then just run them into the battle in cycles until one catches on. Sounds crazy at first, but we have no real edge and no real depth either. Having a bunch of youngsters on cheap contracts with few injuries and low-mileage motors might be the biggest thing we've ever done in a long time.

Hard to argue against this, but then again, sometimes even the lowliest billionaire can't help but look enviously, perhaps slavishly at the biggest ones.

This is a major, major issue, an unintended one, that the league and NFLPA has to deal with. If not, some day you'll see a QB taking 60% of a team's salary cap get matadored by their underpaid linemen to provoke a career ending injury, or worse yet, a Teddy Bridgewater training camp incident done on purpose. Think it won't happen? Remember that the Saints' bountygate issue was just for a couple of thousand dollars to severely injure an opposing player. Imagine if there were millions to be divvied out amongst a team?

Am I wrong, but is this just an incredibly deep and wide draft class this season?

What we need, wherever it is, is a game breaker. The Patrick Mahomes, the Julius Peppers, the Gronkowski, the Mack... someone who can single-handedly affect the outcome of not a single game but multiple ones. Now the hard part... identifying them ahead of time.

And if you got 110% ... which is possible. If you watch his tape, he's incredible. And then when you realize that most of it is against top end, play-off teams, he looks like one of the best players in the draft.

Great write-up OP! Thanks for taking the time to do this for us. I really want us to revamp our defense this year in the draft. And it has to start at DE/Edge, but if Warren is still there at 8 I think we should grab him and not look back. Whoever takes him will have a great weapon and the rest of the teams will suffer for it. I don't want to see Warren on another team in the NFC South. And New Orleans picking right behind us scares me.

I think people see him, see Deon as his coach and think that it's going to happen again. Only better. I'm not sold. The kid very well could be fantastic, but he isn't going to hold up playing both sides in the NFL. Some Sean Peyton-guy is going to make sure that he gets clobbered by a safety every time he goes up for a catch and picked off by a TE rub every time he covers a slot receiver. Or he could revolutionize the whole sport. Big roll of the dice there.

Just stay away from Sanders. Thank God we don't need a QB right now!

Honestly, I'd like to see Eddie come back, he's been more than reliable for us. They all miss kicks now and then and he's been better than most. However, there's probably a top end to pay for a kicker when you're rebuilding a team, so he could quickly get out of our price range. If he goes elsewhere, good luck to him, he did right by us. And some other guy is going to get a shot at one of only 32 spots to do that job there are in the world. Good luck to that guy, too. Edit to add: Wouldn't be the same without JJJ around here. Glad he will stay on, there's going to be a lot of new faces on special teams, we need that veteran presence.

Hurney was an ace at picking first rounders. Later rounds...

Why?

Old hens do cluck.

Delhomme had Mangum and Wiggins, but that was balanced by Smitty and Moose and Proehl, probably our best receiving trio ever. (And if you squint a little bit, you can see Coker, XL and Thielen in those roles now... keep squinting, almost in focus, squint a bit more...) Warren, we're talking about possibly a generational talent at the position. I'd say all the stuff he can do, but here's his highlight reel. You'll see him as a receiver, wildcat QB runner and passer, center, running back and heck I think there's a two minute segment of him running a concessions stand during the two minute warning and getting every order correct. If we don't grab him, then I am sure New Orleans will snag him on the next pick and he's going to be killing us for the next decade.