Think things couldn't have gotten worse? Think again.

[Carl Spackler]

2008: traded '09 1st-round pick for Otah

2009: traded '10 1st-round pick for Brown, Goodson

2010: could have traded '11 1st-round pick

What if on draft day this year we traded our top pick in the upcoming draft, now #1 overall?

[Kurb]

I have nightmares about this very thing

[Sloth]

If we trade the #1 away, it'll be for a king's ransom and would also mean we were traded a promising QB or had one rated almost as highly as Luck.

We really win out either way, provided Luck declares.

No Luck, no trade and we're reaching at #1. That worries me a lot more.

[Carl Spackler]

Remember how Hurney wanted to trade a 1st and I believe that 2nd, if not the '11 3rd for the Saints' #32 overall pick in '10 to draft Clausen.

The real question is why trade a 1st for the 32nd pick? If you don't win the Super Bowl the next year, the pick you give up is better than what you get in return.

If that happened, Saints would be in the playoffs, and having the #1 overall pick in the draft, while we wouldn't be picking until our supplementary pick in the 3rd round.

[panthers55]

If Luck doesn't come out then we might very well trade down assuming we can. Honestly I think that Newton would be a fine choice particularly if we got an offensive minded coach with a history of developing quarterbacks. And guys like Mallett and Locker would be potetial number 1 picks if Luck weren't the topic of everyone's discussion.

I am looking forward to the combine and ongoing drafting sources to give us more of an update on these quarterbacks as we go. Of course by then we will know who our new coach will be.

[Carl Spackler]

In order of who I want us to draft, if Luck stays in school;

Newton

Fairley

Peterson

Green

T.J. Yates Someone on here suggested this. Seriously.

[Sloth]

In order of who I want us to draft, if Luck stays in school;

Newton

Fairley

Peterson

Green

T.J. Yates Someone on here suggested this. Seriously.

Mine is a little different:

Green (BPA to boot)

Newton

Peterson

Fairley

I don't like any of them at #1 though.

[Carl Spackler]

Not bad but we have wide receivers. We don't have a DT or a QB. Fairley and Newton should be the main choices, because no one's gonna trade up. We've been through growing pains w/WRs, now we have 3 who can play.

Is Derek Landri a player? Maybe. None of the others are.

[Stroupe-a-loop]

If we had traded the first pick in this April's draft, this would be bizzaro-huddle, with every thread crying to the world that it just makes sense for Luck to go back to school and get a degree. With everyone else tattooing "HATE HRNY" across their knuckles and muttering about Dwayne Jarret, Eric Shelton, and "the reckoning to come." In short, it would be awesome.

[Sloth]

Not bad but we have wide receivers. We don't have a DT or a QB. Fairley and Newton should be the main choices, because no one's gonna trade up. We've been through growing pains w/WRs, now we have 3 who can play.

Is Derek Landri a player? Maybe. None of the others are.

I say Green just from a BPA standpoint. For straight need QB and DT would be 1a/1b.

I'm really not that thrilled by any of the DTs though, especially not picking that high.

[err456]

Newton if Luck stays in school

[Stroupe-a-loop]

I think a few people swung and missed on the point of this thread.

[Carl Spackler]

I think a few people swung and missed on the point of this thread.

Yep.

But to go along with its derailment, I'm sold on Fairley as a cornerstone DT.

[Stroupe-a-loop]

Yep.

But to go along with its derailment, I'm sold on Fairley as a cornerstone DT.

Yeah, why not.

I like Fairley too, but I wish I could have seen more than one year that wasn't JUCO. I probably go with Dareus right now.