Quote Originally Posted by EdwardDrayton View Post
There was a very brief wisp of smoke (delusion?) that Payton may land in Dallas.
There's been that same wisp of delusion every year since Sean took over in NOLA. Jerry had his chance to hire him and let him waltz right to NOLA. They'd never work now though. Sean has seen how a good front office runs for years and he and Mickey were basically given free reign from Tom, and later Gayle, Benson to do what they needed to win.

I'm not crazy about the haul we got, but at the same time we got what we could. The compensation would've gotten worse next year. I'm hoping we can somehow package picks together to make a run at a starter in the league (Fields or Carr) or somehow find some god offer to move all the way up to get Stroud. Former is way more likely, and it's not very likely, than the latter. I just don't see us having the capital to move that far up.