7:46 PM Sat, Apr 26, 2008 | Permalink
Bradley Handwerger
E-mail
|
I know you were wondering when Saints GM Mickey Loomis was going to speak. Alas, it has come. And now, I bequeath to you some Loomis wisdom...
About possibly moving up Sunday in the next couple of rounds...
"I don't know if we have enough stuff to move up significantly without trading away something valuable next year. We'll try, but I don't know if that will happen. I was on the phone talking about deals more today than in the past three or four years combined."
And then about the possibility of moving up to get Glenn Dorsey...
"There are so many variables in just trading up period. What's the size of the contract? The size of that contract is going to keep us from doing what going forward? The size of the contract at No. 2 versus the size of No. 10 is $40 million-plus. That's a big variable. Obviously, there's the variable of how much compensation, what picks are you giving up, what players are you giving up."
Oh, Loomis was asked about the relationship of assistant coaches with draftees and such (this was in regard to Ed Orgeron's knowledge of Sedrick Ellis)...
"In the last three or four years, teams - us included - have put a lot more focus and energy on background, character, intelligence. That's hard to measure on film. You have to do a lot of research. Who better than the people who worked with them closely and have seen them grown over a period of time?"
Leave a comment