Just don't be boring

What I was actually trying to tell Ralph here is that the post-Payton era can involve the Saints winning a lot of games or losing a lot of games. That's not anything anyone has any control over. Professional football teams are evenly matched for the most part. Most games are decided by very few points and hinge on minor freak incidents.  Seasons are determined according to which teams sustain the fewest injuries. The universe decides these outcomes and nobody has any valid reason to complain or assign blame for any of it.  Your team's record can be good or bad or somewhere in the middle and you can live with that.  What you do not want your team to be, though, is boring.

Do whatever you want in the draft but do something interesting. I don't want to hear about nerd stuff like 40 times or vertical leaps or RAS scores.  Figuring out which complicated human being will have a successful career in any job is never going to be science based on clear cut "measurables."  So it's important to understand that the raft of nerd stuff promulgated by football executives and media is really just there to entertain nerds.  But nerd stuff doesn't entertain everybody.  Which is why we need other metrics.  Payton would occasionally do things like draft a player because he thought his dad had a cool jacket. Not everybody thought that worked out for the best, but it wasn't really a mistake either. Anyway it was different.  

Dennis Allen doesn't strike us as the kind of guy who does interesting things.  But if we could ask for anything it is just try not to bore us. If that means making everybody mad by trading all the way up into the top 5 just to take a tackle then so be it. If it means going after this angle, then do that. 

Fine, you want my draft prediction for the Saints' first round? As NOLA Twitter legend Skooks reminded me, the Saints already have a player named Taco Charlton, so drafting a corner named Sauce Gardner and a receiver named Jameison Williams feels like it'd be completing the cool food named player triple play.

Just don't be boring. That's all we can hope for.