Girod Street End Zone

The Goat
GSEZ Founder

Assuming that everyone has recovered from Claude’s John Nash impersonation from earlier this week, we thought you might like to share some of our original thoughts about the draft.

They’re not all OUR original thoughts, mind you, but most of them in fact are, and of course we’ll credit those from whom we stol–, umm, by whom we were inspired.

And the one thought the rules them all is that the eight most important Saints after Drew Brees, in no particular order, are MLB Jonathan Vilma, CB Jabari Greer, CB Tracy Porter and whoever are the five OL standing between Brees and the other team’s defense.

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First, let’s address the situation involving LT Jammal Brown.   After a much younger backup (Jermon Bushrod) replaced the injured Brown for an entire championship season, there’s more than a ton of smoke over the idea that Brown may/must be traded, given the demographics of age (Brown’s already 29), his ability to command a much bigger salary, the fact that we already have yet another quality backup in Zach Streif, and everyone’s desire to play rotisserie football.

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Claude Coupee
Lead Correspondent

Like any good Saints fan, I have spent the wonderful weeks since the Super Bowl doing what I was supposed to:  periodically checking popular websites like ESPN and www.nfl.com to make sure nobody had changed the score of the game.

To make sure that Steve Bartkowski hadn’t snuck in to throw one last pass, or Mike Lansford hadn’t maybe kicked an extra field goal, or Jerry Rice hadn’t scored a touchdown at our five-yard line, or Eric Allen hadn’t stopped by to take just one more back to the house, or Mike Ditka hadn’t come around to help us redo the 2006 draft.

No, not this time. 

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So then the thought comes, they can’t really take it away from us, but can they steal the dignity?  The fun?  The perfection of joie?   Can they somehow minimize the triumph, put an asterisk on it, like Ford Frick did or Tex Schramm (f*** that guy) wanted to?

Sort of like the devil in Milton’s Paradise Lost, maybe you can’t kill God, but nobody says you can’t try to poison his dog?

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