2026 Off-Season Thread

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Originally Posted by albany ed

2005 was the last year that Edge played for the Colts and 2002 and 2003 were injury plagued years. Don't get me wrong, I loved Edge and he was fantastic, but having Faulk and the entire Saints draft slate for that year would have been similar to when Dallas traded Herschel Walker and went on to win a couple of Super Bowls.

Agree on '02 but I wouldn't call '03 injury plagued as Edge still rushed for 1,259 yards w/ 292 receiving yards in 13 games.

Totally agree though that we would have been better off keeping Faulk and trading the pick to NO, especially if we could have worked back up and drafted Champ Bailey like Wash did. Also, I also think we would have been better off keeping Faulk and drafting either Bailey or Torry Holt w/ the #4 pick. B/c Faulk+Bailey/Holt >> Edge+Peterson+Scioli.

On a side note - Was looking at Wash's draft trades and didn't realize how much Wash actually gave up in their move to get Bailey, which was the 1st and 3rd they had just gotten from NO (12th and 71st overall), their original 4th and 5th, and their 3rd in '00. Of course they had an over abundance of draft capitol to work w/ from the trade to NO.