Five Saints make the Pro Bowl

I don’t recall any injuries coming out the the Pro Bowl. Vilma should have been a starter!!!!

WHO DAT!

While Evans’s Pro Bowl invitation is deserving, you can pretty much kiss either he or Jammal Brown goodbye after this season. I think Brown’s marginally better than Stinchcomb on the right side, but Stinchcomb is already locked up long term. Two Pro Bowl offensive linemen entering free agency spells “something’s gotta give”. Sure, you could take the Dan Snyder approach and pay them whatever they want, but what happens when this whole CBA thing is sorted out and we’re sitting millions over the cap? I’d rather bite the bullet now and look for someone a little less overrated at his current position in free agency. I’m primarily speaking of Brown, but if no better left tackle is available — which is a distinct possibility, considering how highly the franchise ones are coveted, as well as our lowly first round draft position — I’d reluctantly let Evans walk. Same situation as LeCharles Bentley, really. Guard is a relatively easy position to replace. Evans was a fourth rounder himself. I think that’s something they’re going to have to think long and hard about over the next couple of months. Of course, that’s all contingent on Brown being fully recovered in time for free agency. Do you even want to go out on that limb, if he isn’t? I wonder what this does for Stinchcomb’s trade value, btw. Therein lies another possibility, provided Brown is healthy and open to shifting back over to the right side. If Stinchcomb + our first rounder can land us a franchise left tackle — be it a younger veteran or higher first rounder — I’d be all for that switcheroo. Should be interesting.