Saints Place Jammal Brown on IR; Sign Nick Leckey

bushrod has been ok but did anyone notice when strief came in how well he did? there was absolutly no push or presure from that side of the line. beautiful work from strief

We still need depth at that position!! Brown hurt his ankle Sun. not bad but what will happen if he goes down. Then we down to one player Geez that would be terrible!!

Brown’s injury occurred early in preseason which gave Bushrod a few preseason games of seasoning before the main events started

on my optimism with only one injury at tackle where Bushrod/Strief have looked good as his replacement. Maybe it’s a blessing in disguise like when Nicks played for Nesbit?

Wow….didn’t see that coming at all.

Just in time for the Jets and Giants to come into town. Eep.

What does that gain them? Even if they move Nicks to the outside in an emergency (please, no – I seem to remember Payton trying Nicks out at tackle and it was a disaster), what good is Leckey going to be if Nesbit moves back in at guard?

The worst thing about this is if Strief has to continue at left tackle, there is no one behind Stinchcomb in the depth chart. The Saints currently have 3 tackles on the roster and one has a minor injury. Get someone signed. NOW!

Does anyone know anything about Levi Jones? Jason La Confora mentioned his name in his blog as an experienced left tackle out there in free agency.

we would have drafted D’Brick over Bush. Said it at the time of the pick and have seen absolutely nothing since to change my mind. All we would have lost in Brown is a RT and we still could have selected Jones-Drew or Norwood to fill that ever-so-paramount decoy role. At least we get to see what we could have had this week.

I’m crying without him. In the corner. A dark corner. And there is a lot of wine involved.

Jermon has done a serviceable job so far, but Trent Cole was having his way with Bushrod before he came out of the game. I was pleasantly surprised by Strief’s play – he hasn’t been known for his quick feet. (Someone on nola.com actually suggested Strief is too small to play tackle. I guess 6’7", 320 is small these days! lol)

Thanks for the info about Levi Jones, FriarBob. I figured he must have had some injury issues looking at his playing time the last three seasons.

But the fact remains that the Saints only have 3 tackles, with one injured. If any one of them gets seriously hurt, they are screwed. They definitely need to sign someone soon. I know he’s 35 years old, but how about Jon Runyan? I wonder if he’d be willing to talk a back up job?

Another question is how might this affect Hartley? I suspect he may already be in danger of losing his job, and if the Saints need to clear yet another roster spot for him, that could be tricky.