Can Reggie Bush swallow his pride and re-sign with the Saints for less money?

Shortly after the New Orleans Saints traded a future first round draft pick to the New England Patriots for the opportunity to draft former Heisman trophy winner Mark Ingram back in April, another former Heisman trophy winner in Reggie Bush declared his goodbyes to the team over his Twitter page.

Now, after some time to think about it, it appears as though Bush’s best option might be to return to New Orleans to play for the Saints and continue to be part of one of the most electric offensive attacks in the NFL. Bush has not been a premiere back like you would expect from the 2nd overall pick in the draft, but he’s shown why he was such a valuable selection, making impacts in all three phases of the game.

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Detroit Lions

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

St. Louis Rams

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We Know DeMarcus Ware and the Rest of the N.F.C. East Can Rush the Passer, But Are They the Best Front 7? (Picture source cowboys.belogblog.com)

I took a couple week haitius from my ranking the divisions series, but I thought I’d get back to it today by ranking the division by the front 7. Originally I was going to rank the defensive lines, but I think with the huge difference between a 43 and 34 defensive line I should just do the front seven overall.

8. N.F.C. West

The front seven is all about stopping the run and rushing the passer and the N.F.C. West is not very good at that. Who’s the most feared pass rusher in the N.F.C. West? No one. The 49ers, Rams, Cardinals, and Seahawks all felt their pass rush was lacking last season. The lead sack person for the Cardinals was Calais Campbell with six sacks and I”m not sure anyone believes Chris Clemons is for real. The Rams have a decent pass rush that should get better with Robert Quinn and the 49ers were led by Justin Smith with 8.5 sacks (which is very good). The front seven of the 49ers is not bad, they just need more of a pass rush. With the drafting of Aldon Smith they hope they have found that for the future.

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Da'Quan Bowers says his knee is healed, and he is ready for a Super Bowl run.

Da’Quan Bowers took a free fall on NFL Draft weekend this year when every NFL team passed on him, in some cases teams passed on him up to three times before he was finally selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the middle of the second round. The Bucs had already drafted Adrian Clayborn in the first round and took a risk on Bowers in the second.

Bowers fell in the draft due to long-term concerns about his recently repaired knee, which he now says is just fine. In fact, he says it’s more than fine:

“My knee is great. It’s back to where I needed it to be. You know, It’s back to playing shape. You know, I’ve been rehabbing and working out all throughout the whole summer, even through the lockout. The knee is fine. I’m running, cutting, jumping. Everything’s a full go.”

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Has Reggie Bush Been Worht the 2nd Overall Pick? That's Definitely Debatable (picture soure whodatdish.com)

Over the last five years the Saints have experienced the most success in their franchise history. They have won a superbowl and they are routinely in the playoffs and in the race for the Superbowl. Is it because of how well they have drafted? Let’s take a look

2006 NFL Draft

1st round: Reggie Bush, RB, USC

2nd round: Roman Harper, S, Alabama

4th round: Jahri Evans, G, Bloomsburg

5th round: Rob Ninkovich, DE, Purdue

6th round: Mike Haas, WR, Oregon State and Josh Lay, CB, Pittsburgh

7th round: Zach Strief, T, Northwestern and Marques Colston,  WR, Hofstra

No longer in the league: Josh Lay

No longer on the Saints: Rob Ninkovich (New England Patriots, and Mike Haas Seattle Seahawks). Ninkovich had a nice little year with the New England Patriots. He had 10 sacks last year and four sacks and 62tackles.

Zach Streif is a guard now with the New Orleans Saints. He started two games last year and played in fourteen games. He’s started 2 games last year and one game in each every other season he’s been in the league.

The 7th round pick of Marques Colston was an excellent pick. He’s been the number one wide receiver for the Saints the past few years. Last year he had 84 receptions for 1023 yards and 7 touchdowns. He has 40 overall touchdowns since 2006 and four seasons with over a 1,000 yards receiving. In 2008, he had less than a 1,000 yards receiving, but he only played in 11 games and started  due to injuries.

4th round pick Jahri Evans was another excellent pick. Evans has become one of the top interior offensive linemen in the entire league.  The 6’4 318 pound offensive linemen has started all 80 games over the last five years. You don’t get much better value than that in the fourth round.

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Chris Johnson Had a "Down Year" Last Year, but is Still one of the top Running backs in the league(Picture source: titansgab.com)

So far in the first two ranking the teams by divisions the N.F.C. East has been the best because of talented they are at the top and how much depth is throughout the division. Let’s see if anyone is better than the N.F.C. East runningbacks.

#8 AFC North

Ray Rice

Rashard Mendnhall

Peyton Hillis

This low rankings is probably because I don’t truly believe in Peyton Hillis and Cedric Benson might be leaving the division this year and he also had somewhat of a down year last year. Mendenhall is a very nice running back. Willis McGahee and La’Ron McClain are the two best running backs for depth here.

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