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Saints Injury Report | Mickey Loomis' Job Security Going Forward · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: A little after three o'clock here on a Thursday, means
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  Speaker 1: Saints practice is wrapping up. Ross Jackson over at Louisiana
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  Speaker 1: Sports dot Net does have a participation report to go to,
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  Speaker 1: and there is really good news for the New Orleans Saints.
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  Speaker 1: That is that Caesar Ruiz returned to practice. So what
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  Speaker 1: you'll remember is heading into the week, all the focus
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  Speaker 1: was on Eric McCoy and Lucas Patrick along the offensive line,
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  Speaker 1: as they both missed the game obviously on Sunday against
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  Speaker 1: the Rams. They returned Wednesday, but then Caesar Ruiz was
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  Speaker 1: not seen Ruiz.
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  Speaker 2: Back at practice.
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  Speaker 1: It's a concussion that has been holding him out, so
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  Speaker 1: you still have to go through the protocol. But if
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  Speaker 1: he's returning to practice, albeit maybe in the limited capacity
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  Speaker 1: or whatnot, we'll wait for the official injury report to
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  Speaker 1: come out a little later. That is a major positive.
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  Speaker 1: If you're looking at the New Orleans Saints, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: obviously you're not seees no real surprises, no Taysom Hill,
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  Speaker 1: no Bud Mean the Bove means Roger team or Nick
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  Speaker 1: Salutavaia all guys you kind of expected maybe to not
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  Speaker 1: see there. But it looks like now if Ruiz can
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  Speaker 1: continue practice, clear that protocol. You'll have your offensive line
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  Speaker 1: intact to go up against the New York Giants. And look,
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  Speaker 1: the running game is going to be huge in that matchup, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: especially with Dexter Lawrence being out on the other side
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  Speaker 1: for the New York Giants. And when the Saints offenses
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  Speaker 1: functioned at its best, it's all been off of the
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  Speaker 1: running game, play, action, the motion, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So that is good.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Triplett from New Orleans Dot Football, he'll be here
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  Speaker 1: in his normal spot at five point fifteen. A little
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  Speaker 1: bit later on we'll get his take on Ruiz things
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  Speaker 1: that happen at practice, and much bigger picture stuff around
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  Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints as well. But anything else that's
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  Speaker 1: stuck out that stood out, I should say, Mike will
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  Speaker 1: be here a little bit later on in the show.
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  Speaker 2: But there you go.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of your participation report. Good good news for
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  Speaker 1: the Saints, at least through the open portion that the
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  Speaker 1: media was allowed to see. Caesar Ruiz returns and you
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  Speaker 1: have a chance, a chance to have your offensive line
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  Speaker 1: fully intact when the Saints head up to the Meadowlands
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  Speaker 1: to face the Giants. All Right, we had this on
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  Speaker 1: a rundown to talk about yesterday, but just with the
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  Speaker 1: whirlwind of everything dealing with signing day, it kind of
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  Speaker 1: got bumped. Jeremy Fowler over at ESPN had I report.
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  Speaker 1: It was actually a really lengthy piece. It was him
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  Speaker 1: and Dan Grasiano just going through a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: dealing with the off season and whatnot. You know, moves
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  Speaker 1: for you, a big, long, ex sensive piece and at
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  Speaker 1: the bottom it was just the section of like what
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  Speaker 1: else are you hearing? And it was in that section
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  Speaker 1: that Jeremy Fowler went to the Mickey Loomis angle. And
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  Speaker 1: obviously Dennis Allen has been ousted as the Saints head coach.
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  Speaker 1: We know that, and everyone's been asking and in some
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  Speaker 1: cases calling for Mickey Loomis to be next. And that's
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  Speaker 1: always been an interesting conversation because of Mickey's so close
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  Speaker 1: to that organization, to Gail Benson, the session, but all
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  Speaker 1: of those things that we know we don't need to rehash,
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  Speaker 1: and it's always been like, Okay, Mickey's untouchable. So when
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy Fowler reports that these Saints are unlikely to move
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  Speaker 1: on for Mickey Loomis, it shouldn't come as a surprise,
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  Speaker 1: and that is the report that the Saints are unlikely
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  Speaker 1: to move on for Mickey Loomis, meaning it's him that
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  Speaker 1: will be hiring the next head coach, It's him that
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  Speaker 1: will be responsible for the draft and trying to trying
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  Speaker 1: to bring this franchise out of the darkness that it
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  Speaker 1: is in large part because of moves that he's made.
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  Speaker 2: But that's where you are now.
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  Speaker 1: I am in no way surprised that, as we just
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  Speaker 1: covered this up, that Mickey Loomis is likely to return.
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  Speaker 1: I will also tell you I don't think that's in
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  Speaker 1: the best interest of the franchise. I think it's time
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  Speaker 1: to move on for Mickey Loomis, not because I think
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  Speaker 1: Mickey's a bad guy or anything of that nature. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just firmly planted in that camp as well, that the
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints should distance themselves from just about everything
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  Speaker 1: in the previous era and start anew See plenty of
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  Speaker 1: teams do it. It's sick in the NFL. You kind
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  Speaker 1: of have to at some point, and I think the
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  Speaker 1: Saints are at that point of have to. Is my
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  Speaker 1: confidence shaken in Mickey Loomis, Yeah, it is that too,
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  Speaker 1: and I will tell you. That mainly comes from just
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  Speaker 1: the stubbornness and defiance and condescension that has been on
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  Speaker 1: display in public from Mickey Loomis in the media, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's him just constantly defending Dennis Allen even when it
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  Speaker 1: was so far past the defensible, the chomping of the.
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  Speaker 2: Gum in the press, country, anything that we any of
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  Speaker 2: the audio.
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  Speaker 1: That we've played for you for Mickey Loomis really over
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  Speaker 1: the last year, and some change.
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  Speaker 2: Is enough to shake my confidence in that.
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  Speaker 1: Because I don't want somebody leading my organization that is
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  Speaker 1: publicly displaying stubbornness in defiance, and that's not what I will.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't paint a pretty picture. But where you are
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  Speaker 1: is Mickey Loomis will be the guy to hire the
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  Speaker 1: next coach unless something changes, and again that shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: a surprise. The Saints are. They admire continuity, they admire relationships,
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  Speaker 1: They value all of that.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff so much.
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  Speaker 1: And that brings us to the second part of the
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  Speaker 1: report from Jeremy Fowler.
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  Speaker 2: Not only was he talking Loomis, he talked head.
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  Speaker 1: Coaching candidates that you should look out for for the Saints.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a lot of names that you've heard with
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  Speaker 1: one thrown in that you haven't and really, when you
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  Speaker 1: look at the Saints, this is the first time you've
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  Speaker 1: seen reports from a incredible NFL insider like Jeremy Fowler.
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  Speaker 2: As to.
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  Speaker 1: Names mentioned, the first one is Aaron Glenn and obviously
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  Speaker 1: that makes a lot of sense, and Aaron Glenn will
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  Speaker 1: get a head coaching job in the NFL this year.
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  Speaker 1: He's been phenomenal as the defensive coordinator up in Detroit.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, the Saints absolutely figure in heavy to that.
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  Speaker 1: Spent time in New Orleans on staff a long time
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  Speaker 1: under Sean Payton, obviously has a relationship with the organization
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  Speaker 1: all those things that.
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  Speaker 2: They value. Would be a first time head coach.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Brady was another name, and I know we've all
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  Speaker 1: had the Joe Brady conversation around here, but Joe Brady
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  Speaker 1: was on staff with the New Orleans Saints.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a.
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  Speaker 1: Whirlwind of journey from him, whether it be at LSU
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  Speaker 1: to the first and as an NFLOC with Carolina that
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  Speaker 1: not working out, taking the quarterback coach job at Buffalo,
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  Speaker 1: getting INTERMOC and then the permanent OC and Buffalo's offense
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  Speaker 1: has been pretty darned good.
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  Speaker 2: Now you have a lot of great players. How would
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  Speaker 2: Joe Brady do as a head coach?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but it's the young offensive mind that
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  Speaker 1: everyone in the NFL is after.
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  Speaker 2: That type of guy.
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  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson is gonna be the name that everybody mentions
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  Speaker 1: the most when talking about that.
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  Speaker 2: Is he attainable? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: We've all had that conversation too, but Jeremy Fowler did
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  Speaker 1: throw out.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Brady would also be a first time head coach.
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  Speaker 1: The last name he threw out was Vance Joseph, the
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  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator for the Denver Broncos, who of course is
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  Speaker 1: from New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana went to Shaw. Everyone's
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  Speaker 1: kind of familiar with that, So there's the tie there.
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you, and again, all very early in
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  Speaker 1: the process, right just reports just names to watch from
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  Speaker 1: an NFL insider, I will tell you on that list
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  Speaker 1: that we just ran through the n ain't the ion
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  Speaker 1: equivocally do not want is Vance Joseph Because how did
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  Speaker 1: we start this whole conversation. We started with saying you
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  Speaker 1: need to distance yourself from anything in the past of
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  Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints, and while Vance Joseph isn't immediately
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  Speaker 1: in the past of the New Orleans Saints like that
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  Speaker 1: isn't exclusively him there. The whole idea of that is
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  Speaker 1: literally what you just got away from Vance. Joseph spent
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  Speaker 1: two years as the head coach in Denver. He went
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  Speaker 1: eleven and one, a defensive head.
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  Speaker 2: Coach with a well below five hundred record as a
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  Speaker 2: head coach.
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  Speaker 1: You that's just what you had in Dennis Alum, You
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  Speaker 1: know how tough of a set of a cell that
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  Speaker 1: would be for Mickey Loomis.
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  Speaker 2: In my opinion, that's an impossible cell.
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  Speaker 1: And I get it, there were extenuating circumstances the personnel
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  Speaker 1: and Denver at that time was all Paxton Lynch.
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  Speaker 2: And brock Eyes, Austwiler and all those guys at quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 1: But the same excuses were made with Oakland and could
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  Speaker 1: be made with Oakland and Dennis Allen's there as the
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  Speaker 1: head coach, you'd be going into the exact you'd set
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  Speaker 1: yourself up for the exact same thing that you literally
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  Speaker 1: just had to get out of. To me, that would
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  Speaker 1: be an impossible cell. And out of the three names there,
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  Speaker 1: it's the one I am least high on potentially for
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  Speaker 1: the Saints. Ever going down that path, I would rather
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  Speaker 1: these Saints hire a first year head coach than another retread.
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  Speaker 2: And if that's Aaron.
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  Speaker 1: Glenn, okay, as much as I want you to distance
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  Speaker 1: yourself from the past, at least that is a breadth
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  Speaker 1: of fresh air. I don't know if they want to
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  Speaker 1: go back to back defensive head coaches. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a tough sell. Clint Kubiak could make it an easier one, though,
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  Speaker 1: because that definitely seems like a hit for the New
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  Speaker 1: Orleans Saints.
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  Speaker 2: Now, could another NFL team come and poach him? Sure?
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  Speaker 2: Does the new head coach want to retain him?
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  Speaker 1: All things you have to all things you have to
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  Speaker 1: look through, like all things you have to go through
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  Speaker 1: and decide and let play out. But as tough of
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  Speaker 1: a cell as another defensive head coach coming in, that
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  Speaker 1: could make it easier if I had my way, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'd go with the young offensive guy too. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if that should be Joe Brady, but you've seen
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  Speaker 1: him have good odds for this job, and now you
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  Speaker 1: see Jeremy Fowler reporting like, okay, keep an eye on
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  Speaker 1: that guy for the New Orleans Saints and there are ties,
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  Speaker 1: and if there's if you're move moving on from the past,
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  Speaker 1: you know, step by step. If you're moving on the
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  Speaker 1: past like the New Orleans Saints seemed to be trying
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  Speaker 1: to do. Your Brady doesn't have a very long history
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  Speaker 1: with you, so that does go there. We're early in
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  Speaker 1: the process, but just thought i'd throw that out there.
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  Speaker 1: Given that's a guy well connected in the NFL throwing
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  Speaker 1: out three names for you, that's kind of where I stand.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: So Mickey loomis expected to be back, no big surprise there,
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  Speaker 1: and there's three names to maybe look at for head
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  Speaker 1: coach there in the future of New Orleans