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Will Drew Brees Ever Coach New Orleans Saints? | Why It Would Be A Bad Idea · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: dot org. Golf dot Breck dot org. Drew Brees was
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  Speaker 1: a guest on the Adam Schefter podcast and he was
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  Speaker 1: asked the question that many Saints fans have wondered aloud.
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  Speaker 1: Asked chatted about add barrooms by the watercooler family gatherings.
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  Speaker 1: Would Drew Brees ever have a role? Could he ever
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  Speaker 1: join the New Orleans Saints coaching staff. Here's what he said.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. We'll see you know. Look, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: in my blood. It always will be.
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  Speaker 3: I'm always going to be a Saint, and so whether
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  Speaker 3: it's direct or indirect, you know, I yes, I will
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  Speaker 3: always say we you know, that's that's my team, my organization.
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  Speaker 2: From the perspective that I just I take so much
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  Speaker 2: pride and what we built.
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  Speaker 3: And what we accomplished, and I'm always a resource to
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  Speaker 3: help and I'll always be there to support.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't say no.
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  Speaker 1: The reason, there's two reasons why I think that's a
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  Speaker 1: terrible idea. Number one is first and foremost is the
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  Speaker 1: time commitment. Drew Brees retired and then try his hand
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  Speaker 1: at TV, But part of the reason he stopped doing
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  Speaker 1: TV after one year was the time commit I mean
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  Speaker 1: he remember he was doing studio work for NBC for
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  Speaker 1: the NFL and he was calling noted end games. So
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  Speaker 1: Brees and his family live in San Diego, and so
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  Speaker 1: then he's flying to South Bend for production meetings and
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  Speaker 1: then calling a game on Saturday, and then flying to
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  Speaker 1: New York for the NFL on Sundays and Sunday Night football,
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  Speaker 1: then maybe flying home on Monday, and so then you're
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  Speaker 1: home with a little jet lag, and you have Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: and then guess what, you're hitting the road again. It
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  Speaker 1: ain't that much different than when you're playing football. So
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  Speaker 1: that's number one is just the time commitment if you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be a coach, because it's no different than
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  Speaker 1: if you're a player. The physicality is different, but your
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  Speaker 1: time commitments.
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  Speaker 4: No different. That's number one. Number two.
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  Speaker 1: That is the best way possible to ruin the fan
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  Speaker 1: BASEES relationship with Drew breath is let him coach because
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  Speaker 1: and listen, I understand, like he is the greatest player
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  Speaker 1: in the history of the organization. He will always be.
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  Speaker 4: One or one A.
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  Speaker 1: That's only to leave room to say, what if someone
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  Speaker 1: comes behind him and is amazing? And plenty of organizations
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  Speaker 1: have have had that, Like in New England, they'll never
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  Speaker 1: have another Tom Brady. They don't have a quarterback that'll
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  Speaker 1: come and win six Super Bowls? But what if they
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  Speaker 1: have someone comes and wins three Super Bowls? Were they
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  Speaker 1: number two? Or they one? Be figured it out however
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  Speaker 1: you want to say. The point is Freeze will always
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  Speaker 1: be deified in New Orleans. However, you can truly love someone,
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  Speaker 1: but there can be friction. I mean this, How is
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  Speaker 1: that any different than in a marriage. You can love
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  Speaker 1: your spouse, of course, I mean you would do everything
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  Speaker 1: for your family, you die for your spouse, but sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you argue over what you're gonna do for dinner. You
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  Speaker 1: can have major arguments about finances or whatever. Who knows
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  Speaker 1: you understand. I mean, it's just a life or at
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  Speaker 1: the office, whatever. And the thing that's undeniable is an
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  Speaker 1: unavoidable is in professional sports you will face adversity like
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  Speaker 1: there is going to be. There will be things that
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  Speaker 1: go badly just how it happens, and so fans rightfully
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  Speaker 1: complain and direct criticism at coaches. And I would hate
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  Speaker 1: to see that part of a relationship with Breeze and
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  Speaker 1: the Saints be strained, if that ever happened.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Breeze was also asked by Schefter if the Saints because
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  Speaker 1: he said I'll always be there to be a resource.
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  Speaker 1: But he was asked by by Schefter if the Saints
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  Speaker 1: have ever asked him, like for feedback or input on
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  Speaker 1: a higher.
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  Speaker 2: Uh not feedback.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look, I always have conversations. I have conversations
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  Speaker 3: with with everybody in that organization about any number of topics.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, yes, hey what are we looking for?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you know, look and and I and I lend
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  Speaker 3: I lend my my you know, expertise or recommendations when asked.
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  Speaker 1: I'm curious what Breeze would think about this hire, whoever
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be. I have no doubt. There's a
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  Speaker 1: part of the conversation where Drew Brees is going to
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  Speaker 1: be supportive of whoever the coaches.
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  Speaker 4: You just heard him say it.
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  Speaker 1: He'll always say we he takes ownership in great pride
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  Speaker 1: in being part of the organization, which we all agree.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing there's nothing wrong with that whatsoever, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But I am curious what his thoughts are about where
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  Speaker 1: things are because the Yeah, there's a strange juxtaposition of
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  Speaker 1: what the Saints did basically everything they leveraged as far
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  Speaker 1: as the future of the organization to go all in
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  Speaker 1: to win Withdrew. They didn't get back there, and now
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  Speaker 1: they're in this terrible situation by and large because of that.
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  Speaker 4: Would you do it again? Of course you would.
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  Speaker 1: I mean to say it often, it's no different than
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  Speaker 1: what Denver did with Peyton Manning. They went all in
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't make the playoffs for a decade after
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Manning. They finally got back this year with bo
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  Speaker 1: Nicks as a rookie. And boy, they went through a
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  Speaker 1: lot of iterations. They went through different quarterbacks, They had
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  Speaker 1: draft busts. I mean, remember who's that tall guy from Memphis?
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  Speaker 1: Remember that guy that they drafted in the first round.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that guy was his name, Paxton Lynch, remember him.
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  Speaker 1: Like Denver drafted Paxton Lynch in the first round, Denver
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  Speaker 1: had Brock Osweiler, you know what I mean. Like they've
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  Speaker 1: gone through it. The Saints played Denver when they had
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  Speaker 1: a practice squad receiver playing quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: Now that was Covid. It was different.
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  Speaker 1: But the point is they leveraged everything to win with
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Manning and they did. They made it to two
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowls and they won one of them. But they
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  Speaker 1: do it again, of course they would. The Saints did
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  Speaker 1: the same thing at the end of Breeze's career when
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  Speaker 1: they hit on that twenty seventeen draft class and then
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  Speaker 1: Nolan no call happened, and then every year it was
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  Speaker 1: all in kicking the can down the road, restructuring deals,
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  Speaker 1: to do whatever they had to do to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that they had the best roster possible to give you
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  Speaker 1: a Brizes a chance to win a Super Bowl before
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  Speaker 1: he rode off into the sunset, and it didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: They got close. It doesn't mean it was the wrong decision,
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  Speaker 1: but the reality is, you've got to understand that window
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  Speaker 1: is closed and it's been closed. And everyone, me, you,
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  Speaker 1: all of us have understood that for years now, except
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  Speaker 1: for the people in the front office who keep going
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  Speaker 1: back to the ATM like they're busting at the crabs table,
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  Speaker 1: and they keep going back to the ATM to get
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  Speaker 1: more cash to go try to win it back, and
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  Speaker 1: they keep just digging the hole deeper, and it's just
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  Speaker 1: making it worse. And now here you are, you're in
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  Speaker 1: a spot where nobody wants your job. I mean you're down.
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  Speaker 1: You're down to your list of candidates or Kellen Moore,
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Weaver, Mike Kafka and Darren Rizzy. That's your list,
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  Speaker 1: like let that sink in The Saints, which for a
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  Speaker 1: period had won more games over that period than any
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  Speaker 1: other franchise in the NFL. Are Now this, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're a pilot rubble all the things we've talked about.
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  Speaker 1: You got an eight, you're the four fourth oldest roster,
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  Speaker 1: you got tons of bad contracts, you have the most
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  Speaker 1: dead money. Next year you get the most, you have
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  Speaker 1: the least cap space, the most uh money money over
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  Speaker 1: the cap.
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  Speaker 4: It's you don't have a quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: You're in a terrible spot, and nobody wants that job
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  Speaker 1: because they understand they're set up to fail. So who
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  Speaker 1: wants to take that job and fail. You got to
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  Speaker 1: take someone who has nothing to lose or has enough
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  Speaker 1: of a long tail to get another opportunity somewhere else.
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  Speaker 4: Won't be Drew Brees could be. Mike Kafka.
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  Speaker 1: Mike calf gave an interview uh to otb out at
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  Speaker 1: at on Radio Row at the Senior Bowl, and this
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  Speaker 1: is really good. He sat down with T Bob and
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  Speaker 1: he talked about the interview process with the New Orleans Saints.
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  Speaker 4: It's pretty open about it.
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  Speaker 5: Very well run Mickey and his staff. I mean there
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  Speaker 5: were five or six guys in the room. You know,
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  Speaker 5: the first one was a zoom, so just kind of
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  Speaker 5: get to know, Yeah, pretty easy conversation, low level kind
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  Speaker 5: of philosophy stuff. Then we flew out a few days
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  Speaker 5: ago and I was in New Orleans, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: we were able to kind of sit face to face
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  Speaker 5: and talk about all of those principles and all those
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  Speaker 5: standards and your practice schedules and how you're going to
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  Speaker 5: respond to certain things throughout the year and the off
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  Speaker 5: season in season, different players, your experiences, so it's very
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  Speaker 5: well rounded. Every interview I've been on has been different.
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  Speaker 5: This one just happened to be a little bit more
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  Speaker 5: face to face and a little bit more details in
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  Speaker 5: terms of, like, you know, your scheduling and just there
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  Speaker 5: are some scenarios that put you in and they want
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  Speaker 5: to see how you respond.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Cafe, he's impressive, impressive young guy who's likely going
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  Speaker 1: to be a head coach. I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be this go around in New Orleans, but
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  Speaker 1: I want to keep an eye on