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Kellen Moore Begins To Build Saints Staff? | Are Doug Nussmeier & Brandon Staley Locks For OC & DC? · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: Saints have their head coach. It's Kellen Moore. By now,
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  Speaker 1: you probably know that Saints made it official on Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: via press release, and I think my thoughts on Kellen
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  Speaker 1: Moore are similar to what a lot of you probably
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  Speaker 1: think about Kellen Moore. There's a lot of excitement there.
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  Speaker 1: Guy was just the offensive coordinator for the Super Bowl champion,
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  Speaker 1: a top ten offense in every category except passing, eighth
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  Speaker 1: in total, seventh in scoring, second in rushing, and then
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  Speaker 1: twenty ninth in passing. It's just how they were able
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  Speaker 1: to win. But it's a little exciting because of the
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  Speaker 1: many different ways we've seen Kellen Moore's offenses go. In Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: they were very pass heavy with Dak Prescott and those
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  Speaker 1: receivers obviously had Justin Herbert an La year ago with
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers and then this year really riding Saquon Barkley
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  Speaker 1: in a run heavy offense. So the ability to be multiple,
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  Speaker 1: But being a good play caller, a successful play caller
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  Speaker 1: isn't the only thing you need to be a good
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  Speaker 1: head coach. Mike McDaniel in Miami is a good play
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  Speaker 1: caller when they've been healthy, and two has been healthy
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  Speaker 1: and they've had Tyreek and that thing going, they've been
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  Speaker 1: a fun, exciting offense. It's not been a great head coach.
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  Speaker 1: A big part of that is also culture and staff.
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  Speaker 1: I think Kellen Moore is going to be fine when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to culture. And I'm looking at a guy
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  Speaker 1: that as a quarterback was fifty and three. He became
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  Speaker 1: the first and I get it. It's Boise State, it's
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  Speaker 1: a G five in the Mountain West. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: Dude still won fifty games. I don't care if it's
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  Speaker 1: G five, Pop Worn or D three Juco, don't matter.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty and three. You're a winner. Dude is a winner.
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  Speaker 1: I like that a lot, So I'm not so worried
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  Speaker 1: about Kellen Moore's ability to create culture. I do a
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  Speaker 1: little bit wonder about his age at thirty six. Right,
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  Speaker 1: we know the story he played against Derek Carr when
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  Speaker 1: Kellen Moore was at Boise and cars at Fresno. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: knows that story by now. But you got a dude
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  Speaker 1: at linebacker in to Mario Davis who's as old as
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  Speaker 1: the head coach. I mean, these dudes like to Mario
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  Speaker 1: and Cam Jordan, these are your team leaders. But are
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  Speaker 1: they gonna fall in line? I would assume they will
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  Speaker 1: let me. They got the C on their jersey, but
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  Speaker 1: it is something worth asking, right, But I think I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, none of us still none of us knows.
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  Speaker 1: But I think they'll be fine as far as culture.
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  Speaker 1: The other big question is Kenny hire a staff? Can
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  Speaker 1: he identify good coaches and put them in positions so
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  Speaker 1: that this team can succeed Because one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that I love about having a guy that controls one
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball is you never have to worry
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  Speaker 1: about that side of the ball if he's doing his
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  Speaker 1: job right, it's always the concern. Like the answer the
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  Speaker 1: question in Detroit this year, you hire Dan Campbell. Campbell's
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  Speaker 1: not a coordinator. He's a culture guy. And he hired
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  Speaker 1: two really good assistants in Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn
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  Speaker 1: knocked it out of the park. Okay, in one year.
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  Speaker 1: Both of those guys are gone. Now what it's a
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  Speaker 1: giant question. It's again New Orleans when Sean Payton was here.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't matter if you're oc left as long as you
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  Speaker 1: had Peyton yet the guy who had had the keys
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  Speaker 1: to the car offensively, but he had to hit defensively.
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  Speaker 1: And he did it with Dennis Allen, and he did
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  Speaker 1: it with Greg Williams, and not so much with Steve
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  Speaker 1: Spagnolo and Rob Ryant. Right, and even though you had
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  Speaker 1: Peyton breeze when you missed on the DC, you had
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  Speaker 1: good offenses, but boarded your defensive struggling. You were sub
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  Speaker 1: five hundred. So can Kellen Moore hire good assistance That's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a gigantic question. And Ian Rappaport was
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  Speaker 1: on the Insiders on the NFL network, gave a couple
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  Speaker 1: of names to watch early on in this process for
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  Speaker 1: assistants that could be joining Kellen Moore in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 2: As far as his staff goes, Doug nus Myers's quarterbacks
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  Speaker 2: coach in Philadelphia, I know would be considered a strong
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  Speaker 2: candidate to have a big role on the offensive staff,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps offensive coordinator for the new one, and Saints they
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  Speaker 2: got to go through the process there. The defensive coordinator
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  Speaker 2: should be a little more open. But I do know
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  Speaker 2: that Brandon Staley, former Chargers head coach, who came up
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  Speaker 2: as a really strong, kind of a hot shot defensive
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  Speaker 2: coordinator candidate, is going to get a long look there.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I know people will say, like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: do they have times? Can they hire a good staff? Everyone,
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  Speaker 2: like the people who are on his staff probably have
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  Speaker 2: some idea that they'll be there. They're waiting, say, Saints
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  Speaker 2: are going to be fine with Kellen Moore as their head.
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  Speaker 1: Coach, and the Saints are going to give Kellen Moore
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  Speaker 1: time and money to build a staff like he needs to.
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  Speaker 1: So if you have someone that wants to elevate, there's
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  Speaker 1: a great opportunity there. Now. Staley's interesting because this year
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  Speaker 1: he was the assistant head coach with the forty nine
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  Speaker 1: Ers after he got fired by LA with Chargers, so
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  Speaker 1: assistant head coach but not a coordinator on either side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball. The forty nine Ers just hired Robert
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  Speaker 1: Salivak as their defensive coordinator, So yeah, it would make
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  Speaker 1: sense that Staley might want to go be a coordinator again.
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  Speaker 1: So does he join Kellen Moore? Oddly, it would just
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  Speaker 1: be a role reversal. It was Staley in LA as
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  Speaker 1: the head coach who hired Moore as his OC. In
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  Speaker 1: this instance, it would be more as the head coach
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  Speaker 1: hiring Staley as his DC. But Staley has a long
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  Speaker 1: He's still a relatively young guy at forty two years
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  Speaker 1: old me relatively young. It's a relatively young guy relative
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  Speaker 1: to Kellen Moore. He's older. Kellen Moore is thirty six.
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  Speaker 1: But this guy who coached in college and then made
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  Speaker 1: his way into the NFL in twenty seventeen, outside linebackers
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  Speaker 1: with the Bears for two years, outside linebackers with the
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  Speaker 1: Broncos for a year, DC with the Rams in twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: after one year's DC with the Rams, became the head
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  Speaker 1: coach of the Chargers and he was the Chargers head
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  Speaker 1: coach for three years and had some early success. They
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  Speaker 1: just had some endgame gaffes where they just choked away
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  Speaker 1: one score games nine and eight his first year, ten
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  Speaker 1: and seven his second year, then five and nine and
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  Speaker 1: he was fired in LA. But I like the idea
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  Speaker 1: of getting a coach that has head coaching experience on
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  Speaker 1: staff that might be able to help with some of
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  Speaker 1: those things that come along with being a head coach
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  Speaker 1: that Kellen Moore hasn't experienced. So yes, I go in
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  Speaker 1: getting a more experienced veteran coach, even at forty two
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  Speaker 1: years old. But Staley's been a head coach in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: which helps to have that experience on staff. Doug Nussmeyer
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  Speaker 1: is the other guy that he mentioned there that Rapapot
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  Speaker 1: mentioned nus Meyer. This is one that listen for a
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  Speaker 1: very obvious local tie that makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 1: His son Garrett is the coach at as the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: excuse me at LSU. Bringing Doug closer to Garrett would
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  Speaker 1: make a lot of sense. Doug has ties to the
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  Speaker 1: organization as we know. He came into the NFL when
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  Speaker 1: he was drafted by the Saints back in nineteen ninety four.
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  Speaker 1: He was with the Saints from ninety four to ninety seven.
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  Speaker 1: Became a coach in two thousand and one in the
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  Speaker 1: CFL with the BC Lions. He was with Ottawa and
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  Speaker 1: he has made his way through the ranks, both college
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  Speaker 1: and pro, from Michigan State to the Rams, to Fresno State,
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  Speaker 1: to Washington, to Alabama, to Michigan to Florida, then to
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys now than to the Chargers for a year,
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  Speaker 1: Chargers for a year with Kellen Moore, and then to
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  Speaker 1: the Eagle so Kellen Moore. And by the ways that
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  Speaker 1: Dallas earlier, so dougnus Meyern Kellen Moore overlapped when Kellen
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  Speaker 1: Moore was the OC in Dallas, Doug nus Meyer was
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  Speaker 1: the quarterbacks coach, so they overlapped in Dallas. They overlapped
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  Speaker 1: with the Chargers in twenty twenty three, and then this
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  Speaker 1: year in Philly. So every year since twenty eighteen, Doug
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  Speaker 1: nus Meyern and Kellen Moore have been on the same staff.
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  Speaker 1: You have some great synergy there with those two guys.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously Doug nus Meyer played quarterback in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: As a respected coach at every level he's been, I
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  Speaker 1: would love that higher if it's Doug nus Meyer. The
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  Speaker 1: other name that we've heard so far is one more
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  Speaker 1: Eagles assistant whose name is Kevin Petullo. So we had
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  Speaker 1: this up early today at Louisiana Sports Dot ed if
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  Speaker 1: you want to go read about it, but Jeremy Fowler
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  Speaker 1: from ESPN was the first to report it said, Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Petullo is a name to file away a. Patullo was
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  Speaker 1: the associated head coach and pass game coordinator with the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles this year and could very well be a name
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  Speaker 1: that Kellen Moore is interested in bringing in New Orleans,
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  Speaker 1: but also could be the guy that Nick Siriani promotes
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  Speaker 1: internally to be the OC in Philly with Kellen Moore
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  Speaker 1: leaving for New Orleans. Another guy who's a young guy's
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  Speaker 1: forty three, so he's a year older than Brandon Staley.
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  Speaker 1: But he's been in the NFL since two thousand and seven.
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  Speaker 1: One year was an exception in twenty seventeen, he coached
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  Speaker 1: one year as a defensive analyst with Texas A and
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  Speaker 1: M But every other year since O seven, he's been
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. Three seasons with the Colts, the last
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  Speaker 1: four with the Eagles. He'd also been with the Chiefs, Bills, Titans,
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  Speaker 1: and Jets, so he's been around the league. That's another
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  Speaker 1: NFL seasoned coach that's still a relatively young guy who
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  Speaker 1: could join Kellen moore staff. So some of the names
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  Speaker 1: worth keeping an eye on as Kellen Moore now starts
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  Speaker 1: to build his staff, and you know, I think that's
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  Speaker 1: going to be the big question for Kellen Moore is
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  Speaker 1: build your staff, build the culture, and even more important
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  Speaker 1: than that, start to get this roster back in shape
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  Speaker 1: where you can compete. The big question is how much
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  Speaker 1: of that is going to be Kellen Moore, how much
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  Speaker 1: of that is going to be Mickey Loomis, how much
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  Speaker 1: of that is going to be the two in tandem.
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  Speaker 1: When Sean Payton was the coach, he was intimately involved
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  Speaker 1: in all those decisions about personnel. You get the sense
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  Speaker 1: that maybe that wasn't the case with Dennis Allen. What's
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  Speaker 1: it going to be like with Kelvin Moore. We'll start
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  Speaker 1: to find out in short order.