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Saints Make ANOTHER BAD DEAL! | New Orleans Brings Back Former First Rounder Brandin Cooks · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: season I've been asking that the New Orleans Saints get
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  Speaker 1: younger and less expensive, and Mickey Loomis continues to shoot
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  Speaker 1: But the Saints put out a tweet earlier, and as
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks doing his archer thing in a Saints uniform,
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  Speaker 1: a short time later, we get the word that the
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints have in fact brought Brandon Cooks back
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  Speaker 1: to the Big easy two years thirteen million dollar deal
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  Speaker 1: for Cooks to come back to New Orleans. A time
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  Speaker 1: when you want to see this team, this organization move on,
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  Speaker 1: they just continue to live in the past. Team needing
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  Speaker 1: to get younger and less expensive, signs a thirty one
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  Speaker 1: year old wide receiver who played in just ten games
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  Speaker 1: last year because he had a knee infection. Because that's
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  Speaker 1: super normal with healthy young people. Yet that doesn't qualify
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  Speaker 1: as getting younger and less expensive. It's the opposite of that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm not gonna hold Brandon Cooks's exit back
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  Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen against him. Now, Remember he had the
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  Speaker 1: sort of now infamous closed mouths, don't get fed line,
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  Speaker 1: sort of complaining about his lack of productivity in the offense.
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  Speaker 1: Never mind the fact that he had over eleven hundred
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  Speaker 1: receiving yards that season. It was eight years ago, he
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  Speaker 1: was twenty three years old. He was a young guy
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  Speaker 1: who was looking toward his second contract as a first
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  Speaker 1: round pick. You the Saints had drafted Michael Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not It's not this thing where I'm gonna go.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want him back now because of what happened then,
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  Speaker 1: and quite honestly, you traded him to New England. That
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  Speaker 1: netted you Ryan Ramchick, who became the best right tackle
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  Speaker 1: in football, and you had a great run after that.
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  Speaker 1: So by gones, be bygones, all that stuff. I think
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  Speaker 1: with Brandon Cooks, there's a couple of very obvious questions
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  Speaker 1: you have to ask. Number One, he has been a
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  Speaker 1: journeyman around this league despite being a pretty productive player.
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  Speaker 1: And it is very fair to wonder why, Like why
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  Speaker 1: has Brandon Cooks not really ever been able to settle
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  Speaker 1: in a spot despite his productivity, Like the Saints used
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  Speaker 1: a first round pick on him and they dealt him
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  Speaker 1: away in his prime after three seasons. New England traded
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  Speaker 1: a first round pick for him. He was in New
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  Speaker 1: England for one year, by the way, the year they
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  Speaker 1: played the Eagles in the Super Bowl and loss on
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  Speaker 1: the Philly Special, Cooks was on that New England team.
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  Speaker 1: Then they trade him to the Rams. He's in LA
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  Speaker 1: with the Rams in twenty eighteen. He was on the
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  Speaker 1: Rams team with the Nolan Nokal played in the Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl that year with the Rams when they lost incidentally
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  Speaker 1: to New England. But he spent eighteen to nineteen with
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  Speaker 1: the Rams and then they traded him to Houston, and
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  Speaker 1: so then he does spend three years in Houston and
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  Speaker 1: then the last two years in Dallas. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: his first two years in Houston, he was a thousand
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  Speaker 1: yard receiver. The production dipped, he only played thirteen games
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, goes to Dallas and you've just
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  Speaker 1: seen the production nose dive just just over six hundred
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  Speaker 1: yards receiving in twenty twenty three. This past year, as
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned, played in just ten games. His skill set
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  Speaker 1: throughout his career. When you think about Brandon Cooks and like,
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  Speaker 1: what the thing is that he does very well, It's
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  Speaker 1: the deep threat, right, It's the big playability. It's the
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  Speaker 1: over the you beat you over the top with the
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  Speaker 1: elites beat. I mean all the way back to his
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  Speaker 1: time at Oregon State when he won the Billetnikoff. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he came into the league with New Orleans as a rookie,
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  Speaker 1: averaged ten point four yards per reception. After that thirteen five, fifteen, oh, sixteen, six,
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  Speaker 1: fifteen one, thirteen nine, fourteen two's a big play waiting
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Last year ten yards per catch, lowest of
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  Speaker 1: his career, lowest receiving yard total of his career at
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  Speaker 1: two fifty nine lowis yards per catch, fewest games played,
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  Speaker 1: and the Saints.
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  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, oh yeah, Brendan Cooks the archer guy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: two years thirteen mil.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, wait, but you know, like his whole thing
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  Speaker 1: is he's a deep threat guy, and the last three
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  Speaker 1: years his production is stare stepped down. And last year
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  Speaker 1: he had the fewest yards and fewest yards per catch
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  Speaker 1: of his entire career, fewest receptions, like all of it,
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  Speaker 1: career lows and everything, games played, all of it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't worry about. That's Brendan Coox.
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  Speaker 1: We drafted him speaking a witch and he put a
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  Speaker 1: scene with Kenny Vaccaro lateley.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see. I'm bringing him back in here anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, hey, Jeff Fire, you got a number for Stefan Anthony.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get him on the phone, Sheldon Rykins.
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  Speaker 1: He's still in the league, right, Maybe we could trade
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  Speaker 1: a first round.
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  Speaker 2: Pick for him. You get the whole band back together.
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  Speaker 2: Man can't believe we let Peyton Turner get away. Reunion
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  Speaker 2: of all.
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  Speaker 1: The first round picks. I mean, the other part of
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  Speaker 1: this that makes no sense is you have a guy
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  Speaker 1: who is a younger version of Brandon.
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  Speaker 2: Cooks, Rashid Shaheeds still on your team?
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  Speaker 1: Is he not?
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  Speaker 2: Like? What are we actually doing here?
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  Speaker 1: I understand Shaheed's coming off of an injury, but all
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  Speaker 1: indications are that he's gonna be healthy to go for
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  Speaker 1: this year. And he's not thirty one years old coming
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  Speaker 1: off an injury and the least productive season of his career.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Shaheed.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, Shaheed last year before the injury was averaging
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  Speaker 1: seventeen and a half yards of catch. Uh. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what this team is doing, y'all. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know what they're doing. I just don't
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  Speaker 1: know why they're doing it. They very clearly have the
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  Speaker 1: philosophy of win now, and they're trying to spend money
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  Speaker 1: to bring in players that are gonna help them win now.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't see, and neither does anyone else. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, how any of this is helping you win now?
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  Speaker 1: How is adding How is overpaying for a thirty one
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  Speaker 1: year old wide receiver coming off the least productive year
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  Speaker 1: of his career where he missed seven games because of
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  Speaker 1: a knee infection. How is that helping you win now
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  Speaker 1: or in the future. It just doesn't make sense a
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  Speaker 1: lick what they're doing. I know what they're trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: That very clearly their actions are screaming, we are trying
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  Speaker 1: to win now. But how is adding thirty one year
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  Speaker 1: old Brandon Cooks helping you win now? You're just not
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  Speaker 1: a good roster. And all of these deals that you're
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  Speaker 1: doing have been made possible by reworking your salary cap
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  Speaker 1: to free up cash to be able to spend now
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  Speaker 1: on a team that's not gonna win a damn thing.
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  Speaker 1: And the long term cost of that is you're screwing
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  Speaker 1: up your cat for future years. Like if you were
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  Speaker 1: doing it, like if you had gone and gotten Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers and felt like this year and felt like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: we got a shot. We got one, we got one
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  Speaker 1: bite at the apple, we got one swing. Okay, go
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  Speaker 1: take your hack. But if you think that building this
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  Speaker 1: roster around Derek Carr by overpaying Juwan Johnson and overpaying
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  Speaker 1: for Brandon Cooks and bringing Justin Reid in, like that's
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  Speaker 1: the thing that's going to get it done. You're giving
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  Speaker 1: Chase Young fifty one million, like that's what's going to
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  Speaker 1: get you there. I Mean, the rest of the football
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  Speaker 1: loving world is zigging while the Saints are agging.
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  Speaker 2: It's just I don't know. Welcome back to New Orleans,
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Cooks. I'm sure it's going to be a blast.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be a blasty blast having you back, Archer stuff
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  Speaker 1: and all on the way to a five win season.
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  Speaker 2: Great