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PREDICTION: Saints Visit Buccaneers To Close 2024 Season · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: head to Tampa and that division is up for grabs
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  Speaker 1: with Tampa and Atlanta. It's pretty easy. If Tampa beats
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  Speaker 1: the Saints, Tampa wins the division. If Tampa is to
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  Speaker 1: the Saints, then the Falcons win the division and go
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  Speaker 1: on to the playoffs. I always say that listen, I
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  Speaker 1: will only I won't share against my team unless if
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  Speaker 1: losing is a direct benefit to my team, so like
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  Speaker 1: I would never cheer for my team to lose a game.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of those instant though, where I think
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  Speaker 1: the Saints losing actually helps a Saints win, and getting
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  Speaker 1: to six and eleven doesn't do anything materially for you.
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  Speaker 1: You're out of the playoffs. I don't know that a
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  Speaker 1: win in Tampa does anything long term for you. What
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  Speaker 1: I would be fearful of, quote unquote fear fly that's
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  Speaker 1: probably not even that's too strong of a word hesitant
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  Speaker 1: is if Atlanta does win the division, then Michael Penix
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  Speaker 1: gets to go get playoff experience. And listen, I know
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  Speaker 1: what Baker Mayfield is, but the Bucks won the division
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  Speaker 1: last year. I mean they've This isn't new for them,
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  Speaker 1: Tampa winning the division with Baker in advance. I mean
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  Speaker 1: it's they did it last year with Baker, so that
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  Speaker 1: that would be nothing new if they won the division advanced.
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  Speaker 1: But Atlanta winning the division and Penick's getting playoff experience
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  Speaker 1: is something I don't want to see. So I think
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those instances where the Saints losing the
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  Speaker 1: possibility of getting a better draft pick. As Mike Triplett
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  Speaker 1: told us, you could get as high as eight. So
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  Speaker 1: if the Saints lose, the Raiders and the Bears both win,
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  Speaker 1: the Saints could go as high as eight, but you
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  Speaker 1: won't go any lower than tenth. Losing probably is better
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  Speaker 1: big picture in the macro for New Orleans. Remember the
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  Speaker 1: Saints played Tampa earlier this year, Rattler got the start,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a game where in the first half
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  Speaker 1: Spencer Ratler actually looked pretty good. The Saints got down
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  Speaker 1: seventeen to nothing and then boom, the offense caught fire,
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  Speaker 1: had a twenty seven point second quarter, and then the
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  Speaker 1: avalanche came. The Saints lost fifty one to twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: and the offense never got in gear under Rattler the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the way. After that fifty one to twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven loss to Tampa, they lost thirty three to ten
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  Speaker 1: on Thirdday night to the Broncos, then played the Chargers
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  Speaker 1: and lost twenty six to eight. So over the next
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  Speaker 1: ten quarters they scored eighteen points. I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: it's definitively better. You're not gonna have Derek Carr. Alvin
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  Speaker 1: Kamara is doubtful for this game. We know there's no
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  Speaker 1: Taysom Hill. It's all the things that we've talked about.
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  Speaker 1: You're down a couple of offensive linemen. I just don't
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  Speaker 1: know how we materially look at the Saints as a
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  Speaker 1: two touchdown underdog with a bunch of backups on offense
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  Speaker 1: going on the road to Tampa, a team that's playing
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  Speaker 1: to win the division and playing for their playoff lives.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how we could think the Saints are
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  Speaker 1: going to go on the road and magically playgraded and
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  Speaker 1: win this game. It's all the things we've talked about
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  Speaker 1: now all season. You've got a team that's been injured
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  Speaker 1: all season. Even at their best isn't very good. I
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  Speaker 1: don't assume they're gonna be any better on Sunday. I
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  Speaker 1: think the Saints will lose. I'm not going to take
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  Speaker 1: a stab at a score. It's when you have this
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  Speaker 1: many backups playing. I don't fool around with points spreads
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  Speaker 1: and betting games like this. Look if you want to
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  Speaker 1: go bet Cleveland and take twenty points and hope that
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland somehow finds a way to keep that game with
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore close, God bless you. I'm not that big of
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  Speaker 1: a degenerate that I would care I would care to
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  Speaker 1: wager anything on that game. But this is what I'll watch.
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  Speaker 1: I'll continue to watch and see if Spencer Ratler plays well.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see how Clyde Edward z Lair does, and probably
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  Speaker 1: a starring role. With Kendre Miller out, Alvin Kamara doubtful.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably a heavy load for Clyde in this game,
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  Speaker 1: which would be cool to see him play. You can
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  Speaker 1: watch some of the veterans because you don't know a
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  Speaker 1: guy like Cam Jordan or Tyron Matthew. Could they be
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  Speaker 1: playing their last game for the New Orleans Saints. Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: So those are things that are subplots worth watching, But
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  Speaker 1: the game itself, there's not a whole lot there. The
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  Speaker 1: bigger and more interesting conversation involving the New Orleans Saints
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  Speaker 1: is what they're going to do and hiring their next
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  Speaker 1: head coach in the direction the organization is going to take,
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  Speaker 1: and that's something that will dominate headlines Sunday starting get
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  Speaker 1: three to five as soon as that game goes final
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  Speaker 1: down in Tampa. But I do expect the Bucks to win.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully the Raiders and Bears play well and win, and
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  Speaker 1: the Saints are able to move up to the eighth
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  Speaker 1: spot in the draft and being as good a position
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  Speaker 1: as possible to start moving the organization forward. But just
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  Speaker 1: really feel, with all the bad contracts, this is an
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  Speaker 1: organization that's going to keep going backwards before it can
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  Speaker 1: start moving forward again