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Ross Jackson On The Saints 53 Man Roster Projections · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: A guy who I know loves a good hat is
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  Speaker 1: Ross Jackson, because he got one of those. Uh Ross,
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  Speaker 1: what was the hat that you made me get you
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  Speaker 1: when we were at the Super Bowl this year?
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  Speaker 2: They mailed it to me?
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  Speaker 3: Was it?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: That was the backyard backyard Baseball Yep.
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  Speaker 2: It's still sitting on my desk at my house.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I guess I should come up to bat
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  Speaker 3: Mus some time.
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  Speaker 1: Or you should have just done what we talked about
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  Speaker 1: in the Bay Area, which was you take that one,
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  Speaker 1: and when they mailed me the second one, I would
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  Speaker 1: have given it to Rivers. But instead, being the very
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  Speaker 1: polite person, you have no Rivers, you take this one.
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  Speaker 1: To know that that was that was an inefficiency in
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  Speaker 1: the system.
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  Speaker 4: Ross, Now that was that inefficiency is fine in light
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  Speaker 4: of in light of politeness in all cases.
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  Speaker 3: In all cases.
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  Speaker 2: In this is where.
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  Speaker 3: This is that there was already bestowed upon Rivers. I
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  Speaker 3: was not going to take it. That would have been rude.
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  Speaker 1: That's actually not true. It was a hat that the
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  Speaker 1: backyard sports folks gave to me when I was doing
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  Speaker 1: the interview. I did not want the hat because I
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  Speaker 1: don't arn anything about backyar sports ever played it and
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  Speaker 1: then you both were like, oh my god, I want
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  Speaker 1: it simultaneously, and that's when that happened. And then you're like, no, Rivers,
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  Speaker 1: you take it, and she's like, no, what does the.
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  Speaker 3: Mail t I goes to the runner? Rivers is the
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  Speaker 3: runner man?
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't make sense. I mean Ty goes to the runner. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, it's not actually a rule. Did you
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  Speaker 1: know that there is no rule in the book. Is
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  Speaker 1: actually not a rule in the rule book, Believe it
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  Speaker 1: or not. Okay, let's talk about other stuff. How about
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  Speaker 1: your fifty three man roster projection, taking a look at
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  Speaker 1: the offense.
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  Speaker 2: It's up at Louisiana Sports on net.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, if you want to check it out,
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  Speaker 1: you can always get it for free. This is an
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  Speaker 1: important time, I guess, or an interesting time to do
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  Speaker 1: this because all the off season work now is done,
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  Speaker 1: so there's a pre training camp roster projection. What was
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  Speaker 1: the hardest position offensively to project?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I think the toughest one was really kind of running
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  Speaker 4: back just because of the uncertainty around Alvin Kmarrett kind
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  Speaker 4: of has this built in wrinkle to where, yeah, you
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  Speaker 4: might want to keep four running backs, but you might
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  Speaker 4: not be in position to do so because the team
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  Speaker 4: might not be moved forward with any number of those
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  Speaker 4: running backs as well. So I think that was a
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  Speaker 4: big part of it. And then even beyond the Alvin
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  Speaker 4: Kamara piece, the Kendre Miller, you know, will he won't
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  Speaker 4: he be healthy going into the season and all these
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  Speaker 4: other things. Question Mark kind of came up and as
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  Speaker 4: Travis chan Junior joined, he bumps guys like Devin Neil
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  Speaker 4: and Audrick Estimate who were really vital to the teams
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  Speaker 4: running game towards the end of the season down because
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  Speaker 4: of course he jumps up to the top of that
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  Speaker 4: pecking order. So I think running back was the one
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  Speaker 4: that was the most challenging to sort of figure out
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  Speaker 4: how to suss out.
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  Speaker 1: So you have Kamara among the four backs, you do
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  Speaker 1: not have Kendre Miller.
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  Speaker 2: How do you think this all play like?
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  Speaker 1: If you would just elaborate to explain how you think
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  Speaker 1: this is all going to play out?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think part of it right now is looking
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  Speaker 4: at where does the pecking order start going into training camps.
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  Speaker 4: And as we look at what that pecking order is,
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  Speaker 4: we have to look at who participated who did not participate.
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  Speaker 3: Alvin Kamara participated. He has made it very clear that
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  Speaker 3: he wants to be a part of this roster. How
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  Speaker 3: the Saints hold.
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  Speaker 4: Up their side of that, we'll see over the coming weeks.
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  Speaker 4: But then the Kendre Miller portion of it was that
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  Speaker 4: he was injured all throughout and wasn't on the field
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  Speaker 4: outside of a couple of you know, walk through STAPs
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  Speaker 4: and things like that, and so I couldn't rightfully put
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  Speaker 4: Kendre Miller in there as an early piece of the projection,
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  Speaker 4: although training camp should provide him the opportunity, and as
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  Speaker 4: I've been told, he's expected to be good to go
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  Speaker 4: to start training camp. Now, whether that means that he's
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  Speaker 4: full go week one or if he's just kind of
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  Speaker 4: excuse me, full go day one, or if he's just
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  Speaker 4: kind of on the field day one, we'll see. But
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  Speaker 4: I understanding is that he'll be ready to go as
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  Speaker 4: training camp begins, and so now he can change that by.
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  Speaker 3: Being on the field during training camp.
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  Speaker 4: But just looking at the off season practices, who participated,
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  Speaker 4: who didn't participate, it didn't make a lot of sense
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  Speaker 4: for me to have Alba Kamara off Kendre Miller fall on.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, if Kendre Miller is healthy participations and makes the team,
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  Speaker 1: assuming Kamara is on the roster. At whose expense does
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  Speaker 1: that come?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that that's where the conversation has to
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  Speaker 4: start at Devin Neil and Audi Estimate and these guys
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  Speaker 4: that are trying to buy for roster spots, and this
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  Speaker 4: is where the NFL moves so quickly. Right, Devin Neil
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  Speaker 4: was going into his second year chilling over the course
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  Speaker 4: of the offseason, right like, oh man, there's a chance
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  Speaker 4: that I'm the second guy in this.
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  Speaker 3: Room depending on what happens with Alvin. And then all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden, Travis d.
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  Speaker 4: Changs Junior gets signed, Ty Chandler gets signed, CJ. Donaldson
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  Speaker 4: gets signed, Kendre Miller is coming back, Alvin Caparis still
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  Speaker 4: on the roster, and then you're like, oh no, this
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  Speaker 4: isn't what I thought this was going to be. And
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  Speaker 4: so it gives you a little bit of an idea
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  Speaker 4: of how quickly things change in the NFL from prospect
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  Speaker 4: to reality. And so I think that then you have
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  Speaker 4: to start looking at those guys and what happens with
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  Speaker 4: the special teams contribution. Which of them were able to
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  Speaker 4: contribute more on special teams. That's where ty Chandler potentially
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  Speaker 4: enters that conversation as well. And then now you're starting
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  Speaker 4: to figure out, Okay, who are you most likely to
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  Speaker 4: be able to get to the practice squad if you're
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  Speaker 4: not going to have them on the active roster. So
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  Speaker 4: really that conversation just comes down to sort of that
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  Speaker 4: duo or trio if you include ty Chandler special teams.
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  Speaker 4: Document comes down to a conversation of those guys both
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  Speaker 4: Kamara and Kendre Miller on that roster.
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  Speaker 1: Ross Jackson's our guest Locked on Saints podcast, Louisiana Sports
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  Speaker 1: dot Net, So red listen, watch all Free. He's at
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  Speaker 1: Ross Jackson, Nola. So if running back was the toughest
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  Speaker 1: to project, I would assume receiver was the easiest to project.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that one was pretty simple because really the only
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  Speaker 4: question was how many do you keep?
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  Speaker 3: You keep five or do you keep six? And with
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  Speaker 3: one of those guys.
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  Speaker 4: Berry On Brown from Relisi, Tiger Go Huckeon, that ends
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  Speaker 4: up being in you know, a guy that can be
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  Speaker 4: a primary returner for you. Uh, it makes it sort
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  Speaker 4: of logical for you to maybe keep an extra receiver
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  Speaker 4: there what we would call an.
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  Speaker 3: Extra receiver with six as opposed to.
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  Speaker 4: Five, and so kind of looking at the way that
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  Speaker 4: everything panned out over the course of the off season,
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  Speaker 4: you assume they're you know, Chris Olave, Devon Vele, Jordan
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  Speaker 4: Tyson are of course at the top of that. And
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  Speaker 4: then you have your two rookies and Bryce Land strafted
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  Speaker 4: in the fourth round, and barry On Brown who said
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  Speaker 4: to be your primary returner. Those guys are on the roster.
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  Speaker 4: That's five if you keep a six. Right now, Jalen
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  Speaker 4: Polk was the guy that looked the most polished over
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  Speaker 4: the course of the offseason training camp for portion, so
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  Speaker 4: for the early foundation set, it feels like he would
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  Speaker 4: be the guy that right now maybe has that sort
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  Speaker 4: of early lead on that final spot with other players
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  Speaker 4: like Kevin Austin Junior and Trey Palmer and others looking
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  Speaker 4: to compete.
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  Speaker 1: By the time do you get the camp, what about
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  Speaker 1: offensive line? You have them keeping ten. How so we
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  Speaker 1: know that the five starters are in trench. That goes
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  Speaker 1: without saying, walk me through what you're looking at there
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  Speaker 1: with with the backups.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the biggest thing is it depends on
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  Speaker 4: Alan Harron, the Maryland undrafted free agent tackle where they
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  Speaker 4: gave a two hundred and seventy seventy five or seventy
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  Speaker 4: six and a half two hundred and seventy six and
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  Speaker 4: a half thousand dollars kind of guarantee on his undrafted
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  Speaker 4: free agent contract, which is a pretty sizable guarantee to give.
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  Speaker 4: That's typically indicative of a player that you'd like to
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  Speaker 4: get to the active roster or a player that you
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  Speaker 4: had to kind of bargain with and compete with other
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  Speaker 4: teams in order to sign.
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  Speaker 3: So letting him go to the practice squad might be
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  Speaker 3: a little bit trickier.
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  Speaker 4: So he's the reason why there's ten instead of nine there,
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  Speaker 4: and so for me keeping Dylan Raiden's stature sixth guy,
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  Speaker 4: he's your swing player that can play guard and tackle.
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  Speaker 4: He can be your jumbo set guy as well. That's
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  Speaker 4: an easy one touris La Simpkins right now is set
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  Speaker 4: to be the backup center. He would like to have
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  Speaker 4: a primary backup center on this roster. We saw the
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  Speaker 4: value of that in Luke Fortner last year, So I
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  Speaker 4: think Simpkins is the guy that can kind of bolster
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  Speaker 4: up to that.
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  Speaker 3: And then Awesome Richards is really the only other guy
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  Speaker 3: the Thinks traded for him during.
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  Speaker 4: The preseason last year from the Dallas Cowboys. He's really
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  Speaker 4: the only other guy that's taking tackle snaps for this
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  Speaker 4: team that's not named Calvin Banks Junior or l A. S.
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  Speaker 4: Flonga because those tackles were mostly healthy throughout the season
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  Speaker 4: last year. And so it was sort of just figuring out, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: who are the guys that have the most playing experience,
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  Speaker 4: have the most exposure, and who do you keep around?
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  Speaker 4: And then the card was the Alan Herron of it all,
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  Speaker 4: the player from Westmoreland, Jamaica who signed as the UDFA
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  Speaker 4: didn't miss a single game during his collegiate days. Just
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  Speaker 4: you know, an overall just really athletic guy that they're
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  Speaker 4: really really excited about.
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  Speaker 3: He was kind of the biggest wild card for right now.
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  Speaker 4: I kept him on that fifty three Van Rossi projection,
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  Speaker 4: but if the Saints feel comfortable about being able to
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  Speaker 4: swing him over to the practice squad, you could potentially
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  Speaker 4: see them nine there instead of down.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, great stuff as always get him at Ross Jackson, NOLA.
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  Speaker 1: You can listen or watch for free Luck on Saints Christ.
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  Speaker 1: You can always read his work at Louisiana Sports dot net.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Ross, appreciate you, man, Thank you buddy.
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  Speaker 4: Take us to safe Talk to you soon.
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  Speaker 2: I man, we'll do it again soon. It's after further