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ONE Thing To Like About Saints Free Agent Roster Moves | New Orleans Saints Football News · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: free agents on Thursday. Will Claps coming back to the Saints.
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  Speaker 1: Love that. They also added Jack Stole, a tight end
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  Speaker 1: who spent last year on the practice squad with the Eagles,
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  Speaker 1: guy who will you know, work work to try to
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  Speaker 1: earn a roster spot. And they brought Isaac Yadam back
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  Speaker 1: as well. Like the player, don't love the three year deal.
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  Speaker 1: The Saints are also bringing back Tyron Matthew and Cameron Jordan,
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  Speaker 1: and both of those veterans have reworked the final years
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  Speaker 1: of their respective deals. You can call it what you want,
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  Speaker 1: reworking it, taking a pay cut, structuring it incentive laden. Effectively,
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  Speaker 1: they're taking less to be back in New Orleans and
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  Speaker 1: I love it. Listen, Tyron's going to take an incentive
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  Speaker 1: based deal, and he played every game last year but
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  Speaker 1: dealt with shoulder, heel growing in four arm injuries, so
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  Speaker 1: his snap count was the lowest since twenty sixteen. Cam
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  Speaker 1: Jordan has seen his snap count decreased dramatically as well,
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  Speaker 1: from a guy who never came off the field, was
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  Speaker 1: only on the field for about half of the defensive
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  Speaker 1: snaps a season ago. I am you know this, like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not optimistic about the team on the field for
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Not just me. I'm gonna shared with
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  Speaker 1: you bitgo some of the odds makers of updated Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl odes since the start of free agency, the Saints
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  Speaker 1: have the third third worst ods only the Browns and Titans.
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  Speaker 1: The teams picking one and two in the draft have
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  Speaker 1: worse odds than the Saints to win the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: So there's not a lot of reason to like the
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  Speaker 1: Saints on the field. They're a five win team a
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  Speaker 1: year ago. They're running it back with most of the
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  Speaker 1: same players, and one of the things I really the
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  Speaker 1: primary thing I don't like about what they've done in
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  Speaker 1: free agency is they've continued to put money on the
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  Speaker 1: books in future years in an effort to sign guys
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  Speaker 1: to win now when I don't think they're nowhere close
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  Speaker 1: to winning anything of significance. Now, maybe you go from
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  Speaker 1: a five win team to a seven win team or
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  Speaker 1: an eight win team, what really have you done? Then
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  Speaker 1: You've still continue to mortgage your future to try to
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  Speaker 1: win now with a roster that's not capable of winning.
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  Speaker 1: So I hate that. What I do like is this.
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  Speaker 1: I like this trend of what they've done in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room, especially with a new coach. Cam Jordan, all
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  Speaker 1: time great New Orleans Saint. He's going to spend a
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  Speaker 1: year fifteen in New Orleans. He's going to retire a Saint.
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  Speaker 1: Tyron Matthew in his hometown, is going to finish his
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  Speaker 1: career with the Saints. Two veterans, great leaders, team captains,
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  Speaker 1: locker room guys. Especially with a new head coach who's
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  Speaker 1: thirty six years old, you have these veteran players in
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  Speaker 1: the locker room. I love that Devon Gotchall a Louisiana guy.
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  Speaker 1: You saw a social media post, fired up to come
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  Speaker 1: home playing his high school ball at Placuaman, college ball
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  Speaker 1: at LSU. Now getting to play for the Saints. He's
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  Speaker 1: fired up for it. Justin Reid said the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Opportunity to come to Louisiana, try to rebuild with the Saints.
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  Speaker 1: Today we learn they've resigned Will Clap. Love the addition
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  Speaker 1: of Will Clap, veteran interior offensive lineman who can play
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  Speaker 1: a guard or both guard positions, or center any of
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  Speaker 1: the three interior positions. Versatile, inexpensive player from New Orleans,
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  Speaker 1: knows the Saints, knows the culture. You've still got Foster
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  Speaker 1: Morrow on the rosters, a great leader, great team guy,
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  Speaker 1: fan favorite. A lot of that roster composition. As far
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  Speaker 1: as the character of the dudes in the locker room,
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  Speaker 1: I love that. I think that's the thing. If there's
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  Speaker 1: one thing about this roster that I like, it's that
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  Speaker 1: it's the character of the composition of the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: That's not even counting a guy like the Mario Davis
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  Speaker 1: who's still here as well. I don't think that's necessarily
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  Speaker 1: going to translate into wins this season, but I do
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  Speaker 1: like as you're trying to build culture with a new
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  Speaker 1: head coach, a new staff, a new era, I do
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  Speaker 1: like the guys you have making up this roster, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it had been really easy for Like for
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  Speaker 1: Cam Jordan, for example, it would have been really easy
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  Speaker 1: for him and understandable if he wanted to go ring chasing.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody would have faulted him with JJ. Watt's the greatest
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  Speaker 1: Houston Texan ever. He finished his career in Arizona. Houston
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  Speaker 1: was in a rebuild. They said, we're giving you the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to go somewhere where you can still play and
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  Speaker 1: have a chance to win. Didn't work out in Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: but the game a chance, I mean and Dominican sue
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  Speaker 1: that's what he did at the end of his career
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, Philly just way to have a chance to
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  Speaker 1: go win a Super Bowl. Yo. Randy Moss did this, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Remember like Randy Moss in twenty twelve. Came back into
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  Speaker 1: the NFL in twenty twelve with San Francisco. Randy Moss
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  Speaker 1: is on the Remember that Randy Mussel on the forty
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  Speaker 1: nine ers in twenty twelve, the team with Kaepernick that
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  Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl in New Orleans and lost
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  Speaker 1: to Baltimore. Like Randy Mossel's on that team, he was
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  Speaker 1: ring chasing at the end. And by the way, in
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  Speaker 1: any sport, I don't fault any guy. All you're a
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  Speaker 1: veteran player and you're trying to get one. I mean
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  Speaker 1: Karl Malone, Gary Payton playing for the Lakers and four.
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  Speaker 1: I mean try to get it. It's okay. Nobody would
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  Speaker 1: have blamed Cam Jordan at all if he would have
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  Speaker 1: gone and like, hey, maybe I can go be the
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  Speaker 1: fifty second guy on the roster in Philly or San
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  Speaker 1: Francisco or with the Bengals the Bills and played one
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  Speaker 1: year and try to win a Super Bowl Chiefs. Who knows.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody would have faulted him. We all would have understood it.
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  Speaker 1: Saints or asked him to take less. He just said, nah,
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  Speaker 1: just release me. I'll go play somewhere else, try to
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  Speaker 1: get a ring. And he still would have come back.
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  Speaker 1: One day when his name goes in the Ring of Honor,
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  Speaker 1: he'd be roundly cheered. He's going to the Saints Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame Ring of Honor. He's knocking on the door
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  Speaker 1: of the Pro Football Hall of Fame as well, and
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  Speaker 1: we're all going to celebrate him. It would have been
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  Speaker 1: totally understandable if he would have left. I mean, Emmitt
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  Speaker 1: Smith finished his career in Arizona, Jerry Rice played for
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks. I mean, we get it happens, but Cam
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  Speaker 1: said he wants to play here, wants to finish his career,
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  Speaker 1: so he took less money to be able to finish
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  Speaker 1: his career, play all fifteen seasons with the New Orleans Saints,
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  Speaker 1: and then very likely we'll retire after this season and
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  Speaker 1: go have an awesome TV media career. But while I
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  Speaker 1: don't like the makeup of this roster talent wise, and
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  Speaker 1: the financial composition this year and what you had to
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  Speaker 1: do to future years to make it work for this year, well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like how they've pushed money on a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these big contracts in the future years when you're
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  Speaker 1: not close to winning. I do like the character of
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  Speaker 1: the guys they've brought into this locker room on at
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  Speaker 1: this roster, the thirty six year old head coach. That's
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  Speaker 1: a good thing.