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Saints Center Erik McCoy Trending Toward Return | New York Giants Place Key Defender On IR · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: with reporters here as the Saints get ready to head
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  Speaker 1: up to New York to take on the Giants, and
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  Speaker 1: there might be a little bit of good news for
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans. I don't know how much it really tremendously
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  Speaker 1: matters right now, considering that the mathematical probability of the
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  Speaker 1: Saints making the playoffs now is less than one percent,
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  Speaker 1: so that stinks. But it looks like Eric McCoy Lucas Patrick,
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  Speaker 1: both who missed this past game, could be on track
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  Speaker 1: to return for the game against the Giants this week.
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  Speaker 2: I think that Eric work out to see him play,
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  Speaker 2: But theraph olcoy, yeah, everything's I'm on track for him
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  Speaker 2: right now to be ready to roll this week, and
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  Speaker 2: so he should be back out there Wednesday. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll wait and see on Lucas as well. Hopefully, I
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  Speaker 2: think I think him and Lucas are both trending in
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  Speaker 2: the right direction hopefully to get them out there Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: So that'll be good.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the Giants defense hasn't been awful. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they're right in the middle of the pack of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL either eighteenth in scoring defense, set at twenty three
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  Speaker 1: twenty three points per game. And you know, for New Orleans,
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  Speaker 1: the key to this offense has been the ability to
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  Speaker 1: run the football and that really goes back to the
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  Speaker 1: first two weeks against Carolina and Dallas, when we all
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  Speaker 1: saw it, when the offensive line was healthy, when the
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  Speaker 1: wide zone plays with all the motion we're running so effectively.
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  Speaker 1: It was all the things that we kind of talked
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  Speaker 1: about through camp in this offseason with Clint Kubiak coming in.
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  Speaker 1: And then we know what happened. Eric McCoy got hurt,
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  Speaker 1: Lucas Patrick got hurt. You had this revolving door at
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  Speaker 1: center and guard, and then Taysom Hill was hurt, and
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  Speaker 1: then Derek Carr. You're down to Lave and Shaheed as
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  Speaker 1: we know as well, it's just been just one body
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  Speaker 1: blow after another for this team. But if you get
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  Speaker 1: McCoy and Patrick back with Alvin Kamara, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: about one hundred yards away from his first one thousand
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  Speaker 1: yard rushing season of his career, this could be a
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  Speaker 1: pretty big day for the Saints on the ground. The
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  Speaker 1: Giants are the fourth worst run defense in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: They allow one hundred and forty five yards a game.
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  Speaker 1: Now the Saints are only three spots better at one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty six yards per game. So the Saints
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  Speaker 1: have really struggled against the run, but probably the Giants
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  Speaker 1: are even worse. And then we did learn on Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: that Dexter Lawrence, big interior defensive lineman for the Giants,
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  Speaker 1: he's done for the season and he's had ninety six
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  Speaker 1: pressures when lined up at nose tackle. The next closest player,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, according to PFF, has nineteen. Said that again,
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  Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence has ninety six pressures when lined up at
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  Speaker 1: nose tackle this year. The next closest player has nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: He's an awesome interior defensive lineman and he's done for
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  Speaker 1: the year. So you're taking a massive piece out of
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  Speaker 1: the middle of that defense. Let me remind you what
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  Speaker 1: it was like when when the Saints were playing the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles and Eric McCoy went down after the third snap
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  Speaker 1: and Lucas Patrick had to jump in there and play
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  Speaker 1: center against that What was it even Patrick? I think
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  Speaker 1: Patrick stayed at guard. I don't even remember. Maybe shanelm
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  Speaker 1: you went I think Patrick stayed at guard. Shanelm you
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  Speaker 1: went in at center and had a block that Mons
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  Speaker 1: from Georgia. Yeah, how did that go over?
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  Speaker 2: Not great?
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean Jalen Carter showed you what a dominant
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  Speaker 1: interior player can do against a backup offensive lineman. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if you're basically reversing that now, if Eric McCoy is
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  Speaker 1: back and Dexter Lawrence isn't there huge huge win benefit
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  Speaker 1: for the New Orleans Saints ever were to play out
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  Speaker 1: that way. The other thing the Saints may get is
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  Speaker 1: Kendre Miller back now. Darren Rizzy on Monday said the
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  Speaker 1: Saints have opened the twenty one day window for Kendre
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  Speaker 1: Miller to return. The question is when he returns, are
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  Speaker 1: you gonna use him? I mean, remember back in training camp,
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Allen said point blank. It's hard to make the
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  Speaker 1: team if you're always in the training room. Talking about
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  Speaker 1: Kendre Miller, he was asked what they expect from Miller.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I don't know. We haven't seen enough of him.
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  Speaker 1: He's never healthy. Kendre Miller was very much in Dennis
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  Speaker 1: Allen's doghouse. So does he have a clean slate here
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  Speaker 1: with Darren Rizzy Go.
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  Speaker 2: A few weeks ago. I tried to give everybody clean slates.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have a doghouse. Kendra and I met the
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  Speaker 2: first day, you know that I took over and we
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  Speaker 2: had a great conversation, and I told him just that.
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  Speaker 2: I told me he had a clean slate moving forward,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm gonna judge him by, you know, based on
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  Speaker 2: what he does from that day moving forward. And like
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  Speaker 2: I said, there's no one that's ever going to sit
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  Speaker 2: here in doubt that this guy's a talented guy. His
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  Speaker 2: thing is going to be consistency and staying healthy.
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  Speaker 1: The Saints are a five point road favorite over the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: It opened at three and a half. It's up to five.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the Saints are to tell you how bad
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  Speaker 1: the Giants are. The Saints are a four and eight
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  Speaker 1: football team with one of the worst defenses in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Marry five point road favorite against the Giants this week.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants are a mess. There are troches at two
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  Speaker 1: and ten. They might literally be the worst team in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL right now. This is one of two remaining
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  Speaker 1: games I think the Saints can get. I think you
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  Speaker 1: get this one and the game at home against the Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: Let's even go get it on Sunday and maybe with
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  Speaker 1: a healthy offensive line in the way.