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Cam Jordan Could Miss Saints Season Opener — Here’s Why That Might Be a Good Thing · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: Cam Jordan went down with a hamstring injury. He has
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  Speaker 1: now missed three consecutive workouts, one of them of course,
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  Speaker 1: when he was up in Canton for Drew Brees' Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame and Triman ceremony on Saturday. But after practice
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  Speaker 1: here on Tuesday, Kellen Moore met with reporters and gave
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  Speaker 1: an update on Cam Jordan's hamstring injury.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously he'll continue to evaluate it. Obviously he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: miss a little bit of time and we'll just continue
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  Speaker 2: to kind of take that, you know, every few days,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see where it takes us.
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  Speaker 1: Well, every few days is one way of putting it.
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  Speaker 1: The reporters there in a tendants pressed and tried to
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  Speaker 1: get a little bit more of a timeline. Is hamstrings,
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  Speaker 1: depending on the grade of hamstring strain, can have obviously
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  Speaker 1: a varying degree of recovery time. They sort of pressed
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  Speaker 1: Kellen a little bit there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see. I mean, it could possibly get into
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  Speaker 2: the season, but you never know. So, you know, these
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  Speaker 2: things you just gotta take have some patience with it,
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  Speaker 2: let it take its course, and we'll collect more and
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  Speaker 2: more information as we got.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So it's one thing for Cam Jordan to be
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  Speaker 1: sidelined with a hamstring injury. Maybe days, we'll see, take
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  Speaker 1: it easy, veteran player, thirty seven years old, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's another when you start talking about, okay, this could
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  Speaker 1: linger into the season. Now I want to present to
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  Speaker 1: you a silver lining here with this Cam Jordan news
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  Speaker 1: number one, y'all, Veterans don't need training camp. Veterans don't
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  Speaker 1: need training camp. Y'all. Remember, for like half a decade,
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  Speaker 1: every year Brett Favre would retire and then like he
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  Speaker 1: just hang out on the fall in Mississippi ride his
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  Speaker 1: tractor riding is John Dere and then like god, the
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  Speaker 1: end of training camp two three preseason games in Brett Farvard,
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  Speaker 1: hop on a plane up to Green Bay or up
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  Speaker 1: to Minnesota, up to the Jets wherever he was going
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  Speaker 1: to play that year, and then he walk in like
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  Speaker 1: the light night suit up for like a driver or
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  Speaker 1: two in the final preseason game, and then go play. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Cam Jordan's thirty seven years old, He's played fifteen seasons
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. He is destined for the Pro Football
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame one day. He's got over one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty five sacks. Came Jordan. Don't need a preseason,
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  Speaker 1: he don't need training camp, he don't need none of this.
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  Speaker 1: Cam Jordan just needs to be healthy when the Saints
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  Speaker 1: open up Week one in Detroit against the Lions, ready
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  Speaker 1: to give the thirty forty snaps whatever it may be,
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  Speaker 1: and to hopefully be a demon off the edge like
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  Speaker 1: he was a season ago. That's all I need from
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  Speaker 1: Camp Jordan's How many times do we see veteran days off,
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  Speaker 1: not only in the like in camp, but like during
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  Speaker 1: the season, Guys get veteran rest days like it's literally
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  Speaker 1: a thing on the injury report. I don't care if
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  Speaker 1: Cam Jordan ever practices again, literally ever. Also in fifteen years.
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  Speaker 1: Cam Jordan has missed one football game one in fifteen years.
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  Speaker 1: And he ain't a punter y'all. He plays one of
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  Speaker 1: the most physical positions you could possibly play, hand in
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  Speaker 1: the dirt, tangling with three hundred pound offensive linemen every
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  Speaker 1: single sap. So I do not worry about Cam Jordan
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  Speaker 1: being available, being durable, being effective, all that stuff. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm not concerned in any way. I also look at
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  Speaker 1: this with Cam Jordan's injury and maybe being sidelined actually
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  Speaker 1: is a really great opportunity for some of the young
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  Speaker 1: guys on this team at that position to get reps
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  Speaker 1: and build depth. You know what you have already there
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  Speaker 1: on your front line. You paid Chase Young. He was
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  Speaker 1: a double digit sack guy a season ago. Remember he
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  Speaker 1: missed the first four games of the season and still
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  Speaker 1: was a double digit sack guy a year ago. So
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  Speaker 1: despite missing the first you know, the first quarter of
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  Speaker 1: the season, still had an awesome year. Carl Granderson's on
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  Speaker 1: the other side, had six sacks last year as well.
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  Speaker 1: You brought in Tyree Wilson, the former first round draft pick.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Anthony Jennings as well, who you brought in
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  Speaker 1: from New England. Although the asteris there is that Anthonty
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  Speaker 1: Jennings is officially listed as a linebacker, kind of that
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  Speaker 1: outside linebacker edge. It's all ambiguous now how they list
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  Speaker 1: guys or you a linebacker, you an dress, he's a
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  Speaker 1: but he's officially listed as a linebacker anyway. With Cam
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  Speaker 1: Jordan not there, like everybody moves up a chair, so
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  Speaker 1: whatever reps Cam would normally be getting in practice, those
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  Speaker 1: reps go somewhere else, so everyone gets. I mean, unless
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  Speaker 1: if you add a play while Cam's out, if you
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  Speaker 1: add a player to the roster at that position, which
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they will. I think they'll just use
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to get more guys reps. And maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: Chris Rump, who really has an uphill climb to make
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  Speaker 1: the team this year. Maybe it's Fidil Diggs, who used
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  Speaker 1: a draft pick on coming out of Texas A and
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  Speaker 1: M who you know, Texas A and M Syracuse was
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  Speaker 1: a really athletic edge but still trying to find his
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  Speaker 1: way in the NFL, whatever role that may be. And
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  Speaker 1: then the guy who we've talked about plenty on all
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  Speaker 1: of our camp reports, who actually as a UDFA, came
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  Speaker 1: on the show after he was signed with the Saints
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  Speaker 1: as an undrafted free agent. Michael Heldman from Central Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: Ross Jackson's talked about Hellman over and over and over
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  Speaker 1: again and all of our camp reports, because that's a
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  Speaker 1: guy who was a team cap in, was massively productive
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  Speaker 1: during his college career when undrafted. But you look at
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  Speaker 1: Michael Heldman six' four to, seventy he kind of looks
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  Speaker 1: like the mold Of Cam jordan as an, edge, right
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  Speaker 1: the bigger sort of really prototypical like three four edge
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  Speaker 1: who can pressure but can also help in run. Defense
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  Speaker 1: like that's this guy in the. Mold he's gonna have
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  Speaker 1: a tough time making the team just because of, numbers
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  Speaker 1: like we talked about With cam And Jay young And
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  Speaker 1: granderson And Tyree, Wilson like there may not be a
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  Speaker 1: spot for, him but it may be a guy, who
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  Speaker 1: as you're thinking of how you make the numbers, work
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  Speaker 1: maybe he makes the first fifty. Three remember we always
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  Speaker 1: talked about, it it's never the first fifty, three like
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  Speaker 1: the final the final fifty three is never the first fifty,
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  Speaker 1: three if that makes. Sense so whenever they do the
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  Speaker 1: final fifty three man roster a day, later you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: see guys who make the fifty three cut and sign
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  Speaker 1: to the practice. Squad you're just trying to protect your
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  Speaker 1: guys who you want to keep and be able to
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  Speaker 1: sign to the practice. Squad this is a great opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for a guy Like Michael, heldman who in theory would
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  Speaker 1: get more reps With Cam jordan. Out i'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: he's Getting cam's, reps but everyone moves up a, chair
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  Speaker 1: so he'll get more reps on the depth. Chart so
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  Speaker 1: that's one of those things that as we look ahead
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  Speaker 1: to the first preseason, game you, know coming Up saturday
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  Speaker 1: in The dome Against jacksonville and The saints and The
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  Speaker 1: jags doing joint, practices if you want a position group
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  Speaker 1: to watch for very many obvious, reasons we're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: watching the. Receivers you're drafted three of, him including a guy. Ninth,
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  Speaker 1: overall we're gonna look at a lot of those position
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  Speaker 1: groups that we know and where the position battles. Are,
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  Speaker 1: linebacker but ed rusher is something where maybe there's a
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  Speaker 1: spot up for grabs and there's more reps to be
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  Speaker 1: had With cam's sideline right. Now So i'm not worried
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  Speaker 1: About Cam jordan just need him there week one Against,
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  Speaker 1: detroit And cam's fifteen year history says this guy deserves
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  Speaker 1: the benefit of the doll to get himself healthy and
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  Speaker 1: ready to play against the lines week. One What i'm
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  Speaker 1: more interested in is who takes advantage of the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: With cam on the sideline for however long it may.
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  Speaker 1: Be if it does linger toward the regular, season As kellimore,
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  Speaker 1: said it just might