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Beau Lowery Shares Incredible Drew Brees Stories Ahead of Hall of Fame Induction · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: Brees we'll be enshrining to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: We've heard from a lot of people, former players, teammates, coaches,
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  Speaker 1: people who know Drew well. Someone may be quite literally
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  Speaker 1: who better than anyone off the field, k new Drew
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  Speaker 1: Brees during his time in New Orleans. Bow Lowry, who
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  Speaker 1: is the director of sports Medicine for the New Orleans Saints,
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  Speaker 1: had a nine year running there from twenty twelve to
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. He came to LSU and then or
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  Speaker 1: back to LSU, I should say, and then Sean Payton
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  Speaker 1: scooped him up and brought him to Denver. You can
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  Speaker 1: hardly blame him though he's the VP of player health
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  Speaker 1: and performance right now for the Broncos and Bo Lowry's
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  Speaker 1: good enough to join us for a couple minutes. Yo, man,
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  Speaker 1: it's great to hear he are you?
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  Speaker 2: How are you good man? Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, It's our pleasure, especially considering the occasion. If I
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  Speaker 1: were to ask, like, how many hours over nine years
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  Speaker 1: did you spend with Drew Breesh.
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  Speaker 2: Estimated during the season, we wound up spending more time
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  Speaker 2: together probably than we did with our families, so a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just want to put some context on it
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  Speaker 1: for people. If I were to ask, after spending that
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  Speaker 1: much time with Drew, what you would say is maybe
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  Speaker 1: the most consistent trait for Drew Brees as an NFL
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  Speaker 1: quarterback or an NFL player, What would you say?
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  Speaker 2: I would say his attention to detail, his work, ethic,
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  Speaker 2: who he was, and probably just just a leader. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you've heard all of the things said about Drew with
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  Speaker 2: the one thing that was sort of you know, unchanging,
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  Speaker 2: was he was the first in the building, he was
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  Speaker 2: the last to leave. And when you talk about a leader,
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  Speaker 2: like I feel like I got a PhD in leadership
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  Speaker 2: training by just being around it.
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  Speaker 1: Give me an example, but like, what's a something that
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  Speaker 1: you saw him do with teammates or in the training
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  Speaker 1: room or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's just sort of who he was. You know.
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  Speaker 2: He cared so much about the team, and he cares
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  Speaker 2: so much about the organization, and he carried that weight
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  Speaker 2: really really well. When I tell you, there would be
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  Speaker 2: times in the off season that I was usually one
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  Speaker 2: of the first ones then to get there at about
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  Speaker 2: five point thirty. And we're talking in March and April,
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  Speaker 2: and so my track was walking down the hallway and
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback set up in the tight ends room and man,
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  Speaker 2: Drew's in there watching them, and I'm like, what are
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  Speaker 2: you doing. He's like, well, I'm just sort of getting
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  Speaker 2: ready for the off season. Mine Drew the off seasons
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  Speaker 2: in a month. He's like, there's some stuff we need
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  Speaker 2: to get done, got to get better. So that's one example.
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  Speaker 2: Like he made the janitor in the building better, right
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  Speaker 2: when I talked about literally everybody when they talked to Drew,
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  Speaker 2: he made them feel like they were the most important person.
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  Speaker 2: So from a leadership perspective, when you're pulling the best
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  Speaker 2: out of everybody, I don't care if it was those
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  Speaker 2: of us in the training room, the weight room, position coaches,
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  Speaker 2: the defense, and we hadn't even talked about the other players, right, Like,
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  Speaker 2: He's spent a ton of time with his players, and
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  Speaker 2: he just wanted to know that they're going to cross
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  Speaker 2: every key, died every I tom make sure that no
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  Speaker 2: stone was left in turn in preparation for whoever the
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  Speaker 2: opponent was. So yeah, I can you can't really say
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  Speaker 2: enough good stuff. And you know, people who don't know
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  Speaker 2: him go, yeah, he can't be that good, and you go,
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  Speaker 2: I'm shoot, I'm five or five years of moves, six
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  Speaker 2: years or moved from from that, and then it's just
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  Speaker 2: like what he did is even more unrealistic than even
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  Speaker 2: when we were with him, because it was it was
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  Speaker 2: just sort of awing to be around him. It really was.
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  Speaker 1: What about I would imagine that the component you got
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  Speaker 1: to see the most too, is how he took care
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  Speaker 1: of his body, because you don't ge to play in
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  Speaker 1: your forties at that level if you're not exceptional at
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  Speaker 1: Karen for yourself. Uh, what was that like? Working with
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  Speaker 1: Drew on on on it on his body?
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  Speaker 2: Like with everything Drew did, he was very very focused
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  Speaker 2: and he was very regiment right, So like honestly for
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  Speaker 2: nine years and it evolved. But like what we did
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  Speaker 2: on Monday, from a recovery standpoint, what we did on Tuesdays,
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  Speaker 2: like it was unchanging. Like I'm telling you, at four
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  Speaker 2: o'clock on Monday afternoon, we're in the back doctor's office,
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  Speaker 2: doors shut and it's our dry knealing session. From a
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  Speaker 2: recovery standpoint. On Tuesdays, he's doing his quarterback recovery early
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  Speaker 2: in the morning, watching film. She was off day. He
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  Speaker 2: was spending eight hours at the facility getting ready far
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  Speaker 2: as a week. And on Wednesday, post practice, like when
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  Speaker 2: I tell you, regimented, like we had our art session
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  Speaker 2: that was set up that he was going to do.
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  Speaker 2: Thursday he was going to do his ban routine. Like
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  Speaker 2: Friday was recovery Friday. So yeah, literally Saturday he stayed
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  Speaker 2: at the facility longer than everybody. And I'm sure people
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  Speaker 2: have seen, like Reggie Bush came and one of drew
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  Speaker 2: last year's and the thing that Reggie said Drew would
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  Speaker 2: do on Saturdays was after we would go through all
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  Speaker 2: of our walk through, whether we're traveling or playing his home,
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  Speaker 2: he would take the script he was just to make
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  Speaker 2: sure he's prepared for everything, and he would buy himself
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  Speaker 2: walk through the game plan situations and in his head
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  Speaker 2: and get called the plays out. Like then he would
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  Speaker 2: come back and then he would jump on the Norman
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  Speaker 2: text and do some recovery stuff before he went home
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  Speaker 2: and spent through four hours prior to going to the hotel.
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  Speaker 2: So like he was so regimenes. You know where he was.
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  Speaker 2: You know, just based on what it's Friday at five o'clock,
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  Speaker 2: we know where it. Drew is.
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  Speaker 1: Bo Lowry was the director of sports medicine for the
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  Speaker 1: Saints for nine years, got to know Drew Brees exceptionally. Well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've also learned this lore of Drew plane
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  Speaker 1: through injuries, Like we've learned about the knee and the
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  Speaker 1: oblique and different things. Did he ever do anything physically Bo,
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  Speaker 1: that I mean obviously at the time nobody wanted information out. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's what it is. You can tell
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  Speaker 1: these stories, but that that really even surprised you to
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  Speaker 1: know like he was able to play and perform with that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, Drew, Drew's so tough. You know. The
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  Speaker 2: one thing I do remember it was one of his
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  Speaker 2: last years. We were flying to Tennessee and all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden, his knees really swollen and he all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden had this acute verse sighted and I look
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, I'm concerned, and he's like, hey, let's
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  Speaker 2: do some treatment on it. You know. He uh my
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  Speaker 2: nickname for him was Bodacious, and he's like, Bodacious, don't worry,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be fine. We show up, like did we
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  Speaker 2: jump off the plane in Tennessee, and we go through
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  Speaker 2: walk through and stuff. He didn't feel great. Spen a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of time that night doing the treatment stuff. And
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  Speaker 2: then during the game, I mean like he literally lit
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  Speaker 2: the Titans up and I'm over here worrying and he's like, man,
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  Speaker 2: don't don't worry about small stuff like this. I'm like
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  Speaker 2: a flowing me like I worried about. But that's just
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  Speaker 2: who he was. He's like he he put everybody else
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  Speaker 2: at ease. And so, yeah, Drew played with a lot people.
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  Speaker 2: People don't realize, you know, he had the boy that
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  Speaker 2: was what hisfteen or sixteen. There was another game like
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  Speaker 2: we had finished and he had a planar fascion issue,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, we we our docs looked at him.
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  Speaker 2: We called doctor Anderson at the time, and doctor Anderson's like, look,
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  Speaker 2: he's most people just won't play with it. It's not
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  Speaker 2: a hurting and he can play with it if he wants,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, I would think pain would be a
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  Speaker 2: limiting factor. And uh, Drew, so this isn't going to
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  Speaker 2: hurt me long term. I can play and he's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: I'll play it like and there again went out and
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  Speaker 2: just completely balled out and things like that. Was I
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  Speaker 2: was amazed at how well he played with with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of these things. And yeah, people never knew, they
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  Speaker 2: never knew.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty nineteen Saints of Titans breeze twenty seven of thirty
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  Speaker 1: eight for two seventy nine, three touchdowns, no interceptions.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yep, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: Not that, And what's it going to be like for
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  Speaker 1: you Saturday and in camp?
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  Speaker 2: And honestly, I'm just so privileged to be able to
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  Speaker 2: be there, Honestly, like Drew meant so much to so many,
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, just being able to watch this and like
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  Speaker 2: he deserves it, I never will forget. So the no
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  Speaker 2: call happens right in twenty nine team and we go
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  Speaker 2: to the locker room, like all these dudes are crying,
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  Speaker 2: just hurt and and I never will forget. True's speech
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  Speaker 2: was like, look, man, guy's got a plan. Don't know
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  Speaker 2: why this happened. It sucks, it's terrible, but guess what,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna be better for it. We're going to be
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  Speaker 2: better in the long run for it. So just thinking
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  Speaker 2: of him by specialty fight this due is so special.
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  Speaker 1: Sean Payton will will present Drew Brees on Saturday in Canton, Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: and the greatest player in Saint's history, and maybe I
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  Speaker 1: would argue the most influential athlete in the history of
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  Speaker 1: the state of Louisiana. Drew Brees will take his rightful
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  Speaker 1: place in cand Ohio. Bo Lowry will be there. Hey, man,
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  Speaker 1: it's great to hear your voice. I know in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of training camp. It's not the easiest thing to
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  Speaker 1: do to jump on a phone call and do this interview,
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  Speaker 1: but we sincerely appreciate man. Hope we cross path soon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, thanks, Matt, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks bos Bo Lowry great dude and is just phenomenal
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  Speaker 1: at what he does. Like Bo, when you talk about
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  Speaker 1: like the best in the industry of what they do
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of people don't know, like the sort
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  Speaker 1: of nameless, faceless job that people will know about behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes. That's Bo lower I mean, there's a reason
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  Speaker 1: he spent nine years with the Saints. He was commuting
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  Speaker 1: from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. Took a job at
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  Speaker 1: LSU to replace Jack Marucci, and then after what eighteen
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  Speaker 1: months maybe at LSU, Sean Payton took the Denver job.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, BO, come on, and so he moved
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  Speaker 1: to Denver. So uh, BUTO, Bo is phenomenal and how
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  Speaker 1: you could hear it? I mean as regiment as Drew
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  Speaker 1: Brees was every day he was with Bo Lowry getting
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  Speaker 1: his body right. So Bo's got a great perspective. We
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  Speaker 1: appreciate that. We appreciate the time