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REACTION: Saints 14, Giants 11 | Bresee Shines, Derek Carr Injured · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: Of those things where Darren Rizzy came in said, he
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  Speaker 1: gave everybody a clean slate. Had a one on one
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  Speaker 1: with Kendre Miller and body. Miller maximized that opportunity. One
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  Speaker 1: of my big takeaways. Just ten ten carries for just
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  Speaker 1: thirty two yards with that touchdown run. The balance on
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  Speaker 1: a sideline run. If you watch the game, Miller was
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  Speaker 1: hend to the sideline spun back in dove to the sticks,
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  Speaker 1: great awareness and balance. I had a thirty one yard
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  Speaker 1: kickoff return as well. Really really nice day for Kendrey Miller.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, here was Darren Rizzy on Kendre Miller's return.
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  Speaker 2: Kendre again is showing you why we drafted him where
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  Speaker 2: we drafted him. He made some really really dynamic runs.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, you know, Kendra has a unique ability of
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  Speaker 2: making an eight yard run look really really good, you know,
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  Speaker 2: making people miss getting some tough yards and again just
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  Speaker 2: a small sample there, but again the touchdown run he
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  Speaker 2: has where he just keeps his you know parent And
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  Speaker 2: when I talked about in the beginning we could change
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  Speaker 2: a pace back, That's really what I was talking about.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a guy that can just have a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a different style and it's a big deal,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we'll losing taste them. You know, we don't
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  Speaker 2: become one dimensional with Alvin. We have another guy that's
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  Speaker 2: that can get some get us some tough yards. And
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  Speaker 2: so you saw the flashes today of the athletic A building.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's the guy we knew we were drafting.
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  Speaker 3: Saints won fourteen to eleven.
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  Speaker 1: And make no mistake, these were two bad football teams
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  Speaker 1: and that was a bad football game. But somebody had
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  Speaker 1: to win. Like the rules literally say, somebody has to
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  Speaker 1: win unless if they tie, but that's pretty rare. So
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  Speaker 1: somebody had to win, and the Saints did so the
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  Speaker 1: Saints moved to five and eight. Some of my takeaways
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  Speaker 1: from the game there was good and bad. And while
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  Speaker 1: I understand the Saints mathematically are still alive for the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: I do not believe that is realistic, especially now with
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  Speaker 1: Derek Carr's injury. I didn't believe it before Derek Carrs injury.
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  Speaker 1: The Saints for all intensive purposes, would have to win
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  Speaker 1: out to finish nine to eight and and get a
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  Speaker 1: little help as well.
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  Speaker 3: You don't control your own destiny.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm more looking at the remainder this season to say, right,
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  Speaker 1: what can we learn about this team to build on
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  Speaker 1: for the future. And there's some things I really like.
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  Speaker 1: For example, Brian Berzi had a monster day against the
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  Speaker 1: New York Giants. He batted two balls at the line
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  Speaker 1: of scrimmage, he had a sack. He now leads your team,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, with seven and a half sacks. He's
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  Speaker 1: tied Larroy Glover on the single season sack list for
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  Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints. Like, that's a big yo. There've
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  Speaker 1: been a bad defense and it feels quiet. But Brazils
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  Speaker 1: had some moments and then of course he blocked the
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  Speaker 1: feudal at the end of the game to win it
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  Speaker 1: for the Saints on one of the most athletic plays
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  Speaker 1: you'll ever see from a big man, where he hurdled
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  Speaker 1: the center. Remember you can't use leverage, so we couldn't
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  Speaker 1: put his hands on the center. He just had to
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  Speaker 1: hurdle the entire line, which he did and blocked the
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  Speaker 1: fuel and won the freaking game. He's you invested a
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  Speaker 1: first round draft pick in that guy a year ago,
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  Speaker 1: and he is materializing and developing into someone that you
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  Speaker 1: feel like can be a stalwart in the interior that line.
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  Speaker 3: For a long time, here was Darren Rizzy on Brezi's
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  Speaker 3: Day and.
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  Speaker 2: Really the last couple of weeks, right, and we talked
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  Speaker 2: about that during the week. You know, he's a guy
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  Speaker 2: that's that's just I feel like his best football is
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  Speaker 2: still out there and you see this flashes of brilliance
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  Speaker 2: out of the player between the pass rush the field
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  Speaker 2: goal block. You know, he's made a couple of huge
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  Speaker 2: plays a couple of weeks in a row. You've seen
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the reasons. You know, we drafted the player,
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  Speaker 2: we drafted Brian in the first round, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: so these are some of the things we talked about.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the things. He continued to get better at
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  Speaker 2: first second down, but man, his pass rush is field
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  Speaker 2: goal rush, those things have been outstanding.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Brazi's blocked field goal was a great part of special teams,
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  Speaker 1: but for the most part, on Sunday, special teams was
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  Speaker 1: a fiasco. Blake Groopy missed a field goal at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the first half, Blake Groupy had a.
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  Speaker 3: Field goal blocked.
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  Speaker 1: You allowed a punt return for a touchdown that was
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  Speaker 1: called back because as we mentioned, these are two bad
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  Speaker 1: football teams, and the Giants had an inexplicable holding penalty
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  Speaker 1: that wouldn't have affected the play, but negated a return
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  Speaker 1: punt for a touchdown. It was so egregious in every
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  Speaker 1: part of the execution that your interim head coach, who
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  Speaker 1: as we mentioned, is also the special teams coordinator, threw
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  Speaker 1: his hat and undressed the rookie punter as he walked
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  Speaker 1: off the field all the way to the side, and
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  Speaker 1: it was so blatant that Alvin Kamara had to come
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  Speaker 1: over and separate Darren Rizzy from Matthew hay Ball. God
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  Speaker 1: blessed Matthew hay Ball for that moment. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: not mad at Darren Rizidah. It's football. Go yell at
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  Speaker 1: your eye if you want to yell at your guy.
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  Speaker 1: It was a a pretty unspectacular day on special teams,
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  Speaker 1: which was not good to see. But again, Brazi made
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  Speaker 1: the play late to win it, which was which was fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the most disappointing part of the day was the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line, because we've talked about the impact of injuries
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  Speaker 1: on this offensive line all the way back to the
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  Speaker 1: start of the season. First two weeks you were leading
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  Speaker 1: the NFL in scoring. Your offense was unstoppable. We now
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  Speaker 1: know that happened against Carolina and Dallas, and new of
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  Speaker 1: those teams are worth a flip, so big part of
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  Speaker 1: why you were as good as you were. But as
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  Speaker 1: soon as Eric McCoy went down against the Eagles, boom
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  Speaker 1: everything changed. Then Taysom went down against the against the Falcons,
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  Speaker 1: and boom everything changed you and you scuffled. This was
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  Speaker 1: the first time that you had your your starting offensive
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  Speaker 1: line back together since Week three, and man, you just
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  Speaker 1: weren't good. And you were facing a Giants defensive line
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  Speaker 1: that didn't have Dexter Lawrence, who's the most disruptive interior
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  Speaker 1: player statistically in the NFL this year. That Dexter Lawrence
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  Speaker 1: wasn't there, you had your healthy offensive line, and you
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  Speaker 1: averaged two point eight yards per carry, massively disappointing day.
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  Speaker 1: I think Talisa, for one, played the worst game of
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  Speaker 1: his young NFL career so far, and you had hoped
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  Speaker 1: for better. With four games to go, we'll see if
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  Speaker 1: all these guys can remain healthy, if they continue to
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  Speaker 1: play better here over the final month of the season.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, the biggest part of this was the
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  Speaker 1: Derek Carr injury, and I loved the effort by Derek Carr.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's four minutes to play. You're up fourteen
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  Speaker 1: to eleven, so you're up three. You got the ball.
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  Speaker 1: It's second and ten. Car going to the sideline, and
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  Speaker 1: then when airborne landed hard broke his hand. We now
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  Speaker 1: know his left hand, non throwing hand suffered what appears
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  Speaker 1: to be a concussion. Is he's in the protocol right now.
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  Speaker 1: I love the effort. I don't love that he went
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  Speaker 1: airborne on second and ten. You're right at the sticks.
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  Speaker 1: Go out of bounds or stay in and let the
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  Speaker 1: clock run. I guess clock would run anyways. It is
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  Speaker 1: four minutes ago, and you get two downs to get
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  Speaker 1: a yard. Derek Carr gives you your best opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: win games. I don't think you're gonna win many games
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the way anyway, but that's certainly a
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  Speaker 1: disappointing part. Listen, there were other things. Our guy Ross
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  Speaker 1: Jackson over Louisiana Sports Suet every week does a Numbers
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  Speaker 1: to no piece where he gives you some impressive stats
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  Speaker 1: and numbers from the game, like Pro Football Focus credited
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  Speaker 1: to the Saints with one mistackle one mistackle. Remember how much
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  Speaker 1: of a bugaboo that was during that three game losing
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  Speaker 1: streak or the seven game losing streak, but without Derek
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  Speaker 1: Carr the Broncos. The double digit misstackles the Chiefs was atrocious.
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  Speaker 1: One mistackle on Sunday. There were some incredible parts of
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  Speaker 1: this as well. Chase Young had ten quarterback pressures against
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  Speaker 1: the Giants, ten that tied a career high. I thought
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  Speaker 1: a lotta Taylor played a really good game. The numbers
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  Speaker 1: bore it out. Allowed just two catches on six targets,
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  Speaker 1: force a fifty eight point three A passer rating when
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  Speaker 1: he was targeted. Alantae Taylor had a beautiful breakup on
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  Speaker 1: a play on the sideline where it looked like Milite
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  Speaker 1: Nabors was going to make the catch. Taylor fought him
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  Speaker 1: to the ground, pulled the ball out. There are some
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  Speaker 1: really nice things to like individually that as you look
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  Speaker 1: forward for this team, are encouraging for Zee. I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: Alante Taylor, Kendre Miller. These are going to be the
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  Speaker 1: building blocks for the Saints moving forward, as you continue
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  Speaker 1: to draft, as you continue to hit free agency, to
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  Speaker 1: rebuild this roster into what we all hope can be
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  Speaker 1: a contender. So you want to see these young players
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  Speaker 1: continue to play well, and a lot of them did.
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  Speaker 1: The terrible part is you couldn't finish the game. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're at fourteen to three in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: you allow a bomb to elite neighbors, a short yardage touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: the two point conversion off of deflection, and just like that,
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  Speaker 1: you're in a dogfight. Even after you got the interception
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  Speaker 1: from the Mario Davis, which looked like it was going
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  Speaker 1: to end it, Darren Rizzie said, look, I mean the
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  Speaker 1: way that that game ended, it should have never gone
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  Speaker 1: that way.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to do a better job of finishing games.
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  Speaker 2: And we get the ball back there at the end,
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  Speaker 2: we don't get a first down, you know, we come
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  Speaker 2: up on third and short, we don't get the first
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  Speaker 2: We got a punt and we gave it back to them.
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  Speaker 2: You get the ball back, and I think we had
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  Speaker 2: two situations today where we got the ball back with
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  Speaker 2: a chance to kind of end the game, and we
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  Speaker 2: didn't do that. So that's where we got to be better.
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  Speaker 2: But our defense, clearly in the first half was much
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  Speaker 2: better than our offensive special teams, and it held them
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  Speaker 2: to three points. And that's why we were, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in good position.
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  Speaker 1: So defense is good against a very bad Giants team.
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  Speaker 1: The challenge increases exponentially with Washington coming to the Superdome
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  Speaker 1: this week. We'll see how they fare.