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Can Kool-Aid McKinstry Become the Saints' CB1? · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 2: I definitely feel like we have seen to tune in too.
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  Speaker 3: Man. I feel like we're very special, Like I was
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  Speaker 3: just saying, with the offense we got Man, I feel
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  Speaker 3: like we got a lot of great guys over there,
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  Speaker 3: a great system. Coach Killing Moore do a good job.
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  Speaker 3: And on the offensive coaches and also on defense. Man,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we're gonna we're gonna bring that same
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  Speaker 3: swager we finished a year with Man and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we're gonna be very very very special
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  Speaker 3: them as a team.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I'm very excited going into this year. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I definitely I can't. I can't start smiling by this team.
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  Speaker 3: I'm definitely happy to be with these guys and see
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  Speaker 3: these guys.
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  Speaker 1: Kul Aid McKinstry entering entering year three with the New
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  Speaker 1: Orleans I was a guest on NFL Spotlight with Ari
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  Speaker 1: Meirov thinks the Saints team is going to be special,
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  Speaker 1: and that's kind of a familiar refrain to day ago.
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  Speaker 1: We had a chance to visit with Lance Moore and
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  Speaker 1: he just raved about the player led workouts with Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Schuck veteran and Chris Olave, young guys like Barrion Brown
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  Speaker 1: and Bryce Lance coming in. One of the things I
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  Speaker 1: just keep looking at for the New Orleans Saints that
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  Speaker 1: I keep jogging my memory is we're sort of getting
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  Speaker 1: back into football mode. Is the defense from a season ago.
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  Speaker 1: And the New Orleans Saints a year ago were ninth
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL and total defense. There were fourth in
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  Speaker 1: past defense, ninth and rush defense, and there were sixteenth
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  Speaker 1: in scoring. But some of that was like the total
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  Speaker 1: abomination that happened in Seattle where you were giving up
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns in every phase of the game, pun returns, you know,
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  Speaker 1: defensive scores, everything. But kool Aid McKinstry is someone I
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  Speaker 1: think this year that has that has for the Saints
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  Speaker 1: to replicate or improve upon the defensive performance from a
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  Speaker 1: year ago. In year one under Brandon Staley has got
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  Speaker 1: to improve dramatically. A year ago, we saw kool Aid
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  Speaker 1: after Paulson Adebo left for the Giants. Kool Aid stepped
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  Speaker 1: into one of those starting corner rolls opposite Alante Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: and he was good, not great as a rookie. His
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  Speaker 1: overall PFF grade was a sixty one. His coverage grade
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  Speaker 1: was a sixty sevens pretty good. Last year, in his
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  Speaker 1: second year, his overall grade was a sixty nine. His
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  Speaker 1: coverage grade was a seventy one, so he did improve
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  Speaker 1: year over year. I still look at kool Aid McKinstry, though,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't see a player that goes out on
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  Speaker 1: the field when when you're gonna face Seattle and you
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  Speaker 1: see JSN, or you're gonna face Cincinnati and you see
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  Speaker 1: Jamar or you're gonna go up against one of the
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  Speaker 1: elite level receivers in the NFL. You're facing the Rams
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  Speaker 1: and there's Pooka Nakua and you go, okay, for you
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  Speaker 1: got him. I don't think kool Aid mcinsry has proven
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  Speaker 1: he is that guy, and the numbers kind of bear
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  Speaker 1: it out like his coverage great against Seattle last year
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  Speaker 1: was a twenty seven. Against New England was a thirty five.
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  Speaker 1: At the Rams, it was a forty point seven. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he had some awful performances. Now, the flip side of
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  Speaker 1: it is in the game of the Dome against the Giants,
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  Speaker 1: he grated out in eighty four, against the Dolphins on
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  Speaker 1: the road in eighty one, against the Jets in eighty four. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I also just mentioned three of the worst teams in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL with awful quarterback play. But against Seattle, New England,
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  Speaker 1: two teams have played in the Super Bowl. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: the Rams, it was not good. He's got to be
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  Speaker 1: better again, it's the best because in the last two
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  Speaker 1: years you've led a debo walking free agency the Giants
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  Speaker 1: and a lotta Taylor walking free agency to the Titans.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm good not paying Alante Taylor like a top
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  Speaker 1: ten corner in the NFL or top five corner in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL like the Titans did good, let them pay them.
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  Speaker 1: I was not good with the Saints not a dressing
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  Speaker 1: cornerback this offseason. So my hope is in year three,
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  Speaker 1: Kooyd McKinstry takes a huge step forward and he was
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  Speaker 1: asked on this podcast with Ari Myrov about stepping into
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  Speaker 1: that CB one role this year.
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  Speaker 3: With that going on, it's just time for me to
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  Speaker 3: check into being the leader and leaning by a xample first,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, Just may soon I'm doing
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  Speaker 3: all the right stuff, doing it the way it need
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  Speaker 3: to be done, doing it exactly the way the coaches
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  Speaker 3: want to be doing. So I feel like that's the
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  Speaker 3: first thing that I gotta do is, you know, lead
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  Speaker 3: by example. DN.
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  Speaker 2: After that, you know, I can be vocally to toys
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  Speaker 2: the guys and help them and bring them right along
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  Speaker 2: with me.
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  Speaker 3: So but I feel like, first I just got to
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  Speaker 3: go in and show that I'm willing to do whatever
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  Speaker 3: for this team and do whatever for this coach stuff
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  Speaker 3: so we can get over this hump.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things he's got to do is tackle.
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  Speaker 1: In each of his two seasons in the NFL is
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  Speaker 1: pff tackling grades of forty four. That's abysmal, and already
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  Speaker 1: asked him about that.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I'm a team player. It's no such thing as
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  Speaker 2: a busin decision. In my mind.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like tackling is definitely I want to and
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  Speaker 3: that's something I want to do. Like if you know me,
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  Speaker 3: my friends, like I'm a very tough guy, Like I'm
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  Speaker 3: just that's just me. So like tackling, like I live it,
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  Speaker 3: like I embrace it, Like that's the main thing I
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  Speaker 3: talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Like when I go to.
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  Speaker 3: These kid camps, I go to the tackling drill before
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  Speaker 3: I go anywhere else, Like I make sure that kids know,
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  Speaker 3: like tackling is important. Like if you can't tackle, you
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  Speaker 3: better go on the ouf in side of the ball,
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  Speaker 3: like and it don't hurt, it, don't hurt. Just go
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  Speaker 3: do it, go hard, like, just go try it.
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  Speaker 1: Wanting to do it and being good at doing it
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  Speaker 1: are two different things. He's got to get better at
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  Speaker 1: doing that at thirteen misstackles in his second year in
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans. Gotta be better, got to be better there.
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  Speaker 3: More.
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  Speaker 1: I do always find it interesting, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: sometimes defensive players have the best perspective of an offense
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  Speaker 1: because they're the ones that go against in practice every
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  Speaker 1: day and they can see it and they just know
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  Speaker 1: what they're looking at and what's difficult to defend. Like
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  Speaker 1: getting a defensive player's perspective on an offense. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: we've talked a lot this offseason about New Orleans improving
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  Speaker 1: the skill on offense, Jordan Tyson, Oscar Delp, Travis chen
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  Speaker 1: I go down the list, but what is cool I
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  Speaker 1: think about the Saints offense.
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  Speaker 2: Man, it's a lot of We got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: splosive guys over there.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to see it myself. Man, I'm excited to
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  Speaker 2: compete against it.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like that's my that's my first goal going
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  Speaker 3: into the campus, shutting it offense down that they got, Man,
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  Speaker 3: they still explosive.
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  Speaker 2: They got great players over there.
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  Speaker 3: They got great guys with Aarone got their own difference
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  Speaker 3: to them. Areyone got their own kick to it, and
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  Speaker 3: I love that about them, man, and uh, I really
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  Speaker 3: feel like they lowered it over there. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: they're going to be very close.
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  Speaker 1: Saints offense has a long way to go from a
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  Speaker 1: year ago when they were in the bottom third of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL in total offense at three hundred and thirteen
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  Speaker 1: yards per game and they averaged just eighteen points per game.
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  Speaker 1: Last season, only the Jets, Titans, Browns, and Raiders scored
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  Speaker 1: fewer points per game than New Orleans. They've given Tyler, Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be all Tyler shuck and they've
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  Speaker 1: given him the weapons to be great. See if they
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  Speaker 1: can do it. But a huge part of the season
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  Speaker 1: has got to be the defense in year two under
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Staley, improving upon what they are matching or improving
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  Speaker 1: upon what they were able to do a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: And the onus is going to be on kool Ad
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  Speaker 1: McKinstry being CB one. We'll see if he can do it.