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- 0:07who that to the who that nation welcome to the who that said podcast here on the kb radio network i am your host kevin reed and boy don't we feel good football is back yes we're not into the regular season these games don't count but
- 0:26i don't care they count to me because we get to see our new orleans saints
- 0:34on the football field against another opponent this Sunday,
- 0:383 o'clock,
- 0:39as they travel to Los Angeles to take on the Chargers.
- 0:43This is the first preseason game of the 2025 season,
- 0:49officially kicking off the Kellen
- 0:53Moore era.
- 0:54As the head coach of this team,
- 0:56I must say that I have become excited.
- 1:01I wasn't.
- 1:02But I am now.
- 1:03I'm excited for this new season coming up for the New Orleans Saints.
- 1:07You know,
- 1:09we've been through a lot here in the Who That Nation.
- 1:12We've been through a lot in the last few years,
- 1:16you know,
- 1:16not making the playoffs for,
- 1:18what,
- 1:18three,
- 1:19four seasons now?
- 1:21And we're on our third head coach in the last five years.
- 1:26We haven't had a quarterback since Drew Brees retired.
- 1:30I think we're on our sixth.
- 1:31maybe seventh quarterback in the last five years.
- 1:36I mean,
- 1:36it has been a dumpster fire over there on airline.
- 1:40It's not,
- 1:43I don't know,
- 1:43man.
- 1:44I don't know how to describe it.
- 1:45It's just been hard to watch.
- 1:47It's been hard to watch the Saints in this manner.
- 1:52And look,
- 1:52I've been watching the New Orleans Saints as long as I've been watching football,
- 1:57well over 45 years.
- 2:00right at 45 or whenever but it's been a long time i've seen a lot of ups and i've seen even more downs with this franchise and this is probably the lowest man this has been the lowest i
- 2:17feel that the saints have been as an organization now i know a lot of people will point to the
- 2:2480s you know during the jim moore era or look at the mike dicker era and uh this
- 2:30disagree with what i'm saying but the reason i'll argue that this is the worst because it's not like the saints had pro bowl hall of fame players around that time yeah in the 80s you had the dome patrol that's the only thing that really kept the saints relevant but
- 2:50aside from that saints didn't have opportunity they was in a division that they were set up to fail in in the NFC West.
- 2:58You know,
- 2:58you're in a division with the
- 3:0049ers who went to the Super Bowl every year.
- 3:03No,
- 3:03the Saints weren't going to succeed during those times.
- 3:07And then during the Dicca era,
- 3:10it was just bad times back then.
- 3:13Now,
- 3:13with the Saints,
- 3:14with their talent pool that's on the roster,
- 3:17with all of the,
- 3:21how can I put this,
- 3:22kind,
- 3:24with this division being
- 3:27probably the weakest division in the NFL,
- 3:30it should have been a cakewalk for the Saints for the last couple of years.
- 3:36It hasn't been.
- 3:37It hasn't.
- 3:39They've looked the worst in this division.
- 3:41The worst.
- 3:43And the Saints have had the most talent.
- 3:48I mean,
- 3:49show me where I'm wrong at.
- 3:50Atlanta maybe,
- 3:53but Atlanta's young.
- 3:55Whereas the New Orleans Saints,
- 3:57they have seasoned veterans.
- 3:59They have players who've been there before who know how to win.
- 4:04I don't understand what happened here,
- 4:06but it is what it is.
- 4:09That's the past.
- 4:10We're moving on.
- 4:11We're on to the next.
- 4:13We're on to this new regime.
- 4:16We're on with a new quarterback.
- 4:18We still don't know who he is,
- 4:20but he's one of these young quarterbacks that we currently have on the roster.
- 4:24That's the whole purpose of the preseason,
- 4:27to see who will step up and be the starter,
- 4:31not just a quarterback,
- 4:33but in all
- 4:3422 positions.
- 4:36Now,
- 4:36there are some that are cemented.
- 4:38You know,
- 4:39Alvin Kamara,
- 4:40we know that's the starter.
- 4:42Chris Olave and
- 4:44Rashid Shahid,
- 4:46they're locked in.
- 4:47Now,
- 4:47you know,
- 4:48these guys are locked in,
- 4:50but there are other positions here.
- 4:52That we need to find out,
- 4:53is this the guy that's going to help us move forward,
- 4:58not lead us to a playoff,
- 4:59not lead us to the division,
- 5:02and sure not lead us to a Super Bowl,
- 5:04but take the steps to getting to those goals.
- 5:08And so...
- 5:10I'm excited.
- 5:11I am.
- 5:11I am excited because this looks like it's going to be a very competitive battle for the starting quarterback job between Spencer Rattler,
- 5:22Tyler Shuck and Jake.
- 5:24You know,
- 5:25can't leave him out of the equation either.
- 5:28And going by what's happening at training camp for the past couple of weeks,
- 5:33it appears that it's a little tighter than first expected.
- 5:38Now.
- 5:40the leader would be spencer rattler you know just going by what i've read and and watched it looks like is spencer rattler with the edge but he hasn't really gained much distance between him and tyler shuck for that number one spot and
- 5:58to be fair jay canard has looked pretty good in in camp so it's not like this is a foregone conclusion that
- 6:07it's going to be Spencer Rattler.
- 6:09It's going to be Tyler Schuch.
- 6:10It's going to be
- 6:12Jay Kane.
- 6:13The jury's still out.
- 6:15And as they deliberate,
- 6:17we have these three preseason games to go through.
- 6:20In this game coming up,
- 6:22our first preseason game,
- 6:23Spencer Rattler will get the start.
- 6:26He's going to be with the ones.
- 6:28And I would imagine probably one serious and he's going to have a seat.
- 6:34You know,
- 6:34maybe even two.
- 6:35I don't know.
- 6:36I don't believe he's going to go a whole half,
- 6:39maybe a quarter.
- 6:40We'll see how he goes.
- 6:41You know,
- 6:42it could be an instance of that first drive didn't really click,
- 6:49you know,
- 6:50or didn't go according to plan.
- 6:51Let's give him another shot.
- 6:53Give him two drives.
- 6:54Could end up scratching to the second quarter.
- 6:57Who knows?
- 6:58We'll have to wait and see on that.
- 7:00But I don't see him playing too many,
- 7:03and that goes for all of them.
- 7:05So I think...
- 7:06kelly moore wants to get all three quarterbacks on the field this sunday and so we'll see how that plays out going forward but we're here we're here saints are coming off of 5 and 12 season
- 7:24last year where we bared witness unfortunately to a seven game lose streak in the middle of the season that was just unbelievable i'm i can't believe
- 7:37that the saints collapsed like they did last season especially judging by those first two games of the season where it looked like nobody was gonna stop the new orleans saints and all of a sudden all of a sudden it's like the wheels just fell clean off of that caddy and it was it was a
- 7:56painful thing to watch what took place you know the coach got fired uh
- 8:03The owner and the GM weren't on the same page with that decision.
- 8:07It was just a whole thing that was going on over there.
- 8:11The fact that they managed to win three more games later on in the season was a miracle within itself.
- 8:18But regardless,
- 8:20Saints ended up with the 10th pick or the 9th pick in the draft,
- 8:24whatever.
- 8:25And they addressed needs.
- 8:28They got Calvin Banks Jr.,
- 8:30the offensive lineman from Texas.
- 8:32Really good pick,
- 8:33smart pick,
- 8:34and I think he's going to pan out in the second round.
- 8:38That's when they picked up Tyler Shuck,
- 8:40quarterback from Louisville.
- 8:42The question marks going into this,
- 8:44which is my big question.
- 8:46And
- 8:47I feel like I got to do this every time
- 8:49I talk about it,
- 8:50but it's the truth.
- 8:53I don't have a problem with
- 8:55Tyler Shuck.
- 8:57I actually hope Tyler Shuck.
- 8:59Does well.
- 8:59I need him to do well because he's the Saints quarterback.
- 9:03I need him to do well.
- 9:04But my questions are valid because the dude never finished the season as the starting quarterback in college.
- 9:12He got hurt every year.
- 9:14He's injury prone,
- 9:15and he's had two major surgeries on his shoulder.
- 9:19Not his throwing shoulder,
- 9:21but his other shoulder,
- 9:23his left shoulder.
- 9:24And
- 9:26I think my...
- 9:27concerns are valid you know this if it wasn't the shoulder i think he had a acl at one point it's just a lot it's a lot going into this and i'm not 100 confident that he's going to uh be
- 9:44able to stay healthy i mean look at kendra miller kendra miller was hurt in college
- 9:49and wouldn't you know he's hurt every year this year knock on wood he's looking good in camp this year he looks healthy he looks like he's he he got his mind on straight which i'm praying that he do because i've seen the talent kendrick miller is is amazing um
- 10:07when he's healthy so if he can stay healthy good but you look at what happened the first couple of years when we drafted him he was heard all the time.
- 10:16And so that's my concerns.
- 10:19with shuck but i hope i hope that we're wrong there or i'm wrong that he's going to be a injury prone quarterback uh that's gonna hurt this team more than he helps we'll see uh
- 10:35i make no secret that i'm a huge spencer rattler fan i was i was jumping up and down when the saints drafted him in the what was it fourth round a couple of years ago i was like man that's the future right there.
- 10:49I watched him in South Carolina.
- 10:50The dude is good,
- 10:53really,
- 10:53really good.
- 10:54Just got to give him a chance.
- 10:56Now,
- 10:56you can't judge him off of last season when he made his start.
- 11:02He had no offensive line.
- 11:03He had no
- 11:04Chris Olave,
- 11:05no Shadid.
- 11:07A couple of games there,
- 11:08he didn't have no Alvin Kamara.
- 11:10He was blind.
- 11:11He was out there.
- 11:12They literally just sent him out to the wolves with a big,
- 11:16juicy steak wrapped around his neck.
- 11:18So.
- 11:19He didn't stand a chance.
- 11:20I can't go off of that.
- 11:23I need to see him in a proper setting with a healthy team around him,
- 11:29number one players,
- 11:30you know,
- 11:30starting players.
- 11:32And let's see from there.
- 11:33Now,
- 11:34if he sucks,
- 11:35okay,
- 11:37we'll move on.
- 11:38But there's only one way to find out,
- 11:41you know.
- 11:41So all I've asked is he get his chance.
- 11:44And now if Tyler Shuck beats him in camp,
- 11:47best man wins i'm all for it i want the best man to win i don't care if it's the ball boy i don't care it could be the water boy bobby boucher could be out there and he outperforms him stardom i don't care i just need it to be the best man for the job that's all i'm asking and
- 12:07so that's the big question mark going into this camp and the big question mark going into this game is the starting quarterback
- 12:16position but for me and i know that's around the who that nation but for me my biggest question is the defense that's the one i'm worried about i believe kellen moore will get the offense to where the offense needs to be he did a good job in dallas he made deck prescott look relevant in dallas he did a decent job for that i think one year he
- 12:41he was the offensive coordinator over they're in
- 12:44Los Angeles with the Chargers.
- 12:46And,
- 12:47hey,
- 12:48what else can we say about the Philadelphia Eagles turned to be the Super Bowl champions?
- 12:54Yeah,
- 12:55he has Saquon Barkley and
- 12:57Jalen Herz as his quarterback there.
- 12:59But,
- 13:00I mean,
- 13:02I watched games.
- 13:03I watched a game that we played them early on in the season where we actually had them beat.
- 13:08And his ability to adjust,
- 13:11he adjusted to what the Saints defense was.
- 13:14throwing at them and were able to ultimately come out victorious in that game unfortunately for us but i was impressed by the way they adjusted i i was super impressed in the super bowl the way the kansas city chiefs took saquon barkley completely out of that game they
- 13:35took him saquon barkley if you uh put a blindfold on me over me and just had me listen to the game
- 13:44I would have told you that Saquon Barkley didn't play because he didn't play.
- 13:48He didn't do anything.
- 13:50The Chiefs took him out.
- 13:52So what did
- 13:53Kelly Moore and
- 13:56Jalen Hurts do?
- 13:57They took the ball and went with it.
- 13:59They found another way to win.
- 14:02And
- 14:02I was impressed by that.
- 14:04This was during the time when he was rumored to have been taken the head coaching job down here in New Orleans.
- 14:11So
- 14:12I was watching it closely.
- 14:14at that point and i was sold at that moment so i'm i'm confident with the offense i'm confident that he'll get that right i mean the last offensive minded head coach that we had won us a super bowl and
- 14:29so i'm looking to see look i'm not going to put too much pressure on the dude i'm not saying he's the next sean payton but the potential is there but when it comes to the defense
- 14:43I am a fan of
- 14:46Brandon Staley because,
- 14:49once again,
- 14:50he is returning to San Diego as well.
- 14:52Well,
- 14:52not San Diego anymore,
- 14:54but to the Chargers as well.
- 14:56He was the former head coach there for a couple of years.
- 15:00Now he's coming back as the defensive coordinator of the New Orleans Saints.
- 15:03And as a defensive coordinator,
- 15:07he's really good.
- 15:08As a head coach,
- 15:09not so much.
- 15:10He mirrors
- 15:11Dennis Allen.
- 15:12Dennis Allen,
- 15:14awesome defensive coordinator,
- 15:16horrible head coach.
- 15:19You know,
- 15:20not everybody is built to lead in that way.
- 15:23Or,
- 15:24to put it,
- 15:26you know,
- 15:26to go more in depth,
- 15:28it could be the situation.
- 15:29Sometimes it has to be the right team,
- 15:31right time,
- 15:33right system,
- 15:34or quarterback,
- 15:35or whatever,
- 15:35right owner that's willing to give you the chance.
- 15:38Everything has to click.
- 15:40You know,
- 15:40same thing with Sean Payton when he came here.
- 15:43Everything had to click.
- 15:45He was brought in.
- 15:46He was basically left alone,
- 15:50told to run this team,
- 15:52build this team,
- 15:53and get us some victories.
- 15:55And he was left alone to his own devices,
- 15:58and he found the way to win.
- 16:00You know,
- 16:01got the players he wanted.
- 16:03You didn't have a prying GM or a prying owner that was on his back.
- 16:07At least.
- 16:08early on uh mickey loomis i believe started really getting involved after the fact uh or later and that's what ultimately uh called sean payton to leave here but that was the right situation
- 16:24for sean payton at that time uh with brandon staley that wasn't the right time for him to be the head coach he probably could be a good head coach just not at that time for that team
- 16:35when he was with the Chargers,
- 16:38and so on and so forth.
- 16:39So as a defensive coordinator,
- 16:42I have no qualms with him at all.
- 16:44He's a really good defensive coordinator.
- 16:46He's implementing his new,
- 16:48well,
- 16:49not new,
- 16:49but new to us,
- 16:50this 3-4 defense,
- 16:52and
- 16:53I think that does nothing but benefit this team.
- 16:58We are built.
- 17:00If you look at the personnel for the New Orleans Saints defense,
- 17:03This team is...
- 17:05built for a 3-4 defense you know i can see brian berzee flourish in this defense i can see uh chase young flourish in this style defense you know and
- 17:20we got some nice young linebackers who are even challenging um demario davis at this point but we have some really good ones uh the one we just drafted what's his name uh struckman he's been having a really good camp
- 17:34Our secondary looks great.
- 17:37Even with the retirement of the Honey Badger,
- 17:41Tyron Matthew,
- 17:43the secondary still looks strong back there.
- 17:47We look like we got the best secondary in years.
- 17:51and I'm trying not to get overly excited because I haven't seen them actually play on the field,
- 17:56but I've watched some videos of
- 18:00Camp and read some reports from Camp.
- 18:04I'm strongly encouraged by what's been said about this group,
- 18:10and
- 18:11I can't wait to see it on the field.
- 18:13So that's the biggest thing I'm excited for going into this week's game against the Chargers.
- 18:20Now,
- 18:20I know we're not going to get,
- 18:22you know,
- 18:23maximum play calling packages.
- 18:27This is preseason week one.
- 18:30It's going to be vanilla as vanilla can get.
- 18:33is going to be
- 18:33pretty basic i don't think we're going to see any blitzes and stunts and all this here yeah i mean they've been practicing against each other all week so it's not like there's a need to uh evaluate any further going up against this team we've seen it we've
- 18:52seen it all week uh but uh to actually see live bullets on the screen man for this for this franchise i am i am super excited and so i You know,
- 19:03I...
- 19:03I know we normally do our predictions and whatnot,
- 19:07but it's preseason.
- 19:08We're not going to do predictions.
- 19:10This isn't about wins and losses the next couple of weeks.
- 19:13I could care less if the Saints win or not.
- 19:16I just want to see progression in certain players.
- 19:21I want to see progression in our offensive line,
- 19:25how our offensive line is pieced together as it is.
- 19:30Will it work?
- 19:31Will moving pinning?
- 19:33in the guard position work i i was a huge huge champion of this because i think he's built more for a guard not a tackle he struggles with tackle but i think he's more ferocious you know as as mean as he is he he needs to be a guard so moving
- 19:53him to guard i think is a plus i just i can't wait to see that uh the rookie uh calvin banks jr love to see how he pans out
- 20:02uh the second year for uh uh uh talian say foreski i think i got his name i think i got it right i want to see how he progressed as well um on defense chase
- 20:19young man chase young i need him to step it up but the one person i need to step up even more is isaac foreski and i say step up just step because i haven't seen him what is
- 20:31Is he on a team?
- 20:33We drafted him pretty high.
- 20:35I think he was second round pick a couple of years ago.
- 20:38And so why isn't he on the field?
- 20:42Why can't he get on the field?
- 20:44Can somebody please explain?
- 20:46Cam Jordan is begging to retire.
- 20:48He can't because this dude cannot outperform
- 20:53Cam Jordan.
- 20:54And Cam Jordan has visibly lost a step.
- 20:59It's not even worth debating.
- 21:01He is not.
- 21:02Cam Jordan,
- 21:03as much as I love him,
- 21:04he's a Hall of Famer in my heart.
- 21:07He has lost a step,
- 21:08man.
- 21:09He has lost actually a couple of steps.
- 21:12And so
- 21:14I need Isaac Forsky to be that next man up,
- 21:17man,
- 21:18to take the reins.
- 21:20As
- 21:21Cam Jordan rides off into the sunset after this season or whenever he decides.
- 21:28I need to see something from Forsky.
- 21:31Grandison.
- 21:32Carl Grandison,
- 21:33need to see something from him.
- 21:34Ever since he got his extension,
- 21:36his contract,
- 21:38he's disappeared.
- 21:39He looked good.
- 21:40When it was contract year,
- 21:42he was a beast that year.
- 21:44Got his money,
- 21:47the same old thing.
- 21:51Let's see about Kool-Aid McKendry.
- 21:57We got issues.
- 21:58I was raving about our secondary.
- 22:01And I'm still high on my secondary,
- 22:03but let's not forget,
- 22:05let's not act like it's like we're like we're blind here.
- 22:11This is what we lost in the last few months in our secondary.
- 22:17Traded away Marshawn Lattimore,
- 22:20Paulson Adebo.
- 22:22He lost him to free agency and the Honey Badger retired.
- 22:26That's three big pieces.
- 22:28And these weren't just.
- 22:31Position fillers here.
- 22:33These were our top people in the secondary.
- 22:36And so it's going to be,
- 22:38it's going to be rough,
- 22:40but,
- 22:40but we are still scrum there because we brought in Justin Reed.
- 22:45We brought in,
- 22:47uh,
- 22:47or brought back,
- 22:49uh,
- 22:49Isaac Yeldon.
- 22:50Uh,
- 22:51uh,
- 22:51you brought in
- 22:53Justin Blackman.
- 22:54You,
- 22:54you drafted Quincy Raleigh.
- 22:56You,
- 22:56you,
- 22:57you brought in some really good players here,
- 22:59you know,
- 22:59and you still got.
- 23:01alante telly and like i mentioned before you still have kool-aid mckendry so it's very strong back there and i'm pretty sure i'm leaving some names out and i can't think of them right now so you're strong there but i want to see how these group of men mesh together on the field because communication is key and
- 23:20if there's a lack of communication in the secondary the saints are in for a very very long season but that's what i'm looking for this
- 23:30game.
- 23:31I just want to see and I know it's going to be a little bumpy.
- 23:34We're probably going to get about 10 flags in the first couple of drives here due to the excitement of being back on the field and hitting somebody that's not wearing the same color helmet as you.
- 23:49I'm expecting a sloppy game.
- 23:51I know we got a new system here and all type of stuff,
- 23:56but that's not going to stop me from
- 23:58evaluating these guys and how we feel moving forward in the who that nation but i i'm i am so excited man i am so happy that football is back happy to be talking about my new orleans saints we're about the journey into a new season here i
- 24:18i need this man i need this in the worst way and i know a lot of people in the who that nation have been jonesing for some football it was looking bleak for a minute
- 24:28You know,
- 24:28for a little while,
- 24:30I had put in my mind,
- 24:31I'm not watching the New Orleans Saints this season until a certain somebody retired in the offseason that just made me so much happy.
- 24:44It brought me so much happiness.
- 24:45You have no idea.
- 24:46But it wasn't until that moment that I started paying attention,
- 24:49and then
- 24:50I got excited moving forward.
- 24:52But I am so happy because so much has been going on.
- 24:57in new orleans not not just the world but we could just put it in new orleans man man we didn't have terror attacks we didn't had snow uh blizzards and uh escape convicts and it's been going crazy in 2025 when it comes to the city of new orleans it's it's i
- 25:17don't know what to say i i don't know i need something to take my mind off of the madness that is going on around me but uh
- 25:26the saints are here to distract me for at least or distract all of us for at least three
- 25:33three hours on a sunday i can't wait for this don't forget to check back after the game when we recap the game and and uh give some some analysis on it you know we're not gonna dive in too deep deep of it i mean come on it's a preseason game but we're gonna talk a little bit about the game and the results of the game and who stood out and who needs to improve after
- 25:59the Saints defeat the
- 26:02Chargers.
- 26:03on sunday evening or afternoon i think the kickoff is at 305 sunday so uh be on the lookout for that be on the lookout for the who that said podcast all season long going forward it is started i
- 26:19have bitten off officially bitten off more than i can chew i have tied up my weekends with the start it is uh for the next 20 weeks i think 21 weeks
- 26:32We'll see if I can make it a whole season without my pressure being shot through the roof.
- 26:42But I would love to know,
- 26:43what are you looking forward to this Sunday?
- 26:47What matchups are you looking forward to?
- 26:49The quarterback battle,
- 26:51the running back battle.
- 26:52I didn't even mention the running backs because there is a battle.
- 26:55Not for Alvin Kamara's starting spot,
- 26:57but who's going to back up Alvin Kamara?
- 26:59The Saints have a lot of...
- 27:01running backs on the roster we drafted Devin Neal we have Cam Akers we have uh Clyde Edwards uh Hilaire uh Kendrick Miller is there so it's a lot of running backs on this roster that we won't make uh
- 27:16but we'll see who makes it because that is a very important position on this squad or is it Rob receiver or
- 27:25Are you looking in the secondary or the defense as a whole or the offensive line?
- 27:30I would love to know who are you paying attention to this Sunday?
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- 28:09Hey,
- 28:09everybody.
- 28:10Thank you for joining me as we previewed week one of the
- 28:14NFL preseason
- 28:16Saints versus the Chargers.
- 28:19Oh,
- 28:20man.
- 28:20Football is back.
- 28:23Don't forget.
- 28:24After the game,
- 28:25I'll be back to discuss it.
- 28:27Until then,
- 28:29I'm going to be screaming,
- 28:30Who dat?