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Kellen Moore Shares Key Saints OTA Updates on Alvin Kamara, WR Depth & Team Progress · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: remind you that OTAs are voluntary. You're a voluntary but
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  Speaker 1: it's a step in the off season for NFL teams,
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  Speaker 1: including the New Orleans Saints, which begin year two of
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  Speaker 1: the Kellen Moore era, and Kellen Moore did, in fact
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  Speaker 1: meet with reporters after practice day two of OTAs to
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  Speaker 1: tail folks out, went.
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  Speaker 2: This is practice two for us. Yesterday we had a
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  Speaker 2: good practice, more of a first and second down introductory day.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of the focus here. OTAs in general, just
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  Speaker 2: from a philosophical approach, really scheme install ton of fundamental
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  Speaker 2: work and then get into some of the physical condition.
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  Speaker 2: We just viewed OTA's as a ramp up right into
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  Speaker 2: training camp and so we're trying to get these guys
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  Speaker 2: in really good football shape and just keep building as
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  Speaker 2: we go.
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  Speaker 1: Football shape, a little bit of install built toward camp.
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  Speaker 1: We also learned here on Thursday that New Orleans will
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  Speaker 1: have three sets of joint practices when they get into
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  Speaker 1: the preseason, So it is ramping up here into the offseason.
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  Speaker 1: This is just the push off from the dock point. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned that OTAs are voluntary, so it is very
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  Speaker 1: common that veteran players choose not to go. They go
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  Speaker 1: work out on their own. That's completely acceptable and fine.
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  Speaker 1: Organization generally is fine with it as long as there's
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  Speaker 1: communication and all that sort of stuff, despite the fact
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  Speaker 1: that they continue contract talks. Chris alave is and has
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  Speaker 1: been at OTAs, as Kellen Moore discussed.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly you recognize, you know, not everyone goes down you know,
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  Speaker 2: that path and that situation, because there's a business side
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  Speaker 2: to this that we all understand and respect, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's part of this thing for everyone that's a part
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  Speaker 2: of the NFL. And he has done an awesome job
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  Speaker 2: of off season. He's prepared really really well. I mean
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  Speaker 2: he looks really really good, and you know that group
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  Speaker 2: spent a lot of time. You know, certainly in the
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  Speaker 2: back end of last year with Tyler and then this
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  Speaker 2: Hilost season. You can just see the continuity that these
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  Speaker 2: guys are creating.
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming back to more receiver conversation because that is
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  Speaker 1: going to be a giant part of this offseason. You
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  Speaker 1: heard Kellen Morris say they're creating continuity with Tyler Tyler Schuck.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, so this last year, at this time, Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Schuck wasn't the starter. Last year, at this time, he
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  Speaker 1: was a rookie getting his sea legs and was going
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  Speaker 1: to be competing with Spencer Ratler for the job, who
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  Speaker 1: ultimately started the season. It's very different now with Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Schuck as the undeniable leader. So they got to ramp up.
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  Speaker 1: But the other sort of notable attendance mark here was
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  Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara, who was not there. Again, no big deal,
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  Speaker 1: jeff Don contold us today ago they did not expect
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  Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara to be there and been in Otia is
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  Speaker 1: the last three years, so no big deal there, But
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  Speaker 1: he was Kellen Moore on a timeline for Kamara.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't think we can put timelines on
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  Speaker 2: any of this stuff, you know, we're just kind of
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  Speaker 2: working through the roster, and again this time of year,
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  Speaker 2: there's you know, some of these guys they tritionally haven't
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  Speaker 2: come this time of year, which is you know, as
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  Speaker 2: part of their kind of rhythm and routine as far
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  Speaker 2: as the off season program. And so we'll just work
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  Speaker 2: continue to work through that.
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  Speaker 1: So Alvin Kamara not there, no timeline, I think a
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  Speaker 1: giant part of ramping up to the off season or
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  Speaker 1: the other running backs. I think it is certainly worth
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  Speaker 1: noting how Chen looks, and remember old Kendre Miller coming
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  Speaker 1: back off of injury. If the Saints feel like they
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  Speaker 1: have better options than running backs, they're gonna move on
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  Speaker 1: from Alvin Kamara. It's why they restructure the contract to
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  Speaker 1: give themselves the option to move on from ak if
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to. Kellen Moore didn't have a lot to say,
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  Speaker 1: but did get his first look at Chin.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Trav's done awesome job. He's been here, I mean
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  Speaker 2: each and every day working his tail off. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: been awesome. Obviously he's got an acclimation period coming into
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  Speaker 2: a new organization and so that's a part of this.
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  Speaker 2: But he's done excellent.
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  Speaker 1: John, you paid him fifty four million dollars. Also notable
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  Speaker 1: that he worked that he has a tail. This is
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  Speaker 1: a running back, but you heard him say it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sorry he had a tale. Well, he's worked his tail off. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: had a tale, had a tale. He worked it off.
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  Speaker 1: So notable that the tale was there, but it's off
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  Speaker 1: since he worked it off. So no more tale for agent.
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  Speaker 1: Hard work right there. A little weird that he showed
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  Speaker 1: up with a tail. I'm not judging. Some people have tails.
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  Speaker 1: Agent had a tail, but he worked it off. Don't
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  Speaker 1: know if Kendre Miller's ever had a tail, but here's
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  Speaker 1: the update.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, still working through the recovery process. And so you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily see him out there in the in
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  Speaker 2: the football elements, but he's done an awesome john.
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  Speaker 1: For a guy who sometimes gets wordy and wax his
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  Speaker 1: poetic as Kellen Moore at times is wont to do
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  Speaker 1: a seven second answer on Kendre Miller. That did instill
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  Speaker 1: a lot of confidence.
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  Speaker 2: Did it?
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  Speaker 1: Kendra Miller last year played in seven games with the Saints,
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  Speaker 1: had forty seven carries for a buck ninety three average
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  Speaker 1: four yards of carry.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, remember last year, in the preseason, he kind of
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  Speaker 3: looked explosive. He looked good on some kickoff returns. It
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  Speaker 3: felt like it felt like a new beginning. You know,
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  Speaker 3: get him a bread maker. It's a new beginning. Even
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  Speaker 3: if you stole the bread maker and regifted it. It
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  Speaker 3: was a new beginning for Kendre Miller a year ago,
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  Speaker 3: and then he got hurt, which was the same old result.
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  Speaker 3: So you want something to keep an eye on as
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  Speaker 3: that as far as Kamara, like, Kamara will be back
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  Speaker 3: if they don't feel like they have good options. But
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  Speaker 3: if Achient, who of course they broke him off with
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  Speaker 3: fifty four million dollars, he's gonna be your lead back.
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  Speaker 3: But if Kendre Miller's healthy and they like Devin Neil
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  Speaker 3: who was coming off injury and got Audric Estimate still
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  Speaker 3: hanging around, then I think you could see them move
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  Speaker 3: on from Alvin Kamara. But this is why this offseason
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  Speaker 3: work I think is relevant for the New Orleans Saints.
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  Speaker 3: Now back to the point about the receivers. Okay, because
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  Speaker 3: notable that a Lave was there and some of the
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  Speaker 3: photos if you saw him from OTA's today that the
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  Speaker 3: Saints released from yesterday and today, we're Jordan Tyson the
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  Speaker 3: first round pick Chris Olave side by side, which they're
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  Speaker 3: hoping we'll create this incredible one two tandem and it
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  Speaker 3: certainly is going to be notable. Having Jordan Tyson out
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  Speaker 3: there after Remember at rookie camp, he was there the
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  Speaker 3: first day, they did not participate him the second day.
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  Speaker 3: This was Kellen Moore after practice talking about Tyson's reps
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  Speaker 3: there and if they're still going to be limited here
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  Speaker 3: in OTAs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll still control his his volume, you know, for
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  Speaker 2: a number of these guys. You know, again, we the
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  Speaker 2: end goal is we got to have an awesome training camp.
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  Speaker 2: We gotta be set up for that standpoint, and so
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  Speaker 2: we're going to control reps for a lot of these
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  Speaker 2: guys and so they'll we'll utilize them in the ways
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  Speaker 2: we can and continue to build them and I'll go
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  Speaker 2: not just for Jordan, but a lot of them.
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  Speaker 1: So the one follow up was on the workload that
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Tyson's had the first two days.
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  Speaker 2: He was out there doing a little bit, Yeah, just
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  Speaker 2: a little bit incorporate with like, I don't know, he
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  Speaker 2: won't do any seven on seven today, he'll do a
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  Speaker 2: couple of the more of the walkthrough type speed.
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  Speaker 1: Now I just got done telling you. With respect to
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  Speaker 1: Kendre Miller, oh ellen Moore. Ellen Moore didn't have a
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  Speaker 1: lot to say. Didn't have a lot to say there
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  Speaker 1: about Jordan Tyson either, a little close to the vest,
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  Speaker 1: but Jordan Tyson spot on this rosters obviously locked up.
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  Speaker 1: One guy who is certainly worth watching is Jalen Polk,
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  Speaker 1: and he's fascinating because remember, Jalen Polk was a first
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  Speaker 1: round pick out of the University of Washington, and he
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  Speaker 1: effectively took a red shirt year last year because the
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  Speaker 1: Saints traded for him knowing he was injured and having
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  Speaker 1: a really disappointing start to his career. But yeah, when
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  Speaker 1: he came out of Washington and was was in New
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  Speaker 1: England and they knew he was gonna miss the season,
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  Speaker 1: but they traded for him, giving up late draft capital
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  Speaker 1: to bring Polk to New Orleans. Let him sit last
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  Speaker 1: year with this offense, right, Kellen Moore's offense coming in,
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  Speaker 1: and then have this year to see if this is
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity he could emerge. And you're talking about a
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  Speaker 1: dude that's six' to, one two hundred and three pounds physical,
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  Speaker 1: receiver was a great player in That washington team that
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  Speaker 1: went all the way to The National Championship, game and
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  Speaker 1: after sitting for a year now getting, healthy he's got his,
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  Speaker 1: opportunity and yet he's participating here In. OTAs finally was
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  Speaker 1: on the.
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  Speaker 2: Field it was. FUN i feel Like i've Seen jalen
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  Speaker 2: so much this whole past almost calendar year, now and
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  Speaker 2: so it was great to see him out. THERE i,
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  Speaker 2: mean you, know obviously we thought really highly of him
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  Speaker 2: being able to acquire him From New. England it's been
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  Speaker 2: a great exposure And i'm excited for.
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  Speaker 1: Him, well you're gonna have a, deep talented receiver group
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  Speaker 1: with a variety of sizes and skill. Sets remember a year, Ago,
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  Speaker 1: oh my criticism was you had a bunch of dudes
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  Speaker 1: that were the same. Dude you Had Brandon, cooks who
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  Speaker 1: was your offseason, acquisition who looked a lot Like Rashid,
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  Speaker 1: shaheed who looked a lot Like Chris. Olave these dudes similar,
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  Speaker 1: size skimular, skill similar skill. Sets until you brought into Von,
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  Speaker 1: velay who the first seven games was not very, productive
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  Speaker 1: started to get productive near the end and then got
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  Speaker 1: injured missed the rest of the. Season but now you
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  Speaker 1: look at this receiver group that The saints, have and
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about dudes with different sizes and skill, sets
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  Speaker 1: which is really really. Encouraging and when you look At
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  Speaker 1: Chris olave who's six foot eighty, Seven Jalen polk six
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  Speaker 1: one two, Three Jordan tyson six to two hundred, Pounds
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  Speaker 1: Devon vle six five to, ten you're looking at dudes
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  Speaker 1: with different, size different skill, sets, abilities power, strength size
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  Speaker 1: to go over the middle deep threats Like Jeorde. Tyson,
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  Speaker 1: yes very much in favor of what they've done. Here
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  Speaker 1: the other very notable part of the, offense as we,
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  Speaker 1: mentioned is you finally are going into this this year,
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  Speaker 1: too which is very different from a year ago because
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  Speaker 1: a year ago you had a quarterback competition With shuck And.
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  Speaker 1: Rattler now there is no. Competition they're both still, there
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  Speaker 1: but this Is shuck's. Team there's no. Ambiguity And Kellen
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  Speaker 1: moore was asked about how different it is With Tyler
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  Speaker 1: shuck not having to go into a competition to go
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  Speaker 1: into the.
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  Speaker 2: OFFSEASON i think there's a leadership component when you know
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  Speaker 2: you're kind of leading the. Charge there's there's a leadership
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  Speaker 2: thing that he's certainly showcased throughout this whole, offseason just
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  Speaker 2: with you, know kind of rallying these guys and working
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  Speaker 2: as much as they have worked through this whole off.
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  Speaker 2: Season and then from an on field, standpoint obviously he's
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  Speaker 2: got a great foundation with what we you, know did last.
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  Speaker 2: Year we're gonna make plenty of adjustments and have a
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  Speaker 2: little nuances and he's a part of that. Process and
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  Speaker 2: SO i think that's the fun part of this is
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  Speaker 2: every day we're going to kind of be able to
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  Speaker 2: build off of something we've done in the. Past we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be able to put some new stuff in and
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  Speaker 2: make some adjustments and build it.
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  Speaker 1: Together only day two Of SAINTS'. OTAs this is only
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  Speaker 1: day and so you're gonna have this offseason workout schedule
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  Speaker 1: which is going to persist as you move Throughout. June
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  Speaker 1: you had this two DAY. OTAs they'll be back on
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  Speaker 1: the Field june, first then the, third, fourth, eighth, tenth
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  Speaker 1: and eleventh THROUGHOUT. Ota, so As kellen, said, there it's
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to get into football shape and to do
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  Speaker 1: some insult and ramp up toward training, camp which is
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  Speaker 1: what we're all really looking forward. To year two of
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  Speaker 1: The Kellen moore, era but they're often running. Here