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Will Saints Draft Quinn Ewers? | ANOTHER Meeting with Texas Longhorns QB · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: interesting notes on Monday about the New Orleans Saints and
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  Speaker 1: their potential pursuit of quarterbacks in next month's draft of
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  Speaker 1: Albert Breer in his MMQB had like this tiny little
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  Speaker 1: throwaway line in this giant section of MMQB about cam
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  Speaker 1: Ward and his protay and everything. You had this one
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  Speaker 1: tiny little throwaway line about the New Orleans Saints brass
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  Speaker 1: going to have dinner to night with Quinn Eewers. Now
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  Speaker 1: they didn't say where that dinner's gonna take place, Like,
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  Speaker 1: are they flying to Austin? Is he in Florida? Donut?
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  Speaker 1: But the Saints Monday? Are they are they meeting in
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans? Donut? But Breer reported that the Saints are
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  Speaker 1: gonna have dinner Monday night with Quinn youwers. Now, remember
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  Speaker 1: previously we've seen mock drafts that have had youers mocked
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  Speaker 1: to the Saints. The Saints visited with yours prior at Combine,
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  Speaker 1: so there is some interest. Also of note today, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna take each of these one at a time. But
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  Speaker 1: also of note, Nick Underhill over at New Orleans Dot
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  Speaker 1: Football reported that the Saints are sending pretty much everyone
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  Speaker 1: in Miami for Pro Day, which is today, and he
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  Speaker 1: noted Jeff Ireland and Kellen Moore among those that the
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  Speaker 1: Saints are sending to Miami for Pro Day. Now, it
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  Speaker 1: is worth noting, yes, cam Ward is the presumptive number
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  Speaker 1: one pick in the draft, certainly the presumed top quarterback
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  Speaker 1: in this year's draft, but Miami has a lot of
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  Speaker 1: depth on their roster and there's a lot of guys
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  Speaker 1: who could end up wearing the black and gold from
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  Speaker 1: Coral Gables. So yes, the focus naturally is going to
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  Speaker 1: be on cam Ward, but there's a very real possibility
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  Speaker 1: with the depth of talent that Mario Christobal has accumulated
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  Speaker 1: there from cam Ward, even a guy like Rastreppo, the
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  Speaker 1: receiver I mean, there's so many options for New Orleans
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  Speaker 1: should they go that way, but Ward is whatever's obviously
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  Speaker 1: going to focus on. So if I take each of
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  Speaker 1: those briefly. We have already talked about Quinn Ewers, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to reiterate my point on this. If the
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints had the option to draft Quinn Viewers
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  Speaker 1: in Day three, even an early Day three pick, like
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  Speaker 1: a Round four pick, I'm one hundred percent on board
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  Speaker 1: with it. It would be hypocritical of me to sit
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  Speaker 1: here today and bemoaned the New Orleans Saints drafting a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback when I have said they need to draft a
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  Speaker 1: court back every year. If you're not gonna invest a
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  Speaker 1: first round draft pick in a quarterback, like making one
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  Speaker 1: of the top guys in the draft your franchise, like
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  Speaker 1: taking that swing, then you've gotta find a way to
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  Speaker 1: get lucky. Like Russ in Seattle as a three, Dak
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  Speaker 1: in Dallas with a four, Cousins in Washington with a five,
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  Speaker 1: Brady was a six, Party was a seven. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying that's common, and I'm not saying you're gonna hit,
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  Speaker 1: but my point is it's like going to the nickel
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  Speaker 1: slots and you just keep feeding that thing. You miss Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you miss on a five, You miss on fives all
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  Speaker 1: the time. What you took Matt Tennant as a fifth
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  Speaker 1: round pick, he never played it down for you, And
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  Speaker 1: like you just you keep feeding the penny slots because
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  Speaker 1: if you hit boom, you got that jackpot and your
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  Speaker 1: payoff is massive. So you gotta keep taking quarterbacks. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna be clear also because every time I
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  Speaker 1: say this, every's like, man, I'm not giving up on
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  Speaker 1: Spencer Ratler. But if you have Quinn yours with an
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  Speaker 1: early day three pick, comes in competes, beats out Rattler
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  Speaker 1: great and if not even better, Rattler's good, And then
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  Speaker 1: you discard Quinn Ewers whatever I mean, You've done it
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  Speaker 1: back to back years, used a four on Hainter than
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  Speaker 1: a five on Rattler. So keep taking until one hits.
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  Speaker 1: And I like Quinn Yours. He's got the size six
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  Speaker 1: two two ten, good arm strength, can make all the throws.
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  Speaker 1: He's a very experienced college football quarterback, thrown for over
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  Speaker 1: nine thousand yards and sixty eight touchdowns. He is tough. Quinn,
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  Speaker 1: You weers plate we learned last week or a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks ago that Quinn Youwers played this season with
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  Speaker 1: a torn obleak. Can you imagine the torque trying to
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  Speaker 1: throw football with a torn o bleak? One of those years,
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  Speaker 1: Drew Brees, I remember, everyone's like, man, what happened to
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  Speaker 1: Drew Brees? He stunk this year, learned that later he
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  Speaker 1: had a torno bleak. Apparently it's hard to rotate your
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  Speaker 1: body with a torn o bleak that your love handle
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  Speaker 1: if you're not familiar. So he's tough as hell. He
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  Speaker 1: handled the arch Manning situation brilliantly. Was never a distraction
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  Speaker 1: with the organization. And by the way, you always wonder
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  Speaker 1: how guys would handle professional life and when they get money.
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  Speaker 1: He got money as a seventeen year old. He reclassified,
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  Speaker 1: went to Ohio State early, made million bucks boom, just
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  Speaker 1: like that, to help his family, transferred to Texas, got
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  Speaker 1: paid again. Dude's got money. You don't worry about that
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  Speaker 1: component of it as well, the johnny Manzel of it all.
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  Speaker 1: What happens when you give that gop money that again
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  Speaker 1: Jim johnny Man's Elleb Mouney night in college too. The
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  Speaker 1: point is Uwers checks a lot of boxes. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying he's a slam dunk, no brainer. That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Is a Day three I'm good with it. Cam Ward
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  Speaker 1: would be awesome. I just don't know, like if if
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  Speaker 1: using if using a Day three pick on Quinn yours
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  Speaker 1: is like feeding the nickelslot cam Ward is like going
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  Speaker 1: to the high limit table and playing blackjack. Man. I
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  Speaker 1: just don't know that the Saints can afford the two
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars a hand table, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: That's what it would cost to draft cam Ward. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you hit, totally worth it, but if you bust,
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  Speaker 1: it sets you back tremendously. For context, when the Panthers
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  Speaker 1: went from nine to one to take Bryce Young, they
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  Speaker 1: did a pick swat that year, gave up the following
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  Speaker 1: year's one, two, two's and Dj Moore. That is a
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  Speaker 1: hefty price, especially when you look at the fact that
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Young hasn't worked out. If you hit, of course
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  Speaker 1: it's worth it. But that's where you balance the risk,
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  Speaker 1: the risk versus the reward, and the risk of busting
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  Speaker 1: isn't worth it. Look at it. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: I could even see a scenario where let's say Hypothetically,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to go from nine to one, like
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  Speaker 1: let's say cam Ward's slips a little. Like let's say
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  Speaker 1: ten See says, you know what we want Travis Hunter.
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  Speaker 1: And let's say Abdul Carter goes two, and so the
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  Speaker 1: Giants are sitting there at three and they don't take
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback or they're entertaining moving back because they got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of needs as well. So you want to
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  Speaker 1: go up to three, like San Francisco went from twelve
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  Speaker 1: to three for Trey Lance. They give up three ones
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  Speaker 1: and a four they gave up They did a pick
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  Speaker 1: swap for that year's first and each of the next
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  Speaker 1: two years first round draft picks and a four. You
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  Speaker 1: willing to give up three straight years the first round
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  Speaker 1: picks or your next two years of first round picks
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  Speaker 1: to take cam Ward. I'm not for a Saints team
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  Speaker 1: that needs everything, and not just better players, but better
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  Speaker 1: players on rookie contracts so it's more affordable. It's hard
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  Speaker 1: to justify moving up in this year's draft. Now we
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  Speaker 1: all know the Saints MO that's what they do. They
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  Speaker 1: ain't trading back. I mean everyone who says yeah, trade back, no,
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  Speaker 1: I mean yes, I would love to see them do
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  Speaker 1: that and recoup assats. But Mickey Loomis has literally never
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  Speaker 1: traded back. So if he's not going to trade back,
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  Speaker 1: the only way he'll go, as we know, is up.
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  Speaker 1: It's not worth it, not in round one, not for
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  Speaker 1: a guy that feels very much like a risk, a
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  Speaker 1: smaller quarterback who doesn't feel like the no doubt or
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  Speaker 1: the Peyton Manning the Joe Burrow, the guy at the
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  Speaker 1: top of the draft that is the undeniable number one guy,
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  Speaker 1: can't miss prospect type dude, which there really is no
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  Speaker 1: such thing. But not this year. You want to take
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  Speaker 1: a flyer in Day three, I'm with it. You want
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  Speaker 1: to trade up into the top two three picks to
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  Speaker 1: take cam Ward, I can't get there. Not this year.