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Saints Camp Day 17: Ty Chandler & Rejzohn Wright Placed on IR | New Orleans Saints · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: Good enough to hang out with us. Yo, man, how
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  Speaker 1: are you?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, dude, doing great. Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to get sick of talking to me.
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  Speaker 2: No, not at all.
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  Speaker 1: Saints are going to start their season, and you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be like, thank God I don't have to go
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  Speaker 1: on with that guy every day anymore.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm going to get at 5 p.m., and I'm
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  Speaker 2: just going to stare at my phone every day waiting
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  Speaker 2: and hoping you guys call me.
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  Speaker 1: Why isn't Musso calling me?
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  Speaker 2: What's going on? I'm going to be texting him all
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  Speaker 2: the time. Why aren't you calling me?
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  Speaker 1: I'm available. Okay, today, two players on season-ending IR. Let's
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  Speaker 1: give everybody the deets.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so two knee injuries, one of which was a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of a surprise. Ty Chandler seemed to finish
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  Speaker 2: the game up against the Los Angeles Rams, but then
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  Speaker 2: wasn't on the practice field on Monday and then ends
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  Speaker 2: up now going to season-ending IR. So, look, sometimes adrenaline
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  Speaker 2: gets the best out of players and they stay on
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  Speaker 2: the field despite an injury and things like that. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: that's what happened. Maybe it's not. Maybe it wasn't something
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  Speaker 2: that Maybe it was bothering him then, but started bothering
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  Speaker 2: him after the fact. That happened with Julian Blackman, first
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  Speaker 2: game of the year last year. Everything was a labrum injury,
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  Speaker 2: not a knee injury, but could be something like that.
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  Speaker 2: But Maliki Matoval, he also went to injury reserve, and
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  Speaker 2: he took a pretty bad shot to the knee. uh,
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  Speaker 2: during that game. So that one looked not pretty as
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  Speaker 2: it was, but it wasn't a non-contact situation. It was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, something that could have been avoidable with maybe,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, better, better tackling, I guess. I'm not sure,
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  Speaker 2: but in any case, uh, that those, both of those
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  Speaker 2: guys end up going to injured reserve. And those are
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  Speaker 2: guys that were make it a play for potential roster spots,
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  Speaker 2: especially Maliki Matavao, who was coming off of the practice
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  Speaker 2: squad and kind of looked like one of the guys
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  Speaker 2: in line to go from practice squad to active roster.
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  Speaker 2: And so a disappointing end for both of those guys
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  Speaker 2: before the season even gets, gets going. But, uh, running
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  Speaker 2: back position is something that Saints recently addressed. Tight end
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  Speaker 2: position is a, is a very deep room. So they'll
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  Speaker 2: continue to, to see what they have in options at
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  Speaker 2: both of those positions.
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  Speaker 1: Um, okay. So it's certainly disappointing there. The Saints were
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  Speaker 1: back on the practice field today. However, um, What did
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  Speaker 1: they do?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a little bit more of an active
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  Speaker 2: day today than it was yesterday. Since yesterday was just
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  Speaker 2: a walkthrough. Today was kind of going through more situational moments.
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  Speaker 2: They worked some actual live drills. And by live, I
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  Speaker 2: mean the ball and chains moved, not tackling or anything.
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  Speaker 2: But they put together some drives. They worked on kind
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  Speaker 2: of drive starters. They focused on kind of first down,
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  Speaker 2: second down, third down, with fourth down available situations, things
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  Speaker 2: like that. Kind of work in some of the situations
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  Speaker 2: that gave them problems during the game against the ramps
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  Speaker 2: and being able to get in and out of the
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  Speaker 2: huddle and not having any penalties, doing so cleanly, things
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  Speaker 2: like that. They were pretty clean all throughout on both
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  Speaker 2: sides of the football throughout this practice, and so that
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  Speaker 2: seemed to be the big focus on their work.
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  Speaker 1: they move through this final week of the preseason, I
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  Speaker 1: know Kellen Moore met with reporters. Ross, are we expected
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  Speaker 1: to see any more from the starters this week?
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  Speaker 2: That is a decision that the Saints are going to
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  Speaker 2: make before tomorrow night's practice at Tulane. I would imagine
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  Speaker 2: that you're probably going to see some starters in that
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  Speaker 2: final game. That's how they handled it last year. Offensive
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  Speaker 2: starters played about 16 snaps right around there with some exceptions, right?
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  Speaker 2: Guys rotating at heavy rotational positions. And then defensively around 20,
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  Speaker 2: some odd snaps, similar situation there with some heavier rotational
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  Speaker 2: situations in there too. But I think that there's some
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  Speaker 2: value in, in getting their starters out there and giving
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  Speaker 2: them the exposure and kind of getting into rhythm. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: the injury risk is very real, especially with the amount
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  Speaker 2: of injuries this team has dealt with over the course
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  Speaker 2: of the season. But I do think that there's value
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  Speaker 2: in getting the starters out there. I would be a
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  Speaker 2: little bit surprised if we didn't see the starters, but
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  Speaker 2: that's not to say that we won't or that we
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  Speaker 2: certainly will.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, They're going to make that decision, though, before
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  Speaker 2: they go into the Uelmen Stadium practice tomorrow, and so
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  Speaker 2: we'll be able to get a clear answer on that
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 1: That night practice at Uelmen is always a pretty cool
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  Speaker 1: scene with the fans there, and it is one of
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  Speaker 1: the really genuinely cool things about the preseason. What should
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  Speaker 1: fans go into that practice or afterwards looking at the
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  Speaker 1: reports be keeping an eye out for?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're looking for, obviously, teams to stay healthy.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a big one.
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  Speaker 2: At this point, you're also hoping that Chris Olave is
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  Speaker 2: out on the field. Chris Olave left a little early
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  Speaker 2: from practice in today's practice, but the kind of positive
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  Speaker 2: update from Kellen Moore was that he just got the
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  Speaker 2: wind knocked out of him. And so ideally with the
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  Speaker 2: wind knocked out of him, you're back on the practice
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  Speaker 2: field the next day. And so it could be a
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  Speaker 2: sign of him just trying to take it very easy
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  Speaker 2: with him and saying like, okay, we know what we
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  Speaker 2: need to know about you kind of a situation, but certainly,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you want to see him out on the
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  Speaker 2: practice field, at least around. And then I think outside
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  Speaker 2: of that, like, I think that it's like watching the
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  Speaker 2: Saints rushing attack is, it's a very different rushing attack
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  Speaker 2: this year than it was last year. A little bit
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  Speaker 2: more zone heavy, a little bit more outside heavy, a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more expansive in that way, though, not specifically
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  Speaker 2: that like it was back in 2024, where it was
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  Speaker 2: almost all outside of the tackles. But the Saints rushing
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  Speaker 2: attack feels like it's expanded quite a bit. I think
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  Speaker 2: that can be fun for fans to watch. And then,
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  Speaker 2: you know, guys like Chase Young and Carl Granderson just
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  Speaker 2: continue to have really incredible camps. They were great again today.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think that's going to be a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fun for fans to watch. And then maybe a
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  Speaker 2: three-way kicking competition between Charlie Smith, Tanner Brown, and then
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  Speaker 2: the addition of Daniel Carlson.
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  Speaker 1: I am sure, Ross, at some point, I don't know this,
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming, that you're going to put out a roster projection. Yes. What...
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  Speaker 1: do you think are going to be your toughest position
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  Speaker 1: battle decisions to make as you hammer that out?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the interior of the defensive line is
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  Speaker 2: challenging now that some of the obvious answers aren't there, right?
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  Speaker 2: Brian Brzee and his injury, John Ridgway has been out
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  Speaker 2: for a little while now. And so I think that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a little bit tough. And there's been
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  Speaker 2: a lot of guys like Christian Boyd, for instance, who
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  Speaker 2: maybe might've been left off of a roster earlier on
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  Speaker 2: in the season or the off season who, he has
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  Speaker 2: done really well for himself to earn a roster spot
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  Speaker 2: this season. So I think that's going to be one.
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  Speaker 2: I think tight end just got a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: complicated because it felt like the things were on their
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  Speaker 2: way to keeping four on the roster. They might only
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  Speaker 2: keep three now. And so where does that extra roster
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  Speaker 2: spot go? I think that's going to be an interesting one.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously quarterback is going to be interesting as well, because
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  Speaker 2: we've seen positives on both sides of this thing when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to that one, whether it be training camp
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  Speaker 2: or preseason. I think those are probably going to be
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  Speaker 2: the hardest ones. Everything else though, feels like the team's
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  Speaker 2: pretty set at this point. And really, it's just kind
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  Speaker 2: of building out the depth. And so that's where some
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  Speaker 2: hits and misses are going to happen in terms of
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  Speaker 2: who ends up making the roster, who doesn't make the roster.
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  Speaker 2: And so obviously, there's going to be some consideration there.
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  Speaker 2: But I think for the most part, this roster is
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  Speaker 2: pretty clear.
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  Speaker 1: for the time, man.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: Take care, Cissé. Talk to you soon.