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Saints vs. Steelers Preview: Ross Jackson on Paris Trip, Safety Concerns & Latest Team Updates · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: going to go to Paris here in one second. Hey, Siri,
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  Speaker 1: how do you say we go to Paris to welcome
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  Speaker 1: aboard Ross Jackson from LouisianaSports.net and the Locked on Saints
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  Speaker 1: podcast in French?
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  Speaker 2: Bonjour, Ross!
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  Speaker 1: So this is Ross Jackson, who those of us who
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  Speaker 1: know him well know that he normally eats dinner for
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  Speaker 1: the early bird specials. He's there with the old people
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  Speaker 1: at like 4.30 in the afternoon and had a 2.30
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  Speaker 1: dinner today in Paris.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a record for you? That's a 9.30 dinner here.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Oh! It's 9.30. It was a
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  Speaker 2: record in that I had the latest dinner I've ever had.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we're talking body clock here. I think your body
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  Speaker 1: clock thought it was 2.30 in the afternoon and said,
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  Speaker 1: I am famished. It is dinner time.
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  Speaker 2: I was so hungry.
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  Speaker 1: I was so hungry. Okay, so I want to start
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  Speaker 1: with the off-field stuff because I keep getting asked this
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  Speaker 1: question over and over and over again about the riots
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  Speaker 1: and the civil unrest and everything. And if it's safe,
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  Speaker 1: you're there. What can you tell us?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I watched a Parisian couple walk down the street
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  Speaker 2: today sharing a baguette, and it was the most stereotypical
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  Speaker 2: thing that I have seen. But it was not at
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  Speaker 2: all dangerous. Now look, some of that has to do
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  Speaker 2: with the area that I'm in. I'm in what's called
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  Speaker 2: the 9th Eridonism, which is effectively like a neighborhood or
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  Speaker 2: a district. A lot of what's going on in terms
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  Speaker 2: of the protests and things like that are happening in
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  Speaker 2: the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Eridonism, which is about– it's
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  Speaker 2: on the other side of the river.
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  Speaker 1: Where the poor people are. You're with all the rich people.
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  Speaker 2: I'm over by, you know, kind of like there's like
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  Speaker 2: a military base that's like two blocks away from right.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't nothing going down over here.
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  Speaker 1: Smart.
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  Speaker 2: And so and the same thing is going to be
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  Speaker 2: the case with the frost where they're going to be
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  Speaker 2: playing the game as well as where they're practicing, which
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  Speaker 2: will head out to Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, tomorrow through Friday.
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  Speaker 2: And so as of right now, I have seen nothing
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  Speaker 2: but thousands of people enjoying themselves and living their life.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that there are other things that are going on.
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  Speaker 2: It's just that for the most part, everything that's going
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  Speaker 2: on NFL event-wise seems to be, to this point, completely
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  Speaker 2: removed from everything that's going on otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, that's fantastic news. So you also just noted
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  Speaker 1: with a seven-hour time difference that there is obviously a
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  Speaker 1: body clock travel transition that all this happens. Are you
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  Speaker 1: anywhere near, have you had any availability with the team
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  Speaker 1: as of yet?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we spoke with a couple of players, Juwan Johnson
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  Speaker 2: as well as Justin Reed, on Monday, the first day
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  Speaker 2: that they got in.
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  Speaker 1: How's that going, the transition so far to being in Europe?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and actually I should say, probably more pertinent, I
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  Speaker 2: spoke to Cam Jordan today at one of the flag
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  Speaker 2: football events that was going on this morning here in Paris.
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  Speaker 2: And he talked a little bit about the adjustment for
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  Speaker 2: the body clock. And a lot of it was that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of players, and Cam included, maybe slept about
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  Speaker 2: an hour or so on the flight and then kind
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  Speaker 2: of powered through until the evening and then slept kind of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on the evening clock here in Paris. And
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  Speaker 2: so the thing about Paris, I think as most people
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  Speaker 2: have probably heard, it is very true that this is
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  Speaker 2: an up late, sleep late kind of city. And so
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  Speaker 2: everything kind of like closes late, opens late, all those
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  Speaker 2: things like your coffee shops open at like 8.30 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: Here.
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  Speaker 2: But obviously the players are going to be on an
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  Speaker 2: earlier clock than that. So many of them tried to,
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  Speaker 2: as I understand it, try to reset the clock last
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  Speaker 2: night as well as tonight. Many of them are at
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  Speaker 2: the PSG game tonight, meaning that they're not napping here
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  Speaker 2: during the day, which is kind of the worst possible
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  Speaker 2: thing that you can do. Stay awake until it's time
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  Speaker 2: to go to bed, and then you're adjusted by Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what many of them are looking forward to doing.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of them probably won't fully adjust until Thursday
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  Speaker 2: or Friday, but in any case, they should be well
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  Speaker 2: adjusted by the game on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: PSG, that's... That's proper football footy.
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  Speaker 2: That's proper footy.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Proper footy versus what I fear is another team.
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  Speaker 1: So that makes sense. So it's not a, uh, an
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  Speaker 1: intra squad scrimmage. This is actual competitive in the standings
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  Speaker 1: or is it a friendly?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, it's in the standings. It's apparently a very
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  Speaker 2: big game that teams are playing. And that, that is
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  Speaker 2: the match and they're doing it and they're playing it
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  Speaker 2: on a pitch. Those are the things that I.
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  Speaker 1: Know, uh, at, Stade de France?
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  Speaker 2: Stade de France.
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  Speaker 1: So they're playing the match today where the Saints and
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  Speaker 1: Steelers will be playing on Sunday?
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  Speaker 2: I do believe so, yeah. I believe that those things
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  Speaker 2: are happening on the same place, and they'll do some,
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  Speaker 2: you know, not turf turnover, but some field care and
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  Speaker 2: things like that. Amazing, actually, what they're able to do
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  Speaker 2: because of how often they have to turn over a
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  Speaker 2: lot of these fields, just kind of on a standard
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  Speaker 2: basis in terms of how the game is played here.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty incredible, the field maintenance and the way that
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  Speaker 2: they're able to get all that done in time for
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  Speaker 2: the next match, or in this case, the next game.
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  Speaker 1: What? Ross Jackson's with us, LouisianaSports.net, and Locked on Saints.
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  Speaker 1: He's there in Guilpaoli, hanging out with Pepe Le Pew,
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  Speaker 1: eating a baguette and smoking a cigarette. I thought the
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  Speaker 1: cigarette was pretty good there at the end.
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  Speaker 2: That was good.
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  Speaker 1: That was solid. I saw this video of Cam Jordan
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  Speaker 1: hugging Mickey Mouse. There's a Disney in Paris? I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even know that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, there is a Disneyland in Paris. There are several
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  Speaker 2: different Disneyland's all around the world, including Tokyo and a
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  Speaker 2: couple of other spots. But Disneyland Paris is one of
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  Speaker 2: the bigger parks that rivals Disneyland in Anaheim. And these
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  Speaker 2: are things that I know because I used to work
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  Speaker 2: for the mouse. And so this is like one of
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  Speaker 2: the main kind of larger Disneyland sites in the world
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  Speaker 2: outside of Disneyland Tokyo and, of course, Disney World.
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  Speaker 1: Were you Pluto?
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  Speaker 2: No, I didn't. I was not a costume character. I
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  Speaker 2: was a stage manager on the Guardians of the Galaxy
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  Speaker 2: dance-off that took place in Disneyland, and I helped to
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  Speaker 2: install their Frozen show that moved from Disney World to Disneyland.
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  Speaker 1: You never once just snuck into the costume closet and
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  Speaker 1: just pulled out Goofy's head and was like, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go be Goofy today?
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  Speaker 2: I put on the Mickey outfit once. I did do that.
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  Speaker 2: I was not supposed to. I got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: trouble with that, actually.
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  Speaker 1: Is that why you pursued a career in sports media
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  Speaker 1: instead of stage management for Disney?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was blackballed from theater after putting on the
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  Speaker 2: Mickey costume.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so they're going to hit the practice field tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Anything we should know about football stuff before the Saints
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  Speaker 1: get back on the practice field?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, two big things we're watching right now. Jordan Tyson
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  Speaker 2: made the trip out here to Paris. If the Saints
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  Speaker 2: want to stick to the Week 9 timeline that has,
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  Speaker 2: or if they are indeed sticking to, I should say,
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  Speaker 2: the Week 9 timeline that has been reported and hypothesized
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  Speaker 2: out there, this would be the week to open up
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  Speaker 2: his practice window. Little strange to do it in the
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  Speaker 2: midst of an international week, but also makes a lot
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  Speaker 2: of sense just in terms of being able to keep
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  Speaker 2: everything kind of removed and the distractions away and all
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  Speaker 2: these other things. And so they could open up his
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  Speaker 2: practice week here, have this week, the bye week to
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  Speaker 2: continue to work with him, and then the week leading
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  Speaker 2: up to week nine at home up against the Cleveland Browns.
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  Speaker 2: And so this could be a big week that tells
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  Speaker 2: us a little bit about the plans for Jordan Tyson
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  Speaker 2: one way or another. So we'll definitely be watching out
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  Speaker 2: for him. And then the other player to keep an
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  Speaker 2: eye out on is going to be Kate Nellis. Kate
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  Speaker 2: Nellis made the trip out here as well. He's missed
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  Speaker 2: the last games with a calf injury. Getting him back
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  Speaker 2: would be massive for New Orleans because there is a
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  Speaker 2: big-time disparity between Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers when he's
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  Speaker 2: kept clean and Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers when he's
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  Speaker 2: under pressure. His completion percentage drops to the 50s from 67.7.
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  Speaker 2: His passer rating drops quite a bit as well. And
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  Speaker 2: so this would be getting Caden Ellis back could be
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  Speaker 2: massive for New Orleans. If Jordan Tyson does return to practice,
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  Speaker 2: keep in mind that that is about opening up his
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  Speaker 2: 21-day practice window, and they'll likely use all of that.
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  Speaker 2: It's not about trying to get him out on the
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  Speaker 2: field this weekend. But for Caden Ellis, if he's back
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  Speaker 2: at practice this week, they could look to get him
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  Speaker 2: back as soon as this game up against Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: Ross Jackson, at RossJacksonNola. You can read him at LouisianaSports.net.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Enjoy your baguettes, your crepes, your what
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  Speaker 1: else do they eat? Coco Vin. What else do they
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  Speaker 1: eat there in Paris?
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  Speaker 2: Lots of wine. It's everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be there in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. We'll see you here. Au revoir.
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  Speaker 1: Au revoir. Yours, Jackson.