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How Saints Replace Taysom Hill After ACL Injury | Is The Do It All Player's Time In New Orleans Over? · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: dot org. Golf dot Brek dot org. Certainly saw the
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  Speaker 1: news Monday Taysom Hill. The reports are torn Acl done
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  Speaker 1: for the season. We all saw the play on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: against the Rams. Was the fourth and one. He was
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  Speaker 1: in the single wing, took the direct snap, went left side,
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  Speaker 1: got the first down, the left leg extended hit.
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  Speaker 2: You knew it immediately when you saw it.
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  Speaker 1: It was one of those like turn your head, hold
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  Speaker 1: your breath type moments after the game. Darren Rizzy didn't
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  Speaker 1: have much of an update on Tasom. He did confirm
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  Speaker 1: on Monday that Taysom will be done for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Can you play four lea?
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  Speaker 1: Because Rizzy was asked, okay, now that you that you've
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  Speaker 1: lost Taysim for the year, Like, how do you replace
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  Speaker 1: him in this offense?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it means everybody else has step up. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he fills so many roles, so there's gonna be a
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  Speaker 3: lot of different guys that are going to have to
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  Speaker 3: be a part of the solution. There we'll start getting
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  Speaker 3: hopefully a couple of healthy bodies back here. I think
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  Speaker 3: we're going to open the window this week with Kendre Miller,
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  Speaker 3: open up his twenty one day window. But means another guy,
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  Speaker 3: hopefully we get back this week, we'll open up his
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  Speaker 3: twenty one day window. Looks like and so, and then
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  Speaker 3: obviously all the guys that have been you know, supporting
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  Speaker 3: cast these last few weeks. We've done a good job,
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  Speaker 3: you know, these last few weeks of getting a lot
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  Speaker 3: of different guys involved, and it's going to have to
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  Speaker 3: remain the same. And again, it's hard to sit here
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  Speaker 3: and tell you that you can replace Taysoim. You can't.
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  Speaker 3: He's a phenomenal person, player, leader, captain, all those different things.
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  Speaker 3: So it's certainly a big loss. But that's the only
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  Speaker 3: the only way you can do is everybe else to
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  Speaker 3: step up.
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  Speaker 1: The short answer is no, you don't, and you don't
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  Speaker 1: even need to hear, and I can understand certainly Darren
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  Speaker 1: Rizzy having to say what he can. Other guys's got
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  Speaker 1: to step up the news. There is opening Bud Means
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  Speaker 1: and Kendre Miller's twenty one day window to return. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you get him back this week against against the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's a week later at home against the Commanders.
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  Speaker 1: But we've seen this, right, I mean, you just look
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  Speaker 1: at the Falcons game, the first Falcons game, not that
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  Speaker 1: you need me to recreate this for you, and how
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  Speaker 1: it all went for New Orleans. But the Saints lost
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  Speaker 1: to the Falcons twenty six to twenty four. That was
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  Speaker 1: a game where they were virtually unstoppable in the first
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  Speaker 1: half and all they managed were field goals in the
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  Speaker 1: second half, a field goal in the third quarter, and
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  Speaker 1: then Kamara's one yard touchdown run late to tie it
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  Speaker 1: before or to give the Saints the one point lead
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  Speaker 1: before young Waiku hit the fifty eight yard excuse me
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  Speaker 1: to win at twenty six to twenty four. But your
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  Speaker 1: offense just went in the deep freeze when Taysom went out,
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  Speaker 1: and then you played Monday night football against the Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: where you scored just thirteen points without Taysom.
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  Speaker 2: That was the game where Derek Carr got hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Then you played the game against Tampa where you did
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  Speaker 1: score twenty seven, but in the second half, it was
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  Speaker 1: it was a real struggle. You got shut out. It
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  Speaker 1: was it was weird. You got down big in that game.
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  Speaker 1: If you remember, it was I'm looking at the box
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  Speaker 1: score right here. You got down seventeen nothing in the
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  Speaker 1: first quarter and came back all the way back to
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  Speaker 1: take a twenty to seventeen lead, and then actually took
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  Speaker 1: a twenty seven to twenty four lead into the break,
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  Speaker 1: and then you just got blitzed in the second half
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven and nothing. You lost fifty one to twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: But and then you had the Thursday night football game
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  Speaker 1: against the Broncos where you scored just ten points and
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  Speaker 1: your run defense was atrocious. Then eight points against the Chargers,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, when you got Taysom back, it it
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  Speaker 1: just opens up more in this offense. It kind of
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  Speaker 1: goes without saying, you know, I don't know how you
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  Speaker 1: do this. But Rizzy was also asked if they ever
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  Speaker 1: try to recreate that role, like is there someone else
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  Speaker 1: on the team that you could put in that capacity?
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  Speaker 2: I mean that yep.
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  Speaker 1: In some ways. You know, Sean Payton tried to try
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  Speaker 1: to recreate this role. But I thought they might be
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  Speaker 1: trying to draft the recreation of this role. But here
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  Speaker 1: was Here was Darren Rizzy on if they have anyone
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  Speaker 1: else that could replace Taysom.
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  Speaker 3: I think in the time I've been here, we've we've
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  Speaker 3: looked in the draft and said, I've heard the expression
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  Speaker 3: news before. Well that's guys a Taysom like player, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and you bring a guy in and see how many
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  Speaker 3: roles you can fill. I think the difficult part in
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  Speaker 3: today's NFL is that everything is so specialized, and so
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  Speaker 3: Taysom is such a rare player because everything is so specialized.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you have pass rushers and nickels and you know,
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  Speaker 3: third down guys and this and that. So when guys
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  Speaker 3: come into the league, they don't have a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the experience and a lot of those different things. So
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  Speaker 3: you're teaching guys to do. You know, Taysom came to
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  Speaker 3: us and hadn't really done a lot of the special
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  Speaker 3: team stuff and turned himself into a very good special
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  Speaker 3: teams player. So to sit here and say that you
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  Speaker 3: can just plug one guy in and do all those
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  Speaker 3: different things. I think that's a process. Taysom did such
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  Speaker 3: a great job when he got out here of learning
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  Speaker 3: the offense and then kind of integrating him into special
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  Speaker 3: teams and then oh, by the way, can he be
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  Speaker 3: a kick returner? And so yeah, I mean I've heard that,
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  Speaker 3: I've heard that discussions happened before. But that's a that's
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  Speaker 3: not a one day thing, you know, it's a long,
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  Speaker 3: you know, process.
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  Speaker 1: To his credit, Tommy Stevens was the player that Sean
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  Speaker 1: Payton drafted in round seven, if you remember, and the
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  Speaker 1: whole he got they were going to sign him as
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  Speaker 1: an undrafted free agent, sounded like they were going to
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  Speaker 1: lose him, and so then he moved back into the
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  Speaker 1: draft to get him. And it just it was Sean
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  Speaker 1: paidn acting like a pissed off teenager, which he did
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  Speaker 1: at times, and that wasn't very smart. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: you look at Taysom both short and long term. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Taysom's thirty four next year. He'll be in this year,
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  Speaker 1: thirty five season, coming off a very serious knee injury.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, when you look at at the at
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  Speaker 1: the cap hit, it's seventeen point nine, but the dead
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  Speaker 1: money is seventeen point seven. So another way to say it,
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  Speaker 1: like if you if you cut or wave Taysom Hill,
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  Speaker 1: you would only save two hundred grand against your cap.
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  Speaker 1: So it does you know good whatsoever to part ways
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  Speaker 1: with Taysom Hill. Now when you look into twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: you know, now you're talking about the voidable years.
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  Speaker 2: On his deal.
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  Speaker 1: But really twenty five and twenty six would be excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, twenty six and twenty seven would be the
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  Speaker 1: years where you would look and say, okay, that's where
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  Speaker 1: where it might make sense to move on. And I
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  Speaker 1: think this is really more of a question for Taysom
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  Speaker 1: At you're thirty four years old, next year being thirty five,
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  Speaker 1: coming off a very serious knee injury that he's going
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  Speaker 1: to have to rehab. We don't know when he'll be
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  Speaker 1: available or to his normal self, whatever that may look like.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's a question he's going to have to
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  Speaker 1: ask himself or answer when, how long, how much longer
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  Speaker 1: he wants to play? And the odd thing about a
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  Speaker 1: guy like Taysom of course, is when you're thirty four
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  Speaker 1: years old, usually you've played a dozen your thirteen years
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, and you know, for Taysoum, he's eight
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  Speaker 1: years in, like this is year eight because going to
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  Speaker 1: BYU and doing the more mission, it just.
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  Speaker 2: It delays your football career.
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  Speaker 1: So he's probably about he's five years older there, about
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  Speaker 1: four or five years older than someone in football terms
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  Speaker 1: would normally be at this age at this stage of
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  Speaker 1: their career. Eight years in. So look, i'd love to
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  Speaker 1: see Taysom. He'll come back. I think we all love
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  Speaker 1: to see him play in the black and gold. The
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  Speaker 1: spark he gives, the role he gives. He's such a
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  Speaker 1: unique player and unique not being misused, like in the
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  Speaker 1: literal sense, there's only one. There's nobody else in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL that's used like Taysom Hill. There's the last time
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  Speaker 1: we saw something like this was sixty years ago with
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  Speaker 1: Frank Gifford. So you'd love to see Taysom come back.
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  Speaker 1: It's massively unfortunate that the injury happened, but you have
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  Speaker 1: to start asking these very real questions about how much
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  Speaker 1: longer he wants to play, how much longer can his
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  Speaker 1: body hold up playing the role he plays in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: and what does it mean for your cap financially? It
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  Speaker 1: makes sense like that that Tasoa Miill is going to
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  Speaker 1: be on your team next year, but beyond next year
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  Speaker 1: is when you start to look and say, how much
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  Speaker 1: longer will Tastemill be in the black and gold.