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REPORT: Saints Set To Hire Eagles OC Kellen Moore | Can He Restore Culture In New Orleans? · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: is here in New Orleans and the New Orleans Saints
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  Speaker 1: could not avoid the new cycle here as as the
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  Speaker 1: week begins, and Adam Schefter was a guest earlier today
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  Speaker 1: on the Pat McAfee show. And with one head coaching
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  Speaker 1: vacancy remaining, that, of course, being the New Orleans Saints vacancy,
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  Speaker 1: all eyes and attention are pointing toward Kellen Moore and
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  Speaker 1: Adam Schefter today broke the news that I and many
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  Speaker 1: other thought we'd probably hear late last week, but I
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  Speaker 1: guess better late than never.
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  Speaker 2: Here was Schefter's report.
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  Speaker 3: The head of the Saints organization, Mickey Lomis, is going
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  Speaker 3: to do everything in his power when it comes to
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  Speaker 3: this coaching hire to follow the rules and go buy
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  Speaker 3: the book and not talk to Kellen Moore until after
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  Speaker 3: the Super Bowl?
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  Speaker 2: Could it break down and they not reach an agreement?
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  Speaker 3: Sure? Is that likely? No, Kellen Moore is gonna have
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  Speaker 3: a chance to probably triple his salary become a head
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  Speaker 3: coach one to thirty two. And if the Saints were
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  Speaker 3: making any other move, whether it was hiring the Dolphins
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  Speaker 3: defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver or the Giants offensive coordinator Mike
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  Speaker 3: Kafka or their own interim head coach, what are they
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  Speaker 3: waiting for? Why not go hire them right now? But
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  Speaker 3: they're not. They're waiting. Barring a setback, he's going to
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  Speaker 3: be the guy.
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  Speaker 1: So there's the report from Schefter. Barring a setback, he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be the guy. Whi's fine that in saying
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna do everything by the books so you avoid
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  Speaker 1: tampering and totally understand that.
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  Speaker 2: It's all things we talked about.
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  Speaker 1: That's not the report that we got from Schefter and
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  Speaker 1: other late last week. The report late last week Tom
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  Speaker 1: Pellasero among them, was that Diana Rossini, who's here, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, was that the Saints had not made a decision.
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  Speaker 1: They had not informed any of the candidates they were
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  Speaker 1: out of the running and that they wanted to talk
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  Speaker 1: to more again after the Super Bowl. So it's to
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  Speaker 1: say that they weren't done with the interview process. So
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  Speaker 1: that's a very different that's a very different report than
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  Speaker 1: what Schefter said today, which is the thing I thought
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  Speaker 1: we would hear late last week because it's what happened
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  Speaker 1: last year with Clint Kubiak. So now the attention turns
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  Speaker 1: to Kellen Moore fully and I think we all understand
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  Speaker 1: that now. And Schefter was also asked what types of
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  Speaker 1: setbacks could possibly occur at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what he said.
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  Speaker 3: Could there be a setback or there been our setbacks?
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  Speaker 3: Bill Belichick didn't wind up becoming the head coach of
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  Speaker 3: the Jets, Josh McDaniels didn't wind up becoming the head
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  Speaker 3: coach of the coach didn't wind up becoming the coordinator Buccaneers.
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  Speaker 3: But barring new setbacks, we know where this is tracking,
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  Speaker 3: and we know where this is going. Let's not be
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  Speaker 3: oblivious to it.
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  Speaker 1: I so the question becomes, how do we feel about
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  Speaker 1: Kellen Moore and whether this is right or wrong. I
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  Speaker 1: do think the result of the game on Sunday is
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  Speaker 1: going to be very indicative of what the fan reaction
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  Speaker 1: is going to be. For example, I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: Kellen Moore would have been a very popular name. May
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  Speaker 1: still not be, but I know that he was going
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  Speaker 1: to be a very popular name before the NFC Championship game.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles go put fifty five on the board in
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  Speaker 1: the NFC Championship Game. A day later, Kellen Moore emerges
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  Speaker 1: as really that night, emerges as a guy the Saints
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  Speaker 1: want to talk to. They fly up and talk to
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  Speaker 1: him on Monday night into Tuesday morning. He's the front
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  Speaker 1: runner now, and I think people got pretty excited. If
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles go out on Sunday against the Chief and
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  Speaker 1: when the Super Bowl and that offense really cooks and hums,
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  Speaker 1: then I think we look up and we're probably a
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  Speaker 1: little more excited about Kellen Moore than we would have
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  Speaker 1: been let's say ten to fourteen days ago. But the
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  Speaker 1: point I'll make about Kellen Moore will continue to be
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  Speaker 1: While I don't think he was the A list number
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  Speaker 1: one guy, Clearly Aaron Glenn was your number one. Joe
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  Speaker 1: Brady was right there as well, and you interviewed other candidates.
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  Speaker 1: The thing I wanted to think a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: wanted was a young, offensive minded coach. This checks that box.
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  Speaker 1: Someone without ties to the organization prior. This checks that box.
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  Speaker 1: Provided it does head that way and they get this
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  Speaker 1: across the finish line, and regardless, you still have to
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  Speaker 1: hire someone.
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  Speaker 2: So like you're going to hire a coach.
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  Speaker 1: It is interesting that Blake Groupy was sitting with us
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes ago and said he would love for Darren
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  Speaker 1: Rizzy to be the guy. And I think that's a
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  Speaker 1: sentiment that will a lot of Saints players share. But
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  Speaker 1: I also don't think you always a default to what
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  Speaker 1: the players want to hire the popular candidate among the players.
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  Speaker 1: That often goes awry. There's part of me that looks
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  Speaker 1: at Darren Rizzy and says, could he be the culture
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  Speaker 1: builder in New Orleans the way Dan Campbell has been
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  Speaker 1: in Detroit? And I think there's some legitimacy to that.
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  Speaker 1: But I also look at any one who's making that higher,
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  Speaker 1: and you're trying to minimize risk in that higher, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that I could definitively say that there's
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  Speaker 1: more risk with Darren Rizzy or Kellen Moore. Probably less
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  Speaker 1: with Darren Rizzy quite honestly, because you have an eight
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  Speaker 1: game sample size of him as a head coach to
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  Speaker 1: know what that looks like.
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  Speaker 2: But we may.
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  Speaker 1: We may not get that answer, but it sounds like
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  Speaker 1: According to Schefter, the report many of us say anticipated
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  Speaker 1: hearing late last week, is Kellen Moore will in fact
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  Speaker 1: be the guy after barring a snag after the Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl