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- 0:05who that to the who that nation welcome to the who that's a podcast your podcast for the new orleans saints here on the kb radio network i am your fellow who that and host kevin reed and
- 0:20week four of the nfl season is upon us and this is falcon hate week and has been extended one extra day because the New Orleans Saints
- 0:32We'll host the Atlanta Falcons in the Caesar Superdome this Monday night live on
- 0:40ESPN for your viewing pleasure.
- 0:43This is the Saints'
- 0:45first primetime game in over a year.
- 0:48And how fitting,
- 0:50how poetic that this is the
- 0:5420-year anniversary,
- 0:56or a few days removed from the
- 0:5820-year anniversary of...
- 1:00the new orleans saints reopening the dome after the devastation caused by hurricane katrina and all and played atlanta that night ironically enough and the rebirth of a city began
- 1:19that was uh one of the most epic nights of sports of being a saints fan i have ever experienced and I'm not a big...
- 1:30anniversary guys especially when it comes to hurricane katrina i'm done with it and a lot of new orleanians are done with the katrina talk oh it's the anniversary it is the anniversary we're tired we really are move
- 1:46on we've had about four or five storms since then it's so let it go let's just let it go let's move on but it's something special about that night i i never
- 2:00Really read into it,
- 2:02you know,
- 2:03in the moment 20 years ago when they reopened the dome.
- 2:06I was just happy that we got a Saints game on television.
- 2:10You know,
- 2:11I was happy at that.
- 2:13And being around the city that day,
- 2:15I mean,
- 2:15traffic was crazy.
- 2:16I remember that much.
- 2:19It was bananas.
- 2:20Couldn't get nowhere.
- 2:23Everybody was in town for this game.
- 2:25And.
- 2:27Going home,
- 2:28my cuz,
- 2:28he had came over to the house so we could watch the game.
- 2:32And the game began.
- 2:34And when they pulled the banner off of the front of the Superdome and the crowd,
- 2:42that's one thing that sticks out more to me,
- 2:45other than the game,
- 2:46other than the fact the Saints won that game 23-3.
- 2:49And that score didn't reflect.
- 2:52And part of it is Atlanta.
- 2:54I think Atlanta really did.
- 2:55did not want to win that game you know for this you gotta understand the weight of that game as much hate i put on the atlanta falcons you know being division rivals a part of me believes that atlanta really came in and just gave
- 3:12it now the saints went out there and did what they did they beat them but it was more atlanta not really putting forth their best effort in that game because i mean come on man
- 3:24It was so much riding on this game,
- 3:26not for Super Bowls and positioning in the division and all this here.
- 3:32It was for the emotion of the city.
- 3:35The city needed this,
- 3:37bro.
- 3:38I mean,
- 3:38in the worst way.
- 3:40Everybody was in FEMA trailers,
- 3:42you know.
- 3:44Everybody was gutting out their houses.
- 3:46Everybody was trying to figure out what was what.
- 3:51It was...
- 3:52close to the apocalypse if you can get you know here in new orleans and to get that moment when steve gleason blocked that punt and oh boy i'm getting choked up thinking about it when he blocked that point punt and to hear the crowd in that stadium in that superdome just erupt you
- 4:20knew it was more
- 4:22than a block kick that they were releasing at that moment it was the devastation of that storm it was the the devastation of family members being relocated or in worst case dying in that storm it was it was the release of the pain of gutting out your house uh
- 4:45uh family emblems and and memorabilia that you collected in your family for
- 4:51Decades gone,
- 4:54you know,
- 4:55uh...
- 4:56eating mrt's for the last year you know in the fema trailer all that being released in that moment that that was the loudest i don't think it was that loud when the saints uh uh nfc championship win i don't think it was that loud then that i have never and i was at home you
- 5:18could hear it on the television i have never heard anything that loud in my life
- 5:26and it's still i've been fighting back i'm fighting back talking about it i still get choked up thinking about that moment it is unbelievable that with all that being said this game has none of that weight this
- 5:45has nothing to do with all that other than to commemorate the fact that is 20 years since that game and
- 5:54the same team same stadium blah blah blah none of that is connected to this game we we're in the position now it's it's currently we're fast forwarding to the present now this is a this is about as close to a must win game as you can get this early on in the season for the new orleans saints i don't want to put that much pressure
- 6:23on kelly moore and the team but to be honest he put this pressure on the team it it was look look you've played three games so far very highly contested games three games you can argue you should have won all three and then you can also flip it and make the argument you should have lost all three and i can't argue either one and that's the problem
- 6:53The problem with the New Orleans Saints,
- 6:55I have no idea what kind of team this is.
- 7:00What is their mission statement?
- 7:02What is the offense about?
- 7:05Are we a run team?
- 7:06Are we a pass team?
- 7:07Are we a well-balanced team?
- 7:10What are we?
- 7:12I don't know.
- 7:13They don't come out with any type of fire.
- 7:17Last week was an outlier.
- 7:19And even last week,
- 7:20they didn't come out hyped.
- 7:22up.
- 7:22They didn't come out with a goal to score on that first drive because they didn't score on the first drive.
- 7:30They end up scoring on the second drive,
- 7:33giving them an actual lead going into the second quarter,
- 7:37something they haven't done in over a year.
- 7:40And so that's,
- 7:41it's crazy.
- 7:42But let's just stick to last week.
- 7:44Let's go back to last week in a game that the Saints should have won.
- 7:49Saints was in firm control of that game.
- 7:52the entirety in the in the entirety up till the midway point in the third quarter it's the craziest thing because those are the two points in the two previous games when the saints started to get their act together as opposed to last week when
- 8:13everything fell apart middle of the third quarter what is it about that point in the game that the saints either
- 8:22or hot and turn cold or cold and turn hot.
- 8:25What is it?
- 8:28It's crazy to me.
- 8:30But last week,
- 8:31the Saints looked like they were on their way to a victory that would have given them an early edge in the NFC South race,
- 8:38only to squander in an 11-point second-half lead to the Las Vegas Raiders.
- 8:45And let me say this.
- 8:48The Raiders,
- 8:50I made this statement.
- 8:51that the raiders did nothing to win that game and i got some pushback on that i just want to say i stand by that statement the raiders did nothing to win that game in the second half nothing
- 9:12i don't care who gets mad saints committed four turnovers these weren't forced other than that last fumble they were you
- 9:21boneheaded turnovers and that shouldn't have happened shouldn't have been throwing the ball you had the lead you want to milk the clock this is this is situational awareness that's that's supposed to be embedded in an nfl player at this at this stage you milk the clock not the saints not kelly moore let's let's drop back and throw and you put your quarterback
- 9:49which is who is basically still a rookie,
- 9:52you're putting him in a situation to make a play.
- 9:56Mind you,
- 9:57your star left tackle is out.
- 9:59You have a reserve player in there who did a decent job because you didn't hear his name throughout the game.
- 10:07But he can only hold up so long.
- 10:10He is a backup player.
- 10:12Let's keep it real.
- 10:13And so,
- 10:15what did you expect?
- 10:17It was just a matter of time.
- 10:18And sure enough,
- 10:21the pressure got to him.
- 10:23Throwing pigs.
- 10:24Getting sacked.
- 10:25fumbles,
- 10:26you know,
- 10:27just boneheaded things that took place in that second half that the Saints,
- 10:35they can clean it up.
- 10:37He'll probably stand up at the podium.
- 10:39I didn't even watch the post-game press conference.
- 10:42Didn't want to hear his mouth.
- 10:44He probably stood up there,
- 10:46you know,
- 10:46if we clean up the turnovers,
- 10:49we could have won the game.
- 10:50Whatever.
- 10:51I don't want to hear it.
- 10:53I honestly don't want to hear it.
- 10:54Because even with all those turnovers,
- 10:57even with the four turnovers,
- 10:59if you take one of the four,
- 11:01just one,
- 11:03you can win this game.
- 11:05You could have won this game,
- 11:06I should say.
- 11:08That's how bad it was.
- 11:10That's how I'm amazed by Raiders fans who were mad at me for making the statement they did nothing.
- 11:17And I get it.
- 11:18That's your team.
- 11:20I get it.
- 11:20Look,
- 11:21congratulations.
- 11:22But come on,
- 11:23bro.
- 11:24Come on,
- 11:25bro.
- 11:26You can lie to me all the live long day,
- 11:28but be honest with yourself.
- 11:30It's not that y'all did not cover that dome and take that game away from the Saints.
- 11:37Saints gave that game away.
- 11:41But in the in the words of Jim Moore,
- 11:43our former head coach,
- 11:45coulda,
- 11:46woulda,
- 11:47shoulda.
- 11:47It is what it is.
- 11:48The Saints are one and two.
- 11:50going into this game as well as the atlanta falcons coming off of a big victory in lambeau field last week by defeating the green bay packers and b john robertson just went bananas nuts crazy last week rushing for 194 yards and two touchdowns you had uh drake london he
- 12:12had nine catches for 194 yards as well they they looked they looked unstoppable michael pinnix
- 12:20had 256 yards passing in that game.
- 12:25They look like a well-oiled machine.
- 12:28But once again,
- 12:30not trying to take nothing away from the Atlanta Falcons,
- 12:33but
- 12:34Green Bay is not a good team.
- 12:38That's not a good team to have a lignis test on if you're good or bad.
- 12:43They used to be,
- 12:45but not anymore.
- 12:45They're not that team.
- 12:47Now.
- 12:48I have faith in
- 12:50Mike LaFleur.
- 12:50I think Mike LaFleur is a good coach.
- 12:54They'll turn it around.
- 12:54They'll get it together.
- 12:56They just haven't gotten it together yet.
- 13:00Hopefully it'll be after we play him.
- 13:02I think we play him,
- 13:05well,
- 13:05it'll be later in the season,
- 13:06so yeah,
- 13:07that ain't good.
- 13:08But in any event,
- 13:11Atlanta did what they did.
- 13:12B.
- 13:12John Robinson did what he did.
- 13:14He always does that.
- 13:15He's a beast.
- 13:16He's a problem.
- 13:18And he's going to be a problem Monday night for the Saints defense,
- 13:21which leads me to this Saints defense.
- 13:24Saints defense,
- 13:26going back to last week now,
- 13:28the Saints defense actually played well enough to win.
- 13:31Were they great?
- 13:32No.
- 13:33But they played well enough to win.
- 13:37I don't know this week.
- 13:38It's going to be a little tougher.
- 13:40I think we have a couple of people who are questionable for Sunday.
- 13:45Well,
- 13:45not Sunday.
- 13:46but
- 13:47Monday night's game against Atlanta,
- 13:50poignant players in the linebacking core.
- 13:54I think Caden Ellis is a little banged up.
- 13:56Pete Warner is a little banged up.
- 13:58So
- 14:00I don't know.
- 14:01It's going to be rough,
- 14:03especially when you've got to go up against this juggernaut.
- 14:06Do you realize in the first four weeks of the season,
- 14:11the Saints have played three of the best running backs in this league?
- 14:16the gibbs henry last week not so much with the uh raiders which is why they had a little bit more success on defense but this week you're going up against bijan robertson that's going to be another test defensively opening up that passing game with drake london and uh kyle pitts jr it's
- 14:37going to be tough it's going to be tough especially if you're banged up in the most important position on defense,
- 14:45your linebacking core.
- 14:47Going up against a top-tier running back.
- 14:52Man.
- 14:53Boy.
- 14:54I don't know.
- 14:56I don't know.
- 14:58Bouncing around,
- 14:59you know,
- 14:59since we're talking about top-tier running backs,
- 15:02as you know,
- 15:04Travis Eachen Jr.,
- 15:06he went down last week with that hamstring,
- 15:09looked pretty devastating,
- 15:11non-contact,
- 15:13probably had the best run of his tenure here in his short tenure here in New Orleans,
- 15:19pulled up,
- 15:21grabbed the back of his leg.
- 15:23And then everybody in the dome just went,
- 15:26damn.
- 15:30And it was confirmed it is a hamstring,
- 15:33and he has been placed on injured reserve,
- 15:37killing his season.
- 15:40I am disappointed beyond disappointment with him.
- 15:44And it's not him.
- 15:46I'm just disappointed in the situation.
- 15:49I like Travis Eachen.
- 15:52You know?
- 15:52liked him in college liked him in jacksonville was excited when the saints signed him a little questionable about how much they signed him for but whatever you know it's not my money i i just didn't i i didn't get what i was paying for here uh for lack of a better expression i i didn't i didn't see what i saw in jacksonville out of him he just looks dejected you ever notice that he He just looked like he didn't want to.
- 16:22be here last for the for the first three we get i don't know what the problem was i don't know if it was the offense that they're running which i can understand him being upset at that but it just it just looked disjointed i can't think of another phrase here it's
- 16:43weird it was just weird and then last week when he finally broke free when they finally start to have a little commitment to the game.
- 16:51He looked a little more loose,
- 16:54a little more free,
- 16:55a little more excited to play.
- 16:57And then,
- 16:58boom.
- 17:00It's like they're cursed,
- 17:02man.
- 17:02This team is cursed.
- 17:04And then to put salt on the wound here,
- 17:07we released two running backs before the start of the season.
- 17:11Devin Neal,
- 17:12who I liked.
- 17:13And estimate who I liked as well.
- 17:18Two really,
- 17:19really good running backs who...
- 17:21came on last year really saved the saints in a run game last season they're gone gone okay you cut them i was under the impression especially when they cut estimate i said okay they probably bring him back when injuries come up come about but unfortunately other teams watch film too both of them not one both of them signed with the minnesota
- 17:48vikings this week
- 17:50Both.
- 17:54That's crazy to me.
- 17:56I think we play Minnesota next week.
- 17:58But that is crazy.
- 18:02It's like they knew.
- 18:02It's like they did that just to troll the Saints.
- 18:05You know,
- 18:06oh,
- 18:06y'all didn't want them?
- 18:07We'll take them both.
- 18:09And on the week,
- 18:11on the week,
- 18:12like maybe the next day or the same day,
- 18:15it could have been,
- 18:15I got to go back and check,
- 18:17that we put our
- 18:19big money running back or an injured reserve that is that is so that is so petty i'm telling you that gotta be that has got to be a petty move buddy and i'm saying it good because i i love petty i love i love when people do that it's funny no
- 18:44it ain't too funny now because it's i'm being affected by it
- 18:48But it's hilarious to me that they did that.
- 18:52Not one of them,
- 18:53both of them.
- 18:55One of which we could have used.
- 18:57We could have used them,
- 18:59especially in Estime.
- 19:01I think Estime was the best running back on this team.
- 19:05Now,
- 19:05he got hurt,
- 19:06and they released him on an injury clause or injury settlement or something like that.
- 19:12But
- 19:14I ask the question now,
- 19:16how injured was he?
- 19:17because
- 19:17Minnesota didn't care.
- 19:19Minnesota brought him right in.
- 19:22I don't understand.
- 19:23See,
- 19:23this is the stuff with Mickey Loomis that makes me want to choke him because
- 19:29I'm trying to get on board with this team.
- 19:31I'm trying to get on board with Mickey and his decision-making.
- 19:35He's made some awesome decisions in the offseason.
- 19:37This particular offseason kind of swinging me to the other direction with him because if you follow the show,
- 19:44you know I'm not a fan of Mickey Loomis.
- 19:48But I'm a fan of what he did this offseason until we got.
- 19:53leading up into this,
- 19:54the start of this season.
- 19:56And then the wheels are falling off all of a sudden.
- 19:59You didn't bring nobody in to kind of replace
- 20:03Estime, you know,
- 20:05or each end,
- 20:06not Estime.
- 20:07Well,
- 20:08both,
- 20:08to be honest with you.
- 20:09You didn't bring nobody in to replace.
- 20:12Okay,
- 20:12you still have Kamara on the team.
- 20:14You still have Kendra Miller on the team.
- 20:16You still have C.J.
- 20:17Donaldson.
- 20:20There are some players that can run the ball.
- 20:23I have faith.
- 20:24Well,
- 20:25let me take that.
- 20:25Let me roll that back.
- 20:28Let me roll that back.
- 20:30I like Kendra Miller.
- 20:31I think Kendra Miller is an awesome running back when he's healthy.
- 20:38The problem with Kendra Miller,
- 20:40every time he gets the ball,
- 20:41I get a knot in my stomach.
- 20:43Like,
- 20:43oh my God,
- 20:44is this the play?
- 20:45Is he going to get hurt here?
- 20:47Is he going to get hurt on this one?
- 20:49Oh,
- 20:50go down,
- 20:50go down.
- 20:51Just go down.
- 20:52You know,
- 20:52I'm so scared every time he has the ball because I don't know if he's going to get injured or not.
- 20:58You know,
- 20:58because he gets injured every year,
- 21:01every other game.
- 21:04Look,
- 21:06in order for the Saints to be successful,
- 21:09we saw it last week.
- 21:11When they were running the ball and running it consistently,
- 21:15had a balanced offense,
- 21:16the Saints were dominating that game against the Raiders.
- 21:21When they stopped running the ball,
- 21:23that's when the wheels fell off.
- 21:25Same thing the previous two weeks,
- 21:28or the,
- 21:28yeah,
- 21:29three weeks,
- 21:29I should say.
- 21:30The previous three weeks.
- 21:32Detroit,
- 21:33you didn't run the ball.
- 21:34Game got out of hand.
- 21:36You was down by 21 points.
- 21:38Started off the same way in Baltimore.
- 21:41Didn't run the ball.
- 21:42Game was getting out of hand.
- 21:44You had to finally start,
- 21:46you know,
- 21:47clawing your way back into that one.
- 21:50Last week.
- 21:51you kind of got the picture you you started off good with the run game and then you just stop and you stop when you was in control of the game i don't get them i just don't get it but the saints have two ways to win this game and they're two simple
- 22:11ways and i know i'm saying that behind a microphone not on the field but run the ball and stop the run that's your
- 22:20two things two factors i know that sounds we you know simple and cliche is oh oh that's easier said than done yeah i get it but those are your focuses so that's the two elements that will get you a victory will it be flashy no will
- 22:37it be a a blowout victory over them probably not all i care is a win i don't care if it's by half a point i just want a win i need a win
- 22:51And especially at this point in time,
- 22:53in this division that is hot garbage,
- 22:57nobody,
- 22:58the Saints,
- 22:59do you realize the Saints,
- 23:00with one victory,
- 23:02are tied for first?
- 23:05Now,
- 23:05it's early,
- 23:06but this is how it's going to be all year,
- 23:09all season.
- 23:10This division is garbage.
- 23:14Tampa looked like they just went into hibernation.
- 23:18Carolina.
- 23:19i can't put my finger on carolina i don't know what i don't know they look good at moments and then the next you blink and they look like but atlanta is atlanta atlanta they came out firing last week but i think they had to i
- 23:39think that was more of a pride day than it was oh they figured it out i i think it was a pride day but i'm not i'm not sold on them and
- 23:49Honestly,
- 23:49and this isn't who that in me talking is,
- 23:52isn't the black and gold oozing out of my veins talking.
- 23:56This is real football fan talking here.
- 23:59Saints are the best team in this division on paper,
- 24:04but mentally in that locker room,
- 24:08I don't think they feel that way.
- 24:10In the locker room,
- 24:11I think they feel that they're probably third or something,
- 24:15but they need to get out of their own head.
- 24:18mainly Kellen Moore.
- 24:21Going back to the defense of it all,
- 24:24stopping the run.
- 24:25Look,
- 24:26B.
- 24:26John Robinson is a beast.
- 24:29He's going to do what he do.
- 24:31Focus on stopping him.
- 24:34This is me as a defensive coordinator for the day.
- 24:38If they hired me for the night on Monday night to stand on the sideline and call plays on defense,
- 24:44I got one.
- 24:45I got an index card.
- 24:46I don't have that laminated long sheet of play calls.
- 24:49I got one index card because there's only two plays.
- 24:53I'm stacking the box.
- 24:55I'm stopping the run.
- 24:57I'm going,
- 24:58man,
- 24:59I'm having just a man on
- 25:02Drake London.
- 25:03Look,
- 25:04if
- 25:05Michael Penix Jr.
- 25:07throws for 450 yards and four touchdowns and beats me,
- 25:11I'm going to live with it.
- 25:13I'm going to go ahead on and surrender.
- 25:15Okay,
- 25:15you got me.
- 25:16But you're going to have to beat me,
- 25:18Michael Penix.
- 25:19Michael Penix is going to have to show me he is.
- 25:23who he say he is that's that it won't be getting trampled over for close to 200 yards in your house not that's not no come on bro we have to stop something make sure it's bijan robertson you do that defensively you run the ball keep it honest if you if it's there is there for you tyler shuck you
- 25:50don't need to go deep every play
- 25:52take what's given to you boom saints win yeah it won't be pretty nah i don't care about pretty if i want to see pretty i'll go watch a beauty pageant i'm here to watch football i want it i want to win and i want to win by any means necessary because
- 26:10to go back to my initial point that this is kind of a must win for the saints this is a division game you don't want to lose a division game this early especially at home
- 26:20because that'll put you a game and a half behind the atlanta falcons i think i think carolina has a uh division win do they not did they beat atlanta or tampa i think they played all right i can't remember but somebody has some well it ain't tampa we know that much but somebody has a division win other than uh uh uh whoever
- 26:46comes out of this game with a with a win
- 26:49So you don't want to go behind this early because it's going to be too tightly contested.
- 26:55It's basically going to be week to week with this division.
- 27:00Unless you can find a way,
- 27:03find a way to get you some elbow room going forward,
- 27:07I don't see,
- 27:09you need to take advantage of games like this.
- 27:12Let's go over season leaders right quick.
- 27:15Three weeks into the season.
- 27:17Passing leader for both teams,
- 27:19Tyler Shuck,
- 27:20of course,
- 27:21with 917 passing yards,
- 27:25eight touchdowns,
- 27:26and three interceptions.
- 27:28Michael Penix,
- 27:29Jr.,
- 27:29who only played one game.
- 27:30He only played last week coming back from injury with 256 yards passing,
- 27:36one touchdown,
- 27:37and one interception.
- 27:38Leading rusher for both teams for the New Orleans Saints is Travick
- 27:43Eachin, Jr.,
- 27:44with 128 yards rushing.
- 27:47And that will probably be it for him this season.
- 27:51Before the Atlanta Falcons,
- 27:52B.
- 27:53John Robinson with 349 yards on the ground and two touchdowns,
- 27:58both of which came last week.
- 28:01Do you realize,
- 28:01I wanted to make this point earlier,
- 28:04that was the first time Atlanta scored in the red zone all year.
- 28:10I'm sorry,
- 28:11not just scored in the red zone,
- 28:14reaching the red zone.
- 28:16in that game so and you're gonna tell me that green bay is a good team anywho's going back to uh our receiving leaders for the new orleans saints of course it is chris olave with 375 yards receiving and one touchdown uh
- 28:37i thought he had more i thought he had a couple but whatever uh for the land of falcons you have drake london with 274 yards
- 28:46through the air uh sack leader for the saints it is chase young with 3.5 sacks so far this season uh zadarius smith for the atlanta falcons with 2.5 tackling leader for both teams kate nellis who played with atlanta the last couple of seasons uh now back with the saints He has 24 tackles and
- 29:13for the Atlanta Falcons,
- 29:15Jesse.
- 29:16Bates the third with 17.
- 29:19Let's go over our injury report for Monday's game against the Atlanta Falcons in the Caesars Superdome.
- 29:27Now this this show this show is recorded before the final injury report so
- 29:36I'm only giving the report that
- 29:39I have access to and that's uh on a Saturday morning so
- 29:44As of Saturday morning.
- 29:47The New Orleans Saints have four players who are questionable.
- 29:51Nobody has officially been ruled out as of right now,
- 29:55but we do have four players who are questionable as of Saturday morning.
- 30:01Two linebackers,
- 30:02Pete Warner with a neck injury and Caden Ellis with a calf injury.
- 30:08They both are questionable.
- 30:10Noah Fant is questionable with an abdominal injury and Carl Grandison.
- 30:16We saw him go out last week against the Raiders.
- 30:20He has an ankle injury.
- 30:22He is questionable for
- 30:24Monday night's game.
- 30:26For the Atlanta Falcons,
- 30:28they have a couple of questionables as well.
- 30:31Kendall Daniels,
- 30:33their linebacker with an Achilles,
- 30:35he is questionable.
- 30:38Devine
- 30:39Diablo, linebacker with a hamstring,
- 30:42is questionable.
- 30:43And Samson
- 30:45Ibakim.
- 30:46uh defensive end he is questionable with a hamstring oh well my final predictions on this game now espn itself has uh projected that the saints will win this game they're giving the saints a 62.7 chance of winning that's a little high for me it's it's way too high uh of
- 31:10odds i don't think i think this game is a little more evenly matched than that
- 31:15But,
- 31:16you know,
- 31:17with the addition of the rivalry element of it all,
- 31:23I don't think it's going to be
- 31:25Saints dominating this game.
- 31:27But my prediction is that the Saints will come out victorious in this game.
- 31:31I think the Saints have enough to beat the Atlanta Falcons.
- 31:36I think they're the better team.
- 31:39It's just a matter of the Saints.
- 31:41The Saints have beaten themselves twice this season.
- 31:45twice and if they can get out of their own way the Saints will be undefeated right now honest to God all due respect to Detroit all due respect to
- 31:55Las Vegas but
- 31:59Saints defeated themselves
- 32:03Detroit walked away from that game feeling like they got away with one Dan Campbell said as much uh the Las Vegas Raiders walked away from that game feeling like the Saints
- 32:14gave it away and that is the honest to god truth and so it's really saints saints saints we if we have to learn to focus get a game plan and this is my biggest knock on kellen moore game plan he goes into every game he probably does have a game plan but the game plan is is garbage because they
- 32:42look
- 32:43disjointed.
- 32:43They look like they don't know what they're doing out there on the field.
- 32:47You remember,
- 32:47and I hate to compare him to this because he's not this,
- 32:50but it's the only thing I can compare him to.
- 32:54Sean Payton.
- 32:55Sean Payton would come out here.
- 32:57He even does it in Denver.
- 32:59You see it if you ever watch Denver Broncos play.
- 33:03Sean Payton used to come out there,
- 33:04him,
- 33:05Drew Brees,
- 33:05whatever,
- 33:07stripped out the entire first drive,
- 33:09maybe even the first two drives.
- 33:12of a game and it looks like a well-oiled machine they dictate the tone of the game they they controlled what went on in that first quarter of a game and then from there they can play off of that and that's how sean payton operated now i'm not expecting kelly moore to be sean payton but all
- 33:36coaches script the first drive or two of a game he doesn't
- 33:43And if he does,
- 33:44that's even worse.
- 33:45So I'm giving him a little leeway and say he doesn't script it.
- 33:51Because if that's his scripted plays coming into a game,
- 33:56we got deeper issues.
- 33:58So I must say he doesn't do it.
- 34:01He needs to go ahead and do it and start.
- 34:05Let's put a game plan together and try to execute it.
- 34:09You may sacrifice the first drive or two.
- 34:12that Sean Payton did,
- 34:13Drew Brees did,
- 34:15not every opening drive they scored on.
- 34:18Not every one,
- 34:20but the average was pretty high.
- 34:22It was like a 60%
- 34:24or 70%
- 34:27scoring radius or something to that effect.
- 34:29And so they had something going there.
- 34:34You went a whole year,
- 34:36maybe a little longer than a year,
- 34:38before you scored in the first quarter.
- 34:42So you can't tell me?
- 34:44that you strip your play that you have a game plan coming into a game and so let's let's try to flip that narrative huh let's get a game plan together let's run the ball let's stay committed to the run consistent with the run even
- 35:03if you only get two yards a pop that's fine keep the defense honest because eventually those two yards gonna turn to four those four yards gonna turn to Eat.
- 35:14Those eight yards are going to turn into a
- 35:1715-yard run down the field,
- 35:19and then so on and so forth.
- 35:21And eventually,
- 35:23if they get tired by them or before then,
- 35:26they're going to start creeping that safety up into the box.
- 35:29They're going to start crowding the box.
- 35:31And guess what you're going to do now,
- 35:33Kellen?
- 35:34Guess what you're going to do now,
- 35:35Tyler?
- 35:35Then you can drop back,
- 35:38play action,
- 35:39throw over the top,
- 35:40like you was doing last week.
- 35:43Sold.
- 35:44get out of your head that's all i'm saying i think the saints will come out victories in this game i'm gonna say 27 to 27 to 17 i'll go that i think saints win by 10 but don't don't don't go on uh what is it mgm bets or uh
- 36:10one of these parlays and all here and make a bet
- 36:14on my prediction because if you lose your money don't come over here mad at me i'm just giving a opinion you know i'm not even taking that bet but i would like to know what are your thoughts what do you think is going to happen monday night in the dome against the atlanta falcons will the saints come out victorious or will we fall to
- 36:39those hated falcons on hate week here.
- 36:42man i've been looking on social media looking at all these falcons fans bro god bro they make you just want to fight they really do and i know this is a friendly rivalry it doesn't have all that foolishness and all this here but they
- 37:00just do stupid stuff that makes you want to go off on a falcons fans because they live in this delusional world like they're somebody they haven't won nothing
- 37:11and they're not going to win
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- 37:51Everybody,
- 37:52thank you for joining me as we preview the week four
- 37:56Monday night divisional matchup,
- 38:00New Orleans Saints versus the Atlanta
- 38:03Falcons. Oh,
- 38:05boy,
- 38:06can't wait for Monday night.
- 38:07It's going to be lit.
- 38:10Uh,
- 38:10not looking forward to it though.
- 38:12Uh,
- 38:12cause of course,
- 38:13after the game,
- 38:14uh,
- 38:15come back,
- 38:15join me as we recap that game.
- 38:18So that means I'm going to be up all night long.
- 38:25I will not be getting sleep to maybe three in the morning,
- 38:28but
- 38:30I'll be sleeping soundly after a Saint's victory.
- 38:34Uh,
- 38:35till then everybody.
- 38:37Enjoy your weekend,
- 38:38enjoy the game,
- 38:39and all I'm gonna be screaming is WHO THE HECK?