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Cam Jordan's Return Gives Saints One of Their Deepest EDGE Groups in Years · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 2: No, I would not wow. No, I would never.
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  Speaker 1: Cam Jordan meeting with reporters on the day that it's
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  Speaker 1: announced that he's coming back to New Orleans for a
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  Speaker 1: sixteenth season. We opened the show today with a full
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  Speaker 1: But I mean to very quickly summarize. I think Cam
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  Speaker 1: Jordan's decision of return is very is very smart by
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  Speaker 1: both Cam and the Saints. Cam with the humility to
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  Speaker 1: return to a place that didn't give him the offer
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  Speaker 1: he wants, despite the fact that he has given them
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  Speaker 1: so much over a decade and a half, but acknowledging
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  Speaker 1: this is his opportunity to continue playing in a play
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  Speaker 1: a place that means a lot to him and for
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  Speaker 1: the Saints. They deserve a ton of credit for being
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  Speaker 1: fiscally responsible and sticking to their number, which oddly they
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  Speaker 1: always do in free agency and all of the cap
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  Speaker 1: hell and if fiscal irresponsibility came in the way, they
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  Speaker 1: would restructure contracts. But a lot of that has to
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  Speaker 1: do with the fact that, well, a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: you give bad contracts initially and then need to restructure.
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  Speaker 1: In any event, Cam Jordan is returning. This is official.
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  Speaker 1: Cam meeting with reporters on Tuesday and talked about what
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  Speaker 1: the deciding factor was for him to return to New Orleans.
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  Speaker 2: So, like I said about two weeks ago, he's like, hey, man,
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  Speaker 2: you know you're affecting our lives here. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: oh no, I did not know that. All right, could
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  Speaker 2: have worn us moving to Arizona, which you would have
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  Speaker 2: been the same every day of routine, But no, that'd
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  Speaker 2: be that'd be the final part when you look at
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  Speaker 2: these you know, four beautiful kids growing up. Their whole
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  Speaker 2: lives have been here, so they don't know how not
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  Speaker 2: to carry on.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, when you had.
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  Speaker 2: That conversation, I was like, all right, let me just
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  Speaker 2: humble myself here and let's let's get this done. Which
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  Speaker 2: is awesome because I've got, like I said, I got
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  Speaker 2: so much, so much intended for this city with this
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  Speaker 2: this upame year.
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  Speaker 1: I love that he used the word. He said, let
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  Speaker 1: me humble myself, and it was the first thing I thought, literally,
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  Speaker 1: the note that I wrote down was good for Cam
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  Speaker 1: for accepting reality and having humility to return and he
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  Speaker 1: said he's he used the word. Be so easy for
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  Speaker 1: Cam Jordan to say, Man, fifteen years going to the
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame and and I'm going to get a
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  Speaker 1: approve it deal. It'd been so easy for him to
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  Speaker 1: walk away to say no thanks, but more to do,
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  Speaker 1: which was great to see. He was also as point
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  Speaker 1: blanket this is going to be his last season in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even want to do this again. This whole offseason.
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  Speaker 2: I just told Kyle, I was like, I don't like
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  Speaker 2: this this. Yeah, so we're gonna take it. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: take everything. The way we want to year sixteen. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: how many more.
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  Speaker 1: Years do you want me to play?
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  Speaker 3: Right? Like?
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  Speaker 2: What do you want from me? I definitely am gonna
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  Speaker 2: take to this like every game is my last to
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  Speaker 2: ever play. And I'm gonna be, like I said, overly
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  Speaker 2: appreciative of all my teammates. I'm overly blessed and excited
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  Speaker 2: to be back with the team. I can't wait for
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  Speaker 2: a summer camp.
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  Speaker 1: We have seen so many instances in the NFL of
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  Speaker 1: guys late in their career taking an opportunity to to
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  Speaker 1: ring chase, and that has a negative connotation, and I
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  Speaker 1: do not mean it that way. I look, it's basically
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  Speaker 1: what a Dominican sue did the end of his career,
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  Speaker 1: and it worked. Andrew Whitworth. Andrew Whitworth was a All
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  Speaker 1: Decade team member on a bunch of bad teams in Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 1: and he went to the Rams and won a Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: JJ Watt tried to do it, left Houston, went to
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  Speaker 1: Arizona to give it a go. Didn't work. That's okay,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it happens. It happens in every sport. Carmelone
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  Speaker 1: did it, Gary Payton, they went to try to build
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  Speaker 1: that super team in LA with the Lakers and lost
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  Speaker 1: in the finals to the Pistons, and O for it
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  Speaker 1: happens in ever so, it would have been totally understandable
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  Speaker 1: if Cam Jordan would have gone to the Eagles or
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs or the Bills of the forty nine ers.
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  Speaker 1: There a team that is a legitimate the Seahawks, that
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  Speaker 1: you might consider a legitimate contender, and he was asked,
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  Speaker 1: you know, why not go join a contender and to
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  Speaker 1: chase a ring in your final season.
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  Speaker 2: One, because they're all cold ew Man two. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: when you look at our roster, you see the growth,
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  Speaker 2: you see the development. You see Tyler Shuck, you look
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  Speaker 2: at Coo, you see the expulsiveness of a Jordan Tyson.
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  Speaker 2: You see how Davon Valet was playing last year. You
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  Speaker 2: see Jawan Taylor. We bring in some w W WWE kids.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I just think there's there's so much talent
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  Speaker 2: on the roster itself.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he didn't really answer the question per se,
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  Speaker 1: and I would love to know what opportunities might have
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  Speaker 1: been there for Cam in other places. But one of
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  Speaker 1: the things I remember before the twenty twenty four season,
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  Speaker 1: right when the Super Bowl was in New Orleans, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, Cam was asked a similar question and his response,
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  Speaker 1: in paraphrasing, was something the effect of, why on not
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  Speaker 1: USA play Super Bowl in our in our in our building?
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think there was a soul that believed
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  Speaker 1: that was a realistic possibility with with Derek carrs the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback and Dennis Allen as the coach and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And as part of me that respects so much an
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  Speaker 1: athlete's mentality that believes they're gonna win every time they play,
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  Speaker 1: because I think I think you kind of have to
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  Speaker 1: have that to be great. You're not gonna win every
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  Speaker 1: time he plays, we know, but you gotta have that
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  Speaker 1: belief that you're gonna That's how you end up as
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  Speaker 1: the basketball player that wants the ball in his hands
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  Speaker 1: for the final shot every single time, knowing you're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna make everyone, but you want it in your hand
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  Speaker 1: every time. That's how you're the You're you're the slugger
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  Speaker 1: who wants to be at the plate in the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the ninth with two out, down one with runners
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  Speaker 1: on second and third, and you need a knock to
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  Speaker 1: win this game, and you believe you're gonna get it.
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  Speaker 1: Even though you're gonna fail seventy percent at the time.
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  Speaker 1: So part of me respects the fact that throughout his career,
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  Speaker 1: Cam Jordan has been that guy, the guy who has
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  Speaker 1: consistently said why not us? And he's still saying it there.
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  Speaker 1: But at this point in his life, going into his
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  Speaker 1: age thirty seven season and understanding what the Saints have
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  Speaker 1: been in r right now, they are a building team.
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  Speaker 1: They are not a contending team. He's been on a
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  Speaker 1: contending team. He played with the Hall of Fame quarterback
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  Speaker 1: and he got to an NFC championship game and they
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  Speaker 1: got Nola. No called this is not a contending team today.
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  Speaker 1: Two three years maybe really good young core. If they
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  Speaker 1: keep developing, they could be. This is what a rebuild
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  Speaker 1: looks like. But he smacked ab in the middle of it.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It was interesting because on the day that
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  Speaker 1: Cam announced his return, the Saints also had mini camp
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  Speaker 1: practice and Kellen Moore met with reporters before practice, so
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  Speaker 1: before Cam's announcement, and Kellen was asked about the other
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  Speaker 1: defensive ends that they brought in. Remember the Saints added
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  Speaker 1: Tyree Wilson and Anthony Jennings this offseason. When it looked
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  Speaker 1: like Cam wasn't coming back, and Kellen Moore as his
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  Speaker 1: seven Music, had this to say about those two edge
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  Speaker 1: rushers coming in.
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  Speaker 3: I think Jennings Tyree to onboard those guys, guys who've
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  Speaker 3: played a lot of football in this league that are
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  Speaker 3: still relatively young, that will be uh be able to
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  Speaker 3: contribute in a really positive way for us. And so yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think those guys have really big time experience, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: I think that depth of that group obviously has been increased.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's gonna be our advantage to the versatility
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  Speaker 3: of that group has to be able to rotate those
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  Speaker 3: guys but also play multiple guys and really put a
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  Speaker 3: stress on the offense.
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  Speaker 1: I got to be so interested to see what the
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  Speaker 1: numbers are that they cap in that room. He's a
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  Speaker 1: Chase Young, Carl Granderson, Cam Jordan, Anthony Jennings, tyr U Wilson.
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  Speaker 1: That's five. Are you keeping all five of those guys
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  Speaker 1: on your active roster? I don't know. We'd be fascinating
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  Speaker 1: to see how that room shakes out in training camp.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Moore had a little bit more about Tyree Wilson, who
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  Speaker 1: remember is a former top ten overall pick now trying
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  Speaker 1: to find that resurgence in his second act in his career.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he had an awesome offseason. He's been a
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  Speaker 3: sponge as far as just absorbing all the information. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he's getting to be coached by Jay Rogers, one of
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  Speaker 3: the best in the league, and learn all the techniques
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  Speaker 3: and all the fundamentals there. And then I think what's
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  Speaker 3: cool is just to see him hopping in on every
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  Speaker 3: possible opportunity on special teams, like, hey, where can I
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  Speaker 3: learn something? Where can I find a potential role as
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  Speaker 3: we go. That's awesome because a lot of times these guys,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they have these opportunities and maybe it goes
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  Speaker 3: a certain way or not a certain way, and hey,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just going to keep finding opportunities, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think that special teams embrace is an important part
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  Speaker 3: of this.
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  Speaker 1: That man, former top ten pick, even embracing special teams
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  Speaker 1: on way that he's gonna be able to impact this team.
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  Speaker 1: It was an interesting day there in New Orleans, sort
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  Speaker 1: of marrying the old and the new and one farewell.
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  Speaker 1: As Kellen Moore was asked today about the offense without
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  Speaker 1: Tasman effectively confirmed what we all know.
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  Speaker 2: Is there still a possibility to get something done with
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  Speaker 2: taysa more at this point, as that door closed.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't necessarily had any conversations up to this point,
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  Speaker 3: but you never know.
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't even had a conversation at this point,
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  Speaker 1: you kind of know. And I think we all knew
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  Speaker 1: when Tayson was emotional leaving the field for the final time,
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  Speaker 1: and we all know what it is, so in some
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  Speaker 1: ways the end of an era, in other ways a
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  Speaker 1: renewal or continuation of an era, in many ways brand new.
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