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Saints Re-sign DE Chase Young, TE Juwan Johnson | Right Deals For New Orleans? · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: I mean, this New Orleans Saints organization absolutely crushing it
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  Speaker 1: right now. I mean, you win five games, you don't
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  Speaker 1: blow the whole thing up.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's not what you do.
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  Speaker 1: You recognize that the reason you won five games was
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  Speaker 1: all just bad circumstance. We had injuries, We signed the
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  Speaker 1: right guys, we drafted the right guys. Yeah, Derek Carr
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  Speaker 1: is great. Yeah, Isaiah Fosky's gonna be an All Pro
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  Speaker 1: when he goes in place for the Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: It's not us, it's them. You know what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna run it back.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Chase Young, fifty one million bucks, here you go.
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  Speaker 1: Juwan Johnson, one trick, pony kind of okay, some big
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  Speaker 1: drops last year, not your fault. Three years, thirty million,
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  Speaker 1: here you go, Come on back, Tyron Matthew, Carl Granderson,
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  Speaker 1: let's rework some contracts. Caesar Ruiz, kick nice, not just
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  Speaker 1: have you back. There's your kick money in the future
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  Speaker 1: years too. It's gonna be awesome, by the way. Paulsoner
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  Speaker 1: debo and Will Harris, you stink get out of here.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need you.
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  Speaker 1: The young cornerback who can do backflips. Now, look he
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  Speaker 1: is a walking p I, but now I don't need him.
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  Speaker 1: The only safety on the team that was actually good
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  Speaker 1: last year, the productive safety that had seventy four tackles,
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  Speaker 1: seven passes deflected, was actually durable for you thirteen games.
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  Speaker 2: Get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: We about the old guy with declining production on an
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  Speaker 1: expensive deal that will kick future money into the kick
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  Speaker 1: money in the future years.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we want. That's the way to win.
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  Speaker 1: I mean trying to say that we ain't made the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs since COVID year because of bad roster management, bad
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  Speaker 1: cap management, bad drafting, bad free agent decisions, bad coaching highs.
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  Speaker 2: That what you're trying to say.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not us, it's them. Boy, it's just unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: we had bad luck. You can't judge us by the results.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't in the GM say that you can't judge us
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  Speaker 2: by the results.
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  Speaker 1: Not let him hurt me. Y'll not doing it, not
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  Speaker 1: opening myself up to be hurt, Not letting him do
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  Speaker 1: it to me. I'm just going to point out how
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  Speaker 1: stupid they are, over and over again. Uh, Chase Young
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  Speaker 1: three years, fifty one million. Hey, did you see Zach Bond?
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  Speaker 2: Remember him? You remember Zach Bond? Mused, you remember that guy?
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  Speaker 2: I do remember Zach Bond.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: A good year, a good year. He's had a great year.
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  Speaker 1: He was an NFL Defensive Player of the Year finalist.
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  Speaker 1: He just got a new deal.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember how much that deal was for.
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  Speaker 1: It was around fifty million, wasn't it. It was three years,
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  Speaker 1: fifty one million. It was the exact same number as
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  Speaker 1: Chase Young's deal.
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  Speaker 2: Nailed it.
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  Speaker 1: Draft a guy, do nothing with him, let him go
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else, become a Defensive Player of the Year candidate. Again,
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  Speaker 1: the same contra. You have to give a guy who
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  Speaker 1: is about to be twenty six years old, and Chase Young,
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  Speaker 1: who's already got a torn a cl and got neck issues.
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  Speaker 2: Nailed it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it don't take just anybody to do this. Now,
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  Speaker 1: in all seriousness, I think Chase Young is a fine play.
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  Speaker 1: This year, his Pro Football Focus grade actually was the
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  Speaker 1: worst of his career, but he did have more hurries
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  Speaker 1: and pressures. It was the second most hurries and pressures
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  Speaker 1: of his career. So coming off the edge, you did okay.
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  Speaker 1: In the NFL, you have to have guys that you
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  Speaker 1: have to have a quarterback, guys that protect the quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: and guys that affect the quarterback, senior quarterback, left tackle,
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  Speaker 1: edge rusher, one of the edge rush One of the
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  Speaker 1: players your restructured is Carl Granderson had his production plummet
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  Speaker 1: this year. In twenty twenty four after you paid him.
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  Speaker 1: Cam Jordan paid the fewest snaps of his career and
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  Speaker 1: had the lowest Pro Football Focused grade of his career.
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  Speaker 1: And Isaiah Foski in the second year of the NFL
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  Speaker 1: had four tackles, no sacks, no pressures, no hurries, no
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  Speaker 1: battered balls, and really no chance of ever being anything
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  Speaker 1: until he goes to the Eagles and becomes an All Pro.
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  Speaker 1: So you had to have somebody who can rush the passer,
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  Speaker 1: so you give Chase Young a three year, fifty one
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  Speaker 1: million dollar deal that could be worth as much as
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  Speaker 1: fifty seven million, because of course you do, okay, player,
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  Speaker 1: I don't love the contract. He's twenty six years old
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  Speaker 1: in April, still in his prime. But like I just mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: look at what you let walk in Zach Bond and
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  Speaker 1: now what you're paying Chase Young, it's just ridiculous. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be curious see what the structure looks like of Chase
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  Speaker 1: Hung's deal. But you're just gonna keep restructuring. And it's
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  Speaker 1: incredible to watch what this team has done with this
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  Speaker 1: organization is done restructuring Derek Carr, restructuring Tyron Matthew, restructuring,
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  Speaker 1: Carl Granderson, Caesar Ruiz, Pete Werner, restructuring half the roster,
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  Speaker 1: kicking money into future years to free up cap space. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Derek Carr, of course for what so you can resign
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  Speaker 1: Chase Young and Juwan Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: This is it.
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  Speaker 1: This is the magic anecdote. You know, I understand sometimes
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  Speaker 1: the need for good debt. Let me give you an
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  Speaker 1: example in your in your household, okay, like swipe in
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  Speaker 1: a credit card to buy things that you can't afford
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  Speaker 1: is not good debt. Okay, like swipe in a credit
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  Speaker 1: card to buy an expensive suit or to buy to
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  Speaker 1: pay for a trip. You can that's bad. Debt, that's
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  Speaker 1: not good. You can't afford it. Don't spend it if
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  Speaker 1: you go into debt because you're going to medical school
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  Speaker 1: to be a doctor, and that's necessary and it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: pay off eventually. That investment is gonna pay off for you.
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  Speaker 1: What the Saints are doing right now is they keep
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  Speaker 1: consolidating debt to take out a bigger line of credit. Which, again,
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  Speaker 1: if you got forty year old Drew Brees and you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you're you're contending and you're right there on
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  Speaker 1: the precipice of winning a championship, I can understand it.
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  Speaker 1: I can say, you know what, it's gonna take seven
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  Speaker 1: years of med school. But on the back end, look,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna to pay for it for a while. But
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  Speaker 1: once that debt's gone, boy, we're gonna be rolling. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be worth it, right, I can get it. Man.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna hurt for a little while after, but you
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  Speaker 1: win that championship and it's gonna be really nice. The
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  Speaker 1: problem Saints have right now is they're taking all their debt.
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  Speaker 1: They're consolidating their debt. They're taking out a bigger line
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  Speaker 1: of credit to go buy a boat. Let's give Chase
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  Speaker 1: Young fifty seven million bucks, Juan Johnson thirty million bucks.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, does.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone realistically think this team is going to be any
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  Speaker 1: better than they were in twenty twenty four. You are
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  Speaker 1: running it back with the same group of players, a
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  Speaker 1: new coaching staff. Oh, I'm sure it's gonna go great,
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  Speaker 1: same group of players, aging over priced veterans, and continuing
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  Speaker 1: to rework all these deals. All you're doing is handcuffing
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  Speaker 1: yourself in future years. Even further, you're gonna accumulate so
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  Speaker 1: much debt you're passing on to your kids and their kids.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the Saints are doing. They're creating a giant
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  Speaker 1: problem that's gonna continue to be a problem for future
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  Speaker 1: coaches to have. Future front office and mickeyl Limis evergets fired,
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  Speaker 1: probably won't put whatever. Oh but they Hey, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: they brought back Dante Pettis as well.
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  Speaker 2: Fired up about that.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, that's I'm sure that's gonna be the magic unlocked
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  Speaker 1: for this team. I mean, imagine if you were like
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  Speaker 1: a Washington Commanders fan today, you got Jayden Daniels, you've
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  Speaker 1: got DK Metcalf, youve got a hundred million to go
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  Speaker 1: spend free cash, Go do it. Let's go build a contender. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: we're here stuck with a quarterback that doesn't want to
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  Speaker 1: be here and you can't afford to get rid of them.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome