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Saints vs. Steelers in Paris: Mike Triplett Previews the NFL International Game · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: how are you?
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  Speaker 1: did I do last week? I'm like, did I screw up?
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  Speaker 1: I just totally missed it, but we caught it there
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  Speaker 1: at the end.
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  Speaker 3: I could just tell you started checking your phone. Like
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  Speaker 3: I was really getting into the meat of my analysis.
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  Speaker 3: You started checking your phone. I think you tripped. I
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  Speaker 3: think you cut my mic off at one point. Focus, focus,
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  Speaker 3: focus the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: I checked out, let Musso ask a few questions.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he brought him in and then you took him
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  Speaker 3: back out.
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  Speaker 1: He immediately fumbled that first question. It was really bad
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  Speaker 1: the way that went. My goodness. Hey, were you, like,
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  Speaker 1: I've asked everybody this week, Mike, we know how hard
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  Speaker 1: it is to win in the NFL. It is just
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  Speaker 1: an objective. It is so hard to win a game
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  Speaker 1: in this league. And so I hate to be here
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  Speaker 1: after a win and complain. But how do you feel
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  Speaker 1: good after that?
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  Speaker 3: You can still feel good because you survived it. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: at a certain point, you just have to keep your
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  Speaker 3: season alive to hope it can turn into something, and
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  Speaker 3: you needed the win to do that, and now they
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  Speaker 3: have to win this one. And if they can come away,
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  Speaker 3: if they can fly back from France at 3-4 and
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  Speaker 3: have a bye week and have guys getting healthy, they
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  Speaker 3: can either realistically or at least trick themselves into, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, rallying around something. So the win, the win
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  Speaker 3: really did matter, even though, even though it was almost
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  Speaker 3: a colossal failure. It also was very, very important before
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  Speaker 3: getting on that plane to be getting on the plane
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  Speaker 3: after a win to spend this week in Paris, promoting
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  Speaker 3: the team, promoting like, I mean, it was so important
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  Speaker 3: to win. Um, but it was, it was one play
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  Speaker 3: away from like, uh, I mean, everything would have been
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  Speaker 3: on the table, like firing people on the way to Paris,
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  Speaker 3: like not promoting the game. All the questions being about
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  Speaker 3: one of the more embarrassing losses in franchise history.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was scary.
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  Speaker 3: I would say more than it took away from the wind.
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  Speaker 3: It was just really, really scary. And they were able
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  Speaker 3: to be like, you know, one of those moments like,
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  Speaker 3: oh my gosh, thank goodness I swerved over. That could
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  Speaker 3: have been really, really bad.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see... Did you see the post-game locker room
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  Speaker 1: video with Kellen Moore giving out the game balls?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you know this team. You talk to the players.
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  Speaker 1: You're in the locker room. You talk to the coaches.
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  Speaker 1: What was your read on that video?
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  Speaker 3: I saw some comments, but I did not personally have
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  Speaker 3: a this looks weird reaction that.
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  Speaker 2: Stood out to me. I didn't. I didn't. I mean.
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  Speaker 3: I think I know how they all felt. They were
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  Speaker 3: probably all still a little like in the shot. Like,
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  Speaker 3: I honestly think that's a good comp that I just
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  Speaker 3: came up with on a fly. Like we've all had
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  Speaker 3: those moments like, Oh man, did I just dodge one?
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  Speaker 3: And you're like, all right, we're still good. We're still good.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like, if you're in your analogy, like let's
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  Speaker 1: say you're in the car with your spouse and you're
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  Speaker 1: driving to dinner and you avoid like the 18 wheeler
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  Speaker 1: coming in your lane and you know, like that was
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  Speaker 1: going to be bad.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And the spouse knows how bad you messed up.
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  Speaker 1: And every, but in like, and you're, Oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: And then you get back and you're good. Like you need,
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  Speaker 1: you need a minute to process. You can't just be like, Hey, so,
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  Speaker 1: so what, what you think you're going to order? Like,
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  Speaker 1: you can't just go right back into that was sort
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  Speaker 1: of the, it's sort of the analogy.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what?
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  Speaker 3: You still go and have that dinner.
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  Speaker 2: Do you?
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  Speaker 3: You still, you don't, you don't just say, well, now
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  Speaker 3: we're going home.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You need the moment to process, but then you still
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  Speaker 3: go and have dinner and it.
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  Speaker 2: Might be a great dinner.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: A big part of having a good dinner in Paris
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  Speaker 1: is a little cocoa van. Maybe. How about that?
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  Speaker 2: Huh? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Is you, you gotta, you gotta be able to, to
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  Speaker 1: run the football again. So are you a believer that
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Wright replacing Ruiz is, maybe was.
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  Speaker 2: A part of that.
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  Speaker 3: Wasn't that?
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  Speaker 2: That was, I see that.
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  Speaker 1: You see that out there.
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  Speaker 3: I think Jeremiah Wright will be starting at right guard
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  Speaker 3: in 2027 for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Not for sure.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean, I, I believe in that. I believe
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  Speaker 3: Jeremiah Wright is ascending and, and I, he'll probably play
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  Speaker 3: again this week and the reps will be good for him.
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  Speaker 3: And I think Cesar Ruiz his career path is is
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  Speaker 3: consistently descending and, and it'll probably be time to move
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  Speaker 3: on after this season. But I don't think, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if you watch the film and you watch the runs
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  Speaker 3: and everything, I mean, it wasn't like, Oh, he started
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  Speaker 3: blowing holes open.
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  Speaker 2: That weren't there before.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he, he had some, I mean, everybody had
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  Speaker 3: nice blocks. I mean, they had six runs of double digits.
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  Speaker 3: They only had five all season before this game, like, or,
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  Speaker 3: or I think it was exactly six and six, but
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  Speaker 3: the running, it was the running backs only had four runs.
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  Speaker 3: and this game the running backs had five. The running
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  Speaker 3: backs had more double-digit runs in this game than they
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  Speaker 3: had had all season, and there were nice blocks across
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  Speaker 3: the board from each offensive line and the tight ends
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  Speaker 3: and everything. I'm only a believer in the sense that
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  Speaker 3: it's such a realistic thing to fix. It's why I
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  Speaker 3: had confidence in the Saints coming into this season, and
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  Speaker 3: I predicted them to go 8-9, because I thought, You know,
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  Speaker 3: if their run game just stops.
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  Speaker 2: Being 31st in the NFL and can be average, I
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  Speaker 2: think this team can be good.
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  Speaker 3: And yet, the first.
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  Speaker 2: Five weeks of the season, they.
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  Speaker 3: Were still the worst run game in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: And it was like, God, how can they not fix that?
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  Speaker 3: How can Kellen Moore and all these offensive minds not
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  Speaker 3: figure out how to have.
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  Speaker 2: An average run game?
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  Speaker 3: So my belief that it's something that can be fixed
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  Speaker 3: is the only reason why I'm like, all right, maybe
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  Speaker 3: it can be fixed. but obviously need more evidence than
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  Speaker 3: just one game.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody has to be the worst in the league.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's just the truth.
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  Speaker 1: He's at Mike Triplett, NewOrleans.football, NewOrleans.football. Okay, let's just talk
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  Speaker 1: about the logistics of this game. The Saints have done
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  Speaker 1: the overseas thing before, but how do you think that
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  Speaker 1: their plan in going overseas and the logistics of playing
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  Speaker 1: a quote-unquote home game in Paris, how does that matter
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  Speaker 1: Saturday morning at 8.30 or Sunday morning at 8.30?
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  Speaker 3: You go to New Orleans on football. I just posted
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  Speaker 3: a very detailed examination. Anecdotal evidence, common sense. I just,
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  Speaker 3: I can't believe that the teams that go on Monday,
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  Speaker 3: don't beat the teams that go on, on Sunday, like
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  Speaker 3: three to one. It makes perfect sense. Players have been
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  Speaker 3: talking all week about how, You know, they were, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they were sound asleep till noon on Tuesday. How they,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like couldn't even like function there. Like they
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  Speaker 3: were groggy. They were like, and they finally started to
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  Speaker 3: feel like themselves Wednesday, even more on Thursday. Like we've
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  Speaker 3: all done trips like that or, you know, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people have done trips like that. You know, that's
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  Speaker 3: a true thing. I mean, it was, it was mocked
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  Speaker 3: widely when, when the Rams tried to fly to Australia
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  Speaker 3: in one day and the Niners were there for a week.
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  Speaker 3: And the Niners beat them, you know, 30-something to seven
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  Speaker 3: or whatever it was. And it looked like, wow, anybody
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  Speaker 3: who doesn't go and acclimate is an idiot. And players
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  Speaker 3: say they enjoy it and they appreciate it. But the
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  Speaker 3: record of teams going earlier over teams going later all
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  Speaker 3: time is 15 and 14. So you still have to
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  Speaker 3: win the game.
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  Speaker 2: You can't cheat it.
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  Speaker 3: Like, you can fly there Friday and be the better team,
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  Speaker 3: you know?
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  Speaker 2: The Saints.
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  Speaker 3: were perfect. They had this incredible track record under Sean Payton.
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  Speaker 3: He also loves the team building, the team bonding, the isolation.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, just totally believes in it. They had won
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  Speaker 3: their first two international games. They had won that week
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  Speaker 3: a few years ago when they spent the whole week
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  Speaker 3: in Seattle. And it's like, yeah, this works, this works.
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  Speaker 3: And then they went to London a few years ago
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  Speaker 3: and Minnesota... flew up Friday, and Minnesota beat them. So,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just like, you know, you've still got
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  Speaker 3: to be a better team. You've still got to play
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  Speaker 3: the better game. But I think it is a real advantage.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they lost that game against Minnesota with Andy Dalton
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  Speaker 1: at quarterback because they wore those awful black helmets. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's very clear. And the reason, Mike, that they won,
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  Speaker 1: I'm convinced of this, that they won in New York
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  Speaker 1: is because they didn't deface the gorgeous color rush uniforms
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  Speaker 1: with those heinous black helmets again. That's why they were,
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  Speaker 1: that's why the football gods rescued them from the disaster
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  Speaker 1: at the end of that situation. You can't convince me otherwise.
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  Speaker 3: Two years in a row that like, thank goodness they're
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  Speaker 3: not smearing those uniforms. Like, you know, they, uniforms are the,
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  Speaker 3: it's the best thing the organization has going for them
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  Speaker 3: right now. It's the one that you said somebody has
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  Speaker 3: to be 32nd. It's the one thing they're number one in.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's the color rush uniform.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: And the white helmet with the color rush.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: With the chrome face mask. Like, it looks good.
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  Speaker 2: Like, it looks great.
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  Speaker 1: The colors of gold match. It looks good. Yes. Please
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  Speaker 1: continue doing that, New Orleans Saints. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: adopt that permanently as your look.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm all for it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like, the khaki pants they wear that they try to
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  Speaker 1: pass off as gold is an atrocity. What are we
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  Speaker 1: doing with that?
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  Speaker 2: Don't get me started.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm getting you started.
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  Speaker 3: It's... you can have one gold and just make it
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  Speaker 3: your gold.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Like we have the technology, like you can type it in.
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  Speaker 3: It's like 31 cyan, 28, whatever, whatever magenta.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Can't we, haven't we.
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  Speaker 3: Been able to do this for a long time? It's
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  Speaker 3: a really good looking gold to just make that the gold.
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  Speaker 1: Is there, is it true? Um, though, that I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I made this up and I'm flying off
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  Speaker 1: the cuff here, but that the NFL wants the teams
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  Speaker 1: to have like differentiation. So like the old gold that
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  Speaker 1: the Saints wear maybe too closely resembles the 49ers gold.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's why they want it different.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know if there's any truth to that? I, I,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not aware if there is, but I would bet proprietarily. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, probably if you file for trademarks and stuff,
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  Speaker 3: you have to have a different mix, but that's okay.
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  Speaker 3: You can have your own. That's slightly different from the
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  Speaker 3: 49ers and, and, and pick one, but I would just
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  Speaker 3: like it to be the gold that's on all the gold.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, back to football related things. So we've talked about uniforms, travel, travel.
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  Speaker 1: football itself, why should I think that they're going to
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  Speaker 1: go and beat Pittsburgh?
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  Speaker 3: I think Pittsburgh is a beatable team. Um, I think
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  Speaker 3: if Aaron Rogers hadn't had the last three games that
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  Speaker 3: he had, I think, I think we'd be, we'd be
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  Speaker 3: like saying the saints, it's a must win because Pittsburgh's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like, like a super beatable team. Like he's
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  Speaker 3: kind of come back to life a little bit after, uh,
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  Speaker 3: after he had some, you know, he had really looked
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  Speaker 3: like Father Time had caught up with him until he's
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  Speaker 3: had a really nice stretch the last three weeks. But,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's not as good under pressure. He doesn't
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  Speaker 3: scramble as well as he used to be. You should
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  Speaker 3: be able to get to him. That is something I
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  Speaker 3: think Chase Young and Carl Granderson are two guys that
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  Speaker 3: are working well for the Saints. I think Cade Nellis
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  Speaker 3: coming back will be huge for the Saints. I think
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  Speaker 3: this is a team you should be able to, to
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  Speaker 3: hold to 20 points or less, and you should be
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  Speaker 3: able to score 20 points or more. It's not a
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  Speaker 3: matchup that terrifies you on paper, but Pittsburgh is playing
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  Speaker 3: fundamentally sound football. They're 4-2. They're letting teams beat themselves,
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  Speaker 3: and the Saints are a beat-themselves kind of team.
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  Speaker 1: Do you like crepes?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very much.
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  Speaker 3: Can I give an unpaid endorsement?
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  Speaker 2: T-Swirl Crepes and Metairie. My family lives off of them.
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  Speaker 2: Say it again.
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  Speaker 1: What is it?
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  Speaker 3: T-Swirl Crepes.
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  Speaker 2: Highly recommend it. T-Swirl.
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  Speaker 1: Like the letter T, not T-E-A. The letter T.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Sweet ones with Nutella. The Triplett family likes Nutella a lot,
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  Speaker 3: but also savory ones.
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  Speaker 1: Valleyfin Pancakes. Break it, Pepe Le Pew! That's a Ricky
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  Speaker 1: Bobby line when he's talking about crepes. Do you love baguettes?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like bread.
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  Speaker 1: What about croissant?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I like other breakfast things. Croissant, like compared
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  Speaker 3: to the breakfast field, it's just.
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  Speaker 2: Middle of the road.
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  Speaker 1: A croissant. See, I love a croissant sandwich.
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  Speaker 3: French, I love French toast. I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 3: actually French or not.
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  Speaker 2: But I like a good French toast.
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  Speaker 1: What about a French dip?
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  Speaker 2: Fine. Adequate. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: French onion soup.
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  Speaker 2: Very good. Very good. There's a lot of things right
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  Speaker 2: over there.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else we're missing? French wine. Can't go wrong with
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  Speaker 1: French wine.
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  Speaker 2: French fries.
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  Speaker 1: French fries. Oh, I mean, how did I just miss
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  Speaker 1: the absolute ace in the hole?
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: Did they give us French fries?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like French fries and French toast probably aren't French.
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  Speaker 2: They're probably super American.
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  Speaker 3: But we put the name French on it because we
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  Speaker 3: know they're so good.
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  Speaker 2: We have to be like, these are so good. They
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  Speaker 2: must have come from France.
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  Speaker 1: French also gave us capitalism, existentialism, and the menage a trois.
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  Speaker 3: I've got one for you.
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  Speaker 2: I've got one for you if we still have time. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You're kind of a skeptic. I consider you a skeptic,
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  Speaker 3: a healthy skeptic.
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  Speaker 2: Is that fair?
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  Speaker 3: Do you fancy yourself one?
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  Speaker 1: I would say, and you can appreciate this, with a
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  Speaker 1: journalism background, you're trained to ask questions. I think to
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: be a healthy skeptic. Sure. To ask questions.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: Not necessarily just to be an antagonist.
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  Speaker 3: But I think you're on the strong side of that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not calling you antagonistic. Okay, yeah. But you lean, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you lean.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: On the, you know, you lean into the skepticism.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: You know, you're going to challenge everyone.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Okay, yes.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: How do you feel about this partnership? Because I'm, like,
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: kind of torn. I'm like, you almost had to abandon
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: it if you lost that last game. If you were 1-5,
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: you would be like, what are you doing wasting an
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: ounce of your effort, like, trying to market yourself overseas?
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: But then again, you know, the game has gone international. France,
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: there is a natural connection there. Fleur de Lis, French Quarter,
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: European history. I kind of like it. If they became like, hey,
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: if there's a game in France, the Saints are in
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: it every three years, every four.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Years, whatever. I'm okay with it. Where are you on that? Frivolous?
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Waste of time?
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Distracting from what it should be?
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Are you asking? I have a few different angles to
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: take on this. Yeah. I'm curious because.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: I consider you a smell test barometer who would probably
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: lean toward, ah, it's a waste. I would consider you
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: more of a, it's a waste if it's not making
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: the team better. But I'm curious because there's some appeal
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: to it.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Are you asking me as Matt Moscona, the New Orleans
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Saints fan, or from a business perspective, like the NFL,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: the new Orleans saints, uh, which, which perspective are you asking?
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Cause that will, that will give you my answer.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: Both, but if there's two different answers, I want to
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: hear both.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: As a fan of the new Orleans saints, this sucks.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Because it is, for the reason we talked about, an
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: objective truth, taking your team and flying them overseas in
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: the middle of the season is a disadvantage. There's no
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: way around it. And you give up a home game
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: in your building. Now the Saints suck at home and
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: have now for a few years. But again, you are
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: conceding advantages and putting yourself at a noted disadvantage by
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: flying overseas.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Quick interjection.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: If I'm presenting to you that The NFL is now
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: mandating every team plays one overseas game a year, blah, blah, blah.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Every other year, it'll be home game, away game. No
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: competitive disadvantage.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure. So then to the next point is the
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: NFL financial component of it. I love business, and I
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: love making money. And I feel like I have a
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: good business acumen, and I very much understand and appreciate
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: the growing the game globally and what things like this
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: do to grow the game globally. Otherwise, they wouldn't be
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: playing in Paris and in Rio and in Russia or
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: wherever the hell else they're playing. Ecuador, I don't know. Australia.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're going to go everywhere, every corner of
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: the earth because they're trying to grow the brand. So
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: if I'm a business owner and I have the opportunity
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: to grow my business into new markets, of course I'm
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: going to do that. Now, There's also the health and
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: wellness of your players, but the players don't object like
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: the players don't object to a 17th game because they
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: are going to make more money in turn as well.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: So I don't really have much sympathy for the health
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: and wellness component of it because the players have the
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: opportunity to collectively bargain and they're okay with this because
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: they are going to make more money. But as a
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: fan of the team... I hate it because it is
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: a competitive disadvantage. One of the reasons the Rams suck
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: this year, Mike, is because they flew to Australia. You
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: will not convince me otherwise. It is an objective truth.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: They flew literally around the world, played a game, then
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: flew back and had to go play a 17-game season.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I'll give you a different analogy. Paul Skeens has acknowledged
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: one of the reasons he did not look like Paul
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Skeens this year is he got so off of his
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: routine recently going full force in the World Baseball Classic,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: and it was so evident he was not the same
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: guy this year. With a regular off season. He's going
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: to be great again next year. Like I'd bet anything
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: on it. The Rams suck this year because they flew
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: to Australia. So I don't like that. The saints went
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: and played over or going in Paris, but I get
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: why they're doing it and why the NFL is doing it.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Weird.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Weirdly, the Niners are six and oh, and they also
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: put Australia, but I'm not disagreeing with you because I
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: do agree with you. Um, But just to ask the
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: question one more way, I agree with the international travel
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: of it all completely. But I'm saying in a world
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: where that's inevitable, the NFL has decided you're playing overseas
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: every year, whether you like.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: It or not.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: And the Saints do the France thing.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Do you like the Paris connection? Does it feel like, hey,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: it's us in New Orleans and the French.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: We're all who, Dad?
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Do you feel that at all?
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, part of me has a soft spot for
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: the French in my heart because they helped us in
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: the American Revolution. I also look at French, and I
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: think they're kind of wusses a little bit. So I
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: don't love that part of it. But, you know, Eiffel Tower,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: the Champs-Élysées, French fries. There's a lot of things that
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: France gave us, as Jean Girard said. Democracy, existentialism. The
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: other thing that I can't say on radio that Muse
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: knows and is going to laugh about. Go look up
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: the clip if you don't know what I'm talking about.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: So anyway, yeah, I'm good with France. I'm good with that. Yeah,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: if everybody's going to do it, I'm good with it.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: All right, cool. All right, glad we talked.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: This was awesome.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: We finished strong. We did.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: I challenged you at the beginning, and I think we did.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Mike.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Thank you.