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- 0:05who that to the who that nation welcome to the who that say podcast your podcast for the new orleans saints right here on the kb radio network i am your fellow who that and host kevin reed and here we go week
- 0:23two preview the new orleans saints who are currently zero and one will take on the San Francisco
- 0:3349ers who are one.
- 0:34and zero so we're gonna preview this upcoming matchup that takes place this sunday september the
- 0:4214th in the caesar superdome at
- 0:4512 noon this is a game that i didn't want to go this route honestly i just wanted to ride the wave this season you know just just soak up the fun if you will and enjoy the development of this
- 1:03young team but I'm forced now
- 1:08I feel I'm forced and I guess it's the who that in me that's taken over
- 1:12I'm forced to make judgment calls here for those who are in leadership positions over there on airline
- 1:20I I watched that game again the week one matchup versus the Arizona Cardinals and you know after viewing that game
- 1:31I'm left even more confused than I was watching it live last Sunday.
- 1:38I didn't understand why the Saints lost that game.
- 1:40I really don't.
- 1:42And this is coming from somebody who has zero expectations for the New Orleans Saints this season.
- 1:48I know what it is.
- 1:49I'm not crazy.
- 1:50I'm not expecting the Saints to shock the world.
- 1:54But when you play games like this,
- 1:58when you play teams like this,
- 2:00you're supposed to win and when you can't pinpoint one single thing your opposing team did to beat you that's a problem you i can't point out one thing the
- 2:15arizona cardinals did to beat the new orleans saints last week in the season opener yeah you had a couple of flash plays you know the big play to marvin harrison jr you had a big run
- 2:29That took place,
- 2:30I think,
- 2:31in the second half of that game.
- 2:33But aside from that,
- 2:35what else?
- 2:36I'll wait.
- 2:37What else did the Arizona Cardinals do?
- 2:40You sacked Kyler Murray five times.
- 2:44You forced him to field goals.
- 2:46You got him off the field.
- 2:47Defensively,
- 2:48they did their job.
- 2:50So,
- 2:52what happened?
- 2:54Well,
- 2:54offensively.
- 2:55Offensively,
- 2:56the New Orleans Saints played.
- 2:59safe football they played scared and i don't know i know the narrative this past week has been kellen moore not trusting his starting quarterback in spencer rattler at first at
- 3:14first i didn't buy that i was like i don't believe that that you know it's hard for me to well it was hard for me to grasp that at the time because this is the guy you pick you know
- 3:29this is the guy that you chose to be your starting quarterback and so um i'm kind of confused as to why you don't trust him or why people believe you don't trust him well like i said i watched the game again and upon
- 3:44re rewatch yes he didn't trust him he didn't trust him that's why those three timeouts stayed in his pockets when he went into halftime that's why uh spencer rattler
- 3:56Didn't attempt a ball over 20 yards,
- 3:58maybe what,
- 3:59one or two times?
- 4:01You know,
- 4:02no big plays,
- 4:02no splash plays.
- 4:05You didn't trust him to really conduct his offense.
- 4:10And
- 4:11I didn't see too many audibles.
- 4:13Whatever was called was called.
- 4:15Now,
- 4:16to be fair,
- 4:17some of that I put on Spencer Rattler.
- 4:20Spencer Rattler should have took some chances.
- 4:23He shouldn't have played scared because he's in a position.
- 4:27to whereas he doesn't want to lose the game he doesn't want to make that big mistake because he know he's on borrowed time he know it's just a matter of time he's one play away from being yanked for the rookie because that's what everybody wants and
- 4:42so he's trying to play perfect football there's no such thing tom brady wasn't perfect drew brees people was not perfect eli manning and Peyton Manning,
- 4:55none of these quarterbacks
- 4:56were perfect.
- 4:58You were going to make mistakes,
- 4:59but you
- 5:00You have to take chances.
- 5:02It's feast of fandom and
- 5:04I know that comes with time.
- 5:06I use the example of Drew Brees.
- 5:08Drew Brees in San Diego,
- 5:11average quarterback.
- 5:13Maybe slightly above average in San Diego.
- 5:17He comes to the Saints,
- 5:18first ballot hall of famer.
- 5:20You know it took time and the right situation,
- 5:23right coach and all these other elements to take place.
- 5:27Two different quarterbacks.
- 5:29two completely different quarterbacks.
- 5:32Now,
- 5:33Spencer Rattler last season,
- 5:35seven starts,
- 5:37didn't look all that good,
- 5:38didn't look great,
- 5:40but he was hampered with a makeshift offensive line.
- 5:46He didn't have starters at receivers.
- 5:48They were bringing in people from the street to play.
- 5:54It was just.
- 5:55It was madness,
- 5:56you know?
- 5:57The team was just falling apart at the seams.
- 5:59And so I didn't put much credit into that.
- 6:01I really looked at the game against the Arizona Cardinals last week as his first official start in the league.
- 6:10Because he had a complete and total training camp.
- 6:16He had all week,
- 6:18you know,
- 6:19coming up with a game plan,
- 6:20or two weeks,
- 6:21however long it was,
- 6:22to come up with a game plan.
- 6:23for this game get prepared for this game this was his start this was it was time to rock and roll and did he play bad no was he horrible no that does he deserve to get yanked or even be in a conversation to get yanked no he didn't do anything to warrant
- 6:44him being on ball time but the climate the climate with a just a
- 6:52I'm not gonna say small contingent of who that nation but there is about a 50-50.
- 7:00They want Tyler Shuck.
- 7:02They ready for Tyler Shuck.
- 7:03Tyler Shuck isn't ready.
- 7:05He isn't ready.
- 7:06You may be ready.
- 7:08He isn't ready.
- 7:10Let's calm down.
- 7:11Let's pump the brakes.
- 7:12As you can see,
- 7:12Spencer Rattler isn't 100%
- 7:15ready and he's been here a year longer.
- 7:19It takes time,
- 7:21people.
- 7:23I know a lot of people look around the league,
- 7:25you see Jaden Daniels doing what he do,
- 7:28you see how
- 7:31Jalen Hurst popped up his first start,
- 7:34he took advantage of it,
- 7:35but he didn't start immediately.
- 7:37You know,
- 7:39what's his name,
- 7:39Patrick Mahomes didn't start immediately.
- 7:42It takes time.
- 7:44Just relax.
- 7:45But,
- 7:46Kelly Moore,
- 7:47some of those decisions that were made last week...
- 7:50They just did not fly right with me.
- 7:52And going back to my opening statement,
- 7:55whereas this is the week,
- 7:57this is the week that I'm going to determine what type of coach
- 8:02Kellen Moore is.
- 8:04Will he change?
- 8:05Will he adjust?
- 8:06Will he do things differently?
- 8:09I saw the defense adjust in that game.
- 8:13At halftime,
- 8:14that defense changed.
- 8:15Now,
- 8:15they were playing decent in the first half.
- 8:18They gave up.
- 8:19Yeah,
- 8:19like I said,
- 8:20a couple of big plays,
- 8:21but for the most part,
- 8:23they played decent.
- 8:24They constantly putting pressure on Kyler Murray.
- 8:27They were all over the field,
- 8:30flying,
- 8:31tackling,
- 8:32got better as the game went on.
- 8:35They made adjustments.
- 8:36They made adjustments.
- 8:38So the defense is good.
- 8:39Defense gets a pass.
- 8:41The offense,
- 8:42man,
- 8:43the offense was just boring to watch.
- 8:45It was like watching paint dry last week when the Saints offense took.
- 8:49field but that was last week this week the new orleans saints will seek to get their first win of the season when they continue their what is this i don't know who made this schedule but it's the strangest schedule i
- 9:06have ever seen the new orleans saints play the saints will play uh the second of three nfc
- 9:14West opponents in the first three weeks.
- 9:17You know,
- 9:17we played Arizona last week,
- 9:19San Francisco this week,
- 9:21and next week we play the Seattle Seahawks.
- 9:24Unfortunately,
- 9:26we got to travel all the way to Seattle for that game.
- 9:29But we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
- 9:33Sunday will mark the
- 9:3579th regular season meeting between the Saints and the Niners.
- 9:39This is the
- 9:4179th meeting.
- 9:43That's crazy.
- 9:44Well,
- 9:44it's not really crazy because if you remember,
- 9:47if you're old enough,
- 9:48if you have a little season on you,
- 9:50you know that the Saints and the 49ers were once division rivals in the old
- 9:56NFC West.
- 9:57That was back in the day,
- 9:59boy.
- 9:59That was...
- 10:01Joe Montana and Reggie,
- 10:04not Reggie,
- 10:04but Roger Craig's and yeah,
- 10:07all that good stuff.
- 10:08It was it was it was a time.
- 10:11It was a rough one going through those years when the Saints had to play the
- 10:1749ers twice a season,
- 10:18when the 49ers were at their peak,
- 10:20when it was a dynasty over there.
- 10:22But the Saints were really competitive against them,
- 10:25especially at that in the 80s when we had the Dawn Patrol.
- 10:30But ultimately,
- 10:31you know,
- 10:33we were the Saints.
- 10:35The overall record,
- 10:36ironically,
- 10:38the
- 10:3949ers, of course,
- 10:39is leading the series with a record of
- 10:4349 victories.
- 10:4527 losses and two ties.
- 10:49The Saints,
- 10:50on a good note,
- 10:51if you want to put a little spin to this thing,
- 10:54the Saints have won six of the last 10 meetings.
- 10:57A regular season that is against the
- 11:0049ers. So,
- 11:01hey,
- 11:02that's a good stat.
- 11:04But the big story going into this game is injuries.
- 11:09The injury report is not good for either team.
- 11:14And it has been a deciding factor in a lot of things,
- 11:19namely the point spread.
- 11:21The point spread for this game.
- 11:25coming out of sunday uh monday morning was seven and a half of course in favor of the
- 11:3249ers after all of the injuries started piling up from week one where the
- 11:3949ers lost george kiddo and we're going to go over the injury report but george kiddo and um brock purdy and all this here that dropped to one and a half at least at the time of this recording it could have dropped more or
- 11:54probably gained a point or two who knows but even with the
- 12:0149ers injury which is a laundry list their injury report they're still favored against the saint uh it is it's heartbreaking in some sense and downright disrespectful to be honest
- 12:17i mean they still we're at home we're at all.
- 12:22And it didn't matter.
- 12:24That didn't sway
- 12:25Vegas from having us the dogs going into this game.
- 12:31But
- 12:32I've been tiptoeing around,
- 12:33and let's go over the injury report because,
- 12:36yeah,
- 12:3749ers has a lot of injuries,
- 12:38and the Saints have their fair share as well.
- 12:42Let's start with the
- 12:4349ers.
- 12:44Of course,
- 12:45the big one,
- 12:46Brock Purdy,
- 12:47their quarterback.
- 12:48he was listed as doubtful but he has a
- 12:51officially been ruled out with a turf toe.
- 12:56I think they said two to five weeks possibly for Brock Purdy to be out,
- 13:00but he will definitely be out this week against the New Orleans Saints.
- 13:05That will catapult
- 13:07Matt Jones to the starting quarterback position for the
- 13:1249ers, making that his first start as a Niner.
- 13:16I don't know where to go with that.
- 13:17I don't know if that's a good or bad thing for the New Orleans Saints.
- 13:21So,
- 13:23and
- 13:23I don't know if we're going to get Alabama
- 13:26Matt Jones or
- 13:28New England Matt Jones.
- 13:30I don't know which one we're going to get.
- 13:31So,
- 13:32we'll have to tune in and watch.
- 13:34Jordan James,
- 13:35their running back,
- 13:36was listed as questionable.
- 13:39Jordan Watkins,
- 13:41their wide receiver,
- 13:42is listed as questionable.
- 13:44And George Kittle,
- 13:46their star tight end,
- 13:47he
- 13:48He hasn't been listed anything on the one that I'm reading,
- 13:51but
- 13:52I think I read that he is ruled out for this Sunday's game with a calf injury.
- 14:00Speaking of calf injuries,
- 14:01let's move over to the Saints injury report,
- 14:04and let's start with Chase Young,
- 14:06who has been dealing with a calf injury since the first practice of the regular season.
- 14:13While preparing for the Arizona Cardinals,
- 14:15Chase Young injured his calf.
- 14:17calf he didn't play last week he didn't practice none this week and he has been ruled out against the
- 14:2549ers i don't know what's up with the calf you know they're real secretive and i don't understand why they're so secretive if he hurt he's hurt it's all right it happens it's football and just give us a timetable give us a time frame when he's going to return uh
- 14:42but he he's definitely out sunday
- 14:45Also out this Sunday is of course
- 14:48Julian Blackman.
- 14:50Not only this Sunday but every Sunday for the remainder of this season where he's on
- 14:56IR with that torn labrum,
- 14:58shoulder injury.
- 15:01He's either had surgery this week or preparing for surgery in the coming days.
- 15:05But he is definitely out for the season,
- 15:09which stinks.
- 15:10Which stinks.
- 15:11I was super excited for Julian Blackman.
- 15:14And he looked good before he went out hurt.
- 15:17He was looking good,
- 15:18man.
- 15:19I am so upset by that,
- 15:21you know.
- 15:23But,
- 15:23but,
- 15:24but,
- 15:25there's a glimmer of hope.
- 15:26Because our rookie,
- 15:29Jonas.
- 15:29sinker who what round did we get him in the fourth fifth round somewhere up in there from Virginia really impressed me in preseason he really was flying all over the field he was in on a lot of big tackles
- 15:46I think he even got didn't he wasn't he the one that caught that pick in the first preseason game I can't remember but I know he was everywhere he was all over the field in during the preseason
- 15:56I thought that was a winner
- 15:58the real winner of a pick that we got him uh judging by those couple of games that we saw him uh but now it's it's it's scrap in time now it didn't got real and he is uh elevated to the starting
- 16:16safety position with black men being out uh also out who was ruled out was trevor penning our offensive tackle haven't played this season with that
- 16:27toe injury.
- 16:28I'm guessing turf toe or something.
- 16:30But he was ruled out as well.
- 16:33Questionable.
- 16:34Taliense Fuaga.
- 16:36He is questionable with that knee injury.
- 16:40And
- 16:41Valdez Jones
- 16:43Jr. out running back.
- 16:44Also punt returner,
- 16:45kick returner.
- 16:46He was dealing with a knee injury.
- 16:48He was limited all week,
- 16:50but he is expected to play this Sunday.
- 16:53So we're not as bad.
- 16:56You know,
- 16:57as the
- 16:5849ers, but it's still bad enough because
- 17:02I'm one of my most exciting things going into this season that I was super looking forward to was Chase Young in this defense.
- 17:11I wanted to see him in this defense and judging by how the defense plays or had played last week,
- 17:19man,
- 17:20Chase Young would have been a big help in that game.
- 17:22I'm not saying he would have been a deciding factor.
- 17:25As far as wins and losses,
- 17:27but I would have loved to have seen what type of impact he could have made.
- 17:31And
- 17:32I guess we're just going to have to wait another week to see what type of impact he can make for this defense.
- 17:41But speaking of defense,
- 17:42let's look at some key matchups defensively that we need to watch this Sunday versus the
- 17:5049ers. The Saints and their blitz rate.
- 17:54This is something that has not been seen in New Orleans for a while,
- 17:59especially under Dennis Allen and his style of play,
- 18:04blitzing.
- 18:06Every now and then,
- 18:07Dennis Allen would blitz.
- 18:09Judging by last week,
- 18:10and if last week was any indication,
- 18:13under Brandon Staley,
- 18:14our defensive coordinator,
- 18:16there's any indications of how this defense will fly around.
- 18:21They're going to do a lot of blitzing.
- 18:22You know,
- 18:24I think he plans to push the
- 18:2749ers offensive line from different pressure looks.
- 18:31Now,
- 18:31let's not forget,
- 18:32Brandon Staley knows this offense over there.
- 18:35And Frisco,
- 18:36he was the defensive coordinator for the Rams,
- 18:39who are division rivals to the
- 18:42San Francisco
- 18:4349ers. So he knows this team,
- 18:45and he knows what it takes to beat this team.
- 18:49And so that's a great thing.
- 18:50It's good to have that bit of knowledge.
- 18:53The Saints on Sunday,
- 18:55last Sunday,
- 18:56they blitzed
- 18:5945.1% of the time.
- 19:01And they finished with a defensive EPA of negative 0.11.
- 19:06That is
- 19:0711th best in week one.
- 19:10The blitzes,
- 19:11the 45.1,
- 19:13that was the 10th highest in week one.
- 19:16So we're going to go by
- 19:20Last week's indication.
- 19:23Yeah,
- 19:23I think they're going to get him.
- 19:24And he did that against a running mobile quarterback.
- 19:28Normally when you blitz a running mobile quarterback like that,
- 19:31you get burnt.
- 19:32And it was a couple of times Colin Murray got loose.
- 19:36But for the most part,
- 19:37they kept him in check.
- 19:39Now you're going up against a Matt Jones,
- 19:41who,
- 19:42you know,
- 19:43he's not a statue,
- 19:45but he's not Colin Murray.
- 19:48And so you you you got a chance to double that sack total that you racked up last week if if if last week.
- 20:00was any indication another uh key and i think this is probably the biggest one uh even though i have more to go but this is probably the number one key is the san francisco's russia tank and
- 20:15we know that kyle shanahan that is the bread and butter of this offense you know people think that is just high high powered
- 20:25you know running gun offense that he runs is really based on the run uh for years you know his dad did it now he does it but he just does it in innovative ways and now arizona's rush attack was
- 20:41it was poignant you know because you had kyle murray you had uh james connor you had trey benson who had that big run uh so it was kind of a three-headed monster you know it that
- 20:56that burnt the Saints on the ground.
- 20:58However,
- 20:59the styles of the run offense is completely different when you compare
- 21:04Arizona and the San Francisco 49ers.
- 21:07Primarily,
- 21:08as a gap scheme run attack,
- 21:10Arizona utilized this gap scheme,
- 21:15I should say,
- 21:1644%
- 21:18against the
- 21:19New Orleans Saints defense.
- 21:21That number was good for the third highest in...
- 21:25week one.
- 21:26You know,
- 21:27they did a pretty decent job there.
- 21:29Now,
- 21:29the Saints handled it well with a negative
- 21:340.17 EPA against Gapski running.
- 21:39The Saints defense looked excellent,
- 21:41man,
- 21:41last week.
- 21:43A lot of people ain't talking about that.
- 21:44It is frustrating throughout the week.
- 21:47Nobody's talking about how good the defense played.
- 21:51Whatever.
- 21:53This week,
- 21:54on the other hand,
- 21:55this week the Saints will have to contend against Christian McCaffrey.
- 21:59And you can pretty much bet your bottom dollar that we're going to get a healthy dose of Christian McCaffrey this week with the absence of a Brock Purdy there.
- 22:14Now,
- 22:15no shade on Matt Jones,
- 22:16but I think he's going to,
- 22:18he being
- 22:19Kyle Shanahan,
- 22:20he's going to trust his running game.
- 22:23To kind of hide the shortcomings of his backup quarterback,
- 22:30to say the least.
- 22:31But Christian McCaffrey and the
- 22:3349ers have a 0%
- 22:35gap scheme,
- 22:37at least they did last week,
- 22:39while the Saints face outside zone
- 22:428% of the time only.
- 22:45You know,
- 22:46Arizona didn't run an outside zone,
- 22:50whereas
- 22:5149ers does a lot.
- 22:52of outside zone.
- 22:54Now the Cardinals had the lowest percentage of outside runs in week one.
- 22:58Kyle Shanahan and the
- 23:0049ers offense will need the rush attack to stabilize in this week.
- 23:05There's no ifs,
- 23:07ands,
- 23:07or buts about it.
- 23:08The Saints were at bottom three defense in week one against the outside zone.
- 23:16And so it's going to be a challenge there.
- 23:19It's going to be a challenge There is always a challenge.
- 23:22when you go up against the likes of a Christian McCaffrey.
- 23:25Also,
- 23:26also,
- 23:27moving over to our offense,
- 23:29we got to contend with Robert Sala's defense.
- 23:33Robert Sala,
- 23:34we all remember,
- 23:35he was the defensive coordinator of the
- 23:3749ers some years back,
- 23:39left to be the head coach of the Jets,
- 23:41was unceremoniously let go,
- 23:44returned to the
- 23:4549ers to be the defensive coordinator yet again.
- 23:49at 66.7%
- 23:51the 49ers were in a single high safety look at the ninth highest in seattle now seattle to their defense has a different style of offense than the new orleans saints now the defense finished with
- 24:08the highest epa from the look of negative 0.84 on the flip side the saints were the most successful against the high.
- 24:21or the single high looks last week.
- 24:24As much as we want to rag on Mr.
- 24:26Rattler,
- 24:28he did find a way to be successful against that look.
- 24:33Arizona showed a single safety at the lowest percentage.
- 24:38That's 40.4%.
- 24:42But the Saints had the
- 24:4411th highest EPA against those looks at 0.17.
- 24:50And so...
- 24:51All the dinkin and dunkin yeah,
- 24:53that's how you get them now another way You can get them which the Saints ran away from and I guess that's where the criticism come in at
- 25:00Saints didn't attack it with the run.
- 25:01They didn't attack it with the screen passes and,
- 25:05you know,
- 25:05things of that nature to kind of catch them off guard.
- 25:08That's what I would have did.
- 25:10But what I know,
- 25:11I'm not a head coach.
- 25:13That's why I'm sitting behind this microphone instead of on the sideline with a headset.
- 25:18But solid defense may face a top 10 team out of 11 personnel in New Orleans.
- 25:26The seven highest 11 personnel uses.
- 25:29belongs to the new
- 25:31Orleans Saints after week one with a percentage of
- 25:3672.6. The 49ers faced 11 personnel only
- 25:4149% of the time,
- 25:43but posed the fourth highest EPA at negative 0.16 against Seattle last week.
- 25:51The Saints will attack on the ground with gap schemes.
- 25:55They did that last week with a percentage of 36.5.
- 25:59four fifth highest in the league.
- 26:03Fifth,
- 26:05believe it or not.
- 26:06And the
- 26:0749ers are six highest or have the six highest EPA against Gap on Sunday with a negative 0.45.
- 26:18Swinging back over to the defense of the New Orleans Saints,
- 26:21they didn't face any motion against the Arizona Cardinals last Sunday,
- 26:26but when they did,
- 26:28they struggled.
- 26:29They did struggle,
- 26:32allowing the EPA of 0.13 while defending motion was closer to the bottom of the league at number 19.
- 26:41The Saints allowed an explosive play
- 26:454.5% of the time on Sunday,
- 26:46which is the fifth highest in week one.
- 26:50Motion,
- 26:52whether you know it or not,
- 26:53you're about to learn today.
- 26:55Motion is a staple.
- 26:57in Kyle Shanahan's offense.
- 27:00And so the chess match is,
- 27:03the chess match is on between
- 27:06Kyle Shanahan and Brandon Staley.
- 27:10We struggled last week against Motion.
- 27:12We're going to get nothing but Motion,
- 27:15whether we want it or not.
- 27:16After working on the same staff for a bit in 2024,
- 27:22this matchup will be very,
- 27:25very interesting.
- 27:26Staley's philosophy of employing too high safety looks with the defense continued on Sunday.
- 27:35The highest percentage of safety looks against Arizona was too high at 37.8%.
- 27:44Brandon Staley tried to limit explosive pass plays with too high safeties.
- 27:50But running successfully against those looks will open up.
- 27:56play action and uh pass opportunities for the uh 49ers if we're not careful i know it's only one week but hey we're still gonna do it uh the uh season leaders of each team let's
- 28:11begin with passing of course spencer rattler is our leading passer he went
- 28:2027 of 46 for 240
- 28:2214 yards,
- 28:23no touchdowns,
- 28:24no interceptions.
- 28:25Brock Purdy is the league leader for the 49ers.
- 28:29Last week he was 26 of 35,
- 28:33two touchdowns and two interceptions for 277 yards.
- 28:38For the New Orleans Saints rushing attack,
- 28:41our leading rusher was Alvin Kamara.
- 28:4411 carries for 45 yards and a touchdown,
- 28:49which was his thousandth touchdown.
- 28:52of his career congratulations to ak-41 for the san francisco
- 28:5849ers their leading rusher is of course christian mccaffrey who are look those two are i don't know man they they always compare this but you know when christian mccaffrey was in uh carolina they they always compared these two and they rightfully so they both are dynamic running backs christian mccaffrey last week
- 29:1822 carries,
- 29:1969 yards.
- 29:21A leading receiver before the
- 29:2449ers last week was Parcells.
- 29:27or Purcells or however you pronounce it.
- 29:29They four catches for 108 yards.
- 29:32For the New Orleans Saints,
- 29:33our leading receiver,
- 29:36it was
- 29:37Jawan Johnson.
- 29:38He had eight catches,
- 29:40should have been nine,
- 29:41for
- 29:4276 yards.
- 29:45Sack leader for each team,
- 29:46Nick Bosa for the
- 29:4849ers with one sack.
- 29:49For the New Orleans Saints,
- 29:50Cam Jordan.
- 29:51People with one and a half sacks last week against the Arizona Cardinals.
- 29:56Our leading tackler is
- 29:58Demario Davis with nine tackles for the 49ers.
- 30:02Fred Warner with eight tackles.
- 30:06In case you wanted to know the rankings after one week of football,
- 30:10the New Orleans Saints offense,
- 30:13let's begin with passing.
- 30:15The Saints ranked
- 30:1614th in the lead in passing yards per game with 208 yards,
- 30:2116th in the lead rushing.
- 30:24per game rushing yards per game i should say with 107 yards and
- 30:3017th in the league with yards per game total uh with 315 yards that basically puts saints middle of the pack uh amongst the league and you know smoke them if you got them you know it
- 30:47is what it is we'll see uh moving forward how much the saints numbers dip
- 30:53or rise throughout the year.
- 30:56My prediction for Sunday's game against the
- 31:0049ers, once again,
- 31:03I don't know.
- 31:04It's a question mark,
- 31:06bruh.
- 31:06It's so many injuries on the
- 31:0949ers' side.
- 31:10You know,
- 31:11logically,
- 31:11you would love to say,
- 31:13oh,
- 31:13the Saints should win that game.
- 31:15But
- 31:16Saints should have won last week,
- 31:17too.
- 31:18But
- 31:20I'm not prepared.
- 31:21I'm not ready.
- 31:22to put myself out there yet i'm not ready to say the station would they should win i'll just leave it at that they should win um it's just a matter of execution man the saint everything's there for the new orleans saints to win the saints aren't a bottom of the barrel team as
- 31:41a lot of these nfl analysts have them they're not i seen it i seen it you look at sunday's game last sunday's game.
- 31:51The Saints.
- 31:52are a talented team,
- 31:54good team.
- 31:55They just got to put the pieces together.
- 31:58And I don't want to rush them into doing it.
- 32:01I just want them to do it.
- 32:02You know,
- 32:04seize the opportunities when they're there.
- 32:07I don't care if you lose.
- 32:08The loss didn't bother me.
- 32:10It was more or less how they lost.
- 32:13The fact that they could have won.
- 32:15You know,
- 32:16if you put up a good effort and it's a superior team that you're across the field from,
- 32:21hey.
- 32:22Dap off,
- 32:24give a bro hug,
- 32:25and move on.
- 32:26But if it's against a team that has no business coming into your house and winning the game,
- 32:32a la the Arizona Cardinals,
- 32:34yeah,
- 32:34that's where you kind of like,
- 32:36oh,
- 32:36come on,
- 32:36man.
- 32:37We got to do better.
- 32:39But the
- 32:4049ers are a good team,
- 32:41well-coached team.
- 32:42Even with the injuries,
- 32:44they're still well-coached,
- 32:46you know.
- 32:47Now,
- 32:47if Carl,
- 32:48oh,
- 32:48Carl,
- 32:49if,
- 32:49uh...
- 32:50Kyle Shanahan was on the injured reserve list,
- 32:54then I'll feel better.
- 32:56But
- 32:56I'm not confident enough to go out there and say,
- 33:01yeah,
- 33:01we're going to squash him,
- 33:02we're going to beat him.
- 33:03Yeah,
- 33:03I'm not ready for that.
- 33:04But
- 33:05St. should win.
- 33:07But I would love to know,
- 33:08what do you think of this week's matchup against the
- 33:1149ers? Do you think those injuries on the
- 33:1549ers side is just insurmountable?
- 33:17Is it just too much to overcome from them?
- 33:19to go on a road and play this team that is desperate for a win?
- 33:24And do you think the Saints will take this opportunity to build from last week,
- 33:32neutralize their mistakes,
- 33:35build upon that,
- 33:36and come out better and less skittish than we did last week?
- 33:43I would love to know your thoughts.
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- 34:18Everybody,
- 34:19thank you for joining me for this preview of the week two matchup between the New Orleans Saints and the San Francisco
- 34:2849ers this Sunday,
- 34:30September
- 34:3214th, 12 noon on
- 34:35Fox.
- 34:36Until then,
- 34:37I'm going to be screaming to the top of my lungs.
- 34:41Who dat?