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Saints Hire Eagles Doug Nussmeier As OC | Why It's A Perfect Fit For Kellen Moore In New Orleans · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: worst kept secret around the New Orleans Saints was that
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  Speaker 1: Kellen Moore was going to become the head coach, the
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  Speaker 1: next worst kept secret would be that Dougnasmeyer would be
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  Speaker 1: joining him in New Orleans as the team's offensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: and that appears like it is about to happen. Early
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday, Nick Underhill was the first report that the
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  Speaker 1: team has finalized to deal with Doug nus Smeyer to
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  Speaker 1: make him their new offensive coordinator there under Kellen Moore.
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  Speaker 1: So now with your special teams coordinator offensive coordinator in place,
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  Speaker 1: the only coordinator left today will be the defensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: which we are anticipating will be Brandon Staley. But we'll
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  Speaker 1: have that news. When we do the Dug nus Meyer piece, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's no surprise, and I like it because of the
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  Speaker 1: familiarity with Kellen Moore. Like we've discussed, dougnus Meyer came
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  Speaker 1: into the NFL as a coach with Dallas in twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: where he was the tight ends coach in twenty eighteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. He was then promoted the quarterbacks coach in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty, twenty twenty through twenty twenty two there with
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  Speaker 1: Kellen Moore as the OC, and then when Kellen Moore
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  Speaker 1: went to the Chargers in twenty twenty three, nus Meyer
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  Speaker 1: went with him. When Kellen Moore went to the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, and Nousmeyer went with him as
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  Speaker 1: the quarterbacks coach. So these two have coached alongside each
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  Speaker 1: other every year since twenty eighteen, and it is that familiarity.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's probably the most appealing thing here. When
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  Speaker 1: Kellen Moore was introduced a week ago today, one of
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  Speaker 1: the things he talked about was using past relationships to
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  Speaker 1: build a staff.
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  Speaker 2: There's tremendous value for experience when you've worked with someone
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  Speaker 2: just for continuity's sake. But I think the blessing and
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  Speaker 2: wonderful thing that you learn is as you go through
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  Speaker 2: this journey, you know, going to Los Angeles, going to Philly,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of coaches that if I just stuck
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  Speaker 2: in Dallas, I would have never met, we never got
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  Speaker 2: to team up with. And so you understand that as
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  Speaker 2: you go through this process, you're gonna have an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to meet and team up with coaches that maybe you
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  Speaker 2: haven't done it with, and they're gonna be really special
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  Speaker 2: and they're gonna have a huge impact on us.
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  Speaker 1: And there's likely going to be more coaches that he's
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  Speaker 1: familiar with that join the staff, like we mentioned Brandon Staley.
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  Speaker 1: But I decided today to kind of dig deep a
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  Speaker 1: little into Doug nus Meyer's background as an offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: And this conversation we're about to have is going to
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  Speaker 1: come with an asterisk because Kellen Moore is still going
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  Speaker 1: to call the plays. He said that as well in
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  Speaker 1: his opening press conference, and that's what we all anticipate
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  Speaker 1: is going to happen. So while yes, nus Meyer will
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  Speaker 1: be the offensive coordinator, he will work hand in hand
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  Speaker 1: with Kellen Moore, it is still going to be Kellen
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  Speaker 1: Moore's team, Kellen Moore's offense, Kellen Moore calling plays. But
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  Speaker 1: if we go back and look at ugness Meyer's experience
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  Speaker 1: as an offensive coordinator, quite honestly, it's not very good
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  Speaker 1: if we're just calling it. Calling a spat to spade here.
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  Speaker 1: Dougness Meyer has never been NOC in the NFL, and
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  Speaker 1: he was an offensive coordinator in college every year from
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and eight through twenty seventeen. In two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and eight at Fresno State, the Bulldogs finished thirty seventh
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  Speaker 1: in total offense. Next year, he goes to Washington. He's
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  Speaker 1: the Washington OC for three years twenty nine, ten and eleven.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, the two thousand and nine offense faced LSU,
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  Speaker 1: Remember they game up in Seattle. Their offenses in three
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  Speaker 1: years went from seventieth to ninety sixth then to twenty
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  Speaker 1: fifth in twenty eleven. He goes to Alabama in twelve
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  Speaker 1: and thirteen. We know Alabama won the national championship in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twelve and they finished twelfth and seventeenth in the
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  Speaker 1: country in total offense. That was by far the high
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  Speaker 1: watermark for Dougnas Meyer as in OC. After twenty thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: he goes to Michigan for one season they were one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twelfth in the country and total offense gone.
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  Speaker 1: And then it goes to Florida for three years twenty fifteen, sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: and seventeen. All three years they were in the triple
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  Speaker 1: digits and total offense one hundredth one o seven one
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  Speaker 1: oh nine. They got worse each year. So from two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and eight to twenty seventeen, ten years, ten consecutive
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  Speaker 1: seasons at Dougnas, Meyer was an offensive coordinator. Four of
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  Speaker 1: the ten years they finished one hundred. His offenses were
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  Speaker 1: one hundredth or worse, and he also had offenses finishing
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  Speaker 1: seventieth and ninety sixth, so six of the ten they
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  Speaker 1: were the bottom half of the country. The two best
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  Speaker 1: years he had he had with Alabama, which candidly under
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  Speaker 1: Nick Saban, I could probably have gone call plays and
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  Speaker 1: we'd have been pretty good. It's not to say Doug
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  Speaker 1: nasse Meyer is a bad offensive coordinator. I don't mean
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  Speaker 1: to say that. I'm just laying out there all the
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  Speaker 1: info and the data points, so we have it. He
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  Speaker 1: was an offensive coordinator for ten years in college football,
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  Speaker 1: and it wasn't great, but he got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: big time jobs from that point on. He became an
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  Speaker 1: NFL position coach, coaching tight ends with Cowboys for two years,
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  Speaker 1: and then quarterbacks, which he's coached for the last four years,
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  Speaker 1: and now an offensive coordinator in the NFL for the
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  Speaker 1: first time. So, look, there's a lot show like about
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  Speaker 1: this hire, and I've expressed that, like, I'm good with
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  Speaker 1: this hire because it is still Kellen Moore's offense. Kellen
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  Speaker 1: Moore is gonna call plays, it's his offense. So what
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  Speaker 1: I really want is someone around Kellen Moore who he's
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  Speaker 1: comfortable with, that's going to help nurture and develop ideas
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  Speaker 1: and all the and support and all those sorts of things.
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  Speaker 1: Someone whose eyes in mind he trusts. Not that dissimilar
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  Speaker 1: from old Sneaky Pete and Sean Payton. It was his offense.
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  Speaker 1: Pete Carmichael was the OC and was a really good
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  Speaker 1: ally for Sean Payton. It feels very similar here with
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  Speaker 1: nuss Meyer as an ally to Kellen Moore, a trusted lieutenant.
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  Speaker 1: And when you look at the offensive staff, at least
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  Speaker 1: the top of it right now, Kellen Moore, Doug nus Meyer,
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  Speaker 1: Scott Tolzy Head, coach, offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach. All three
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  Speaker 1: were NFL quarterbacks that didn't have great NFL careers, but
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  Speaker 1: all three were NFL quarterbacks. So you've got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of experience, NFL experience, quarterback experience, and synergies among the
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  Speaker 1: staff where these guys know each other pretty well. I
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  Speaker 1: like that. I also like in this as ancillary. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think this matters tremendously, but I do like that.
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  Speaker 1: Dougnus Meyer has ties to New Orleans into Louisiana. We
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  Speaker 1: know that he was drafted by the New Orleans Saints
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety four, played quarterback for the Saints. He
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  Speaker 1: met his wife, Christy when he lived here. She is
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  Speaker 1: from Lake Charles. Garrett, as we know, was born in
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  Speaker 1: Lake Charles. So you have a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of synergies that make sense here with this hire, both
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  Speaker 1: with Kellen Moore's relationship with nus Meyer, dougnas Meyer, dougnas
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  Speaker 1: Meyer's relationship and familiarity with the organization, the city, the state,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of those ties there, and as we'll continue
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  Speaker 1: to say, though your head coach and your staff are
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  Speaker 1: part of the equation, they're a big part of the equation.
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  Speaker 1: But the bigger part for the New Orleans Saints moving
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  Speaker 1: forward is less about Kellen Moore or Dougnas Meyer, Scott Tolsen,
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  Speaker 1: Brandon staleor any of that. It's going to be at
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  Speaker 1: this front office pushing the reset button on the roster,
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  Speaker 1: getting your cap in order, acquiring draft capital, respecting your
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  Speaker 1: draft capital instead of constantly trading up expending future draft
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  Speaker 1: capital to be aggressive, to go get a player that
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  Speaker 1: you think is going to help you win now. The
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  Speaker 1: sooner this organization realizes they're not close to winning, and
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  Speaker 1: they're willing to be patient to go through a rebuild
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  Speaker 1: and build this thing brick by brick the sooner they
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge that the sooner the Saints are going to get
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  Speaker 1: back to being a competitive team. And I hope that's
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  Speaker 1: under Kellen Moore with this staff as it's assembled, and
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  Speaker 1: I hope it's sooner than later. But while I like
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  Speaker 1: the Doug nuss Meyer higher and I think it makes
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  Speaker 1: a lot of sense, there are reasons to question it.
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  Speaker 1: He's never been an NFLOC and when he was a
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  Speaker 1: college OC for ten years it wasn't great. But as
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  Speaker 1: an asset, a resource and ally a sounding board for
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  Speaker 1: Kellen Moore. I like it a lot. What I got
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  Speaker 1: to see though, is changes in the roster, changes in
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  Speaker 1: the roster. Patients with this staff to rebuild it as
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  Speaker 1: you rebuild your roster. But that's more on Mickey Loomis
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  Speaker 1: and this front office than it is on Kellen Moore
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  Speaker 1: or dougnass Meyer. But Saint atho C it's Doug nash Meyer.
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  Speaker 1: Wait for the official announcement from New Orleans, but apparently
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  Speaker 1: it is done. Dougnass Meyer will be the Saints offensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator as expected,