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Cam Jordan Has a Saints Contract Offer — So Why Hasn’t He Signed Yet? · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: Kellen Moore both met with reporters on Monday at the
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  Speaker 1: Saints Hall of Fame Golf tournament, and naturally big part
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  Speaker 1: of the conversation was about some of these veterans and
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  Speaker 1: what their futures may be, primarily focusing on three. It's
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  Speaker 1: Cam Jordan, Alvin Kamara, and Taysom Hill. Mickey Loomis was
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  Speaker 1: asked about Cam and Taysom.
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  Speaker 2: See they both have contract golfers from you.
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  Speaker 1: Cam certainly does, Taysom does not, so sorry, was that
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  Speaker 1: four or five? Now? I one? At four? You play four?
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  Speaker 2: Does it become unlikely as you get this far into
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  Speaker 2: the eye.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. It's but those guys, you know,
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  Speaker 2: have earned the right to for self determination, right, So
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  Speaker 2: we're not gonna put any deadlines on anything.
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  Speaker 1: I think the the thing that's getting the most attention
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  Speaker 1: today is Mickey Loomis saying Cam has a contract offer
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  Speaker 1: Taysoum does not. The Taysom thing I don't think is
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  Speaker 1: surprising in any way, and I get asked often, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: could such and such be the next Taysom Hill? The Answest? No,
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  Speaker 1: because when you think about it, just intellectually, who else
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL has a Taysom Hill? Nobody, because it's
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  Speaker 1: that atypical what Taysom does. And I know it's a
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  Speaker 1: copycat league, but Taysom has been around for almost a
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  Speaker 1: decade now in that role and nobody else does it
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  Speaker 1: because he is a rare player in this era that
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  Speaker 1: can do it. But you also have to have a
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  Speaker 1: coach like Sean Payton who knows what to do with that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that was a Sean Payton brainchild. And then
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  Speaker 1: Pete Carmichael obviously was here and Taysom was under contract.
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  Speaker 1: But now you have a new coaching staff that has
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  Speaker 1: never used a player like that before and doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: a great desire to use a player like that, clearly
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  Speaker 1: because they had Taysom Hill coming off of injury, limited physically,
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  Speaker 1: great leader, all the stuff. Everyone loves Taysoum, but that's
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  Speaker 1: a coaching staff that it looked so forced last year
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  Speaker 1: when Tasom Hill was in the game. So I had
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  Speaker 1: his least productive year coming off a knee, a serious
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  Speaker 1: knee injury, playing for a coach that didn't know how
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  Speaker 1: to use him. So if Taysom maybe is healthier and
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  Speaker 1: wants to continue his career, maybe Denver or reunion was
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  Speaker 1: Sean Peyton would make sense. But more than likely his
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  Speaker 1: career is probably He's probably played his last game in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, So that one's not surprising. I also think
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  Speaker 1: it's not surprising that Cam Jordan has a contract offer
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  Speaker 1: from the Saints. Go back and listen to what Cam
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  Speaker 1: Jordan said in the interview with Tront Arms said. Remember
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  Speaker 1: this was back in March. He did an interview with
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  Speaker 1: uh what Tront Arms said, it was a So it's
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  Speaker 1: actually I think this was last I think it was April.
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  Speaker 1: It was just a few weeks ago. Cam Jordan was
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  Speaker 1: doing an interview on Toront Armstead's podcast and talked about
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  Speaker 1: the possibility of return.
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  Speaker 2: If things that don't add up to what I consider
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  Speaker 2: as value happened, I understand that the business nature of
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  Speaker 2: it all. You know, in my mind, I'm like, of course,
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  Speaker 2: you know. You see, guys my age, we signed to
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  Speaker 2: the team because that's the only team that they've ever
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  Speaker 2: been with, and you're like, hell yeah, we love that.
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  Speaker 2: But that's to his situation. That may not be to
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  Speaker 2: my situation. As football players, we only control what we
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  Speaker 2: can't control. So as much as I'd be like, hell yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I want them to love me just like I love them. Sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the business side of that makes you feel emotional.
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  Speaker 2: You got to be able to take your emotions out
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  Speaker 2: of me. So of course I'd love to be a
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  Speaker 2: new woance. And at the same time, he if the
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  Speaker 2: sense doesn't make sense, you know, we gotta find our
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  Speaker 2: own path.
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  Speaker 1: If the sense doesn't make sense, like what he's saying that, Like,
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  Speaker 1: think about that again. What he's saying isn't they don't
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  Speaker 1: want me. They haven't offered me, he said. If the
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  Speaker 1: sense CNTs doesn't make sense, sensc he said in the
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  Speaker 1: money doesn't make sense. So it's not saying that they
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  Speaker 1: don't want me to haven't offered me. He's saying is
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  Speaker 1: what they're offering isn't enough. And we've talked about this plenty,
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't think there's much new here with this.
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  Speaker 1: It's just Mickey confirming what we've talked about plenty, which
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  Speaker 1: is the fact that Cam very clearly, who was on
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  Speaker 1: a incentive laden contract this past year as ten and
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  Speaker 1: a half sacks, wants more guarantees. He very likely wants
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  Speaker 1: a deal like the Mario Davis with the Jets, a
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  Speaker 1: multi year deal with guaranteed money. And it does not
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  Speaker 1: make a lick of Sunda say this again, it does
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  Speaker 1: not make a lick of sense for the New Orleans
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  Speaker 1: Saints to give Cameron Jordan a multi year guaranteed deal.
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  Speaker 1: I love Cam Jordan. You love Cam Jordan. He will
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  Speaker 1: go into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He will
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  Speaker 1: be in the Saints Ring of Honor. He is one
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  Speaker 1: of the greatest players in the history of this organization.
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  Speaker 1: For his contributions, we will all be forever grateful and
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  Speaker 1: we will cheer him forever. If you're the general manager
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  Speaker 1: of the Saints, you're not giving players contracts based on
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  Speaker 1: what they did in the past. You're giving them contracts
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  Speaker 1: based on what you are projecting they will do over
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  Speaker 1: the life of that contract. And Cameron Jordan when you
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  Speaker 1: look and again he's a durable player, but his snap
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  Speaker 1: counts have effectively been cut in half. And if you
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  Speaker 1: start with the twenty twenty three season, he's gone from
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  Speaker 1: twelve and a half Sackson twenty twenty. I'm sure, twelve
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  Speaker 1: and a half in twenty twenty one to eight and
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  Speaker 1: a half to two to four to then ten and
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  Speaker 1: a half this year, which speaks to an outlier. In
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  Speaker 1: the last five years, you had seen a regression every
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  Speaker 1: single year for Cam for four straight seasons until this
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  Speaker 1: year where he had a bounce back. It's hard for
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  Speaker 1: me to believe that's sustainable. That's the outlier. That's the exception,
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  Speaker 1: not the rule. So if you're the Saints, you're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna go invest a multi year deal in an aging,
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  Speaker 1: declining player. I don't know how many more ways we
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  Speaker 1: could say this. I love Cam, you love Cam, we
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  Speaker 1: all love Cam. And the fact is the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, the market is speaking. He doesn't have an offer,
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  Speaker 1: a multi year offer from anybody else. If he did,
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  Speaker 1: he would have signed it already. Maybe he waits until camp,
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  Speaker 1: there's an injury, there's a desperate team, They pay him
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  Speaker 1: what he wants, and if that's what he wants to do, okay.
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  Speaker 1: But it may come to pass that Cam Jordan's best
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  Speaker 1: option is his only option, and that's the sign of
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  Speaker 1: the older reternity to Orleans on an incentive laden one
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  Speaker 1: year deal like you just played. And if you're the Saints,
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  Speaker 1: you'll absolutely bring Cam Jordan back on an incentive laden
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  Speaker 1: one year deal. But that may not be something he's interested.
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  Speaker 1: If it's not, his time in New Worlds may well
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  Speaker 1: be over.