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SHOCKING Saints Move Coming? | Former Vikings DL Visits New Orleans, Reunion With Brandon Staley? · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: the calendar June second. When we talk NFL, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times we talk in terms of post June one designations.
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  Speaker 1: I will way over simplify this, but contractually a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times for teams to move on from a player,
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  Speaker 1: they get cap relief when they do so in a
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  Speaker 1: post June one designation. That is to surpass the start
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  Speaker 1: of the league year so as not to be able
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  Speaker 1: to get out from under that contract before the year
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  Speaker 1: the league year starts. If you sign a bad deal,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna bear the weight of that. So, for example,
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  Speaker 1: the Saints trying to get within cap compliance players that
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  Speaker 1: had a post June one designation where the cap never dropped.
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  Speaker 1: You have to wait until June first, to move on
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  Speaker 1: from those players that didn't give you cap relief early.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that made sense. I way oversimplified it.
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  Speaker 1: Just suffice to say this is a time in the
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  Speaker 1: calendar when a lot of players become free agents, those
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  Speaker 1: that were post June one designations, and among them is
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  Speaker 1: defensive lineman Jonathan Bullard. And according to Mike Garofola, the
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints hosted Jonathan Bullard on a visit here
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  Speaker 1: Monday in New Orleans. Garret Fullan notes he was the
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  Speaker 1: start of the past three seasons with the Vikings, and
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  Speaker 1: Bullard has a history with Brandon Staley. The two were
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  Speaker 1: together in twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen with the Chicago Bears.
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  Speaker 1: So this is an interesting one as the Saints continue
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  Speaker 1: to try to remake a defense which was among the
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  Speaker 1: worst in the NFL a season ago in every major
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  Speaker 1: statistical category. And I'm not going to tell you that
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Bullard, thirty one years old, that's the missing link.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's going to get New Orleans back to being
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  Speaker 1: a real dominant defense. But what I can tell you
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  Speaker 1: about Bullard is there's a lot of things here that
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  Speaker 1: make sense. And most notably, it's what the Saints have
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  Speaker 1: started to do on the defensive line since Brandon Staley
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  Speaker 1: has come in, and in part a big part of
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  Speaker 1: it is remaking physically your defensive line. Remember New Orleans
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  Speaker 1: went out and traded with New England to bring Devon
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  Speaker 1: Gotsyaw to New Orleans got Yaw six', three three point.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty The saints went and Drafted texas defensive Tackle Vernon
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  Speaker 1: broughton six,' four three h five Played for Texas then
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  Speaker 1: Texas now saints defensive Line Coach. Bo davis now you're
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  Speaker 1: Looking At jonathan bullard six' three. Two, ninety one first
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  Speaker 1: little guy that could be big on the inside or athletic.
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  Speaker 1: On the outside it is a shift from what the
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  Speaker 1: former defensive staff wanted, on the, Interior For example colin saunders,
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  Speaker 1: six foot, three, twenty four. Short stockier guy this is
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  Speaker 1: a change just in structure of how you want to
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  Speaker 1: build your defensive line and in bringing in A, guy
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  Speaker 1: like bullard for he, hasn't signed yet but in bringing A,
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  Speaker 1: guy like bullard it's another Illustration Of what brandon staley
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  Speaker 1: wants from the interior of. His DEFENSIVE line now I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned That staley and bullard were together in twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: And Twenty eighteen well staley was the outside linebackers Coach
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  Speaker 1: for the bears and During That time jay rogers was the.
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  Speaker 1: Defensive Line coach jay rodgers who is now Coaching With
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  Speaker 1: The new orleans saints as well so as. The edge
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  Speaker 1: Coach so whether bullard would work with the edges or,
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  Speaker 1: ON the interior, i don't know but. It's very CLEAR just,
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  Speaker 1: like i mean if you want, MAYBE a, Cop I
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  Speaker 1: mean sean payton Has Made the Denver Broncos Like New
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  Speaker 1: orleans saints west with all The Guys from new orleans
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  Speaker 1: in his past that he's brought With him to denver
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff and. On the roster so you look for
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  Speaker 1: guys that fit, the size mold knowledge ability of what you,
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  Speaker 1: want to run and you bring him with you because
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  Speaker 1: there's familiarity. With it all it can help, with a
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  Speaker 1: transition but it's also players that you know and no
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  Speaker 1: can execute. What you Want so if Staley's looking at
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  Speaker 1: bullard and, bringing, HIM in going i had that guy
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  Speaker 1: for Two. Years in chicago he Knows defensively what i'm.
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  Speaker 1: TRYING to accomplish i, want that guy and at thirty,
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  Speaker 1: one years old if you can bring him in and,
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  Speaker 1: DO so affordably i say you. Absolutely do it because,
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  Speaker 1: Keep in mind bullard is. A free agent he's a
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  Speaker 1: year ago send a one Year. Deal with, minnesota so
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  Speaker 1: remember there's two things we always talk about contractual you're
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  Speaker 1: financially when it comes to. Acquiring a player one is
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  Speaker 1: do you have to give up assets to? Get the
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  Speaker 1: player and to what's it? Going to cost so this
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  Speaker 1: isn't a situation. Where you're trading bullard a year ago
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  Speaker 1: signed a one Year. Deal with minnesota in, twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: That deal's expired he's an. Unrestricted free agent he can
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  Speaker 1: sign with. Any team Anywhere so. That's number one you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to. Trade for him you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: give up an asset. To get him he's. A free,
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  Speaker 1: agent number two what? Would, it cost well last year in,
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  Speaker 1: Twenty twenty four bullet signed, a one year two point
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  Speaker 1: twenty five million Dollars deal with minnesota for a veteran
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  Speaker 1: player that has been a starter the past couple Of.
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  Speaker 1: Seasons in minnesota, by the way to get a, starting
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  Speaker 1: caliber player a veteran player at thirty one that knows your.
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  Speaker 1: Defensive coordinator scheme the defense coordinator, clearly likes him interested and.
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  Speaker 1: Bring him in you don't have, to trade forum so
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  Speaker 1: you have to give up an asset, to get him
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  Speaker 1: and you can get him for roughly two and a
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  Speaker 1: quarter million if you just if you sign him the
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  Speaker 1: same deal they got, A Year Ago Jeck Jeck. Jack
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  Speaker 1: jeck chet, bring him in let him try to earn. A,
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  Speaker 1: roster SPOT maybe and i don't know what the guaranteed
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  Speaker 1: money would be, on that deal but maybe he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make the team and you get him a relatively, minimal
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  Speaker 1: signing bonus, whatever it is and so he comes and
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  Speaker 1: tries to, make the roster but there would be no
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  Speaker 1: guarantee because right now that's actually a. Pretty Crowded room
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  Speaker 1: the saints on their roster have. Sixteen defensive linemen seven
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  Speaker 1: of those sixteen are listed, as defensive tackles so you've got.
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  Speaker 1: A crowded room but this is clearly a veteran player
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  Speaker 1: that your, defensive coordinator likes and if you can get
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  Speaker 1: him and, get him affordably why wouldn't? You do it,
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  Speaker 1: in this situation as you continue to try to, rebuild a,
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  Speaker 1: defense in particular a defensive line that at one point
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  Speaker 1: was a strength, of the defense but now it. WAS a,
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  Speaker 1: weakness i mean you were thirty FIRST in the nfl
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  Speaker 1: in rush defense. A season ago, if you know if
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  Speaker 1: you can get a guy that helps further fortify, your
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  Speaker 1: rush defense that's going to. Make YOU better. BECAUSE i
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  Speaker 1: can i will continue to contend That When The new
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  Speaker 1: orleans saysts continued to finish top TEN in the nfl
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  Speaker 1: in Total Defense, under dennis allen the lynchpin the. Center
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  Speaker 1: of that it was that stretch of nearly Sixty Games
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  Speaker 1: when new orleans did not allow a one. Hundred yard
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  Speaker 1: rusher they were exceptional at the point of attack in
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  Speaker 1: limiting teams from. Running the, football last, Year snow coincidence
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  Speaker 1: saints were at the BOTTOM of the nfl. In total
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  Speaker 1: defense they were thirty FIRST, in the nfl and rush
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  Speaker 1: defense puts too much pressure on the back end, of
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  Speaker 1: your defense and especially where you had. An injured pulse
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  Speaker 1: in the Debo You, traded marshaun lattimore you didn't have
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  Speaker 1: Your Safeties like jordan howden step up like you'd. Hoped
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  Speaker 1: they Would You had will harris there as. A FREE
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  Speaker 1: agent but i think Anybody's Looking at will harris As
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  Speaker 1: Like a pro. Bowl caliber player so. Build inside out
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  Speaker 1: they continue to invest in the offensive line, in the
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  Speaker 1: draft continue to invest. In the trenches you. Build inside
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  Speaker 1: out it's what they. Be doing here so for, ALL
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  Speaker 1: the reasons i like it if in fact they can get.
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  Speaker 1: A Deal Done, but Jonathan Bullard, former florida gator spent
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  Speaker 1: the past Few years In Minnesota in New orleans on
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  Speaker 1: monday for a Visit with the saints see if they
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  Speaker 1: can get. A deal done, but you know it often
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  Speaker 1: goes if you want to, sign the player you don't
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  Speaker 1: let them leave without. Signing the contract so we should know. Sooner,
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  Speaker 1: than later oh, by the way the one other thing
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  Speaker 1: is how you have the, roster spots well because because
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  Speaker 1: Of the, post june one this Is When both Derek
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  Speaker 1: Carr and ryan ramsick's retirement. Will be processed so when
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  Speaker 1: those two retirements, are formally processed that would free up
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  Speaker 1: two roster spots which you. Could then fill that's why
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  Speaker 1: you'd have a roster spot available For someone like bullard
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  Speaker 1: and then another clearly that they would add to get
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  Speaker 1: back to ninety before you head into your training camp