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RANT ALERT! Saints GM Mickey Loomis SILENT On Derek Carr Retirement | Why Won't He Answer Question? · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: and uh Kellen Moore Ellenmore were at the Saints Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame golf tournament. And I'll remind you that we
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  Speaker 1: haven't heard Mickey Loomis speak since Derek Carr's retirement. So
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  Speaker 1: the last time we heard from Old Mick was during
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  Speaker 1: the draft. He gave the pre draft press conference and
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  Speaker 1: then of course after each day of the draft they spoke,
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  Speaker 1: but that was before Derek Carr retired, so at that
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  Speaker 1: point he wasn't answering questions about Derek's injury. And we
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  Speaker 1: haven't heard Mickey Loomis yet speak about Derek Carr's retirement.
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  Speaker 1: So pretty natural spot for the media who has an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to talk to the GM and the head coach
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  Speaker 1: on this day, a little more than a week after
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  Speaker 1: Derek Carr retired, to ask Mickey Loomis about Derek Carr's retirement,
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  Speaker 1: he had a lot to say.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't talked to you.
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  Speaker 1: Since the retirement announcement. Just how it unfolded, and you
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  Speaker 1: are reaching an amicable agreement.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think we've said everything that we
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  Speaker 2: need to say on that.
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  Speaker 3: Here, h.
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  Speaker 1: This is one sheet, two sheets, three sheets? Muse, I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking through it. Do I have any other notes here
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  Speaker 1: that for the show today? Muse? Is there anything I'm missing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at my notes. I don't see it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't see it now.
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  Speaker 3: I don't see him.
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  Speaker 1: No else my audio?
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  Speaker 3: Here is your live sheet?
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  Speaker 1: You got that right? That's this right here? Okay, got
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  Speaker 1: it run down? I don't have muse. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: the sheet where Mickey Loomis said everything that he needed
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  Speaker 1: to say on the Derek Carr retirement. I don't have that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have that? I don't have that over here? Well,
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy favor, let's let's uh, let's hop into Dolorey and
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  Speaker 1: crank that thing up to eighty eight and go back
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  Speaker 1: to April to twenty third of this year, at that
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  Speaker 1: pre draft press conference. This was again before the retirement,
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  Speaker 1: but this is when Mickey Loomis was asked about Derek
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  Speaker 1: Carr's injury.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just not gonna answer any more questions about Derek.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's this is a pre draft. If you
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  Speaker 2: have questions about the draft, then I'm more than happy
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  Speaker 2: to answer those, But in terms of the roster and
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  Speaker 2: and Derek, I'm not gonna answer any more questions about
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  Speaker 2: that today.
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  Speaker 1: Look, then they pressed him. They followed up that day.
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  Speaker 1: They're at the pre draft press conference.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, again, I'm not going to answer any questions about
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  Speaker 2: Derek at this time.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, So April twenty third, pre draft, not gonna
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  Speaker 1: answer any questions about Derek. And you remember what I said,
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  Speaker 1: I just look love the digital airmuse because everything is recorded.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't no hode. I can bite you an ass sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: but that's why you gotta be careful. Would I say
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  Speaker 1: that day were you here? You remember what I said?
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  Speaker 1: We got a audio recorded everywhere. If your stance is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be well it's a pre draft press conference, then
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  Speaker 1: you're never gonna say anything because the next time you're
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  Speaker 1: in front of the media, it's gonna be a week
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  Speaker 1: one press conference. It's an o TA press conference. It's
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  Speaker 1: a Saint Solive I'm only here to talk about the
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  Speaker 1: Saints Hall of Famers today, golf tournament like oh oh.
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  Speaker 1: But remember in that same press conference pre draft, he
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  Speaker 1: had no problem disclosing about the fifth year options for
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  Speaker 1: Chris Olave and Trevor Pennick. It's not that it's a
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  Speaker 1: pre draft press conference. It's a gump smack and Mick
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to answer the questions. And this is a
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  Speaker 1: thing that's a lot of fire onto everybody's behind when
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  Speaker 1: they listen to Mickey Loomis talk right now, because every
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  Speaker 1: time he speaks, it is a proverbial slap in your face.
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  Speaker 1: Because this is a man who is a public figure,
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  Speaker 1: who has a contractual obligation to meet with me with
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  Speaker 1: the media, and is continuously refusing to answer very legitimate
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  Speaker 1: questions about a very relevant situation. You're starting quarterback, who
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  Speaker 1: you paid one hundred and fifty million dollars to, who
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  Speaker 1: you've restructured not once but twice. Suddenly pops up with
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  Speaker 1: a shoulder injury. Things escalate and he retires his goofy
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  Speaker 1: brothers out there on car review videos in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: network doing his bidding for him, talking about how other
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  Speaker 1: teams were in interested potentially in Derek Carr, and how
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to do right by the Saints financially. And
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  Speaker 1: we haven't heard the Saints point of view yet from
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  Speaker 1: the general manager. We heard the head coach. What did
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  Speaker 1: Kellen Moore say last Saturday at Rookie Mining Camp. What
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  Speaker 1: did Kellen Morris say, Oh do we haven't? What did
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  Speaker 1: kell you don't have it? What did Kellen Moore say
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  Speaker 1: he did he didn't meet Derek Carr? Who did he say,
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  Speaker 1: handled all the conversation with Derek Carr? You don't worry
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  Speaker 1: about him, used to look for it. Just tell me
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  Speaker 1: who did Who did Kellen Moore say last Saturday handled
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  Speaker 1: all the conversations with Derek Carr and his reps Mickey Loomis.
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  Speaker 1: It was Mickey Loomis. So the man who handled all
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  Speaker 1: those conversations, all of them head coach remembers said he
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  Speaker 1: hadn't even met Derek Carr. They never met in person.
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  Speaker 1: The GM handled all the conversations. This is the first
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for the media to talk to the general manager
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  Speaker 1: since that went down? And what does the general manager say?
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  Speaker 1: Play it again? What does the general manager say when
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  Speaker 1: asked that very legitimate question.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think we've said everything that we
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  Speaker 2: need to say on that.
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  Speaker 1: We ain't said nothing. Dog you ain't said a word. Literally,
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  Speaker 1: you have not said a word no one to anybody publicly. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta go bug your house. Do I need to
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  Speaker 1: send Paul, who's as quiet as a church mouse? I
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  Speaker 1: just said, Paul through your doggy door, the wire tap
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  Speaker 1: your phone?
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  Speaker 2: Woo?
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  Speaker 1: What do I gotta do? What? Those those those the
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  Speaker 1: droids florid, those things that fly around. Everybody talking about drones.
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  Speaker 1: When there's drones in New Jersey, people were worried about,
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  Speaker 1: thinking it's like aliens or is it China? Rush out
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  Speaker 1: of the line. I don't watch the news, y'all worried about
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  Speaker 1: about drones. Send one of those to Mickey Loomis's house
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  Speaker 1: so we can fight. Maybe get some comment on the
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  Speaker 1: starting quarterback of your franchise retiring suddenly at thirty four
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  Speaker 1: years old. I mean, I am so as if you
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  Speaker 1: can't tell, I am so fed up with this guy.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the air of entitlement and superiority for someone
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  Speaker 1: who has no right whatsoever to carry such a perspective
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  Speaker 1: is nauseating every passing day, every passing day that this
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  Speaker 1: organization plunges closer and closer and closer to the earth.
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  Speaker 1: It's just further validation that the successes they had had
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  Speaker 1: virtually nothing to do with Mickey Loomis. This was Sean Payton,
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  Speaker 1: Drew Brees, and that's it, because as soon as those
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  Speaker 1: two guys were out the door, this thing went to
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  Speaker 1: hell in a handbasket and gum smack and Mick can't
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  Speaker 1: even talk to reporters and answer a legitimate question about
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  Speaker 1: Derek Carr's retirement. Now, he was also asked about a
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  Speaker 1: veteran quarterback. Very plausible question, a plausible scenario that could unfold.
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  Speaker 1: Your three quarterbacks have a combined zero NFL wins. There's
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  Speaker 1: been a lot of talk Teddy Bridgewater, Aaron Rodgers, maybe
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  Speaker 1: you make a trade for Jameis Winston. Could you bring
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  Speaker 1: in a veteran quarterback? Really legitimate question. Here's what Mick
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  Speaker 1: had to say, And I really can't answer that.
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  Speaker 2: Always answer the way we can improve and so great
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  Speaker 2: that any differently than shut up if there's a.
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  Speaker 1: Ken you the incine, what do you mean you can't
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  Speaker 1: answer that you're not giving away some bold strategy. You
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  Speaker 1: want to sign a veteran quarterback or not? Jack, it's
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  Speaker 1: a yes or a no. Look like, what do you
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  Speaker 1: think you're doing? Like your your competitive advance, your ace
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  Speaker 1: in the hole is that you might go sign Carson Wentz. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the NFC South is terrified. Kellen Moore was asked that question.
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  Speaker 1: At least he attempted a logical reply.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see how this whole thing progresses. Obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the roster is a very moving, dynamic thing throughout the
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  Speaker 3: whole off season process. And so right now we feel great.
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  Speaker 3: We feel like we've got some young guys. We're excited
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  Speaker 3: to just get him on the field and participate in
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  Speaker 3: the candle, but mostly be seven on seven. That'll be
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  Speaker 3: the only thing that you know, is full speed. That's
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  Speaker 3: just the way this thing is structured now in off
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  Speaker 3: season programs. And so we'll give those guys a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of opportunities. They'll be excited to see them get out there,
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  Speaker 3: learn grow, you know, make good plays, miss a few,
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  Speaker 3: and you know that's all about This whole process is about.
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  Speaker 1: The non denial denial. At least, at least Kellen Moore
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  Speaker 1: faked his way through a thirty one second answer. At
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  Speaker 1: least he faked his way through a thirty one second
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  Speaker 1: answer respectfully. I mean it, at least offer to bomb
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  Speaker 1: me breakfast, yum me. Mickey Loomis is just like get out, okay.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I always get these comments because we take
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  Speaker 1: my rants and we clip them and post them on
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  Speaker 1: TikTok and Instagram and all your reels and everything, and
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  Speaker 1: like every every single Saints related one, it's just me
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  Speaker 1: yelling about Mickey Loomis or Derek Carr or something now.
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  Speaker 1: And so if you ever go read the comments on it,
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  Speaker 1: they're like, man, don't you have anything good to say?
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  Speaker 1: You're so negative all the time, Like what what is
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  Speaker 1: there good to say?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Because I guarantee you that's going up right, Send that
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  Speaker 1: to Jesse. That's gonna go up. Yeah, it'll go viral.
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  Speaker 1: Good it should. I mean, nobody else seems to want
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  Speaker 1: to call out the lunacy of this organization, the completing
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  Speaker 1: competence of the general manager, and the unwillingness of the
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  Speaker 1: owner to do anything about it. So I'll keep calling
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  Speaker 1: him gum smack and mick her Grandma Gail, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: keep playing the stupid Ellen Moore cutt a million times.
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  Speaker 1: Ellen Moore, the owner of the team, at the introductory
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  Speaker 1: press conference, called the coach by the wrong name. Tell
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  Speaker 1: me this place is oozing competence right now. Give me
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  Speaker 1: a reason to believe there's a competent bunch in there
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  Speaker 1: that's going to fix this. Grandma Gayle seems sweet. I
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  Speaker 1: bet she makes a hell of a cobbler as far
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  Speaker 1: as managing the front office of an organization, considering where
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  Speaker 1: the Saints are right now, where the Pelicans are not
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  Speaker 1: super pumpent, but the directional Grandma Gale's got us going
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  Speaker 1: right now.