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Stack or Shed Ep.4 Saints edition · Football Junkies podcast

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  Hey everybody, this is your GM, your back row
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  dom, it's your GM Kale who currently is not on
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  the team right now, but don't you worry about
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  it. Here to bring you episode 4 of the Stack
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  and Shed series, but this time we're talking
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  about the Saints, alright? Now for all of you
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  who don't know, we're covering all 32 teams,
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  so nobody is going to be neglected, okay? Now
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  we're going to cover a few different areas, and
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  those areas are what went wrong, what do they
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  need, stack or shed, their draft picks, one move
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  I would do in their cap space. So for all my
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  Saints fans, buckle up. It's going to be a little
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  bit controversial, but just follow with me. Let's
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  get into it. All right, let's get into it. So
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  what went wrong in the Saints season? And I will
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  venture to say it was an inconsistent offense.
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  Now, coming into the season, we all knew that
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  the Saints had undergone a lot of change. For
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  starters, they just hired Kellen Moore, Derek
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  Carr just retired, and they were starting to
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  give Spencer Rattler an opportunity. So I don't
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  think nobody had a high expectation for this
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  offense. However, we have to highlight that this
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  offense doesn't have a lot to work with. Sure,
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  you have Chris Alave and Alvin Kamara, but those
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  are only two people. Did anybody expect Tyler
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  Shuck to come in and light it up as a rookie?
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  Did anybody expect Spencer Rattler to light it
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  up? No. Now, according to Sumer Sports. Spencer
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  Rattler started in 8 games and played in 9 games,
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  and his stat line was 257 attempts for 174 completions,
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  1 ,586 passing yards, 8 touchdowns, 5 interceptions,
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  6 .2 yards per attempt, and a 67 .7 completion
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  percentage. Tyler Shucks started in 9 games and
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  played in 11 games. His stat line was 327 attempts
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  for 221 completions, 2 ,384 passing yards, 10
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  touchdowns, touchdowns, 6 interceptions, 7 .3
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  yards per attempt, and a 67 .6 completion percentage.
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  Now, when we look at their offensive rankings,
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  they had the 23rd ranked offense, and they averaged
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  18 points per game, 313 .6 yards per game, 5
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  yards per play, and 28 touchdowns. They were
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  13th in passing offense, and they averaged 219
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  .3 passing yards per game, 5 .8 passing yards
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  per game, and 19 passing touchdowns. They were
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  13th in rushing offense, and they averaged 94
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  .5 three rushing yards per game, 3 .7 rushing
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  yards per play, and nine rushing touchdowns.
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  Now, what do the Saints need? And that is more
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  offensive production. And the two ways that you
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  can go about that is by figuring out who's going
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  to be your franchise quarterback and bringing
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  in offensive weapons. By making these investments,
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  you're increasing the floor and ceiling of this
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  offense while assessing both Tyler Shuck and
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  Spencer Rattler. Because my belief is this. The
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  only way that you can truly assess your quarterback
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  room is by investing into your quarterback room.
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  And the way that you make that investment is
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  by surrounding them with weapons. and when you
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  do this you're also minimizing the margin of
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  error these quarterbacks have so now they can't
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  say oh i wasn't put in the right situation to
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  be successful oh i wasn't given enough weapons
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  in order to truly showcase my skills because
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  why the organization made every single effort
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  to make all the investments they need to make
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  into you in order to see if you are the franchise
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  guy now with that being said the question we
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  all need to ask ourselves is stack or shed and
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  i will eventually say stack and the reason The
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  reason why I say that is because this team has
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  some pieces. All they have to do is just continue
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  to build off of it. Now, I'm not saying this
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  team is going to take a significant leap like
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  how the Commanders did where they went to the
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  NFC Championship, but what I am saying is this.
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  They have some building blocks. All the Saints
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  have to do is just continue to build off of it
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  and continue to make the right decisions. And
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  please, for the love of God, clean your books.
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  Why is it that every single year this team continues
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  to nickel and dime, penny and pinch every single
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  contract just to be in cap compliance? If you're
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  having to do that every single year and you're
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  not a contender, something's wrong. Whoever's
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  giving out these contracts needs to be fired
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  immediately because there's no way under the
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  sun that you're continuing to be over the cap
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  every single year. And when we look at their
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  draft picks, they have their first, their second,
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  their third, two fourth round picks, two fifth
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  round picks, and a sixth round pick, which isn't
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  bad, right? But just hear me out for a moment,
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  Saints fans. Would you be open to the idea of
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  trading down just a little bit? Now, I'm not
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  saying you go from the eighth pick to the 22nd
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  pick, but maybe if you trade down to maybe the
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  12th or the 15th or maybe the 16th pick of the
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  draft, you're still in a really good spot. Because
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  let's be honest here. the upper part of the draft
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  is inflated. In previous draft classes, the top
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  part of the draft is usually where the creme
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  de la creme players are at, right? Not in this
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  draft class. I truly believe that the middle
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  part of the draft is where a lot of the good
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  players to maybe great players are going to be
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  drafted. We all know that Fernando Mendoza is
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  going to be drafted by the Raiders. That's a
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  given, right? But what's gonna happen afterwards?
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  Because I guarantee you the player that you really
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  want would still be available if you traded down
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  just a little bit. Because what we're seeing
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  in this draft class is that positions that teams
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  usually don't value very high are gonna have
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  to be valued high. Case in point, safety, for
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  instance, right? Caleb Downs is regarded as the
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  best safety in this draft class. Do you really
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  think someone like the Jets is gonna take him
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  with the second overall pick in this draft? Especially
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  when you realize that safety has one of the highest
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  miss rates out of all the positions you can draft
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  in the first round. Now, the only safety that
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  I can remember that was drafted very high was
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  Sean Taylor. Outside of him, Ed Reed wasn't drafted
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  high. Troy Palomaro wasn't drafted high. All
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  the great safeties were not drafted that high.
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  So if I'm the Saints, I'm trading down just a
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  little bit so I can acquire extra draft capital
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  that I can use in either this draft class, the
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  27 draft class, or trade for a player. Now, the
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  one move that I would do if I was the Saints
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  GM is draft an offensive player. And the reason
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  why I say that is because outside of Chris Alave
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  and Alvin Kamara, what else do you have? Now,
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  let's be honest here. In this draft class, you
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  have a lot of options at both receiver and tight
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  end. If you want to get a power slot this year,
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  you can go ahead and get it. If you want to get
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  you an X, you can go ahead and get it. If you
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  want to get you a Z, you can go ahead and get
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  it. If you want to get you a 6 '4 receiver that
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  is able to catch those 50 -50 contested balls,
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  you can go ahead and do it. Or you can pivot
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  and you can get you a really productive tight
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  end because remember, a young quarterback's best
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  friend is a really productive tight end. And
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  honestly speaking, the only tight end that you
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  really have that's been really productive is
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  Taysom Hill, and he's a Swiss Army knife. Now,
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  when we look at their cap situation, they are
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  negative 28 .7 million over the cap. Which if
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  we can be honest here, Mickey Loomis always finds
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  a way to be cap compliant. Usually he just nickels
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  and dimes every single contract like he does
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  every single year. I don't know how he does it.
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  I wish I can talk to his financial guy because
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  wow, that is just magical work that he is doing
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