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Saints Have NO INTEREST In QB Aaron Rodgers | Why That's A HUGE Mistake For New Orleans QB Futures · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: Jeff Duncan had a report over at NOLA dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Times Picky Uni tweeted about it, as well as about
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. He noted, no surprise here, but Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: never really was a consideration for the Saints in wake
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  Speaker 1: of the Derek Carr retirement. At their current stages, they
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  Speaker 1: don't make sense for him, and he doesn't make sense
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  Speaker 1: for them. Again, a report from Jeff Duncan. I can't
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  Speaker 1: say that that's terribly surprising, but I'm probably gonna zig
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  Speaker 1: on this when most are gonna zag, and I promise
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  Speaker 1: you I'm not doing this just for the sake of
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  Speaker 1: being a contrarian. I would actually really like the idea
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  Speaker 1: of Aaron Rodgers to the New Orleans Saints for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of reasons, and I will tell you primarily that
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  Speaker 1: reason is because of something Aaron Rodgers was pretty vocal
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  Speaker 1: about whenever green Bay drafted Jordan Love. He recalled when
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  Speaker 1: green Bay drafted him, and now Brett Farr maybe wasn't
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  Speaker 1: the best veteran leader to he to Aaron Rodgers, and
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  Speaker 1: as a result, he didn't want to treat Jordan Love
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  Speaker 1: that way. He wanted to welcome into the NFL Mentorman
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  Speaker 1: help him. And I look at the Saints current quarterback
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  Speaker 1: situation and you got three guys on the roster that
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  Speaker 1: have a combined zero NFL wins. Aaron Rodgers has won
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  Speaker 1: more MVPs than they collectively have wins. He's won a
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  Speaker 1: super Bowl, He's a future Hall of Famer. I understand
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  Speaker 1: fully all of the everything that goes along with Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers going on McAfee's show, the Silent retreats, all the stuff,
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  Speaker 1: the cleansing, all of it right, different kind of cat
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  Speaker 1: went to Berkeley. I get it, not here to judge game.
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  Speaker 1: Jordan went to Berkeley. He's been five So I understand
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  Speaker 1: all of the I understand all of the detractors. But
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  Speaker 1: I would also look and say, can we objectively look
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  Speaker 1: at what we what we think, we feel, and how
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  Speaker 1: he might actually be perceived in a locker room, not
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  Speaker 1: by front office or anything like that. But I look
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  Speaker 1: at Aaron Rodgers and I say, here's a guy that, yes,
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  Speaker 1: it is forty one years old, and I do not
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  Speaker 1: think is going to win a Super Bowl. So, just
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  Speaker 1: to be very clear, I'm not suggesting that for New
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  Speaker 1: Orleans bringing in Aaron Rodgers would make you a contender.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that because I don't think that's the case.
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  Speaker 1: And to be very clear, I think if the New
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  Speaker 1: Orleans say, if Aaron Rodgers wants to go still play
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  Speaker 1: to win, which I presume is the only way he
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  Speaker 1: would play, he would go to some place like Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: where you had a ready made playoff roster, which New
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  Speaker 1: Orleans does not have. It's not my opinion, that's the
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  Speaker 1: shared opinion of everybody. You can look at Vegas, who
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  Speaker 1: has the Saints pegged over under four and a half wins.
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  Speaker 1: You bring in Aaron Rodgers, Let's say he's good for
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  Speaker 1: three wins. Okay, so now you're at seven and a half.
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  Speaker 1: So he's good for four wins, you're an eight and
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  Speaker 1: a half, You're still not a playoff team. So Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers doesn't coming it would not make you a playoff team.
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  Speaker 1: He played seventeen games last year for the Jets, they
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  Speaker 1: won five games. That's not why you would bring in
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  Speaker 1: someone like this to bring to make you a contender.
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  Speaker 1: It is strictly to provide a bridge so you don't
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  Speaker 1: put so much on a young quarterback room so early,
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  Speaker 1: and also to have them give them the opportunity to learn.
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  Speaker 1: For I'm an MVP, a Hall of Famer. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of the same reason why you brought in Jameis Winston
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  Speaker 1: to sit behind Drew Brees for a year. Come sit,
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  Speaker 1: watch learn, be better for it, and maybe that could
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  Speaker 1: be the solution. Now, clearly the Saints aren't interested. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way the financial component works as well, Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers said he would be willing to play this year
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  Speaker 1: for ten million bucks. Considering what you owe Derek Carr
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  Speaker 1: not only this year, but the thirty one million that'll
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  Speaker 1: be on the cap for next year in dead money,
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  Speaker 1: having a starting quarterback Aaron Rodgers ilt for ten million
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  Speaker 1: bucks makes a lot of sense. Again, I want to
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  Speaker 1: be so clear. I'm not arguing go get Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: because it's going to help you win. I'm saying I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be opposed to Aaron Rodgers because it stabilizes you
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  Speaker 1: and provides a bridge while you rebuild the roster, and
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  Speaker 1: you don't have all like you don't potentially ruin your
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  Speaker 1: young quarterbacks by dumping so much on them so early.
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  Speaker 1: You let them do what Rogers had the ability to do,
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  Speaker 1: which was sit behind Brett Fahr. With Jordan Love had
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  Speaker 1: the ability to do, which is sit behind Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: with Patrick Mahomes had the ability to do was to
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  Speaker 1: sit for a year behind Alex Smith and then take over.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, in his second year as a starter,
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  Speaker 1: they won a Super Bowl. I don't know what the
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  Speaker 1: future is gonna hold with Tyler Shuck. What I do believe, though,
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  Speaker 1: is if you have the luxury of not putting so
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  Speaker 1: much on a rookie quarterback from jump, that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's why I've advocated for the Saints bringing in a
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  Speaker 1: veteran quarterback. And maybe it's Teddy Bridgewater, or maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, or maybe you wait and see it, or
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  Speaker 1: maybe you trade for Jamis Winston because they've got Jamis
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  Speaker 1: Russ and they drafted Jackson Dart. All three of those
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  Speaker 1: guys aren't gonna be on the roster week one. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's Cleveland where they got Flacco and Deshaun Watson and
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  Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett and they drafted Dylan Gabriel and Shoulder. All
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  Speaker 1: five of those guys aren't making the team. Maybe the
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  Speaker 1: better option will be somewhere down the line of veteran
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  Speaker 1: quarterback like one of the ones I just mentioned, becomes
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  Speaker 1: a free agent and you can add them, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's a better solution for you. Maybe it is. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's Teddy Bridgewater. But I wouldn't slam the door on
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers just because he does darkness, retreats and goes
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  Speaker 1: on McAfee and you don't like him. I think there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things chew like about the possibility of
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  Speaker 1: of adding Aaron Rodgers, but according to Jeff Ungkin's report,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like that's a possibility never was a possibility,
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  Speaker 1: although I think it's something they probably should have considered,
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  Speaker 1: and if you can make it work, should do. But
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  Speaker 1: if Aaron Rodgers is looking to win. If he's going
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  Speaker 1: to keep playing because he wants to win, New Orleans
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  Speaker 1: definitely is the best seat for him because New Orleans
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  Speaker 1: isn't winning much of anything in twenty twenty five. It's
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  Speaker 1: just about hitting that reset button organizationally to get toward
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  Speaker 1: twenty six and beyond.