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Former Saints OL: "It's Time" For Rebuild In New Orleans | Does It Start With Cutting Derek Carr? · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints have their head coach and he is
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  Speaker 1: Kellen Moore hiring his staff, next up is going to
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  Speaker 1: be roster cuts. Saints are some fifty one million dollars
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  Speaker 1: over the salary cap. You all know that number. So
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  Speaker 1: they have work to do. And what's interesting is to me, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: whenever you start to look at all the NFL insiders, right,
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  Speaker 1: all these people who cover the NFL nationally, for the
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  Speaker 1: big networks that are well connected, when all of them
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  Speaker 1: start saying the same things, it's when you know that's
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  Speaker 1: rooted in some reality. Dan Graziano over at ESPN looked
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  Speaker 1: at the cap situation for all thirty two NFL teams
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  Speaker 1: with the Saints. He writes, feels like the Saints are
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  Speaker 1: here every year having a slash and slash just to
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  Speaker 1: get under the cap. Projected fifty million over the cap
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  Speaker 1: or so talks about the restructures. He notes Derek Carr
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  Speaker 1: and how they could save thirty million dollars if he's
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  Speaker 1: a post June first cut. Then also says watch Cameron
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  Speaker 1: Jordan beloved Saints, but turns thirty six in July, one
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  Speaker 1: year left on his contract, carrying a cap number for
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  Speaker 1: roughly twenty million dollars. You could extend him to save
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  Speaker 1: some money, but that probably doesn't make sense. So could
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  Speaker 1: you designate him as a post June first cut and
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  Speaker 1: save eleven million dollars? That's what they could do there
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  Speaker 1: with Cameron Jordan. Then over at NFL dot com. This
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  Speaker 1: is at NFL dot com again, the National Football League's
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  Speaker 1: website NFL dot com, they post this long list of
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  Speaker 1: guys who could be potential cap cuts, guys like Deebo
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  Speaker 1: Samuel from the forty nine ers, Marshaw, and Lattimore with Washington,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's one worth keeping an eye on because
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  Speaker 1: the Saints. The Saints got a third round pick for
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  Speaker 1: Latimore and as bad as New Orleans has been in
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  Speaker 1: these types of situations. That feels like one man, that's
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  Speaker 1: highway robbery. You sent a player who was injured at
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  Speaker 1: the time, you traded him to Washington. He was junk
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  Speaker 1: for them this year. And respect to Marshaw Lattimore. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't do anything wrong in New Orleans. He was a
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  Speaker 1: good player for the Saints. He's just clearly on the
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  Speaker 1: back nine of his career and maybe closer to the
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  Speaker 1: clubhouse than the turn and might get cut after playing
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  Speaker 1: less than half a season in Washington and being abused
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  Speaker 1: in the NFC Championship game by AJ Brown. But they
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  Speaker 1: also mentioned Cameron Jordan, so that's another one. So Gradiano
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  Speaker 1: mentioned Cameron Jordan the NFL dot com website there looking
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  Speaker 1: at players that could be cut, have Cam Jordan on
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  Speaker 1: the list. The very next player on the list could
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  Speaker 1: be cut, Derek Carr. I mean, you start to see
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  Speaker 1: these commonalities that are out there. And oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: David on Yamada also on the list as a guy
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  Speaker 1: that could be cut. Another former Saint right there. And
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  Speaker 1: it's also worth noting that they do list Taysom Hill
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  Speaker 1: as a player that could very well be cut. In
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  Speaker 1: this period as well. You look at they're very they're
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  Speaker 1: common underlying factors aging expensive players. If you need to
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  Speaker 1: get cheaper and younger, you move on from your aging
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  Speaker 1: expensive players. We had James Hurst on with us and
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  Speaker 1: our number one again, a former Saint who came to
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans in twenty twenty, which was Drew Brees's last
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  Speaker 1: season when they were still very actively trying to win
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  Speaker 1: now with Drew Brees, and I asked him if he's
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  Speaker 1: if internally they were aware of the of the cap situation,
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  Speaker 1: how bad it was. If the players internally were aware
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  Speaker 1: of all this.
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  Speaker 2: You know, not much. A lot of the times in
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  Speaker 2: the locker room, the cap situation was very personal to
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  Speaker 2: each player because the truth of the matter is we're
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  Speaker 2: all competing over the same dollars in that salary cap. So, however,
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  Speaker 2: I do know that that everyone was aware of it.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone was aware that it was keeping us from going
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  Speaker 2: out and signing, you know, a big splash free agent signing.
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  Speaker 2: They knew that, and for a while there that was
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  Speaker 2: okay because we felt like we had everyone in the
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  Speaker 2: building at those big time important dispositions to get the
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  Speaker 2: job done. But also, I think you've seen that shift
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. I think maybe the last two years,
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  Speaker 2: maybe three years, you've seen us missing players at those
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  Speaker 2: those hallmark positions that are real game changers.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been four years since you made the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: And Hurst also and I would highly recommend you go
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  Speaker 1: check out this entire interview. Who is fantastic today? But
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he said, in no uncertain terms, I love
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  Speaker 1: I love when you can get guys who are recently
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  Speaker 1: finished playing, who still have an intimate awareness of the
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  Speaker 1: current roster, the coaching staff, the front office, not just
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  Speaker 1: the team they played for, with the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: league as well, because they're so closely removed from it,
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  Speaker 1: and then they'll give you candor. And that's what Herst
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  Speaker 1: did today when I asked him about is it time
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  Speaker 1: to hit the full reset PLT.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's time with the lack of success in
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  Speaker 2: a weak division in the past three seasons, with a
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  Speaker 2: quarterback who's on a really limiting contract for the team.
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  Speaker 2: We've tried the restructuring, right, We've done it, But I
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  Speaker 2: think it's time you've got a new head coach who
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  Speaker 2: would love to establish himself and make a name for
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  Speaker 2: himself as a successful head coach as an offensive guy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure he wants a new quarterback. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback is the hinge position right now for the Saints.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot going on. They have great draft capital
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  Speaker 2: this year, and I think we need to utilize that
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  Speaker 2: and understand that this is not an easy situation for
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  Speaker 2: any head coach. Brian Bill Belichick could walk into the
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  Speaker 2: building and not necessarily have a ton of success just
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  Speaker 2: because of the current situation of the team and the
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  Speaker 2: cap structure.
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  Speaker 1: And you got a guy right there and James starts
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  Speaker 1: telling your point blankets time like you got a young coach,
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  Speaker 1: commit to him, hit the reset button and move on.
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  Speaker 1: It's tough to do for your veteran players when you
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  Speaker 1: have a limited window to win and you know you've
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  Speaker 1: got only so many not just in the Saints era,
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  Speaker 1: I mean because your career is only so long, and
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  Speaker 1: not everybody's going to be super blessed to be drafted
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  Speaker 1: by the Chiefs or the Eagles in this situation where
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  Speaker 1: you know you're going to a really good team that's
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  Speaker 1: going to compete win. The Saints are nowhere close to
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  Speaker 1: that right now. And the more they carry on with
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  Speaker 1: this charade of pretending like they're a contender. The further
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  Speaker 1: removes you get from actually being one.