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REACTION: Rams 21, Saints 14 | Taysom Hill Lost For Season With ACL · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 2: In two car out of the shotgunt Alvin.
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  Speaker 3: Jewis, he's got pressure coming all.
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  Speaker 2: It brings Alvin to us right, takes the snap stands
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  Speaker 2: Now he's in trouble. Balls loose picked up by Valdez scantwin.
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  Speaker 2: But that's it.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously disappointing, you know, really, my biggest takeaway probably from
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  Speaker 3: this game is just when we didn't finish, we didn't
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  Speaker 3: finish drives, we didn't finish out the game, we didn't
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  Speaker 3: finish the second half very well. And that's the things
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  Speaker 3: we've been doing the last couple of games. So again
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna you're gonna be in football games, and he's
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  Speaker 3: won score games against good football teams at home. You
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  Speaker 3: gotta be we'll finish off. We did a lot of
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  Speaker 3: things in a game that we set out to do
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  Speaker 3: and played the game in a lot of ways that
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  Speaker 3: we wanted to, but we didn't execute in crunch time.
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  Speaker 1: Saints lose to the Rams twenty one to fourteen. They
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  Speaker 1: fall to four and eight on the season, just three
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  Speaker 1: and four at the Dome. It's such a conflicting loss.
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  Speaker 1: It's so weird to say it this way, but it's
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  Speaker 1: such a conflicting loss. You know, on Sunday Atlanta loses
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  Speaker 1: at home to the Chargers, and so a win, and
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  Speaker 1: you knew that when you kicked off against the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: So a win over the Rams would have put the
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  Speaker 1: Saints one game back in the lost column. Now I
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  Speaker 1: know they didn't have the tiebreaker, but one game back
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  Speaker 1: in the lost column with five to go, Like, if
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  Speaker 1: you win the game against the Rams on your home field,
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  Speaker 1: it is very much within reach. The division is very
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  Speaker 1: much up for grabs with five games to go, and
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  Speaker 1: all of the things that have plagued you or that
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  Speaker 1: plagued you during the seven game losing streak all reared
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  Speaker 1: their ugly head. You couldn't finish drives, your run defense
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  Speaker 1: in the second half was atrocious. No Eric McCoy, no
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  Speaker 1: Lucas Patrick, Nick SALDEVERI went down. We know Taysom got
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  Speaker 1: hurt at the end of the game as well, but
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  Speaker 1: all of the things that had been a problem during
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  Speaker 1: that losing streak all cropped up again, and that's a loss.
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  Speaker 1: So I said, it's conflicting. On one hand, it's conflicting
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  Speaker 1: because you found a way to win. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: New York this week to play a miserable Giants team
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  Speaker 1: in a very winnable game with a I mean a
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  Speaker 1: not likely but not impossible shot at the division. But
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  Speaker 1: now that you've lost, your playoff hopes for all intents
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  Speaker 1: and purposes are over. Mathematically, the Saints playoff odds they
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  Speaker 1: have dropped now to less than one percent. So with
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  Speaker 1: five games to go, and you're really three games back,
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  Speaker 1: with five to go, you've got a less than one
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  Speaker 1: percent probability of making the playoffs. So I know this
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  Speaker 1: team's gonna fight and play hard and try to win games.
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  Speaker 1: But really, right now you've turned the page, you look
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  Speaker 1: to the future. As for the game itself, the way
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  Speaker 1: it started is probably what's gonna get stuck in your
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  Speaker 1: craw at least for me. Anyway, you open the game
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  Speaker 1: with a twelve play drive, you can't finish with a touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: but you finish with the field goal. You get points.
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  Speaker 1: You're controlling the ball, you controlling the clock, and you
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  Speaker 1: get points. You're up three to nothing. Then boom, you
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  Speaker 1: force a three and out. One of my big concerns
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  Speaker 1: in this game was the Saints defense and their ability
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  Speaker 1: to stop the Rams pass offense. Well, a pass game
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  Speaker 1: that torched you a year ago, and now you're without
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  Speaker 1: Latimore on a debot, So you force a three and out.
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  Speaker 1: Then you get the ball and you go on a
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  Speaker 1: fourteen play drive and you actually get in the end
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  Speaker 1: zone man beautiful run by Alvin Kamara, power in his
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  Speaker 1: way into the end zone at the goal line, and
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  Speaker 1: then it's negated because Talisa Fuwongo was ineligible man downfield,
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  Speaker 1: which was no it wasn't a screen, there was no
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  Speaker 1: reason for him to be downfield. So the touchdown comes
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  Speaker 1: off the board. And then Trevor Penning gets an illegal
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  Speaker 1: chop block call, and then Blake Groupy misses a thirty
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  Speaker 1: six yard field goal, just his second miss of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Miss is a freaking chip shot. So fourteen play drive
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  Speaker 1: goes for nought and instead of being up ten to
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  Speaker 1: nothing and being a complete command of this game, you're
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  Speaker 1: up three to nothing and you've left the door open.
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  Speaker 1: It felt uncomfortable at that moment. Still, the defense was
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  Speaker 1: really good in the first half. You held Stafford to
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  Speaker 1: just twenty three passing yards in the first half. That
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  Speaker 1: was the first time the Rams had been shut out
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  Speaker 1: in the half in the regular season under Sean mcvayh Like,
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  Speaker 1: let that sink in. The last time the Rams were
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  Speaker 1: shut out in the first half of a regular season
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  Speaker 1: game was twenty sixteen, incidentally against Atlanta. Now, the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: shut him out in the first half of that Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl when the Pats won at thirteen to three. But
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  Speaker 1: I mean, your defense, which had been much maligned, was
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  Speaker 1: playing great in the first half against a formidable offense.
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  Speaker 1: It's now healthy. But similarly, as impressive as the defense
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  Speaker 1: was in the first half, they were equal parts disappointing
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  Speaker 1: in the second half. These were the Rams second half drives, touchdown, punt, touchdown, touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: end of the game. I mean, Matthew Stafford threw for
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  Speaker 1: twenty three yards in the first half through for one
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  Speaker 1: sixty in the second half. I mean, everything you did
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  Speaker 1: well in the first half unraveled defensively in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: Credit Matthew Stafford and Sean McVay for making the necessary adjustments,
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  Speaker 1: whatever they were, but they flipped that switch in the
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  Speaker 1: second half, even after you tied the game with a
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  Speaker 1: two point conversion. You let them go right down the
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  Speaker 1: field on you to take the lead right back, which
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  Speaker 1: was so disappointing. Man eight play, fifty six yard drive
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  Speaker 1: just under three minutes off the clock. I mean they they,
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  Speaker 1: I mean they just snatched the momentum right back from you.
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  Speaker 1: One positive is Alvin Kamara. This is obviously mostly lost
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  Speaker 1: season and there's not a whole lot to celebrate. But
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't notice Kamara twenty three rushes one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twelve yards for Alvin now, he is on the
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  Speaker 1: season just under nine hundred yards. He's at eight to
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  Speaker 1: ninety four rushing on the season, means Alvin Kamara is
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and six yards away from his first ever
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  Speaker 1: one thousand yard rushing seat. He's never had a thousand
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  Speaker 1: yard season in the NFL, so he is he is
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  Speaker 1: one hundred in six yards away from his first thousand
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  Speaker 1: yard season. Which he will, no doubt achieve, and that's
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  Speaker 1: great to see. You know, Kamara is a guy who
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  Speaker 1: deserves a tremendous amount of respect. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: guys who, when they wanted contracts, would have held out,
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  Speaker 1: would have played hardball. Kamara played and even as things
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  Speaker 1: with this team unraveled in a seven game losing streak,
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  Speaker 1: he's continued to come out and play his best football
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  Speaker 1: of his career and now he's in line for his
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  Speaker 1: first thousand yard season of his career, which is awesome.
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  Speaker 1: So that's something on an individual level to cheer for.
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  Speaker 1: Or you know, they play out the string here with
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  Speaker 1: five games to go. I'd be remiss if I didn't
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  Speaker 1: mention Taysom Hill's injury, which is probably the single biggest
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  Speaker 1: takeaway of the game. Darren Rizzy did confirm on Monday
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  Speaker 1: what we all feared Sunday when when Tasom Hill was carted.
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  Speaker 3: Off in two card No no, no, Taysom he got
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  Speaker 3: a knee injury. He's going to be looks like it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be season ending for him, unfortunately. Uh you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think could probably get a second opinion on some
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  Speaker 3: of the stuff, but it looks like he'll be season ending.
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  Speaker 1: He was asked to follow up his an ACL didn't specify,
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  Speaker 1: but Taysom Hill done for the year. Now, you know
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  Speaker 1: Taysom missed. There there's two parts of this. There's what
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  Speaker 1: it means for this year's team and then what it
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  Speaker 1: means for Taysom's future. And we'll delve into this more
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  Speaker 1: as we go along here. But you know, Taysom missed
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  Speaker 1: three games earlier in the season due to injury, and
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  Speaker 1: your offense went in the tank. The injuries on the
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  Speaker 1: interior of your offensive line and Taysom Hill starting with
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  Speaker 1: you know, the second half of that game against Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: just showed how much of an issue you had. And
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  Speaker 1: now without McCoy, without Lucas Patrick Saldeverari gets hurt during
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  Speaker 1: the game, you're right back where you were on the
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  Speaker 1: interior of your line that Taysom gets hurt. So it
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  Speaker 1: feels like all the progress that you felt like you
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  Speaker 1: had made you just reverted to where you were. And
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  Speaker 1: as for Taysom thirty four years old, contractually, I would
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  Speaker 1: don't need to get into too many of the numbers now,
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  Speaker 1: suffice to say it wouldn't make sense for the Saints
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  Speaker 1: to move on from Taysom after this season. He's gonna
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  Speaker 1: have a long road of recovery ahead of him. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's December now, so you guys come back from acls,
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  Speaker 1: from knee injuries. But he's gonna have a long road
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  Speaker 1: to road of recovery. To think he might be available
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  Speaker 1: for the beginning of the season, and that would be
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  Speaker 1: in his age thirty five season. How much more does
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  Speaker 1: Tasoum have in the tank. We marvel at him and
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  Speaker 1: what he's been able to do, but it is a
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  Speaker 1: legitimate question right now what his future holds in New
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  Speaker 1: Orleans and in the NFL period. You know, I expect
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  Speaker 1: this team will continue fighting with five games to play,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, my feeling has pretty much been that
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  Speaker 1: you've only got that. I mean I said this even
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  Speaker 1: before the Rams game, and yes, I've picked the Rams
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  Speaker 1: to win, but I mean that's not like I'm backpatting.
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  Speaker 1: I also picked the Browns to beat the Saint sounds
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  Speaker 1: dead wrong. So I think there's two more wins. I
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  Speaker 1: think you win this week in New York. I think
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  Speaker 1: your offensive line it looks like they might get McCoy
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  Speaker 1: and Patrick back this week, and the Giants are just atrocious. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I get it's a road game, but that's an atrocious
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  Speaker 1: football team that's not trying to win, and you should
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  Speaker 1: go win it. And I think you can beat the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders on your home field, but that's probably it. I
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  Speaker 1: think six wins is probably where this team tops out.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to be looking somewhere around a top ten pick,
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  Speaker 1: and the focus for the organization will be the future. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll watch the team over the final five games and
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  Speaker 1: see how they play out the string, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that I foresee any more than two wins the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the way for New Orleans. Hard to imagine
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  Speaker 1: that they beat Washington at home, or that they beat
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay at Lambeau, or that they win at Tampa
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  Speaker 1: when Tampa's likely going to be playing in Week eighteen
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  Speaker 1: for the division. So Saints will steer their focus toward
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  Speaker 1: the future. We'll continue to watch and follow and see
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  Speaker 1: how some of these young guys may continue to develop
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  Speaker 1: throughout the course of the season, some of the storylines
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  Speaker 1: that may help lead the Saints into the off season.
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  Speaker 1: But certainly a disappointing result for a game you felt
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  Speaker 1: like they could have won. But that's a familiar refrain.
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  Speaker 1: We said the same thing against Philly, we said the
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  Speaker 1: same thing with the first game against Atlanta. It's just
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  Speaker 1: how you end up a foreig and eight football team
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  Speaker 1: right now. So we'll continue to watch and see what
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  Speaker 1: the future may be, but it'll be a pivotal offseason
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  Speaker 1: for New Orleans. It looks like, even if not formally informally,
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  Speaker 1: that's already begun