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My Dream 1st Round Draft Pick For Saints! | Will New Orleans Land Michigan DT Mason Graham? · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: Graham from Michigan on a Top thirty visit. If you're
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  Speaker 1: not familiar in the NFL draft process, they're called top
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  Speaker 1: thirty visits because NFL teams are allowed to bring you
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  Speaker 1: guessed it, thirty prospects to their facility for an in
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  Speaker 1: person visit, so you can only have thirty of those,
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  Speaker 1: and Mason Graham of Michigan is getting one from the
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints. Let me just be very candid here,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm on the record and I'll give you my
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  Speaker 1: opinion on this and then we'll work from there, work forwards.
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  Speaker 1: My preference for the New Orleans Saints at nine overall
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  Speaker 1: that is realistic. I'm not gonna sit there and tell
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  Speaker 1: you take cam Ward at nine. He ain't gonna be
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  Speaker 1: there at nine, Okay. Travis Hunter at nine, he ain't.
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  Speaker 2: Go be there.
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  Speaker 1: So realistic, My preference of what I think is a
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  Speaker 1: realistic possibility for the New Orleans Saints is Mason Graham
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  Speaker 1: at number nine, the defensive tackle from Michigan. If the
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  Speaker 1: draft went perfectly, that's what I would like to see
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  Speaker 1: play out. The Saints have tons of needs. I mean
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  Speaker 1: quite literally.
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  Speaker 2: Everything. You need everything.
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  Speaker 1: There's no spot on the field where you can look
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  Speaker 1: at the New Orleans Saints roster and go.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, shipshape there next.
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  Speaker 1: They need help everywhere. So how do you sort of
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  Speaker 1: make sense of need and value. That's where I land
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  Speaker 1: on Graham. Now I'm not certain he'll make it to
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  Speaker 1: nine because he is sort of a consensus number one
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  Speaker 1: interior defensive linemen in this draft. So the best case
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  Speaker 1: scenario for New Orleans if you want Mason Graham at nine,
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  Speaker 1: is you hope the quarterbacks come off the board. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart races up and goes ahead of ahead of you.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of the offensive guys come off the board.
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  Speaker 1: You know Travis Hunter will be gone. Maybe you look
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  Speaker 1: at some of the edge rushers, and you hope that
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  Speaker 1: as a result, with all the offensive players going, the
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  Speaker 1: defensive players fall and then maybe Mason Graham is there.
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  Speaker 1: He's six' three Now michigan this year he was listening
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  Speaker 1: at three to, twenty but at the combine he was
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  Speaker 1: at two ninety.
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  Speaker 2: Six hashtag teams.
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  Speaker 1: Lie the other THING i like about him is he'll
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  Speaker 1: be twenty two In, september so he's not one of
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  Speaker 1: these like super. Seniors he spent three years At, michigan
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  Speaker 1: so he's not a guy that went five or six.
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  Speaker 1: Seasons so you're seeing a guy go into THE nfl
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  Speaker 1: twenty four years. Old he's twenty one right. Now he'll
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  Speaker 1: be twenty one at the time of the. Draft he
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  Speaker 1: turns twenty two In, september so you still have a
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  Speaker 1: guy that's relatively young as, well playing a physical, position
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  Speaker 1: and because he only played three, years still a lot
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  Speaker 1: of tread on the. Tire he doesn't necessarily have eye popping.
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  Speaker 1: Stats the most sacks he had in the season At
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  Speaker 1: michigan are three and a, half so you're not talking
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  Speaker 1: about a guy that was like this dominant interior pass,
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  Speaker 1: rusher like A Dominican sioux Or Aaron donald or something like.
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  Speaker 1: That but you're talking about a guy that can push the,
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  Speaker 1: pocket that can help in the. Run he had forty
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  Speaker 1: seven tackles this year as a junior and was a
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  Speaker 1: Consensus All, american a very good interior. Player and WHEN
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  Speaker 1: i say The saints need, EVERYTHING i mean they need.
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  Speaker 1: Everything your offensive line was a revolving, door especially at
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  Speaker 1: left guard and in some of the.
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  Speaker 2: Injuries we know the problem that you have at running. Back.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously we've talked about quarterback at.
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  Speaker 1: Nauseum you've got two receivers that you, like both have
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  Speaker 1: been injury plagued throughout their. Careers you definitely need help
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  Speaker 1: at tight. End Foster moros contract this year isn't guaranteed
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  Speaker 1: allthough you just Signed Juwan. Johnson you definitely could use help.
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  Speaker 1: There we talked about the defensive line you were bad
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  Speaker 1: at and you got an aging linebacker Inda Mario davis
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  Speaker 1: Alongside Pete, warner and you just Lost Willie gay to free.
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  Speaker 1: Agency the top two starter it's at corner from a year.
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  Speaker 1: Ago Alante taylor And Marshawn lattimore are. Gone and then
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  Speaker 1: you brought In Justin reid at safety and you Bring
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  Speaker 1: Tyron matthew, back But tyron is getting. Older you could
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  Speaker 1: certainly use a depth piece there and potential future. Starter
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  Speaker 1: if there's a, safety you can maybe even play in
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  Speaker 1: the nickel for you need help. EVERYWHERE i THINK i
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  Speaker 1: just summarized it pretty. Successfully but the REASON i would
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  Speaker 1: focus on defensive line is because when The New Orleans
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  Speaker 1: saints had the great defenses Under Dennis, allen it was
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  Speaker 1: like amid, that like at the centerpiece of those great
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  Speaker 1: defenses was.
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  Speaker 2: That, long that like two years long.
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  Speaker 1: Run of not allowing a one hundred yard. Rusher y'all
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  Speaker 1: remember that the same set IN nfl record for consecutive
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  Speaker 1: games without allowing a one hundred yard.
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  Speaker 2: Rusher it was.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy, well last, year The New Orleans saints were thirty
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  Speaker 1: first in THE nfl in rush. Defense only The Carolina
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  Speaker 1: panthers allowed more rushing yards than The New Orleans. Saints
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  Speaker 1: you were terrible against the, run and you were twentieth
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  Speaker 1: in sacks with thirty, nine so you were bottom half
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  Speaker 1: of the league in, sacks and you were second to
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  Speaker 1: last in run. Defense your defensive front was the cornerstone
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  Speaker 1: of your. Defense it is bad, now it's. Bad and
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  Speaker 1: WHEN i look at the roster and what you. Have,
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  Speaker 1: Listen i'm excited About Brian. BRAZIE i think he really
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  Speaker 1: should progress in year two AND i think he'll continue getting.
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  Speaker 1: Better AND i love adding De vane for all the
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  Speaker 1: reasons we've talked, about not just because he's AN lsu
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  Speaker 1: guys From. Louisiana because he's a three hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 1: pound true zero tech nos who could push the, pocket
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  Speaker 1: who can help against the, run he could pressure the.
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  Speaker 1: Quarterback you got him, AFFORDABLY i, mean you trade a
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  Speaker 1: seventh round pick for. Me he's on a very affordable.
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  Speaker 1: Deal there's a lot of reasons to like. That, addition after,
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  Speaker 1: that what do you have If Colin sonders And Nathan,
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  Speaker 1: shepherd who were signed by the previous, staff who don't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily Fit Brandon saley's, Defense and then you've Got christian
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  Speaker 1: Boyd Ryter, anderson And John. Ridgeway that's.
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  Speaker 2: It.
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  Speaker 1: NOW i could look At saunders And shepherd and say
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  Speaker 1: will they even be back this? Year but the tricky
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  Speaker 1: part is their, contracts because of how you've restructured, everything
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  Speaker 1: don't really allow you to move on from either of those.
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  Speaker 1: Guys for, Example Colin saunders this, year his cap hit
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  Speaker 1: is two point five, million his dead cap number is
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  Speaker 1: four point Six so it would cost you more For
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  Speaker 1: Colin sanders not to be on your roster this year
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  Speaker 1: then you have him on the. Roster So Colin sonders
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  Speaker 1: most certainly is going to be on your roster this.
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  Speaker 1: Year and For Nathan, shephard his contract number is even
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  Speaker 1: worse with the. Restructure shepherd this, year his cap number
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  Speaker 1: is a three point six, million his dead cap number
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  Speaker 1: is ten point. Three so those two guys are basically to,
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  Speaker 1: say if you were to Cut Nathan, shepherd it would
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  Speaker 1: count ten point three million against your. Cap if he's
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  Speaker 1: on the, roster it's three point six. Million it's this
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  Speaker 1: seven million dollar additional hit for him not to be
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  Speaker 1: on your. Roster so those guys are going to be,
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  Speaker 1: here but they don't necessarily fit what you want to.
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  Speaker 1: Do so you gotta maximize what you can for this
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  Speaker 1: year before you move on from those guys next. Year
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  Speaker 1: but what a great opportunity to bring in a guy
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  Speaker 1: Like Mason graham on a rookie deal where you'd have
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  Speaker 1: a fifth year option eventually to help fortify the interior
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  Speaker 1: Of Brandon staley's. Defense that would be my. Preference and,
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  Speaker 1: also we have seen The saints, historically certainly over the
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  Speaker 1: last quarter, century build through the line of scrimmage with the.
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  Speaker 1: DRAFT i, mean just look at what they do at
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  Speaker 1: the top of the. Draft V, Waga, Penning ruiz all
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  Speaker 1: first round. Picks eric McCoy was the second round, pick
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  Speaker 1: but he was their first pick in that. Draft ramchick
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  Speaker 1: was a first round, pick Andrews pete was a first round.
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  Speaker 1: Pick brazi was a first round. Pick Peyton, Turner Marcus,
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  Speaker 1: Davenport Isaiah foski was top a round Two Sheldon rankins
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  Speaker 1: was a first round or like The New Orleans saints
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  Speaker 1: invest at the top of the draft in the line of, scrimmage,
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  Speaker 1: like that's not, disputable it's not.
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  Speaker 2: Debatable that's what they.
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  Speaker 1: Do so this guy is the best interior defensive lineman
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  Speaker 1: in the, draft and he's there at, nine and you
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  Speaker 1: were that bad on the defensive front a year, ago
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  Speaker 1: and he can out fortify that in the, immediate short
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  Speaker 1: term and long term, Potentially i'm for it for. Me
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  Speaker 1: that's my best case. Scenario you asked, me all, Right,
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  Speaker 1: matt you could have a play out however you. Want, realistically.
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  Speaker 1: Not Cam ward falls to, Nine Travis hunter falls to. Nine, no, No,
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  Speaker 1: like what's a realistic. Scenario If Mason graham is there at,
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  Speaker 1: nine the defensive tackle From, michigan that would be my best.
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  Speaker 1: Case that's WHY i would love to see The saints
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  Speaker 1: take at nine if he's on the. Board