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Jake Haener To Start For Saints Against Commanders On Sunday · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: So all the reports are all the reports are that
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  Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints will start Jake Hayner against the
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  Speaker 1: Commanders on Sunday if Derek Carr is unable to go.
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  Speaker 1: The official word will be that if Carr can't at
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  Speaker 1: least go through the walkthrough on Saturday, that he would
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  Speaker 1: not play on Sunday against the Commanders. We'll wait and
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  Speaker 1: see what happens with that, but I think all assumptions
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  Speaker 1: are that Derek Carr is not going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to play. So officially on the Friday injury report, Derek
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  Speaker 1: Carr is listed as officially doubtful. DeMarco Jackson bubb means
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  Speaker 1: out Tono Passinio questionable. He could make his season debut.
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  Speaker 1: The good news Alvin Kamara Juwan Johnson both full participants
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  Speaker 1: in Friday's practice. So Camaro with the illness, Juwan Johnson
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  Speaker 1: with the foot injury who did not practice on Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry it was limited on Thursday. Juwan Johnson was
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  Speaker 1: but full on Friday, so that's good news. But again
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  Speaker 1: we'll wait and see on Car again doubtful, but they
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  Speaker 1: want to see if he can go through a walk
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  Speaker 1: through on Saturday before making the final call on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: but it's very likely that it's gonna be Jake Hayner,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't love the decision. And this isn't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: a knock on Jake Hayner or some tremendous praise for
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  Speaker 1: for Spencer Ratler. I just think it's more a matter
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  Speaker 1: of if you're playing for the now or the future,
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  Speaker 1: what you feel like you're playing for, and the Saints
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  Speaker 1: clearly still very much feel like they're playing for the now.
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  Speaker 1: While their odds of making the playoffs are less than
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  Speaker 1: one percent, as long as you still have a percent chance,
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  Speaker 1: the Saints are are going for it. So they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: play whoever they feel gives them the best chance. And
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  Speaker 1: they watch Spencer Rattler start three games and it didn't
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  Speaker 1: go great. And I don't believe Jake Hayner is much
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  Speaker 1: better an option. But that's my opinion. We just haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen it. Jay Caner has never started a game in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. Jay Canner has played in seven games this season,
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  Speaker 1: all in a backup role. He's attempted twenty nine passes.
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  Speaker 1: He's fourteen of twenty nine for a bucks seventy seven,
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown, no picks, his QBR is forty two and
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  Speaker 1: his quarterback rating is seventy nine. Like it ain't been good,
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  Speaker 1: but we also haven't seen him go through a week
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  Speaker 1: preparing as a starter and then having the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: start a game. I presume we will see that on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: And unlike Spencer Ratler, who the three games he started
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  Speaker 1: was all with a makeshift offense, a mishmash offensive line
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  Speaker 1: in front of him, without his best weapons, at least
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  Speaker 1: Jay Hayner is going to have the starting offensive line
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  Speaker 1: in a hole in front of him on Sunday. That
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  Speaker 1: provided he is the starter, and you'll have Kamara, and
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  Speaker 1: you'll have Kendre Miller, and you'll have Foster Moro, and
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  Speaker 1: you'll have Juwan Johnson. You're not gonna have a Lave
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  Speaker 1: or Shaheed, but that's been notable throughout the course of
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  Speaker 1: the season, and you're not gonna have obviously not gonna
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  Speaker 1: have Taysom Hill either. But most significantly is he will
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  Speaker 1: have the starting offensive line in front of him. I
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  Speaker 1: just don't expect anything better. But I also don't know,
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  Speaker 1: which is probably what the Saints are looking at here.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably one of those situations where they know what
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  Speaker 1: they have in Spencer Ratler, which is a rookie quarterback
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  Speaker 1: who's not ready to go win you games in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Not to say he never will be, but just right
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  Speaker 1: now he's not. You can't definitively say that about Hayter
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  Speaker 1: because we haven't seen Haytern do it. It's like they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to catch lightning in a bottle to say we
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  Speaker 1: know Rattler can't. I don't think Hayn can. But until
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  Speaker 1: we find out, we don't know. So let's find out.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he catch lightning in a bottle. The best example
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  Speaker 1: would be, Ohmy cutlets from a year ago. We saw
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  Speaker 1: it with Tommy DeVito. A year ago, Tommy DeVito ripped
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  Speaker 1: off three straight wins as the Giant starting quarterback. Now
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  Speaker 1: he stinks, he stinks. He's not a starting quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. He'll never start again, unless if it's in
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  Speaker 1: a situation like this, the starter gets hurt, he has
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  Speaker 1: to go in. But he's a career backup for as
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  Speaker 1: long as he might play in the NFL. But last
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  Speaker 1: year the Giants went and won three in a row
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  Speaker 1: and four of their final six with Tommy Cutletz as
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  Speaker 1: the starting quarterback for in place of an injured Daniel Jones.
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  Speaker 1: But very clearly Danny Cutlet's isn't any good. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why I keep saying Tommy Cutz. I just like
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  Speaker 1: saying Tommy Cutletz to be very honest. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: keep doing it. But you all understand the point. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Jay Caneer is any good. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think Jake Caner is gonna wow us and become some
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  Speaker 1: perennial starter in the NFL and get a nine figure deal.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere down the line. We're all gonna say, Well, it
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  Speaker 1: started in that December game in the Dome when the
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  Speaker 1: Saints took on JD five and the Washington Commanders. I
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  Speaker 1: don't believe that's gonna happen. But could you go out
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday behind a good offensive line, Kamara Kendre Miller
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  Speaker 1: maybe play some really good defense against the Commanders, which
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  Speaker 1: I as much as the Saints have struggle to stop
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  Speaker 1: running quarterbacks, I don't truly, in my heart of heart
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  Speaker 1: believes that's gonna happen. But this is and defense that's
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  Speaker 1: middle bottom, seventeenth in the NFL in scoring defense. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's a game. We just watched Thursday Night football and
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  Speaker 1: watch the Niners and the Rams play at twelve to
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  Speaker 1: six game, a field goal game. It's the freaking NFL.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the Saints go on the road and score
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  Speaker 1: nine points against the Bucks and win a game. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you find a way, as ugly as it might be,
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  Speaker 1: to scratch out a win, and then maybe next week
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  Speaker 1: Derek Carr's back, and so the one off with Hayiner
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  Speaker 1: could keep you mathematically alive for another week. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe it. I'm just going through in my
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  Speaker 1: brain what the Saints are probably thinking. For me, I
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  Speaker 1: still want to see more of Spencer Rattler, because I
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  Speaker 1: know this Saints team is not going to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Like I know this team is not going to make
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. It might be this week that they're mathematically
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  Speaker 1: eliminated if they lose and Tampa wins, Like we could
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  Speaker 1: see the Saints mathematically eliminated this week, and if that happens, okay,
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  Speaker 1: well then the Saints are out and then you start
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  Speaker 1: looking toward the future and what it may be. And
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  Speaker 1: I believe, as do the Saints, it's why they went
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  Speaker 1: with Spencer Ratler earlier this season that Rattler is the
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  Speaker 1: guy that has the higher upside. So if Rattler's the
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  Speaker 1: guy with the higher upside, then you need to keep
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  Speaker 1: getting him more reps. You need to keep throwing him
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  Speaker 1: in the deep end to see if he figures this out.
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  Speaker 1: It figures it out the way that we've seen Bryce
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  Speaker 1: Young do that in Carolina. Again, I don't think Bryce
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  Speaker 1: Young and Carolina is by any stretch awesome. But what
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  Speaker 1: you've seen with Bryce Young hero of the last month,
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  Speaker 1: is a guy that looks like a competent starter and
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  Speaker 1: might actually end up being a good starter. Whereas through
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  Speaker 1: the first month of this season, as we approach the
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  Speaker 1: trade deadline, there was a very real conversation about whether
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  Speaker 1: or not the Carolina Panthers should trade Bryce Young and
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  Speaker 1: move on midway through his second year. It was that bad.
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  Speaker 1: So sometimes it just takes guys longer to develop. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that we can make that declaration about Spencer Ratler,
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  Speaker 1: but we can make a declaration about is you're not
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  Speaker 1: winning games because of Spencer Ratler right now? Maybe you
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  Speaker 1: could with Jake Hayner, which is probably what the Saints
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  Speaker 1: are thinking. Still, I would rather not waste the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to get reps for the guy with the higher upside
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  Speaker 1: to continue to evaluate him. But I don't make those decisions.
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  Speaker 1: And Darren Rizzy's trying to win this job, and if
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  Speaker 1: he keeps winning, every week he wins, he steps closer
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  Speaker 1: to becoming the full time head coach of the New
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  Speaker 1: Orleans Saints, and having the interim tag dropped, maybe Jake
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  Speaker 1: Hayner is a better option for him to get closer
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  Speaker 1: to that this week, So Saints Commander's Sunday if Carr
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  Speaker 1: can't go, and it looks like he won't. But if
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  Speaker 1: Carr can't go, it'll be Hayter instead of Spencer Ratler