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What Are Saints Doing? Why Marquez Valdes-Scantling Deal Is One New Orleans NEEDED TO MAKE! · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: dot org. Golf dot Breck dot org. Wednesday, NFL League
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  Speaker 1: year officially began, and Wednesday saw another New Orleans Saint
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  Speaker 1: player sign elsewhere, of course, we saw Will Harris the
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  Speaker 1: safety go to Washington, Paulson Adebo cornerback up in New
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  Speaker 1: York with the Giants now, and the one that came
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  Speaker 1: about on Wednesday. Candidly, I guess is a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a surprise, because Mark was Valdez Scantling was due
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  Speaker 1: was like sitting at home eating she right, I mean
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  Speaker 1: he was in Buffalo and did nothing in Buffalo, played
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  Speaker 1: six games for the Bills, caught two balls on nine targets,
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  Speaker 1: two catches for twenty six yards. Like Mark was Valadas Scantling,
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  Speaker 1: who again was a good player early in his career,
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  Speaker 1: the four seasons he spent in Green Bay, went to
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City for two years, won a couple of Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowls in twenty two and twenty three with Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: Then he goes to Buffalo and I get it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: with the depth Buffalo had a receiver and what they added,
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  Speaker 1: it was a little hard for him to get targets.
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  Speaker 1: But my goodness, he comes to the Saints and kaboom.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he became the stretch the field deep threat
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  Speaker 1: for New Orleans. You realized, do you know what Marcus
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  Speaker 1: Valdas Scantling's yard per catch average was in the eight
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  Speaker 1: games he played in New Orleans. It's not gonna surprise
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  Speaker 1: you want to tell you the number because it's a
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  Speaker 1: big number, But like when I say it, it's still like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, Valdas Scantling averaged twenty two yards per reception.
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  Speaker 1: Like eventually you're gonna mix in one of those like
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  Speaker 1: bubble screens that gets you know, it goes for a
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  Speaker 1: loss of three, right, I mean, it's incredible. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: the seventy one yarder was his long. Thirteen of his
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  Speaker 1: seventeen receptions, thirteen of the seventeen went for a first
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  Speaker 1: down or a touchdown. Right. He was incredible, like drinking
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  Speaker 1: from the fountain of youth. All of a sudden in
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans. And so Seattle, which just traded Dk Metcalf,
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  Speaker 1: turned around and paid Marcus Valdez Scantling five million bucks.
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  Speaker 1: So a one year, five point five million dollar deal.
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  Speaker 1: The Seahawks gave Marcus Valdas Scantling. And I get it
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  Speaker 1: for Seattle. When you're looking at a guy who are
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  Speaker 1: a team there. You just signed Sam Darnold, big deal
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  Speaker 1: bringing in Sam Darnold. You traded away Metcalf. The trade,
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  Speaker 1: I mean trade away Gino. So they need to get
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  Speaker 1: weapons there in Seattle. And here's a guy that showed
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  Speaker 1: he's still very capable in the NFL. The odd thing
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  Speaker 1: about this for me from New Orleans perspective is this
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  Speaker 1: is the kind of guy you want to keep, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I went checked going into twenty twenty four. So this
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  Speaker 1: is while Chris Olave is still healthy, Rashid Shaheed is
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  Speaker 1: still healthy. This is going into the twenty twenty four season.
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  Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus ranked the receiving cores in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: one to thirty two. New Orleans was twenty fourth that
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  Speaker 1: was with Alave in Shiheed. So regardless of what we
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  Speaker 1: think Alave being a former first round pick, Shaheed your
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  Speaker 1: deep ball ability, the bottom mine is you're still looking
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  Speaker 1: the dudes like bub means going into last year, trying
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  Speaker 1: to count on them. I mean, you come through that
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  Speaker 1: season a year ago in my goodness, the New Orleans
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  Speaker 1: Saints receiving court. Not only were they a mashing with
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  Speaker 1: the injuries to Alave and Shaheed, but on top of that,
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  Speaker 1: you just weren't productive. And you're talking about guys like
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  Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson, Mason Tipton. I feel like the scene in
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  Speaker 1: Major League when the guys sit at the coffee shop,
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  Speaker 1: you know, on the construction site, they're reading through the roster.
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  Speaker 1: What these guys never heard. I mean, that's what it
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  Speaker 1: feels like looking at these receivers last year. So you
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  Speaker 1: have a guy who's a two time Super Bowl champion,
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  Speaker 1: been in the league for six years, you pull him
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  Speaker 1: off the couch, he's a productive player for you, and hey,
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  Speaker 1: you let him walk. I mean, this is the type
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  Speaker 1: of thing I got asked the question because I've pretty
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  Speaker 1: much lambasted the Saints for what they've done in free
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  Speaker 1: agency so far. And I think justifiably so. And I
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  Speaker 1: got to ask the question, what would you like for
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  Speaker 1: them to have done? Well? I think I've spelled this
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  Speaker 1: out pretty clearly. I wanted the New Orleans Saints to
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  Speaker 1: release Derek Carr and eat the dead cap hit this year.
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  Speaker 1: That would have required manipulating a lot of other contracts,
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  Speaker 1: but you get out from from underneath the biggest albatross
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  Speaker 1: around your neck, which now you will carry this year
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  Speaker 1: and twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven. But what
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  Speaker 1: I wanted them to do was create team friendly deals
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  Speaker 1: with players like Marcus Valdez Scantling. One year, five point
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  Speaker 1: five for Marcus Valdez Scantling seems like a really good
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  Speaker 1: deal when you're getting a love and Shaheed back. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and I get it, Rashi Chiheed, deep threat guy. That's
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  Speaker 1: the role Valdez Scantling played. You can tell me you
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  Speaker 1: can't use depth at receiver. Come on. I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: talked about Justin Reid in a vacuum. I'm very excited
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  Speaker 1: about Justin Reid. He's a good player. I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: a tackling machine. He's averaged like eighty tackles the season
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  Speaker 1: throughout his NFL career Houston, Kansas City and won a
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl in Kansas City. Like there's a lot to
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  Speaker 1: like a local guy bringing him home. I like in
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  Speaker 1: a vacuum, like Justin Reid a lot. I'm fired he
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  Speaker 1: gets to come home. He tweeted about coming home. Same
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  Speaker 1: thing with Devon gotchall Like with the three year, thirty
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  Speaker 1: plus million dollar contract for Justin Reid is the thing
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  Speaker 1: where you go, why would you restructure contracts to free
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  Speaker 1: up cap space to bring in a guy that's not
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  Speaker 1: a dramatic improvement from who you had? And Will Harris
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  Speaker 1: who got a two year, eight million dollar deal in Washington. Like,
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  Speaker 1: if I let me phrase it to you this way,
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  Speaker 1: if I told you you could have some cap relief
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  Speaker 1: moving forward and have Will Harris on a two year,
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  Speaker 1: eight million dollar deal, or you're running it back in
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans this year, restructured a bunch of deals to
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  Speaker 1: free up cap space to bring in Justin Reid, Like
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  Speaker 1: to resign Chase Young, resigned you on Johnson these big contracts,
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  Speaker 1: what would you rather? Because the reality remains with the
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  Speaker 1: moves the Saints have made to this point, you're running
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  Speaker 1: it back with effectively the same roster from a team
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  Speaker 1: that was a five win team a year ago. And
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  Speaker 1: I know gum smack and Mickey is gonna sit there
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  Speaker 1: and tell you it was the injuries. Would he say
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  Speaker 1: look past the results. I need you to get that
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  Speaker 1: sound by because I need that perpetuity. You better put
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  Speaker 1: that on a button. I'm dead serious because that just
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  Speaker 1: like Ellen Moore muse, I'm gonna wear that SoundBite out Ellen,
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  Speaker 1: like I told you, they are gonna put look past
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  Speaker 1: the results on Mickey Loomis's tombstone, not as literal tombstone
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  Speaker 1: on his career tombstone. So you're running it back with
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  Speaker 1: all the same guys and even if injury an injuries
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  Speaker 1: no doubt played a role, but a healthy roster for
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  Speaker 1: the Saints last year. What are you seven win team?
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  Speaker 1: You're you're continuing to mortgage your future for a team
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  Speaker 1: that's not going to compete. That's the contention that that
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  Speaker 1: I'll continue to make. So if you're looking for guys
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  Speaker 1: that could be capable players for you on affordable deals,
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  Speaker 1: Will Harris is one of them. Mark was valid as
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  Speaker 1: scantling one year, five and a half million in sal
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  Speaker 1: that's one that you'd love to have kept. What doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make sense. Is given Juwan Johnson thirty million bucks, given
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  Speaker 1: Chase hung fifty one million bucks, why you're not close
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  Speaker 1: to competing. It just goes to continue to underscore the
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  Speaker 1: disconnect between what the rest of the football world thinks
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  Speaker 1: and those few people in the executive offices on airline
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  Speaker 1: Drive who really believe. Again, it's not words. I always
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  Speaker 1: say actions speak louder than words. Their actions are showing
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  Speaker 1: you they think they're a contender, and literally no one
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  Speaker 1: else in the football love and world agrees with them.
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  Speaker 1: But their actions continue to map toward that, much to
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  Speaker 1: their detriment, and it's going to continue to cost them
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five and twenty twenty six and beyond.
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  Speaker 1: So you got to get receiver help, and you're not
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  Speaker 1: going into the season with a Lave and Shaheed and
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  Speaker 1: that's it. Mason Tipton and Cedric Wilson and Dante Pettis
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  Speaker 1: like that, ain't it. So the fact that you resigned
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  Speaker 1: Juwan Johnson, you've got Foster Morrow back, You've re signed
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  Speaker 1: Chase Young, You're probably looking at nine at receiver. For
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  Speaker 1: all the different conversations we've had about the possibility of
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Warren there, you're having Juwan Johnson and Foster Morrow.
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  Speaker 1: Probably means you're not looking at Tyler Warren at nine,
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  Speaker 1: not exclusively, probably, which means like if Teteroa McMillan from
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  Speaker 1: Arizona's there at nine, I gotta think that's probably the
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  Speaker 1: pick at this point. But when you have an endless
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  Speaker 1: amount of needs, anything could be the pick. Mark was
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  Speaker 1: Valdez Scantling headed the Seattle one year, five million dollars