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Know Your Foe: How Do The Saints Matchup With The Los Angeles Rams? · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: back at it after the buye they'll take on the Rams,
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  Speaker 1: who been really a tale of two seasons so far
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  Speaker 1: for the Rams. They started one to four, then they
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  Speaker 1: won for of their next five. What to wallaping at
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  Speaker 1: the hands of the Eagles on Sunday Night football Sarah
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  Speaker 1: bar Shop is there for all of it. ESPN NFL
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  Speaker 1: Nation reporter covering the Rams joins us, now, Sarah, we
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it. How are you? I'm good? How are you
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  Speaker 1: doing doing fantastic? How big of a setback was Sunday
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  Speaker 1: night against the Rams? I excuse me, against the Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: I think it showed kind of where the team is
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  Speaker 2: right like they might be competing in this division because
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty close. I think every team has five losses
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  Speaker 2: but or at least five losses. But it showed, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a really good NFC team in the Eagles. They're not
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  Speaker 2: there yet, so a step back. But obviously the conversation
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  Speaker 2: in the locker room after game at the podium is
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  Speaker 2: Sean McVay was got to learn from this because clearly
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  Speaker 2: they're running out of time to figure out how to
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  Speaker 2: be consistent, especially on offense, to be at the point
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  Speaker 2: where they are at the same level as some of
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  Speaker 2: these elite teams in the NFC.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the inconsistency when they started one in
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  Speaker 1: four what went so wrong?
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  Speaker 2: I think it was injuries at the start of the season,
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  Speaker 2: obviously Cooper cup Pup and Akua, but then those injuries
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  Speaker 2: on the offensive line, Jonah Jackson, Steve Badela, and they
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  Speaker 2: never had that consistency just in terms of who was
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  Speaker 2: on the field for the offense. So I think that's
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  Speaker 2: where it started early in the season.
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  Speaker 1: Was the four one stretch subsequent just a product of
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  Speaker 1: the team getting.
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  Speaker 2: Healthy, I think so. But even in that, you look
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  Speaker 2: at that game in Miami or against Miami at home
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  Speaker 2: on Monday night, football, they were inconsistent, and they've scored
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  Speaker 2: two touchdowns in first quarters this season. So I think
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  Speaker 2: it's probably a combination of, Yes, they have gotten healthy,
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  Speaker 2: but they still have a long way to go, and
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  Speaker 2: they really don't have answers because when we ask, you know,
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  Speaker 2: why is it inconsistent, the answer is just both's execution,
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  Speaker 2: and so they're obviously still figuring out how to fix that.
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  Speaker 1: Sa Kwon went for over two point fifty on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: Night Football. We all saw it and there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people here kind of licking their chops a little
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  Speaker 1: bit with the Saints having a bye and run game
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  Speaker 1: getting going a little bit. Is that the Saints line
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  Speaker 1: has gotten healthy. Is the Rams run defense really that bad?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. It's you know, early in the season,
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  Speaker 2: this defense as a whole struggle. It's very young defense.
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  Speaker 2: After Aaron Donald's retired this offseason, a lot of first
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  Speaker 2: and second year guys in the front seven, and then
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  Speaker 2: I think they looked a little bit better. And then
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  Speaker 2: obviously what stake on On Barclay did is something that I
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  Speaker 2: think he hasn't done that to every team they've played.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it's very clear that he's a good player,
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  Speaker 2: So I think it's probably somewhere in the middle. You
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  Speaker 2: don't know that the run defense is the strength of
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  Speaker 2: this defense, but I don't think they are what they
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  Speaker 2: showed on Sunday against the Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, what do you think is the strength of the
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  Speaker 1: Rams defense?
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  Speaker 2: I think it is a front seven. Obviously it didn't
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  Speaker 2: show and we talked to a lot of guys in
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  Speaker 2: the locker room after the game. Kobe Turner was saying,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we weren't gap dound, made a lot of mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: Jared Verse said, everyone was kind of trying to make
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  Speaker 2: a play and that's kind of where the he put
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  Speaker 2: it on him. I don't know how much of that
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  Speaker 2: is true, but after immediately after the game, he was saying,
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  Speaker 2: you know that was that was on me. We need
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  Speaker 2: to play better, that kind of thing. But I do
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  Speaker 2: think the strength is that that young front seven, and
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  Speaker 2: you look at Jared Versus, Braden Fish, Kobe Turner, Bobby Brown.
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  Speaker 2: They have a lot of talent there, and in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the season, during that winning streak, I think
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  Speaker 2: we saw how good they can be if you've lived over.
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  Speaker 1: To the offensive side. Matthew Stafford obviously has been a
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  Speaker 1: great player, and I think probably's heading for the Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame someday. At what level would you say that
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford is playing right now relative to his careers
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  Speaker 1: an aging player we all understand is great player, but
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  Speaker 1: what capacity is he still?
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  Speaker 2: I still think he's very good, and I think a
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  Speaker 2: lot of that is just how mentally good he is
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  Speaker 2: at this game, at facing defensive. You know, his teammates
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  Speaker 2: talk about how his knowledge makes such a big difference
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  Speaker 2: for this offense. Just the defense he's seeing stuff like that,
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  Speaker 2: his relationship with Cooper Cup and the time they've put
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  Speaker 2: together on the field. I think he's still very good,
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  Speaker 2: but again, he's been part of the he's in. This
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  Speaker 2: offense has been so inconsistent now takes all eleven, which
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  Speaker 2: is the thing that is said, you know, time and
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  Speaker 2: time and again in the locker room. But you look
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  Speaker 2: at him, He's four touchdowns and then no touchdowns the
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  Speaker 2: next week, And I think part of that is the
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  Speaker 2: offense in general. The running game has been inconsistent as well,
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think he looks like the Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 2: that came on at the end of last season when
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  Speaker 2: they went on that run. But I don't think these
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  Speaker 2: issues are because of the way he's played, just by himself.
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  Speaker 1: So then and Sarah Barshop is with a ESPN NFL
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  Speaker 1: Nation reporter covers the rams when the offense has kind
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  Speaker 1: of been stuck in the mud, and that's that's happened
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  Speaker 1: a little bit to this team this year. Some of it,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure would be injuries with Nikouh and Cup like
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned, but when the offense has struggled, what has
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  Speaker 1: sort of been the impetus for.
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  Speaker 2: That, So then they get behind the sticks, right like
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  Speaker 2: a first play lost the yards or a penalty, and
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  Speaker 2: then you know that's what Matthew Stafford shop mcfaith said, Well,
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  Speaker 2: then it's execution. It's harder to execute when the defense
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  Speaker 2: has more of an idea of what's coming. Some of
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  Speaker 2: it is the run game has flowed on a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: So I think look that true is if they knew
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  Speaker 2: the answer, I don't know that they'd be in this position.
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  Speaker 2: But I think a lot of it is just getting
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  Speaker 2: behind and in the sixth specifically, and just having a
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  Speaker 2: hard time getting back on track.
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  Speaker 1: The line on this game is two and a half.
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  Speaker 1: It's been three. I think it's bumped down just a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. That could indicate you could be talking about
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  Speaker 1: a field goal game. Joshua Carty's in his first season
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  Speaker 1: with the Rams. If it comes down to a kick,
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  Speaker 1: how confident are you he makes it?
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  Speaker 2: I think pretty confident. It's been interesting you talk about
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  Speaker 2: the inconsistency he missed from twenty six two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: The week before that he went five or six. It
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  Speaker 2: would have been six or six if it wasn't for
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  Speaker 2: a false start that pushed them pretty far out of
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  Speaker 2: field goal range. After that, the Patriots game show makes
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  Speaker 2: he said, you know, he didn't have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: confidence in the operation that game, and he said it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't just Cardi, but in general. That's why he went
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  Speaker 2: forward on fourth down on the play. And we asked
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  Speaker 2: him about it this past week and said, do you
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  Speaker 2: still have Compton? He said yes, but of course Cardi
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  Speaker 2: had again another miss. So I think he will make it.
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  Speaker 2: I think it helps that indoors, But yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's been an interesting season for.
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  Speaker 1: The rookie kicker is Sarah. If Sean McVay has a
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  Speaker 1: blueprint win Sunday in the Dome, what does it look like?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's getting that run game going early, not
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  Speaker 2: being in these obvious passing downs, and just being able
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  Speaker 2: to show what we've seen at times as this offense
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  Speaker 2: keeps going, putting that together and then not turning the
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  Speaker 2: ball over. That's been something. There's only been two games
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  Speaker 2: this year where they have not turned the ball over,
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  Speaker 2: and bolth Of were wins. So obviously takeaways, you know,
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  Speaker 2: win games, but I think that's something specific. Kyra Williams
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  Speaker 2: not fumbling, Matthew Safford Nott throwing an interception will go
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  Speaker 2: go a long way for them.
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  Speaker 1: Sarah bar Shop. You don't get her on Twitter ex
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  Speaker 1: at Sarah barr Shop spelled just like it sounds. ESPN
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  Speaker 1: NFL Nation reporter covering the Rams, Sarah, we appreciate safe
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  Speaker 1: travels to New Orleans. Joy the game. We appreciate the time.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, have a good one.