Dink and get Dunked on - Saints lose 24-10 to Falcons

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Good afternoon, good evening. Saints fans, Welcome back to the
Hudak Professional Podcast. Welcome back to what is one of
the worst Saints teams we've seen in years and today
it's it's a rough one. It's understandable if you're frustrated.
Let's let's say two pous that's real quick, before we
get into what will definitely be a podcast episode of
our lamentations, of our frustrations and are higher because let's

(00:47):
let is be honest, two weeks, you had the week
and then you had the bye week, and your offense
comes out and scores three points. We're gonna talk trash
about a lot of different things, but you know what,
shut out to a couple people. Number one shouts to
Cameron Jordan. Cameron George just finds a way to keep
getting sacks. Now, will Cameron Jordan have a double digit season? No,

(01:12):
I mean unlikely. Is it possible? Yes, very very unlikely.
That said, this man got a sacked today against the
Atlanta Falcons, and for that I will forever respect him.
Thank you for being you, my friend. That's he's up
to four and a half sacks. You've got Chase Young
pick one today he's at four. Technically, Cameron Jordan is

(01:34):
tied for the lead for this team in sacks this season.
And to me, that's actually a great microcosm, a great
example of what's so wrong with the New Orleans Saints.
It's the best players are the ones that shouldn't be
the best. Camra Jorge should not be your best anymore.
But let's talk about what we saw. We saw several things,

(01:54):
including good, bad, and ugly lots of the ladder. Now,
possession wise, New Orleans goes fumble, that's a problem. Now
it's a sack fumble and to a degree, blame needs
to be placed on Tyler Shuck for this, and I
want to make sure everybody hears me loud and clear.
Interceptions are a QB problem most of the time, so

(02:16):
it's context for every turnover, but generally a core quarterback problem.
Fumble's on sacks. Also, even if a lieman lets it
through you, fumble, it's on you. That's just how its
context is important. And just to be consistent because historically
I love to say this on the show. By the way,
good to see everybody here, Good to see rain, you
gonna see Creole, gonna see quiet storm, we see Salmund,

(02:37):
you see John Moss Jr. All those regulars here who
come to the stream, who come to the live show
knowing how the New Orleans Saints are. Shout out to
y'all for being who deb's. But in terms of consistency,
I like to keep it consistent. So when we look
at the past, we pull up games from five years ago,
we just see fumble, interception and what do we naturally

(02:59):
do we know who to blame is quarterbacks. I'm doing
the same thing here now, next drive, miss field goal.
We're gonna see multiple of those in this run up here.
So b one punt, punt, miss field goal, turnover on downs,
finally a field goal, then punt downs, an interception, and
even though it's an interception with ten seconds, you know,

(03:20):
left issue in the game is still an interception for
Tyler Shuck. So that was your list? Why did I
go through that? Because one thing has been true. Doesn't
matter if it's Tyler Shuck at quarterback, doesn't matter if
it's Spencer Rattler at quarterback. This offense is the mishandoff. Yeah,
you're right, ed one's apologies. It's it's been a long

(03:41):
three and a half hours as the game started, correct
edwin for reference, though, what I was trying to get
across is and thank you for the correction. What I
was trying to get across is that when it happens
for things like a quarterback fumbling the ball or an interception,
we don't really care about context five years down the road.
Always apply the blame to the quarterback. That's all I

(04:02):
was trying to do. But you are right, that's a
proper correction. I'm frustrated, so I misspoke. I apologize for that.
But one thing I do want to really speak on
Kellen Moore. We are now talking about a guy who
has had almost a full season calling the Saints offense.
I mean, you're over in double digit games. There's only
a few games left. You've got six games left in

(04:24):
the season. We've seen Kellen Moore in eleven games. You've
seen two thirds of a season. One thing that we've
consistently not seen from Kellen Moore. It doesn't matter if
it's Spencer Rattler, if it's Tyler Shuck, if it's Taysom Hill,
who we have seen get more snaps and even some
QB looks. When it comes to Kellen Moore. I am

(04:44):
very much questioning his ability as a play caller just
in general. Right, You've got three drives for the New
Orleans Saints and went thirteen plays or more, yet you
never punched it into the end zone. You have multiple
plays out the one yard line, never punch it into
the end zone. And I will absolutely acknowledge that it's

(05:05):
not all on Kellam Moore. We've said it all season long.
Why does Blake Groupy still have a job again, I
hate to be that guy. I don't like calling for
people's jobs. It's not something I enjoy. However, Blake Groopy
two miss field goals and one of them is chip shot.
Two missfield goals, and it's not like Groupie is new
to this, like, oh, he's just having you know, some issues.

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But he's been consistent all season. No. Coming into tonight,
Blake Groopy was connecting on seventy three point nine percent
of his field goals, one of the worst numbers in
the NFL. That number has dropped. He's gonna be around
seventy percent after tonight. Actually, I think he drops below
seventy percent after tonight. We could do that math real quick.
Let me bust out the handed Indy calculator live here

(05:48):
on the stream. So he's had twenty five field goal
attempts and he's at eighteen makes. Yeah, that's that's not good.
That's that's well, it's really not good. It's not as
terrible as the thought of it. It draws him down to
seventy two percent, but that's still right at the bottom
of the league right now. And I'm not trying to

(06:11):
be that guy to Blake Ruby, but you're twenty seven,
You've been in the league a couple of years now.
There's just no excuse, just not not to mention where
he's missing the field goals. Right you look at him.
He's missing field goals that are thirty yards out. If
he's missing field goals that are forty yards out, this
is the NFL, Lasiers, gentlemen, those are supposed to be gimmes.

(06:32):
I can get it. If he misses a fifty five yarder,
I can live with it. Even I cannot live with
chip shots being missed. So that's one thing. Defensively, the
New Orleans Saints, I thought had a great first half.
It started to unravel a little bit in the second half.
If anything, if you're coming into this and you didn't
see the game. The only reason New Orleans Saints scored
a touchdown was because of the defense, and they scored

(06:53):
more points in the offense. Very reminiscent of a nineteen
nineties New Orleans Saints game. And for you all Sints fans,
you'll remember those type of games, not with fond memories likely,
but with memories nonetheless. So here we are today talking
about topics we don't want to talk about. So as

(07:14):
we're talking about who did terrible, I do want to
get shout out to the defense for at least showing
up for some of this game. And we we did
see the Atlanta Falcons show that they're not a great team.
The Atlanta Falcons were three for twelve on third down.
Those are amazing numbers. Like, if you're a defensive coordinator,
you're very happy with that. Now, I don't want to

(07:34):
say there's no problems because you look at the running
game between Jehan Robinson and Todd Algier, Well, they ran
all over the New Orleans Saints, right, they ran together
for over one hundred and ten yards together, they averaged
over four yards of carry. But John Robinson, obviously he's
a problem. Even though We do talk about a lot
that running backs in today's NFL are not going to
be the ones that take you to the super Bowl.

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They can definitely be a star piece that magnify your team,
but they're not generally go be that big piece that
takes you where you want to go. They certainly did
a really good job against the Saints day where the
New Orleans Saints leading rusher was actually Tyler Shuck. That
tells you how it is. Obviously, Alvin Kamara had an
injury to his knee, had one good run today before

(08:15):
going out. Then you saw Devin Neil come in. Devinil
had better results in the passing game they did in
the running game today. Had one great play that in
particular I really loved. I went eighteen yards, Just a
great job with yards after the catch and making plays happen.
You have a couple of those from Neil, But I mean,
was the Alvin Kamara no, Especially in the running game.

(08:36):
I think a lot of that comes back to the
offensive line, because it doesn't matter if it was Tyler Shuck,
Daniil Taysom Hill, Alvin Kamara, nobody could find any running lanes.
And the interior offensive line is a problem. We've known
this for several weeks now. I don't want to gloss
over it, but that will affect your yards per carry
average for sure. Tyler Shuck averaged three yards of carry,
Devin Neil average two point six. Taysom Hill, who had

(08:59):
the most carried attempts today one point seven, which is
one of his worst rushing games in New Orleans Saints
history when he's been handed the ball that much as
one of his worst performances. Alba Kamara three for eleven
and then finally Tipton did have that one eleven yard
or when they got just one little piece of trickeration,
one little small piece. Raheem throws in good to see.

(09:19):
Raheem says, I'm tired of Kellen Moore and his terrible offense.
Voodoo coming to his house is gonna wake up a
two left feet won't be able to chotch out slide anymore.
Look to your point, he's been a problem, and I
do want to point out that he's not the only one.
One of the first comments that we have the podcast
live tonight was from one of our listeners, which from
Quiet Storm says COEO that being Chris A Lave makes

(09:41):
you miss Michael Thomas. His lack of aggression and want
to is disappointing. Michael Thomas is going to fight for
everything too bad. The front office shows him that being
Chris Lave over a real wide receiver X factor. Look,
I've said it for a while, so I don't want
to harp on this too much. Chris Lave is a
great number two. He's an okay number one. That's where
we're really at with Chris A Lave. That's where we're

(10:04):
really at with Chris a Lave. He's a good number two.
They need a great number one. Now. You can tell
they're trying to make moves to open up time for
players to get on the field, right, Devin Neil has
more snaps down. When you've gotten rid of Brandon Cooks
and you traded away who I really really appreciated in

(10:25):
Rashid Shahid, you now have more snaps available to guys.
You have Juwan Johnson filling in his normal role. Six catches,
seven attempts, seven and a half average. I mean, that's
a pretty solid day for him. I wouldn't say Juwan
Johnson had a bad game so and not one that
I'm pointing the finger at when we're playing the blame game.
Chris Lave though that nine for thirteen for seven, he's
a little bit deceptive. I feel like Chris Lave had

(10:45):
multiple chances, especially on the D ball, that better wide
receivers would have come down with. Now we can get
into the debate of whether you want to put more
blame on Tyler Shaw Chris Lave or is it more
the throws and more the receiver. I'm saying the same
thing about Chris Lave I said with Spencer Rattler. I
think alive As just simply isn't that guy. He doesn't

(11:08):
have the grit, He doesn't have that little bit of
extra that makes you great. As the people in the
chat said, the want just not there. And then when
you combine that with guys like Caesar Ruiz and the
interior of the offensive line not being good with a
backup center, with your left guard, you know, being a
turnstile at this point of the season, you know you're
just in a position where you do the best you can.

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But at the same time, I think it's important for
Saints fans to call out what's bad. Because we discussed
two weeks ago some of the comments made by Gail Benson,
the owner and the trust that she has and Mickey
Loomis and he's doing a great job. Blah blah blah. Cool.
I'm glad you have faith in the people that your
husband had faith in. But hard to have faith in

(11:53):
this team. Hard to have faith in this team right now?
Now see a coping with the chat. Rainey says, Devin
Neil look great. I don't agree with that. I don't
think Devenuil look great today. I think Devinnil look passable.
There's nothing about today's game with Devin Neil that made
me go, oh, Devon Neil's the running back of the future, though.
I do think he's a good young piece who's part
of a good rotation. But you're talking about being a
good piece of rotation of something that is as you

(12:14):
can see on the screen if you're watching this live,
it's just not good. Again. I routed off the rushing stats,
but it's not even just about the stats. It's just
about how this team played as a whole. You look
at them on third down five or sixteen, they just
couldn't move the ball very well. And this was actually
a game. When it comes to penalties, the New Orleans
actually played cleaner than they've been playing most of the season,
only four penalties for thirty six yards. This was not
a bad game for them. They dominated in terms of

(12:36):
time possession thirty two minutes fifty one seconds. Again, the
New Orleans Saints win a lot of the categories that
we said would result in them winning more football games,
but they didn't today. I mean, the scorer is well,
it's the most important part, but you look at the stash,
you think the Saints won. I mean they had twenty
one first downs to only thirteen for Atlanta. They had

(12:58):
a better third down efficiency, right, They looked the part,
but they couldn't finish it off, which is what I
said at the very beginning of this episode this team,
and I think that falls back to coaching more than anything.
This team can't finish. And this is exactly why I
also didn't want to start Tyler Shukelle. That's why I

(13:19):
said Spencer Rattler Show just stayed in because I think
at the core, this team has a talent deficiency, but
it also has an issue where more isn't giving you more.
In fact, this offense is worse than last year. This
offense is worse than Pete Carmichael. It's worse than Clint Kopiak.
And that's saying something more so the former than the latter.

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And as a Saints fan, I mean, the only way
we can really speak truthfully comes down to buying tickets.
But not many people are going to Saints games right now.
It's really sad. It's really sad, and it doesn't matter
who's in right now. I feel like, no matter who's
the quarterback, no matter who's the running back, no matter
who's the wide receiver, I don't trust the coaching behind

(14:01):
any of it. And that goes for every major sports
franchise in New Orleans. By the way, I'm not trying
to drag this into being from the Wing the Pelicans
podcast that I once had, but I do want to
say there's an issue top to bottom, and I mean
that literally, GM to coaching on both teams in New
Orleans is not a good time to be a New
Orleans sports fan now, truth be told, good diseases what

(14:23):
up Calimore is more sunshining than the sunshine Raheem Morris
Glass ain't always half full. He needs to go off sometimes,
I agree, and we'll see if he can become a
better version of himself. But right now it's tough, and
it isn't helped by the fact that the New Orleans
Saints lose to the division rival. I maybe I feel
differently if you had lost to the you know, New

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York Jets. Maybe I'm not, as you know, frustrated, and
maybe I'm not pointing fingers like I am losing twenty
four to ten to the Atlanta Falcons. But it's losing
to the Atlanta Falcons that in particular makes it bad. Now.
Giving up five sacks is a testament to how this
offensive line. I mean, you're missing two starters, right and
your right guard is obviously a need of replacement, but

(15:07):
there's not really anything you could do about it at
the moment. So you trade a Trevor Penning who's not
exactly doing great over with the Chargers. You lost McCoy.
And even though I do believe McCoy is arguably the
best center of the New Orleans Saints I've ever had
at this point, given his age and injuries, clearly that's
something you're looking at needing a future as well. So

(15:28):
when you're looking at the problem for New Orleans and
starts at the very top to where at this point,
and call me a sensationalist, call me that I'm being
too emotional. It's not just the teams, it's more it's
hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
At the beginning of the season. We're a little bit
more cheered, a little bit rosy in our cheeks, a

(15:49):
little bit more maybe right now. How can you have
that when you see the New Orleans Saints lose twenty
four to ten to the Atlanta Falcons, and that is after,
by the way, having your defense play a game that
you Again, I see so many people on SAT social
media blaming the defense, but this defense can't stop anybody.

(16:11):
This defense held Atlanta to twenty four points. Man. I mean,
there are teams in the NFL who would kill for
their defense to consistently hold teams to low twenty scoring
and yet this offense can't score. The defense scores more
points in the offense eleven weeks into a season. There's
simply no excuse for it. Good teams find a way.
Let me give you an example. If you were watching

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the NFL today, you would have seen the Baltimore Ravens.
Baltimore Ravens looked terrible in the first half, embarrassing even
why because we know how good the Baltimore Ravens can beat.
For those that didn't catch that game, the Baltimore Ravens
were playing the New York Jets and at the first
half that was a very close game that when New
York Jets were actually winning going into halftime. But good

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teams find a way to say, hey, we're actually playing
piss poor right now. We need to get our craft together,
and you find a way to fix it. And they did.
They end up winning that game twenty three to ten. Now,
should Baltimore be in New York, absolutely they should, but
they weren't, and they found a way. Nobody on this

(17:16):
New Orleans Saints team nobody. And I say that after
giving praise to Cameron Jordan Love that the man thirty,
you know, four years old, still putting in the work
trying to make it happen. I've given credit to Reid
for that interception return beautiful, thank you, But nobody on
this team is showing you what a good team has.

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There's nobody you really at the point where who can
you really say we're building around next year? There are
a couple of pieces. I can name your left tackle,
your right tackle, good pieces for the future, really good
pieces for the future. But you look around the offense.
That's about it, Ladies and gentlemen. If you talk about
really building the future, if you're being honest with yourself,

(17:58):
that you can really rely on in the future. Sure
of everybody on offense, it's two people just too Now
this is to say that Tyler shuck Nor even yes,
I'm still gonna mention his name, Spencer Ratler shouldn't be
given chances to succeed in the future. I'm not saying that,
but I'm saying the only two people who have shown
you these are worth keeping long term this season or

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your left tackle on your right tackle, and that is
that's the depressing statement to make. And again I'm very
upset because it's Falcons hate week. I've said it many times.
I'm okay if the New Orleans Saints have bad years,
but if there's two games you win every year, two
games you win every year, it's the Atlanta Falcons, and
that's serious business here. Cameron Jordan gets it. I don't
think Kellen Moore doesn't. I don't think Kella Moore gets

(18:42):
how important this rivalry is. I didn't feel that burning
passion that need to win, that make it happen, capmattitude.
I don't feel that. I feel in a lot of ways.
Correct me. If those who are here live there are
one hundred amazing Saints fans, shout to the who that's
you here live in a lot out of ways, Kella
Moore reminds me of Dennis Allen. Let me explain how

(19:06):
Dennis ound number one is a better coordinator based on
what we've seen for sure, but both of them have
this really to me irritating posture where they aren't expressive,
they don't get in your face, they don't try to
get the emotions into the game that are needed to
give that spark that sends you to the next level.

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Kelli Moore just doesn't show it. He doesn't have it.
Maybe he does and he hasn't shown it to anybody.
Maybe he's just biding his time till next year, and
this year is just one of those like, ah, well
we'll we'll, we'll do what we can, but we're clearly
going for year number two. Maybe that's how he is,
but I'm looking at it from someone who covered the
team professionally, I'm looking at it from a fan who's

(19:49):
followed the team his entire life. Where's the passion, Where's
the desire? Where's the anger of being absolutely embarrassed? Is
there any other word for it? Am I being dramatic?
Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm being honest. At Home
to the Atlanta Falcons, where is the fire? It needs

(20:09):
to be real. You need to be able to see
what's important to not only this team, but to this city.
And how can you not have the fire it takes
to win this football game, not even to win, to
win it's close to do what you have to do.
And they do have somebody on the coaching staff who
is that type of person out If you want a
example of it, shout to John and Rainey and James

(20:31):
who are calling out as Darren Rizzy now. At the
same time, there's a reason, generally speaking, special teams coaches
don't become head coaches. There are exceptions to that rule.
What's an example of an exception to that rule? Oh,
the team. I was just talking about the Baltimore Ravens
coach By Harball, who is a special teams coach. But
what is he He's also a leader of men, and

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one thing that I've said that the Saints need on
the field and on the sidelines for years now as
a leader of men. That was my same problem Dennis
Allen and I currently have the same problem with Kellen Moore.
The only issue is I actually have more of an
issue with Kellen Moore because at least with DA, I
trusted him as a coordinator. Right now, I have no
reason to trust Kellen Moore as a coordinator and I

(21:13):
don't believe he has the asserted is needed to lead men.
I just don't. And again maybe it's the frustrations coming out.
You know, Darren Rizzy's there, you know, knowing how Mickey
Loomis is in terms of structuring a team, we know
that Kellen Moore is going to have a year or two,

(21:33):
but heck, at this rate, Kellen Moore gets another year,
continues to go to and eight fire and put Darren
Rizzy there and just see what happens. Let's just see
what happens, because eleven games in you should see this offense,
even with subpar talent, doing something scoring points. Well, let's
rattle off how much the Saints has scored this year.
They've scored thirteen points twenty one, thirteen, nineteen, twenty six, nineteen, fourteen, three, ten,

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seventeen ten. In fact, it's been almost two months since
the New Orleans Saints offense has scored more than twenty points,
and you have to go all the way back to
the New York Giants game October fifth, all the way
back in week five, because remember the New Orleans Saints
are going into Miami next week, so that's gonna be
the thirtieth. Maybe they get it there, but if they don't,

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they'll have to do it in Tampa, which seems unlikely
at this point. This team could legitimately go the rest
of the season, maybe all the way of the New
York Jets game on the twenty first before this offense
scores twenty points again. And this is with not only
an offensive minded head coach, multiple offensive head coaches on

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this roster with that experience, multiple former quarterbacks on this
head coaching staff with experience, and your offense scored three
points a day. Even if we want to be very
kind and say it's nine points if you count the
miss field goals from your kicker, that's still pathetic. That's
a whole you want to know who else scored nine points.

(23:02):
The Monroe Moccasin's hockey team scored nine points. A hockey
team scored nine points against the Biloxi Breakers. Today you're
getting outscored by minor league hockey and doesn't have anything
to do with anything. No, but that's how pissed I
am to where if you have to see good sports
in Louisiana right now, you know what you need to

(23:24):
watch minor league hockey. That's what you need. If you
want to see good, successful, winning sports, you need to
see minor league hockey. By the way, shout out to
the Monro Morkins, who are second in their conference and
one today nine to one in a hockey game. Those
unfamiliar with hockey that tends to us to be a
sport where you score like three goals, four goals, think

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of it more like soccer, but with ice and sticks
and a whole lot of white people. And yet here
we are watching in the New Orleans Saint's professional football
team score three points on offense at home geinst the
Division rivals. I don't know if I've been this disgusted
in a while. And again it's Falcons, hey weeks, So
maybe I'm overly emotional. I apologize for those who come

(24:07):
to this channel for film studies and analytics. I've not
rattled off many stats tonight. I've rattled off a lot
of my frustration. But this is also one of those
things where they made you watch this game. They started
this game at three PM. Bro, you should have started
this game at three am. Nobody wanted to watch this
game or be at this game. You should just ran
this as a simulator in Madden twenty six and just said,
heck it, y'all go home. You'll go train some more

(24:28):
for fit the next one. I really don't care. I mean,
you might as well have another bye week. Just call
Miami and be like, hey, we're not gonna make it.
We're not gonna make it, y'all have this one. We're
gonna be running bear crawls and stadiums until we learn
how to score more than three points on offense coming
off of bye week. You have the bye week and
this week to prepare for your biggest division rival, and

(24:49):
you get three points on offense, Like that's just come on? What?
For those who are listeners on iTunes, Google, iHeartRadio, Spotify,
thank you for being a Hoodad. Thank you for putting
up with the New Orleans Saints this year. They even
put up with me in this podcast this year. Things
have definitely not gone our way in a lot of ways.

(25:11):
Shout out to Elliot still writing articles, right, I've not
hit him up. Not only has it just been rough
to want to get together do the podcast, but I've
had a lot of going on in family life. Obviously
I was sick in the hospital. A lot been going on,
so life's not been kind. But that's kind of a
point of where we're at. And I'm sure people like
Ted in the chat Leo James, we come to the

(25:35):
New Orleans Saints to escape for how bad life can be.
Sometimes that's what our sports team should be. Right, We're
not getting it right now. Did Vela get any legit
targets in the red zone? That's a good question. Actually,
don't have anything reliable on that. Let me rewatch the
game and get back to you. Now. Vela did have

(25:56):
three catches on seven targets, and there were some ones
he missed. I'm just gonna put it that way, but
there were some good plays there. Was it worth trading
a fourth round pick for? Well, that's that's debatable, but
I don't remember there being a play for him in
the red zone, which means that where we had multiple
of those opportunities down at the one yard line. Nope,

(26:19):
don't use the guy that's actually over six foot. Okay,
So that's the decision. And again this goes back to
why I complained about more and Hugh asked how much
is Kellamore's fault and how much is the old line?
It's definitely both. Can I give you an example, so
if you are watching live, we have the playlist up
where we can actually look at drives. You know what's

(26:40):
going on, what is actually happening, and you can see
some drives that if I told you where they started
with the down and discs were, you would assume, oh, well,
they probably scored a touchdown here. You would assume that.
But hey, let me tell you, ladies, gentlemen, you would
assume wrong. Let's let me give you some examples. Taysom Hill,

(27:02):
no gain inside the ten, Taysom Hill two yards to
get down to the five. Then we got first in five.
That was after a fourth and one first and five,
Tyler shuck four yards. Now we've got second and one
one yard line, Tyler Shuck left guard, no gain, all right,
directions out to Taysom Hill, fumba bumble Ruski all right, Well,

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intentional grounding ends up being that place that becomes a
nothing burger. That's the one time you see Blake group
he scorefield goal. But you add five plays inside the
ten yard line, none of them that honestly really aimed
at the end zone anyway, and you can't score a touchdown?
Is that the only time? Nay nay. Let's go back
to the previous drive. Let's go back and find other

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examples of the New Orleans Saints having an opportunity in
their area and not being able to succeed. First and
eight at the Atlanta eight, Tyler Schuck right guard, three yards,
Taysom Hill right guard three yards down of the two.
Third and two, Tyler Shuck left side one yard, and
then fourth and one on the one, Taysom Hill incomplete

(28:10):
passed to Valley. By the way, there's our answer. Bailey
did have that one attempt. It was from the Taysom
Hill pass. To quote my good friend Elias getting too cute.
They're killing more. How about you pass it when you're
at the five yard line. Have a little bit more space.
You know, why wait till the fourth and one and
try to get cute all for a guy who look

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as much as I love Taysom Hill. Let's be honest.
If you watch Taysom Hill and you're being honest, Taysom
Hill right now is not what he was two years ago,
five years ago. Taysom Hills not as fast, he's not
as strong, He's not as good now. I'm not saying
he can't be effective, but Taysom Hill is not as
good now as he was a few years ago. He's
to a degree living on his reputation. He's thirty five

(28:56):
years old. Though I don't expect him to be great,
I expect to be fine. Jerome Bettis was averaging three
yards to carry his final couple of years. He was
still solid enough to be relied upon, but it required
good coaching to make that believable. Ain't nothing believable right
now about this Saints offense? And that goes back to
Kellen Moore to answer the question previously asked. Yes, there's

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problems of the offensive line, Yes there's problems in the
wide receiver room, but it always comes back to the
head coach, who's in charge of the play calls, who's
in charge of the designs, who knows who's the best
players on this team? Should be Kellen Moore. Obviously the
New Orleans Saints fans know, But do they know? Do
the people on the sideline know? I'm not convinced. And

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here we are today, And then when you lose somebody
like Alva Kamara, it's tough to say, next man up
when you can't trust the guy calling the plays can
do the things needed to make that play happen. Right.
And when I mean play happened, I mean things like
Sean Payton's doing. I hate bringing up his name, but
you're looking at three head coaches now, if we're counting
an interim head coach, you're looking at three coaches now.

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Can't cut it? Not good enough? Well? Three ish. I'm
putting a little bit too more, too much credit to
our coordinators who have a chance to call plays. But
that's how far back you gotta go. And even though
Sean Payton is gone, I'm not advocating him to comeback.
What I am saying is there's just a certain moxie

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that you have to carry, a certain swagger, you have
to walk with a certain belief in yourself, borderline narcissism.
I would say, to be a great coach or player
in the NFL. If you've ever met an NFL quarterback,
all of them share one trade. They're very confident. They
are I've met a few that's not the case, but
generally speaking, the very confident. Same thing with coaches. I've
never really spoken to a good head coach that was like, yeah, well,

(30:46):
blah blah blah blah blah. They are very direct, and
whether they're right or wrong, they have intent with their
words and they have conviction in their actions. Give you example,
Sean Payyd bit him in an ass but remember in
the playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings where he's doing
the skull clap of the fans. Look, I'm not happy

(31:08):
how that turned up, and I'm sorry to bring up
painful memories to you chat, but would I rather have
that style of person leading my team one hundred percent?
And some people can disagree with that, and that's completely fine.
But I need that passion and I don't see it
from anybody on the field or on the sidelines. And

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that's a problem because usually we can be like, hey,
maybe rattler or Schuck or Neil or Lavee or you know,
the sparking and we can look at building in the future.
But if you don't trust what they're putting together, how
can you really look forward to what's there? Here we are,

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John says, I'm not happy about it, but I think
we're stuck with Kellimore for at least another two years.
I think you've definitely got a minimum of two years
of Kellimore, probably a minimum of three. I will say
this though, even Mickey Loomis won't keep a coach around.
If Kella Moore, let's say he only wins one more
game the rest of the season. If he only wins
one more game, so three wins, and then he does
the same thing next season, they're also going to pull him.

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And I do firmly believe that before anybody's like rav,
there's no way Mickey Loomis is gonna do it. Mickey
Loomis is not going to allow this team. Y'all can
dislike Mickey Loomis, and y'all can want Mickey Loomis to
be replaced. I do Mickey Loomas is not gonna let
the team have two straight three win seasons, not replace
the head coach, so he has to get better. So

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it is a call out to more. If he doesn't
get better, he's gone too. And if your resume is hey,
I had two seasons where we went three and fourteen,
you're not getting many head coaching offers in the near
future after that. So Kella Moore, get better, get gooder.
As the kids say, Ted says, Gale is not a
successful business person. What makes you think she'll be a

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successful owner? That's fair. Now, I'm not trying to down
miss Gale as a person. I think she's a wonderful lady.
I think she has a compassionate heart, and I think
she really cares for the city of New Orleans. But
does that mean I believe she knows what the heck
she's doing. Is the owner of the two entities that
bring the most money into the city. No, I don't
think she has any freaking clue. And again, and that's

(33:18):
not an insult to her, it's this isn't her thing.
She wasn't a career businesswoman. She married Tom Benson. Again,
I'm not saying she's a bad woman. I'm not saying
anything negative about her as a person. I'm speaking to
her experience. Do I trust her to do what's right
to lead this team? Of course? Not why because she

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openly said two weeks ago that the front office of
the New Orleans Saints are doing a great job. And
even if you're the most ardent defender of Mickey Loomis
and Jeff Ireland and the entire group in the front office,
really hard to say they're doing a great job when
your football team has won two games. Maybe if we
were three weeks in, sure, but that's not the case. Yes,

(34:02):
but hey, we'll see what things look like next week.
Right now, I'm frustrated, I'm mad. Everything's negative. Everything's negative.
Maybe I'll feel different after Miami. We'll see. But I
do want to say one thing about the chat the
hood ats all of who that nation appreciate y'all. The
fact that y'all are here, the fact that y'all are

(34:24):
spending time with this team, given the state of where
we all see they're at, really shows how die hard
and true that y'all are. Y'all clearly bleed black and
goals to shout out to you. But like I said before,
if you truly want to see good sports right now,
you better hit up your minor league hockey. It's about

(34:45):
the only time you go find good sports in the
state of Louisiana right now, because I think everybody nobody
wants me to talk about the LSU Tigers. If we
even mentioned the name of the Pelicans, we're all going
to start puking in our seats. And the New Orleans
Saints are well, there's I know the way to put it.
The New Orleans Saints are currently the worst they've been
since Mike Ditko as the head coach. So here we are. Thankfully,

(35:08):
there are a couple of bright spots in this state
when it comes to sports. I would probably throw Tulane
up in there. That's debatable, but we can throw Tulane
and say, hey, TWU Lane's doing all right because they're
second in the AAC right now, right So, I mean,
give a little bit of love the Tulane, but certain

(35:31):
not giving any love to LSU. And if you're out
there as you're a diehard LSU fan, I'm sorry, I'm
not trying to be mean to you, but LSU football
doesn't look like LSU football. LSU football is sad right now.
I mean not to rub it in, but LSU freaking
lost to Vanderbilt. I mean, bruh, you barely beat Western Kentucky. Yeah,

(35:57):
it's anyway. I love and appreciate y'all who dads. That's
what I was really trying to say. I love it,
appreciate you who that ads. Thank y'all for being lord
of this team, for being a lord of this podcast,
being lord of me and my family. I want to say,
thank y'all. I appreciate y'all who that God bless I'll
catch you on the next episode. We'll see you then,
thank you for being you. See you then,