WEBVTT - Mike Hoss on Saints Podcast | May 15, 2025 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:09.680 Welcome in to the New Orleans Saints Podcast, presently by Seatcake. 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:14.200 You'll hear from players, coaches, broadcasters and writers that cover 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:18.400 the NFL on a daily basis. The New Orleans Saints 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:25.080 Podcast starts right now. Here's your host, Aaron Summers. 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:30.720 Welcome to the New Orleans Saints Podcast. Aaron Summers here, 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:33.879 we have a lot to break down because it's been 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:35.960 a week since we had a podcast and a lot 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.319 has happened. The schedule got released Wednesday night. Now we're 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:42.440 all booking trips, figuring out when we are available or 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:46.040 not for the upcoming season. And there's been some news 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.199 on the quarterback in the front as well. So we're 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:50.280 bringing in the Voice of the Saints, my cost to 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.640 talk to us about everything that we can think of 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.520 that has happened in the past week. Mike, how are you. 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.400 I'm well, I was like you, I mean, I'm very 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:04.559 enamored with the schedule. I mean, right, it's fifteen people 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.759 in a room a few months ago deciding our fate 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.880 for the next six months. Right, And so I got 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.160 two weddings I'm involved in. I'm like, oh, you know, 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.240 trying to So it's just I find it interested I 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.639 just love the schedule re lease. I for whatever reason, 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.760 I'm a very symmetry guy, and I hate things with 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.880 that are not symmetry because it feels unfair. And when 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:27.520 I do that, I look at home in a way 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.440 when you play the playoff teams, when you play your South, 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:34.480 your division team. So I get way deep into it. 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:36.880 But you're right, you know, I mean many mini camp 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:41.240 was you know, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. But so much has happened. Yeah, 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.319 I mean the Derek Carr situation on April eleventh, that's Friday. 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.240 I was like, what, you know, it was such a shock, 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:51.520 and then within a month to May tenth, it was 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.720 done retired like so and essentially it really kind of 0:01:55.720 --> 0:02:00.320 happened quick, but didn't feel like it did. They have 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.880 the whole thing resolved and him retiring, which quite frankly, 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.840 how do you feel about Derek Carr? It helped the Saints, 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:12.320 I mean helped them financially. He could have gone to 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.399 camp and did a sixty nine million dollar hit next 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:20.639 year cap wise. So it's just been so sports talk 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:25.240 shows are having a field day and they will continue to. 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.440 No one saw that coming, and I think that's why 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.680 even from the very beginning with the injury news that 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.960 came out. The whole thing was kept under wraps, so 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:39.000 we don't exactly know the timeline, what was said, who 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.079 talked to who, But there is finality to it now, 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.679 which I think is the big key in all this. 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.720 We know now Derek Carr is not going to be here. 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.600 New head coach Kellen Moore comes in and gets to 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.240 move forward with a new slate, really a full new 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:58.520 coaching staff, a ton of new players, and completely different 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.680 looking quarterback rooms. So a lot to get into on 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.399 that front. But you mentioned the schedule being your favorite thing, 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.080 so what stood out to you the most. 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:12.080 Well, obviously the primetime situation. I mean, first time in 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.919 twenty five years. First off, I didn't realize until yesterday 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.480 before the Skelul commement. I thought you had to have 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:19.639 a game. I thought everybody got a game. I don't 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:21.919 care what it was. I thought, you know, but Carolina 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:25.320 didn't have one last year. So to go from twenty 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:30.400 twenty one where you had five primetime games to zero, 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.960 A lot of three o'clock games but no primetime games. 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.560 I mean, it is what it is. I mean, you've 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.520 got to earn the right to play in those games. 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:44.000 The NFL is not an equal opportunity employer. They want 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:48.280 what they want, and unfortunately for the Saints, they've not 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.760 necessarily played well in primetime of recent and it hasn't 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:54.920 even really been close. And I think that's been the problem. 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:58.280 It's not that they were really in games. You know, 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.800 they've in the last four years, so it's been a 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:05.600 struggle for whatever reason. And so that obviously stood out. 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.600 Number one for me was primetime. Then I look at 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.560 what I always called the imbalance, and I used to 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:16.240 always think, and I believe this until last night, still 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:20.679 kind of that the NFL is not fond of giving 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.920 New Orleans a ton of home games in September, right 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:28.560 in the early season, hurricane season October. I just maybe 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:30.120 it's in the back of my mind, maybe it's not, 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:33.280 maybe it's just me, but they've had three of their 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:36.160 first five on the road in three of their last 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:40.400 four years. But this year, boy, it's front loaded, right, 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:44.320 four of your first six, five of your first eight 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:49.640 games are at home. You better make your hey at 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:53.080 that point. You don't play a division opponent until Week eight, 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.960 so five of your first eight at home. But then 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:01.000 the math of course flips because you play six of 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:05.720 your last nine games, including the final two, on the road. 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:07.480 This team has always been a pretty good road team. 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.440 But you can't look at that situation and go, let's 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.320 plan on that to you know, make back some of 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.440 the losses be made at her You've got to win it. 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.120 They're not good teams coming to the Supernowner's one that 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.240 has a winning record, that's Tampa. Other than that, no 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:26.120 one has a winning record. So you got must make 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:30.040 your your your money at home this year, winning and early. 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.600 With the no primetime games, I do think though, it's 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:37.680 an opportunity to establish what this team is going to 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.040 look like under Kellen Moore without a ton of people 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.800 scrutinizing things. Kind of fly under the radar for a 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.960 little while, build your brand. The last time the Saints 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:50.240 didn't have a primetime game was in two thousand and 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.359 they won the NFC West and they went on to 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.560 win the franchise's first playoff game. So if we can 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.640 do that again get back into the playoffs, I think 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:58.680 everybody's gonna be happy. 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.880 Yeah, I think I'm fine with flying under the radar, 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.280 and I'm fine with quite frankly, this team having a 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:09.159 little chip on the shoulder that people that disrespect them 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.160 so much that you're one of three teams that didn't 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.120 have one. Now, Tennessee surprises me a little bit, just 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.719 you got the number one pick, like you'd figure early 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.840 in the season they throw that cat on there somewhere 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:26.840 in Cleveland, you know who doesn't. But man, I totally 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:30.240 agree it's and it's also let's say, let's say we 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.040 are not the coach, but you're gonna go with a 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.560 rookie quarterback, whether it's Spencer who's played in some games, 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:41.360 or it's Jake, or it's Tyler. Quite frankly, this is 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.080 not you don't want to have to play the first 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.080 play schedule. You want to be against the teams that 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:49.200 are struggling as well. And that's exactly what this season is. 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:53.279 Of their seventeen opponents, their average record is seven and ten. 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.279 So if you're gonna roll out some newness and some 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.360 stand of the radar, you know, this is kind of 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:00.000 the year to do it. 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.800 If you look at the overall strength of schedule, the 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.240 Saints have the second easiest one in the league. So 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.960 again to your point, it set up very well for 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.240 the Saints in the situation that they're in with a 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:16.120 lot of new on this team, what teams and stretches 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.520 do you feel like will be the biggest challenge. 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:23.920 It's you know, it's tough because of what's are teams? 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:28.880 How much better are our teams? You start off three, 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.560 you start off a three NFC West right away, Arizona, 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.080 San franc Seattle. You know, you have to me, you 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.080 got Buffalo at Chicago in September and October. That's going 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.240 to be lovely. Those games could have been you know, 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:43.080 that would have changed a lot. Ye. I just feel 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.720 like despite the fact that this team has won its 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:51.080 first last six the NFL's longest active streak hombo just 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.320 open season openers, and they've been to and zero their 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:58.640 last two seasons. That they get they they're climbing up 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.720 hill in that first eight nine games, right they're and 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:05.480 you just continually climb up hill. So you look at 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:09.120 those games and I kind of go out of those 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.240 first four Arizona, San Francisatle Buffalo, you got to come 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.800 out of that two and two. That next stretch Giants, 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.720 New England at home at Chicago, then finally Tampa. But 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:24.680 it's home those four games. If you are two and two, 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.960 you know can be you know, five and three, six 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.320 and two something like that. Now you've set yourself up 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.400 for that for that back end, which is they're not 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:37.280 necessarily you know, world beaters. I mean, your final four 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:44.200 games are Carolina Jets, Tennessee, Atlanta, so you know they're 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.360 not you know, like you can't win these games, but 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.520 they're just so much on the road. When you know 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.800 what's Miami going to be? Like, you face a lot 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:54.280 of teams, what's Atlanta. It's about pressure, you know Atlanta. 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:59.760 Atlanta has six prime time or standalone games, six five 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.520 time and they play Indie in Berlin. You talk about 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:08.040 pressure on a franchise. Tar Fontineau and those guys to perform. 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.000 The NFL thinks you're you're you get more than Tampa 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.320 uh prime time and standalone. So I feel like that's 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.360 where they're You know, there's there's pressure out there. And 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.559 I don't care what anybody says NFC South is open 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:25.560 for business or care that Tampa's won the last four. 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.520 I do not care. That's the team the Saints to 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.480 play the best against, especially on the road. But you're 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:33.800 gonna have to you can have to sweep some people 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.840 in the South. You can't this. You can't get swept 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:37.560 and you can't one on one. You're gonna have to 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.720 play better in the South this year. 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.040 I think when you start the season off, as you mentioned, 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.680 Arizona at home, a team that you could definitely beat, 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.679 and they haven't done well in season openers, and they 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.120 haven't done well here in the Superdome. But the stretch 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.959 between the San Francisco forty nine ers and then you 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.679 go at Seattle, and then the next week you go 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.920 all the way across the country to Buffalo. Playing in 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:04.160 Seattle is going to be hard. And then go in 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.640 and play against Buffalo, who is a team that was 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.880 one of the most difficult teams to play last season, 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.240 one of the teams it has a winning record on 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.120 the schedule for the Saints from last year. That is 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:16.920 is going to be a tough few games to get 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.040 through early in the season, right. 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.199 And it's and so, And you will have already traveled 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.600 to the West Coast once for the first preseason game, 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:30.720 which undoubtedly will be practice. Go out there early, go 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.800 back to Calvine, spend some time, which I love. I 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.360 think that's I couldn't have you couldn't have set it 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.160 up better. And for me, how who cares for me? 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.960 But I mean for this team because I feel like 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.560 where it was last year, before that second game they had, 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.080 they were you know, the Niners were beat up, but 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.360 the Saints were just as beat up. You played a 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.679 preseason game. This gives you the opportunity to practice here 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:57.240 in Metali, go out there, spend some time, get back 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.439 in so far where you've not played well, and you've 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.440 got to come back to so far. But that's a 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.560 West coast trip. And then week three you go back 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.439 to the West coast. And the Saints have three West 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:11.520 Coast trips in the season two, you know, in the 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.280 first eight. If you want to consider Week five and seats, 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:18.240 you're right, those those that at Seattle at Buffalo, I 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.679 mean you come out of that one one that that's 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.800 that's a that's a victory. Yeah sure. But to me, 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.000 I think that the ability to go out there to 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.800 so far and to get out of this heat, then 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:32.440 I think it's gonna be hugely. 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.440 Beneficial if they can come away with the wind, Like 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:38.840 you said, you build some confidence in that stadium where 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:40.959 they haven't played so well. When then you know you're 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:42.600 gonna have to go back there against the Rams where 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:46.199 there's all this history, and yeah, that's later in the season. 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.080 I don't I don't know why. It's just I don't 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.720 like the building. I don't like it's funny. I don't 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.000 like the building. They don't play well there. It's a 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:57.600 crappy press booth for the radio five billion. I'm like, man, 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:59.720 I could have done so much more with this money. 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.800 But they need to. They need to get off that 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:04.520 snide and play better at that building. 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:06.720 Was it because you had to go through it was 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:08.800 that hurriquake, a hurricane. 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:12.439 An earthquake at one same game. That was a preseason game. 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.480 That one didn't bother me too much. But they've just 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.439 they just have not They have had Thursday night games 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:21.360 out there. They just have not played their best in 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.360 LA against either team. Really. 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:28.960 Yeah, first game against the division is, as you mentioned, 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.880 against the Bucks, not until week eight, so they do 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.040 have some time to figure themselves out before they have 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.880 to go against the division opponents. But what is the 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:41.680 most intriguing game and why is it against the Bears? 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:47.079 You know, I guess I don't I know why. Again, 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:51.800 I think we'll know Chicago's better, right, And so I 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.880 don't know if Dennis was the head coach, Yeah, I 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.840 don't think. I don't I think the defensive coordinator going 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.840 against his defense. I mean, we know what that defense 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:03.800 is going to be. Like the quest, I think the 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.160 bigger question is where are these teams through six games? 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:12.920 Right that October nineteenth, Week seven at Chicago at noon. 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.240 You know, last time they played was here in twenty 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:22.400 three Saints one. You know, I look at the I look. 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.560 I always go Division kind of first, and to me, 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:32.520 your Tampa game Week eight, They've played terrible at home 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.600 against Tampa of late, right, and I've played well in 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.000 the road, but I haven't always won. So Week eight 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:44.280 and Week fourteen at Tampa, I just you know, I don't. 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:46.480 I just don't know. I can't. I can't get a 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.880 feel for Atlanta. I got a pretty good idea about Tampa. 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.839 They seem to get better. Baker Mayfield gets better. I 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.200 don't care who's the offense coordinator. They get better in 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:59.600 the draft, and so I feel like you've got to 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:04.480 that's your first division game, Week eight, October twenty six. 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.920 It's three o'clock, and then you don't play another one 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:13.240 until November twenty third and after a bye week in Atlanta, 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.280 and I just feel like that game can do a lot. 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:20.000 That's a stretch of three or four games at home Giants, 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:25.360 New England, Road, Chicago, then Tampa. So man, I just 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:26.520 feel like that's an important one. 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.200 Yeah, the Bucks have won their last three games here 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.120 in the Superdome, and we don't need to talk about 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.560 what happened last year. Hopefully it does leave a little 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.360 bad taste in the Saints' mouths to come out here 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:42.840 and dominate that game because of how poorly they played 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.440 the last time they faced the Bucks here. But you 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:46.800 never know how that's going to work out as a 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.800 new coaching staffs. You don't know how much it matters 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.800 to them how they played last year. Maybe play, but I. 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:55.640 Think, like you said, I think they do. They don't 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:57.480 do it. They certainly don't think about it as much. 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.200 Maybe they about what happened and you know, hey, they 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.320 came in and embarrass us in our building, but not 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.760 like hey, the last time they played in twenty two 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.600 at home, and you know that. I think a game 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.200 that's important for another reason is that Arizona game, And 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:17.640 you talked about it with Kyler Murray Saints struggle stopping 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.960 running quarterbacks last year? Is that going to be a 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.720 theme for the like are we going to they going 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.520 in and he rushes for one hundred and five, you 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.480 know on third and eighteen, picks up first downs. You know, 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:32.360 we we know this chapter and you don't want to 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.680 live it again because once you live it, you've got 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:37.720 to keep living it until you stop it. And so 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.720 I think that is a that's a statement game about 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.880 how where this its first game, where this defense is 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.440 with stopping kind of mobile quarterbacks block parties not nearly 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.040 as mobile, but Ken Josh Allen week four, you know, 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:54.280 and men, and it's not running quarterbacks like RPO runs. 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:58.080 It's the escapability turning a third and fifteen into a 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:01.120 first down that are just killed and you've got to 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.720 got to stop that and you've got to be able 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.400 to stop the run period or you know, just going 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.560 to run it down, you know, up the middle of 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:09.040 every play. 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.480 Okay, which game are you looking forward to calling the most? 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:17.480 Because I haven't been there a long long time. I'm 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:21.040 looking forward to at Buffalo Orchard Park Stadium. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:22.040 Is not going to be last year? 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.600 Right the very first game I ever did in New 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:29.880 Orleans was a preseason game in Buffalo in August was 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:34.280 a Saints preseason game. And so it's and you know, 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:38.000 no one will give the Saints a chance. That'll be 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:39.760 a tent way, you know, not knowing where they do 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.440 it were one two three, they come out, you know, 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.360 like last year, one two three. Who knows what the 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.960 spread would be, but nobody expects you to win. And 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.240 I just think that'll be It's a it's a great atmosphere. 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:54.240 Buffalo fans are very much like New Orleans. It's small market. 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.800 They live and die with their team. And so and 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:03.160 thank gosh, it's gonna be September twenty eighth, It'll be autumn, right, 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.760 and so I'm looking forward to to that again. They 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:07.960 got to be a fun game to call. 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.240 Well, coming into this season, for the first time since 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.280 two thousand and six, we will have a new head 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.159 coach and a new quarterback. It's been a minute that 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:19.920 two thousand and six season was very successful. So what 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.720 is your take on the quarterback room here and the 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:27.040 departure Derek Carr and where that leaves this team? 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.879 The Derek Carr situation kind of it didn't surprise me 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.080 now that we know, if you'd told me in April 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.360 he's got a torn labor you know, and some degenerative rotator. 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:40.359 Come all right, Well it changes this conversation. But we 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.719 didn't know that, so I'm surprised, but now that I know, 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.399 not as much. Look, Derek Carr came in in the 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.000 second year, the Dennis Allen, who not fans were not 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:53.160 necessarily Again with the Dennis Allen, you were on one 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.600 side of the fence of the other, very few people 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:57.639 at all. I don't have an opinion. No, no, you 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:00.359 had an depinion on Denis, and Derek come in there. 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.600 So he's he's kind of that same lightning rod. And 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.240 I look at that first season and he started every game, 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.879 got hurt three times, came back and started the very 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.119 next week. He showed you some of his kind of 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:16.400 core toughness, but it didn't change anything. You were still 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:21.359 he was a lightning rod and that wasn't gonna change. 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.000 I kind of agree with you and the fact that 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:28.680 he did retire in May. It's over done. He's not 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.600 gonna get traded, He's not gonna end up somewhere else 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:35.080 at the Saints. You're going to play in week two, right, Uh, 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.800 it does give this room the ability to go forward, 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.120 and so I think I think it's Tyler Shuck's job 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:46.240 to lose. I just do you know, camp, we'll we'll 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:48.479 learn them more. But at some point, you can't you know, 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.399 at four right now with Heckers, I still kind of 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:53.560 thought they'd get a veteran, and they still might at 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:56.880 some point once they figure out who there three are 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:00.400 and maybe who that fourth might be. But you can't 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:04.359 spend all camp trying out three. You gotta you gotta 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:06.840 at some point you gotta figure out pretty early on 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.320 who's gonna be my guy, because that guy's got to 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:12.520 get ready for three preseason games, which they'll all play 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.840 some in the preseason. That's you know. Even Kellen said 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:17.639 that the other day. You know, we're gonna learn a 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.080 lot more once you get the camp and once you 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.440 you know, they didn't talk about the practice with the Chargers. 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:27.360 I'm saying that and the preseason games. But we talked 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:29.480 about this last night on w W Wells. I'm not 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:32.600 playing Tyler Shuck unless I got my first team line 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:35.680 and are very close to my first team line. So then, now, 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:37.399 how many STAPs do you want him to get He 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:40.960 needs the reps, but I don't need everybody, everybody on 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.359 the officer line getting reps. Now, that depends what are 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.160 we doing with Banks. Are we moving for Waga? Are 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.520 we moving Penny? You could have a situation where, you 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:51.399 know what, my starting line could use some reps. Everybody's 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:54.880 moved around, and you know we saw in the mini 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:58.119 camp that Kelvin Bank played everywhere. Yeah, played played across 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:00.520 the line. So I don't I don't know that, but 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:05.320 I'm it's it's a new era, right, I mean, it's 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.359 a new you know. It's funny you went back to six. 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:11.320 I'm like, we had the post Drew Brees new era 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:14.240 after twenty then we had the post Sean Payton air 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:16.440 after twenty one twenty one. By the way, we had 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:19.560 four starting quarterbacks and four kickers, so we went right 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:22.560 from Drew to Holy cow. This is what the rest 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:25.600 of the league's been dealing with. This sucks, right, We've 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.720 had eight quarterbacks in the last four years. So new 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:33.960 era of Darren Razzie Dennis, new coach, Kellen and new quarterback. 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.040 I'm fine with this being a new era, but after this, 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:39.159 we don't get a new we're done new Eras for 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:42.640 a while. I want some stability and some victories and 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:46.399 some games that mean something. That's what I kind of want. 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:50.080 On this schedule. You know, they fall behind two and four, 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:52.320 two and five to you know, you fall behind early. 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:56.399 You don't really have these meaningful games I'm talking And 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:59.520 on this schedule you could have some meaningful games that 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:02.960 begin it three o'clock in the afternoon, right four home 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:05.600 three o'clock games. Three of them are three twenty five, 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:08.320 so you can go to LSU the night before, wake up, 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:13.240 no rush. And I want the atmosphere back, yeah, right, 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:16.680 I mean noon games sometimes it's a it's a tough 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:19.200 atmosphere for a team that is totally so I want 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:23.320 games that matter and the atmosphere back in this In 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:25.280 this I say that building. This building is where I'm 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:27.879 sitting right now because it's been a while. It's been 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:31.239 a while since we've had a game that mattered, I 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:35.480 mean mattered in this building. I hope that's the situation 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:36.919 this year, and I think it can be. 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:39.679 Trying to put stress on me for the end of 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:42.679 the season, coming down to whether we win or lose 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:45.280 against the Falcons to go into the playoffs. 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:49.760