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Speaker 2: Saints wrapped up day two of minichamp today. They did
Speaker 2: more situational work Spencer Ratler again going with the ones.
Speaker 2: Tyler shuck the twos. Rattler went ten of sixteen, Chuck
Speaker 2: nine of fifteen. Here's wide receiver Chris Lave on the
Speaker 2: work the offense has done so far.
Speaker 3: The young qbs are good. I don't think they are
Speaker 3: gone calling we're gonna come in and have hiccups. I
Speaker 3: feel like they got a good head or shoulders. They
Speaker 3: got good IQ. They're ready to play the NFL ball.
Speaker 3: So I'm excited whoever whoever get that starting job. They're
Speaker 3: both really good. I'm excited whoever gets that, and we're
Speaker 3: gonna be ready for that. So far, you go, have
Speaker 3: really only done seven on seven.
Speaker 2: What are you getting out of that? And are you
Speaker 2: excited to do a.
Speaker 3: Full eleven on eleven session? Oh yeah, man, I've been
Speaker 3: I've been ready to get eleven on eleven but seven
Speaker 3: on seven is great too, just getting the time and down,
Speaker 3: getting everything down from from the first read to the
Speaker 3: fourth read, got to got to keep going through progressions.
Speaker 3: But like I said, they're both They're both doing a
Speaker 3: great job Tyler and Spencer. And when Jake's gets back
Speaker 3: out there, I'm excited to see him too.
Speaker 1: It's kind of the whole construction of everything being new here.
Speaker 4: What you know, what do you like about it?
Speaker 3: I love him, man. I love the new coaching staff.
Speaker 3: They bring great energy. We got the same receiver coach,
Speaker 3: but everybody, everybody else around the building is new. So
Speaker 3: a lot of love of winning culture they bring up
Speaker 3: coming from Philly. Uh, But I'm excited for for what
Speaker 3: we got upcoming this year.
Speaker 2: The team ended practice walking through a lot of their
Speaker 2: run plays. Post practice, head coach Kellen Moore said that
Speaker 2: Alvin Kamara will absolutely be heavily involved in the run
Speaker 2: in past game.
Speaker 4: Alvin's obviously one of the premier players in our in
Speaker 4: our league. His abilly run the football and play in
Speaker 4: the past game, and so certainly when every aspect of that,
Speaker 4: He's gonna be a really big time impactful runner running
Speaker 4: the football first and foremost and then obviously the past game,
Speaker 4: his ability to create matchups is gonna be a huge
Speaker 4: advantage for us. And so what's really fun being around
Speaker 4: Alvin is his mental capacity is really high. He understands
Speaker 4: football at a really, really high level. He's uh, he's
Speaker 4: played so much game and so I really enjoy and
Speaker 4: I look forward to more and more of those conversations
Speaker 4: as we go through this of teaming up on this thing,
Speaker 4: and so it'll be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Kamara said he's feeling good. He was training in Colorado.
Speaker 2: His longtime trainer now works for Colorado under Dione Sanders,
Speaker 2: so he is now training there. He's at the elevation.
Speaker 2: Definitely was tough, and he feels like he is in
Speaker 2: extremely good shape, different shape than he has been before.
Speaker 2: He has been taking this week to get to know
Speaker 2: the new players and coaches.
Speaker 4: It's cool.
Speaker 5: It's cool, I think bringing a new kind of different,
Speaker 5: different energy to you know, the team that I've been
Speaker 5: on my whole you know, my whole career obviously, so
Speaker 5: it's kind of been the same, the same since I
Speaker 5: got here, So now a change coming in, it's different.
Speaker 5: You know, I got to kind of train my mind
Speaker 5: to be like, all right, I can't look at how
Speaker 5: things were you used to be done. I gotta kind
Speaker 5: of get with this. So it's not hard. But uh
Speaker 5: again two days, it's cool. But we'll we'll see during camp,
Speaker 5: we'll camp sort what was this needed?
Speaker 4: This this changed I think the organization wise, you think
Speaker 4: this was needed.
Speaker 1: This is a fresh research.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yah, I think it. I think I think
Speaker 5: it was needed. I think you know, you you obviously
Speaker 5: in this league, you want to win. You know, we
Speaker 5: haven't been doing much of that, uh consistently enough at least. Uh,
Speaker 5: so you know, why not.
Speaker 4: Has anything changed for you just in terms of your
Speaker 4: all season.
Speaker 5: Same exact stuff. Yeah, it's the same thing I've been
Speaker 5: doing since my rookie year, you know, so nothing changed,
Speaker 5: same old, same old, Just focused, grinding, feeling feeling good.
Speaker 5: I feel, like I said every year, like I feel
Speaker 5: better than I did last year. So, you know, just
Speaker 5: the same thing. Man, I'm old now in Colorado.
Speaker 4: Huh in Colorado?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I've been. I've been in Boulder the whole time.
Speaker 5: So just out there training, same thing, like I said,
Speaker 5: working with Swayze. Uh, just getting it in man, feeling good.
Speaker 5: Hell yeah, man, I didn't. I ain't. I knew it
Speaker 5: was real, but I never thought I had to deal
Speaker 5: with it, So I'm like, this is probably not that real.
Speaker 5: I got out there, I was walking up the steps
Speaker 5: in the house, and like, I thought, something's wrong with me,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. I thought almost had to
Speaker 5: go to the hospital. But uh, now it's good. It's definitely.
Speaker 5: I feel like it's giving me a kind of a different,
Speaker 5: something new something for us, just like a different little
Speaker 5: wrinkle in my in my training because you can't run
Speaker 5: away from the elevation, so it's just been kind of
Speaker 5: helping me. I feel like I'm in a different type
Speaker 5: of shape.
Speaker 2: More said, getting the quarterbacks involved in the run game
Speaker 2: will be a big component of the offense. When you
Speaker 2: look at what they did with the Eagles and Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 2: he scrambled a lot. For this offense, it's gonna be
Speaker 2: a lot of RPO where the quarterback has the option
Speaker 2: of choosing between rushing or passing depending on the defense.
Speaker 2: We haven't seen a lot of it in camp, but
Speaker 2: Shuck did scramble for what looked like a touchdown today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, certainly, there's there's a few different paths that you
Speaker 4: can take. There's you know, from an offense perspective, the
Speaker 4: RPO game has increased. You got to play within the
Speaker 4: rules and understand, you know, the downfield component of it,
Speaker 4: which is always the stressor in the NFL. It'll be
Speaker 4: a part of our offense. You know. I think it's
Speaker 4: a great tools. We utilized it a lot last year
Speaker 4: in Philadelphia, and you know, that was a great experience
Speaker 4: going through that process, and so you know, as we
Speaker 4: go we'll get some guys healthy. Obviously, as we go
Speaker 4: through this process, we'll be able play in multiple personnel.
Speaker 4: We will play in multiple tight ends, We'll play with
Speaker 4: multiple receivers, multiple backs. I think that's a big emphasis
Speaker 4: for us is you know, how many different personnels can
Speaker 4: we get out on the field.
Speaker 2: As far as the kicking game goes, it was Charlie
Speaker 2: Smith who was up today. He went five of six,
Speaker 2: missing from forty nine, but absolutely crushed it from sixty one.
Speaker 2: That ball definitely would have been good from seventy maybe
Speaker 2: given him a little extra there, but there was definitely
Speaker 2: room to spare. Justin Reid, a safety does have experience
Speaker 2: jumping in and as he did it during a game
Speaker 2: in Casey when one of their kickers got hurt pregame.
Speaker 2: He had an extra point after Smith was done, and
Speaker 2: so they gave him an attempt to actually hit a
Speaker 2: field goal. They set him up from forty four. He
Speaker 2: missed it, but then Devon Godshaw stepped up and tried
Speaker 2: an extra of his own. It was a really funny
Speaker 2: moment because the ball didn't quite go, i mean off
Speaker 2: the ground. It dribbled a few yards. In the locker
Speaker 2: room afterwards, Godjab was saying that his legs were absolutely
Speaker 2: dead because of some drills of the alignment were doing
Speaker 2: earlier in practice. But it does look like this team
Speaker 2: is having a lot of fun and taking some lighthearted
Speaker 2: moments through the work that they're putting in. Defensively, It's
Speaker 2: been interesting watching the players line up in different places
Speaker 2: from play to play, from the secondary to the line.
Speaker 2: The base defense is a three to four, which the
Speaker 2: Saints haven't run full time since the nineteen nineties. Players
Speaker 2: like defensive ends Cam Jordan, Isaiah Foski, Carl Granderson, and
Speaker 2: Chase Young are now more outside linebackers. They're in a
Speaker 2: stand up two point stance. This just makes it difficult
Speaker 2: for the offense to identify who the fourth rusher is
Speaker 2: going to be on either side of the nose tackle.
Speaker 2: It's been Brian Brazi, Jonah Williams and Vernon Broughton who
Speaker 2: flank either side. However, that's just when they are in base.
Speaker 2: There have been and will be a lot of sub
Speaker 2: packages where we see additional players on the line. I
Speaker 2: grabbed Brazzi after practice to talk to him for a
Speaker 2: few after Moore was asked about Brazil by the media.
Speaker 2: So it's Minnie Camp. I know it's a little bit
Speaker 2: different for the linemen and you guys still have the
Speaker 2: pads on. But how have things been going for you
Speaker 2: guys out there?
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, no, it's been good. I think you know,
Speaker 6: it's a lot of indie which is good for us
Speaker 6: technique and we get to really hone in on our craft.
Speaker 6: Definitely different, you know, not as many competitive periods that
Speaker 6: you can really do without pads on. So but he's
Speaker 6: been great. The guys are getting after working hard. Coach
Speaker 6: Davis has been great teach, a great teacher. So it's
Speaker 6: been good.
Speaker 2: How is the different scheme right now? You guys are
Speaker 2: definitely lined up in a lot of different fronts, different
Speaker 2: people Besides you. So how has that been getting used to.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's been good. Like anything like whenever
Speaker 6: you have a new defense or offense come in, you
Speaker 6: got to learn it. It's you know, there's gonna be
Speaker 6: bumps in the road as you you try to get
Speaker 6: it all down. But you know, I think we're starting
Speaker 6: to kind of get over the hump and smooth things out,
Speaker 6: and are you know, not only learning it, but able
Speaker 6: to play fast and understanding it better now.
Speaker 2: So something that I've noticed is you're out there really vocal.
Speaker 2: So is that something that you're doing differently this year,
Speaker 2: trying to take more ownership of how people are lining
Speaker 2: up what you're doing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I think uh got kicked out of
Speaker 7: the way because sit down, No, it's been it's you know,
Speaker 7: I try to to Uh not only does it probably
Speaker 7: help the people around me, but it helps myself just
Speaker 7: talking through things and.
Speaker 6: And uh being vocal about it. I think it's just
Speaker 6: a way that I'm able to learn and and uh yeah,
Speaker 6: so it's just kind of something I've always done, I don't,
Speaker 6: you know, just kind of normal to me.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know, if it's just I haven't noticed it before,
Speaker 2: but you were really loud today. How about Devon got
Speaker 2: a shop and his attempt at the extra point there.
Speaker 6: He Devon rolled that ball about ten yards top down.
Speaker 6: So I mean, just really poor technique from the guy there.
Speaker 4: What is going on?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 6: I wish we could have camera on this right now.
Speaker 4: I certainly think his ability to rush inside and his
Speaker 4: ability to play in a couple other positions will be
Speaker 4: very valuable. And obviously when you look at our fronts,
Speaker 4: you know, by rule war a three four team, so
Speaker 4: there's you know, there's some odds, there's some unders, there's
Speaker 4: some overs, playing plenty of five down structures and so
Speaker 4: you know those guys are able to move across the
Speaker 4: line and create matchups.
Speaker 2: Well, there's been a lot to glean from the off
Speaker 2: season work so far OTAs through mini camp. We are
Speaker 2: eagerly awaiting training camp and when this team can get
Speaker 2: the pads on, because then we'll really see things start
Speaker 2: to evolve. One thing is for sure, it was great
Speaker 2: having the fans out there, and everybody is looking forward
Speaker 2: to seeing them again once training camp gets underway.
Speaker 4: It's been great, it's been It's been an awesome opportunity
Speaker 4: for us just to have fans there, Bring the energy,
Speaker 4: bring the juice. This community is really really special. Hopefully
Speaker 4: they come out throughout training camp we create that environment
Speaker 4: has ultimately come fall. We're going to be asking and
Speaker 4: meeting them on Sundays.
Speaker 2: For all of our other mini camp coverage, just head
Speaker 2: to New Orleans Saints dot com and you can find
Speaker 2: all of the photos, interviews, and highlights there. We'll keep
Speaker 2: you posted on any news over the next month, but
Speaker 2: the players are getting a little bit of time off
Speaker 2: before we hit the ground running once training camp starts
Speaker 2: at the end of July. So thanks so much for
Speaker 2: listening and we'll talk again soon.
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