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Hey everybody, this is your GM, your back row

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dom, it's your GM Kale who currently is not on

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the team right now, but don't you worry about

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it. Here to bring you episode 4 of the Stack

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and Shed series, but this time we're talking

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about the Saints, alright? Now for all of you

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who don't know, we're covering all 32 teams,

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so nobody is going to be neglected, okay? Now

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we're going to cover a few different areas, and

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those areas are what went wrong, what do they

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need, stack or shed, their draft picks, one move

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I would do in their cap space. So for all my

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Saints fans, buckle up. It's going to be a little

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bit controversial, but just follow with me. Let's

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get into it. All right, let's get into it. So

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what went wrong in the Saints season? And I will

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venture to say it was an inconsistent offense.

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Now, coming into the season, we all knew that

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the Saints had undergone a lot of change. For

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starters, they just hired Kellen Moore, Derek

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Carr just retired, and they were starting to

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give Spencer Rattler an opportunity. So I don't

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think nobody had a high expectation for this

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offense. However, we have to highlight that this

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offense doesn't have a lot to work with. Sure,

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you have Chris Alave and Alvin Kamara, but those

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are only two people. Did anybody expect Tyler

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Shuck to come in and light it up as a rookie?

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Did anybody expect Spencer Rattler to light it

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up? No. Now, according to Sumer Sports. Spencer

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Rattler started in 8 games and played in 9 games,

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and his stat line was 257 attempts for 174 completions,

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1 ,586 passing yards, 8 touchdowns, 5 interceptions,

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6 .2 yards per attempt, and a 67 .7 completion

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percentage. Tyler Shucks started in 9 games and

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played in 11 games. His stat line was 327 attempts

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for 221 completions, 2 ,384 passing yards, 10

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touchdowns, touchdowns, 6 interceptions, 7 .3

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yards per attempt, and a 67 .6 completion percentage.

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Now, when we look at their offensive rankings,

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they had the 23rd ranked offense, and they averaged

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18 points per game, 313 .6 yards per game, 5

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yards per play, and 28 touchdowns. They were

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13th in passing offense, and they averaged 219

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.3 passing yards per game, 5 .8 passing yards

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per game, and 19 passing touchdowns. They were

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13th in rushing offense, and they averaged 94

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.5 three rushing yards per game, 3 .7 rushing

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yards per play, and nine rushing touchdowns.

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Now, what do the Saints need? And that is more

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offensive production. And the two ways that you

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can go about that is by figuring out who's going

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to be your franchise quarterback and bringing

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in offensive weapons. By making these investments,

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you're increasing the floor and ceiling of this

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offense while assessing both Tyler Shuck and

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Spencer Rattler. Because my belief is this. The

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only way that you can truly assess your quarterback

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room is by investing into your quarterback room.

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And the way that you make that investment is

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by surrounding them with weapons. and when you

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do this you're also minimizing the margin of

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error these quarterbacks have so now they can't

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say oh i wasn't put in the right situation to

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be successful oh i wasn't given enough weapons

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in order to truly showcase my skills because

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why the organization made every single effort

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to make all the investments they need to make

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into you in order to see if you are the franchise

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guy now with that being said the question we

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all need to ask ourselves is stack or shed and

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i will eventually say stack and the reason The

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reason why I say that is because this team has

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some pieces. All they have to do is just continue

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to build off of it. Now, I'm not saying this

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team is going to take a significant leap like

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how the Commanders did where they went to the

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NFC Championship, but what I am saying is this.

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They have some building blocks. All the Saints

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have to do is just continue to build off of it

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and continue to make the right decisions. And

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please, for the love of God, clean your books.

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Why is it that every single year this team continues

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to nickel and dime, penny and pinch every single

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contract just to be in cap compliance? If you're

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having to do that every single year and you're

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not a contender, something's wrong. Whoever's

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giving out these contracts needs to be fired

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immediately because there's no way under the

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sun that you're continuing to be over the cap

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every single year. And when we look at their

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draft picks, they have their first, their second,

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their third, two fourth round picks, two fifth

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round picks, and a sixth round pick, which isn't

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bad, right? But just hear me out for a moment,

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Saints fans. Would you be open to the idea of

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trading down just a little bit? Now, I'm not

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saying you go from the eighth pick to the 22nd

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pick, but maybe if you trade down to maybe the

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12th or the 15th or maybe the 16th pick of the

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draft, you're still in a really good spot. Because

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let's be honest here. the upper part of the draft

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is inflated. In previous draft classes, the top

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part of the draft is usually where the creme

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de la creme players are at, right? Not in this

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draft class. I truly believe that the middle

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part of the draft is where a lot of the good

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players to maybe great players are going to be

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drafted. We all know that Fernando Mendoza is

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going to be drafted by the Raiders. That's a

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given, right? But what's gonna happen afterwards?

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Because I guarantee you the player that you really

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want would still be available if you traded down

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just a little bit. Because what we're seeing

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in this draft class is that positions that teams

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usually don't value very high are gonna have

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to be valued high. Case in point, safety, for

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instance, right? Caleb Downs is regarded as the

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best safety in this draft class. Do you really

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think someone like the Jets is gonna take him

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with the second overall pick in this draft? Especially

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when you realize that safety has one of the highest

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miss rates out of all the positions you can draft

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in the first round. Now, the only safety that

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I can remember that was drafted very high was

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Sean Taylor. Outside of him, Ed Reed wasn't drafted

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high. Troy Palomaro wasn't drafted high. All

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the great safeties were not drafted that high.

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So if I'm the Saints, I'm trading down just a

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little bit so I can acquire extra draft capital

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that I can use in either this draft class, the

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27 draft class, or trade for a player. Now, the

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one move that I would do if I was the Saints

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GM is draft an offensive player. And the reason

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why I say that is because outside of Chris Alave

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and Alvin Kamara, what else do you have? Now,

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let's be honest here. In this draft class, you

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have a lot of options at both receiver and tight

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end. If you want to get a power slot this year,

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you can go ahead and get it. If you want to get

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you an X, you can go ahead and get it. If you

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want to get you a Z, you can go ahead and get

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it. If you want to get you a 6 '4 receiver that

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is able to catch those 50 -50 contested balls,

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you can go ahead and do it. Or you can pivot

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and you can get you a really productive tight

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end because remember, a young quarterback's best

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friend is a really productive tight end. And

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honestly speaking, the only tight end that you

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really have that's been really productive is

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Taysom Hill, and he's a Swiss Army knife. Now,

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when we look at their cap situation, they are

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negative 28 .7 million over the cap. Which if

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we can be honest here, Mickey Loomis always finds

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a way to be cap compliant. Usually he just nickels

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and dimes every single contract like he does

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every single year. I don't know how he does it.

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I wish I can talk to his financial guy because

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wow, that is just magical work that he is doing

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every single year, okay? But I want to end this

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