Good morning, everybody, the simple handicap for Friday, August 23rd. This is another

AFC South episode today. We'll be looking at the New Orleans Saints. If you have not yet

listened to the other episode, which was uploaded today on the Atlanta Falcons, you can find

that in your podcast feed as well. There's been three episodes uploaded in the last 12 or so hours.

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Let's talk Saints.

The word I would use to describe for this entire preview in my outlook for the Saints in 2024 is me and that's maybe

being a little bit generous but I I am not excited about the Saints team at all and it's maybe

a little bit weird because you might be listening and have an idea of what's going on with the

saints and think that this is a team that I could find a way into liking,

but I just, I can't get there.

I've tried.

I feel like it should be a team that I like, but I just, I can't get there.

And the biggest reason why you might think that I like this team and why I think I should

like this team is because you have an old, stale,

outdated offensive coordinator in Pete Carmichael, who quite frankly has only been with

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