Saints Add FREE AGENT QB, WR | Will Signings Impact Draft Strategy For New Orleans?

welcome to the AFR Saints Channel where we provide you daily content on your favorite team the New Orleans Saints do us a favor and hit that subscribe button be sure to leave your comments below and smash that like button who that well the New Orleans Saints just a couple of weeks out from the draft not done making free agent moves on Friday the additions of uh a quarter back and a receiver uh I want to delve into this and what it all means not only for the team in 2024 but what it might mean for draft strategy the receiver they signed equim is Saint Brown the quarterback is Kellen M who unfortunately all of us here probably reacted the exact same way when we think of Kellen M from outside the five M looking that way got it it's Rogers the aies win the game of the year in the Southeastern Conference course 2018 LSU Texas A&M 7472 in a bajillion overtimes uh that was Kellen M's highlight of his college career which was an otherwise um uneventful college career that involved a lot of stat compiling it's weird you realize Kell Mond is one of just three quarterbacks in the history of the Southeastern Conference to throw for 9,000 career yards and run for500 career yards the other two are Tim tibo and Dak Prescott that's it that's the list tibo Prescott Kell M it's like which doesn't belong it's that guy anyway well now that guy I guess is hour guy Kell M did meet with reporters on Friday was asked what Drew him to New Orleans with Clint and Andrew janoko in the past before um and uh just getting down here and I you know you kind of already hear it in the building just about the phenomenal culture here um you know great stability within the building and um you know just trying to make this team as good as I possibly can with the role that I that I'm given so you heard him say there about uh Clint and janoko so Clint of course to be Clint kubak the Saints offensive coordinator well Clint kubak was the offensive coordinator in Minnesota when Kell man was drafted there back in 2021 a little more from Mond on his experience with kubak and janoko two really experienced guys in the NFL um and you know I came in as as as a rookie into the system so I think Clint does a great job at being able to attack coverages giving quarterbacks you know clean reads and you know whether pure progression game or you know drive back or play action game and I think just being able to keep a defense off balance and obviously with you know Kamar on the team um you know just having a having a running back who can make a lot of big plays in in the Run game but also in the pass game I think you know we'll definitely utilize him and um you know some big time ways and then obviously with the speed we have on the outside I think Clint will do a really good job of trying to be creative and figure out how we can give you know a lot of these weapons to ball out in space I think that's encouraging the fact that if you're CL look we let's just do like the if a you know a plus b equals c sort of thing like uh we all are very optimistic about Clint kubak right is that fair I mean in this off seon and listen my hands in the air I don't know that there's been anybody over the last 12 18 months that has that have been more critical of Dennis Allen Derek Carr the New Orleans Saints than me I mean you all know how I feel I feel like a lot of people have jumped on this bandwagon here after last season but I've I've been out here driving this bus well the one thing I think we can all agree is after the season moving Pete Carmichael out getting a new voice offensively bringing in Clint kubak trying to pluck a branch from that Shanahan tree the Shanahan McVey tree that that feels like that's the right thing well if you trust kubak and kubak was in Minnesota when they drafted Kell Mond then it stands the reason you could look at that say Okay I I if kubak is good with this and I'm okay bringing him in it's not like it's going to cost you anything to bring in Kell M to bring him to camp and see if he can win a job well this guy is a journeyman right let's not forget Kell M who was a four-year starter at Texas A&M I just went through you know his where his standings are in in the annals of SEC history as far as stat compiling but he comes into the league in Minnesota he's played in just one career game after Minnesota waved him he was picked up by Cleveland when they didn't uh when they waved him uh before this past season he spent this last year in Indianapolis so in in his very young career he's already uh in three years been with three different teams and now his fourth team in his NFL career here was m on sort of you being with his his fourth team already this early in his career you know I think just everybody's journey is uh completely different and uh you know I think just just over the years just being able to be with different quarterbacks and being in different systems uh you know I think it's going to help me out in the long run and um um so yeah it's obviously not an ideal situ ation being with different teams each year but um I'm obviously glad to be here in New Orleans and you know hope I can get some stability here so I think a couple of things there's there's the player himself which we just talked about the connection to janoko and kubak which is fine the I think there's the fair question of say what does this mean the fact that the Saints have added another quarterback after you have Haner already there you've already signed Nathan Peterman now you're adding Kell M it's four quarterbacks and you can throw Tamm Hill on the Heap if you want so number one my biggest takeaway is and I don't know that there's many of you out there that still believe this but Tamm Hill is not a quarterback and never will be not not in in this offense that much as abundant ller you run the gadget plays and all that stuff but for anybody who might have been holding out hope and saying well hey they still got Tamm Hill no they don't yes he's on the roster but tames Hill is not ever going to be a quarterback on this team because it's clear when you're bringing in J you're drafting Jake Kaner and you're bringing in Kell M you're bringing in Nathan Peterman while Hill sitting there they have no intention of ever making T Hill a quarterback um I think this also means you are not likely to draft a quarterback look I mean we know what the Saints are looking at with the draft coming up two weeks from yesterday and what their assets are in this draft but the reality is you know when you look at where New Orleans is with um you know nine draft picks in this draft like you are you're you don't have nine players that are going to make the team you're likely going to be packaging picks to move up at some point in the draft and if you already have four quarterbacks you're one that you used a Draft pick on a year ago you're not likely looking to draft another quarterback so xof TM Hill likely remove quarterback from this year's draft you know crop and then what it really means is you got a three-man battle for the backup quarterback job I mean dere Carr is going to be your starter we know that but Peter manm and um and Haner will now be battling in Camp for the number two job who's going to win that job and I think competition breeds success and that's all fine and good so if you want to bring in guys to compete for the job that's perfectly fine with me and as I I mentioned again I'm okay with it because of that kubak relationship the thing that's interesting with the three guys you have as backups you have you have this sort of stair step down uh degree of of experience right so Peterman in his career has he's six years into his NFL career he's played in 15 games with five starts so he hasn't played a ton he's never been very good but at least he's been in the league for more than half a decade and he's started games M this is you know has been in the league three years now and you know this will be his fourth year and he's only played in one game ever so he's still a young guy who's been a journeyman but this staff really likes him and then you have Jake hner who's the guy you invested some draft capital in a year ago but you have a new offensive staff so does it does it mesh and I think maybe if you're super optimistic you might look at Hanner and say well could he be the next Brock pie the the guy who's sort of an undersized guy who you know was not thought of much in the draft but this is the offensive system where pry thrived in San Francisco and maybe some of the elements are there so I think that's kind of what you're looking at going into into the draft and Beyond into training camp with the addition of Kell mon I have almost no expectation of Kell m in in this year with the New Orleans Saints I will quite honestly be surprised if he makes the team it really feels like because you have the draft Capital invested in Haner he's probably your guy there but will we'll see how it plays out in Camp but you're adding it if nothing else a camp body another arm for training camp and a guy that has some familiarity with this staff so maybe it helps with that transition so M was one player added on Friday the other is wide receiver equin is St Brown and please do not mistake him with his younger brother and the very talented amanra St Brown this is the distinctively uh less accomplished equinus St Brown who incidentally played at Notre Dame Under Brian Kelly so um if you look at uh St Brown he's 27 years old uh he was a a sixth round pick of Green Bay back in 2018 coming out of Notre Dame he's entering his seventh NFL season Green Bay Chicago he's been around a little bit um I think when I look at this mostly I wonder does does adding s are they adding equinom St Brown as another Camp body or is this a guy they're expecting to make the team because I do believe if they're adding equinus St brown with the intention of him making this team and being a contributor then I wonder if they're really looking at a receiver in round two like just map this out with me in this off season you only have three wide receivers under contract Chris alve Rasheed Shahed and at Perry that's it from from a year ago and last year at various points in the season you had 11 different receivers under contract so right now you've only got three it again from from last year so you got those three alive Shahed at Perry remember the Eagles have sign sha Davis Michael Thomas ke Keith Kirkwood Lyn Bowden are all free agents so there's been a lot of turnover there I mean guys like um uh Marquez Callaway uh I think it's in Pittsburgh now um just other other guys that had kind of bounced around the roster you're probably not likely to bring back that were Camp bodies or whatever the case may be well you've added Cedric Wilson you've got Stanley Morgan and now equin is St Brown so you've got six receivers under contract okay and you're not done I mean you're going to have more than six in Camp with you but the question is is it a draft pick are they undrafted free agents are they do you bring back Keith Kirkwood Lyn Bowden try to make the roster you know on a non-g guaranteed deal I yeah I mean that's all that's all you know possible but if you're going to take a second round a receiver in round two which a lot of us have talked about them doing then that whoever that player is is going to make your team and you're expecting to be an immediate contributor well if that's the case then why did you why did you sign St Brown unless if he's just a camp body that might make the team you know as a you know as your as your fifth receiver um you know by the way Kirk Merritt johnrey Kirkland two others I should have mentioned they they're in the UFL right now I guess they could you know be Camp bodies for you as well I think if there's one thing that I would say is a positive with st Brown and I certainly would not consider him a lock to make make the team I mean your six receivers right now like you know Al Shahed at Perry Cedric Wilson are all most likely going to make the team it would be it would be an upset if any of those four did not so the question is do you keep one or two more you've got Morgan now you've got St Brown do you draft AER you bring another free agents will see but when you talk about your lead guys you know La is entering year three shahid's entering year three at Perry's entering year two it's a bunch of young receivers a lot of your veteran experience in that room are gone your Jarvis Landry who was here a year ago he's gone Michael Thomas is now gone you don't have veterans in your receiver room so when you add a guy like Cedric Wilson who you know is entering year six when you add Stanley Morgan who's entering year six St Brown entering year seven what you're doing if nothing else is at least adding some veteran presence in the receiver room for that that that unit that's otherwise very young so um I don't know if adding eanm St Brown means the Saints are definitively uh out of the receiver Market in the second round I think whatever they do in this draft with respect to receiver will be a pretty good indicator of what they actually feel about equia St Brown as opportunity to make the team and be a contributor so on this Friday the Saints had a quarterback and a receiver as a continued checking boxes the closer we get now inside of two weeks from the NFL draft hey thanks so much for watching please leave your comments i' love to interact and be sure to hit the red subscribe button below [Music] f with [Music] you f with you after