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What's up And welcome into the Monday edition of The

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Black and Blue Report podcast, presented by a

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Seakeeek. I'm Daniel Salerson. Hope everyone

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had a fantastic weekend wherever you

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may be, and hope this Monday finds

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you well. This weekend plenty to do here in the

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Crescent City. Between the Draft

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Boil, the NFL Draft in general, you

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had Jazz Fest kicking off and then the Zurich

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Classic on the West Bank. Wherever

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you were, whatever you were doing, Hope

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you had a great weekend. And this is our last

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week of shows for the Black and Blue Report.

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We'll take a little bit of a break, a hiatus

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as they say, and then come back to you for

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training camp, Saints training camp in

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late July, and we'll bring you again throughout the

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NFL Draft the next season. So we're going to

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kind of recap everything today and

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throughout the whole week with some Saints, with some

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Pelicans, and you never know what else.

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And today we will focus in on

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the NFL Draft and we'll focus in on

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one of the guys that was selected for the New

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Orleans Saints, and that is Eric McCoy, second round

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pick forty eighth overall from Texas. A

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and M will most likely play center

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for the New Orleans can't play guard and

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play a little bit of tackle. Learn more about that

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with what he can't play. With His high

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school coach, Todd Quick joins us from Lumpkin

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High School in East Texas. He kind

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of talks about and shed some light on Eric McCoy,

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the kind of person was off the field, with the kind of person

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he was on the field, and

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plenty more as they are super excited

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there in East Texas that Eric is pretty

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much close to home, just six hours

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away from Lumpkin if you're gonna

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drive to the Mercedes Been super A Dome. So I'm

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sure some friends in family will be definitely

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making that track all the way to New Orleans

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there. But I know the Saints traded up for him,

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originally selecting sixty fourth in the second

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round, but traded up with the Miami Dolphins again him

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at forty eight. To recap the rest of the players

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for the New Orleans Saints. In the fourth round, they

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selected the safety out of Florida, Chauncey

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Gardner Johnson. They also went with

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the safety and round number six as they traded

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for sa Quon Hampton out of Ruckers

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and aliz A mac the tight end out of Notre

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Dame, was a seventh round pick for the

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New Orleans Saints and the other seventh round pick outside

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linebacker Kaden Ellis

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out of Idaho. So Saints

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were pretty busy despite not having a

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first round pick on Thursday night, and of

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course even without the first round pick.

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If you look at the ratings between ESPN,

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ABC and NFL Network who all aired the

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NFL Draft, of course New Orleans

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second ranked city as

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far as ratings are concerned. Of course Nashvilles number

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one, they were the host site, but New Orleans

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and number two again. Of course, everyone loves their

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football here in New Orleans, and the show it again in

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the ratings. As I know, everyone's excited

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for some of the newcomers, including

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Eric McCoy. If you didn't get

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a chance to kind of watch a lot of the NFL

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Draft and it was a busy weekend, there is a draft

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recap show today from noon to

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one with Sean Kelly and John the Chaser.

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If you miss it again if noon from one of this because

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post it after one o'clock, you can watch

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on New Orleans Saints dot Com, the Mobile, Lap,

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Facebook, Twitter, and you

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can also watch it on the Saints YouTube

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channel as well, so plenty of ways to watch. And those

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two will kind of put a bow on the

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NFL Draft. As I mentioned, it's our last

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week of shows. Sean Kelly will

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have the Wednesday show for you and I'll have plenty more for you,

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plenty more for you after our

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interview. But enough for me. Let's get

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started on today's show again, we focus in

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on Eric McCoy. We'll chat with his high

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school coach, Todd Quicknext, this

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we laid out all the draft picks for the New Orleans

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Saints in our first segment, of course, headlined

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by Eric McCoy, offensive lineman from

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Texas, A and M. He was selected forty eighth overall

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by the New Orleans Saints. And we have a special

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guest relating to Eric McCoy today.

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That is Todd Quick, head football coach at Lufkin

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High School who coached Eric during his days

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there in the East Texas and coach

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I appreciate you coming on. How are you today? Yes?

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Sorry, doing real good? Good good. First

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off, I know you were watching the NFL Draft.

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I'm sure what was your reaction when

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Eric got drafted on Friday. Well,

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every time, every time somebody got up there,

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you know, everybody was standing up ready, ready

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to see who was going to pick and what they were gonna

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pick. So pretty excited about it.

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Everybody real close community

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here in town. Everybody knows

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everybody, and all the people

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here had watched him all the way through, so everybody

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was like our son being drafted. When

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you saw him in high school, when you were coaching

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him playing football, did you think he had the potential

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to be an NFL player? Oh?

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Absolutely. He was far

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beyond his years, you know, and he's a young guy

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anyway right now. But just

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the way he carried himself, even as a freshman,

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he came in and knew

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how to work, didn't He was real self motivated

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and he had all the things

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that was needed in the package.

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I'm sure you watched him a little bit in high school as much

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as or in college as much as you can if when you've seen

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him evolved, what are some of the biggest things

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you noticed from his high school career to his college career,

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well, he's gotten so much figuring.

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And he graduated high school seventeen years

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old. So we knew if

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we weren't going to get another year with him, we knew

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eventually he would you grow

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into that. But he's

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just so smart and so football smart

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and book smart that

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we knew it wouldn't be a problem. And we

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figured, you know, he didn't play center for us. He

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played tackle for us a little bit and then played

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some guard his senior year. But we

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kind of knew that just because of his

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understanding of the game, the center would be a

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spot and be able to line everybody

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up. So just

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watching him go to and grow immature

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into a young man is very special

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for I know the Saints will probably play

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him at center as much as any other position,

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but you mentioned his versatility. Is

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he capable of playing the other two positions there,

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whether it's tackle or guard in the NFL's uh,

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you know, we think so. You know, it's such

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a different league than what we play in, but uh,

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I know for us he could have played anywhere.

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He played a little bit of defensive line for us and

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a goal line package, and and uh,

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he just Uh, he's just a good football

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player. What type of person is he? I

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know you talked about a little bit his book,

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smarts and the type of person he was

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on and off the field, But what type of personality

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did Eric hav in high school? Well,

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he's very outgoing and uh everybody

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and everybody in the building knew who he was.

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He may not have known them, but just

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because of the way he treated people, he's very Um,

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he doesn't meet a stranger. Uh, he doesn't

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judge people. And he's just he is who

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he is. And and and

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I said the other day, Uh, he's

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the same person whether somebody's looking

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at him or somebody's not, he is, he

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is who he is, and he's definitely a

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full package. Any good stories from

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his high school days that you can you can mention

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here that whether it'llmbarrass him or just even

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a good story on the field, that that Saints

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fans will like to know, you know, I'm

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sure they are. I can't think any right now. I just

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know that every day he came to came to

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school, he had everything

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he needed. He had a pencil, and he was ready to go

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and and just

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to very very highly fultivated

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young man, how often do you

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all talk. I'm sure you have a relationship

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with Eric. How much of being able to communicate since

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he went to college at University of all Right, Texas? A

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and M excuse me, Well, we have

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a very special thing here. You know,

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we're of a community or town about thirty five

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thousand, so it's a small, small

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place. We got about twenty two hundred kids in the

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high school, and all our

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kids come back. We have a special spot for

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him that they come in on Friday nights. We

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have a pass and they just come up. They have to come

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to the office and pick it up and they

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just come in and we take care of

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them because they took care of us. And and

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so you know, we see him quite a bit.

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We like for the kids to go off. We like for them

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to go see other things and and

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uh learn that you know, this is not

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the only place, but we sure

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like when they come back. So a very special thing

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we got going here. So does that mean he did come

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back a lot as much as much as he could, as

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much as he could, you know. And and uh,

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you know his mom still she teaches at

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a school here close. She was here and

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um, you know, she was part of our mother's

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club, which was our booster club for

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the football team, and uh, you know, still

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very active. Uh, they don't miss many games

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even now. His senior's sisters

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a senior here at the school and so um.

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You know, one thing, one thing that he did,

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he left the combine and which had a great

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combine and flew

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straight back to Houston,

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drove up and then had lunch with his sister

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before he ever went home. You know, it's just a good, good

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brother and a good family guy, and that

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just kind of explains who he is. Have you able

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to talk to him since he got drafted or has he been

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you guys been super busy. I haven't been able to connect yet.

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Now. I talked to him Friday

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late and then Saturday either head a little get

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together a little with the family and friends.

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Went over and saw him Saturday night and got

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spent a little time with him and Kiki Qt,

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which were teammates, and he

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was pretty excited and all the family was

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there and a lot of the players and most

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of the coaches were there. So just

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a good family out him. Did

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you give him any advice as far as going pro

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or if so, if not, what vice

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would you give him as he starts his NFL career.

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Well, you know, I didn't give any advice.

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I hugged his neck and told him I loved him, and

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he knew that. You

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know, I think one of the biggest things is is to

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find somebody, find a mentor

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find an older guy that's going to take care of him

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and help him through this first part because

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it's so different than what he's been doing. And

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just make sure that you

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know, he takes his time on

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his decisions, and he's got good people

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around him, and all teams have them, they

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all have them. Well, he've got a guy that Don

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Muelbauch has been snapping for the Detroit Lions

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for fifteen years, and you know he's

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one of those old guys that can help him

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and talk to him and get him through

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this because he's seen all, seen it all. Now,

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I know most of you are probably Dallas Cowboy

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fans or whether Houston Texans fans

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or any of those NFL teams they're in

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Texas. Are we converting any of you to New

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Orleans Saints fans now that Eric is a part of the squad

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couple? I promise my wife

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She went online Friday night late

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try to find a Saints jersey.

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So we're very supportive of our kids.

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We we like the teams

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that they're at just because we like them. You know, there

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are a lot of them. Will have a Texans

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jersey and a Lions jersey

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and a Saints jersey. You know, we just we just really

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support our kids. Now, how many do you have

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now in the NFL? Can you you're

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able to figure out how many are right now? I

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believe they are three active right

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now. With those three,

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I believe that's right. Okay. And so it's

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only a six hour drive to the Superdome from

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Lufkin. Are you going to try to make a trip here and there

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or maybe your wife wanting to get in the car and drive and watch

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him play? Oh yeah, we went two

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years ago. They played on Money Now played the Detroit

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Line. So we drove down and watched you

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bach and got to stand

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on the sideline before the game. So it's a

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good place and we really enjoyed it. So when

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he went, we thought, well there's another Christmas

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trip, So we were chatted about

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it all right. Now the schedule's value, all can start planning.

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That's good stuff. Todd I really appreciate

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thanks for shutting some light on Eric. I know we're really

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excited to have him here in New Orleans,

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and I hope to talk to you down the road. Yes,

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sir, we sure appreciate it. Again, a big thanks

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to Todd for joining us this morning. Can tell how proud

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of you is of Eric McCoy, who is now a member

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of the New Orleans Saints out of Texas an

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It was the Saints second round pick and forty

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eighth overall. Again, if you miss

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the draft recap show with Sean

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Kelly and John the Chaser, you can watch it on New Orleans

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Saints dot com, the Mobile, lap, Facebook,

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Twitter, YouTube, you name it, that's

12:14

where the show will be again. This is the last

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week of shows and leading up to Saints

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training camp in July, will take a brief

12:21

little hiatus, get some rest and

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get you ready for another season of Saints football

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and Pelicans basketball. Will still do plenty

12:28

of podcasts throughout the ways. We'll have some

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NBA Draft Lottery podcasts, some NBA

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Draft podcasts, and again, you never

12:35

know what else we'll have in store for you, maybe some summer league

12:37

stuff for you as well. For the New Orleans

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Pelicans still with a week to go. Sean Kelly

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will have your Wednesday show with former Saints kicker

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John Carney. He'll join the show on Wednesday,

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and then Caroline Gonzalez and Ashley Amos

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will put a bow on this season for the

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Black Ruby Report. And that is yours on

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Friday, and you can listen on New

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Orleans Saints dot com, the mobile lap for

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both sites, same with Pelicans dot Com, and

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of course you can download the show at iTunes.

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A big thanks for all of you that listen to the Monday show

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or any show you may listen to. I appreciate

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having you a part of our

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lives here with the New Orleans Saints and Pelicans. And we'll

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move back again for another season come

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training camp until Wednesday, which

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Sean Kelly, I'm Daniel Salerson. Thanks

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for listening to The Black and Blue Report.