Tyler Shough Favored to Be Saints' Starting QB After Carr Retires

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00:00Now let's go to New Orleans, where Mark Zeno earlier in the offseason, of course,

00:04Derek Carr announces his retirement after two seasons in the Big Easy 11 in total of

00:09his NFL career, paving the way for the second round pick this past April out of Louisville.

00:15Tyler Shuck to be that starting quarterback.

00:17Might be a rookie, but the guy turns 26 years old come September.

00:22So Zeno, I'm not gonna ask you, do you believe Kellen Moore starts Tyler Shuck?

00:26The odds are telling us at a minus 310 price, that is most likely at this moment.

00:32What I'm going to ask you is, how do you expect Shuck to perform early on in his rookie season?

00:38Well, you should ask me, do you believe that Kellen Moore feels like he made a mistake taking

00:42the Saints job?

00:43Because the answer is yes, because this isn't starting out well.

00:46Like that's, you know, they got bait and switched here on Kellen Moore thinking he was getting

00:51something and he's got something completely different.

00:52Look, I mean, just from the standpoint of the rest of the quarterback group, Spencer

00:59Dobbins cannot compete at an NFL level on a long-term basis, and Jay Kaner is not the answer, right?

01:04So it's Tyler Shuck.

01:06Now, on the upside for Shuck here, Ben, and you'll know this, you'll back me up here,

01:10the Brahms system at Louisville is one that NFL quarterbacks have benefited from, right?

01:15It's a good passing offense.

01:17It's a pro-style offense.

01:18They ask a lot of their quarterbacks to do, so Shuck is well-positioned here, and he's

01:23at least given Kellen Moore a little something to work with here in his rookie season.

01:29How much can they keep him upright?

01:30How much can they protect him?

01:31I mean, what sort of offense?

01:32How dumbed down is it to start early on?

01:34How much will they expand it?

01:35I mean, all these things remain to be seen, but there is a world where, much similar,

01:40and I don't want to put these two coaches side by side, to what Sean Payton slowly brought

01:45along, Bo Nix in Denver, that Kellen Moore, who's a good offensive mind, can slowly bring

01:49along Tyler Shuck here.

01:50And by the time we're at week 12, 13, as long as Shuck is healthy, there may look like a

01:55really productive quarterback in New Orleans.

01:58So I certainly understand where they're going here, but the real question is, is what does

02:03the rest of this offense look like?

02:05I mean, you know, what sort of weapons are there?

02:07What's left?

02:07I get Chris Olavi is still there.

02:10Alvin Kamara is still there.

02:11But what else is really on this offense that gives a young rookie a lot of, you know,

02:15safety nets and security blankets to work with?

02:18I don't know if they necessarily have a ton.

02:20And this also is a Saints defense that may be trailing a lot or forcing Shuck to be trailing

02:24a lot in games.

02:25That could be a problem.

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