Jeff Ireland

He started after a very brief NFL career as a scouting assistant in 2012 and And just he's just been in the in the scouting department and then at the top of the front office, you know, 14 years he's been a part of that organization.

Jeff Ireland, after his stint as GM didn't work out, landed there and has been there for a long time.

You're 100 percent right.

They have a ton of people that have just been here.

So there's three...

I'll say saints rooted people that I think will be candidates for this job.

One is Jeff Ireland, who was the general manager for the Miami Dolphins in the early 2010s.

And then when he when he no longer had that job, when he got fired from that job, he took on the director of college scouting job in 2015 for the New Orleans Saints, where he has been ever since.

He had the one Wildcat year, and then he was a complete joke as a GM.

Sat there like a fat cat in his stupid golf cart and didn't do anything and left us with Jeff Ireland.

And that was his legacy.

But nobody ever talks about it.

We're chopping it up.

But if they, they make that sort of move, um, then it would almost have to be, it'd almost have to be promoting Kai Harley or Jeff Ireland or-

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Um, but I even thought if it ever came to it, if, if, if there was a last straw with him that he would bump up to, you know, executive vice president and he would hire the next president of football operations and, and, and still have, you know, a key role as, as her right-hand man trusted to hire the, uh, to borrow a Pelicans example that we saw recently, to hire a David Griffin who like had no ties to the organization, who was known as one of the respected minds around the NBA.

Like we saw her do that with her other franchise and I always thought, you know, maybe that'll happen sometimes, that it, it won't just be Mickey handing it to, to Kai or to Jeff Ireland or to Michael Parrington.

It'll be like, "We need to go another direction.

We need a totally other voice and I, and I trust you to decide who that's gonna be", or something like that.

What are your thoughts on his retirement and if you want to weigh in on that rant as well?

Well, Several years ago, Devontae Davis, who played for the Dolphins at one point, remember when he was traded during hard knocks by Jeff Ireland? And he retired during a game.

He retired during a game.

And I remember saying at the time, look, when you consider everything that goes in to putting on a uniform, crossing that thick white stripe, and entering the fray, at a professional football game.

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And to me, they manage that, that will have been some good work from Jeff Ireland.

Let me, let me ask you this question, Poopin.

We've danced around this a little bit.

Re- really, I gotta, I gotta admit, that's, like, the l- offense, the offensive side of the ball is maybe, like, the last place I would go.

Like, I'm looking, again, I'm looking at Mickey and Jeff Ireland and whoever else we have on staff-

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... who's, who's, who's making these draft picks.