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METAIRIE, La. — New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara said he felt like he needed to say something to his teammates after their loss Sunday because he didn’t like where the mentality of the team was headed.
Instead, he encouraged them to “get their swag back” and regain their pride after a rough start to the season capped by the 42-34 loss to the Arizona Cardinals.
Kamara said he has been on some of the best offenses in the league during his six seasons in New Orleans, and one common thread was their attitude and confidence. He wasn’t seeing that in this team, which has given the ball away more than any team in the league and is one of the most penalized as well.
“Even when we were down, it was never like we were looking at the score,” Kamara said of the Saints in past seasons. “It was like, ‘Well, all right, s—, let’s go play football.’ … We haven’t really been playing like that. It’s been … just of a little bit of a panic, a little bit of a, ‘Oh s—, we’re down.’ Like man, we don’t play like that. I still don’t have that kind of mentality.”
Kamara said the timing of his speech felt right after a frustrating loss.
“You come out of a game you feel like you should have won, you kind of have some mistakes that cost us the game and you don’t feel good,” Kamara said. “It’s easy to kind of go in there, and it’s like, that quiet. That quiet in the locker room, waiting for somebody to say something. I feel like you have a lot of those moments, but I just felt compelled to say something, so I got what I had to get off and I left it at that.”
When asked why he was motivated to talk to the team, Kamara’s answer was quick.
“Because! It was annoying. I’m sick of that. I’m not used to losing,” Kamara said. “Nothing in life when it comes to me, I think personally, says ‘loser.’ You know what I’m saying? … Even though we’ve had … all these injuries and all that, I still feel like we can overcome. So when I feel like we might not be putting our best foot forward to…
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