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Speaker 1: Welcome to Falcons Audible. This is our training Camp edition,

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Speaker 1: and I know you recognize that Derek Rackley is not

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Speaker 1: with us. Derek is out on the West Coast supporting

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Speaker 1: his daughter who's in a softball tournament out there. So

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Speaker 1: we were proud of you, daddy. Uh Derek. But we

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Speaker 1: have brought in a heavy hitter that will sob in

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Speaker 1: for Derek today and it's our managing digital editor from

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons dot Com, Scott Bear. Scott has his own

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Speaker 1: podcast as well. You're here at the final whistle. He

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Speaker 1: and Torry mcahaney do a great job on that. Scott,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you being with us. My man, this is a

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Speaker 1: crossover episode like they did in the old days of

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Speaker 1: the network television. Like that's what we're doing cross promotion.

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Speaker 1: Will be honest. I love that you recognize this guy

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Speaker 1: former Falcon quarterback and SEC Player of the Year and

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Speaker 1: and Fox five Sports ank or what else I'm talking about, Scott,

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Speaker 1: that title you it's unbelievable. Yeah, managing, managing, managing digital. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of senior that's when you get title bumps.

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Speaker 1: Sounds good. Let's get on a business card and a resume, glad,

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Speaker 1: this is our first chance to get together with the offence.

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Speaker 1: Training camp began. We had a pre training camp about

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Speaker 1: a week ago. But this is training camp and we

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Speaker 1: are fully in training camp and I've got the guys

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Speaker 1: here to discuss some things and we've got some things

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Speaker 1: to cover for you. What are you most surprised about

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Speaker 1: training camp as we begin to think about what this

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Speaker 1: thing looks like? How far, um, what have you seen

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Speaker 1: so far? And how does that translate to the season

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Speaker 1: coming up? The running game? I know a lot of

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Speaker 1: people are interested in the running game, maybe how you

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Speaker 1: stop the run as well now that the pads are

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Speaker 1: on and the physical and aggression, the physicality and aggression

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Speaker 1: we've seen in practice so far, it's telling. We've seen

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Speaker 1: it to the tune of maybe even some guys, and

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Speaker 1: the fisticuffs for them to dive in to all that. So, guys,

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Speaker 1: let's let's start off real quickly. Scott, when you when

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Speaker 1: you think about training camp, um, and just first cuff

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Speaker 1: off the cuff? What prized you so far about training camp?

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Speaker 1: You know, I knew that Kyle Pitts was gonna be

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Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts right after how good he was last year.

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Speaker 1: And how much. Over the course of the offseason, he

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Speaker 1: talked about getting better as a route runner and those

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Speaker 1: types of things. But this is not just a one

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Speaker 1: man band right now. I see a group of skill

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Speaker 1: players that are scrappers, that can be explosive. Brian Edwards

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Speaker 1: seventeen point five yards per catch. We're seeing him make

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Speaker 1: We're seeing him make catches in traffic. Drake London looks

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Speaker 1: a bit I hate over hyping rookies. Looks a bit

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Speaker 1: like the number eight overall pick. He's very consistent, and

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Speaker 1: I think that there's depth to this skill player group

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Speaker 1: that we didn't have last year. I think it's it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be fascinating to see them come together and see

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Speaker 1: if they can start taking yards in bigger chunks. Jock,

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Speaker 1: what surprised you so far back camp or what have

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Speaker 1: you seen from camps? You know what, I'd know they've

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Speaker 1: had OTAs, I know they've had Mini camp. But the

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Speaker 1: thing that's really surprised me Fellas is it seemed like

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Speaker 1: this team is already so connected. And you watch practice

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Speaker 1: exactly and you can feel the energy, you can kind

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Speaker 1: of feel the excitement. You can see guys going up

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Speaker 1: to each other laughing, joking, having a good time. You

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Speaker 1: can see guys encouraging guys. It looks like guys are

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Speaker 1: having a good time. It doesn't feel like it's trading camp.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't feel like you got a bunch of one year

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Speaker 1: guys that's signed on this team. So it looks like

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Speaker 1: this team is already connected and we're only six seven

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Speaker 1: team has been together for a while. Yeah. I couldn't

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Speaker 1: agree with you more. I think that the position camaraderie

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Speaker 1: that we're seeing when a dB makes a play, all

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Speaker 1: group that might be, that's certainly something that's jumped out

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Speaker 1: and this is a big football team, much bigger than

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Speaker 1: it was a year ago. Scott mentioned, you know, Kyle

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Speaker 1: the guys they brought in. Shaffer the big kid out

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Speaker 1: Give us give me an idea of what Scott when

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Speaker 1: you when you talk to these guys, what are they generally,

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Speaker 1: some of the things you're hearing overridingly that they're working on?

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Speaker 1: You know, I like hearing from some of these guys

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Speaker 1: that they're very detail oriented, that that these coaches are

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Speaker 1: really kind of hammering in you need to be aggressive.

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Speaker 1: They would rather pull you back than have to push

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Speaker 1: you forward. And we're seeing that and I think, again,

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Speaker 1: doing little things. I think Drake London has a little

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Speaker 1: enough to make catches. They're they're they're working on details,

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Speaker 1: they're working on fits, they're working together, which is all

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Speaker 1: part of this chemistry thing, right. I think those are

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Speaker 1: encouraging signs for a team that sees the expectations wants

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Speaker 1: to give the expectations a giant double middle finger. That

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Speaker 1: really pushed me on that, you know, I think that's key.

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Speaker 1: It's funny you say that, because every guy I've talked to,

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Speaker 1: I've kind of asked them the question of Okay, you

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Speaker 1: guys hear what's going on on the outside. You hear

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Speaker 1: people talking about what this team supposedly should be. And

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Speaker 1: what's interesting to me, is it I already noticed? But

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Speaker 1: and say, hey, that's not what the outcome gonna be. Well,

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Speaker 1: Dean Peas's uh press conference from what a couple of days. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: much laid it out and he didn't spare any words.

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Speaker 1: some words. I like our editors. Maybe Scott was a

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Speaker 1: heard Arthur talk about this in his presser and I

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Speaker 1: hear him emphasizing it when we can get close enough

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Speaker 1: to a drill is do your job. Just do your job.

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Speaker 1: And I know it's kind of a simple cliche way

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Speaker 1: of if you do your job and eleven guys are

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Speaker 1: like that, those are you know, work to the whistle.

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Speaker 1: You know, all the things that you years said, but

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Speaker 1: doing their job that's what makes the wheel turn right.

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Speaker 1: And so if I'm in the right place in the secondary,

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Speaker 1: then that quarterback's got to come off that reading. He's

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Speaker 1: We're gonna rally make the tackle, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: and I think that translates the game day guys, where

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Speaker 1: I think game day you're a much better product or yourself. Right.

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Speaker 1: And here's something that while I'm watching practice that I

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Speaker 1: And it's simple what Ars just said about what Coach

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Speaker 1: a guy we can depend on. So when I'm watching practice,

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Speaker 1: It was practice ethics, right, like, how do you practice?

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Speaker 1: practice ethics? How are you going to get better. How

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Speaker 1: I think that Arthur Smith is looking for guys who

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Speaker 1: have good ethics when nobody is watching. How often does

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Speaker 1: on Instagram? Right? He wants to see you work out

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Speaker 1: when there's hardly any fans there. Are you getting better

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Speaker 1: when there's no attention on you? I think that's a

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Speaker 1: quality that this team has, and I think that quality

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Speaker 1: will make this team God. I think that's a great

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Speaker 1: point because we were seeing him there listening to Grady

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Speaker 1: what he's doing in the off season that helps him

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Speaker 1: get ready for week fourteen, Week fifteen, week sixteen? And

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Speaker 1: I think it goes back to those same things, those ethics.

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Speaker 1: What are you doing in those times where nobody's watching,

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Speaker 1: or what are you doing in practice when you could

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Speaker 1: take a playoff or you know you're not doing anything

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Speaker 1: so maybe you could just relax. Guys like Grady. If

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Speaker 1: you heard him today, we were really impressed. Scott used

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Speaker 1: there telling me, this guy never takes that time off.

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Speaker 1: He's always thinking about how I can get better, and

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Speaker 1: this is the guy who just got a new contract

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Speaker 1: and he's still trying to figure out ways that the

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Speaker 1: only he can get better in practice, but he can

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Speaker 1: be there for his team in week fifteen, week sixteen,

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Speaker 1: week seventeen down the road. Yeah, how many guys can

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Speaker 1: you drag along with you? Right? I mean at some

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Speaker 1: point you're not dragging guys. Guys are trying to set

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Speaker 1: the bar themselves. And I think Scott, you make a

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Speaker 1: try not to have recency bias because I really think

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Speaker 1: that interior defensive lineman Derek TAngelo has really kind of

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Speaker 1: shown up. He's knocked some balls down, and that's a

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Speaker 1: and I think he's one of those guys. He gets

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Speaker 1: always around the ball, He's fighting for everything. He's good

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Speaker 1: I just like his attitude. I have never spoken to him,

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Speaker 1: but I and I will soon. I like the way

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Speaker 1: probably his whole NFL tenure, and I like the way

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Speaker 1: he plays. I love it. Good call, you know what.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay on the defensive side of the ball

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Speaker 1: and this guy. It seems like every day I'm out here,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at this guy and I'm like, yeah, that

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Speaker 1: was a good play. Or you see him running around,

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Speaker 1: flying around you you see the hair flopping everywhere. And

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Speaker 1: we were talking about him. I said Mike Ford. This guy, yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: is a guy you're watching. You say, man, this guy's

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Speaker 1: trying to earn his spot. He's trying to bump into

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Speaker 1: that number one spot. And you know, obviously he's in

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Speaker 1: see him in seven on seven, the guys fighting, the

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Speaker 1: guys always around the football. Not many guys have called

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Speaker 1: the ball on him, to be honest, but this is

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Speaker 1: a guy that you know, you look at and say, okay,

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Speaker 1: when you play eighty five percent nickel in his league

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Speaker 1: his head and there. But of course we'll also can cover.

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Speaker 1: You want that guy out there. And I think Mike

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Speaker 1: Ford has had a great camp so far. I'll be

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Speaker 1: honest with you, guys. I came into camp not really

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Speaker 1: knowing what that offensive line competition would look like. I

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Speaker 1: certainly didn't think that Elijah Wilkerson would be lined up

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Speaker 1: didn't think that. Okay, and don't take too much for granted, Scott.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you when when they release depth charts, they

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Speaker 1: don't really mean a lot. But what means a lot

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Speaker 1: is if repetitive days he's with the first unit, he

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Speaker 1: has been. He's a big body dude that has the

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Speaker 1: nastiness that you want. And so he is a guy

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Speaker 1: that stuck out to me. And I'll give you another

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Speaker 1: name that you hope would stand out, and that's Richie Grant.

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Speaker 1: I think Richie Grant has been really good. He's made

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Speaker 1: a lot of plays on the ball, contested plays, He's

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Speaker 1: gotten the ball out. He has an understanding how to

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Speaker 1: punch the ball out, kind of like that Peanut Tillman.

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Speaker 1: Punch that ball out, get that ball out of the ground.

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Speaker 1: So there's a couple of guys that to me have

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Speaker 1: guys to watch for. As as we get further along

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Speaker 1: in camp, we'll get into a game week next week,

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Speaker 1: what do you anticipate real quickly, what do you anticipate

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Speaker 1: from a game week scenario? Give me an idea of

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Speaker 1: something that you're being be looking for. As we start

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Speaker 1: to get closer to a game where some of these

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Speaker 1: young guys, they wait a minute, We're going to play

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Speaker 1: in a game this week. Yeah, I want to see

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Speaker 1: push with that offensive front, right, Like, as you get

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Speaker 1: into that game, are they getting prepped? Are they going

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Speaker 1: to show all right, this is live tackling, we can

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Speaker 1: really get after it. What are we going to see

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Speaker 1: I want to see consistency. I want to see accuracy

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Speaker 1: out of the quarterbacks. I mean, this is this is

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Speaker 1: a big deal obvious. Surely everybody knows what it's transpired.

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Speaker 1: Now we've got two guys in here. Now we know

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Speaker 1: what you know, Mary Yoda and ready we've watched him

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Speaker 1: in practice. But I want to see as a gang

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Speaker 1: we goes on regardless of what happens on the outside,

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Speaker 1: regardless of happens in front of them. Those guys are

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Speaker 1: putting the ball into place where they're supposed to be

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Speaker 1: and they're making the right decision. So this quarterback spot

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Speaker 1: is a big call. So I want to see these

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Speaker 1: guys play. Well, there you go. It's falcons audible right

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Speaker 1: here at Training Camp Edition presented by AT and T

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Speaker 1: Scott Barrett, DJ Shocklam, Dave Archer. Thanks for being with us,