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Speaker 1: and I'm Matt to speak with Dave Archer on a Monday,

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Speaker 1: A happy Monday. Dave. Falcons wrap up the twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: in O eight, there was a strong tackle draft, and

431
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Speaker 1: so when the tackle run began, people started jumping to

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Speaker 1: get him. In fact, Atlanta jumped into this back into

433
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Speaker 1: the first round to draft Sam Baker the same year

434
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Speaker 1: they drafted Matt Ryan in the first round. Well, something

435
00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,560
Speaker 1: like that happened. And when those type of things happen,

436
00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,720
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, those players get shoved back.

437
00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,600
Speaker 1: You know, you know, Calvin Ridley falls in your lap

438
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Speaker 1: at twenty six. Who who potentially could fall in your

439
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,040
Speaker 1: lap at sixteen. We'll have to wait and see. Certainly,

440
00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,119
Speaker 1: the big kid from Ohio State's not going to fall

441
00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:40,359
Speaker 1: in your lap back there. He's going to go in

442
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Speaker 1: the first three picks of the draft, so we'll left waiting.

443
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Speaker 1: But there are some other guys who can go get

444
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Speaker 1: the pass or if that's in fact where they decided

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Speaker 1: to go. And when you look at the the other

446
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Speaker 1: thing decided yesterday was or finalized was the opponents for

447
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Speaker 1: twenty What do you got for me? So we may

448
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,560
Speaker 1: very well kneed and edge rusher, you think so? Yeah?

449
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,359
Speaker 1: I know we're gonna see Patrick Mahomes next year, so

450
00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,440
Speaker 1: we'd like to try to get him one. Just listen

451
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,639
Speaker 1: to this away slate away games late. You're ready for this.

452
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Speaker 1: Outside of going to Carolina and New Orleans and Tampa,

453
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Speaker 1: they're going back to Minnesota. Okay, pretty loud, Pretty yeah.

454
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Speaker 1: I didn't handle a business too well this past year.

455
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Speaker 1: We know that they're stacked at Kansas City, m I

456
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 1: don't know who who Hey, they're going to be at

457
00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 1: the LA Chargers. Who knows who's going to be quarterback

458
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:39,280
Speaker 1: back there? Yeah, some people have talked about Cam maybe

459
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:43,959
Speaker 1: going heading out there if he's indeed released or whatever.

460
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:50,160
Speaker 1: At Green Bay, it's always an easy trip green Bay.

461
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Speaker 1: Although Atlanta has played well in Green Bay before, Matt's

462
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 1: played well not the last time though. Now The one

463
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Speaker 1: thing that's tough about that is when is it. You know,

464
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Speaker 1: the last few times we've gone has been in the

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Speaker 1: first week of December, so I'll have to see how

466
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Speaker 1: this plays out. But okay, who else we go? And

467
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Speaker 1: then the last one's at Dallas. At Dallas, that'll be

468
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,160
Speaker 1: a Dallas team that we'll have to wait and see.

469
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Speaker 1: I think everybody is kind of a holding pattern to

470
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Speaker 1: see what's going to happen there at Jerry World and

471
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Speaker 1: what's going to happen when they finished State and eight,

472
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Speaker 1: but who knows what they'll do. And then the home games, obviously,

473
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Speaker 1: outside of the divisional games, you have Chicago coming to

474
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Speaker 1: town Detroit, the Broncos, the Raiders, and the Seahawks because

475
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Speaker 1: they took ended up losing last night and taking second.

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Speaker 1: And one of those games is going to be the

477
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Speaker 1: international game. So that's that is the slate Dave your

478
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Speaker 1: initial thoughts outside of as it pertains of this team.

479
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Speaker 1: So before we wrap this up, I want to just

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Speaker 1: get your thoughts on where this team is, not momentum,

481
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,159
Speaker 1: but just where we are. You talked a little bit

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Speaker 1: about the offensive line, You talked about the potential with

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Speaker 1: the two young players, the two rookies, Chris Linstrman and

484
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Speaker 1: Kaylee McCarry. They've at times looked good and other times

485
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Speaker 1: you can tell that they're growing. And then you mentioned

486
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Speaker 1: a game a name that I'm intrigued with, Matt Gono,

487
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,439
Speaker 1: who you look at him physically and he checks all

488
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Speaker 1: the boxes. He's seen. The coaches rave about him, the

489
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Speaker 1: scouts have raved about him. He came from a tiny,

490
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Speaker 1: tiny school, Wellesley Am I saying that right Wesley and

491
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Speaker 1: Wellesley Wesley in Delaware. But he is you know, they

492
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Speaker 1: think so much of him that they've they've kept him in,

493
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Speaker 1: they're developing him. Is he the answer at left guard?

494
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Speaker 1: Or do you think that they You think they draft

495
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Speaker 1: another or look at free and see they've if there's

496
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Speaker 1: it feels like the offensive line is still a work

497
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Speaker 1: in progress. Yes, well yeah it is. It is, and

498
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Speaker 1: I think that that's where the bulk of your concentration

499
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,200
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball have to be.

500
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Speaker 1: As far as do you like where you're at there?

501
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:58,200
Speaker 1: Do you have enough people here that can help you

502
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Speaker 1: fix that? I think Matt Gono's going to an opportunity

503
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Speaker 1: to play like guard. Remember he was groomed to play

504
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Speaker 1: right tackle. Until Caleb McGarry was ready to play. He

505
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 1: got hurt at the beginning of the year and it

506
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,880
Speaker 1: didn't work out, and subsequently he didn't get as many

507
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Speaker 1: snaps as you would have liked. I liked the way

508
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,119
Speaker 1: he looks. He's a big bodied guy that can come

509
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Speaker 1: off the ball. I think he fits really nice in

510
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Speaker 1: the guard spot. I expect McGarry and Lyndstrom game to

511
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 1: go to another level next year. It'll have to. We

512
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,959
Speaker 1: didn't run the ball anywhere near the prowis you need

513
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Speaker 1: to run the football with and that's part of your

514
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:35,400
Speaker 1: reason why you're ineffective in the red zone. And when

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Speaker 1: you look at the red zone offense, this was a

516
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Speaker 1: team here in Atlanta that I think was fifth in

517
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 1: total offense, but the scoring offense was like thirteen or

518
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Speaker 1: fourteen in scoring offense. And some of that was your

519
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 1: inability to score to finish drives. If you get turnovers

520
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,920
Speaker 1: like you did yesterday, you get the fumble on the kickoff,

521
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Speaker 1: you get the or you get the fumble in the

522
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,440
Speaker 1: opening run where Debo comes up the recovery, you get

523
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Speaker 1: the Ricardo Allen interception. Those half to be touchdowns you

524
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Speaker 1: got an especially when you get the ball around the

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00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,919
Speaker 1: twenty yard line. You've got to punch those in. Now.

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Speaker 1: You did it last week. Remember you got the turnover

527
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Speaker 1: early in the game. As all of a sudden you

528
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Speaker 1: look up at fourteen. Nothing that changes an NFL game

529
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 1: where you have an opportunity to do that yesterday and

530
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Speaker 1: you didn't do it. So to me, that's where the

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Speaker 1: onus in the really thought process is how do we

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00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 1: become a team that's multifaceted and being able to run it?

533
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Speaker 1: And we know we can throw it, but you're going

534
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Speaker 1: to protect your pass or a lot better. If you

535
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,680
Speaker 1: can run the football. You can't have him dropping and

536
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 1: throwing all day long. We've got to round the football better.

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Speaker 1: It's just and it wasn't you didn't try. You ran

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00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,560
Speaker 1: it thirty times yesterday. You just could not move that

539
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Speaker 1: defensive front. And it wasn't just that front. We only

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Speaker 1: ran for over one hundred yards four times in sixteen

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Speaker 1: games this year. That's not good enough. You'd like to

542
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Speaker 1: average right around one hundred to one hundred and five

543
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:52,959
Speaker 1: yards on the ground. Then you're doing a pretty good

544
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Speaker 1: job if you bump that up into the one fifteen,

545
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Speaker 1: one twenty range. Now, all of a sudden, you're one

546
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Speaker 1: of the top ten teams in the league rushing the

547
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Speaker 1: football and as well as we throw it with the

548
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: weapons on the perimeter, you become the sixteen offense. But

549
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,959
Speaker 1: if you can't finish drives, that's where you go from

550
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,920
Speaker 1: being twenty nine thirty points a game to average in

551
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: twenty two twenty three points a game. And at twenty

552
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 1: two twenty three points, that makes you vulnerable to losing

553
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 1: football games because you know the other team's gonna be

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Speaker 1: able to score. So amen, amen to that. And you

555
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Speaker 1: know I don't want to I don't want a top

556
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Speaker 1: five passing offense. I want balanced, and I want to

557
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 1: be able to run the football. I want to keep

558
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Speaker 1: their offense. You look at the offenses we just talked

559
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 1: about that we're going to be facing in twenty twenty.

560
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: You know Drew Brees twice, you know the Vikings, Patrick Mahomes,

561
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Dak Prescott and company. You know the Clecahawks.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you've, like you said, you've got to be

563
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: able to eat the clock, move the chains, run the football,

564
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,160
Speaker 1: set up the play action. Well, look at the two

565
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: number one seeds. The took of the two number one

566
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:04,199
Speaker 1: Seeds Baltimore in San Francisco, they're predominantly run offenses. Now

567
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,119
Speaker 1: they can throw it off of it because you have

568
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,239
Speaker 1: to gang up to stop the run. If you can

569
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Speaker 1: have and I'm not saying you have to be, you

570
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: don't have to be top five run in the football,

571
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,919
Speaker 1: but if you're, if you're in that top ten running

572
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: the ball, which is what we were. You go back

573
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: to the sixteen team, I think we were three and

574
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 1: throwing in five and running and wow, how do you

575
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: how do you defend that? That becomes difficult. That gives

576
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 1: your offensive line an opportunity to come off the ball

577
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 1: shorten to neck on that side, makes the game physical upfront.

578
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: So now as a pass rush, I've got to play

579
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Speaker 1: a little bit slower because I got to play physical

580
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: against the run. Slows my pass rushdown. There's just so

581
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 1: many things that happen there, so that certainly has to

582
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: be a focus as they fixing the offense or getting

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Speaker 1: the offense where you want it. You know, we're the

584
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: top five passing teams in twenty nineteen nine right now

585
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 1: on their couches watching the playoffs. Sure, I mean that,

586
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: and where one of them yep? Well, we just just

587
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: played the number one passing offense this weekend in Tampa Bay. Yeah,

588
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: another the area when you look at the defensive side

589
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: of the football, and it's been kind of the focus

590
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: of all the conversation. Mister Blank mentioned it, certainly, Richard

591
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: McKay mentioned it. And when we started talking about Dan

592
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: quinn and Thomas de Mitroff returning to their jobs this

593
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 1: week this year is because of what they did, or

594
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: what Dan did with his checking his ego at the door,

595
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: and not that he necessarily had much of one there anyway,

596
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: He's a team oriented dude. To be able to shift gears,

597
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: get raheem and charge of the of the defense with

598
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 1: help and Jeff Olbrik, it's been a it's been a

599
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: nice mesh. And to do that you got to humble

600
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,959
Speaker 1: yourself some and and do the kind of things they

601
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: needed to do. But the numbers are glaring as to

602
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: what they did in the back half. They were giving

603
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: up fifty three percent on third down in the first

604
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: eight games of the year. They closed the season out

605
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: the final eight games giving up twenty five percent conversion,

606
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Speaker 1: including one for eight yesterday on third down. That's number

607
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: won in the league by a long way, and then

608
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Speaker 1: you look at you, and then you start looking, Yeah,

609
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: you start looking at the at the moment sacks. You

610
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 1: had seven sacks in the first eight games, twenty two

611
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 1: sacks in the last eight games. You're closing in almost

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00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: three sacks a game, going from less than one to

613
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Speaker 1: almost three sacks a game. And then you look at

614
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Speaker 1: the takeaways. They had four takeaways in the first eight games,

615
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 1: you had sixteen takeaways in the last You're averaging two

616
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 1: takeaways a game in the last half the season. That's

617
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Speaker 1: where when you start thinking, well, how can mister Blank

618
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Speaker 1: make this decision? If you'd looked at it and it

619
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Speaker 1: was just kind of a mediocre change or just a

620
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 1: kind of a marginal change, then you say, okay, well

621
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Speaker 1: that's just the players making a few more plays than

622
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Speaker 1: they had. This was dramatic. So the schematics, the play,

623
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 1: the buy in, all that stuff adds into what you

624
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Speaker 1: get as to why mister Blank made his decision as

625
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 1: to what this staff did to turn this season around. Now,

626
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: we didn't make the playoffs, and it's not acceptable, but

627
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 1: he stretched the imagination. But continuity in this situation, I

628
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 1: thought was the prudent call. That was a good call

629
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Speaker 1: tough call for mister blink. By the way, just in

630
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: case people are wondering the heading into the weekend, the

631
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: passing yard leaders were Winston Prescott, Philip Rivers, Jared Goff

632
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: and Matt Ryan, all non playoff teams. Um, you brought

633
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: up the decision and the turnaround, and you know, I

634
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: believe when you look at and I was, I was

635
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 1: really glad that mister Blank explained this and so died Rich. Um.

636
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Speaker 1: But there's there's got to be something to be said

637
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: for continuity, and you know, teams change, injuries happen. I

638
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: get it. It's a player. This is dan Quinn's first

639
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: head coaching. Gig Arthur said in the interview that he's

640
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: a young coach. He's trying to learn still and so

641
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: how do you think. Let me ask you about Rich

642
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: McKay's influence. He's a We all know Rich's history from

643
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 1: you know, the son of a coach to the legendary

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Speaker 1: coach John McKay. You know, Rich has been a GM

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Speaker 1: you know, at different spots. He's built, he's built Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl teams. He's on obviously the Rules of Competition Committee committee.

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Speaker 1: Arthur mentioned that now Rich is going to spend a

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Speaker 1: lot more time because he's been so involved with the

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Speaker 1: stadium the last five years. What do you think of

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Speaker 1: that dynamic now with Rich's influence and having just being

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Speaker 1: a sounding board, just being another voice in those rooms

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Speaker 1: whatever those rooms? Maybe, what do you think of that

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Speaker 1: and his influence? Yeah? I like it. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: if you hadn't heard the interview that Matt does with

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Speaker 1: owner Arthur Blank, it's it's up on Atlanta Falcons dot com.

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Speaker 1: It's an outstanding interview and it really was the first

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Speaker 1: look into what mister Blank was going to do with

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Speaker 1: his team. So congratulations you that was a good that

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Speaker 1: was a very good interview. A lot happened, Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: know what happened. There was a lot of oil burned

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Speaker 1: at the at the midnight hour by everybody here with

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcon organization, certainly the team that does what

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Speaker 1: you and I are doing in the media. But so

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Speaker 1: congratulations with that. But I think that Rich moving from

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Speaker 1: stadium oriented stuff and what a job he's done. Think

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Speaker 1: about Raymond James Stadium. We're there yesterday, tremendous outdoor facility.

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Speaker 1: Fans flock there even when their team's not very good.

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Speaker 1: They still come because it's a cool place to come

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Speaker 1: and hang out. And then he heads up a group.

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Speaker 1: And we're not saying Rich did at all. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of people around Rich that helped put together Mercedes

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Speaker 1: has Been Stadium. But what a phenomenal job he did there.

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Speaker 1: And that was something that mister Blank said, hey, do

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Speaker 1: this for him, take take care of this and un

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Speaker 1: run point on this. And he did, and he did

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Speaker 1: at a championship level. So now he shifts gears and

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Speaker 1: comes back to Flowery Branch where he's been spending maybe

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Speaker 1: maybe two days a week. Now he comes back out

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Speaker 1: here full time. And what Rich's idea is for what

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Speaker 1: he's gonna do. He's not gonna make all the draft picks.

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Speaker 1: He's not going to decide, hey, this is who you're doing.

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Speaker 1: What he's going to do is he's going to create

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Speaker 1: a focus, try to help create a focus for Dan

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Speaker 1: Quinn and for Thomas de Mitroff as a purpose in

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Speaker 1: a process with which they go through to kind of,

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Speaker 1: for a lack of a better term, kind of stay

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Speaker 1: on task to a certain extent. And I don't want

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Speaker 1: to be disparaging to either one of those guys, because

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Speaker 1: obviously there's been a lot of great draft picks coming here.

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Speaker 1: There's been a lot of football one here since those

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Speaker 1: two have been together, but there has been maybe a

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Speaker 1: little bit of meandering that maybe they can tighten the

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Speaker 1: ship up, and that's what you're looking for. And this

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Speaker 1: is a guy, as you mentioned outstanding GM drafted Warren

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Speaker 1: SAP drafted Derek Brooks. I mean, this is a guy

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Speaker 1: that knows personnel that can help Chip in maybe make

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Speaker 1: an evaluation, not tell Thomas what to do, but help

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Speaker 1: make an evaluation and also evaluate coaching staffs because he's

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Speaker 1: been in those situations where Okay, does this guy fit

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Speaker 1: what we're trying to do. Does he have the same philosophies?

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Speaker 1: Are we still are we button heads or are we

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Speaker 1: going in the same line. That's another thing that he

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Speaker 1: can help coach Quinn with. So I mean it's an

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Speaker 1: invaluable resource. Rich has forgotten more than you and I'll

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Speaker 1: ever know about the game and about the hierarchy of

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Speaker 1: the game and how you fit things together, the puzzle

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Speaker 1: pieces go together. So I think it's really cool he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a part of it. Is continuity. What what

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Speaker 1: are your thoughts on continuity in general? I know Arthur

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Speaker 1: Blank explained, Hey, you don't just not change for the

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Speaker 1: sake of not changing. You've got to see signs, which

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Speaker 1: you've just alluded to. There have been some positive signs.

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Speaker 1: The Falcons are coming off their winning this decade in

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Speaker 1: franchise history, so they have been winning. Part of it's

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Speaker 1: been Mike Smith, part of it's been Dan Quinn. That

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Speaker 1: all said, when you look at some of these franchises,

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Speaker 1: Dave the Pittsburgh Steelers, now they're the extreme three coaches

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Speaker 1: since nineteen sixty nine. Yeah, but you look at some

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Speaker 1: of these other franchises, even one in our division where

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Speaker 1: you know, Sean Paynton had three consecutive seven and nine

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Speaker 1: seasons were we now have back to back. They've made

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Speaker 1: it pretty clear the bar is not seven to nine.

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Speaker 1: The bar cannot be seven to nine anymore. But your

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Speaker 1: thoughts just on continuity real quick on that, Well, the

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Speaker 1: analytics certainly point to when you start talking about we

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Speaker 1: were talking about quarterbacks that have had to throw it

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Speaker 1: too much, and the teams that have been able to

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Speaker 1: run it or get a blend, those of the teams

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Speaker 1: that are playing in the postseason, and the guys that

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Speaker 1: did it one way throwing the ball or sitting and watching.

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Speaker 1: I think that that those analytics come together very similar

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Speaker 1: with a continuity concept, where if you've been able to

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Speaker 1: kind of ride through maybe a little bit of rough patch,

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Speaker 1: which this is a little bit of a rough patch

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Speaker 1: to seven to nine season, no question, don't forget we're

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Speaker 1: just we're under two calendar years from being one play

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Speaker 1: from going to a second consecutive NDC championship game. So

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Speaker 1: we're not that far removed from a lot of success

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Speaker 1: with this team in this city and this resume. So

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Speaker 1: that's something mister Blank looked at. There are a number

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Speaker 1: of things he evaluated to make this happen. Continuity was

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Speaker 1: one of them. There's a lot of analytics and things

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Speaker 1: that go into this that he looked at in comparing

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Speaker 1: the people you talked about and some other ones. Baltimore

745
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,720
Speaker 1: was one as well with John Harbaugh as to looking

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Speaker 1: through some of the lean times that they were to

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Speaker 1: fight through and now here they are where they are.

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Speaker 1: Look at Baltimore number one seed in the AFC. These

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Speaker 1: are some of those things that came into It wasn't everything,

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Speaker 1: but it was part of it. Obviously. The second half

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00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: of the season, it wasn't everything, but it was part

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Speaker 1: of the equation. He combined probably six or eight thoughts

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Speaker 1: and then ultimately he said, Okay, how am I going

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Speaker 1: to win next season? Not in a couple of years,

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Speaker 1: how am I going to win this next season? And

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Speaker 1: that was with this group, this was going to give

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00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: you your best chance to win. Well. The Falcons certainly

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00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: have the parts in place, the coaching staff in place,

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Speaker 1: the upper the front office in place, and they've learned

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Speaker 1: a lot. Dan Quinn mentioned as much, you know, he's

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Speaker 1: anxious to get started. He said he's learned more this

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Speaker 1: year about himself, about coach than he's ever learned in

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Speaker 1: his career, which is saying something. So there's a lot

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Speaker 1: to be excited about. You talked about the number sixteen pick,

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Speaker 1: and you remember those guys pretty well, and so there's

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Speaker 1: a you know, fans want hope right now, and you

767
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 1: know when they instead of you know, cleaning house and

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Speaker 1: starting from scratch, the Falcons have decided to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: look at these are all the very good things parts

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Speaker 1: we have in place, and now let's take them and

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Speaker 1: figure out how we can go from seven to nine

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Speaker 1: to which is fill in the blank. But we know

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Speaker 1: the bar is they want to be relevant this time

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Speaker 1: of year and not sitting home. And I think the

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Speaker 1: other big key, Dan or Dave is I think I

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Speaker 1: got Dan Quinn on my mind is getting off to

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Speaker 1: a quick start. Yeah, and that's something they're going to

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Speaker 1: look at. I talked to real quickly. I talked to

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Speaker 1: Rich about that. I said, how much of this evaluation

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Speaker 1: the offseason? And that's something he's gonna do. Is he

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Speaker 1: gonna evaluate how we're doing things? What are we doing,

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Speaker 1: how are we practicing? How those are all things Rich

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Speaker 1: is going to look at. It's not just personnel or

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Speaker 1: coaching staff. You're gonna look at all the things that

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Speaker 1: they're doing because are we not emphasizing preseason enough? So

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Speaker 1: that's all going to be looked at. I know that's

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Speaker 1: music to the years of some of the Falcon fans

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Speaker 1: that we've kind of flopped around through the preseason. Maybe

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Speaker 1: a shift gears on that, maybe that helps you get

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Speaker 1: off to a better start. But you can bet that

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Speaker 1: every rock will be overturned. Nobody is in a cruise

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Speaker 1: position or anything here at Flowery Branch. They know that

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Speaker 1: the onus is on them. This is a tough offseason,

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Speaker 1: an important offseason. They got to come out blazing this

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Speaker 1: next season. I'll tell you what. If you're around these parts,

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Speaker 1: you feel it already. You feel like the bar. Everyone

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Speaker 1: knows where that bar is now. I remember this time

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Speaker 1: last year after Dan Quinn made the announcement that he

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Speaker 1: was moving on from parting ways with three coordinators. It's

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Speaker 1: different this year. It just feels like the pedals to

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Speaker 1: the medal right now. And that's a good thing if

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Speaker 1: you're Alkins fan. And this is a season of hope,

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Speaker 1: and there's a lot to talk about, and we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about that in the coming weeks. But man, I just

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Speaker 1: want to wish you a happy new year and thank

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Speaker 1: you for just being a tremendous source of knowledge. You're

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Speaker 1: so good at your craft. It's an honor to have

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Speaker 1: you on this podcast. And it's been a fun year.

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Speaker 1: It's been an up and down here and then let's

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Speaker 1: just say this, it ended on a fun note, so

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Speaker 1: you know, when we're talking about the field, we always

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Speaker 1: have fun. But well, thanks for the Kevin. It's been

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. We've got a tremendous team that

814
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Speaker 1: puts this together. Matt and I get the easy part.

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Speaker 1: We just get a stand up here and gab. But

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Speaker 1: there's a tremendous amount of group, a tremendous group behind

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Speaker 1: us that do a tremendous job really our offensive line,

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Speaker 1: and they can block. Now this group can come off

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Speaker 1: the ball and block our group that does Our podcast

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Speaker 1: here with Falcons Audible look forward to getting with you

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Speaker 1: here in this offseason and chopping some stuff up. It's awesome,

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year, and yeah I did oh on that.

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Speaker 1: We got a awesome producers back there. If they can

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Speaker 1: make me look and sound halfway decent, then they all

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Speaker 1: need raises. All right, Thanks, now wrap it up. Thanks.

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