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Speaker 2: Odeville presented by AT and T were back with another

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Speaker 2: Falcons win, not a divisional win, but a conference win,

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Speaker 2: this time twenty seven to twenty one Falcons over the

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Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys at home. Falcons approved their record to six

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Speaker 2: and three on the season. And guys, it's not so

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Speaker 1: But there was a lot of parallels.

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Speaker 2: I believe it was going back to the twenty fourteen season,

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Speaker 2: was the last time Atlanta got off to such a

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Speaker 2: strong start in divisional play. But then you go back

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Speaker 2: and you look at it Arch and that year, I

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Speaker 1: Do you remember what they were outside of the division

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Speaker 1: that year? I don't think we beat anybody outside the

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Speaker 2: So that year they had an awesome performance inside the division.

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Speaker 1: But they didn't even make the postseason. So what does

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Speaker 2: Sometimes, yeah, you gotta win your division games, but you

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Speaker 2: got to win outside the division as well. So there

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Speaker 2: was some parallels to me, Fellows about the Seattle game, Right,

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Speaker 2: Seattle had come off three loss, had to travel across

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Speaker 2: the country. Atlanta was feeling themselves a little bit. They

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Speaker 2: came out flat, lost the game, right, So this was

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Speaker 2: to continue to seize the momentum arch, and this one

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Speaker 3: Would you agree, Yeah, absolutely, I think it's a good

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Speaker 3: I thought the defense was key at that moment because

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Speaker 3: what's going on here? And then Kateen Ellis makes a play.

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Speaker 3: And I felt like, I don't know about you guys,

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Speaker 5: And I think more than anything, what was good about

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Speaker 3: Topic a little bit, Why does it taste good to

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Speaker 2: And then Dallas kind of gets on that run early

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Speaker 2: So but but you just know it right, there's certain

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Speaker 2: Start is as a play caller, how do you balance this?

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Speaker 2: like if you had to put your Zach Robinson hat

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a it's a great question. I think it's

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Speaker 3: just move the how telling was that? I don't have

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Speaker 2: It's one of those things where it's almost like you

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Speaker 3: an interesting dilemma. You feel like that that's part of

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Speaker 5: But obviously the worklad is a big part of and

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Speaker 1: Then went one and two in those three games. But

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Speaker 2: Won five out of their last six games in this

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Speaker 3: I just think it's really simple, Rack, and that you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Shack I kind of mentioned the point

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and a lot of it just comes with just playing.

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Speaker 5: If you listen to Kirk talk throughout a week him

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Speaker 3: How about how many plays in the field that Zach

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Speaker 1: Where you get the really good call.

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Speaker 3: McCarthy runs down the sideline, burns a time out talking

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Speaker 5: guys understood and it makes the call a little bit

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Speaker 5: easier for rough.

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Speaker 2: You know what I thought was great fellas we saw

439
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Speaker 2: the contested catch for a touchdown by Drake London.

440
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Speaker 1: But one thing that I was that.

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Speaker 2: Always kind of bothered me a little bit me last

442
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Speaker 2: couple of years about Atlanta versus watching the rest of

443
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Speaker 2: the league, is it seemed like when you watch the

444
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Speaker 2: offenses that were hitting on all cylinders, they would find

445
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Speaker 2: guys that are wide open. Yeah, right, And that seemed

446
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Speaker 2: like it didn't happen a whole lot for Atlanta. It

447
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Speaker 2: seemed like every offensive drive, every pass was a grind.

448
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Speaker 2: But you look up now and what's happening. Last week

449
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Speaker 2: we had two touchdowns with dudes completely wide open, right.

450
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Speaker 2: So Number one, that's understanding concepts, it's game planning, it's

451
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Speaker 2: understanding what you're gonna face from a defense. And I

452
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Speaker 2: think you got to give a lot of credit to

453
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Speaker 2: Zach Robinson and these players. Darnell Mooney comes wide open,

454
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Speaker 2: basically could walk in backwards on the play design. When

455
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Speaker 2: the defense basically gets on the same level, they run

456
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Speaker 2: into each other. I think Trayvon Diggs was lobbying for

457
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Speaker 2: a penalty. It's like when you run into the offensive player,

458
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Speaker 2: you're not gonna get a flag, right, and then Rayray

459
00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:15,480
Speaker 2: McCloud runs the deep over route and he's wide open.

460
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Speaker 2: It's like the five six yards between the closest defender.

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Speaker 5: And the other part about this is Drake Lennon goes

462
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Speaker 5: out of the game early. Is there a drop off?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 5: And we talked about we talked about, you know, Tyler

465
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Speaker 5: coming in and not having a drop off. I mean, yeah,

466
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Speaker 5: Drake's a great player, but this offense was still cooking

467
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Speaker 5: without it, and that's the credit to Ray Ray Coonen

468
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Speaker 5: as to Red Kadarrol Hodge coming in making plays, I

469
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Speaker 5: means you take advantage of what they do. I mean

470
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Speaker 5: cowboys sitting there with three guys on the same level

471
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Speaker 5: on that play. We all know you can't have three

472
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Speaker 5: guys on the same level into each other.

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Speaker 3: And getting back to your point about everybody on the

474
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Speaker 3: same page and execution that very easily could have been

475
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Speaker 3: blown by the two guys that are actually running the

476
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Speaker 3: pick on the play, but they don't. They run their

477
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Speaker 3: route and so they use the proper technique. You know,

478
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Speaker 3: you see how many times we see guys run and

479
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Speaker 3: he runs into it and then it is questionable and

480
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Speaker 3: they throw the flag. Those the Falcon receivers is recent

481
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Speaker 3: releasing up the field to run their routes, and so

482
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Speaker 3: you know, Dallas screws it up as you guys are

483
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Speaker 3: talking about, they don't have it layered or whatever, and

484
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Speaker 3: Digs gets caught and Mooney gets around the corner. How

485
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Speaker 3: about the protection to allow Rey Ray to come clear

486
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Speaker 3: across the field, Dallas blow. They do a great job

487
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Speaker 3: on coverage on the front side. You probably drew this

488
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Speaker 3: play up for the fans to look at. But he

489
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Speaker 3: comes from in the slot left, three receivers of the left,

490
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Speaker 3: he comes all the way across the field. Well, the

491
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Speaker 3: offensive line's got to hold up and be able to

492
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Speaker 3: make that happen. So from an execution standpoint, just goes

493
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Speaker 3: back to what you guys are talking about, the coaching

494
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Speaker 3: and getting guys Dwayne Ledford and getting his guys ready

495
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Speaker 3: to play, understanding what they're going to get potentially in

496
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Speaker 3: those situations, sorting it out to give Kirkin opportunity.

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Speaker 1: A couple of notes to in this game.

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Speaker 2: Darnell Mooney with his fifth touchdown reception set it sets

499
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Speaker 2: a career high in a season for him. So Darnel

500
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Speaker 2: Mooney kind of settling into a really important role here

501
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Speaker 2: for the Atlanta Falcons, coming off of his season high

502
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Speaker 2: completion rate last week of seventy nine percent against Tampa Bay.

503
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Speaker 2: Kirk backset up again with seventy nine percent again in

504
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Speaker 2: this game. And the final note is money downs. You

505
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Speaker 2: guys talked about this defensively. We didn't talk a whole

506
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Speaker 2: lot about the defense in this show. But four for

507
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Speaker 2: eighteen on third and fourth down that's twenty two percent, right,

508
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Speaker 2: So we've talked a lot about Ben not breaking, but

509
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Speaker 2: third and fourth down, this defense did what they had

510
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Speaker 2: to do to get off the field for some punts,

511
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Speaker 2: for some opportunities to go for on fourth down, they

512
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Speaker 2: get the stops. So credit to the defense, even though

513
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Speaker 2: we didn't do a lot of focus on the defense

514
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Speaker 2: in today's podcast.

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Speaker 1: So guys, let's go ahead and.

516
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Speaker 2: Move forward to next week, because I think you got

517
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Speaker 2: an interesting matchup here. We got a rivalry game against

518
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Speaker 2: the Saints, and I got to go on the road

519
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Speaker 2: and a couple inch nuggets from the Saints. They got

520
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Speaker 2: their quarterback back, their carr played in the game. They

521
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Speaker 2: played a very close one against Carolina Panthers and they lost. However,

522
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Speaker 2: caught in the loss was a head coach that lost

523
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Speaker 2: his job. So Dennis Allen no longer the head coach

524
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Speaker 2: for the New Orleans Saints. The organization that had enough

525
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Speaker 2: about it. Guys, we have been in parts of so

526
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Speaker 2: many of these matchups and it's easy to say that

527
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Speaker 2: New Orleans is two and seven. They just lost to Carolina.

528
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Speaker 2: Their head coach got fired. Oh we got this one

529
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Speaker 2: in the bag. Yeah, that's not the mentality that you

530
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Speaker 2: have in this type of matchup.

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Speaker 4: Arch.

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Speaker 2: Now you've called many of these games, you've played in

533
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Speaker 2: many of these games. Give the folks that are listening

534
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Speaker 2: or watching just a little bit of a feel, even

535
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Speaker 2: though it's a two to seven Saints team, what this

536
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Speaker 2: game is and how much it matters.

537
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Speaker 3: Well, we talked about the history of these two teams,

538
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Speaker 3: and I played in these games a number of times

539
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Speaker 3: where you're trying to keep yourself out of the basement,

540
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Speaker 3: and so there was that rivalry. But these two teams

541
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Speaker 3: came in almost the same within a year of one

542
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Speaker 3: another end of the league and got shoved out in

543
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Speaker 3: the Western Division and you had to play the Niners

544
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Speaker 3: and the Rams, who are much better than you, but

545
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Speaker 3: you still developed this Southern rivalry with one another. There's

546
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Speaker 3: fans that are in this town that don't like fans

547
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Speaker 3: in that town, and that might be as big a

548
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Speaker 3: rivalry as maybe playing on the field the fans. I

549
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Speaker 3: heard a lot of people talking about, well, there's gonna

550
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Speaker 3: be a lot of bags on the heads in New Orleans,

551
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Speaker 3: not for this game, not for Atlanta come into town,

552
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Speaker 3: because they don't like us, and certainly we don't like

553
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Speaker 3: them from obviously from a sports standpoint, So but yeah,

554
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Speaker 3: you can check all that at the door. And remember

555
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Speaker 3: Alvin Kamara and you just mentioned Derek Carr and all

556
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Speaker 3: the guys that are on that team that have played

557
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Speaker 3: in these games so many times are going to be

558
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Speaker 3: ready to roll. And I don't think that they think

559
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Speaker 3: their season's over now, they're going they fire their coach.

560
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Speaker 3: And let me point one other thing out. The last

561
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Speaker 3: time we had to do any kind of interim coach

562
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Speaker 3: thing was back in twenty twenty when the guy that's

563
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Speaker 3: the head coach now, Raheem Morris, took over for Dan Quinn.

564
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Speaker 3: That following week, we beat the hell out of the

565
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Speaker 3: Vikings in a game and we were out of things.

566
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Speaker 3: We had lost what our first five games in the season,

567
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Speaker 3: first six games in the season. We beat the Vikings

568
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Speaker 3: by I think two touchdowns and went on to win

569
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Speaker 3: three of our next four games. This can light This

570
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Speaker 3: can light a fire in a team to a certain extent.

571
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Speaker 3: And obviously expensive Dennis Allen, So don't I know that

572
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Speaker 3: Chris Olave got hurt and you know shaheeds out. Well,

573
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Speaker 3: look what Tampa just did with with the World champs

574
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Speaker 3: on a Monday night with their two best receivers at

575
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Speaker 3: there's guys on this team that can play, and New

576
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Speaker 3: Orleans will be fired up in this one.

577
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Speaker 4: A shock.

578
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Speaker 2: He mentioned, there's guys on this team that can play.

579
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Speaker 2: Alvin Kamara, he talked about it. Thirty five touches in

580
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Speaker 2: this game, if my math is right, two hundred and

581
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Speaker 2: fifteen yards now. He did not score, but we know

582
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Speaker 2: how talented this young man is, even as he continues

583
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Speaker 2: through his career, and he had a dominating performance. They

584
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Speaker 2: came up short, but you're right there, a little bit

585
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Speaker 2: short of and I think you make a great point.

586
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Speaker 2: I mean, even when I was playing Arch the year

587
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Speaker 2: that they ended up letting Dan Reeves go and Wade

588
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 2: Phillips took over. Wade Phillips kind of galvanized us and

589
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Speaker 2: we went on the road and we kind of got

590
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Speaker 2: a little bit more of a we had a little

591
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Speaker 2: bit more pepp in our step. So that could happen

592
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Speaker 2: for New Orleans. So this, to me, shock is another

593
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Speaker 2: one of those games where you approach it just like

594
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Speaker 2: any other game. It's just as important as the Tampa

595
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Speaker 2: Bay was two weeks ago, as Dallas was last week,

596
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Speaker 2: and New Orleans is the next on deck.

597
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Speaker 5: The one thing I knew about this league and guys

598
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Speaker 5: in it is you gotta have some pride about your game.

599
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Speaker 5: You gotta have some pride about yourself. And I guarantee

600
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Speaker 5: you coming off of what they just had playing a

601
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Speaker 5: team that they know really well in the Falcons, if

602
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Speaker 5: you have any pride about yourself, if you are a professional,

603
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Speaker 5: you show up and you play, not just because it's

604
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Speaker 5: the Falcon, but you show up because your livelihood is

605
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 5: on the line. And I think a lot of guys

606
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Speaker 5: in this league who are kind of have their backs

607
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 5: against the wall, like the Saints will be in this

608
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 5: ballgame for the rest of the season, They're gonna look

609
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Speaker 5: at it this way, what happens next Because any guy knows, okay,

610
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Speaker 5: once your head coach is going it's probably gonna be

611
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Speaker 5: a new regime coming in. It's gonna be you know,

612
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Speaker 5: you're gonna thinking about, okay, well, well I be next year.

613
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Speaker 5: And what you put on tape now matters. So if

614
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Speaker 5: you go out and say, you know what, all right,

615
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Speaker 5: we lost our season. Know this team is, you know,

616
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Speaker 5: six and three, they're a lot better than us. We

617
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Speaker 5: can just concede. Guess what, You're probably gonna be on

618
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Speaker 5: the team next year. And you're gonna say, you know

619
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Speaker 5: what it is because the way I play. So don't

620
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,640
Speaker 5: expect this Saint's team to lay down because they're two

621
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Speaker 5: and seven. They're gonna have a new voice in there now.

622
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Speaker 5: So now let's change up a couple of things.

623
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Speaker 4: How we do.

624
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Speaker 5: Maybe a couple of guys feel a little bit bet

625
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Speaker 5: about it. I say it's about Dava Kamara. There's a

626
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Speaker 5: lot of respect for this guy. You're talking about guys

627
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Speaker 5: from here, so you know he wants to give it

628
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Speaker 5: to the hometown team. We saw him they give it

629
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Speaker 5: to him thirty four times in the last ball game.

630
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Speaker 5: If I'm Alvin Kamara, I'm telling him, you know what,

631
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Speaker 5: whatever I need to do to get this team a win,

632
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Speaker 5: that's what I'm gonna do.

633
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Speaker 4: So you're absolutely right.

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Speaker 5: The Falcons have to look at this just as like

635
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 5: you did last week, where yeah, you feel like you're

636
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,159
Speaker 5: better on paper, you gotta go show it. Though you

637
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:58,680
Speaker 5: can't have the Seattle game, you can't have a slow start.

638
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Speaker 5: You're gonna be in New Orleans. You know it's gonna

639
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:01,880
Speaker 5: be rocking. Ain't gonna be no bags on the head,

640
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 5: Like mar said, now, they're gonna be ready for this one.

641
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 5: They will be amped up if anything, that gives them

642
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 5: extra juice to companies ball game and you know what,

643
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 5: let's put our best foot forward. And they wouldn't do

644
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 5: nothing but love to be able to knock off the

645
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 5: Atlanta Falcons in what they're doing right now, how well

646
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 5: they're playing.

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Speaker 3: How many times did we hear institute? We all played

648
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,439
Speaker 3: on some teams that weren't very good, okay, And the

649
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 3: pride factor is certainly comes into play, and people outside

650
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Speaker 3: they haven't been a part of it, think, oh, yeah,

651
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Speaker 3: well the pride thing.

652
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Speaker 4: How long is that lie?

653
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Speaker 1: You just said it?

654
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Speaker 3: Shock You get seventeen times to line up and you

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Speaker 3: may not be in New Orleans or Atlanta next year,

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Speaker 3: but you can bet that you want to be one

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Speaker 3: of those fifty three guys somewhere else in leaguers. There's

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Speaker 3: not very many of these jobs. And so this is

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Speaker 3: like signing your name when you put yourself on tape.

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Speaker 3: You're signing your name, that's who I am. And you

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Speaker 3: can bet that they're going to be locked and loaded.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, nails on a chalkboard, Taysom Hill

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Speaker 3: is back on the field, and that's a guy that's

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Speaker 3: a guy you do not he's seriously days against Atlanta.

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Speaker 2: It's like things could be going slow and then all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, two or three Taysom Hill plays and

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Speaker 2: it's like they're back in the game. A couple things

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Speaker 2: that come to my mind to listening to you guys

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Speaker 2: as far as Atlanta and their approach to this game,

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Speaker 2: I think it will tell us a lot about two things,

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Speaker 2: leadership and maturity right going into this game. How how

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Speaker 2: much do the leaders flex their muscles to get everybody

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Speaker 2: else rallied around them to say this game is just

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Speaker 2: as important as everyone else, and we got to go

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Speaker 2: out and execute. And then maturity kind of falls in

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Speaker 2: line with the execution, like you got to go out

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Speaker 2: there and do your job, just like you talked about,

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Speaker 2: don't try to do everything somebody else's job. Just execute

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Speaker 2: your job. And if you can get eleven people on

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Speaker 2: the field doing that all at the same time, things

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Speaker 2: are going to happen pretty good for you. So, guys,

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Speaker 2: let's go with a key before we go for this game.

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Speaker 2: As we tape this show on a Tuesday, I know

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Speaker 2: it's early in the week, I will go ahead and

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Speaker 2: start it off because I got it.

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Speaker 1: On my mind. Yeah, all right, bring.

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Speaker 6: It someone other than Kamara. Okay, make sure that's someone

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Speaker 6: other than Kamara ends up being the story of this game, right,

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Speaker 6: Like I want to see thirty five touches for two

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Speaker 6: hundred and fifteen yards or Alvin Kamerica. All right, he

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Speaker 6: needs to be like fifteen touches sixty three yards, no

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Speaker 6: touchdowns because if there is one Playbaker that we know

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Speaker 6: is still on the field.

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Speaker 2: That's him, Alvin Kamerica. Someone other than Kamara.

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Speaker 1: Is there another key in the game, which that was

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Speaker 1: good to go first? Then you nail that because that's

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Speaker 1: exactly where I was going. I know that's where you're

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Speaker 1: going to.

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Speaker 2: You know, eyes on forty one, no question about that

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Speaker 2: is certainly the number one key.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's a question. So I'll go with

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Speaker 3: an ancillary piece here. You New Orleans held the ball

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Speaker 3: for almost thirty six minutes here in Atlanta. Last time,

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Speaker 3: Atlanta had fourteen first downs in the game, make no

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Speaker 3: mistake about it. And Camara will be a big part

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Speaker 3: of this. If New Orleans is able to have twenty

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Speaker 3: five first downs to fourteen for Atlanta like we did

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Speaker 3: last time. Now, somehow we find a way at the

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Speaker 3: end of the game for young way to win the

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Speaker 3: game for us. That can't happen to this game. You've

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Speaker 3: got to be able to find a way. And I'll

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Speaker 3: go to the money down. And what you've been talking

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Speaker 3: about with the defense defense was outstanding. You combine the

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Speaker 3: fourth down plays this last weekend one for five for Dallas.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned what four for eighteen on conversion situations. That's

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Speaker 3: got to be a similar situation here, but maybe even

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00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 3: more importantly on the offensive side of the football to

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Speaker 3: not allow Kamara that many opportunities. We've got to win

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Speaker 3: money down situations. And I think what we did this

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Speaker 3: weekend is even more paramount is you've got to finish

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Speaker 3: drivest We're going to move the ball from twenty to twenty.

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Speaker 3: I think against this defense, when when you get there,

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Speaker 3: you got to step on their throat. You've got to

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Speaker 3: finish drives and score touchdowns, not settle for field goals.

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Speaker 3: So finished drives would be mine, all.

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Speaker 5: Right shock And to that point, I'm staying on the

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Speaker 5: offense side of the ball, and I think we've had

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Speaker 5: so much success on the offensive side because of the

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Speaker 5: big guys up front, and I think you have to

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Speaker 5: continue to protect Kurt, and I think we've given him

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Speaker 5: opportunities to get to that third fourth and even versus

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Speaker 5: Tampa got back to b Genre's fifth three. So the

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Speaker 5: offensive line is doing their job protecting Kirk. You continue

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Speaker 5: to do that. Guess what we can hold onto the football.

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Speaker 5: We could throw the football when we want to on

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Speaker 5: either down, and it helps on third down if you

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Speaker 5: have a third long situation. But here's the here's the deal.

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Speaker 5: You continue to do that. You got a chance to

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Speaker 5: score points, and to your point, Arch you force that

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Speaker 5: football in and get seven. That puts so much pressure

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Speaker 5: on them to respond. And now you're thinking, Okay, Derek Carr,

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Speaker 5: he is a guy who's been around the league. He

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Speaker 5: knows his office can score a lot of points. And

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Speaker 5: you start to press a little bit. So I think

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Speaker 5: protecting continue to protect Kirko is a big thing.

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Speaker 1: All right, there you go.

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Speaker 2: You got three keys to a Falcons victory at New

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Speaker 2: Orleans this weekend. Before we go real quick, By the way,

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Speaker 2: providing necessary support to the primary activities or operation of

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Speaker 2: an organization, institution, industry, or system ancillary ain't no usually

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Speaker 2: use football term.

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Speaker 1: Way that he went like M I T.

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Speaker 3: I Hey, shout out to our veterans by the way,

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Speaker 3: swoop the service week man, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your service, for your service.

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Speaker 2: Falcons back in action this Sunday on the road at

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Speaker 2: New Orleans, one o'clock pm on Fox. Thanks so much

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