1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: That means that you are showing submission to everybody's at 2 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: home by us back the laptops back. You're on our side. 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: Now you can stop us. Happy Friday Falcons fans, Welcome 4 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: back to the Friday five. I'm your host, Will mcfatt 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 1: and I'm joined as always by Tory mclaney and Tarren Walk. 6 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: We've got a lot to get to today, you know, 7 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 1: some of it good, some of it not so good. 8 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the upcoming game against the 9 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: Saints as always, We're going to start with with kind 10 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,480 Speaker 1: of our social question of the week, but also want 11 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: to remind everybody, however they watch us, however they listening 12 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,239 Speaker 1: to us, please just spread the word like subscribe where 13 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 1: you can. You know the deal at this point, but 14 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:43,560 Speaker 1: it just helps grow the channel and we appreciate every 15 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,159 Speaker 1: little bit of of outreach we can get. So onto 16 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: our social question of the day, Tory, do you want 17 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 1: to do the honors and read it out? 18 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 2: I can let me know it. I don't know it. 19 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: Though, Doc, and you can check out the social question 20 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: on TikTok any day go to the Falcons TikTok feed. 21 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 2: Okay, So, question of the day when you eat in taco. 22 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 2: Do you turn the taco to fit your head or 23 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 2: do you turn your head to fit the taco. I 24 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 2: turned my head to fit the taco. 25 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 3: I turned my head to fit the taco. 26 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: Y'all just get are dominated by tacos over here. You 27 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:17,639 Speaker 1: gotta control the taco. 28 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:20,119 Speaker 2: I how do you control the taco? Because you turn 29 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:22,639 Speaker 2: the taco, everything comes out of the taco. 30 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: See this is how I know that that's our team. 31 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 1: Eat hard tacos because the real answer is go grab 32 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: yourself a tortilla and wrap that thing up and it 33 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. 34 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:33,279 Speaker 3: I like both. 35 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 2: I am a case of dia girly. If I were 36 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 2: to say, if I were to have my choice, I'm 37 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 2: more of a burrito girly. Yeah, so tacos, but I 38 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 2: do love tacos. I'm having tacos tonight with a margarita 39 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 2: because it's been that week. 40 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: I will say I saw this. I was in the 41 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: Like staff locker room one day just after working out 42 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 1: and saw the segment where cam'skataboo was like having this 43 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: actual conversation. 44 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 3: Dominate you. 45 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: It was the funny thing, just out of context to 46 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: watch that. 47 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 2: I have not seen that at all. 48 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:07,559 Speaker 3: His answer is so simple. 49 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 2: I know it was like you turn your head to 50 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 2: fit the taco. 51 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, but apparently in according to camp Scatter, but that 52 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 1: that means that you are showing submission to the taco 53 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: and we can't have that. Wow. 54 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 2: I mean, if there ever was words to live by, 55 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 2: it's probably coming from scamp camp Scatter. 56 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 1: Did you guys see too that he was like involved 57 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: in a fake fighter at like a wrestling match, but. 58 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 2: Of course he was. Of course he was. Also I 59 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 2: did see his like shoulder can pop out of place, 60 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 2: like he's an interesting cat that. 61 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 3: Cam Scatty dominates the taco. 62 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 2: He okay, good? 63 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 3: First, you would never let food dominate him? 64 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 2: Of course not. I've seen him run through people. 65 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: He is an absolute animal. It was so much fun 66 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 1: to watch. 67 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:50,920 Speaker 3: I will you have to answer the question, Oh why again? 68 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: I pretty much only eat soft tacos. But I agree, 69 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 1: is I think I do? 70 00:02:57,480 --> 00:02:57,679 Speaker 3: Yeah? 71 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: I would turn my one. Yeah, I would turn my 72 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:02,679 Speaker 1: head because it is kind of right. You can just 73 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 1: turn it sideways and everything falls out. 74 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 3: Yeah. I think the talk was still dominant, although I. 75 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 1: Will say the second and like last bites then when 76 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 1: you're kind of like holding it a little bit like this. 77 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 1: That's when you can turn on it right exactly. Then 78 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 1: that's what you say. All right, Well again, go check 79 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: out the Falcons TikTok account for all of our questions 80 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: of the day. They are really entertaining. Uh and getting 81 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 1: a glimpse of the personality personality of the players is 82 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 1: always fun. But now we're going to pivot to a 83 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 1: little bit more serious news. Unfortunately, you know, starting quarterback 84 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: for the Atlanta Falcons, Michael Pennock Junr. Got hurt in 85 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: the last game, left late in the third quarter against 86 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers after throwing Did you. 87 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 3: Say left left left left, left, left left knee? 88 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: Am I right about that? 89 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 3: Don't right into it. 90 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:52,839 Speaker 1: Don't confuse him. 91 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 3: To be clear, it's his left knee. He left the 92 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 3: game with a left knee injury. 93 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: There you go, And then I just triggered No, I 94 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 1: love that because that has been kind of the a 95 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: lot of conversation throughout the week at Flowers Branch, right left. 96 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: Whenever a knee injury is involved, right, it is. It 97 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 1: is serious, and especially with Michael Pennock Junior, who in 98 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 1: college had a couple and so there were rightfully a 99 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: lot of questions posed to head coach Rahim Morris this week, 100 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: what does this mean? What is the status of Michael 101 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: Penick junior? Taren, you want to kind of like fill 102 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 1: us in on how everything evolved after Sunday afternoon when 103 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: it was clear, okay, he's questionable, and then he never 104 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 1: made it back into the game. 105 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 4: Right but woh, I didn't realize how common that word 106 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,600 Speaker 4: is until like now I have to focus on left, 107 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 4: right and left. But Michael has a partially torn ACL 108 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 4: in his left me. It happened in the third quarter 109 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 4: of the game. He didn't come back. And the reason, 110 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 4: as Will said, this is kind of I mean, it 111 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 4: is a big deal. 112 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 3: Is it's season ending. 113 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,160 Speaker 4: He will not play another game in the twenty twenty 114 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 4: five season and only his second season with the Falcons overall. 115 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 2: Hasn't gotten a chance to play a full season. Yeah, 116 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 2: which is really unfortunate. 117 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:06,919 Speaker 3: And injuries. 118 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 4: He has a huge history with injuries, and that's why 119 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 4: people are kind of like, Wichney is it, whitchey is it? 120 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 4: Because let's go through his injury timeline real quick. From 121 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:20,679 Speaker 4: college twenty eighteen, he tours right ACL and he missed 122 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 4: the rest of the season. Twenty nineteen, he had a 123 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 4: right shoulder injury, out for the rest of the season. 124 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 4: Twenty twenty, his right acl is torn again, misses the 125 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 4: rest of the season. Twenty twenty one, his left shoulder 126 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,919 Speaker 4: is injured, misses the rest of the season. He was 127 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 4: clean in twenty twenty two and twenty three while at Washington. 128 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:41,839 Speaker 4: But now if you add in this injury to his 129 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 4: left knee, probably just getting annoying now. 130 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,720 Speaker 2: But everybody's at homes like, we get it, we get it. 131 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:53,239 Speaker 4: But that puts Pennis at five season ending injuries between 132 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 4: college and the NFL. 133 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 3: It's that's a lot. 134 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: That It is a lot. H It is a lot, 135 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,280 Speaker 1: and I mean again, on the one hand, and it's 136 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: important to note that this is the left knee and 137 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: is not the same as the one that he injured 138 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: in call. But again, you never want to see this, 139 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 1: especially when you're talking about your starting quarterback. And once again, Tory, 140 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 1: we're talking about the starting quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, 141 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 1: and this is not where anybody wanted to be. 142 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:18,839 Speaker 3: I know. 143 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 2: I let's take a big picture look at this thirty 144 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,719 Speaker 2: thousand foot view. The Falcons are back in a quarterback purgatory, 145 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 2: despite the fact that they wanted to put a plan 146 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 2: and did put a plan in place two years ago 147 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 2: that they hoped would keep them out of this purgatory. Like, 148 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 2: the fact of the matter is is that dominoes have 149 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 2: been falling at the quarterback position for many years now. 150 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 2: The first domino that got the organization here was the 151 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 2: pursuit of Deshaun Watson and the ultimate trading of Matt 152 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,559 Speaker 2: Ryan back in March of twenty twenty one. And from 153 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,919 Speaker 2: there you go on this not so merry go round 154 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:05,600 Speaker 2: of quarterbacks. Marcus mariot A, Desmond Ritter, Taylor Heineke, Logan 155 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 2: wood Side. You remember how igot about him. 156 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 3: I'm so sorry, Logan. 157 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 2: I know I didn't mean to like disparage Logan Woodside 158 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 2: catching strays here. But like, you go through this quarterback carousel, 159 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,119 Speaker 2: which is what Arthur Smith called it at the time, 160 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 2: and then you hire Raheem Morris and you go into 161 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 2: the twenty twenty four off season being like, the goal 162 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 2: is to fix the quarterback position and it's been too 163 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 2: long since that has not been fixed, addressed, whatever the 164 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 2: case may be. So you go and you signed Kirk 165 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 2: Cousins to a pretty lucrative deal month and a half later, 166 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 2: two months later, you draft Michael Pennix with the number 167 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 2: eight overall draft pick. It was the pick heard round 168 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 2: the world of that draft cycle. That decision stemmed from 169 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 2: wanting to solidify the present and future of the quarterback position. 170 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 2: That is, they did not want to get into another 171 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 2: situation that they were in in the post Matt Ryan years, 172 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 2: where you did not have a secession plan in place 173 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 2: for Matt Ryan in the event he was no longer 174 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 2: your quarterback here in Atlanta, which came to fruition when 175 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 2: you traded him to the Indianapolis Colts. So there's that 176 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 2: Plan A. We know what Plan A was. Plan A 177 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 2: was to have Kirk Cousins play and be the starter 178 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 2: for two to three seasons. It was to have Michael 179 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 2: Penix developed behind him to learn the ropes, and it 180 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 2: was it was then to get to the point where 181 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 2: Michael Pennis can easily take over the starting quarterback role. 182 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins can right off into the sunset chains a 183 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:34,679 Speaker 2: blaze as he enters into potential retirement. You would have said, Shack, 184 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 2: I could have and now that's a missed opportunity. Now 185 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 2: I'm beating myself up that I didn't say that that 186 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 2: didn't happen. You had to go to Plan B because 187 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 2: we all saw what happened last year Kirk Cousins had 188 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 2: a significant decline in play towards the end, middle to 189 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 2: end of the season. Michael Penox has to come in. Well, 190 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 2: now your Plan B is out the window too, because 191 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 2: Michael Pennox is hurt and we do not know what 192 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 2: the timeline is for his at this point, and this 193 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 2: is just speculation. External reports are that he has to 194 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 2: have a full reconstructive ACL surgery. At best, that's usually 195 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 2: a nine month timeline, nine months if he were to 196 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 2: have the surgery this week, which we don't even know 197 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 2: if he's had the surgery yet. Raheem Morris was asked 198 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 2: point blank about that on Wednesday, said not yet soon, 199 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 2: sooner rather than later is what he said. So now 200 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 2: you're getting further and further to the end of November, 201 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 2: which puts you further and further into August into September. 202 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 2: There is a world in which the Falcons go into 203 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 2: twenty twenty six and Michael Pennox is not at one 204 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 2: hundred percent. Because it's one thing to be like we 205 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 2: saw it with Kirk cousins. We've seen it time and 206 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 2: time again. It's one thing to have had the surgery 207 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 2: and to be cleared medically to be on the field. 208 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 2: Another thing entirely to have missed all that time and 209 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 2: be ready to go into an NFL season as a 210 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 2: guy who has not even played a full season of 211 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:01,719 Speaker 2: professional football yet. 212 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not just the time too, Like the developmental 213 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 1: time on the field is crucial for a young player, 214 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: but just getting back out on the field in some ways, 215 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: that is step one, yeah, right, like working your way 216 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: back to another starting point, and then it's building that 217 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:19,719 Speaker 1: confidence back up, like Michael Penis is somebody who likes 218 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 1: to move around in the POCKETA isn't a scrambler, but 219 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 1: he steps up and evades pressure and does all of 220 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: those things. So you have to have those reps, I think, 221 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:30,319 Speaker 1: and build that confidence back up in kind of that niche. 222 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: So again, yeah, it's it is not just a this 223 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: year injury. There are ripple effects as kind of even 224 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: Raheem Morris said. 225 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, he said that he was as point blank like 226 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 2: does Michael Pennocks's injury changed the way that you approach 227 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 2: the off season at the quarterback position, and he said, yes, 228 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 2: it has to, and it does because you're now looking 229 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 2: at not having Michael Pinnocks for a potentially all of 230 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 2: training camp, potentially the first few weeks, if not months 231 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 2: of the season. We don't know yet. There's too much 232 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 2: out there about like his recovery and how long it's 233 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,079 Speaker 2: actually going to take for us to even be able 234 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 2: to speculate one way or the other. Regardless, is that 235 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 2: you should be concerned about the quarterback position in a 236 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 2: time where two years ago you were told, we were told, 237 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 2: everybody was told that the future and the present are 238 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:20,960 Speaker 2: fixed or fixed or you're good to go. And that's 239 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 2: no longer that plan. It's you know, it's TVD whether 240 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 2: or not Michael Pennix is going to come back from 241 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 2: this injury and be the franchise quarterback that the Falcons 242 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 2: drafted him to be. I get that, Like that plan 243 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 2: is still out there. Yeah, but now you have to 244 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 2: put a pause in that plan and you have to 245 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 2: come up with a different You have to evolve the 246 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 2: plan because now you have this window of time or 247 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 2: who the heck knows who's going to be quarterbacking this 248 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 2: team at the beginning of twenty twenty six. 249 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 4: Which is so difficult when last season and this season 250 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 4: it's been a win now mindset. 251 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's why you don't have a first round draft pick. 252 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: It absolutely because you you can see that they continue 253 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 1: to kind of keep pressing and pressing because you do 254 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 1: feel like right there and especially when maybe you feel 255 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 1: like the missing piece is the most important one down 256 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 1: there on the field, you get the kind of urgency 257 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 1: to say, if we get that fixed, we like what 258 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 1: is around it. Unfortunately, though, that part still just hasn't 259 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: locked in the way you wanted to so really quickly. 260 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: Because the day that they played Miami and Kirk made 261 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,200 Speaker 1: his only start of the season, I was a little 262 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: preoccupied was the day was born. So what should I 263 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: expect from a Kirk Cousins led offense out there really quickly? 264 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:33,559 Speaker 2: Toy, I think it's gonna be less pushing the ball 265 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 2: down the field, obviously. I just don't think that that's 266 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 2: Kirk's game. It's it's Michael's game. It's not Kirk's. I 267 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 2: do think that you saw him go under center a 268 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,679 Speaker 2: lot when he went in. It went in for relief 269 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 2: for Michael Pennix against Carolina last week, So potentially there's 270 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 2: more of a wrinkle. So I get the first play, 271 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,440 Speaker 2: I know I immediately all of the fans I could 272 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:57,319 Speaker 2: just feel the like the fan base being like they 273 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 2: went under center and so in any who, But I 274 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 2: do think there's going to be the honestly, what I 275 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:06,600 Speaker 2: need to see from Kirk Cousins in this performance, like 276 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:11,560 Speaker 2: find the easy solutions, like yeah, don't turn the ball over, 277 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:16,680 Speaker 2: Like just don't mess up, just make sure the chains 278 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 2: are moving, like rely on your run game. The Saints 279 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:21,560 Speaker 2: have the twenty first run defense in the league, Like, 280 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 2: you should be able to run the ball in theory, 281 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 2: you weren't able to run the ball against Miami, So 282 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 2: who knows. I don't know. Like so, but that's the 283 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 2: thing is, like, don't get in the way of the game. 284 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 2: If I'm Kirk Cousins, I'm a part of the game plan. 285 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 2: Yes you have to be, you're the starting quarterback, but 286 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 2: I'm not. I want to make sure that I'm not 287 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 2: the reason why the team is losing the game. Does 288 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 2: that make sense? No? 289 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 1: Absolutely? Yeah, Like give him an easier game plan, allowed 290 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 1: to manage it. Things like that, which he should be 291 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:53,079 Speaker 1: able to do at a high level. Again, he is 292 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: a veteran quarterback who has played a lot and started 293 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 1: a lot of football in the NFL. But Drake Lonnon 294 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 1: has been an easy button for whoever is been in 295 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: or Atlanta's quarterback this year. Do we expect to see 296 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:06,199 Speaker 1: him out there this weekend? Tarin? 297 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 4: It's a big TVD just because it's Drake London. But 298 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:13,800 Speaker 4: if Raheem Morris has his way, no, it's verhee Morris 299 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 4: has said multiple times Drake London is week to week. 300 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 4: He said, I don't want to give you guys an 301 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 4: exact timeline for Drake. You know who he is, you 302 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 4: know how. 303 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 3: Tough he is. 304 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 4: So if it's up to Drake, he'll play. But it's 305 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 4: not up to Drake. I mean even Raheema said like, 306 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 4: you've got to protect Drake from Drake sometimes, and he 307 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 4: has a PCL injury in his say it with me now. 308 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 3: Left d left me. I should never be a teacher. 309 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 4: And so he's week to week. He did in practice 310 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 4: Wednesday or Thursday. Who knows what will happen on Friday. 311 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 2: But I would work under the expectation that he's not 312 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 2: playing on Sunday. 313 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 4: And you know why that's such a kicker is because 314 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 4: London is their star receiver. He alone ranks fifth in 315 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 4: the NFL overall and receiving yards. He has sixty receptions 316 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 4: for eight hundred and ten yards and six touchdowns. The 317 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 4: next closest is forty seven receptions for John Robinson and 318 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 4: Kyle pitts apiece, and they have five hundred six and 319 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 4: four hundred thirty four yards respectively. But the big deal 320 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 4: of it all like that's great, But the next best 321 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 4: receiver is Darnell Mooney with sixteen receptions for two hundred 322 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 4: and twenty four yards, And that's. 323 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 3: Not a lot compared to what Drake's doing. 324 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 4: And if you take all the receivers, you take Darnell Mooney, 325 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 4: you take Casey Washington, you take Cadaryl Hodge, you take 326 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 4: the former Ray Ray Rick McLeod. They combined for thirty 327 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 4: five receptions for four hundred and forty seven yards and 328 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 4: zero touchdowns. That's about half of drake individual man production. 329 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: I mean, we kind of knew if you look at 330 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: what the Rams have been over like the Sean McVay era, 331 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 1: it is usually a two man show. Even last year, 332 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 1: when you look at what the Falcons were in their 333 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 1: first year with it, it was a two man show. So 334 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,120 Speaker 1: this is not an offense that spreads the ball around 335 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 1: a ton, at least to the wide receiver position. But 336 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: it feels like this is a year that was set 337 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: up for them to do that if you were gonna 338 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: look at some of these season long numbers, because they've 339 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 1: been dealing with some injuries to Darnell to Drake at 340 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: various points, and they've played through them and stuff, but 341 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 1: they just hasn't been the supporting cast that I think 342 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: you would have expected given some of those injuries. So, Tory, 343 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 1: what do you make of all of this? Because like 344 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 1: they the Falcons have done. I think they have at 345 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: least like looked into the areas that were perceived to 346 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 1: be maybe weaknesses on the roster or and done what 347 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: they believe are steps to like address those wide receiver 348 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: this offseason, I kind of kept wondering if they were 349 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 1: gonna add another body or not. They never did, So 350 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 1: if Drake is out, like where does that leave them? 351 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: And what's your confidence level kind of in it? 352 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, So to your first point, like my main question 353 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 2: is did the Falcons make a mistake by not retooling 354 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 2: the wide receiver room at different points in twenty twenty 355 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 2: five like, I think there is a case to be 356 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 2: made that, yeah, they didn't really help themselves out, Like 357 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 2: I don't blame them for not going after a wide 358 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 2: receiver in the draft or like early days of free 359 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 2: agency at the beginning year, because they essentially brought everyone back, 360 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 2: like three individuals who had career years last year with 361 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 2: Drake London, Darnell Mooney and Rays Point. So I understood. 362 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 2: I know, we even had a conversation around the draft 363 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,120 Speaker 2: where it's like, do you use one of your later. 364 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: I want to give it Toy Horton in my so badly. 365 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 1: I just kept trying to. 366 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 2: Do it, I know, and I kept kind of being 367 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 2: like I'm not super worried about the wide receiver position 368 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:30,680 Speaker 2: at that point. Well, then you go into training camp 369 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 2: and Darnell Mooney breaks his collarbone on the first day 370 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 2: of training camp, like which we found out a couple 371 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 2: of weeks ago when Rahe Morris went on the it 372 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 2: went on radio and announced that like we had only 373 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 2: just ever heard that it was the shoulder, and so 374 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:47,959 Speaker 2: you know, based on like it's a broken collarbone, it's 375 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 2: not casual, that's not casual, and it's gonna be difficult 376 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 2: for him to one even push to get to the 377 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 2: point of playing at the beginning of the season based 378 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:59,120 Speaker 2: on how bad the break is, how bad the fracture is. 379 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:04,359 Speaker 2: But then that's after weeks of in time off and 380 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:08,240 Speaker 2: months potentially of not catching passes from Michael pennockx Junior, 381 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:11,720 Speaker 2: very rarely having even any opportunity in a live game 382 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 2: scenario to work on that camaraderie, work on that connection, 383 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 2: all those things. And then after that also kind of 384 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:23,880 Speaker 2: well not even after that, simultaneously almost of Darnell working back, 385 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,640 Speaker 2: he suffers a hamstring injury kind of sets him back. 386 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 2: Then there's all the Ray Ray McLeod stuff, which I 387 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 2: don't even really know what happened there. But at the 388 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:34,399 Speaker 2: time of that release, like Darnell Mooney was not at 389 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:37,639 Speaker 2: one hundred percent, he had the hamstring, and it wasn't 390 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 2: like Casey Washington, David Sills, Cadaryl Hodge were really giving 391 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 2: you much in relief outside of that. Now, there were 392 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:46,679 Speaker 2: other issues in the past game in the offense as 393 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:49,439 Speaker 2: a whole at the time, but you do have to 394 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 2: think that if they really wanted to, they could have 395 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 2: made something work to help out this receiver corps that 396 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,719 Speaker 2: kept taking punch after punch and to Terrence point like, 397 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:02,680 Speaker 2: now you don't have Drake London, the player who had 398 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:05,919 Speaker 2: more production than the rest of the room combined. Yeah, 399 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 2: Like that's where I'm at is, I'm like, you need 400 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 2: someone to step up. Yeah, But like also at this 401 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,919 Speaker 2: point in time, the riding had kind of been on 402 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:15,880 Speaker 2: the wall at different points in time, and I give 403 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 2: them a pass for not doing anything, I think in 404 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 2: the Drafter free agency or the offseason, but when you 405 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 2: start figuring out that, like, may you need more from 406 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 2: guys like Casey Washington and Darrel Hide David Steeles that 407 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 2: you're not getting when Darnal Mooney is hurting you no 408 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 2: longer have Ravery McLoud on the roster and oh yeah 409 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:35,439 Speaker 2: now Drake Lennon and it is hurt. Like I'm sorry, 410 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 2: but like there needed to have been more. 411 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:41,080 Speaker 1: I think it's fair. I mean, right now, it really 412 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 1: does feel like a lot of the hopes, at least 413 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 1: for the passing game rest on the connection that Darnell, 414 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: Mooney and Kirk established last year. Right, But even in 415 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: Kirk's one start against Miami, Darnell had one catch on 416 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,159 Speaker 1: four targets for like eleven yards. It was Kyle Pitts, 417 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: who was kind of his main go to guys, so 418 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:03,160 Speaker 1: I a heavy dose of the jan in the passing game, 419 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 1: Kyle in the passing game, and Darnell and as their 420 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 1: downfield guy, and then maybe David Sills because it looked 421 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:12,360 Speaker 1: like they had a connection going in training camp. But offensively, Yeah, 422 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: it's going to be really interesting to see what they 423 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: come up with and what their main plan of attack is, 424 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:21,359 Speaker 1: because you would have to assume New Orleans is going 425 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 1: to be pretty ready to sell out to stop the 426 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 1: run and make them have to beat them through the air. 427 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,200 Speaker 1: On the other side of the ball, though, Falcons stand 428 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 1: to get somebody back, which is a nice little change 429 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: of pace. If Divine Diablo is cleared to return to 430 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: action this Sunday, would what's kind of the latest on 431 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 1: that on Divine's injury and status n SO. 432 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 4: On Monday, Raheem Morris announced that insidelinebacker Divine Diabolo it 433 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 4: will be designated to return. That became official on Wednesday 434 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:54,359 Speaker 4: and a transaction went through. Diablo practiced Wednesday, was he full. 435 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 2: He was limited, and then full on Thursday. Full Thursday. 436 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 4: The Falcons now have until Wednesday of week fifteen to 437 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 4: either activate Diablo or revert him to season ending injury. 438 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 4: It's not impossible that the latter happens. It did to 439 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 4: offensive lineman Storm Norton after he had a parent suck 440 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,639 Speaker 4: back in his recovery. He fully practiced, then did not 441 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 4: at all in his window closed. So he's on, he's 442 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:19,159 Speaker 4: done and right now though, there's more optimism when it 443 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 4: comes to Diablo where he Morris went as far as 444 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,439 Speaker 4: to say, assuming everything goes well, he should be back playing. 445 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 4: And that's as in this Sunday in New Orleans. 446 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 1: And you know, we saw the impact that Divine was 447 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 1: having for this defense early in the year. I think 448 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 1: he may still be kind of the newcomer of the 449 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 1: year for a lot of guys, if we're not counting 450 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: the rookie class of course, which again we love them. Yeah, 451 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,399 Speaker 1: but how impactful do you expect Devine Diablo to be 452 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 1: kind of coming back? And is this a matchup where 453 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:47,880 Speaker 1: you will need him? 454 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:51,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's not a coincidence that Divine Diablo 455 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:55,479 Speaker 2: is coming back in a situation where you have a 456 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:58,679 Speaker 2: tight end on the other side, like Juwan Johnson, who 457 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 2: is coming off of his best performance today, which is 458 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,520 Speaker 2: four catches for ninety two yards against Carolina two weeks ago. 459 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: That's explosive. 460 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:09,679 Speaker 2: And I do think that you miss not having Divine 461 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 2: Diablo in coverage against some of these type of players. 462 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 2: And so I also will say, let's call a spade 463 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 2: a spade, like the defense was not operating the way 464 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:23,439 Speaker 2: it was after it lost Divine Diablo comparatively speaking to 465 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 2: what it was when they had him before the end. 466 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 1: For sure. 467 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:28,639 Speaker 2: I think you couple that, of course with like not 468 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 2: having my cues at corner for the last couple of games, 469 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 2: you end up being on your third corner in relief 470 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 2: trying to make up for some of the injuries in 471 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,399 Speaker 2: the secondary. So yes, coverage production I think drops in 472 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks, But overall, I think inserting 473 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:48,359 Speaker 2: Divine Diablo back into this roster should, if we're going 474 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 2: off of what we saw in the first six weeks 475 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,119 Speaker 2: of the season, should make a difference to what they're doing, 476 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,640 Speaker 2: both from a coverage standpoint, also getting after the quarterback 477 00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 2: as well. 478 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,679 Speaker 4: Yeah, Jesse, today, Jesse Bates pointed out something today that 479 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,159 Speaker 4: I hadn't thought of and I don't know the exact 480 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,840 Speaker 4: like timeline off the top of my head. But he said, yeah, 481 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 4: I mean as soon as Divine went out, we started losing. 482 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:13,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he left in the game. 483 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 3: So Divine Diablo in my laptop. 484 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:17,479 Speaker 2: That's what it was. 485 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,879 Speaker 1: That was the combination of this got. 486 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:21,360 Speaker 3: To vine back and we got my laptop. 487 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 1: There you go. 488 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 2: That's what we needed until everybody needed. 489 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: I'm so upset though, that we never got to see 490 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,119 Speaker 1: Tyler Warren and Divine Diablo. I know that would have 491 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:30,239 Speaker 1: been a heck of a matchup. And again you're like, 492 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,920 Speaker 1: you're looking at these two overtime games, a close loss, 493 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 1: like he could have been a difference maker in some of. 494 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 3: These Divine intervention. 495 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: Perhaps I was so ready for that to be a headline. 496 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: I keep perhaps it's still could be. 497 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 3: It was somewhere else. I didn't come up with that 498 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 3: on my own. 499 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Well, no thought is an original podcast. 500 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 2: Every movie is a sequel. 501 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 1: The Falcons are are three and seven. They're very much 502 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,920 Speaker 1: in a one game at a time mentality. So let's 503 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,640 Speaker 1: look at this one game ahead of them, tarn how 504 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: did the Falcons in the Saints match going into their 505 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: Week twelve matchup? 506 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:07,360 Speaker 4: Speaking of one game, only one game, determines the series 507 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:11,119 Speaker 4: right now, between the Saints and the Falcons, it is 508 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 4: fifty five fifty six. Who do you think has the lead? 509 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 2: Well, thank, you know what is it? The Falcons? It's 510 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:20,199 Speaker 2: the Saints. 511 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:20,880 Speaker 3: The Saints have the. 512 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 1: Lead, but we're want to know in the playoffs against them, 513 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: that is true. 514 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 4: Yep, we're putting overall in the regular season it's fifty 515 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:28,720 Speaker 4: five to fifty six Saints. 516 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,440 Speaker 2: I feel like it's been like the last oh six years, 517 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:32,640 Speaker 2: goes back and forth. 518 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 1: That's a good y. 519 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:37,439 Speaker 2: It is the best rivalry in NFL. I said with 520 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 2: that question. 521 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 4: What will be interesting and is interesting is if the 522 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,920 Speaker 4: Falcons win Sunday, it would mark the first road game 523 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 4: either team has won in the series since Week one 524 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 4: of the twenty twenty two season. That was when the 525 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 4: Saints won in Atlanta twenty seven to twenty six. And 526 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 4: you know what, I realized, that was my first NFL 527 00:24:55,119 --> 00:25:00,119 Speaker 4: regular season game as a reporter. Nice I covered the 528 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,359 Speaker 4: winning team in that regard. But here we are a 529 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 4: few years later, and now maybe the tides will change 530 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 4: in Atlanta going down to New Orleans. 531 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 3: I didn't know where I was going with that. 532 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:13,160 Speaker 1: You got there, but the laptops back. You're on our side. 533 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 1: Now you can stop us. 534 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,200 Speaker 4: I mean, this is a big rivalry. It has been 535 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 4: fun to see on both sides. Like I wasn't internal 536 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,520 Speaker 4: for the Saints. I worked for a newspaper, so I 537 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 4: didn't get like as much of the oomph. I didn't 538 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 4: really care lunch right, yeah, But now being internal, you 539 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,879 Speaker 4: can feel the rivalry throughout the building. It's kind of 540 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,439 Speaker 4: like the Alabama, Auburn, the Michigan Ohio State, the Army, Navy, 541 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 4: the Texas Oklahoma, but in the NFL. 542 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 2: And what's interesting is, and I've I've said this before 543 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,679 Speaker 2: and I think a lot of people would would agree 544 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 2: with me, is like this is a game where it 545 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:47,360 Speaker 2: kind of doesn't matter. 546 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,360 Speaker 1: What the records are, throw them out. 547 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 2: Anything can happen in this game. And I mean especially 548 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 2: there for me personally looking at this matchup, this game 549 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 2: has turned into a much more even game than I 550 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 2: think I even imagined it being three four weeks ago, 551 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,919 Speaker 2: which is bad for the Falcons because it shouldn't have 552 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 2: been that way. When you're on a five game losing 553 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 2: streak and the Saints are coming off a win over 554 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 2: Carolina and their bye week, like that's what happens. It 555 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,360 Speaker 2: ends up leveling the playing field of a playing field 556 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 2: that was already level considering the rivalry. In my opinion, 557 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,160 Speaker 2: this game actually goes back to something that we talked 558 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 2: about last week with the Carolina Panthers, is that it 559 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 2: matters more the Falcons do, not necessarily what the Saints do, 560 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 2: and so in theory, it goes back to what I 561 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 2: was talking about before, Like, if Kirk Cousins doesn't turn 562 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,199 Speaker 2: the ball over, the Falcons can run the ball, if 563 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 2: the defense can make getting in the end zone difficult 564 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,359 Speaker 2: for New Orleans, if the Falcons offense can friggin score 565 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 2: like it should be fine. But I will say this 566 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,199 Speaker 2: because like I want to be clear in saying this 567 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,879 Speaker 2: as well, it's like there's a very real possibility that 568 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:53,439 Speaker 2: the Falcons lose this game, even though there is nothing 569 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,239 Speaker 2: to play here beyond bragging rights, as both teams are 570 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 2: essentially out of the playoffs, but nothing would make the 571 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:04,959 Speaker 2: other happier than just ruining their day. So again it 572 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,639 Speaker 2: goes back to the main point of this is a 573 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:11,679 Speaker 2: game that it doesn't matter what is happening beyond the 574 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 2: game itself, Like it's it's almost kind of like the 575 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 2: game in and of itself is its own being within 576 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 2: the rivalry. And I think nothing would make the Saints 577 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,159 Speaker 2: happier than to thump Atlanta, And nothing would make the 578 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,399 Speaker 2: Falcons happier than the thump the Saints. 579 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,360 Speaker 4: Kick them while they're down that No, Yeah, I want 580 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,360 Speaker 4: to do that. Yeah, push you down and kick you. 581 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,920 Speaker 1: There's a ton of shod and fraud in this rivalry, 582 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,159 Speaker 1: which uh which yeah, for those who don't know, that 583 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,199 Speaker 1: means taking pleasure in the pain of others. 584 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,119 Speaker 3: Take us to school much better teacher than I. 585 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 1: And I didn't even go to Germany. 586 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:50,160 Speaker 3: Is that a German word? 587 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:50,920 Speaker 2: It is? 588 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 4: Is? 589 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 1: So I do? Yeah. I mean at this point when 590 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: you when you look at kind of the matchup, it 591 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 1: really does you're closer than you would have expected that 592 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,360 Speaker 1: certainly after like the Bills game, right, so the Falcons 593 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 1: have to be locked in. They gotta kind of really 594 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 1: be just like you need to see I think fast starts, 595 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: you need to see better performances on third downs, all 596 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,720 Speaker 1: of that stuff. So with that in mind, it's a 597 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,679 Speaker 1: it's a really good time to wrap us up with 598 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: a nice little game we're gonna play called need Nice Nope, 599 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 1: which we have in front of us here, the green, 600 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,920 Speaker 1: the yellow, and the red paddles. I guess they kind 601 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 1: of look like lollipops or balloons, but it's lovely arts 602 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 1: and crafts projects. I assume it took you hours to 603 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 1: do this, Jared, because these look phenomenal. So what I'm 604 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: gonna do is I'm gonna throw out a few topics here, 605 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 1: and Tory and Tarn are going to raise whichever paddle. 606 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: The green correlates to something we need to see from 607 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 1: the Falcons on Sunday. The yellow correlates to something that 608 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 1: would be nice, in our opinion, to see from Atlanta, 609 00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,280 Speaker 1: but not necessarily something we have to see to feel 610 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: like the team is on the right track. Red is 611 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,600 Speaker 1: we don't need to see it in order to again 612 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 1: kind of change our opinion of what the Falcons are doing. 613 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 1: So everybody understand the rules? 614 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 3: Ready? 615 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: All right, let's start with the first one. Do we 616 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:17,480 Speaker 1: need to see over forty percent on third down from 617 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 1: this offense? 618 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 3: I forgot we weren't just going in order. 619 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:23,479 Speaker 1: Of the entire list, raghein, No, we're jumping on spontaneous yellow. 620 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 1: All right, So this is a nice to see, Tori? 621 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 2: Why is it a nice to see because you know, 622 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 2: if they're running the ball well on first and second 623 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 2: down and not even getting to third down and you 624 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 2: don't have that many third down opportunities, like, I'm okay 625 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 2: if you're not converting them at a necessary clip. But also, 626 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,960 Speaker 2: because I've watched all one hundred and seven previously before 627 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 2: last week, every single third down appearance, anything better than 628 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 2: twenty percent is good right now, so that's rare. 629 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 1: Feel the same way. 630 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, And just I think the red zone streak of 631 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 4: where they've scored ten in a row is kind of 632 00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 4: my priority more so than third down. Ok. I feel 633 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 4: like Raheem Morris in this moment saying that I will 634 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:04,800 Speaker 4: add advertising the red zone. 635 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: The Falcons are three and two when they are over 636 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,720 Speaker 1: forty percent on third down, and of course they are 637 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 1: winless when they are below forty on third down, So 638 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 1: that is maybe an important uh marker there, all right? 639 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 1: Next one at least four sacks from the Falcons defense. 640 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 1: Oh we don't need to see that, all right, Tom? 641 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 1: Why don't we need to see that? 642 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 3: They've had eighteen in the past three games? 643 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:27,680 Speaker 1: There you go say it again one more time. 644 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 3: They have eighteen in the past three games. I feel 645 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,240 Speaker 3: so uncomfortable. So I mean, we got it. Put it. 646 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 2: I put on this stat like in the Super Bowl era, 647 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:39,240 Speaker 2: no team, no team had ever had that many sacks 648 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 2: over a three game span and lost those three games. 649 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,680 Speaker 2: I'm not saying sacks don't matter like they do. It's 650 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 2: great seeing this defense get after quarterbacks and everything like that, 651 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, they've lost their 652 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,520 Speaker 2: last three and sacked the quarterback a lot. So I 653 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,440 Speaker 2: don't necessarily need to see it. If it means you're 654 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 2: not going to win the game. 655 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 1: There you go appreciate right. Next one, we talked about 656 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 1: how kind of important Drake London has been to this offense. 657 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 1: If if he's not able to go maybe spread the 658 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 1: ball around a little bit more so, how important is 659 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:11,120 Speaker 1: it for us to see receptions? You know, four receptions, 660 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,800 Speaker 1: four from four different receivers. It was a lot of fours, 661 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,720 Speaker 1: you know, three two one, Okay, our first difference we 662 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: got difference to We'll start with you. 663 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 2: I think that in order for the Falcons to be 664 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,520 Speaker 2: at their most successful offensively, like, you're gonna have to 665 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,920 Speaker 2: see that because you're not gonna be able to just 666 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 2: key in on like Kyle Pitts. You're gonna need to 667 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 2: be able to use Jehon Robinson, Kyle Pitts, Darnell Mooney, 668 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 2: David Sales, like any like four of them, right, Yeah, 669 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 2: you're I think you're gonna need to use all of 670 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 2: them because I do worry about the run being taken away, 671 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,480 Speaker 2: like and because we've seen it happen before, so like 672 00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,640 Speaker 2: you need to have an answer. And if the answer 673 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 2: is just dropping it down to Jon Robinson every time 674 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 2: in a checkdown, I don't necessarily think that's gonna work. 675 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 2: I think you're gonna have to spread the ball out 676 00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 2: to guys. 677 00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 1: It's to Charlie Warner fifteen times. 678 00:31:59,440 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 2: I would love. 679 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, Charlie, you have it as a nice to see why. 680 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,400 Speaker 3: Because I don't really care what you do as long 681 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 3: as it works. 682 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 1: Okay, I like that. Yeah, I mean there's there's probably 683 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,840 Speaker 1: a very big portion of the fan base that feels 684 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:14,960 Speaker 1: the exact says true, Hey, I don't care how it's done, 685 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 1: just get it done, really all right? Next one, No 686 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:24,200 Speaker 1: Big Kickoff returns three to one. We got another nice 687 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,240 Speaker 1: to see from Taran and the need to see from Tori. 688 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:30,720 Speaker 2: At this point in time, I my expectation is you 689 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 2: have to be better in that way, and until you do, 690 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,000 Speaker 2: like I I'm gonna say, you need to see it 691 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 2: because there have been too many instances where field position, 692 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 2: you've put your defense in really horrible situations over the 693 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 2: last three weeks particularly, I need to see it because 694 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 2: I do think that even though the Saints have been 695 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,360 Speaker 2: kind of been the butt of the quarterback joke, I 696 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 2: think what they have right now in their young quarterback 697 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,720 Speaker 2: who they just drafted, is a guy who's feeling a 698 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,440 Speaker 2: bit more confident. He's coming off of a like two 699 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:05,440 Speaker 2: and eighty two passing day against Carolina. Like, so don't 700 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 2: give them, don't give them opportunities, don't to feel good 701 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 2: about themselves. Lad's in kickoff. 702 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 1: Returns, Yeah, and I should say no big kickoff returns allowed, right, 703 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 1: and the Falcons are averaging more than twenty five yards 704 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,400 Speaker 1: allowed in in the last five weeks. So this was 705 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:23,200 Speaker 1: a nice to see for you. 706 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 3: It's a nice to see. 707 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,960 Speaker 4: It's like the same reason, which is so silly, but like, 708 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,360 Speaker 4: I don't care, just tearing it out. 709 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:33,720 Speaker 3: On my list. 710 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:35,960 Speaker 1: Would you like to see them win? That's when you 711 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 1: get a green from you. 712 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:38,880 Speaker 3: Tory Tory had a really good argument. 713 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 4: So like, I'm fading toward greens, like it's a I'm 714 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,760 Speaker 4: fading a stop like doesn't go yellow to green. But 715 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 4: in my world right now, we might all right. 716 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,280 Speaker 1: Our final and fifth one here, you know, we like 717 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,840 Speaker 1: a we like a theme on the Friday, five win 718 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:57,880 Speaker 1: the time of possession. The word win is in it 719 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 1: though no three to one? All right, same, we got 720 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,480 Speaker 1: a trend here, need to see nice to see Teraran 721 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:05,400 Speaker 1: will start with you the same. 722 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:12,360 Speaker 3: I'm so sorry, but like, just do anything anything that 723 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:13,920 Speaker 3: will make you win the game. 724 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,839 Speaker 1: Hey, you if not consistent, I have in here. 725 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,440 Speaker 4: The only green I have life two greens was winning 726 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,759 Speaker 4: regulation beautiful and then make every kick? 727 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:27,240 Speaker 2: All right, So mine's screen because I feel like if 728 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:29,759 Speaker 2: you win the time of possession, it means that you're 729 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,160 Speaker 2: running the ball well. And I think that the Falcons 730 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,080 Speaker 2: have in I don't know what their I don't know 731 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,239 Speaker 2: what the stats are behind this, but I imagine when they 732 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:42,520 Speaker 2: win the time of possession, they are oftentimes in the 733 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:44,160 Speaker 2: position at least to win the game. 734 00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,680 Speaker 1: It's yeah, you're you're right on. It's they're three and 735 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,839 Speaker 1: one when they're over thirty minutes oh and six when 736 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,640 Speaker 1: they're under against the Colts, they gave up forty minutes 737 00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,120 Speaker 1: of time of possession. And again what you're seeing is 738 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,839 Speaker 1: when we talk about run defense, things like that late 739 00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:59,959 Speaker 1: in the games, having a lead in the fourth quarter, 740 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 1: giving it up, not being able to you know, like 741 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,000 Speaker 1: all of those things. Time of possession is a big 742 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:08,120 Speaker 1: factor in that. Because guys get tired. Everybody's a human 743 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,280 Speaker 1: being out there as much as they are world class athletes. 744 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,600 Speaker 1: Fatigue is real. So time of possession matters. 745 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:16,120 Speaker 2: So I must work in like absolutes, like a sith lord. 746 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:23,000 Speaker 4: I'm only we're going to Charlie Warner eighty times. 747 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:23,560 Speaker 1: Do it? 748 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:24,480 Speaker 2: Don't care? Do it? 749 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:24,880 Speaker 4: Do it? 750 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,000 Speaker 3: You only have fifteen minutes a time of possession? 751 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:29,680 Speaker 1: Cool line. 752 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,080 Speaker 3: As long as there's a W at the end of 753 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:32,920 Speaker 3: the day, all. 754 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,960 Speaker 1: Right, that's all that matters. Well, we we've got it. 755 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:41,120 Speaker 1: We've got a fund. Sorry dubs for days. That's what 756 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:44,920 Speaker 1: we That's our motto here on the Friday five that 757 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,879 Speaker 1: I just made up. But good news for everybody, our 758 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 1: pregame show is out now. Given you know some of 759 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,160 Speaker 1: the logistics travel all of that stuff, you guys can 760 00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:55,879 Speaker 1: can check it out. There's gonna be another one on 761 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,799 Speaker 1: Sunday as well, so a double dip try to get 762 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:03,560 Speaker 1: a how about that? So please please go check that 763 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,879 Speaker 1: out on the Atlanta Falcons YouTube channel with with Derek 764 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,959 Speaker 1: Rackley and Taylor Vismore. They do amazing stuff. We will 765 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:12,080 Speaker 1: be back on the podcast feed Monday morning with Final 766 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,400 Speaker 1: Whistle you can hear from Tory and I breaking down 767 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,800 Speaker 1: all of the action and then Pro Bowl voting starts 768 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,640 Speaker 1: next week on Thanksgiving. So even though the team's performance 769 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,160 Speaker 1: may not be where everybody wants it to be, I 770 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 1: do think there are some players who are worthy yes 771 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,160 Speaker 1: of some singular recognition, and Tarn agrees with me, so 772 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:33,080 Speaker 1: thank you very much. There we go. Love it. Yeah, 773 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,319 Speaker 1: and maybe soon we can have a little bit more 774 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,000 Speaker 1: of an in depth like Pro Bowl discussion rest individual 775 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,480 Speaker 1: players things like that. But that will do it for 776 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,319 Speaker 1: us today on the Friday five. Thank you guys so 777 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,680 Speaker 1: much for listening and watching. Checks out on YouTube and 778 00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:47,239 Speaker 1: we will see you all next time.