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Speaker 1: On this edition of The Booth Review, Earth Wind and

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Speaker 1: Fire gets mentioned a number of times.

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Speaker 2: And Earth gets scorched by fire. I think you can

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Speaker 2: run two slants in the cover two Fletch.

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Speaker 3: Okay, and I also think you can get aheadache. But

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Speaker 3: this is Tell the Truth Monday on the Booth Review.

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Speaker 1: Welcome into the latest edition of the Booth Review podcast.

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Speaker 1: I Bram Weinstein with Big Fletch London Fletcher. We're brought

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Speaker 1: London is joining us remotely, so we will have our

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Speaker 1: Tell the Truth Monday, and there's a lot of truth

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Speaker 1: to tell today, London.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of truth to tell coming out of Atlanta.

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Speaker 3: Would have lost two or two didn't wasn't our best game,

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Speaker 3: but I felt like the offense dies some good things

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Speaker 3: kept us competitive. But as you mentioned, this is tell

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Speaker 3: the Truth, Tell the Truth Monday. So we got to

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Speaker 3: tell the truth and say, hey, let's get down to

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Speaker 3: the bottom of while we lost that ball game.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about just the emotions of losing the way

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Speaker 1: that they did yesterday in Atlanta. If you're in the

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Speaker 1: locker room, what are you talking about with your teammates today?

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Speaker 3: Anytime you lose a ball game, you have to obviously

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Speaker 3: look at yourself first and foremost say hey, what can

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Speaker 3: I have done better? That's on the coaches, the players,

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Speaker 3: everybody has to kind of have that mindset first and foremost,

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Speaker 3: what could I have done differently in that ball game

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Speaker 3: to change the impact, change the outcome of that ball game.

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Speaker 3: And that's one of the things that I'm really pride

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Speaker 3: I have done better? And it could have been a

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Speaker 3: So it's like, oh, man, if I make that one tackle,

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Speaker 3: maybe that's something differently. Could I've changed the defense to

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Speaker 3: put us in a better position, stuff like that. So

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Speaker 3: that's the thing that you really want to do, first

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Speaker 3: and foremost, be accountable to yourself, Listen to the coaches,

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Speaker 3: the coaching points and was.

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Speaker 4: I paying close attention to the details.

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Speaker 3: Things like that, And that's really the mindset and conversations

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Speaker 3: you need to have. But also let's keep things in perspective.

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Speaker 3: This is week four, you're two and two after the

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm going to focus on the offense with

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Speaker 1: I do think is kind of the story of what

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Speaker 3: I've watched a film actually a couple of times already,

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Speaker 3: Week against the Raiders, loved them week one against the Giants,

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Speaker 1: Well some of this too, like last year was all

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Speaker 1: That's a good team with good talent, and you were

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Speaker 3: Absolutely I knew that, just having spent sixteen years in

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Speaker 3: is Raheem Morris the right guy? They lose this ball game?

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Speaker 1: a little bit. It's been an interesting hand that Cliff

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Speaker 4: The that's the way it is should be. That's that's

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Speaker 1: So overoy, earth wind and Fire has had a run here.

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Speaker 1: It's it's made it to our team. The week before,

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Speaker 3: I don't know anybody who's met Marcus, especially since he's

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Speaker 3: been in Washington and not been just impressed with him.

437
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Speaker 3: I can remember when I met him last year and

438
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Speaker 3: just the humility that he has that he displays, and

439
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:33,600
Speaker 3: you're just like, man, he's just he's perfect. Cliff talked

440
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Speaker 3: about him being perfect for the office and offense being

441
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Speaker 3: perfect for him, but he's also perfect for the locker

442
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Speaker 3: room and especially the quarterback room when you think about

443
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Speaker 3: him being a guy who's a veteran quarterback can go

444
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Speaker 3: out and get it dumb. Yeah, he's in a back

445
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Speaker 3: of row and he understands that. But he's so supportive

446
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Speaker 3: of not just the players, but just with Jaden and

447
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,199
Speaker 3: how he's able to He's a guy who's walked the

448
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Speaker 3: same path as Jaden has. Heisman Trophy winner, number two

449
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 3: overall draft pick, had to be a starter early in

450
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 3: his career, so he could share with him a lot

451
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Speaker 3: of his story that nobody else. There's very few people

452
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:16,400
Speaker 3: that can share that same type of story and journey

453
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Speaker 3: that him and Jada shared together. And his knowledge of

454
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Speaker 3: being a quarterback and understand, hey, given Jay and hey

455
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Speaker 3: this is what I see from the sideline standpoint, then

456
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Speaker 3: what he's called upon to go out and produce, He's

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Speaker 3: produced at a high level.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we'll find out this week about Jayden Daniels.

459
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Speaker 1: You know, dan Quinn is going to speak later today

460
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Speaker 1: as we're taping this. By wednesday, I think we'll have

461
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Speaker 1: a better idea, but I think the hope is that

462
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Speaker 1: he is going to return. But clearly they're in good

463
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Speaker 1: hands with Mariota if necessary, and so that's that's been

464
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Speaker 1: a really good sign Here one other player.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk about an offense with you. I

466
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Speaker 5: think it was signaled early.

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Speaker 1: I think we called it out on the opening kickoff

468
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Speaker 1: when Deebo Samuel was not back to field. It it

469
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Speaker 1: was pretty clear that he was going to have an

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Speaker 1: expanded role on the offense. And that makes a lot

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Speaker 1: of sense. Terry mclaul out. Noah Brown's out. You got

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Speaker 1: to rely on some people, and Debo's the most reliable

473
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Speaker 1: veteran that's going to be walking out there to try

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Speaker 1: to extend the passing game. They still in the end

475
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Speaker 1: had a big kickoff return anyway, They had walked in

476
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Speaker 1: with the number one kickoff return team in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: But Deebo six catches seventy two yards another touchdown, key

478
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Speaker 1: catch on a fourth down, key catch on a conversion.

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00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,359
Speaker 1: Earlier on the near sideline for us as well. Three

480
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Speaker 1: touchdowns in four games for them. He's kind of been

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Speaker 1: everything I think they had hoped for when they acquired him.

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Speaker 3: As well, and probably more especially as a receiver, and

483
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Speaker 3: I'm talking about a true route running receiver. The touchdown

484
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Speaker 3: catch was a great route round by him. The pass

485
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Speaker 3: interference late in that game as well that he didn't catch,

486
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Speaker 3: but if the guy doesn't interfere with him, he's gonna

487
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Speaker 3: probably have another big explosive catch. I was impressed with

488
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Speaker 3: his ability to separate at the top of his routs

489
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Speaker 3: and also make touch.

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Speaker 4: There was a catch.

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Speaker 3: And I'm I'm thinking you're talking about the same catch

492
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Speaker 3: where he caught on the sideline.

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Speaker 4: You know, great catch.

494
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Speaker 3: He was able to get able to get his feet

495
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 3: down in bounds. So, just because this was early in

496
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Speaker 3: the game, Raheem Morris was thinking about potentially challenging that catch,

497
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Speaker 3: but after review they was like, man, he didn't challenge it.

498
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Speaker 3: But after they saw the TV copy, the Falcons coaching

499
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,880
Speaker 3: staff had to say, he caught that ball, but Deebo did.

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Speaker 4: He did an excellent job.

501
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Speaker 3: There was a couple I'm sure they had more plays

502
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Speaker 3: designed to get him the ball, but just with the

503
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Speaker 3: Florida game, you know, sometimes or he may have been

504
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Speaker 3: the initial primary guy and maybe had to based on

505
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Speaker 3: a coverage or or some other things, Marcus may have

506
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Speaker 3: had to go to a different guy.

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Speaker 4: But debos he's been outstanding.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he has, I mean most of the role here offensively,

509
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Speaker 1: at least early. He's either getting a couple of carries,

510
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Speaker 1: one of them ended up being a touchdown in week one,

511
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Speaker 1: or it's a lot of underneath crossing patterns. I wasn't

512
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Speaker 1: surprised yesterday based on who was missing out of the

513
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Speaker 1: lineup that there was a little more downfield for him.

514
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Speaker 1: He's capable of that. He did it in San Francisco.

515
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Speaker 1: He is a utility knife and they're finding ways to

516
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Speaker 1: utilize him. And obviously based on need, it's been necessitated

517
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Speaker 1: and it was signaled early the second he didn't walk

518
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Speaker 1: out there for that opening kickoff.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, he's got a huge role here today.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's just he was his his role was

521
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Speaker 4: gonna be too valuable.

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Speaker 2: You knew that.

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Speaker 3: You just knew that couldn't have it with given our

524
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Speaker 3: issues at receivers and injuries that we had. No No Terry,

525
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 3: he just knew he was gonna be his role on

526
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Speaker 3: the offensive side of the ball was gonna be too

527
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Speaker 3: valuable to also add that that element of it. I

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Speaker 3: would have loved. It would have been interesting. You know,

529
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Speaker 3: you get late in the game and maybe we tie

530
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Speaker 3: the ball game up and there's a late kickoff return

531
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Speaker 3: that you gotta have a big return or maybe a down,

532
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Speaker 3: you know, three points or whatever.

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Speaker 4: I would I would have loved it would have been.

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Speaker 3: Interesting to see if he was the one who tried

535
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Speaker 3: it out there, like, Okay, this is a critical one.

536
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go out here and return this this kickoff,

537
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 3: Like you'll see some guy I could think of sat

538
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 3: Tanna Moss, who was the primary punt returner. We're playing Detroit,

539
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,400
Speaker 3: needed need to have a play. He goes back retards

540
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 3: the kick, retards to put four test now, so I'm

541
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Speaker 3: sure they probably had that.

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Speaker 4: Hey and a guy to have.

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Speaker 3: A situation debo, you're gonna be the guy back there

544
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Speaker 3: returning this this kickoff.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get Logan Paulson in here, Paulson from

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Speaker 1: the Pine, and while he's making his way into the studio,

547
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Speaker 1: let's just stay on special teams just for a moment.

548
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Speaker 2: London.

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Speaker 1: Luke McCaffrey is a fifty eight yard kickoff return. The

550
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Speaker 1: team walked in number one kickoff return average in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And then you and I loved the Larry Izzo pulling

552
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,880
Speaker 1: the referee aside to make sure that he understood there

553
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 1: was an illegal formation on a kickoff return that was

554
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Speaker 1: set up by the Falcons that caused the penalty. Special

555
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,880
Speaker 1: teams again and then Mac a solid yesterday. They put

556
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Speaker 1: a lot of trust into him. He was they needed him.

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Speaker 1: He came through the special teams yesterday.

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Speaker 5: I think had a good day as well.

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Speaker 3: The special teams had had a really good day. Some

560
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Speaker 3: of the coverage unit, man, it was the beginning on

561
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Speaker 3: out there, the logan that I we were talking about

562
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Speaker 3: it and you as well, some of the collegions that

563
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 3: took place on those uh on those coverages, and it

564
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 3: seemed like every every time you turn around, somebody was

565
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 3: needing to be seen by the medical staff. Up Matt

566
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Speaker 3: Gay had had a really good day kicking the football,

567
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,719
Speaker 3: made made the fifty two yarder and some other clutch

568
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,680
Speaker 3: field goals and I'm sure that was great for his confidence.

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Speaker 4: And and d Q just and.

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00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 3: Larry Iso expressing publicly there. They're confidence in him and

571
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 3: belief in him. Yeah, it was the the whole Larry

572
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 3: Is stuff. That's something obviously they've seen on FAM. He

573
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 3: saw it before the ball was even kicked. Yeah, hey,

574
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 3: this is illegal formation, pointing it out and they threw that.

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Speaker 1: Well, the best part of it was is Logan's here

576
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: the referee through the flag that ISO basically told him

577
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: go pick it up because it hasn't happened yet, and

578
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: what was pointing at it, and he was like, it's

579
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: not a pedalty until the ball's kick because they're only

580
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Speaker 1: an illegal formation until the ball's kick. Then it was kicking.

581
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Speaker 1: It immediately came out. That was one of my favorite.

582
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Speaker 1: That was one of my favorite moments of the game.

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Speaker 2: It was really great. It's good rules, you know.

584
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 4: Yeah.

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00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 3: Well, the fact that I don't know if you saw it,

586
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 3: Logan like he literally like threw his flag out and.

587
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 2: I couldn't see, but I heard you guys talking about it.

588
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 2: You guys were talking like you were narrating the whole scenario. Yeah,

589
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,479
Speaker 2: well he flags out to pick the flag up, all

590
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 2: the flags out of you.

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Speaker 1: Well, at first, like he the flaggy met it almost

592
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: looked like it was a mistake, like at his hand

593
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 1: in his back pocket and accidentally did he ran and

594
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: picked up I think is oh told him it's not

595
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: a pedalty yet, it's about to be, and then waited

596
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: for the kickoff and then made him through the flag again.

597
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Speaker 5: It was actually pretty good.

598
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 2: That's funny.

599
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 1: That's all right, let's not bury the lead. Logan wants

600
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: to talk about the defense too?

601
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 2: Do I want to talk about everybody.

602
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 5: Wants to talk about the defense?

603
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 2: The hat, Oh, it's only for only for wins manly,

604
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 2: that's all I w I could take this more seriously,

605
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 2: that's right. That's right. Yeah. So I mean, you have

606
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 2: any specific questions about the defense, it's gonna go over there.

607
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Speaker 5: So I think there's a lot to talk about it.

608
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Speaker 2: So I think there's like this perception and fletch, you

609
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 2: can like disagree with me if you want, but like that,

610
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 2: it's all the explosive plays that they gave up over

611
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 2: the course of the game. And to me when I

612
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Speaker 2: went back and watched y'all twenty two, yes there were

613
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 2: explosive plays. There were chunk plays, no doubt, But I

614
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 2: think the thing that really kind of eroded the defense

615
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 2: was the five yard gain on first down. Yeah, here's

616
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Speaker 2: the choice route on second and five or third and

617
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Speaker 2: five that gets completed to you know, Drake London or

618
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Speaker 2: b John Robinson. And it wasn't like obviously it sticks out.

619
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Speaker 2: It's glaring, like the completion of Drake London on the

620
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Speaker 2: sideline and the you know, the the touch the big

621
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Speaker 2: completion of Bejon Robinson, and those are huge plays obviously,

622
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Speaker 2: but I think it was the other stuff, like you know,

623
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Speaker 2: watching the outside zone stuff back fletch, like watching how

624
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Speaker 2: close some of those runs where we get Kinlock kind

625
00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 2: of you know, chin in the guard. He's trying to

626
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 2: play as his face, but then the last second kind

627
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 2: of peeks back door because Bijon set it up. The

628
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 2: double team just sinks a little bit, you know, gets

629
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 2: a piece of Bobby Wagner at the second level, and

630
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 2: Bijon just did such a good job of like hunting

631
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 2: and pecking falling forward for five. And like you know,

632
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 2: there wasn't a ton of explosive runs in the game.

633
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 2: There were a couple. I think there was one, you know,

634
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 2: down the red zone for his touchdown or whatever.

635
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: But actually the Atlanta rush average was about under four

636
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: yards of carry and I believe it or not.

637
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 5: I know people don't think of it.

638
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 2: That way, but it was. But I think when you

639
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 2: look at and you say, like, man, like if you

640
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 2: could be a little bit more efficient versus that outside

641
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 2: zone run scheme, like you get more second and tens,

642
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 2: I think Joe Wood Junior could be more aggressive from

643
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 2: a pressure package. I also felt like Joe Wood Junior

644
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,959
Speaker 2: to a sort of extent, like felt the loss of

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00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 2: Will Harris. You know, I think people sleep on what

646
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:47,239
Speaker 2: he does from a communication standpoint. How he you know,

647
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 2: like again in the communication, the physicality, the tackling, the

648
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 2: man coverage ability on the tight end and kind of

649
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 2: overcoming that loss. I think it was a big deal

650
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 2: for him. But ultimately I came away thinking, man, it's

651
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 2: closer than it is far away, even though that doesn't

652
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 2: make it any less frustrating to kind of watch that

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00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 2: game back on the All twenty two.

654
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Speaker 1: But I will say this and like, because people are

655
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: gonna hear closer than it is far away, I'll read

656
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: you the numbers of all of their stars because it

657
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: wasn't one person, right, so it's one thing when oh,

658
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: well Jon Robinson went off, Well he's an All Pro

659
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: running back and maybe the best running back in the NFL.

660
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 2: So before before you go, so one of the things

661
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 2: that going in and I talked to Fletch about a pregame,

662
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 2: Mike he was the guy that I was most concerned

663
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 2: about because he's the toughest guy in the league in

664
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 2: my opinion, to match up with. He he's like the

665
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 2: toughest player. He is what Christian McCaffrey was five years ago,

666
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,239
Speaker 2: right where he could win versus the linebacker, you can

667
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 2: win versus a safety shoot in some instances, I don't

668
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 2: mind him in a quarter situation.

669
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Speaker 5: And we see him three years in a row outside

670
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 5: of their division.

671
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: Teams were the ones that have seen every year he

672
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: gets better and better and better and better, and so.

673
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 2: Like that to me is not surprising, like he's gonna

674
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 2: find They're gonna find ways to have an explosive opportunity

675
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 2: to him, because again, like it's the same thing you

676
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 2: run into and you have a good tight end, you're

677
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 2: gonna draw a bad coverage matchup, like you're gonna get

678
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 2: Like if if I'm Kyle Pitts or if I'm Bijon Robinson,

679
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get Bobby. I'm gonna get Frankie Luvu and

680
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 2: those guys are good football players. But I'd show me

681
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 2: a linebacker in the NFL fletch. I'll wait if they

682
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 2: can cover him one on one. I don't think there

683
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 2: is one. Maybe maybe Warner up in San Francisco, but

684
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 2: he's gonna get his explosive plays. I think the other

685
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 2: players are a little bit more surprising, but we can

686
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 2: talk about them. But I just had to get that

687
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 2: off my chest about Jon Robinson, like he was gonna

688
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 2: have these opportunities. He's had opportunities since Week one until now,

689
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 2: so like it doesn't surprise me. It's just how the

690
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 2: offense was able to kind of flower with these other players.

691
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you want to say something about London, about

692
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: Bejon because, like I'm with Logan here, I think he

693
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 1: might be the best running back in the NFL going

694
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: right now. And guess what, those people are hard to stop.

695
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: So you want to you want to talk about Jon?

696
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 3: What they what they did yesterday that they hadn't showed

697
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 3: a whole lot of Is they really utilized him in

698
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 3: the third down receiving game. That's they they they had

699
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 3: a great scheme change when they put the tight end

700
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 3: as the back as the block back and to in

701
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,719
Speaker 3: case we brought pressure and they flexed him out. Basically

702
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 3: like as a wide receiver. He had a bunch of

703
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 3: different option routes things like that, and sometimes it might

704
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 3: have been against his own coverage and you're you're you're

705
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 3: having to they're high low on you, so you gotta

706
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 3: you're gonna you want him to throw the shot, the

707
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,879
Speaker 3: shorter route so you don't give up the big throw,

708
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 3: and him and his loosiveness being able to make that

709
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 3: catch and pick up some some key third downs. I think,

710
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 3: I think, really that's where he probably made his the

711
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 3: most hay and I'm taking the that's seventy that's seventy

712
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 3: five yard or whatever it was.

713
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 4: I can't even remember how many yards. That darn play was.

714
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 3: The pass reception, the big one, but there was a

715
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:45,879
Speaker 3: bunch of other plays that was just as backbreaking because

716
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 3: they happened on third down, like a third and five situations,

717
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 3: third and sixth situation where you think you're gonna get

718
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,319
Speaker 3: off the field. And as I mentioned earlier, we had

719
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 3: been a number one ranked third down defense and they

720
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 3: were able to convert at over a fifty percent clip

721
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 3: on third downs and that's where I think you'll probably

722
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:10,399
Speaker 3: go back. If you're Joe Whitten, say, hey man, maybe

723
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 3: we should could did some different things from a schematic standpoint,

724
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 3: not even schematic standpoint, just like okay, this is kind

725
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 3: of like okay, different answers to what the Falcons were doing.

726
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:26,439
Speaker 3: And again, attention to details a little bit better, whether

727
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 3: it's from lever standpoint, just understanding situations down and this

728
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 3: is all those types of things. Those are things that

729
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 3: are the difference between you winning on the third down

730
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 3: losing on the third down.

731
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 4: Logan you mentioned the.

732
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 3: First first down plays against the outside zones. Hey, stand

733
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 3: in your gap a little bit longer. Don't let bijob

734
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 3: kind of dip in get you to get out of

735
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 3: your gap. Now now you allow those lining to get

736
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 3: angles on you. Stuff like that. So those are the

737
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 3: things when I talk about being been a great a

738
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 3: little bit greater attention to detail, a little bit more discipline,

739
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 3: especially when you got a special bat because they will

740
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 3: become their all blocker.

741
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 4: You mentioned we even a dip and a dodge and

742
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 4: stuff like that.

743
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,399
Speaker 3: He was able to set up a lot of his

744
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 3: blocks because of his ability to get bounce in and.

745
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 2: Out yeah, And I'm really glad to bote the third

746
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,840
Speaker 2: down stuff because I think this team is kind of like,

747
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 2: I can't think of a better word, but like the

748
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,320
Speaker 2: perfect third down team. What I mean of that is

749
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,319
Speaker 2: they got a bunch of guys who can win one

750
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 2: on one matchups consistently, Like Kyle Petz, Strakelan and Bjon

751
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 2: Robinson are all guys you feel really good are going

752
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 2: to draw really really good matchups. And I think the

753
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 2: way they called this game like lends itself to that.

754
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 2: So like their third down stuff, they basically ran a

755
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 2: version of the same play like ten times nine and

756
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 2: a half. Right, I'm gonna give a half because they

757
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:45,359
Speaker 2: kind of ran a half.

758
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 4: Absolutely. Yeah.

759
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 2: So they ran choice or CEO. So choice is like

760
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 2: the inside receiver gets to run in out or sit

761
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 2: down versus owne, and then the other side guy runs

762
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,839
Speaker 2: a corner and a CEO. It's a mandatory out by

763
00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 2: that guy running the choice. They ran that concept on repeat, right,

764
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 2: and it's just because you have guys who can run

765
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 2: the choice. Drake London's a great choice runner. He reminds

766
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 2: me a lot of Jordan reading that capacity. He reads

767
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 2: it well. He makes good decisions. He can win versus

768
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 2: man coverage. These are Robinson had a couple, Kyle Pitts

769
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 2: had a couple. A couple of Kyle Pitts's big completions

770
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 2: are on the choice route where he draws a good

771
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 2: leverage matchup on a guy breaking down on the choice

772
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 2: route and hit him in the corner over top. So

773
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 2: it wasn't like this crazy nuanced thing.

774
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:27,439
Speaker 3: But you got guys, here's the thing that here's the

775
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,919
Speaker 3: thing that I will say too where there's a there's

776
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 3: also the disappointment and on the third down stuff. And

777
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,879
Speaker 3: I would say even consistently throughout the day, the pass

778
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 3: rush was never really didn't really affect Pinix. So on

779
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 3: these choice routes, there's times where he's waiting to see

780
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 3: which way the back of the receiver's going to break.

781
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 3: But because he was so comfortable in the pocket, you

782
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 3: never he never really didn't get him off his spot enough,

783
00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 3: didn't get him uncomfortable. He didn't feel enough pressure. I'm

784
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 3: a pass rush standpoint, So rushing covered. We talked so

785
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 3: much about rushing coverage working together. It wasn't. It wasn't

786
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:08,800
Speaker 3: to the point and to the level that it needed

787
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 3: to be. I guess an offense with so many skilled receivers,

788
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,879
Speaker 3: skilled guys that can go out and win one on

789
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 3: one matchups and man versus man and also you guys

790
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 3: guys who know how to find open lane, open holes

791
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 3: and zones.

792
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like again to piggyback on that pass rush point,

793
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 2: like you talked about, we haven't talked about Drake Lennon

794
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 2: let who had a really good day. Most of his

795
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 2: stuff has kind of been what it's been like near

796
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage except for that big out and

797
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,760
Speaker 2: up and on that out and up, like Kyle Pennix

798
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 2: is hitch hitch throw. It's a three hitch thing, right,

799
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 2: And so when I look at that film, I'm kind

800
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 2: of like, you know, he's in a good position to

801
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 2: make the play here on the out right, which is

802
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 2: on the second hitch. So if I'm the dB, I'm

803
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:54,919
Speaker 2: thinking the ball has got to be out, the rush

804
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 2: has to get home. And again that's just a really

805
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 2: good example of when it doesn't win the things that

806
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 2: play is talking about. When the rush doesn't like connect

807
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 2: fully with the coverage, you run into some of these

808
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 2: issues in the back end where the corners are going

809
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 2: to be more stressed zones are more stressed. We saw

810
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 2: that a little bit against Las Vegas last week, where

811
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 2: the rush doesn't quite get home. And I think we've

812
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 2: had a pretty consistent pass rush, especially when we're blitzing,

813
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 2: but when it doesn't hit zone stretch man coverage, pitch

814
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 2: principal stretch, and I don't care how good you are

815
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 2: on coverage, you're not going to win that one on

816
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 2: one matchup. So I think that's something that I would

817
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,239
Speaker 2: just point to, is just like, for whatever reason, it

818
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 2: didn't seem to line up in a way that's going

819
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 2: to be effective. And you know, football is the ultimate

820
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 2: team game, Like you need both sides of that coin

821
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 2: to work really, really well to execute the defense the

822
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 2: way it needs to be excepted.

823
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: I want to go back to one of the first

824
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: things you said, and it focuses on Bejon a little bit,

825
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: which is I kind of felt this way going in

826
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,919
Speaker 1: Atlanta's one or two in four plus yards on first down.

827
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 5: That's the Bejon effect.

828
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 1: Right, He's just tough to stop and he puts them

829
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:55,479
Speaker 1: in really good situations. Oddly, over the last few weeks

830
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,399
Speaker 1: or the first few weeks of the season, Atlanta wasn't

831
00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: taking advantage of that. They were one of the lowest

832
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 1: scoring teams of the league. They weren't finishing drives, and

833
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:03,319
Speaker 1: only they can answer what in the world was going

834
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: on when they're in second and manageable on every set

835
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 1: of downs. Right, I felt like coming in if we could,

836
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: just because the Washington rushed events had been improved, starting

837
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 1: running backs ravaging under four yard to carry. They're not him, obviously,

838
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 1: but they're different. If these were two three yard gains

839
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,879
Speaker 1: not four five yard gains, you could potentially induce more

840
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: passing out of them, and that ended up not mattering.

841
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: So both things were actually happening yesterday to your point,

842
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 1: when they did get into second and manageable took advantage

843
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: of it. But on a number of occasions second and

844
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: twelve plus okay, five times this happened, they converted on

845
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,439
Speaker 1: four of them, and a fifth got a conversion because

846
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:44,879
Speaker 1: of a defensive holding, So on both sides of it,

847
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: Washington did not have an answer for it.

848
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I do think there's some context associated with

849
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 2: that too, Like just for example, like let's take the

850
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 2: first one on this sheet. It's a second and seventeen,

851
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 2: they get fourteen yards. They're in Tampa two the Washington Commanders,

852
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 2: and they run basically lions. So like both slants week

853
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 2: and some type of spot concept to the offensive left,

854
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 2: so I think sit corner type type deal, and then

855
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 2: two slants to the offensive right in cover two. Like,

856
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 2: that's the call you want, is two slants right. Drake

857
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,399
Speaker 2: Lindon is an excellent slant runner. That inside slant's gonna

858
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 2: pull that hook player away, He's gonna the outside center

859
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 2: is gonna inside release on the Cover two player who's

860
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 2: a flat player, and then gonna wash inside. There's no

861
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:24,879
Speaker 2: nobody for that inside hook player to pass the ball

862
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 2: off too, because it's Tampa too. The MIC's dropping to

863
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 2: the middle third. So if I'm an offensive quarter, I'm like, yeah, man,

864
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,240
Speaker 2: this is perfect. This is exactly what I want. It's third,

865
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 2: it was it, it's second and seventeen. I had a slant.

866
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 2: Let's say we get ten yards on a slant hymn

867
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 2: falling forward, it's third and seven. We're okay. Drake London's

868
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 2: a beast, He's a big dude. Ends up being a

869
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 2: more explosive play. And again, like that's good offensive play calling,

870
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:48,360
Speaker 2: and that's that's a little.

871
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:53,840
Speaker 3: Bit just so that cover tune. I know, we we

872
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:57,360
Speaker 3: rarely talk scheme, scheme, get real in detail.

873
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, actually.

874
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:01,720
Speaker 4: So much cover to in my life.

875
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 3: You are praying for slants versus cover two if you

876
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 3: understand how to play it, especially in that situation. It's

877
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 3: a Again, this is a coaching point that they'll get to.

878
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 4: You run those double slants.

879
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 3: Hey, hook player, you let that first sat go to

880
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:24,800
Speaker 3: to the backside player. Now I'm breaking on that outside slam,

881
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:29,280
Speaker 3: So that's either collision or it's an interception. Now this again,

882
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 3: these are attention to detailed type of things that hey,

883
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 3: this is this happened. Now let's let's correct it. So

884
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 3: moving forward, we won't have these situations again. So no,

885
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:41,720
Speaker 3: you shouldn't be getting ten yards on the on the slip.

886
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 2: So what I'm saying headache. And so what I'm saying

887
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 2: is based on the formation. And because it's Tampa two,

888
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 2: the MIC is the thirds player, right, so the so

889
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 2: yeah yeah, so the SAM, the SAM has to push

890
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 2: to the three receiver side, right. So if the player

891
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 2: the way the way we were, the way we always

892
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,760
Speaker 2: coach Lion like, which is the two or two slants,

893
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 2: is that you run through the inside shoulder of the

894
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 2: hook player, if the hooks, if the hook player vacates,

895
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 2: you stay vertical and basically runn a seam and the

896
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,359
Speaker 2: quarterback will draw you on the ball. So like that's

897
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 2: where to me, like that concept feels right because you

898
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:21,800
Speaker 2: that side is in conflict. If I run my routes

899
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 2: correctly and Drake London again versus Minnesota, they ran the

900
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 2: same concept on the second along.

901
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 4: That should be a headache logan.

902
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 2: But I'm saying, how do you get there? Fletch? You

903
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 2: can't get there. I know you're not Superman. You got

904
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 2: to drop to middle third and you're gonna give the

905
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:34,399
Speaker 2: guy an ache.

906
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 4: Come on, man, listen. If you're a if you're a

907
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,280
Speaker 4: hook player, you're a hook player.

908
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 3: You're you're responsible for two yards outside and number whatever

909
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 3: the case might be. That first slant, that inside slant,

910
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 3: the slot he goes, he's not your guy. Especially if

911
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 3: you're reading the quarterback. You're looking at that al cyberge,

912
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 3: You're looking at the release of the outset the number

913
00:43:56,280 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 3: one receiver. He runs a slant, that's an interception or

914
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 3: incompletion he's gonna get if it doesn't.

915
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying is if you push through the slant,

916
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:08,880
Speaker 2: the seams going to catch the ball. So it's a

917
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:14,879
Speaker 2: to me, it's a good offense. So it's an inside slant. No, no,

918
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 2: but so the way. So let's listen, let's let's know

919
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,879
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. Fletch. Show the inside slant. So

920
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 2: the outside slants, running slant, the inside slant like on

921
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 2: a lion concept. Inside slant. I'm not taking it like.

922
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 2: I'm not taking it like a slant like where I'm

923
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 2: running at a forty five degree angle. All I'm doing

924
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 2: is running through the hook players inside shoulder. So the

925
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 2: second the hook player attaches to me, I've done my job.

926
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 2: We can throw the outside slant if the if that

927
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 2: player pushes through and the outside shoulder, I just I

928
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,359
Speaker 2: just dude. Check it out, Fletch. Check out the all

929
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 2: twenty two baby, check it out. Offensive players. We got

930
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 2: the answers versus Cover two.

931
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 3: Apparently I watched this. This is TAPA two dream. You

932
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:58,399
Speaker 3: want double slats against uh cover two. You are going

933
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:02,359
Speaker 3: to knock that number one receiver out interception or knock

934
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 3: him out.

935
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you, we run.

936
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 5: I'm not sure you.

937
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 4: Give me your offensive perspective.

938
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 5: We're giving out the belt this week. I don't know

939
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 5: to who you or him. I haven't decided.

940
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 3: Defensive perspective plan that scheme for sixteen years. I'm just

941
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:24,879
Speaker 3: tell you I know what you want to do from

942
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:27,399
Speaker 3: an office step point. I'm telling you what we how

943
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 3: we're coach to do it. From a defensive perspective.

944
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 2: You're gonna squee's that at a.

945
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:36,280
Speaker 3: Corner and you're gonna you're gonna vice that. That should

946
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:38,799
Speaker 3: be a headache. It should not be a ten yard game.

947
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.

948
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:44,280
Speaker 1: All right, let me ask a global question again, okay,

949
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: and London, I want you to answer this now.

950
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 4: You deal with that, Jason.

951
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:51,240
Speaker 1: Let me ask the the global question here, okay, because

952
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna people are gonna look at the numbers today

953
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: and they're gonna go all right. John Robinson had a

954
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:55,799
Speaker 1: huge day.

955
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:56,319
Speaker 4: You know.

956
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,360
Speaker 1: It's actually career high one hundred and eighty something yards

957
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: you know in total, four through the air, one of six,

958
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: especially including the big one. Michael Pennock's career high day

959
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, three thirteen, two touchdowns at the interception,

960
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,760
Speaker 1: high quarterback rating Drake London by far best of the season,

961
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 1: eight for one ten He was averaging fifty three, had

962
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 1: his first touchdown catch of the season. Kyle Pitts five receptions,

963
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:21,439
Speaker 1: seventy yards, touchdown. I think it's one thing when you hear, well,

964
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: one guy had this humongous day and he's an All

965
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 1: Pro player, and what are you going to do? Sometimes

966
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: they have days like that. But John Robinson might be

967
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:30,439
Speaker 1: the best running back the NFL. It was everybody lud

968
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 1: did I mean it was You can't really point to

969
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: like they found ways for all of their key players

970
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:38,479
Speaker 1: to contribute. So how are you kind of thinking about

971
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: that today?

972
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:43,920
Speaker 3: Everybody has playmakers. Man, you have to harp on the

973
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 3: details every especially I mean not not even especially defensive,

974
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 3: just offensively defensively. A lot of time logan you'll test

975
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 3: it is a lot of times the difference between a

976
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 3: play band successful and unsuccessful or not as successful as

977
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 3: it could be. It might be a small, like minute detail,

978
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 3: whether it's when I say my new detail, just making

979
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 3: sure you have your proper leverage, maintain your proper leverage.

980
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 3: I understand what the weakness is of defense. If I'm

981
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 3: supposed to stay outside leverage, stay outside leverage. If they

982
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 3: beat me on the end breaking route, you just take

983
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 3: your hat off and say, hey, you beat me, but

984
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 3: don't get beat to what should be your strength of

985
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 3: that defense. If it's certain calls, you're going to have

986
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,399
Speaker 3: a leverage. Every call has a certain leverage that you're

987
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 3: supposed to play. I discipline. Hey, whether it's a knowing

988
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 3: if you're when you can jump, when you can jump

989
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 3: a certain route, when you can't jump a certain route,

990
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 3: when you need to play tighter from a down and

991
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 3: distance standpoint, whether it's a certain situation on football, all

992
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 3: these things come into play that are the difference between

993
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 3: you winning a down, losing it down, getting off the field,

994
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 3: or allowing that team to extend a drive from a

995
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 3: defense standpoint or from an office standpoint.

996
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 4: Hey, make it sure.

997
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 3: It might be your line as standpoint, might be the

998
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 3: depth of a certain route to just draw draw the

999
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 3: attention of a of a hook defender or its own

1000
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 3: defender or whatever to open up an end breaker route.

1001
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 3: Things like that, those are the thing that you really

1002
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 3: have to harp in, hop on and hone it to

1003
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 3: even more. It isn't wins and losses is just more

1004
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 3: glaring when you lose a ball game.

1005
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:25,400
Speaker 2: No, I think that's right. I mean Ultimately, that's what

1006
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 2: you come back to, is like what, like what's the

1007
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 2: simplest thing we can do to make a big correction

1008
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 2: and a lot of it like even like like I

1009
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:34,840
Speaker 2: understand the run game really well coverages sometimes, like you know,

1010
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 2: I've got some type of match prints on the back side.

1011
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 2: It looks like it's covered through you know what I mean.

1012
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 2: I don't know exactly the details, but when you look

1013
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 2: at the just as a run game as a microcosm

1014
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:45,359
Speaker 2: of the whole defense. For example, it's like you're like,

1015
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 2: what is your leverage on the block? Like where should

1016
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 2: your hat be in relation to this blocker? Where am

1017
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 2: I trying to force the football? And I see guys

1018
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 2: as you watch the course of the game, it's not

1019
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 2: guys aren't trying. It's in some cases they're overtrying. They're

1020
00:48:57,239 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 2: not playing within the context of the defense. And it

1021
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 2: leads to the five yard gain twelve yard gain as

1022
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 2: opposed to being attacked for loss. And it's that it's

1023
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 2: again focusing on like I had a coach tell me

1024
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,319
Speaker 2: one time, like sometimes when you get out there and

1025
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 2: things are going really faster, like what do I need

1026
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 2: to do to get it right? But it shouldn't be that.

1027
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 2: It's like, I know what it is. I need to

1028
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 2: shrink my aiming point, shrink my focus, focus on the details,

1029
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 2: and it gets you there. And so it's interesting like

1030
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 2: talking about the Drake Lendon statistics, like what was it

1031
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 2: a forty five yard completion that he had on the

1032
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:28,440
Speaker 2: end up, Like you take that out and he's like,

1033
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 2: write at his normal average for the week, Yeah, seven

1034
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 2: for about fifty And so that's where like he did

1035
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:38,879
Speaker 2: what he did prior to this, plus an explosive play

1036
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:40,320
Speaker 2: that we just talked about where the rush and the

1037
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 2: courage on. Yeah, and we and we're talking about you know,

1038
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:45,400
Speaker 2: Kyle Pitts and we and I think I talked to

1039
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 2: Fletch about this pregame, like I felt like he was

1040
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 2: coming along and looking good. But some of those are

1041
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 2: literally like some of them are him beating man coverage

1042
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:54,919
Speaker 2: and he's gonna win those. Some of those are also

1043
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,800
Speaker 2: just communication errors of new guys working together a defense.

1044
00:49:57,840 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 2: So going back to Utch's point, the very.

1045
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 3: First actually had was a communication yeah between the young

1046
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:06,439
Speaker 3: guy and uh, you know another safety. So that's just yeah,

1047
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 3: them them communication that you can get corrected.

1048
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:12,919
Speaker 2: So going back to the fletch is the original point.

1049
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 2: It's like, how can I how can I be on

1050
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 2: every detail in the run game. How can I make

1051
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 2: sure this communication is cleaning the past game? Because they're,

1052
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 2: like we just talked about they're going to get theirs,

1053
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:23,760
Speaker 2: Like they're a good football team, they got good athletes,

1054
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:26,400
Speaker 2: they've got a pretty solid offensive line up front, Like

1055
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 2: they're going to make plays. But how do I mitigate

1056
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 2: the plays that they do make? How do I rally

1057
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 2: to a tackle? Like you know, on Vijon Robinson's touchdown,

1058
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 2: Like there's two there's a free hitter in the hole

1059
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 2: who's trying to play the ball. That's right, It's like,

1060
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 2: let's make the tackle. Let's go back to the thing

1061
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 2: we did when we were in pop.

1062
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:44,800
Speaker 1: Worter Yea and Algier in the backfield he scored a touchdown.

1063
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and so I look at some of that

1064
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 2: stuff and those are the things that take you from man,

1065
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:51,920
Speaker 2: that's a pretty solid defensive performance to the conversation we're

1066
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:53,320
Speaker 2: having now, which is a lot more frustrating.

1067
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, And this was really, absolutely, absolutely the first game

1068
00:50:57,160 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 1: where the team had multiple opportunities to turnover balled it

1069
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:02,399
Speaker 1: and bounced their way a few times. They did get

1070
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 1: one takeaway finally waited a month for it, but there

1071
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 1: was an early fumble by Vijon that Pennix happened to

1072
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 1: be in the right place at the right time was

1073
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: able to get it back. The ball is out for

1074
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 1: both teams a number of times in the first half,

1075
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 1: but there was opportunities here for turnovers, and that's the

1076
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: quickest way I think to change momentum too.

1077
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:18,320
Speaker 5: It did not happen.

1078
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 1: And there's one other play I just kind of want

1079
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 1: to bring up because I one, I want to laud

1080
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: Jeremy Reeves for the hustle on it, but it's a

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Speaker 1: momentum play too. When Bajeon Robinson caught that pass out

1082
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 1: of the backfield was streaking down the sideline, I didn't

1083
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 1: think anybody could catch him. He was gone right Reeves

1084
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:38,399
Speaker 1: sprinted fifty sixty yards the opposite direction had caught him

1085
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 1: inside the ten. This is the moment, momentum wise. I

1086
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 1: think if the defense stands up and stops them and

1087
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:47,320
Speaker 1: holds them to three, it's a huge, huge, huge.

1088
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 5: Moment in the game.

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00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:50,840
Speaker 1: The very next play is a touchdown. Yeah, it was

1090
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: one of those moments, like I felt it like we're

1091
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: going to look back on this that Jeremy Reeves saved

1092
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: the game if they hold him to three here. But

1093
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 1: they did, and they just could never really find defensively

1094
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 1: the momentum even when they had these like I know

1095
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: that was a terrible play at a big chunk play,

1096
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: but Reeves saved what looked like a surefire touchdown on

1097
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 1: a hustle play. Unfortunately they couldn't back it up with

1098
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 1: a stop in the red zone.

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00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, and as a fan of football, like I love

1100
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 2: that play at Fletch, Like I got like that. Those

1101
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:20,799
Speaker 2: are the plays that you like when you watch in

1102
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 2: games that you love to watch. Is Jeremy Reeves making

1103
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:23,959
Speaker 2: that play?

1104
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:25,840
Speaker 5: But the one we go back to and go that

1105
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 5: saved the game?

1106
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 2: Right?

1107
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 4: But he did that.

1108
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:30,240
Speaker 2: But I think the thing is, like we were then

1109
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 2: that's the first piece, right, you took a bad play,

1110
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 2: you saved it. You gave the defense an opportunity in

1111
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 2: a gold to go situation to kind of make a stand.

1112
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 2: They got to make a play right, right, And you

1113
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 2: look at some of the details and that on that

1114
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:45,920
Speaker 2: next play, like that's a play that Green Bay ran

1115
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:47,879
Speaker 2: against us, right, you know what I'm saying In terms

1116
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 2: of like we're kind of slamming the tight end the

1117
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:52,560
Speaker 2: safeties and run conflict. He's flipping the inside gap off

1118
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 2: the play action fag the tight ends to the flat

1119
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:59,240
Speaker 2: Like those are things that I think, again to Fletch's point, detail,

1120
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:01,360
Speaker 2: like how detail hell can I be with my eyes?

1121
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:03,399
Speaker 2: How can I study film and watch to make sure

1122
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 2: that I'm in the right position that I've seen this before?

1123
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 2: And so I think those are things where it's like, yes,

1124
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:11,839
Speaker 2: the Reefs play was tremendous, like love that play by him,

1125
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 2: but it needs to set up three subsequent plays that's right,

1126
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:16,719
Speaker 2: that allowed the defense to finish that.

1127
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 1: And this is where that field goal feels terrible for

1128
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:21,320
Speaker 1: Atlanta if it ends up happening and hopefully flips the

1129
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:24,879
Speaker 1: momentum for everybody. It's a flip the momentum moment. Unfortunately,

1130
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:26,879
Speaker 1: thirty seconds later they're walking in the end zone.

1131
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 5: Anyway, Yeah, yeah.

1132
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, that play right there.

1133
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 3: I know it didn't turn out where we end up

1134
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:36,359
Speaker 3: stopping them, but that's the play that you hold your

1135
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 3: you you show that you showed a hustle part of

1136
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:42,879
Speaker 3: it the rest of the year, like this is who

1137
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:45,400
Speaker 3: we can be and you defend Nick Lebo, who was

1138
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 3: a Hall of Fame. He's a Hall of Famer as

1139
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,319
Speaker 3: a player, could go on in the Hall of Fame

1140
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 3: as a as a defense coordinator, one of the greatest

1141
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:55,800
Speaker 3: defense COORDINATORD, the greatest defense of mine I've ever been around.

1142
00:53:56,320 --> 00:54:00,200
Speaker 3: He talked about he talked all the ways about in

1143
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 3: every blade of grass, and basically what he's saying is,

1144
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 3: until they cross our end zone, I don't care if

1145
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 3: it's the one millimeter yard line or whatever they came in,

1146
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,920
Speaker 3: We're going to defend every blade of grass. And that

1147
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:17,120
Speaker 3: hustle play that Jeremy Reeves had put us in position

1148
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 3: to Yeah, this was explosive play. But now let's see

1149
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,799
Speaker 3: if we can hold him to a field goal, and yeah,

1150
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:25,400
Speaker 3: we don't want to give up any points, but at

1151
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 3: least we're holding to three as opposed to seven. And

1152
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 3: to your point, Atlanta, they did a nice job scheming

1153
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 3: up some plays and there will be things where you

1154
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:37,759
Speaker 3: might say, hey, let's let's all right, this is the

1155
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 3: tweak we'll make so we don't have these type of

1156
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:43,920
Speaker 3: conflicts things like that. So there's so much things that

1157
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:47,600
Speaker 3: you can do that you from a d saying okay,

1158
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 3: what can we do differently and often as well? Hey,

1159
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 3: all right, this block may be a little bit better

1160
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 3: against this type of front, so they'll be they'll be

1161
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:58,280
Speaker 3: tweaks to improve in all those areas.

1162
00:54:58,480 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think that's the one thing that I

1163
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 2: take away is like, was it clean? Was it pretty?

1164
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:02,239
Speaker 4: No?

1165
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 2: But the great thing about the league, though, the worst

1166
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 2: thing and the greatest thing about the NFL is that

1167
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:09,400
Speaker 2: we get an opportunity to get right today. You know

1168
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. We get an opportunity as a team

1169
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 2: to go make those corrections and watch that film and

1170
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 2: get better and say, man, like, this isn't who we

1171
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:16,759
Speaker 2: want to be, This isn't who I want to be

1172
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:19,239
Speaker 2: as a player. And I don't have to wait six

1173
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 2: months for the next game. I just have to wait

1174
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 2: a week. We get to go to La play a

1175
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:24,359
Speaker 2: really good football team and test our metal and make

1176
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:26,800
Speaker 2: sure we get the corrections made right. So in some ways,

1177
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:28,839
Speaker 2: like it feels like, oh my gosh, there's so much

1178
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:30,959
Speaker 2: to correct, But on some of the stuff we're talking about,

1179
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:33,920
Speaker 2: we're talking about little detailed stuff that can get corrected

1180
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 2: in a practice, in a meeting, And I think like

1181
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 2: that's the thing as a player, as an analyst, as

1182
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:40,719
Speaker 2: a fan that I get super excited about. I'm like, yeah,

1183
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 2: this was gross, but ultimately, like, the great thing is

1184
00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 2: we get a chance to prove everybody wrong here in

1185
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 2: six days, which is the thing that is really cool

1186
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:49,040
Speaker 2: about the league.

1187
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:51,359
Speaker 1: I listen, things change really quickly. I mean, after that

1188
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:54,440
Speaker 1: game against Green Bay, would you have pictured them one

1189
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 1: and one in their next to against Dallas and Cleveland.

1190
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,200
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody would have seen it coming. And

1191
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:03,880
Speaker 1: the reality is they're two and two. Like nothing's been

1192
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:04,400
Speaker 1: settled here.

1193
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 2: The commanders you're saying, yes, they're two and.

1194
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:09,160
Speaker 1: Two, And I like, these losses are hard, They're all hard.

1195
00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:10,800
Speaker 1: The green Bay one was hard, all of these we

1196
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 1: all feel them. They're hard. But they're two and two.

1197
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:17,399
Speaker 1: There's it's September. There's a real long they're not on four.

1198
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:20,319
Speaker 1: There's a long, long, long way to go here. And

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't even describe it that they're in a hole

1200
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:22,880
Speaker 1: they can't get out of.

1201
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 5: They're far from anything like that.

1202
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:26,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I don't know one of the things too,

1203
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 2: Like I think back to that twenty twelve season Fletch

1204
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:31,839
Speaker 2: and like some of the adversity early in the year,

1205
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 2: because what were we three and six or something going

1206
00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 2: in the bye week? Is that right? Do you remember that.

1207
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:37,440
Speaker 5: When you went on the run with Robert?

1208
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1209
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:42,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, kare and six. A lot of that taught the

1210
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 2: coaching staff taught the players, like the level of detail

1211
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 2: that would be required to be good and win against

1212
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:51,839
Speaker 2: good football teams, and so like, it didn't feel good,

1213
00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:53,799
Speaker 2: but we did a lot of self reflection. We learned

1214
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:55,959
Speaker 2: a lot, and we were ultimately able to like become

1215
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 2: something more than some of our parts because of the

1216
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 2: adversity we face. So I'm not saying again they're in

1217
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:03,799
Speaker 2: this disastered hole, but sometimes like flesh and speak to

1218
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:05,359
Speaker 2: this better than me because he played for sixteen years.

1219
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,400
Speaker 2: But sometimes those losses, man, they make the learning that

1220
00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 2: much more acute and that much more specific, And so

1221
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:12,520
Speaker 2: you're not going to forget it the next time.

1222
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:14,680
Speaker 4: Oh, you definitely don't.

1223
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 3: And even just think about this, even if we were

1224
00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 3: had we won that game, we're three and one. You

1225
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 3: still got so much more football left, and we feel better.

1226
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:27,520
Speaker 3: We feel better about Booth reviewing. Logan will have his

1227
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 3: hat on, not have have the giving it out, But

1228
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 3: you still we still be just three and one. Need

1229
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 3: to go win the ball game against the eve La Chargers.

1230
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 3: And that's the beauty of this game is you get

1231
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 3: an opportunity. Now at some point you're going to run

1232
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 3: out of opportunities. But with the with Q and the

1233
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:49,320
Speaker 3: way they run their operation, the coaches, the players, and

1234
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 3: the accountability, I'm a thousand percent convinced that we will

1235
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:58,720
Speaker 3: get our ball correct. We will be a really good

1236
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:01,920
Speaker 3: football team and every facet in every phase of the

1237
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:03,200
Speaker 3: football field.

1238
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:05,040
Speaker 2: And it's so funny, and it's so funny. How many

1239
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 2: times have you seen a three and one team like Melt,

1240
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 2: you know, Melt through the mid season and not figured

1241
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 2: out missed the playoff it did. Like this is so early,

1242
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:15,480
Speaker 2: so it depends, I think to Fletch's point, like I

1243
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:18,479
Speaker 2: trust this staff, I trust this organization that they're gonna

1244
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:20,760
Speaker 2: be like this is a learning moment and we will

1245
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 2: get better, just like they came out of the Green

1246
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 2: Bay game and we're better against Las Vegas. I think

1247
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:26,120
Speaker 2: this is the same type of thing. How do we

1248
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 2: get better moving forward?

1249
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:28,720
Speaker 1: The team that they're playing this weekend is three and one.

1250
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:32,000
Speaker 1: They just lost their second tackle. That's Crez this summer.

1251
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 1: I don't think Joel who knows. I don't know what

1252
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: exactly is, but Rashaun Slater's out for the year. Joel

1253
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 1: just got hurt in New York yesterday. Najie Harris is

1254
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 1: already out for the year. So they're dealing with injuries too,

1255
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: like everybody else. They're three and one right now. People

1256
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:47,280
Speaker 1: looked at them like they see the hot start. You

1257
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 1: know what division they're in. Things change, like things really

1258
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 1: for everybody.

1259
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:52,080
Speaker 5: Thanks changing.

1260
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:54,320
Speaker 1: In fact, yesterday, name the person who thought they were

1261
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 1: going to lose to the Giants, you know, like things

1262
00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: could change very quickly.

1263
00:58:57,680 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 2: Cow about the Baltimore Ravens man not on my Bengo

1264
00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:04,360
Speaker 2: cards coming into the season, like one and three like that.

1265
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 1: Granted they've played the Lions, Bills, and Chiefs, but they

1266
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 1: got two of them on the road.

1267
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 5: Okay, schedule as anybody.

1268
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 2: They got thumped by the Chiefs though, you know what

1269
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:13,880
Speaker 2: I'm saying, and that's not what I would have expected

1270
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:17,200
Speaker 2: from that team. But again, like that applies to them too.

1271
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 2: A lot of football still left to go and people

1272
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 2: want to like, you know, crown and light people on

1273
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 2: fire at this time of year, and we still got

1274
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:25,360
Speaker 2: a lot of game, a lot of opportunity.

1275
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 1: I mean a week ago everybody had the Colts in

1276
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, so it'll get it, like right, you

1277
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:31,760
Speaker 1: know so, and then then they lost, yes, right, so

1278
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 1: we do have a long way to go.

1279
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 5: It's two and two, all right, everybody.

1280
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 1: Hopefully next week we'll be doing a victorious one at

1281
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 1: the Angel with the hat and the belt. We'll all

1282
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:43,360
Speaker 1: be tired, dude as well, all right, first West Coast

1283
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:44,720
Speaker 1: trip of the year next week.

1284
00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:45,919
Speaker 5: That'll do it for the Booth Review.

1285
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Speaker 4: Receive next time.

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Speaker 1: Booth Review was filmed at the Big Bear AI Command

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00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:58,840
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