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Speaker 2: All right, Well, luckily we only have one more cat say,

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Speaker 2: back to the Friday five. We've got a special episode

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Speaker 2: recapping the twenty twenty five season on tap for you

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Speaker 2: all today. It's I guess a little bit of a

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Speaker 2: you know that is a name attributed to our postgame show,

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Speaker 2: the Final Whistle or Falcons Final Whistle. So today we've

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Speaker 2: got eleven topics to go through. We're going to kind

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Speaker 2: and if there's any major news, you may hear from

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Speaker 2: the mics as soon as it all takes place to

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Speaker 2: back and check out our episode recapping Matt Ryan's introductory

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Speaker 2: press conference with Arthur Blank and Greg Beatles. I thought

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Speaker 2: it was really enlightening and just kind of a good

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Speaker 2: So with all of that said, Tory Taren, how are

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Speaker 3: I'm doing well.

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Speaker 4: I feel like things have settled in, you know, now

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Speaker 4: of that will we'll talk about in due course, but

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Speaker 4: the twenty twenty five season.

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Speaker 3: So that's what we're doing today.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was less than two weeks ago, so

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And we have been using those two weeks

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Speaker 2: hop on into our final whistles. The first category that

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Speaker 2: we have down is most Entertaining Game. You know, each

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Speaker 2: of these start with my name on the spreadsheet, but Tori,

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Speaker 4: My pick foremost Entertaining game is Week fifteen versus Tampa

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Speaker 4: Bay The Thursday Night game, Cream Sickles versus Red Helmets

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Speaker 4: twenty nine, twenty eight final score. I picked this one because, like,

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Speaker 4: first off, aesthetically beautiful aesthetics, it was fantastic cream Sickles

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Speaker 4: and Red Helmets in and of themselves. I just loved it.

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Speaker 4: It was also one of the crazier games. It was

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Speaker 4: one of those do you ont know the like Stefan

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Speaker 2: New York's Hottest club is That's my favorite.

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Speaker 4: It is one of my favorite things. I laugh so

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Speaker 4: Comparison to the lay of the land, is that like

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Speaker 4: he's just talking about all of these like random things

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Speaker 4: And but this game is like that skit, Like, this

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Speaker 4: yellow It started a four game win streak. But it

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Speaker 4: was also really important for the Falcons to win that

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Speaker 2: Help knock Tamp out of the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: Yes, at one point, the Bucks were up twenty eight

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Speaker 3: It ended up coming down to the wire a bit more.

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Speaker 4: For Carolina and so, but that's my pick. I thought

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Speaker 2: I'll go very quickly because I have the same game nice,

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Speaker 3: Which game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Country Roads, Like rendition from a Berlin crowd was

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Speaker 1: It was cool that the like press box was also

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Speaker 1: But she looked at me like, what are you doing?

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Speaker 2: All right, Well those are great answers. You love to

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Speaker 2: Next one, we got our favorite player to talk about

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's guys, it has to be the

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Speaker 1: But John Robinson I was.

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Speaker 2: So why don't we save that because we talked a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, coming about that idea, all right? Next one, biggest

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Speaker 2: what if moments and all? Actually, Taran, you start us off.

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Speaker 1: Thirty to zero? Really if they the Falcons have the

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Speaker 3: And I because I was actually pretty close to.

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Speaker 4: Putting the Week three one because I felt like that

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Speaker 4: if you would have won that game, then I believe

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Speaker 3: So that one was my biggest wet if moment.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome. I didn't have either of those. A rode

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Speaker 4: Cayden Ellis said in the locker room too after that game,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he literally snuck out because they thought they had

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Speaker 2: So I think coming off of the New England game

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Speaker 3: That was another one I had.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of that, the other one I had written down

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Speaker 2: was Week one, make that field goal going over time.

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Speaker 1: The one that immediately came to mind when you mentioned

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Speaker 1: and they said that's what was the turning point, kind

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Speaker 1: of took the wind out of their sales completely, that

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Speaker 1: what if that hadn't happened, what would have the second

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Speaker 1: after such a big play. A lot of what if moments,

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Speaker 4: Also kind of what makes this season so frustrating for

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Speaker 3: Like, nope, don't do it.

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Speaker 4: I didn't mean to do that, but we just listed

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Speaker 4: that many instances of how the season could have been

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Speaker 4: different if these singular moments were different.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and again, I mean sitting here at eight and

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Speaker 2: Next one expectation that never manifested, and I'll start, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And that's what's so and that's why it's like upsetting

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Speaker 1: I had two. One was Darnell Mooney reaching a thousand

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean I think it's a category kind of

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Speaker 3: Bradley Pinion, I knew, Bradley Pinion. I knew it because

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Speaker 1: The man his flowers. I know you're not being sarcastic,

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Speaker 1: He Bradley Pinion pinned hey an NFL best thirty four

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Speaker 3: That Nickel spot.

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Speaker 4: So, de Alford, you're my unsung hero of the twenty

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Speaker 1: Yeah. When I was writing the Die Alford kind of

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Speaker 1: It did surprise me when I saw the final statue.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I had Lahale London. I did no one. No one's

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Speaker 2: All right, stand out?

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Speaker 1: Sorry say another one who stepped up, Ronnie Harrison.

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Speaker 3: No, I was just like going through my brain.

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Speaker 1: The question I'm sung hero, I wouldn't say he's an

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Speaker 2: Moving right along, standout stat of the year.

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Speaker 4: Toy franchise record in sacks fifty seven, I think that

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Speaker 1: I also had the fifty seven sacks, going from second

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Speaker 2: Nice that's good.

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Speaker 3: Do you have Jon, I do have A.

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Speaker 2: I had both of them. I like to prepared, but

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Speaker 2: It's crazy to have more than double the amount of

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Speaker 4: Did they end up It's okay if you don't know this,

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Speaker 1: I think it was going into the last game. There

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Speaker 2: Yeah. But yeah, Bijon with setting the single season scrimming

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Speaker 1: Nice.

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Speaker 2: But I think there is a chance that because Bejon

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Speaker 2: Remember this is the Sax season, you know that we

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Speaker 2: Newcomer of the Year Taren.

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Speaker 1: I did Xavier Watts. People talk a lot about the

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Speaker 1: presence even if he is a rookie. So I think

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Speaker 1: he has done very very well.

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Speaker 2: Will you go, we probably are the same one.

445
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Speaker 1: On the count of three, Well, I was gonna yeah,

446
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Speaker 1: I have a couple of ways I could well then yeah,

447
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Speaker 1: I'll say James Piers Junior, right, Yeah, And obviously, like

448
00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,919
Speaker 1: ten to a half sacks led the team in sacks,

449
00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:27,399
Speaker 1: was just kind of like, kind of from the jump,

450
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:31,240
Speaker 1: was an intriguing presence in the locker room, on the field,

451
00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:33,080
Speaker 1: like he was just a cool character.

452
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for the season. So yeah, I'm happy to have

453
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Speaker 2: James Peers Junior on team.

454
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I also had James Peers junior.

455
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Speaker 4: But I'm gonna go a different way with my answer,

456
00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 4: Divine Diablo. I know we're kind of talking about rookies,

457
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Speaker 4: but this is a free agent signing that immediately moved

458
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Speaker 4: the needle towards what Jeff Olbrook was wanting within this

459
00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,880
Speaker 4: inside linebacker corps. When he wasn't on the field, when

460
00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,520
Speaker 4: he had the fracture in his forearm, you noticed a

461
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Speaker 4: difference because of everything that he provides did this defense

462
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,560
Speaker 4: in the middle of it, you felt his presence.

463
00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:06,359
Speaker 3: When he was there and you missed it when he wasn't.

464
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Speaker 4: And I think like in terms of someone coming in

465
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Speaker 4: who maybe people didn't really know what to make of

466
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,760
Speaker 4: him because you didn't really know that much about him.

467
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Speaker 3: The fact that he.

468
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Speaker 4: Became such this integral piece of this defense very very

469
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 4: quickly says a lot about him also says a lot

470
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Speaker 4: about I think, like Jeff O'll brick the scouting department

471
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Speaker 4: in like pinpointing this is a guy that they wanted

472
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Speaker 4: to bring in and also just.

473
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Speaker 3: Kind of like him in general being.

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Speaker 4: This again we go back to versatility, but being this

475
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Speaker 4: very versatile piece. And I still I'll remember for so

476
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Speaker 4: long the Buffalo Bill's game when Josh Allen makes this

477
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Speaker 4: beautiful throw and without even like literally divined Yablo's like

478
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Speaker 4: running back his turn to the ball and he just

479
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:52,919
Speaker 4: puts his arm up for a PBu and like I

480
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:57,119
Speaker 4: he was everywhere all at once, and it really loved

481
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Speaker 4: watching Divine Diablo in this defense past year.

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Speaker 2: That's a great answer. I'm I'm kicking myself because I

483
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Speaker 2: was like trying to think of a non rookie and

484
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Speaker 2: for whatever reason, it just kind of like he went

485
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Speaker 2: out of my brain. But yeah, like that is as

486
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Speaker 2: a perfect answer, thank you all right. Next one highlight

487
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Speaker 2: of the year, Taren, let's start with you.

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Speaker 1: I hadn't gotten to that one.

489
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Speaker 3: Fine, just insert anything John.

490
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Speaker 1: Did literally answered anything but John Robinson did. But at

491
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Speaker 1: the same any any Zane Gonzalez moment, the highlight of

492
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Speaker 1: the year was Zane Gonzalez coming in and saving special

493
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Speaker 1: teams and becoming that kicker that the Falcons needed, wanted,

494
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Speaker 1: especially at that time of the year.

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Speaker 2: I am going to pass to you, okay, I wanted.

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Speaker 2: I want to do what you just did. Is I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna kind of go on.

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Speaker 4: I don't think either of y'all, and probably not even

499
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Speaker 4: producer Jared is thinking about this moment at all. This

500
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Speaker 4: is probably not a moment that anyone at home being like,

501
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 4: this is the moment that like, we like, the highlight.

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Speaker 3: Of the year.

503
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Speaker 2: But was it Freddy Bungee jumping off.

504
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Speaker 4: No, I'm sending a tweet in our podcast channel of

505
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Speaker 4: a photo and I hope Jared, when you go and

506
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Speaker 4: if you could pull this photo up for everyone. Oh

507
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Speaker 4: when the fact that and hopefully this photo is up

508
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Speaker 4: so everyone at home can see it. But the fact

509
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Speaker 4: in the Tampa Bay game that Ryan Noosel recovered this fumble.

510
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Speaker 3: Is one of the crazier, like funniest moments of the

511
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Speaker 3: season for me.

512
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Speaker 4: I could again, I could talk about jan in any

513
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Speaker 4: capacity all day long. I could talk Aboutkyle Pitts and

514
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 4: his three touchdown. I could talk about Drake London mossing

515
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 4: three different New England DB's. But this moment, the fact

516
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Speaker 4: that there are seven Tampa Bay Buccaneers around one Darnell

517
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 4: Mooney ball is on the ground. Ryan Noozle recovered this

518
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 4: ball is a highlight in and of itself.

519
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Speaker 2: That's that's an amazing yeah.

520
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Speaker 1: That's another thing that a niche thank you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, is that I don't even know if that's up

522
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Speaker 2: on on that whiteboard out there. I uh so, I

523
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Speaker 2: am going to give an honorable mention to aj Terrell's

524
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 2: pass break up against Pooka because crazy, like everything about

525
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 2: that play, yeah, was amazing, and it was even more

526
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Speaker 2: amazing that it wasn't a completion. So I feel safe

527
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Speaker 2: in being like, yay, that was so good, but like,

528
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Speaker 2: oh my gosh, my highlight of the year is back

529
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 2: to back plays James Pierce Junior getting the franchise record

530
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Speaker 2: and then getting double digit sacks. I thought that that

531
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Speaker 2: was kind of a cool, really good one end cap

532
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Speaker 2: on again a season that we're going to remember for

533
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Speaker 2: Atlanta's pass rush, which feels amazing to say, and I

534
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 2: can't say it enough time.

535
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Speaker 4: Another kind of honorable mention as we're talking about James

536
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Speaker 4: Peers Junior, is the strip sacks of JPJ and Jalen Walker.

537
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Speaker 2: You can pay the.

538
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Speaker 4: Back to back which one you want, but like either

539
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 4: the New England one or the Colts one, but both of.

540
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,120
Speaker 3: Them were just key moments in those games and it.

541
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Speaker 4: Was just like really good validation at that point in

542
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 4: time to be like your first round picks are doing that.

543
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Speaker 1: What was so funny after the word was talking to

544
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: like Jayalen Walker about it and he goes thunder and lightning,

545
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 1: and I'm like, which one's witch yeah, and he goes

546
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 1: either either, and then it was just like okay, and

547
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 1: then asking James Pears Junior about it, he goes, yeah,

548
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,400
Speaker 1: Like I don't know that that was actually a nickname

549
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: in place, but it just came out in the moment

550
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 1: and anytime I thought it's under lightning, I more so

551
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Speaker 1: thought of John Robinson and Tyler Lgear.

552
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Speaker 3: Which makes more sense as a but hey.

553
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Speaker 1: That was thunder and lightning.

554
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Speaker 3: Love that for them when it comes to strip sacks.

555
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Speaker 2: All Right, this next one is I'm not mad. I'm

556
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 2: just disappointed. I will because we've already kind of like

557
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 2: talked about this a little bit. I had losing the

558
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 2: Panthers twice. I mean, I'm a little bit mad about it,

559
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 2: but I'm also just like, yeah, I'm just disappointed. How

560
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 2: do you lose? Yeah?

561
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 4: Anyway, Yeah, we've also kind of hit on mine as well.

562
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Speaker 4: I kind of said that the wide receiver room didn't

563
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Speaker 4: like collectively amount to what you needed it to in

564
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five. Yep, you release Ray Ray McCloud, Darnell

565
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 4: Mooney and his injury and then kind of never really

566
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 4: seeing the Darnell Mooney that we saw last year, Drake

567
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,919
Speaker 4: London being at the top of his game but then

568
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 4: getting injured like there were Casey Washington being a healthy

569
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 4: scratch for majority of the final month of the season,

570
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Speaker 4: if not longer than that. Like the fact that the

571
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Speaker 4: wide receiver room was a position group that I went

572
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Speaker 4: into twenty twenty five feeling the most confident about having

573
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Speaker 4: like the least amount of concerns about and that it

574
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Speaker 4: ended up being a position group that I arguably had

575
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Speaker 4: the most concern about and the one that I feel

576
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Speaker 4: you have to kind of retool going into twenty twenty

577
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,399
Speaker 4: six is like, I'm not mad that that happened, but

578
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Speaker 4: I am disappointed to see kind of that level of

579
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Speaker 4: fall off that I felt like the group had.

580
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go with tying for the best record

581
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Speaker 1: in the NFC South, Like, yes, it's a great way

582
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 1: to finish the season, but it's also like you were

583
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, so I'm not mad that you tied

584
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Speaker 1: for first. I'm disappointed you didn't take first because there

585
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: were so many opportunities. It's like that four game winning

586
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: streak came too little, too late.

587
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's a great, great point, main thing to

588
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 2: address this offseason, And I will start with wide receiver,

589
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 2: Like I kind of think that if we're gonna you know,

590
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 2: like there are probably bigger things on that list, but

591
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 2: to me in twenty twenty six, like, I think they

592
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 2: need one more starting caliber kind of wide receiver, not

593
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 2: just for depth purposes, but just kind of what it

594
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 2: allows you to do with the versatility of your formations

595
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 2: and your personnel. Groupings and things like that. Obviously, a

596
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 2: lot of that depends on some other questions that need

597
00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 2: to be answered first and kind of exactly what is

598
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Speaker 2: Atlanta's offense going to look like and what are they

599
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 2: going to try to do and what's their approach going

600
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 2: to be this season. But I have to imagine that

601
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 2: whatever the answer is to those questions like you're gonna

602
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 2: need maybe one more wide receiver.

603
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Speaker 3: I'll go I have.

604
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 4: It's kind of obvious if finding a head coach in

605
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 4: GM is one A, finding your potential starting quarterback for

606
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 4: the first month of the season in training camp is

607
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Speaker 4: one B. At this point in time, we don't really

608
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 4: know what the timeline for Michael Pennock's return is. We

609
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 4: can kind of only speculate on, you know, things that

610
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 4: we know having been in this industry for as long

611
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 4: as what we have about ACL recovery timelines. But I

612
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 4: think that even if Michael Penox gets the you know,

613
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Speaker 4: all clear to get on the grass come training camp

614
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Speaker 4: or the first part of the season, the preseason, I

615
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Speaker 4: don't know if, like if he is to the point

616
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Speaker 4: in week one that you need him to be, especially

617
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Speaker 4: if you're installing a new ish offense. With new terminology,

618
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 4: new people in place, Like I think that there there's

619
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Speaker 4: gonna be kind of this up in the air and

620
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 4: nature about this offense to your point, and so for

621
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Speaker 4: that reason, I feel like you have to go into

622
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Speaker 4: this off season with the understanding of you've got to

623
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Speaker 4: figure out what you're doing at the quarterback position in

624
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Speaker 4: the event you do not have Michael Pennocks to start

625
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Speaker 4: the year. If you do not have Michael Pinnicks to

626
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Speaker 4: start the year, even if you feel like he can

627
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Speaker 4: get to that point, you still need a plan by

628
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Speaker 4: because who's to say that, Like he is clear, he

629
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 4: is in a good spot, but he still needs time

630
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 4: in this offense, like I think, especially not being able

631
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 4: to be fully one hundred percent cleared from that rehab process.

632
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Speaker 4: So that's my main thing you need to address this

633
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 4: offseason is kind of like your quarterback position and what

634
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 4: that ultimately looks like.

635
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Speaker 1: Well, the first domino that has to fall is head

636
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 1: coach and GM you need to figure out who is

637
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Speaker 1: going to be making those decisions, who is going to

638
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 1: make the decision of a defensive coordiner and all the

639
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: other assistant coaches so that you can figure out what

640
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Speaker 1: the offense is going to look like what the game

641
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: plan is if Michael penigx Junior isn't ready Like you're

642
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: kind of dancing around without a head right now. That

643
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: was a terrible analogy and.

644
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 4: Kind of like chicken chicken running around like head cut off.

645
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 3: I see the analogy you're trying to make.

646
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm just picking like picturing like Jack the Skeleton,

647
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Speaker 1: a guy like the no the headless Horseman. I don't

648
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: know it's January, and I hear I am thinking in

649
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: Halloween terms. I couldn't even think of what month it was.

650
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Speaker 3: We've broken.

651
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 2: Literally what I was thinking.

652
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 4: I was like, just watched it, literally just watched her

653
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 4: like become the like on a MacBook the rainbow will

654
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 4: like that was you and that I've been.

655
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Speaker 1: I think it's because I've been listening to a lot

656
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Speaker 1: of psychological thrillers, a big freedom mcfaden fan right now

657
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 1: when it comes to audio books, no relations and so

658
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: no relation. I tried asking that, remember, but so my

659
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: mind is just.

660
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Speaker 2: All right, well, luckily we only have one more cats.

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Speaker 1: The answer until the answer went all well, until I

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Speaker 1: had to put a period on the damn sentence.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, my first I'm.

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Speaker 1: Slipping up on a podcast.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I think we're allowed to say that.

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Speaker 4: I know, yeah, we're keeping it in all damn days.

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Speaker 2: Jared's like, no, well, you know, like in football, if

668
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Speaker 2: if a receiver drops a pass or something, usually go

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Speaker 2: right back to him. So Teren, we're going right back

670
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Speaker 2: to you. What can you not wait to watch next year.

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Speaker 1: This whole revamp kind of unfold and it'd be amazing

672
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: to see it come to fruition how they desire and

673
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: see a winning season. It has been eight years, like

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Speaker 1: you have. Arthur Blank just made a massive sweeping change

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00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: of the organization that I just can't wait to see

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Speaker 1: if it works out. All the dicer up in the air,

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Speaker 1: time to let them fall.

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Speaker 4: I think my answer is pretty similar, like not knowing

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Speaker 4: kind of what type of scheme is in place right now,

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Speaker 4: it's kind of hard for me to, like truly I

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Speaker 4: feel like answer this at this point. But from what

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00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 4: we know right now, and after having like my own

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Speaker 4: conversations like with Matt Ryan in his introductory press conference

684
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Speaker 4: and then again in our like one on one conversation

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Speaker 4: immediately after, I am excited to see Matt Ryan the executive.

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Speaker 4: I'm excited to like walk down the hallway and see

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Speaker 4: Matt and I am as much respect that I had

688
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Speaker 4: for Matt Ryan the player, Matt Ryan the TV analyst,

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Speaker 4: Like I'm I could not be more enthralled with the

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Speaker 4: idea of Matt Ryan being in this building once more

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Speaker 4: and what that means for the Falcons organization in this

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Speaker 4: coming year. That's something I'm excited to watch. I'm excited

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Speaker 4: to watch him kind of take the next step in

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Speaker 4: his career.

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Speaker 1: It's a whole different position than ever before. Have you

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Speaker 1: said this facility.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, but I mean I don't know about y'all,

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Speaker 2: but at least speaking for myself, like I feel like

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Speaker 2: there is a new level of excitement. Yeah, have him

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Speaker 2: back in the building, Like you can kind of feel

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Speaker 2: this this sense of confidence because Matt Ryan is associated

702
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Speaker 2: with winning here in Atlanta. I mean, so, yeah, that's

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Speaker 2: a great one. I've got. I've got a player. Okay.

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Speaker 2: I think you guys kind of like do a little

705
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Speaker 2: bit more during.

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Speaker 3: More philosophical like get us granular.

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Speaker 2: Jalen Walker. Yeah, I feel like, you know, it was

708
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Speaker 2: a decism. Was the player makes kind of their biggest

709
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 2: leaps year one to year, two year, two to year three,

710
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Speaker 2: and I think when we look at this rookie class,

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Speaker 2: I know what Xavier Wats can do. I know what

712
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Speaker 2: Billy Bowman can do. I know what James Piers Junior

713
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Speaker 2: can do. We saw all of that. I think the

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Speaker 2: Jaalen Walker still has the most like room to grow,

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Speaker 2: which I.

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Speaker 4: Think was the expectation right like as he was honing

717
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Speaker 4: in on what Jeff Ulbrick wanted from him, I felt

718
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Speaker 4: like James Pears Junior's path to being the traditional EDG

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Speaker 4: dresher that Jeff Ulbrick wanted.

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Speaker 3: Him to be was not an easier path, but it was.

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Speaker 4: More in line with like what he has already been doing,

722
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Speaker 4: whereas Jalen Walker there was a bit more of a

723
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Speaker 4: time to grow, time to develop.

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Speaker 2: To your point, Yeah, it's like, you know, James Pears

725
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Speaker 2: Junior is like that one tool right where you keep

726
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 2: it really sharp. It's like, we know exactly what this

727
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 2: is used for and it does it at an extremely

728
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Speaker 2: high level. But Jamen Walker is kind of that Swiss

729
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 2: army knife, and you need to learn how to use

730
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Speaker 2: every tool with that Swiss army knife, but then polish

731
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Speaker 2: him up right. And so that's where I think in

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Speaker 2: year two after really I think shining kind of like

733
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Speaker 2: in the role that they had for him in year one,

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Speaker 2: which wasn't a given and that was a lot of

735
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Speaker 2: the things talked about kind of post draft was even

736
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Speaker 2: at Georgia, like his versatility was his strength, but it

737
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Speaker 2: also meant that he was coming in to do something

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Speaker 2: at the next level that he didn't just do all

739
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Speaker 2: that down in and down out at college. So that's

740
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Speaker 2: where like, what is that vision for him? Do they

741
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Speaker 2: try to keep him there and does he continue to

742
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Speaker 2: get better off the edge or now do they kind

743
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 2: of with Kate Nellis a free agent, we don't know

744
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 2: what the plan is going to be kind of at linebacker,

745
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 2: do they move him into more of that chess PC

746
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 2: role that we know we can play. So I think

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Speaker 2: you guys had great answers, But when it comes to

748
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Speaker 2: just kind of the roster and on the field, Jala

749
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Speaker 2: Walker is probably the number one player that I am

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Speaker 2: intrigued by just to see.

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Speaker 3: I love that answer.

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Speaker 2: Awesome, thank you, You're welcome.

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Speaker 4: Cool.

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00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 2: Well that was the twenty twenty five season.

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00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,439
Speaker 1: Well it was two weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: That's insane.

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00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 3: I refuse to believe that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you all so much. For listening, for watching, Please

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00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 2: again check out the YouTube channel. We've got so many

760
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:38,320
Speaker 2: amazing videos recaps, highlights from the season and all the

761
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 2: press conferences, things like that coming down the docket and

762
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Speaker 2: leave a comment. Let us know if you have any

763
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 2: category ideas for next year, anything creative. Let us know

764
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 2: if you got any show ideas, like.

765
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 1: You have a whole off season ahead of us.

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00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 2: True, yeah, we got a planet, so so let us know.

767
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 2: Let us steal your ideas and we will give him

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00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 2: right back to you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, whatever you want to see you, we're game.

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00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, we are here at your disposal, your your's command.

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00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 2: I am I anything else before we get out of here.

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Speaker 1: No, thanks for listening. I know we didn't get to

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Speaker 1: say it in the last podcast because we were so

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00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: focused on the Matt Ryan of it all, but thank

775
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Speaker 1: you everyone for listening to Friday five this past season.

776
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,919
Speaker 1: I know it was a news show and we hope

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00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 1: you enjoyed it. I know we did.

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00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think that like I personally have seen,

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00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 4: especially recently, I think I've told Aryan and Will this

780
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 4: like a couple of times. But in the final couple

781
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 4: of games that we were at home, I ended up

782
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 4: going into the grandstand and to go see some family

783
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 4: members or my boyfriend, and I ran into some people

784
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 4: periodically as I'm walking through that either like follow our

785
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 4: coverage or watch the show, and it was so it

786
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 4: was so great to talk to you guys. That's always

787
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 4: why I love training camp too, is to get the

788
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 4: chance to speak directly one on one with you guys,

789
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 4: the people who I mean, we serve like we serve

790
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 4: information up and analysts and analysis like to you guys,

791
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 4: like what we were here for, you guys. And so

792
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 4: I am personally very thankful for the people who have

793
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:16,439
Speaker 4: ever come up and said anything kind. And I don't

794
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 4: want to speak for both of you guys, but this

795
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 4: was kind of a new venture for us. I want

796
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 4: to thank Cy, who is someone who really helped us

797
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 4: figure out what this show was and really helped all

798
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 4: of us grow in our own ways. So shout out CI.

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Speaker 4: Shout out producer Jared, who has been our dude, our guy,

800
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Speaker 4: our man for the entirety of the season.

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00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: Sophia too, Sophia, Yeah, producer two point zero yep. So

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Speaker 1: somebody did recognize me out in the wild the other

803
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Speaker 1: week from the show?

804
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, you texted me?

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00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: I think that short circuit is so whoever, if you're

806
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 1: watching now, I'm so sorry. I was just like, Hi, yeah,

807
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,359
Speaker 1: I do work for the Falcons, but I was like

808
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: out at a book watching games, had a few drinks

809
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: and I was like.

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Speaker 3: Hi, yeah so but yeah, thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: Every wanted to approach a wild beast in the wild.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but thank you guys so much. It's all for y'all,

813
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 2: so so we really do appreciate it. But forty Nat

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Speaker 2: Lanny tarn walcked, I'm Will McFadden. We will be back

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Speaker 2: next week with another edition of the Friday Five, but

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Speaker 2: until then, take care,