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Speaker 1: And we are back on the Falcons Audible presented by

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Speaker 1: AT and T. As always, I got my guys, Dave Archer,

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Speaker 1: DJ Shockley. I'm Derek Rackley. We're here for another episode.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna cover all things Falcons. Of course, I'll give

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Speaker 1: you a quick rundown of what we're gonna cover today.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get the guy's quick reactions on what happened

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Speaker 1: in the game last weekend. What went wrong in that matchup.

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Speaker 1: Seemed like the Falcons were in control for call it

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Speaker 1: three and a half quarters of that game. The positives

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Speaker 1: that they can take away that can potentially help them

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Speaker 1: rebound in a game against the Los Angeles Rams. And

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Speaker 1: then we'll get a quick little taste of the NFC

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Speaker 1: South as we saw it last weekend. Couple teams winning,

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Speaker 1: couple teams dropping games. So let's go back. We saw

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Speaker 1: the first regular season game of the twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: season at Mercedes Benz Stadium. You both were there all right.

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Speaker 1: Before we dive into the xs and os and what

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Speaker 1: happened in the game, Dave, just talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: about the atmosphere, because it sounds like from talking to

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Speaker 1: you guys before we came on the air. It was

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Speaker 1: an atmosphere that was kind of unlike any other last

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Speaker 1: couple of years anyway, Yeah, Phillis, I thought that certainly,

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Speaker 1: whenever you have your rival in the building, that's going

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Speaker 1: to help with that. Right. There was a lot of

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Speaker 1: Saint fans there, as there usually is, just like there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of Falcon fans that find their way into

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Speaker 1: so that added to it. And there's no question, but

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Speaker 1: a lot of flag waving. They plasted out the American

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Speaker 1: or they passed out the atl flags and they were

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Speaker 1: being waved. Atlanta got off to a good start to

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Speaker 1: start the game. That brought it even more to a

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Speaker 1: fever pitch. But I know, shock, I thought it was

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Speaker 1: a vibe. It was definitely a vibe. And now I

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Speaker 1: mean it felt like and it felt like the spirit

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Speaker 1: going at the Saints of the courses back and forth

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Speaker 1: like like they've just mentioned. But you just love the

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Speaker 1: you know, it was packed up, like you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: it used to be. You know, it was packed, it

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Speaker 1: was loud, it was energetic. The fans are into it,

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Speaker 1: and that's kind of thing that I think the guys

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Speaker 1: I was glad to see the fans show up and

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Speaker 1: glad to see it wasn't you know, all Saints fans

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Speaker 1: Dave mentioned, they had the flags and I even though

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Speaker 1: they had like you know, New Orleans has the umbrellas

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Speaker 1: that So just a little small stuff like that that

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Speaker 1: we're trying to create. That home field was cool. May

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Speaker 1: not be one of the biggest things across the league

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Speaker 1: or from a nationwide perspective, but to me, it's like

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Speaker 1: when when Atlanta New Orleans played close games. It's good

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Speaker 1: just because the rivalry has been so good and as

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Speaker 1: players are wanting to see it. Yeah. Man partner on

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Speaker 1: Radio West Durham, who does such a great job of

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Speaker 1: calling the games for us um mentioned and that was

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Speaker 1: feel that. Dave, I'm gonna come back to you and

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Speaker 1: have you give me a quick newspaper headline. And we

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Speaker 1: what's the newspaper? What's the headline? Okay, So it was

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Speaker 1: not so good in that last quarter. So you were outside.

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Speaker 1: things where you always hear that phrase. Guys, football is

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Speaker 1: a sixty minute game, and even after three quarters, it's

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Speaker 1: about what went wrong in this one, Dave. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: come right back to you. Atlanta seemed like, I don't

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Speaker 1: it through three three and a half quarters, right, and

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Speaker 1: What went wrong for Atlanta? Yeah, I think the control

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Speaker 1: And he looked like he got a couple to go

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Speaker 1: But remember started the fourth quarter twenty three ten lead, right,

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Speaker 1: Atlanta's got the ball. They go down second in goal.

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Speaker 1: There's a false start, right exactly. Little just can't have

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Speaker 1: What ended up happening? In your opinion, you know what,

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Speaker 1: a two possession game. It feels like it should be more,

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Speaker 1: the right time because I think the defense had balled

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Speaker 1: out for the better part of three quarters. In a

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Speaker 1: couple of minutes. I almost wonder, did you get a

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Speaker 1: little bit tired? In Game one? There was a lot

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Speaker 1: of emotion, There was a lot of adrenaline flowing. You

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Speaker 1: were balling out, getting after him, taking the ball away,

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Speaker 1: hitting people, playing physical. Did that a little bit take

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Speaker 1: a toll on you? In four and again another one

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Speaker 1: of those deals where I've got to understand that I

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Speaker 1: got to play sixty minutes. As you talked about off

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Speaker 1: the top. Yeah, so you know, we talked a lot

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Speaker 1: about some of the good performances the special teams guy

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Speaker 1: and me wants to make sure I mentioned young Wayku.

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Speaker 1: I mean a couple of fifty plus yarders in the

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Speaker 1: first half, and I mean it was like it was

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Speaker 1: no brainer, Like it was splitting the uprights. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, those are little things. I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of fans take for granted, but at some point those

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Speaker 1: are going to end up winning games for us when

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Speaker 1: you have the faith and a guy that can just

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Speaker 1: drill a fifty plus yarder doesn't have to keep it

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Speaker 1: low and potentially get blocked. He's got the leg to

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Speaker 1: get it up in the air. You talked about Drake

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Speaker 1: London a lot of really good performances. CP. I thought

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Speaker 1: play would burst. Not to say that he didn't last year,

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Speaker 1: but he looked fresh, he looked fast, he looked physical.

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Speaker 1: Great point, and let's give Arthur Smith some credit there.

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Speaker 1: Grady Jarrett to sack and a half. I thought he

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Speaker 1: had bo sax, but sack and a half was extremely active.

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Speaker 1: CP ran like, you know, a young spring spring spring chicken.

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Speaker 1: Those guys were not overused in training camp. Remember he

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Speaker 1: rested those guys. He got just enough snaps out of

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Speaker 1: him in a couple of games. They didn't do a

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Speaker 1: lot they practiced. I thought, you know, if somebody deserves

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Speaker 1: some credit, think about Arthur Smith there and his management

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Speaker 1: of some of the older players, and it paid dividends

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Speaker 1: in the game. Absolutely those they don't need to see

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Speaker 1: what those guys can do in preseason regular season gamers

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Speaker 1: seventeen plus in the regular season. All right, guys, real quick,

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Speaker 1: before we head out, DJ, I'm gonna come to you first.

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Speaker 1: Let's just talk about the NFC South. I'm gonna give

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Speaker 1: you Panthers and Browns. Baker Mayfield goes back to Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: he plays them hard, but they come up short. Twenty six,

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Speaker 1: twenty four. Anything stick out to you that game. I

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Speaker 1: thought the Browns got after Baker in that game. I

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Speaker 1: think he had four He got sacked four times in

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Speaker 1: that ball game, and the Browns ran. Nick Chubb had

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Speaker 1: one hundred and forty four yards forty one yards in

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Speaker 1: that game. Robbie Anderson had a good game. He was

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Speaker 1: five for one or two. But I thought they got

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Speaker 1: after that offensive line and of the of the Carolina

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Speaker 1: Panthers with four sacks, that's never good. As we know,

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Speaker 1: you know, the quarterback is different, and the Browns did that.

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Speaker 1: We I mean, we know the Browns front is pretty

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Speaker 1: pretty dog on good. But I think ultimately that was

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Speaker 1: a big part of the ball game, and then we

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Speaker 1: got Sunday Night football. Dave. I read this the article

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Speaker 1: real quick about like Tom Brady is his absence away

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Speaker 1: from the Buccaneers during training camp. But basically I read

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Speaker 1: that like he had made a promise to his wife

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Speaker 1: that he would take her on a vacation, and like

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Speaker 1: he goes to Bahamas like eleven twelve days during the preseason.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, I'm reading this, and I look at

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Speaker 1: my life, and I'm like, who who gets till the

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Speaker 1: Bahamas during preseason? Like how many guys get to do that?

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Speaker 1: It's no big deal. Come back, start week one and

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Speaker 1: you go ball out right. Tom Brady gets things afforded

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Speaker 1: to him that basically no other NFL player does. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I'm Vita bad. I look at my

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Speaker 1: fun I see Tom drinking a rum, drinks backwards fellas.

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Speaker 1: But David works out the Buccaneer's going They beat Dallas. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott gets banged up in that game, but Tampa

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Speaker 1: Bay comes away with a nineteen three win. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: still think that there was some effect to it. They

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Speaker 1: were they did not look well oiled. Do you have

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Speaker 1: Dallas some credit defensive Michael Parsons was a monster that

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Speaker 1: he'd get him blocked. Oh, by the way, there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a lot of teams aren't gonna get that guy blocked.

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Speaker 1: But I thought they struggled their offensive lines in trouble.

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Speaker 1: Donovan Smith, I think got hurt in the game. Is that.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the thing. So he got on the

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Speaker 1: left tackle. I believe they already have lost two guys

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Speaker 1: in the interior. Um, they did have some problems with

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Speaker 1: some pressure. Um Godwin's got a hamstring. Now we know

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Speaker 1: that he's probably gonna be out for the little while.

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Speaker 1: There was a familiar face that made some plays. Um. So,

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Speaker 1: by the way, he caught I'm tired of hearing this.

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Speaker 1: I keep hearing it on local radio. Julio Jones caught

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Speaker 1: some vertical passes in his career here in Atlanta. By

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Speaker 1: the way, Okay, just wants you to know that just

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Speaker 1: because he's down to Tom Brady, caught a forty five

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Speaker 1: yard for Tom Brady over the shoulder. That's great. He

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Speaker 1: got a whole bunch of those here in Atlanta. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to start hearing about all. Oh he's with

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Speaker 1: the goat now. So now he's gonna shine out. The

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Speaker 1: dude had like ten thousands ridiculous. I think he had

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Speaker 1: three hundred yards receiving in one game. That was Matt running.

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Speaker 1: Did you see too? It was kind of like a

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Speaker 1: cock eye, like like I'm not really making eye contact you,

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Speaker 1: but y'all need to stop. Let me you're talking Tampa, right, Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: I think I think Tampa. The one thing I will

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Speaker 1: say about the about the con the division, ye is

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Speaker 1: there was some questions as to how good Atlanta was

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Speaker 1: going to be and maybe even how good Carolina is

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Speaker 1: going to be, And then there was kind of this

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Speaker 1: over whelming Okay, it's Tampa and it's the Saints, and

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Speaker 1: maybe it's the other way around, Saints and Tampa. It's

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Speaker 1: a lot closer than that right there. The Carolina and

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Speaker 1: Atlanta are gonna have a say in what happens. Not

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Speaker 1: saying that both win the division and they're gonna be playoff,

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Speaker 1: but they're gonna have a say as to what happens

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Speaker 1: because they're better teams than people are giving credit for,

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Speaker 1: especially here in Atlanta. Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna see

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Speaker 1: it this weekend. They're gonna go ball all out as

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Speaker 1: best they can out in La. Yeah, it was. It

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Speaker 1: was cool to see a couple of familiar faces and

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Speaker 1: Hulio Jones, Russell Gage both over there with Tampa. So

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Speaker 1: we'll see how that thing ends up working itself out

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Speaker 1: moving forward. And mentioned Godwin. Of course they need him

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Speaker 1: back on the field. He's obviously a dynamic all right.

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Speaker 1: So that's gonna wrap it up for this week. Of

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Speaker 1: course we talked about it. La Rams Falcons are gonna

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Speaker 1: be doing a west coast trip followed up by Seattle, UM,

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Speaker 1: so we'll see how Atlanta can handle the going across

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Speaker 1: the country, dealing with the time change and all the

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Speaker 1: stuff that goes along with that. I keep hearing about

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Speaker 1: how all the Rams lost, that they're gonna be upset.

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Speaker 1: Who cares, Yeah, we lost, we're upset. What about our mindset?

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Speaker 1: I don't care about their mindset. Yeah, maybe I'm tired

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Speaker 1: hearing about, Oh, they're the champs and they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: up so we drew a long time. I don't care

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Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, maybe you need to start listening to

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Speaker 1: a different radio station. I'm gonna send you. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: send you a playlist of like smooth R and B

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Speaker 1: to like to cool you down a little, like told

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Speaker 1: me before the games. He drinks it brings a blueberry

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Speaker 1: red bull. I had one before the game. Show that

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Speaker 1: jumping out of his stool over there. We gotta get

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Speaker 1: blueberry red bull for every show that arches on. Hey,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us again on whichever way

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Speaker 1: you get your podcast material Spotify, iTunes, Atlanta Falcons dot

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Speaker 1: com or YouTube. Make sure you like, subscribe and review us,

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Speaker 1: and of course join us next week. Not sure if

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Speaker 1: Arch is gonna make it because he's gonna be out

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Speaker 1: West Coast, but maybe I'll get one of his um

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Speaker 1: energy drinks. I'll be over here bouncing around with DJ.

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Speaker 1: We'll do this thing. Thanks so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back. We'll be back for another episode of

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Speaker 1: The Falcon's Automo presented by AT and T next week.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,