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Speaker 1: We are back here on the Falcons Audible presented by

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Speaker 1: A T and T. We are back with the Division

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Speaker 1: leading Atlanta Falcons through Week seven in the NFL regular season.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, before we get start, Rack gets going downhill

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Speaker 2: and it's like a snowball.

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Speaker 3: It's like a rock rolling down here. You gotta slow

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Speaker 3: him down.

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Speaker 2: Okay, the Golden Gopher gets going, you can't get him

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Speaker 2: all right, real quickly got to throw a shout out

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Speaker 2: to my boy, DJ Shockley voted into the high School

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Speaker 2: Football Hall of Fame, High School Hall of Fame, my

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Speaker 2: man legend to Georgia legend, high school legend here, you know,

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Speaker 2: for his dad, Sean Shockley.

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Speaker 1: Don Now, I mean I I enjoy coming here every

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Speaker 1: week just to be in the presence of his majesty, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we have Georgia High School Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 1: we have Georgia Royalty here. I mean, every time I

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Speaker 1: do the work at the stadium, everybody wants to say

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Speaker 1: what's up to DJ?

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Speaker 4: And they're always like, who that?

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Speaker 5: So everybody watching this is an expensive start to the show.

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Speaker 5: I had to pay these guys a lot of money

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Speaker 5: to have this little all right.

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Speaker 1: So we did introduction that's DJ Shockley. By the way,

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Speaker 1: that's Dave Archer. I'm Derek Ractley. Uh So, here's what

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do. We're gonna do a rapid fire question

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Speaker 1: to start off this podcast. I'll get there just a second.

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Speaker 1: Where we are now and where is the ceiling for

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons? I am I am eagerly anticipating to

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Speaker 1: hear that one from you guys. Okay, keys to the

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Speaker 1: victory over the Titans, and then how if we have time,

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Speaker 1: how do we main control over the NFC South. So

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Speaker 1: the rapid fire question, fellas is going to be shock

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Speaker 1: I will start with you your favorite play of the game,

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Speaker 1: and I can't tap dance too long because.

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Speaker 4: The question short.

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Speaker 6: So hopefully you're prepared, you're ready to go.

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Speaker 4: But your favorite play of the game.

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Speaker 5: Okay, so will you say this? The one play that

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Speaker 5: sticks out to me is the longest play of the season,

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Speaker 5: Scotty Miller catch on the big post. I mean, there's

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Speaker 5: so many things that happened within the play. The route

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Speaker 5: he'd leaned on in really nice, got the separation.

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Speaker 6: It was a great ball. He kept his skinny and

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Speaker 6: came down with a big play.

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Speaker 5: Man. I loved that play call. It was aggressive play call.

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Speaker 5: Scotty Miller leaned on a really nice and it's a

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Speaker 5: big time catch.

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Speaker 2: Well, and Scotty spent three seasons in Tampa, so his

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Speaker 2: reaction to the catch was something for everybody to be

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Speaker 2: holding Raymond James because he got up and he pumped

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Speaker 3: So it was it was cool moan for Scotty, no question.

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Speaker 1: It was obviously extra special for him. I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: with I'm not gonna go low hanging fruit here, so

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Speaker 1: this leaves options here for Arch. But I'm actually gonna

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Speaker 1: go with the David Anyamda sack in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: the ground. I don't know if it truly affected to

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Speaker 1: throw the ball was incomplete. I believe it was to

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Speaker 1: Godwin in the end zone. But that stop that they

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Speaker 1: that forces Atlanta's hand to score a touchdown with what

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Speaker 1: Arch maybe thirty or forty seconds left in the game,

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Speaker 1: They don't have the luxury of just the completion the

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Speaker 1: They got to score a touchdown. So to me, it

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Speaker 5: I got a great tidbit for you here, which a

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Speaker 5: great call by you. And I'm fortunate enough to do

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Speaker 5: a show called the Dirty Bird Report after the Falcons games,

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Speaker 5: and our man Dave Archer gets to interview all the

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Speaker 5: guys after the game, and here's a tidbit about that

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Speaker 5: particular play. Arch would tell you. Onya Mada didn't even

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Speaker 6: He blacked out. It's great, he blacked out, and it

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Speaker 6: was just like I was in the moment I heard that.

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Speaker 4: It was funny quarterback.

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Speaker 3: That disturbs you a little bit.

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Speaker 2: It could e line blacks out that he tells you

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Speaker 1: I've always said that some defensive players, linemen, linebackers like

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Speaker 2: For the You know when you see those national geographic

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Speaker 3: A second's defensive.

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Speaker 1: All right, So Arch, there was a few other big

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Speaker 1: options here for you. What's your rapid fire play.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to go with an attitude play, guys, and

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Speaker 2: I know you'll remember it. You know, we got a

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Speaker 2: chance to see CP in the game for the first

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Speaker 2: rushing for one hundred and fifty five yards in the game.

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Speaker 2: Getting back to kind of your identity that we're going

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Speaker 2: to maul you from an offensive standpoint. Now, obviously we

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Speaker 2: But the attitude that the offensive line played with. This

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Speaker 2: was the number four rush defense in the National Football

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Speaker 2: League coming in. I mean, teams had run for forty

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Speaker 2: that CP ran with on that play, I thought epitomized

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Speaker 2: how the guys played all day long. Avid Abill was

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Speaker 1: So how about us three here breaking it down our

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Speaker 1: I've thought about the pass that does hit to Tyler

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Speaker 1: I wasn't that. Actually the drive didn't result in it

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Speaker 1: Let's just start with this, like, where are the Falcons

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Speaker 1: where are the Falcons right now.

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Speaker 5: I think they are to Dinny Green to we are

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Speaker 5: who we say we are, We are what we say,

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Speaker 5: our record exactly what we say. But to be more

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Speaker 5: because consistently they haven't been able to get to that level.

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Speaker 1: The ceiling keeps like falling down and they bump it

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Speaker 5: You just think about offensively. Obviously you've had some up

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Speaker 6: You've done a good job of twenty to twenty.

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Speaker 5: You've had your issues like this week in the red

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Speaker 5: think this team as a whole is still playing a

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Speaker 5: can be. We haven't seen how good they can actually be.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 5: We've seen flashes, we've seen really great drives, we've seen

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Speaker 5: I don't think you have seen a complete team right now.

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Speaker 5: And I think ultimately that's why you are where you

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Speaker 5: this ball game. Both teams had ten possessions. The Falcons

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Speaker 5: So it tells you how small the margin of error

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Speaker 5: there's always two or three plays that we can point to,

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Speaker 1: We have all been parts of games where you end

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna win a whole lot of games. So

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Speaker 1: the fact that they end up winning this game is

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Speaker 4: It to the bank, and you move on to the

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Speaker 1: Because urge, quite honestly, about midway through the fourth this

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Speaker 1: gets blown open, right, I mean, Tampa has to now

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Speaker 1: start throwing it. They got to start scoring touchdowns. They

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Speaker 1: So I throw the question to you, maybe you've got

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Speaker 1: a different way to turn it. Where are the falcons

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Speaker 2: Well, they're tied directly to the number that you're talking

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Speaker 2: about and what Shock's talking about. From an inconsistency standpoint,

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Speaker 2: you can't turn the football over your You're minus seven

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Speaker 2: in the giveaway takeaway ratio on the year. That will

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Speaker 2: they've got to fix their turnover problems. Okay, And it's

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Speaker 2: to tie everything to dos Been Ridder does Been Ridder.

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Speaker 2: I don't care Patrick Mahomes. If you get a defensive

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Speaker 5: have what happened, this guy.

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Speaker 6: Continues to sling.

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Speaker 5: A guy who does have confidence doesn't make the throw

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Speaker 5: to Kyle Pitts because of the depth of that linebacker,

440
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Speaker 5: and he does a good job of giving another air

441
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Speaker 5: to put it on him. And you can watch when

442
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Speaker 5: I break it as three guys around him, there's three guys,

443
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Speaker 5: there's the underneath defender, there's the corner, there's a safety,

444
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Speaker 5: and he puts it in a place where his six

445
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Speaker 5: y five guy comes down with it. You gotta get

446
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Speaker 5: rid of a lot of credit. I mean, I love

447
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Speaker 5: that call art. Everybody talks about the things that are negative,

448
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Speaker 5: going wrong, but this guy's done a lot of great

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Speaker 5: things throughout the first few weeks. That's giving you a

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Speaker 5: chance to win ball games.

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Speaker 1: Forty five seconds left on the final drive, when the

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Speaker 1: Falcons get the ball back and just a couple plays

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Speaker 1: into it, it's the you know, a little over back

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Speaker 1: to the corner where you guys mentioned like, I don't

455
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Speaker 1: even think he was open. He kind of just threw

456
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Speaker 1: him open, a little bit of a back shoulder, a

457
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Speaker 1: nice adjustment by Kyle Pitts. But that's like, you need

458
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Speaker 1: that play. You gotta chew up a lot of yards

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Speaker 1: in a short amount of time to get into field

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Speaker 1: goal range, which leads me into, gosh, that segue just

461
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Speaker 1: worked out perfectly. Is we gotta say something about young

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Speaker 1: way coop right, because not every team, well I shouldn't

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Speaker 1: take that back. A lot of NFL teams have great kickers,

464
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Speaker 1: but to have a guy that's one of the most

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Speaker 1: accurate kickers of the National Football League since he's come

466
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Speaker 1: into the league, thirteen out of fourteen of the year,

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Speaker 1: and as a head coach, to think that once you

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Speaker 1: get into field goal range and you're sitting at like

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Speaker 1: fifty one to fifty two.

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Speaker 4: Yards, it's just like, oh, yeah, we're good.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Like it's not the panic like we got to get

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Speaker 1: five or six more. It's like Arthur Smith saying, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we got Coop right, and he comes in there just

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Speaker 1: cool as the other side of pillow, Stuart Scott Love.

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Speaker 1: You just drills it to win the game, drills it

477
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Speaker 1: to win the game, a little bit of a flutter

478
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Speaker 1: at the end, but then it curls back right through

479
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Speaker 1: the middle of the uprights.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's our state.

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Speaker 6: Run the.

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Speaker 4: Right, then back to the left too.

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Speaker 2: He's and it's even better than thirteen or fourteen. I

484
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Speaker 2: think he's made nineteen of his last twenty kicks. He's

485
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Speaker 2: thirteen or fourteen this year. So you talk about clutch,

486
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Speaker 2: and I think that's what Arthur Smith said.

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Speaker 3: He's clutch. That's where it is.

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Speaker 4: So that kind of we covered off.

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Speaker 1: I think the last game pretty well before we wrap

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Speaker 1: this up, guys, let's let's fast forward here and talk

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Speaker 1: about Tennessee DJ on the road again. The big question

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Speaker 1: mark going into this one and it looks as if

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Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill is not going to play. They were off

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Speaker 1: last week and the previous game was the game that

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Speaker 1: I called in London for Westwood one Sports where it

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Speaker 1: was Titans Ravens and Tannehill went down in the fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter and he has got a high ankle sprain. Reports

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Speaker 1: out of Tennessee ors that he's in a boot to

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Speaker 1: keep it stable, So it's not moving a whole lot.

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Speaker 1: But the question mark is are they going to go

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Speaker 1: Malik Willis? Are they going to go Will Levis? Because

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Speaker 1: Willis came in the game in London it was kind

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Speaker 1: of a lot of what they saw last year. Did

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Speaker 1: not have a whole lot of success with him last year.

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Speaker 1: Remember they drafted Will Levis highly this year and he

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Speaker 1: hasn't played yet this year. So number one, the big

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Speaker 1: question is who's going to play quarterback DJ? And then

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Speaker 1: obviously you got this guy number twenty two, who happens

509
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Speaker 1: to be a beast, probably the most physical running back

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Speaker 1: in the National Football League. So those are a couple

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Speaker 1: of things. But what's out to you is most important

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Speaker 1: about this matchup?

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Speaker 5: Well, obviously, I think the quarterback is a big part

514
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Speaker 5: of this game, obviously because you know, whoever that may be,

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Speaker 5: definitely gives you a little thing that you have to say,

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Speaker 5: all right, this guy can do X, Y and Z

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Speaker 5: coming to the ball.

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Speaker 6: I think both guys are very athletic.

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Speaker 5: But also you mentioned that f off week, So if

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Speaker 5: they do decide to go with the young rookie, guess what,

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Speaker 5: he's got two weeks to prepare for a game plan

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Speaker 5: as opposed to getting in there early and had just happened,

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Speaker 5: you know, four or five days to get ready. But

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Speaker 5: I think the biggest thing for me is twenty two.

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Speaker 5: And we've seen over the years, we've seen what we

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Speaker 5: have done to people when we got the run game going,

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Speaker 5: and it completely demoralizes a defense and gives them a

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Speaker 5: two way go. And regardless of who plays quarterback, if

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Speaker 5: twenty two is going, it makes life so much easier

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Speaker 5: for Molague, Willers or will Levis, whoever's in the ball game.

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Speaker 5: So if you're not able to stop the run, his

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Speaker 5: ball game, and I think it starts with penetration, it

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Speaker 5: starts with being able to change the line of scrimmage

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Speaker 5: in this game. You want to be able to stop

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Speaker 5: this guy's feet from going before they get going, because

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Speaker 5: as we know, once he gets down hell, he is

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Speaker 5: a tough, tough ass to get down. And then you know,

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Speaker 5: I think tackling will be a big ball, big part

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Speaker 5: of his ball game as well. So as well as

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Speaker 5: the defensive played the last few games, this will be

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Speaker 5: a game where the rush defense comes in to play.

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Speaker 5: And I think if you have an opportunity to stop

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Speaker 5: twenty two, you got a chance to really stop this offense,

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Speaker 5: regardless of who's playing quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You know, as I was preparing for that game against

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Speaker 1: the Ravens, I was looking at like the two best

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Speaker 1: performances that Derrick Henry had up until that game against Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: They won, right one game over one hundred yards. The

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Speaker 1: other game he had like eighty and they won. He

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Speaker 1: ended up having ninety seven against Baltimore and they ended

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Speaker 1: up losing that game. Now, he had ninety seven, but

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Speaker 1: he also had a sixty three yard run in that game,

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Speaker 1: which obviously contributed to that number. Which Derrick Henry had

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Speaker 1: a whole lot more speed on that sixty three yard

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Speaker 1: run that I ended up seeing that I remember for him.

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Speaker 1: What else sticks out to you Arch as far as

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Speaker 1: biggest keys in this game against the Titans.

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Speaker 2: Well, you guys talked about the offense, and certainly King

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Speaker 2: Henry is going to be the focal point of what

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Speaker 2: the defense needs to get done.

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Speaker 3: Regardless who he plays quarterback. I think that when I'll look.

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Speaker 2: At the other side of the ball, they're usually pretty

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Speaker 2: stout up front. Jeffrey Simmons is good at defensive tackle

564
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Speaker 2: as you'll get in the National Football League. Denico Autrey

565
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Speaker 2: has developed into a pretty nice pass rusher opposite Harold Landry,

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Speaker 2: so two guys that can get after the passer, so

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Speaker 2: they're fairly salty defensively. Sean Murphy Bunting comes over from

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Speaker 2: as a corner, comes over from Tampa Bay. We know

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Speaker 2: a lot about him, have played against him a number

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Speaker 2: of times over the last a little while.

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Speaker 3: And Ausi's I'll share.

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Speaker 2: They're a new linebacker, they're leading tackler has done a

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Speaker 2: good job at playing sideline. A sideline so it's a

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Speaker 2: good group defensively. Fifteen sacks on the year, not a ton.

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Speaker 2: That's similar to the number of the Falcons have, so

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Speaker 2: they haven't done a great job of getting after the passer.

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Speaker 2: Only four takeaways on the year for them defensively, so

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Speaker 2: they haven't created a lot of opportunities for the offense

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Speaker 2: and that may be some of the reason why the

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Speaker 2: numbers are down for them offensively, but it's usually a

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Speaker 2: Philly stout group. If one thing I'll throw in here,

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Speaker 2: remember this is where Arthur Smith coached. Okay, he comes

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Speaker 2: from Tennessee. If you look at this offense, this offense

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Speaker 2: is going to look very similar from a personnel standpoint,

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Speaker 2: multiple tight ends, featuring the power running, game play, action pass,

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Speaker 2: all that kind of very similar to what you see

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Speaker 2: from Atlanta's offense. I would think that would make it

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Speaker 2: a little bit easier potentially.

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Speaker 3: To prepare this week.

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Speaker 2: But those are some of the things that stick out

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Speaker 2: for me as far as the way this team looks.

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Speaker 2: And obviously you got a head coach it knows the

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Speaker 2: personnel pretty well.

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Speaker 1: The other thing that I thought was interesting Fellas and

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Speaker 1: again don't really know all the details behind it, but

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Speaker 1: they just traded away one of their best defensive players

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Speaker 1: and Kevin Byern and he'd been there a long time,

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Speaker 1: spent his whole time, his whole career in Tennessee, been

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Speaker 1: one of the top safety statistically in the National Football

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Speaker 1: League and his eight seasons, so he'll no longer be

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Speaker 1: back there for the Titans. Maybe that helps them out.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll find out. The NFL is just

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Speaker 1: kind of next man up. You never know, next guy

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Speaker 1: steps in for him, could end up with takeaways.

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Speaker 4: In the game.

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Speaker 1: So that kind of sets the stage for this Sunday

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Speaker 1: Falcons against the Tennessee Titans, and obviously slowing down Derek

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Speaker 1: Henry will be goal number one in that game. You

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Speaker 1: got to bring your big boy pass. You want to

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Speaker 1: bring him down, got to bring your big boy pats.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us here on the Falcons

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Speaker 3: Congratulations Shock cocktail party this week.

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Speaker 4: Bers for is it Florida Georgia or Georgia Florida.

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Speaker 6: I mean that that was a ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: Technically supposed to say the home team first.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, George always Georgia Floord all day, baby, all day.

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Speaker 4: Alright, so Shock, will you guys know where he's at

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Speaker 4: on that one? All right?

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