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Speaker 1: Welcome back into the Falcons Audible presented by AT and T.

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Speaker 1: This is our special initial fifty three man roster edition

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Speaker 1: of the Falcons Audible. I'm Derrick Crack. That's DJ Shockley

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Speaker 1: Dave Archer. Yes, we did do a quick chair switch. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is not your eyes playing tricks on you.

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Speaker 2: We got Archray in the middle of you.

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Speaker 1: Just keep it clean before we get into the x'es

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Speaker 1: and oles, the nuts and bolts of the initial fifty

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Speaker 1: three man roster. Just to let you all know that

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Speaker 1: our discussion as we have it is as the roster

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Speaker 1: as we have it right now. The reason why we

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Speaker 1: say that is because within the next two or three hours,

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Speaker 1: or maybe the next twelve hours or whenever it is

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Speaker 1: that you end up taking in this podcast, there could

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Speaker 1: be more transactions that are made. Maybe we talk about

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Speaker 1: a guy that ends up not being on the roster.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but just remember we are discussing this

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Speaker 1: as the fifty three man roster as we see it

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Speaker 1: right now. Okay. Uh, here's what we're going to discuss

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Speaker 1: real quickly on the podcast. We're gonna talk about the roster.

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the continued growth with the

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Speaker 1: guys that we have right now, and then maybe we'll

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Speaker 1: give you a little explanation why we do call it

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Speaker 1: the initial fifty three man roster. I'm missing something what

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Speaker 1: he's talking about. I like, I'm introducing all the topics,

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Speaker 1: but I don't want to miss out on the fund.

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Speaker 2: No, you keep you can't archer like four topics.

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Speaker 1: Well, let me let me turn things over to the

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Speaker 1: teenagers here, and I want to get their thoughts on

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Speaker 1: the roster. Since I normally start with arch in this chair,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna start with a new a new face, Hi,

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Speaker 1: DJ a new chair. Hey, I want you to describe

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Speaker 1: this initial fifty three man roster in just three words.

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Speaker 1: You can explain it. But the first part has to

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Speaker 1: be three words.

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Speaker 3: Does it have to be three words? I mean, it

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Speaker 3: depends on how you use My first can be.

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Speaker 2: Maybe four words.

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Speaker 3: It's different, it can be together, but it has to

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Speaker 3: go with what I want to say. Okay, all right,

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Speaker 3: So my phrase is set up to succeed. Excuse me, sorry,

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Speaker 3: set up to succeed.

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Speaker 1: Whether or not set up is one word exactly are hyphenated.

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Speaker 2: That's why I said. There's a little controversy there. So

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Speaker 2: it could work, right, I succeed. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I say this because I think of the depth, the

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Speaker 3: additions that you added, the way it's constructed.

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Speaker 2: This is a roster that's set up to succeed.

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Speaker 3: With all the weapons you have on offense, the guys

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Speaker 3: you have around your quarterback, the way you drafted defensively,

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Speaker 3: the guys you brought in to add to this team.

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Speaker 3: What you've done up front defensively, is set up to succeed.

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Speaker 3: Ryan Nielsen, you brought him in. He's a guy that

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Speaker 3: has been succeeding. He's got guys who you think can

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Speaker 3: fill those voids. So I think the roster is set

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Speaker 3: up right now, as we talked about, to succeed. As

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Speaker 3: we know, things could change, But I think right now,

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Speaker 3: this place, this roster's in a good spot.

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Speaker 1: Do you got three words?

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Speaker 4: Well I had three for a shock, and it's a combination.

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Speaker 4: Get out the weight room, you know, I mean, hope.

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Speaker 2: Right there? Get out? Get out? That was the one word.

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Speaker 2: One word. What about so.

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Speaker 1: You're done in the league, So get out in the

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Speaker 1: weight room. Okay, all right, Arch your three words for

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Speaker 1: this initial fifty three man roster.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm not going to use yours because yours was

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Speaker 4: good last year. You had a good one last year,

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Speaker 4: and I'm going to leave that for you. It's it's

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Speaker 4: just along the lines of here we go, let's go things, things.

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Speaker 2: Of that nature.

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Speaker 4: This is just one word. By the way, it's a

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Speaker 4: combination of contraction. Okay, I didn't know it was going

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Speaker 4: to be a lot of grammar and stuff.

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying, no, here we go.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we've been waiting for this. Thank god preseason

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Speaker 4: is over with because that Thursday game was brutal to watch.

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Speaker 4: But we now have, as you said, the initial fifty three.

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Speaker 4: So here we go.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's roll with it. I've got three words.

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Speaker 1: I've got one that might be somewhat made up, but

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Speaker 1: depends on what part of the country you're from, it

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Speaker 1: might be it might be normal vocabulary. Okay, mine is

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Speaker 1: so dern multiple dern.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: See that's what I say, Like, it's not really a word,

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Speaker 1: but it's so durn multiple, right, I mean, just think

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Speaker 1: And we had a running back that was pretty good

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Speaker 1: for us the past couple of years in Corderill Patterson,

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Speaker 1: who might actually play more wide receiver this year, but

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Speaker 1: that's why I'm saying it's so multiple, because these guys

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Speaker 1: the position that sits next to their name on the

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Speaker 1: Sundays when we see Atlanta Falcons, especially offensively as they

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Speaker 1: start the regular season. So, DJ, let me come back

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Speaker 1: to you. We got a chance to see the names

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Speaker 1: right initial initial fifty three man roster. Again, there might

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Speaker 1: be some moves, but let's go into a little bit

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Speaker 1: deeper as far as your thoughts about what this team

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Speaker 1: is going to look like when they take the field

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Speaker 1: against the Carolina Panthers.

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Speaker 3: You know, I think it's a team that has the

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Speaker 3: ability to play with anybody in this league. And you

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Speaker 3: look around this roster, you look around the way it's constructed,

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Speaker 3: offensively and you say, Okay, this is a team that

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Speaker 3: talked about it last time. You know, two three, four

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Speaker 3: overcome those issues.

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Speaker 2: Just think about if you don't have those issues.

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Speaker 3: And you have a full complement of the players that

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Speaker 2: We didn't have.

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Speaker 3: So that's a whole another dynamic to this offense that

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Speaker 3: brings a defensive coordinator to his knees every single week

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Speaker 3: when he ends to think about where's this guy gonna

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Speaker 3: as we know arther Smith, where he starts, it's definitely

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Speaker 3: not where he's gonna end. There's a lot of motions,

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Speaker 3: there's shifts, and then you got a quarterback who, for

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Speaker 3: an offense I believe that in due time Arthur Smith

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Speaker 3: a game where he can use all these different weapons

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Speaker 3: and tools defensively, I'm most excited about watching the front seven.

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Speaker 3: I'm most excited of watching how this team will get

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Speaker 3: after opposing teams and whether it's with Blitzeres or whether

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Speaker 3: it's you know, just upfront beating people the depth up front.

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Speaker 3: I think it's going to be so fun to watch

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Speaker 3: watching kayn Ellis, watching Troy Anderson next to each other,

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Speaker 3: watching the physicality of on your Mida budd dupree Kalays

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Speaker 3: being move inside outside, you know, adding you know, obviously

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Speaker 3: Grady's one of those big time players in there. Still

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Speaker 3: so many guys in the front seven that you are

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Speaker 3: excited to watch and see how this defense continues to

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Speaker 3: get better. Because over the years we've seen it, our

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Speaker 3: offense has scored points. We've been able to move the football.

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Speaker 3: Whether you have issues once you got in the red zone,

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Speaker 3: that's a whole other issue from last year but you've

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Speaker 3: been able to move to football. We know offensively you

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Speaker 3: can do that. Defensively, though, we know getting to the

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Speaker 3: quarterback has been the biggest issue. And coming into this season,

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Speaker 3: you say, look at these dudes on his roster, Look

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Speaker 3: I've seen a couple of micd up where he's talking

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Speaker 3: things that they can do better. And I'm so excited

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Speaker 3: one against Carolina, where you got a young rookie quarterback

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Speaker 3: But there's gonna be a bunch of wrinkles. There's gonna

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Speaker 3: be a lot of things that he throws at this

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Speaker 3: and I'm excited to see him go.

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Speaker 1: You you mentioned wrinkles.

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Speaker 2: Thank you appreciate that, Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned wrinkles. I can't help but going back to

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Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball, and what I and

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Speaker 1: you were talking about shifts and motions, where they start

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Speaker 1: I was gonna go back to my three words of

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Speaker 1: so durned multiple and let me ask you this question.

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Speaker 4: Arch.

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Speaker 1: Let's just say the opening package for Atlanta against Carolina

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Speaker 1: is Kyle Pitts, John new Smith. It's twenty two personnel,

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Speaker 1: it's Aljier and Bjehon Robinson, you got Drake Lunn and

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Speaker 1: that wide receiver. Okay, let's just say those guys line

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Speaker 2: They got Max and over there six to five to Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's on the sideline right.

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Speaker 1: But then all of a sudden, you get a shift

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Speaker 1: and Bejon goes out to the slot, Kyle moves out

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Speaker 1: to the wide receiver. What personnel do you put up?

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Speaker 1: What personnel is a defensive corner because you know you

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Speaker 1: got to get your personnel in before they come out

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Speaker 1: of the huddle. So what I what I'm saying is

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Speaker 1: they're so multiple, because how do you match up against that.

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Speaker 1: You got four linebackers on the field, and now you've

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Speaker 1: got a linebacker covering Kyle Pitts and Bjeon Robinson split

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Speaker 1: out right. These are the kind of quick decisions that

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Speaker 1: treat Bijon and Tyler Algier as both running backs? Or

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Speaker 1: when Bejon comes in, is he a wide receiver? Is

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Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts a wide receiver? Are we gonna match him

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Speaker 1: the things where I think they can get creative and

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Speaker 1: find mismatches and get and Jen Desmond ritterd just looks

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Speaker 1: and says, Oh, I got Bjon with a linebacker. I

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Speaker 1: like that match up right there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think that that will be where you're not going

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Speaker 4: to know in the opening snap because Carolina hasn't seen

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Speaker 4: any of this stuff. Yeah, so Carolina is going to

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Speaker 4: counter with twenty two personnel. They're going to counter bait.

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Speaker 4: If they're in a three four four three, whatever it is,

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Speaker 4: It doesn't boil down to Sunday. What it boils down

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Speaker 4: And one of the things defensive coordinators will do to

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Speaker 4: And now all of a sudden, Dez can pick them apart.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and let me say this, like, I don't want

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Speaker 1: Is that true? Is that fair?

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Speaker 3: So you don't know how he's going to respond, how

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Speaker 3: They looked at film of death and he said, that's

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Speaker 2: Here's right.

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Speaker 2: And for me, that's the best confidence.

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Speaker 1: Exactly And I made this comment about Jon Robinson with

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Speaker 1: the Falcons selecting him in the first round, and it's

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Speaker 1: the same point you're talking about with Desmond Ritter, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter what you think. It doesn't matter what we think.

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Speaker 1: The coaching staff in the personnel department get more time

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Speaker 1: with all of these players than any of us can

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Speaker 1: ever imagine. They know their makeup, they know their strength,

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Speaker 1: weakness is capability is a whole lot better than we did.

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Speaker 1: And obviously the Falcons saw something to be Jean Robinson

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Speaker 1: at number eight that said that is our guy. And

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Speaker 1: to your point, they're saying the same thing about Desmond Ritter.

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Speaker 1: We could go out, we get somebody, we could trade

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Speaker 1: for Trey Lance. They didn't do that. We got our

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Speaker 1: guy all right before. We I feel like we've exhausted

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Speaker 1: the offense.

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Speaker 2: Dave.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about defense real quick again. You've been around

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Speaker 1: for a while. I want you to and what I

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Speaker 1: say about you've seen this roster transform. And it's not

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Speaker 1: like Atlanta hasn't had good players. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: about the Deon Jones of the world. Ricardo Allen was

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Speaker 1: very successful here. Kean O'Neil, you could go down the

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Speaker 1: list right where do you feel like this defense stacks

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Speaker 1: up in star power and playmaking ability compared to kind

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Speaker 1: of what we've had previously.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, there's some non names here. Kil As Campbell jump

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Speaker 4: tumps to the forefront. Aj Terrell has made a name

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Speaker 4: for himself at the corner spot. I think Jesse Bates

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Speaker 4: is a guy that steps up and becomes one of

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Speaker 4: those guys at oh, I know that guy. As you

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Speaker 4: start with Cincinnati and their defense, A Grady Jarrett has

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Speaker 4: become his own entity. You shall not pass.

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Speaker 2: He's done that great.

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Speaker 4: He's done a great.

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Speaker 2: Job of that.

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Speaker 4: I think game time, we're gonna save it for games.

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Speaker 4: So but I think there's there's some known commodities that

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Speaker 4: guys have done it. And Shock talked a little bit

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Speaker 4: about this. We've got guys on the defensive side of

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Speaker 4: the ball. You wait a minute, I know that guy.

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Speaker 4: I remember that guy doing this, that or the other

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Speaker 4: for somebody else. Now, you got to bring it together,

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Speaker 4: and that's certainly Ryan Neils's goal is to bring all

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Speaker 4: these guys together. But defensively, you had talked earlier about

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Speaker 4: you know, what is it you're looking forward to, what

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Speaker 4: is it that makes you excited for the season. And

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Speaker 4: I agree with the offensive side of the ball. And

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Speaker 4: we talked a lot about the offensive side of the football.

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Speaker 4: I think the thing that I am most excited about

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Speaker 4: is to watch what Shock talked a little bit about,

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Speaker 4: is the physicality of this is going to be a

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Speaker 4: street fight with big dudes every weekend. It was one

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Speaker 4: of the goals that Arthur Smith had when he got

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Speaker 4: here is he wanted people to feel Atlanta the next day,

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Speaker 4: the next day after that with the run game. Offensively,

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Speaker 4: they've been able to do that number three in the

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Speaker 4: league on hundred and sixty yards a game. Believe me,

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Speaker 4: Defenses are feeling this offense physically the day and the

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Speaker 4: day after the game. Now you need the other side

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Speaker 4: of the ball to bring that to the table too,

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Speaker 4: And I think the cast of characters they have defensively,

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Speaker 4: with the experience and the physicality of the size, they're

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Speaker 4: gonna be able to get people to feel that on

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Speaker 4: game day and days after that that are going to

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Speaker 4: impact them to where maybe these close games in Atlanta's losing.

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Speaker 4: Now now all of a sudden, you're winning on third down.

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Speaker 4: On defense, there's an extra two or three series for

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Speaker 4: desmon Ritter. On that side of the football. You're stopping

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Speaker 4: the run game, you're getting after the passer. Those things

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Speaker 4: begin to equate. Those things are what I'm most excited about.

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Speaker 4: I think the offense is going to play. We got

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Speaker 4: a score, as Shaq said, but I think defensively, the

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Speaker 4: physicality and street fight that you're going to feel this team.

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Speaker 4: It's coming.

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Speaker 1: We'll never hear it. But like we need a guard

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Speaker 1: from another team to go to his head coach and

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Speaker 1: be like, hey, I need a day offsets just NonStop.

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Speaker 4: All you gotta do is look on the list of

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Speaker 4: guys that practiced on a Wednesday. If they've got four

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Speaker 4: or five guys that didn't pregnant, that doesn't do any

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Speaker 4: It's got equate to game day too. You know it

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Speaker 4: can't be Hey, woll we pounded Carolina, they had they

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Speaker 4: had four guys that didn't practice on Wednesday the following week.

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Speaker 4: Well that didn't do anything for us now, right, But

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Speaker 4: if they can feel it in the third and fourth quarter,

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Speaker 4: then that's gonna equate to Quinn's close wins. Because this

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Speaker 4: team struggled in close games. We need to we need

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Speaker 4: to feel at each and every week where you get

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Speaker 4: that entity that it comes to life in the third

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Speaker 4: and fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: All right, final question for you, Shock. We talked a

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Speaker 1: lot about front seven, the line linebackers. Give me your take,

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Speaker 1: give me your hot take on this defensive back group. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Jesse Bates was kind of the off season Steeler as

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Speaker 1: far as news goes. But they bring in guys like

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Speaker 1: Okuda obviously gonna gonna be banged up a little bit

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Speaker 1: to start the season. But where do you feel like

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Speaker 1: this defensive back group is. Because getting off of the

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Speaker 1: field on third down is extremely important. That's not just

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Speaker 1: the DBS, but you get a deflection, you get an interception,

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Speaker 1: you get some great tight coverage. That's one of the

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Speaker 1: best ways to get off the field on third down.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel this group stacks up right now?

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Speaker 2: You know what?

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Speaker 3: This was the group that when I look at the

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Speaker 3: entirety of the defense, and there's really one question mark

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Speaker 3: for me, and it's obviously when Acutera comes back then

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Speaker 3: that may answer that question. But right now, is that

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Speaker 3: guy opposite of aj Terrell? Can he hold up? And

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Speaker 3: that's a real question for me. Like, we got dudes

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Speaker 3: there that could do it. We got named I mean,

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Speaker 3: you got huge.

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Speaker 2: We brought in.

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Speaker 3: Clark Phillips, the Alfred had a good preseason. Uh you

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Speaker 3: flower stepped in for a couda when he's there. But

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Speaker 3: do we know when these guys get in the game,

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Speaker 3: can they actually hold up? And that's the only question

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Speaker 3: mark I have. And that's not a shot of those guys.

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Speaker 3: Maybe they come out and you know, one of them

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Speaker 3: becomes a pro bowler this year, or you know steps

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Speaker 3: in and plays well to Jeff comes back, But that

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Speaker 3: one position, along with Okay, who solidifies the nickel spot.

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Speaker 2: We saw Offer play well.

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Speaker 3: We've seen Hughes, We've seen Clark Phillips be a gnat

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Speaker 3: on the inside as well, those two spots, because we

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Speaker 3: know in this league that's second and.

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Speaker 2: Third or third and fourth defensive back.

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Speaker 3: You only feel a lot. Yeah, and you got to

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Speaker 3: hold up in a run game. You gotta hold up

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Speaker 3: in the past game. And a lot of teams in

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Speaker 3: his division and in his league they got two three

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Speaker 3: good receivers, So you got to have other guys.

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Speaker 2: That can hold up. Is that guy? Can that guy

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Speaker 2: hold up? I should say until Jeff comes back.

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Speaker 4: As a question, and let's be honest, do we know

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Speaker 4: if Jeff's gonna be able to hold up?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: And let's let's be real here, he's trying to get

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Speaker 4: a reboot in his career and obviously got derailed because

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Speaker 4: of the ankle injury and hasn't been able to practice

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Speaker 4: at full speed for a while now. So I think

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Speaker 4: that's a great question in that it probably equates to

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Speaker 4: whoever you put in opposite the corner A.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because because I think it's a great point. You

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Speaker 1: mentioned known commodities, right, So an offensive coordinator and a

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Speaker 1: quarterback on an opposing team is gonna say Arell is

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Speaker 1: a known commodity. Jesse Bates is a known commodity the

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Speaker 1: other side, question mark, So guess what they're gonna do.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna try them out early on in the game.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna find a way to scheme or to throw

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Speaker 1: the ball in the direction of whoever's gonna be playing

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Speaker 1: opposite of Ajterrell. And then, just like you said, it's

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Speaker 1: on their shoulders to make plays. And then when you

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Speaker 1: decide that, you make plays. And now we have basically

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Speaker 1: a balance shutdown on each side. Then now that shifts

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Speaker 1: the power back to the defense. But we won't know

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Speaker 1: that until we get out in week one. So yes,

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Speaker 1: there is some pressure, but guess what, that's the life

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Speaker 1: of playing in the NFL. Number one, number two. That's

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Speaker 1: the life of playing out in the corner position, right

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Speaker 1: fellas doubt. All right, So that's gonna kind of wrap

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Speaker 1: it up for our initial fifty three man roster. And

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Speaker 1: as we mentioned, this is going to be a fluid

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Speaker 1: process as players clear waivers, as somebody ends up getting released,

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Speaker 1: and maybe Atlanta's coaching staff and scouting department falls in

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Speaker 1: love or says that that person right there would fit

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Speaker 1: what we feel like maybe is still a whole. So

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Speaker 1: there's still might be some movement going on with this roster.

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Speaker 1: But we kind of did a pretty good breakdown as

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Speaker 1: far as the position groups and the players that we have.

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Speaker 1: Again as of the recording today, looking forward to getting

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Speaker 1: into game week that's only a few days away. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. Feel free to leave your

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Speaker 1: comments anything that we missed out on on the fifty

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Speaker 1: three man roster, any players that we feel like you

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Speaker 1: feel like we need to expand on. Let us know.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we'll touch on it a little bit next week

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Speaker 1: as we get ready for a week one. Just tag Arch,

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Speaker 1: tag Arch, but keep it clean, all right. Hey, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us on the Falcons Audible presented

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Speaker 1: will get fired. We will be back next week to

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