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Speaker 1: And welcome back to another edition of The Falcons Audible

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Speaker 1: presented by AT and T. I'm Derek Rackley, joined by

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Speaker 1: my guys DJ Shockley and Dave Archer as we talk

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Speaker 1: Falcons each and every week following their most latest contest,

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Speaker 1: and we'll get into the NFC South and the NFL

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Speaker 1: as a hole. But thank you guys for joining us

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Speaker 1: once again, and I just wanted to give you guys

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Speaker 1: a quick highlight of what we got going on. Of course,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna try to put this loss up to the

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Speaker 1: Detroit Lions into context as best as we can. I

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Speaker 1: know the guys are chomping at the bit to be

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Speaker 1: able to chime in on that one. How about this Falcons.

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Speaker 1: Should they have been ready for Detroit to let them

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Speaker 1: score a touchdown? As Todd Griley's running through the hole,

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Speaker 1: you can see the linebackers are like, they're gonna try

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Speaker 1: to tackle them, and then they nope, You're just gonna

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Speaker 1: go ahead and got Todd Griley tries to get down

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Speaker 1: at the last second, but he's now able to do it.

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Speaker 1: So should the coaching staff have known that was coming?

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Speaker 1: How about Julio Jones having to back down trade rumors.

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Speaker 1: This week, we'll get into whether or not that's the

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Speaker 1: thing that he's gonna have to deal with throughout the

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Speaker 1: course of the remainder of this season, and then we're

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Speaker 1: going to settle the debate. We're going to do our

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Speaker 1: best to do it anyway about whether or not it

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Speaker 1: was Brady or it was Belichick for the success in

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Speaker 1: New England. Obviously we know Tom Brady's down to Tampa

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Speaker 1: now he's having success with the Buccaneers and maybe not

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Speaker 1: so much up in Foxborough. And then we're gonna finally

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Speaker 1: put on our Raheem Morris cap and we're gonna think

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Speaker 1: about how do you direct this team for the rest

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Speaker 1: of the season after yet another just crushing loss at

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Speaker 1: the end of the game. So let's dive right into

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Speaker 1: a Dave. I want to start with you because I

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Speaker 1: know you've always got some passion for me. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: start us off with a bang here. Have you ever

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Speaker 1: seen anything like what is happening to the Atlanta Falcons

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Speaker 1: look like they were in the driver's seat. Detroit uses

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Speaker 1: all their timeouts. And by the way, there was a

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Speaker 1: statistic that came out that in three games this season,

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Speaker 1: arch the Falcons have had at some point a ninety

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Speaker 1: six percent chance or better of winning. Arch put this

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Speaker 1: into context as best you can. Man, don't want to

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Speaker 1: hear that rack. We're a one We're a four and

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Speaker 1: three football team, dressed up like a one in six

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Speaker 1: football team. Halloween just around the corner, right, so we

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Speaker 1: got our costumes on. We're a one in six team,

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Speaker 1: but we're really a four and three team. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to fathom. It's really difficult, I would think

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Speaker 1: to navigate mentally and emotionally as players, knowing where you

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Speaker 1: should be and where you really are. But you know,

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Speaker 1: as some wise man once said, I don't think it

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Speaker 1: was Confucius said you are what your record says you are.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Confucius had much to say about that,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think of about football. But yeah, he

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Speaker 1: was a big football guy. I don't think he's a

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Speaker 1: Dogs fan. He was not a Dogs fan, but he

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Speaker 1: was a Gophers fan, I believe. Anyway, this is this

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Speaker 1: is one that I thought Raheem Morris, and we'll talk

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Speaker 1: a lot about Raheem and what he needs to do,

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Speaker 1: as you mentioned Rak here in a little bit. But

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Speaker 1: I thought Raheem owned it. And I talked to him

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Speaker 1: on Monday for the Coaches Show. I thought he did

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Speaker 1: a good job in his press conference. After watching the tape,

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Speaker 1: he really as he should have made Matt kneel down

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Speaker 1: the ball. Should not So you got to take those elements.

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Speaker 1: There's variables, enough variables in a game, right, whether guy's

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Speaker 1: going to take care of the football, what decisions you're

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Speaker 1: gonna make an inside run, outside run, throw it, not

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Speaker 1: throw it. You got to take some of those decisions

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Speaker 1: out of those players hands. This was one that Raw

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Speaker 1: had the ability to take out of the player's hands

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Speaker 1: and have right because you did what you needed to do, right.

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Speaker 1: You ate up Patricia's timeouts. It's exactly what you needed

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Speaker 1: to do. So now it's the ten yard line, and

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Speaker 1: if Young way Ku kicks a twenty seven yard extra

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Speaker 1: I don't think it makes much difference. So it's just

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Speaker 1: one of those moments where I'm sure that the coaches

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Speaker 1: are banging their heads on the wall stand why didn't

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Speaker 1: And DJ let me interject here, real quick before you go,

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Speaker 1: because everybody's gonna say that this is the head coach's decision.

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Speaker 1: And I get that. Trust me, he's at the helm

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Speaker 1: exactly what was going to happen. But DJ I mean,

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Speaker 1: in that moment the Falcons they're gonna turn around and

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Speaker 1: hand the ball off. They're thinking they're probably gonna be

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Speaker 1: met with some kind of resistance. But at that time,

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Speaker 1: is it just they got to take a knee and

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Speaker 1: just take a couple of knees and bring the field

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Speaker 1: goal unit out. Yeah. I think obviously we look back

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Speaker 1: want to take the knee, and that's probably you know,

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Speaker 1: like I said, right, he just talked about that. I

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Speaker 1: remember in two thousand and five, my last year in college,

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Speaker 1: we were playing Albert It was fourth and fifteen. They

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Speaker 1: go down and they convert and they go all the

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Speaker 1: way down, the ball pops out the end zone, but

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Speaker 1: they end up recovering it, and they put the ball

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Speaker 1: we had no timeouts, and they had an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: go in and score. They kneeled down, kicked the field goal,

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Speaker 1: We had no timeouts and won the ball game. And

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Speaker 1: this is a similar situation. And I guarantee you even

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Speaker 1: you know Girly said it, we know exactly what the

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Speaker 1: like Girly is saying, Okay, in my head, I know

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Speaker 1: And as he rips away from the defender, his momentum

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Speaker 1: I think each guy knew coming in that, yeah, and

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Speaker 1: have probably taken a knee. But at the end of

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Speaker 1: is just a tough situation to go back in, you know,

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Speaker 1: Rahim to kind of second guests himself on his players

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Speaker 1: Todd Gurley mentioned after the game, he said that this

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Speaker 1: has happened, what four or five six times in his career,

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, so they lose the game, and

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Speaker 1: everybody wants to talk about the way it was mismanaged

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Speaker 1: at the end, but DJ I think we could all

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Speaker 1: agree and as former players. This is the things that's

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Speaker 1: talked about in the meeting room. They say, if we

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Speaker 1: another just a real easy time where they could have

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Speaker 1: And again maybe it changes the complexion of the game.

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Speaker 1: And it doesn't even get down to whether or not

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Speaker 1: Todd Gurley has to remember all to the ground. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: those are the moments that you look back on in

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Speaker 1: are tons of plays in a ball game that mattered.

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Speaker 1: going in a different direction than hey, we probably win

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Speaker 1: this ball game. But here's a situation where I think

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Speaker 1: we've seen over the past three four years, this has

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Speaker 1: always been an aggressive football team. This has always been

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Speaker 1: and they have continued to try to keep that mantra going.

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Speaker 1: And we've seen the times where it has work, and

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Speaker 1: this was one of those instance where it just did

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Speaker 1: tough any back and forth ball games, touchdowns were huge

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Speaker 1: and get those points absolutely, yeah, Dave, another one that

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Speaker 1: But in my opinion, like I was watching it, as

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Speaker 1: it seemed like Atlanta had momentum, and to me that

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Speaker 1: kind of turned into a ten point turnaround. Like if

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Speaker 1: if they don't turn it over, Atlanta scores a touchdown,

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Speaker 1: now they got seven points, but instead it's a field

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Speaker 1: goal for Detroit. So again, I know, hindsight's always twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: but that's another play to me, that was a big

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Speaker 1: turnaround point late in the game. Yeah, good look at

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Speaker 1: the play too. It's a play where to be all honest,

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Speaker 1: all honesty, Jake Matthews doesn't trust that the back is

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Speaker 1: going to step to take the guy in to get

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Speaker 1: a linebacker that steps in the B gap, and that's

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Speaker 1: Todd Gurley's guy. He's responsible for him in protection. So

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Speaker 1: Jake's a little bit late getting out of his stance

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Speaker 1: and Flowers blows around the end. If Jake pass sets

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Speaker 1: He passed sets on him. Let's girly take the linebacker.

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Speaker 1: Now Ryan's in the pocket and lets it go. As

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Speaker 1: he was trying to unload it, Flowers is not there

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Speaker 1: to not just strict the ball out. Yeah, so you know,

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Speaker 1: we and guys, I can just tell you, you you know,

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Speaker 1: he meant to the New England Patriots franchise along with

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick. But those two events separated, now, okay, So

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Speaker 1: that marriage, that love that they had in Foxboro is gone.

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Speaker 1: All right. So now that we have seen that Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady and the Buccaneers are starting to excel and we're

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Speaker 1: seeing the New England Patriots coming back a little bit, Arch,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to start with you, can you answer the

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Speaker 1: debate about whether or not the success had in New

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Speaker 1: England was more about Brady or Belichick? Brady set go, Well,

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Speaker 1: it's a balance, really, Racket. I think that I'm going

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Speaker 1: to point to the fact that if everybody thinks it's

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Speaker 1: Brady because of what's going on in New England. In

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay with Brady was the answer. Go back and

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Speaker 1: look at those defenses Brady had when he was in

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Speaker 1: New England. That was a defense that got after you.

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Speaker 1: They were able to create opportunities for him to throw

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Speaker 1: the football, to do some of the wild things they

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Speaker 1: want to do throwing the ball because they didn't have

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Speaker 1: to worry about it. Their defense was going to come

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Speaker 1: in and shut people down. So I think that when

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Speaker 1: you look at Belichick and what he brought to the

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Speaker 1: table as far as controlling the game on the defensive

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Speaker 1: side of the football, to me, that gets overlooked because

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Speaker 1: Brady is now in Tampa and we know that he's

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Speaker 1: had big numbers the last couple of weeks and they

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Speaker 1: get three seventy and four touchdowns. Have you seen what

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Speaker 1: their defense is doing. They've got twenty five sacks and

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Speaker 1: twelve takeaways in the first seven games. Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 1: They're linebackers are unbelievable and we'll have to talk about

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Speaker 1: them here down the road. How do we block the linebackers?

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Speaker 1: Their defense is getting after that's providing Brady some opportunities.

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Speaker 1: Brady played pitch and catch with the corners the first

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks in the season for two picks six.

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Speaker 1: I think it's overlooked dramatically what Bill Belichick's defense has

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Speaker 1: provided Tom Brady and his ability to freewheel it on

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Speaker 1: the offensive side of the football. There's no doubting at

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Speaker 1: Brady's ability what he was able to do to bring

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Speaker 1: the talent level around him up. But what about that

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Speaker 1: defensive side of the football provided those opportunities? Hey, Arch,

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Speaker 1: everybody talks about how brilliant Belichick is, I'd say how

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Speaker 1: brilliant Brady is. He decides to go to Tampa where

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Speaker 1: he left over at the other side of the ball,

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Speaker 1: and he said, we got some studs that can stop

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Speaker 1: people on the other side. I want to be a

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Speaker 1: part of that. So, DJ, speaking of being a part

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Speaker 1: of that, where do you fall in this conversation? Is

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Speaker 1: it offense with Brady or is it the mindset of

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Speaker 1: Belichick and what he did defensively and for the entire

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Speaker 1: team that contributed most to their success up in Foxborough.

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Speaker 1: So taken into account, the passionate passionate you for Arch

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Speaker 1: right there on Belichick and what he's done in the defense.

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Speaker 1: I'm going on the total opposite side. You look at Brady,

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Speaker 1: he's forty three now. Yes he's had the good defenses.

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Speaker 1: Yes he's in a good space in Tampa. Dude is

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Speaker 1: still forty three. Todd is still playing at a high level.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna give no listen. I'm just saying, that's part

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Speaker 1: of it. Woman done it for twenty years. Nobody cares.

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Speaker 1: He's forty three years old. That's his fault. He got

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Speaker 1: all That's not it. That's not checks fault. He's forty

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Speaker 1: making it better. That's making it better because he's at

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Speaker 1: it art at forty three. I haven't got at forty three.

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Speaker 1: Do you still think you can go out there and

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Speaker 1: throw for two eighty and four to forty three? Non

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Speaker 1: not happening right, not happening against against these defenses. The

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Speaker 1: guy still has to process really quickly. He still has

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Speaker 1: to get the ball, he still has to play the

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Speaker 1: game of football with the best players in all of

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Speaker 1: the world. So the fact that he's still doing it

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Speaker 1: at a high level, did it in New England now

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Speaker 1: has gone to a totally different places. At the beginning

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Speaker 1: the year, they will still trying to find their sales.

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Speaker 1: No OTAs, no mini cams. He's thrown right into the fire,

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Speaker 1: new hit coach, new OC and it took him a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Are it's okay, do a couple of

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Speaker 1: pig sixes. That's gonna happen. Guess what they're clicking now

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Speaker 1: because this dude is figuring it out. Blest part of it. Lie,

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Speaker 1: it ain't going nowhere out Fitz, give me those stubbers

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Speaker 1: on his completion percentage when he's under pressure. Okay, I'll

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Speaker 1: give him time because you know I got it. It happened.

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Speaker 1: It's completing twenty nine percent of his passes when they're blitzing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but DJ, come on, you're killing your argument. Just say

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Speaker 1: that you're dolla. No, no, no, he asked for it,

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Speaker 1: So I gave it to him for my opportunity. Guy rack,

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Speaker 1: I'm e opportunity. He asked for it, I'm gonna give

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Speaker 1: it to him. I should have told him that, but

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Speaker 1: he knows it. So it's happening. Listen to the day.

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Speaker 1: The dude is still killing it right now. He's killing it.

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Speaker 1: I get I given it to you. He gets up

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Speaker 1: in the morning and he's got a line of pills.

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Speaker 1: He has to say about about six inches. I get that.

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Speaker 1: And when he after he takes his jarat all, he

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Speaker 1: goes in and he does a great job from the

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Speaker 1: quarterback position. But let's I think that we could kind

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Speaker 1: of reside to the fact you're rack that Jacque made

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Speaker 1: a good argument. I think I made somewhat of an

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Speaker 1: argument for Belichick that you know what, they're pretty good together.

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Speaker 1: But it turns out if you got defense in your quarterback,

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Speaker 1: it tends to help you out a little bit. True. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I agree with you, guys, and listen, I would have

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Speaker 1: sided on the side of Brady here because I just

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Speaker 1: feel like if you look back at his career and

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Speaker 1: two weeks in a row wrexams side. You guys always

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Speaker 1: want me to settle the de bates on. Yes, I

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Speaker 1: just go back and I look at the guys that

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Speaker 1: he had to work with in New England. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he made Wes Welker, Julian Edelman, he made these guys stars.

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Speaker 1: I played with one of the guys that he made

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Speaker 1: a star, and Dion Branch he got traded over the

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Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks from New England, and Dion Branch was a

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Speaker 1: talented player when he came in, but Tom Bradman made

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Speaker 1: an absolute superstar. They made he brought They brought Randy

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Speaker 1: mosson towards the end of his career, and some would

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Speaker 1: say that he was a diva and hard to operate with.

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Speaker 1: He was, he was twenty touchdown. He was awesome under

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Because everybody goes into that organization and they say,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, I got a chance to catch balls

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Speaker 1: from Tom Brady and we're gonna go to a super Bowl. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I want to be a part of that. Um. So,

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Speaker 1: I just feel like the way that he always took

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Speaker 1: average guys and he made them superstars and by the

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Speaker 1: way he made them rich as well. It had a

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Speaker 1: lot to do with Brady. But Arch, I'm gonna tell you,

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Speaker 1: it's a team game. If they don't have defense, if

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Speaker 1: they don't have Stephen Gostkowski as a kicker on special teams,

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Speaker 1: that are probably nowhere near as good as they were

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Speaker 1: in their heydays. So, um, there you go. Tell us,

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Speaker 1: what's your side of the story is touchdowns? Man? Come on, man, huh,

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Speaker 1: we can't come up. Gronkowski had Randy Moss I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's not anybody that's not his faults. We're going to

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Speaker 1: give him the nod Belichick sixties for that. I just

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Speaker 1: love play. Everybody's gonna be talking about how Arch said

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Speaker 1: that that Brady stall and he's got a line of pills.

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Speaker 1: He puts on different types of underpainting. Ever got his

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Speaker 1: own performance? He said, I didn't say that. Here's what

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you is that when you got money like

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady, you can get the best treatment that there

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Speaker 1: is in this world every week to keep your body

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Speaker 1: performing at forty three years old, which I don't have

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Speaker 1: those resources, not whatsoever. It's hard enough for me to

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Speaker 1: get one massage a month from the last one every day.

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Speaker 1: He talking about he's got TV twelve, he's got his

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Speaker 1: own operation. He owns his own so he's got got

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Speaker 1: he's her armor on speed dial. He's played great, They've

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Speaker 1: played really well. Tampa has kind of held up to

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Speaker 1: the expectation so far, right, the big expectation with him

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Speaker 1: going down there and now you've got Antonio Brown coming

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Speaker 1: into the mix. How do they how do they sprinkle

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Speaker 1: that in? It's gonna be interesting, right, So, as I mentioned,

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Speaker 1: tell us what your thoughts are? Where do you fall

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Speaker 1: in on the side of this one is a Belisha,

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Speaker 1: is it Brady? Or you're gonna strid on fence and

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Speaker 1: say it's a little bit of both something. All right, guys,

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Speaker 1: that's about the time that we got. Of course, short

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Speaker 1: week for the Atlanta Falcons. They got a little Thursday

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Speaker 1: night action against Carolina. Of course came up shore against

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Speaker 1: them earlier this season. We'll get a chance to revenge

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Speaker 1: that on a short week here and around the division.

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Speaker 1: Saints they got to go with the five and one

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Speaker 1: Bears this week, and the aforementioned Tom Brady and the Bucks.

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Speaker 1: They get the one and six Giants Arch. That number

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Speaker 1: is going to continue to increase. They're likely going to

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Speaker 1: go by a six and two by the way, Arch Bucks.

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Speaker 1: But it's all about Bellichick. I like their chance, there's

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Speaker 1: no question, no question no. But the division's playing well.

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Speaker 1: That the three teams in front of Atlanta are playing well.

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Speaker 1: We get one of them on Thursday night, and get ready,

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Speaker 1: you may get Christian McCaffrey this weekend. We had not

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Speaker 1: McCaffrey arguably the best three down back in the national

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Speaker 1: foot Ball League. He's gonna be back on the field

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Speaker 1: after that high ankle spring. He's been problems for Atlanta

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Speaker 1: in the past. Gonna have to get ready to crack

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Speaker 1: that nut. Yeah, that's gonna be definitely a challenge, but

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Speaker 1: I think the good news for the Falcons. He's been

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