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

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Speaker 1: by AT and T. I'm Derek Rackley with my guys

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Speaker 1: Dave Archer and DJ Shockley. You're gonna have to do

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Speaker 1: me a favor and just bear with these two because

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Speaker 1: they came back with the team last night and they're

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Speaker 1: going on maybe about two hours asleep. So but you

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Speaker 1: know what, they're gonna tough it out and they're gonna

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Speaker 1: they're they're here, they're gonna talk Falcons and then they'll

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Speaker 1: get their rest after we're done with the podcast. Is

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Speaker 1: that about rise at Fairfils? Sounds good? All right, let's

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Speaker 1: not film part of walking dead out. That's how he feels. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: getting back to the Hotel Layton and having to wake

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Speaker 1: up at five o'clock for a flight to get back

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Speaker 1: to Atlanta is not always the funnest thing in the world.

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Speaker 1: All right, here's real quick what we're gonna cover today.

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Speaker 1: We obviously we'll go back and recap our thoughts and

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Speaker 1: opinions on the Falcons against the Jets. We'll talk a

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Speaker 1: little bit about the quarterbacks, all three of them got

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Speaker 1: into some action yesterday. Then we'll move forward because we

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Speaker 1: had joint practices last week with the Jets. We've got

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Speaker 1: joint practices again this week with the Jacksonville Jaguars before

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Speaker 1: Atlanta concludes their preseason play, and we will talk about

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Speaker 1: that game, their first home game of this twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two preseason at Mercedes Benz Stadium. So with that, Fellas,

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Speaker 1: let's get right into it. Let's talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: about the game last night as we saw it against

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Speaker 1: the New York Jets. There were a lot of good

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Speaker 1: things and there were some not so good things that

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Speaker 1: came out of it. Let's start with some of the positives,

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Speaker 1: because I think the great thing that a lot of

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Speaker 1: these players are going to take away and the coaches

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Speaker 1: from the first half is how they started this game.

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Speaker 1: They went into a road opponent territory and they were

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Speaker 1: able to get started quickly. So, Dave, as you were

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Speaker 1: calling the game, what stuck out to you as the

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Speaker 1: positives early on in the game. Offensively for Atlanta, they

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Speaker 1: just thought execution. You're looking for that offense to take

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Speaker 1: the next step, and they had a really good opening

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Speaker 1: drive against Detroit and then they were out right twelve

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Speaker 1: plays eighty two yards, nine and a half minutes of

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Speaker 1: it in the end zone with Mariota getting out of

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Speaker 1: the pocket. Mariot puts it in for a touchdown and

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Speaker 1: you love that drive. They're out yep. Okay, so let's

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Speaker 1: see some extended Actually, let's see you back that up.

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Speaker 1: Mariot has been in the game. I think what four

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Speaker 1: drives now they scored on three of the four drives

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Speaker 1: that he's been the quarterback. Um. That's execution. And then

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Speaker 1: within that there were some plays and and I talked

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Speaker 1: to Marcus post game, he was kicking himself a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Heads Pitts came clean. That could have been maybe a

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Speaker 1: touchdown pass. A little bit underthrown sometimes Shock and I

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Speaker 1: both know you got a guy that white up. You're trying,

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Speaker 1: don't overthrow him. Had another one to Firks or two

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Speaker 1: along the sideline on the little uh Derek Rackley wheel

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Speaker 1: route right there along the sideline. Execution probably jumps out

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Speaker 1: to me. I thought offensive execution was outstanding early in

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Speaker 1: was on time with his passes, seemed comfortable, seemed like

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Speaker 1: he was in command. DJ. What did you see out

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Speaker 1: of that offense? Yeah, no doubt about it. I thought

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Speaker 1: He did a good job of the execution part, like

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Speaker 1: the huddel making the plays that they were there for him. Now,

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Speaker 1: obviously they just didn't play all their guys, but they

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Speaker 1: you still got to play the guy that's in front

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Speaker 1: I thought guys coming out their breaks were good. I

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Speaker 1: in that first couple of drives, And I thought Marcus

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Speaker 1: spreading the football around and giving the guys opportunities to

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Speaker 1: make plays. Like Art just talked about, on that deep,

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Speaker 1: through the deep through the pits, that's a tough throne

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Speaker 1: because he's so open and it's such a big play.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to overthrow that guy. So just giving

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Speaker 1: to make those NFL guys gonna make that team they

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Speaker 1: their number ones. Okay. The concern there for us, if

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Speaker 1: your Falcon fans would be if you did nothing against that, right,

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Speaker 1: but if you went out and laid to wood to him,

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Speaker 1: which is exactly what you did other than down in

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Speaker 1: that today as to why that didn't happen, But you

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Speaker 1: sixteen three at halftime, could have been maybe twenty eight

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Speaker 1: who knows. But so that kind of backs up with

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Speaker 1: Shawk's talking about, Hey, maybe they didn't have some guys

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Speaker 1: maybe on opening day, but you worked the group that

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Speaker 1: was on the field. Yes, absolutely, guys a couple of

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Speaker 1: things that you guys touched on it, but more bigger

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Speaker 1: picture explosive plays like I think everybody would agree this

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Speaker 1: offense needs to find more explosive plays. They've got the weapons, obviously,

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Speaker 1: when London comes back, that brings another downfield threat form,

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Speaker 1: but they've got to find ways to get Pits the

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Speaker 1: football down the field. Use that size, that uncanny combination

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Speaker 1: that he has of size, speed, body control. What everybody's

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Speaker 1: drooling about is find a way to get him the

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Speaker 1: football and move the ball down the field. Right. You

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Speaker 1: take the ball from your own forty, put it into

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Speaker 1: for points, right. So as we saw a little bit

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Speaker 1: of that last night, Firk sir the big catch that

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Speaker 1: the keys down the middle. I thought was really good

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Speaker 1: accuracy from him and understanding timing. I'm getting rid of

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Speaker 1: the football down on the red zone. Remember when Greg

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Speaker 1: Napp was here, rest his soul, he used to always

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Speaker 1: talk about touchdown, checkdown, right, but get the football out

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Speaker 1: can't hesitate. You gotta let it go, and that's what

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Speaker 1: we saw early on for Mariota. It's interesting if you

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Speaker 1: bring it up. Me and Arts were like salivating and

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Speaker 1: that's like a dream for us to just throwing it too,

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Speaker 1: right because the keys in like Shock talking about Zakias

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Speaker 1: a hard inside technique to him, so he didn't waste

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Speaker 1: Bryce Hall, who happened to be a Virginia player as well.

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Speaker 1: Those two guys played with each other Virginia. He says,

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Speaker 1: I've got to win him to the far pylon. If

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Speaker 1: Zekias a little hint at the top, Mariota read it

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Speaker 1: just like you're talking about the execution and just kind

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Speaker 1: pretty cool, really was. And back. I think the other

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Speaker 1: fact that they pushed the football down the field. I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of people were like, Okay, is this

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Speaker 1: career has been a guy who you know, has been

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Speaker 1: kind of underneath and we've seen that, but pushing the

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Speaker 1: uncanny formations. He showed a lot that I thought in

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Speaker 1: the future team, I'm like, okay, we gotta prepare for dance.

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Speaker 1: We gotta prepare for that. And they pushed the football

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Speaker 1: down the field, which was good to see, and they executed.

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of the Jets played a lot

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Speaker 1: of you know, simple vanilla maybe defenses, but you still

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Speaker 1: switch gears a little bit. We think that Mariota has

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Speaker 1: see a lot of Desmond Ritter as well. So DJ,

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Speaker 1: let me come right back to you on this one.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the positive, the things that you liked

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Speaker 1: that you saw from Desmond Ridder last night that will

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Speaker 1: able to overcome an issue that you had early in

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Speaker 1: And I give you a perfect example. They go play

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Speaker 1: doesn't give it enough air or he doesn't throw the

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Speaker 1: get to a finger on it. They come back maybe

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Speaker 1: four plays later, and throw the exact same route. He

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Speaker 1: gives it air, lays it in the hole, and that

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Speaker 1: move end game, on how to just adapt to certain things.

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Speaker 1: And that's the kind of stuff that you want from

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Speaker 1: a quarter. That's kind of stuff that maybe you don't

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Speaker 1: It don't show up on the stat line, but when

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Speaker 1: the coaches turned on the tape, they're gonna say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we saw him do this, and then three or four

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Speaker 1: plays later he learned from his own mistake. And we

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Speaker 1: a mistake in practice or in the game, don't do

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Speaker 1: it twice, don't do it again. And you saw him

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Speaker 1: made to do that end game. I thought he continues

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Speaker 1: use his legs. But I just thought he was smooth man.

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Speaker 1: He's playing well in the first two ball games. He's

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Speaker 1: moved to football, which is most important. He's getting first downs.

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Speaker 1: He's not tried to force the football. So I thought

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Speaker 1: Ridders shown exactly why the Falcons came in here with

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Speaker 1: just two quarterbacks at camp because they believed, and they

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Speaker 1: saw an Ota in mini camp that this guy could

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Speaker 1: handle the bright lights. And he's shown in the first

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Speaker 1: two games. You know, those two plays that you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: The average fan might say, oh, well, well, he's got

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Speaker 1: get the playoff or whatever. So that's not something that

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Speaker 1: isn't necessarily present. So you can take care of that

431
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Speaker 1: in practice, you know, the physical parts of things. That's

432
00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:34,760
Speaker 1: this is the real difficult part about this, guys, is

433
00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:36,360
Speaker 1: is if you've got a guy it's having it's having

434
00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,680
Speaker 1: a tough time with this technique. You can talk technique,

435
00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:41,400
Speaker 1: but when it becomes physical in a game, if he's

436
00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,200
Speaker 1: not applying that technique, shock said it, he's not gonna

437
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Speaker 1: be here. You know, you're gonna you're gonna get beaten.

438
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Speaker 1: We can't use you, you can't be here, So there's

439
00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,160
Speaker 1: gonna be some moments where there will be a little

440
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Speaker 1: bit more physical in a normal practice when you get

441
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Speaker 1: when you get these kind of things. You watched it

442
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Speaker 1: up there in New York and uh, I think the

443
00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:00,879
Speaker 1: Jet guys got a little chip being some stuff up

444
00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:02,960
Speaker 1: there and when they were doing some combination, rushed stuff

445
00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,960
Speaker 1: and so that got interesting. But that's you kind of

446
00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,760
Speaker 1: want some of that, a little bit of that that

447
00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,719
Speaker 1: words of physicality, But I think as far as the

448
00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,359
Speaker 1: execution part of it and taking care of your job,

449
00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:15,520
Speaker 1: it's a simple thing. But we didn't see it take

450
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Speaker 1: place last night what I thought cost Atlanta. Yeah, they're

451
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Speaker 1: gonna need to work out on that this week. Yeah.

452
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Speaker 1: And one thing shock I'll kind of lead you into

453
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Speaker 1: this that you know not to go back to the game,

454
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Speaker 1: but there was a play where I believe Kjer ended

455
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Speaker 1: up scoring a touchdown and there was a breakdown in

456
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Speaker 1: the secondary. And it's communication, right, Like if you're a

457
00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,080
Speaker 1: defensive back, lineback or whatever it is, that has to

458
00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:38,000
Speaker 1: be something that you work on, like right from play one,

459
00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:39,920
Speaker 1: Like as soon as you get to a team drill,

460
00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,399
Speaker 1: like you've got to open your mouth and talk to

461
00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,639
Speaker 1: your teammates, because you can't have two guys come off

462
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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and you guys both end up

463
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Speaker 1: taking one and you get a free crosser coming across

464
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Speaker 1: the middle. That's generally not play call, that's just communication.

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Speaker 1: Who do I've got? Where does this guy go? If

466
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Speaker 1: he comes the middle, he's mine, If he goes outside,

467
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Speaker 1: he's yours. Anything else stick out as far as things

468
00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,120
Speaker 1: that need to happen this week, you know, I think

469
00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:04,840
Speaker 1: to that point, the Falcons have to be the team

470
00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:08,760
Speaker 1: that dictates the temple, or dictates what happens, as opposed

471
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Speaker 1: to responding Like you mentioned that particular play. We talked

472
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Speaker 1: about it last week, and I'm glad aren't you brought

473
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Speaker 1: it up about what we talked about. Hey, when Emma

474
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,200
Speaker 1: Katie got beat outside by Swift and we thought was

475
00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:21,000
Speaker 1: him losing contain and we later found out another guy

476
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Speaker 1: was supposed to be coming down similar to what happened

477
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Speaker 1: on the touchdown, This is a play where, hey, you

478
00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:28,000
Speaker 1: guys gotta talk and you gotta know exactly if this happens.

479
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Speaker 1: You gotta make something. You gotta dictate what's gonna happen

480
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Speaker 1: beforehand and not wait till it happens, they say, Okay,

481
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Speaker 1: we gotta make sure we respond to it. So I

482
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Speaker 1: think this is a good time for when you have

483
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Speaker 1: these joint practice to dictate to this team exactly how

484
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Speaker 1: in the style you want to play, because up in

485
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Speaker 1: New York, Arch just mentioned it to just dictate a

486
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Speaker 1: lot of the practice for most part of the time,

487
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Speaker 1: and I think that's what led to them not playing

488
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Speaker 1: as many starters, because the coach felt like, all right,

489
00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,480
Speaker 1: we kind of dominated a little bit more than maybe

490
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Speaker 1: people thought coming into the ballgame. So I think coming

491
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Speaker 1: into these one practice is a scenario where you want

492
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Speaker 1: to be more consistent. You want to have the continuity

493
00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:07,639
Speaker 1: that you want on both sides of the ball to

494
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Speaker 1: be able to say, if certain things happen, we're dictating

495
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Speaker 1: what's happening and not responding to it. You know, I'm

496
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Speaker 1: gonna come right back to your shot because you make

497
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Speaker 1: a great point, and I'm just starting to think, does

498
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Speaker 1: you mentioned dictating tempo? Do you feel like Atlanta will

499
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Speaker 1: have an edge dictating tempo because it's gonna be on

500
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Speaker 1: their own facility and not in New York. Does the

501
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Speaker 1: sense of comfort being at home allow them to take

502
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Speaker 1: control of the situation. I think for some guys that

503
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Speaker 1: make for other guys, I don't think it matters. If

504
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,520
Speaker 1: some guys you gotta feel you got grass, you got

505
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 1: a hundred yards, if they won't care, they're gonna play football.

506
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Speaker 1: For some guys, there's being in a familiar area. It

507
00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:48,680
Speaker 1: does help because you understand where things are, you understand

508
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,400
Speaker 1: the sight lines of certain things, and you feel different.

509
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Speaker 1: And for me, I don't think it makes a big

510
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Speaker 1: deal about it being here and being on your own service.

511
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Speaker 1: But the end of the day, if it helps the player,

512
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Speaker 1: then yeah, let's go for with it. I think the

513
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 1: perception from what I was able to gather and you

514
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Speaker 1: watched it, so I didn't get a chance to watch it,

515
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Speaker 1: but the perception of what happened in practice might not

516
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Speaker 1: necessarily have been a reality. Bruesall, who's the outstanding running

517
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Speaker 1: back from Iowa State. BRUEs All took a handoff on

518
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Speaker 1: one play. Represent so Bruce makes a little move and

519
00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:28,520
Speaker 1: he's really good hesitation. He's gonna be a really good

520
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 1: player for the Jets, and boom gone. They said, oh

521
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Speaker 1: eighty yards, saw you go back? Look at the tape.

522
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 1: We're not tackling anybody four Falcons came up and tapped

523
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Speaker 1: him up on the rear end along the way in

524
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Speaker 1: the first five yards of the run, and then he

525
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Speaker 1: takes off and runs down the field. And so it

526
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Speaker 1: was reported that Bruesall ran for an Adyr touchdown right,

527
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Speaker 1: Well not really, yeah, okay, and there. The way they

528
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Speaker 1: practice in New York right now under coach Salah is

529
00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,800
Speaker 1: different than the way the Falcons practice. The Falcons are

530
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Speaker 1: a little bit more get in your face, not as

531
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Speaker 1: physical as we saw maybe on the hard knocks with

532
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 1: Detroit where they're tackling guys and shells and stuff like that.

533
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Speaker 1: But it's been it's been much more physical here, much

534
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Speaker 1: more of a thought process. We're going to hit you

535
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Speaker 1: in the mouth. And the Jets were a little concerned

536
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Speaker 1: about guys getting hit, and that was why they didn't

537
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,439
Speaker 1: play a ton of guys. There wasn't a lot of

538
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 1: one on one with the line and the defensive They

539
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,399
Speaker 1: didn't want to do that. And so Jets got their

540
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:29,399
Speaker 1: own thing. They get their team prepared the way they

541
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Speaker 1: want to get them prepared. Atlanta was prepared last night.

542
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Speaker 1: And I thought Atlanta hit him in the mouth. I

543
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: don't care who they had on the field. They hit

544
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Speaker 1: him in the mouth. We didn't talk about the defense.

545
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Speaker 1: Defense flew to the football last night, especially in the

546
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Speaker 1: first half. They had ninety yards in total offense. They

547
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Speaker 1: were oh for five I think on third down in

548
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 1: the first half against the Falcon defense, and the Falcons

549
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,119
Speaker 1: were everywhere they need to be. They looked fast on

550
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 1: the field, they open field, tackled extremely well. There was

551
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Speaker 1: a number of plays, one on one plays that guys made.

552
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 1: You could a litany of players, you could name their names.

553
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Speaker 1: So that's what I'm hanging my hat on is the

554
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Speaker 1: way Arthur's got a practicing here and the kind of

555
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 1: the culture, if you will, that they've got here. I

556
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Speaker 1: think that'll transmit to these open practices arts. There's one

557
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: play that I think speaks to what you just mentioned

558
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 1: about this defense flying around and dudes or just you know,

559
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 1: getting to the football. It was a play early in

560
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,439
Speaker 1: the ball game. I think it was, you know, first

561
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 1: second drive maybe, and they got two a gap blitzers

562
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Speaker 1: and end up dropping one and then Jayleen Hawkins comes.

563
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Speaker 1: If you watch the film, you watch the tape, you

564
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Speaker 1: see you see Rashaun Evans like jumping over a guy.

565
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,679
Speaker 1: He's got an arm stretched out trying to get to

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Speaker 1: the quarterback. You see Jaylee Hawkins completely almost vertical like

567
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,399
Speaker 1: laying out trying to get to the quarterback, and he

568
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Speaker 1: forces the quarterback to step up and here comes to

569
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Speaker 1: Kuwan Graham retracing his steps to make the play. That's

570
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Speaker 1: the kind of defense you want. You got dudes flying

571
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Speaker 1: all over the place and he had nowhere to go

572
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,040
Speaker 1: to football. He had to step up and here comes

573
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Speaker 1: your defense alignment, who's getting upfield, retracing stuff, and Gold

574
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 1: makes a play for no game or maybe a yard

575
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: of whom it is. That's the style of play I

576
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 1: think that Dans that's the style of play. To Arthur Smith,

577
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 1: ones is guys giving it all to make a play.

578
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Speaker 1: Even if you don't make the play, guests, well, you're

579
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: setting up for another guy to make it. And I

580
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 1: think that's the difference between what's happening and how this

581
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 1: team was starting to grow. So shock you're talking about

582
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 1: guys flying around and they made a comment on the

583
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Speaker 1: broadcast last night about how Danpas said that we are

584
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 1: not going to play defense here like it's been played

585
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,160
Speaker 1: the last what five or ten years? Right, The one

586
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 1: thing that we didn't see last night, an actual statistical

587
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,639
Speaker 1: category was sacks. So let's move this forward to the

588
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: game arch. How important is it leading into regular season?

589
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Speaker 1: Is it for the Atlanta Falcons to actually start seeing

590
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:47,399
Speaker 1: sacks in the preseason, like seeing it actually happen, to

591
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 1: know that it's going to happen once we get in

592
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 1: the preseason, because that is one area that has to

593
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,199
Speaker 1: improve if their win loss records gonna improy Well, I

594
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 1: think it's like any position. You make a catch for

595
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: a touchdown, you make a good throw, hit a guy

596
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 1: down the scene. Once you do it that it can

597
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: of it frees you up a little bit. And I

598
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 1: think you play with a little bit less, you know,

599
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,439
Speaker 1: less inhibited, and you turn it loose. I think that

600
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: when guys win and get to the quarterback, you need

601
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 1: to add a kat and you need Malone, you need Carter,

602
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,879
Speaker 1: these guys, you need guys getting to the quarterback. I

603
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: think it's just a matter of of how If it happens,

604
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 1: then it does free guys up. I think it frees

605
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,479
Speaker 1: you up mentally a little bit. I mean, you you're

606
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,880
Speaker 1: not really willing to make that that little speed out

607
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: throw until you make it a few times and all

608
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: of a sudden you get a little confidence in bull

609
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 1: because that's a dangerous throw, but all of a sudden,

610
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 1: you feel good about where you're putting it. You feel

611
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 1: good about the time of the guy coming out. I

612
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:37,959
Speaker 1: think it's the same thing. I don't think it's different

613
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: for an edge rusher. He has a move that he's

614
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: got and he gets there, he's got a counter move

615
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: that gets there. All of a sudden it kind of

616
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 1: frees him up, and now he plays he plays a

617
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,439
Speaker 1: little bit more looser, right and turns it loose. Not

618
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: only not only frees that player up, but the thing

619
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: that kind of comes to my mind shock is once

620
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: one guy gets it, oh, another one wants let me

621
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: get wait wait, like party at the quarterback type thing. Right,

622
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,880
Speaker 1: So that's another thing arts that that I feel like

623
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: they need to start getting one or two and then

624
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,880
Speaker 1: maybe Eba Katie's like I need to get back there.

625
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:14,400
Speaker 1: Malone says, I did this in college, like like these

626
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: are things that I feel like need to build on

627
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 1: top of each other. And then it's like then you

628
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: get these little conversations in the locker room, like how

629
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 1: many of you getting today? I'm going for two? What

630
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 1: you got right expectation level. Right, If you don't get there,

631
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: you can never expect exactly what you get there. There's

632
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: an expectation level. We got some all right shock, So

633
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 1: final preseason game back at home, Like, what type of

634
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 1: excitement do you feel like these players are going to

635
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: have getting their first and a lot of these guys

636
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: will be the first time playing in that beautiful stadium,

637
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: last chance to make an impression on the coaching staff.

638
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: How important is this game for for so many younger players?

639
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 1: So important? I mean I was this guy for my

640
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: entire career, so I look forward to this last game

641
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 1: because I knew it could make a break and going

642
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: into this ball game, you can't go in with that mindset,

643
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,480
Speaker 1: even though it's reality. But you gotta go out and

644
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: put your best foot for because at the end of

645
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: the day, if you're not playing for this team, they

646
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: are thirty one other teams that are looking at this

647
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 1: film saying, who maybe we can use this guy on

648
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: our team if they don't want them. So you don't

649
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:18,479
Speaker 1: look at it as hey, I'm trying to go out.

650
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 1: I'm just yeah, you're trying to make this team, but

651
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: you're also trying to put a good product on the

652
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: field while playing within what you're asked to do on

653
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: this team. So this is a huge game for a

654
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: lot of guys, a lot of guys on the back end,

655
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 1: a lot of guys who played that second half. Maybe

656
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: a lot of guys look at that second half of

657
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: that film and say, Okay, I didn't play on best ball,

658
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: but I get one more chance to show this organization

659
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: that I need to be here. And for a guy

660
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 1: like me, I looked at it like, I'm gonna make

661
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: it hard. Yeah, I'm gonna make it hard for you

662
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 1: to cut me. I'm gonna make it hard for you

663
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: to put me on the practice squad because somebody's gonna

664
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Speaker 1: come get me. And that's got to be their mindset

665
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: going in is I'm gonna be where I'm supposed to be.

666
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna execute, and I'm gonna get everything I got.

667
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: The every part of it is huge because you can

668
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 1: turn on that tape and maybe, yeah, to be out

669
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 1: of place, but I'm giving everything I got. Yeah, I

670
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 1: can coach that. I can teach that. So that's a

671
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: big part of this ball game. Is those guys in

672
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: it back in you gotta lay it all on the line,

673
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: because you never know when the next time you've made

674
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: a stat that helmet on again and say I'm playing

675
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: in National Football League while and the coaching staff they

676
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: might say, Okay, maybe from a technique or a production standpoint,

677
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: he's not ready to play on offense or defense, but

678
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 1: what the effort he's playing with him. He can play

679
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 1: on special teams. He can play on special teams for us.

680
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 1: So the difference in the NFL, and I think it's

681
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: it's to me, it's kind of a gift and a

682
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 1: curse of all the other professional sports leagues. Right, you

683
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 1: get NBA guaranteed contracts, Major League Baseball guaranteed contracts. Football

684
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: not so much. Right, So this is an opportunity for

685
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: some of these guys to get their payday, to be

686
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 1: on the active roster, to actually see the big check.

687
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: Some of them got signing bonus checks, and more power

688
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: to them. But I think every NFL player wants longevity,

689
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: and how does longevity get started? Making your first roster

690
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 1: in your in your opinion perspective, how important is this

691
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:02,719
Speaker 1: for some of these guys? And maybe who are you

692
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: excited to see in one last dress rehearsal on the

693
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: field I think it's it's obviously critical and Shock talked

694
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 1: about how you had to play late. I remember my

695
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 1: first couple of years in the league. I had to

696
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 1: play latency in the preseason to solidify my opportunity. There's

697
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: no question that you feel at but you're not in

698
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: this business if you don't thrive on the pressure and

699
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: you don't thrive on those moments. Because quite honestly, I

700
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: know Shock and I are in the in the broadcast.

701
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: We're all in the broadcast business. Now, you can't find

702
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: anything it thrills you the way it does this game does,

703
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 1: and making plays in games, so you thrive on the

704
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:44,479
Speaker 1: pressure and wanting to perform in that moment. De Offered

705
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: is a guy that's stepped up for us. De Offered

706
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: has played some corner. We saw him play some really

707
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: good corner against the Lions. He played Nickel last night,

708
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: a good bit. He made some more plays, made some

709
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: open field tackles that were outstanding. I want to see

710
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: that continue to come. He might be your opening day Nichol.

711
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: You may win to find out and see number thirty

712
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 1: seven lined up in the slot. I think he's played

713
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: himself and potentially in the position a guy that's kind

714
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: of off the radar probably a little bit is Abdullah Anderson.

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00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: I think Abdullah Anderson has come in here kind of

716
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 1: signed over the last ten days. He is stout. You

717
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:18,959
Speaker 1: watch sixty five in the middle of Nobody moves him.

718
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: He's just it's a it's a stalemate. And you know,

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Speaker 1: as well as I do a defensive line, if I'm

720
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Speaker 1: getting a stalemateer plan on your side line of scrimmage,

721
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: that's a problem for you. They need movement. He's a

722
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: guy that ain't steps up. Obviously, everybody's got their eyes

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Speaker 1: on number eighty three, right number Jared Bernhardt has stepped

724
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: up and he's and when he's been given his opportunities,

725
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: he's done well. I think that's the part that or

726
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: really my eyes will go to is the wide receiver

727
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: corps is that's got a continued ground out. We saw

728
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: some guys step up in this game. You gotta continue

729
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: to see who's gonna who's gonna step forward to round

730
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: that out. We know we got pits, you know you

731
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,959
Speaker 1: got London, you probably have Edwards, right, So who are

732
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: the other guy's the keys? So there's a couple of

733
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 1: spots there and those guys will be fighting on those

734
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 1: special teams to get that opportunity. Yeah, it's it's one

735
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: of those situations where you know, I always say that,

736
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 1: And granted we're all biased, right, like former NFL players,

737
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: and I don't want to take anything away from NBA

738
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: and Major League Baseball, hockey, whatever it is, but like,

739
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 1: I just feel like professional football players, especially if you're

740
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: not it, life isn't like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers, right,

741
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: That's not normalcy for every NFL player. It's a grind

742
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: many of times to make a roster year in a

743
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 1: year out, make any roster get past your third or

744
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 1: fourth year in the NFL. So I just always feel

745
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: like NFL players know what true competition is about because

746
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 1: they lived it to make a roster. They didn't have

747
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: a five year, one hundred million dollar contract that was

748
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: guaranteed no matter whether they made the team or not.

749
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: They didn't get to go get sent down to the minors, right.

750
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:54,479
Speaker 1: I think you bring up a great point, and you

751
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: get a chance to, you know, go to some of

752
00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: the top college football games every single week and call

753
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: them and you see guys at the highest of their game,

754
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: and then they get here and they're not that guy anymore.

755
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,839
Speaker 1: Exactly how different that is. And you talked about that

756
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,320
Speaker 1: third phase being so important. How many guys are willing

757
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 1: to say, all right, I will do that when for

758
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 1: their entire career they've been the guy and now you

759
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: gotta come in, you gotta run down on kickoff, you

760
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: gotta run down on punt. I mean, can you speak

761
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 1: to the point of where those guys are coming from

762
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 1: to now having to give that up and say all right,

763
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: I'll be a secondary or third players. It's an attitude,

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00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,240
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that, because you can't be this wide

765
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: receiver that was a star for your college and then

766
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: come to a professional franchise and expect to be the

767
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: star wide receiver Like you better be willing to run

768
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: down as a gunner on punt team, and you better

769
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: be willing to go hit somebody. You know what I'm saying.

770
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 1: You better be able to come back on kickoff return

771
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: and get your body square and find somebody to block

772
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: and make sure that they don't run into your returner. Right.

773
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 1: And to me, it's always how much does the game

774
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: mean to you? How much does being an NFL player mean?

775
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 1: Do you do you want to be a diva or

776
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: do you want to be an NFL player, because sometimes

777
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 1: you have to work on special teams to get the opportunity.

778
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 1: Because we always hear timing is everything right, you gotta

779
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 1: be on the roster. Then I'm just throwing a wide receiver.

780
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: You gotta be on the roster as a wide receiver

781
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 1: to potentially take a spot if somebody gets hurt, to

782
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: go in and perform. But you gotta be able to

783
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: do something. You can't just say you're the number seven

784
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 1: wide receiver and get hate every other week that that's

785
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: just not reality. And a good really guys in a

786
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: good bit And I know if you guys will agree

787
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 1: with this is having that attitude kind of comes from

788
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: from your veteran players. And so if I've got a

789
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 1: guy like Grady Jared who works his tail off, we're

790
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 1: out here watching him and he's he's practicing like he's

791
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: a rookie trying to make the team. And so if

792
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 1: you get a guy like that, this is a team

793
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: that's in search of some more of those guys. You've

794
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:58,840
Speaker 1: got a bunch of guys that are chip on the

795
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: shoulder guys we've talked about and one of our first

796
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:04,280
Speaker 1: shows you're coming back. You know, Lorenzo Carter and Shaun

797
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 1: Evans and these guys that were number ones and were

798
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: that big fish where they came from, and then all

799
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 1: of a sudden it didn't maybe to get Sarily go.

800
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: Maybe it was injury, maybe the defense didn't fit him,

801
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 1: or whatever it might be. Now you've got guys coming

802
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 1: in here or twenty six, twenty seven years old, twenty

803
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,280
Speaker 1: five years old, or saying, wait a minute, I'm supposed

804
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: to be all that. I gotta get back to getting

805
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: me in that attitude that made me all that, and

806
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: you hope that that kind of rounds up. And then

807
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: other guys that are on the periphy perifrey like you

808
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 1: guys are talking about, they adopt that attitude too. And

809
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: that's that's where culture and all that kind of those

810
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 1: cliche words come in. That's what's so. What's it about

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Speaker 1: you see a younger player or a non established player,

812
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: if they can look across the field at a guy

813
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: like Grady jar and seeing him getting extra reps after practice,

814
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: seeing him bust his tail, and they say, well, gosh,

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00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: if it's good enough for a guy that's deep into

816
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: his NFL career, better be good enough for me, right,

817
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 1: and that's the attitude that you need a whole lot

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00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 1: of guys to adopt. All right, that's gonna wrap it

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Speaker 1: up for us here on the Falcons Audible sending by

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Speaker 1: AT and T. Thank you so much again for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you like, subscribe and review on whichever platform

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Speaker 1: it is you watch our podcast, Spotify, iTunes, Atlanta Falcons

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Speaker 1: dot Com, YouTube, sam other any other ones that I'm forgetting.

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Speaker 1: I feel like those are the top. Feel free to

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00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: ask the question comment if there's something that you want

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00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 1: to see us do or talk about, throw it out there.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we can make it happen. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: joining us. Everybody. Once again, I'm Derek Rackley, DJ Shockley,

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Speaker 1: Dave Archi'm WI Let these guys get some sleep. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. Take care,