Speaker 1: I'm talking about their play action and how I mean
Speaker 1: everything's up. You know, their pass game works so well
Speaker 1: off of their run game. I mean, is that the
Speaker 1: challenge with this team? Yeah, I mean they run the
Speaker 1: ball really really well. Man. They do everything well, even
Speaker 1: their drop back passes. Um, they've got enough different concepts
Speaker 1: out of different personnels. They've got you know, a traditional
Speaker 1: two back, one tight end look. Next, you know, they've
Speaker 1: got three tight ends on the field. Then they're three
Speaker 1: wide receivers, and they're running all their concepts out of
Speaker 1: the just out of same looks, different personnels. So they
Speaker 1: get matchups that they want and they run the ball
Speaker 1: really really well. So if you start to load up
Speaker 1: the box, they can just pick it up and throw
Speaker 1: hot passes to Julio, or they can start to get
Speaker 1: some play action passes, and it's really hard to get
Speaker 1: a pass rush when they do block it up. And
Speaker 1: then you got Julio Jones. Uh, it's a new running
Speaker 1: two minion routes to your secondary and he's got all
Speaker 1: day to throw the ball and they can get open
Speaker 1: and you give them that much time in space. So
Speaker 1: they present a lot of different issues. Um, you know
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to line up and play and compete.
Speaker 1: Stop the run. We're gonna have to match up and
Speaker 1: challenge on the outside. We're gonna have to limit the
Speaker 1: big plays and the understand that they're gonna make some plays,
Speaker 1: they're gonna move to the ball. Where we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to show up is turnover category. Being able to come
Speaker 1: up with a couple of takeaways here there, especially the
Speaker 1: red zone. You know, we're gonna have to tighten up
Speaker 1: when the field shrinks and in those deep shots and
Speaker 1: play action shots are no longer available. That's when we
Speaker 1: got to take advantage of that opportunity. But you know,
Speaker 1: their number one offense in the league for a reason,
Speaker 1: and it's because they do a lot of the stuff.
Speaker 1: Well it so you get a very long time and
Speaker 1: as a leader off this football team, what do you
Speaker 1: say to your teammates, even had the team meeting after
Speaker 1: the loss, what do you say to keep everyone positive
Speaker 1: when you lose four or five? I mean, we said
Speaker 1: at eight games ago, and I know you know we
Speaker 1: I know me personally, I don't get discouraged until that
Speaker 1: door is closed. And so right now we have the
Speaker 1: opportunity to still um to kind of write whatever we
Speaker 1: want this season to look like, um and and five
Speaker 1: out of the next eight or at home. And so
Speaker 1: you know, we if we want to do anything, this
Speaker 1: is the time where we got to turn it around
Speaker 1: and start to fix it. And then that's just gonna
Speaker 1: happen one day at a time. It's it's a patient approach, UM,
Speaker 1: and you got to be mentally UM stable enough and
Speaker 1: and have the bandwidth to really U embrace that challenge
Speaker 1: and embrace the focus and sacrifice that that's going to
Speaker 1: the cause. And you know, this is kind of where
Speaker 1: we've put ourselves um, but it's not at in any
Speaker 1: case over so you know, you just tell everybody to
Speaker 1: to stay the course and obviously be critical of the
Speaker 1: things that we need to fix and the things we
Speaker 1: need to get better at. But on a daily basis,
Speaker 1: we got to grind and make a commitment to to
Speaker 1: get better. But we've talked to you before about this
Speaker 1: presidential race. What does the outcome say to you as
Speaker 1: an African? I don't know if it speaks any necessarily
Speaker 1: to me as an African American. I think being a minority,
Speaker 1: I think the majority kind of stood out. I know
Speaker 1: from a popular vote, I think Hillary one. But UM,
Speaker 1: you know this, I think there were what records set
Speaker 1: for the amount of people that came out and voted,
Speaker 1: and you know, so obviously I voted the other way,
Speaker 1: but you know, it's it's still one of those times where, um,
Speaker 1: you know, that's what America is all about. You get
Speaker 1: a chance to to put your opinion out there and
Speaker 1: put your vote. And you know, America spoken the election,
Speaker 1: you would said, uh, it's going to be a sorry
Speaker 1: relief for a panic. What would make it a panic
Speaker 1: for you? I mean, I think there's a lot of concern,
Speaker 1: I know for myself. Um. You just look at all
Speaker 1: of the things that Trump has done over this entire
Speaker 1: campaign and this whole process. Um, to now see him
Speaker 1: in in uh, in the throne, in the seat is
Speaker 1: nerve wracking for me. UM. And I know many of
Speaker 1: the people are many of friends I have, UM just
Speaker 1: kind of waiting to see what that looks like, um,
Speaker 1: and if it will and if it will reflect anything
Speaker 1: of what he's shown already. If so, that's that's very concerning.
Speaker 1: The Falcons change up their offensive schemes a lot. What
Speaker 1: does that mean for you in the background? Uh? For me,
Speaker 1: that means I probably have a lot of different matchups. Um,
Speaker 1: you're going from base to nickel to H four backer
Speaker 1: set so UM, you know that that'll put me personally
Speaker 1: on a slot. They'll put me on the tight end
Speaker 1: and put me on running backs and they get the
Speaker 1: empty formations. I mean, it's it's a lot of different
Speaker 1: things you you've got to prepare for, UM. And a
Speaker 1: lot of the times they find ways to get a mismatch,
Speaker 1: whether it's a linebacker and the receiver UM or you know,
Speaker 1: receiver on one of your safeties. They're athletic running backs
Speaker 1: out wide against your linebackers. They do a good job
Speaker 1: of moving guys around. Julio's playing the X di Z
Speaker 1: he's in the slot. UM. So it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's a bit to prepare for. I mean, we're definitely
Speaker 1: gonna have to survive some of those bad matchups and
Speaker 1: UM and continue to adjust as the game goes on,
Speaker 1: because they do a good job of scheming you up.
Speaker 1: If you play the same thing over and over, they'll
Speaker 1: have something um specifically for that game that you hadn't
Speaker 1: seen before. So, I mean, they do a good job
Speaker 1: of planning and game planning. UM. You know, so we
Speaker 1: gotta be ready for a thing. Yeah. I mean I've
Speaker 1: seen you know, been in at the NFC South five years,
Speaker 1: Sault Julio from his first year in the league till now. Um,
Speaker 1: and he's a special talent. And you talk about his speed,
Speaker 1: his size, and his ability to get in and out
Speaker 1: of breaks is like nothing else or nobody else in
Speaker 1: this league. Um. And whether he's double covered, he's fast
Speaker 1: enough to just run through it. Uh, he's single covered,
Speaker 1: he's he's he can beat man a man, he can
Speaker 1: be pressed. Um, he's strong enough where if he catches
Speaker 1: the ball, he can break tackles, he can outrun dbs.
Speaker 1: It's it's a tough time. Nobody's really stopped him all year. Um.
Speaker 1: The biggest thing is is just try to limit the
Speaker 1: big plays that he had on a game. Try to
Speaker 1: limit those you know, catches where he's running through the
Speaker 1: secondary our runs everybody for a touchdown. You want them
Speaker 1: to the least to be able to earn every cash
Speaker 1: that he gets and keep it in front of the defense. Um.
Speaker 1: But I mean that's you know, that's the NFL. And
Speaker 1: talk about all of the talented receivers we've seen all year. Um,
Speaker 1: he's definitely probably at the top of that list. You've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of Matt Ryan over the years too. Statistically,
Speaker 1: he's having an excellent you know his best year now
Speaker 1: is that from what you've seen on film? Is that
Speaker 1: a function of what they're doing schematically maybe different than
Speaker 1: years past. Is him growing and maturing and getting better
Speaker 1: with the kind of were's always been a productive quarterback, um,
Speaker 1: especially when he's getting protected. And I think his run game,
Speaker 1: even back when they used to have Turner he was
Speaker 1: that's when he was really good as well. They had
Speaker 1: a run game. It was the same thing, two back formations,
Speaker 1: twelve personnel, play action, pass slot, um. And they're doing
Speaker 1: a lot of the same stuff now, so we're never
Speaker 1: he's paired with a really good run game. UM. You
Speaker 1: know he's he's he's got all of the arm skills
Speaker 1: and and um all of the brains at the line
Speaker 1: of screamage to put him in a good play to
Speaker 1: get in and out of runs, get in and play actions, um,
Speaker 1: and and it's shown is having a productive year. But
Speaker 1: he's always been one of those quarterbacks that you've had
Speaker 1: to get ready to play. UM year and a year
Speaker 1: out more about election and you talk about your friends,
Speaker 1: sharing your concerns, what do you what do you say
Speaker 1: to them? What are the conversations like last night, just
Speaker 1: as the evening is unfolded, A lot of it was
Speaker 1: a lot of disbelief, and I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people you know, obviously shocked. Um. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's that's pretty much it. Everybody's just kind of waiting
Speaker 1: to see what what what will happen? Um. Obviously I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people thought it would turn out
Speaker 1: a different way, but this is America and just waiting
Speaker 1: to see what happens. Yeah, kind of the same. It's
Speaker 1: been the same conversations. A lot of people were kind
Speaker 1: of shocked. Uh, it's probably been probably the main thing
Speaker 1: guys have talked about all day. It's just you know, now,
Speaker 1: you know, now everybody's talking politics. We want to talk
Speaker 1: you know, foreign policy and all kinds of things. So
Speaker 1: the economy. I think guys were shocked, but you know,
Speaker 1: just like just like us, we're trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1: You've got guys counting electoral votes and states and swing
Speaker 1: states and all that stuff. But that's fun. But you know,
Speaker 1: I think everybody's shocked.