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Speaker 1: And welcome back to the Falcon Dooald presented by AT

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Speaker 1: and T. And we are so pumped because we are

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Speaker 1: And guess what, everybody no more discussion about watching backups

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Speaker 1: That's right, Tell him about it, herds. Bring it is

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Speaker 1: show this Sunday at noon Atlanta Falcons YouTube channel. Myself,

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Speaker 1: then if you can't watch the game for whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: Dave Archer on Atlanta Falcons Radio Network. All right, actually

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Speaker 1: listening to him as he ends up calling the game

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Speaker 1: their twenty twenty five captains for this year. So the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not surprised at the names that were on the list.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you look at the back the offensive

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Speaker 2: From a fan base standpoint. We're seeing a lot of

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Speaker 2: have a different quarterback obviously playing against Tampa than you

432
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Speaker 2: did in the first two games Cousins played in those

433
00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:06,280
Speaker 2: first two games. Pennis takes over as the quarterback. But

434
00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:09,119
Speaker 2: when you look at Tampa, you're probably talking about the

435
00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,880
Speaker 2: young receiver at Ohio State of Buka will step in Godwin.

436
00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:15,680
Speaker 2: It doesn't, we don't know, but right right now while

437
00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:17,760
Speaker 2: we're recording this, it looks like Godwin's going to be

438
00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:19,920
Speaker 2: probably held out for the first couple of games. The

439
00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:23,680
Speaker 2: other season, we may see Tristan Wurf's their outstanding tackle

440
00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:26,280
Speaker 2: may miss. Well, we've got to tackle missing as well,

441
00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:28,960
Speaker 2: So there's some mirroring there a little bit. But if

442
00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:32,920
Speaker 2: I had to point to different rosters, I would say

443
00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:37,240
Speaker 2: the Falcon roster feels much more different than maybe Tampa's roster,

444
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Speaker 2: I would agree.

445
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Speaker 1: I mean, I just I look at the two first

446
00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:41,600
Speaker 1: round picks on the defensive side of the ball and

447
00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:43,760
Speaker 1: the fact that they can make a difference. I look

448
00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:46,359
Speaker 1: at the other draft picks and the defensive backfield that

449
00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,040
Speaker 1: we've recently found out are likely going to be starting

450
00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:51,560
Speaker 1: and playing a lot of football in the backfield along

451
00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,320
Speaker 1: with Jesse Bates. And yes, you could probably say it's

452
00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,040
Speaker 1: a wash when it comes to the coaching with two

453
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Speaker 1: new coordinators, and then of course you got a new

454
00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,399
Speaker 1: quarterback with Atlanta, so there's there is a lot of

455
00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,359
Speaker 1: differences there enough that Tampa can take a look at.

456
00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:08,080
Speaker 1: And again, to your point, as we record, we won't

457
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Speaker 1: find out until officially later on this afternoon, the first

458
00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:14,119
Speaker 1: injury report that comes out. But I'm hearing to your point,

459
00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 1: Tampa maybe a little bit more banged up coming into

460
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:18,920
Speaker 1: this game, but as we know in the NFL, that

461
00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,119
Speaker 1: generally doesn't matter. You still got to go out there

462
00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:23,359
Speaker 1: and play the game, and just wanted to let you know,

463
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,760
Speaker 1: clean it up. But you were right. Twenty sixteen thirty

464
00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,480
Speaker 1: one to twenty four, Tampa over Atlanta at home to

465
00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:30,879
Speaker 1: open the twenty sixte months seasons.

466
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Speaker 2: We're not trying to mirror the sixties season, not trying

467
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Speaker 2: to cloud you guys's minds. I just wanted to make

468
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,080
Speaker 2: sure everybody do he was correct well and to your

469
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Speaker 2: point in that not to spend too much time on sixteen.

470
00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:43,520
Speaker 2: If you go back, Atlanta loses the Kansas City I

471
00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:46,280
Speaker 2: think the second weekend of December to go to seven

472
00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:49,640
Speaker 2: and five that year, and like you said, it's when

473
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Speaker 2: you catch fire do you catch a run at the end.

474
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,800
Speaker 2: Obviously Atlanta did that and ran to the super Bowl.

475
00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:59,000
Speaker 2: So again just throwing it out there. I know that

476
00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:01,919
Speaker 2: the fans going where about that, Hey, this is a

477
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,119
Speaker 2: new year, new team, but we got to hang on

478
00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:06,040
Speaker 2: some of those memories.

479
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Speaker 1: Speaking of memories, Arch you are your uniquely that was difficult,

480
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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, uniquely qualified answer this question because you've

481
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Speaker 1: covered a ton of Falcons Buccaneers games in the past,

482
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Speaker 1: so I want to ask you from all your experience

483
00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:24,399
Speaker 1: covering this matchup. What does it generally come down to?

484
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,080
Speaker 1: Is there one or two things that it's generally comes

485
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,159
Speaker 1: down to, or is it something different every year as

486
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,400
Speaker 1: far as matchups, one thing one team doesn't do well,

487
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Speaker 1: the other one does well. Have you seen a rhythm

488
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:37,960
Speaker 1: if you will, with this matchup? Yeah, I don't.

489
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Speaker 2: I don't know what there is a rhythm rack. And

490
00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,200
Speaker 2: I think that there's been a lot of different games

491
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Speaker 2: that either we've won in their building, or they've come

492
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Speaker 2: up here, or you just mentioned the sixteen opening games

493
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,120
Speaker 2: game of the season, they came up here in one.

494
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Speaker 2: I think that normally it boils down to the football

495
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:56,000
Speaker 2: pieces of it.

496
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Speaker 1: You talked about.

497
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Speaker 2: Third down and winning the Winning the moments obviously gives

498
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 2: you your best opportunity to win third down in red

499
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 2: zone moments, what do you get at do you maximize

500
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,639
Speaker 2: those moments? Something I'll point out from last year is

501
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,200
Speaker 2: this was a series. The two games was a series

502
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:18,640
Speaker 2: of big plays. Tampa had eighteen plays of fifteen yards

503
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,720
Speaker 2: of more. Atlanta had sixteen plays of fifteen yards of more.

504
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 2: Those are usually no nos. And that's what I talked

505
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,640
Speaker 2: about early on. All the numbers you would throw at

506
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,280
Speaker 2: this and say Okay, can't let this in. But can't

507
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 2: let that happen or you're not gonna win. All those

508
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,040
Speaker 2: things happened and we still won. You gave up eighteen

509
00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:37,120
Speaker 2: plays of twenty fifteen yards of more. You won both

510
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 2: football games. Okay, you only sacked the quarterback one time.

511
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield hit the ground one time in the two games.

512
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 2: Our quarterback Kirk Cousin was tacked six times in the game.

513
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 2: You would think, okay, that points. Ah, you won both games.

514
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,440
Speaker 2: They I mentioned that how they converted on third down

515
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,119
Speaker 2: at some seventy five percent or whatever it was or

516
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Speaker 2: sixty five percent.

517
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Speaker 1: You can't do that. We won.

518
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 2: So that just goes to show you the rhythm piece

519
00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 2: of it. Rax So I don't think there's anything that

520
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,359
Speaker 2: you point to. I think it goes back down to

521
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,679
Speaker 2: something you and I talk a lot about. Are the

522
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 2: base pieces of football that you would point to that, Okay,

523
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,120
Speaker 2: you take care of this, take care of that. You've

524
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 2: got a better chance of winning. You can't nut that

525
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 2: you won't win, because those two games proved to it,

526
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 2: but you have a better chance of winning.

527
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Speaker 1: In the first game, Tampa ran the football better than

528
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Speaker 1: Atlanta did.

529
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:26,880
Speaker 2: One hundred and sixty yards on the ground.

530
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Speaker 1: Turnover was a wash. Both teams had a turnover in

531
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Speaker 1: that game. And what did it come down to? A

532
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,400
Speaker 1: quarterback and Kirk Cousins that played out of his mind right.

533
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,359
Speaker 1: Sometimes that happens is you get a player, a lot

534
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 1: of times it's a quarterback. They touch the football every

535
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:44,919
Speaker 1: single play offensively. When they play spectacular, good things happen.

536
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,040
Speaker 1: And in the other matchup, the one down in Tampa's

537
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 1: we talked about, Tampa had three turnovers. You win a

538
00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:53,199
Speaker 1: turnover margin three to zero. It is extremely difficult to

539
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 1: win in the National Football League. And I don't care

540
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 1: who your quarterback is. That's a stat that you can

541
00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,040
Speaker 1: look up. I don't have it at my discretion. When

542
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 1: you lose three zero in a turnover margin, how many

543
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 1: teams actually win the game. It's extremely difficult in the NFL.

544
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: So you just never really know what it's going to

545
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: come down to in this type of game. You mentioned

546
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,399
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield not getting sacked. He's one of those quarterbacks

547
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 1: arts that I don't know. The first word that comes

548
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 1: to my mind is Houdini, like he finds ways to

549
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,400
Speaker 1: either keep the play alive, get rid of the football,

550
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 1: or sliding out of some tackle and making something out

551
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,640
Speaker 1: of nothing. He's got a little bit of ma Hoomes

552
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,159
Speaker 1: to him, right, the little bit of off script talent that

553
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 1: not a lot of people do. And I think that's

554
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 1: part of the reason which makes their third numbers, their

555
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,680
Speaker 1: third down numbers so good, and him individually is how

556
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:39,680
Speaker 1: he's playing so well.

557
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 2: It's incredible rack when you think about his career where

558
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,119
Speaker 2: he started out in Cleveland and really actually played well

559
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 2: early on in Cleveland, and then things kind of got sideways,

560
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 2: whether it was the coaching or whether it was the

561
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 2: organization or whatever. He didn't. He obviously is culpable in

562
00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 2: there as well, doing a lot of commercials, living at

563
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 2: the State with his wife, all that stuff that goes

564
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 2: on with Baker. And then the bounce. He bounces to

565
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,640
Speaker 2: a couple of places, then lands in Tampa and here's

566
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 2: this resurrection of his career, the blend. I give him

567
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 2: credit for keeping his nose to the grindstone and continuing

568
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 2: to work. And that's where to me, he's one of

569
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,400
Speaker 2: those grinder type of guys. He's Joey bagg of Donuts, right,

570
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 2: there's nothing that you know just John always. He's great moving. Yeah,

571
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,360
Speaker 2: he's okay moving around, but like you said, he has

572
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 2: he lit a step out of that box. You got

573
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 2: him in a box. Nope, there's no handcuffs on me.

574
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 2: I'm out. And he makes that play that just kind

575
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 2: of keeps thing going. And I know one thing that

576
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,200
Speaker 2: team down there, if you listen to everybody talk, they

577
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:48,159
Speaker 2: have tremendous belief in what he is as their leader

578
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 2: on the offensive side of the football. You go back,

579
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,120
Speaker 2: and he played really well in both games. He had

580
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 2: the couple turnovers in the game in Tampa, but he's

581
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 2: a guy that to me, you're not gonna pick out

582
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 2: is okay, name your five best quarterbacks or maybe even

583
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 2: name your ten best quarterbacks in the league. He might

584
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 2: get left out of that mix, and he shouldn't. He's

585
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:10,920
Speaker 2: playing at that kind of level.

586
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,679
Speaker 1: Let's talk about a couple of matchups here, the matchups

587
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: that you look at in this game, whether it's player

588
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: versus player, it's unit versus unit, maybe it's coach versus coach.

589
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: What are a couple of the matchups that you think

590
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: that this game may come down.

591
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 2: To our Yeah, I would think obviously my eyes are

592
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 2: immediately going to gravitate to what are we going to

593
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 2: be defensively in this game? And can you create some

594
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 2: of those uncomfortable situations for Baker off the edge? You

595
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 2: only got to him one time. That's going to have

596
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 2: to change in this game. I believe if Atlanta's going

597
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 2: to have success, you've got to be able to get

598
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 2: him off his spot more than what you did in

599
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,679
Speaker 2: the last game. So obviously the front seven, but I'm

600
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 2: gonna go even further than that rack. I'm going to

601
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 2: point to how do you do how do you do

602
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 2: against the running backs and the tight end? Now, Kate Otten,

603
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 2: it sounds like is bang up and not going to

604
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 2: be able to go again when we go to this

605
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 2: recording and some of the guys that aren't going to play,

606
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 2: we don't have some people playing as well. Oughten was

607
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 2: outstanding at Atlanta in the last two games, especially the

608
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 2: game down in Tampa. Had almost one hundred yards, receiving

609
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 2: two touchdowns in that game. And Baker likes to throw

610
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 2: the ball to the to the tight ends and the

611
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 2: running backs. If you go back, he had forty six

612
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 2: completions I believe in the two games, or fifty six

613
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,399
Speaker 2: completions in the two games. Thirty of those went to

614
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 2: the running back and the tight end somewhere in that number.

615
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 2: So he likes to distribute the ball. Bucky Irving his

616
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 2: outstanding receiver. John White's an outstanding receiver. And we talked

617
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 2: about Kate Otton a little bit. So I would say

618
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 2: the Falcon seven maybe include a safety there, maybe a

619
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 2: nickel or something trying to defend that easy throws, the

620
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 2: underneath throws, and it equates to I'm almost jumping forward

621
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 2: here as far as keys, But a key for me

622
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 2: defensively will be how well do you tackle? Because you

623
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 2: just talked about a lot of the stuff that was

624
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 2: going to go on in this game. Nobody's really done.

625
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 2: We can do thud tempo out here and practice. None

626
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 2: of these guys played in the game, especially secondary guys

627
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 2: and your main linebackers, Dan but Divine, Voblo and cad

628
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 2: Nellis two good tacklers but haven't had to do it.

629
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 2: So now, how much do you tackle in the open field?

630
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 2: Because you can bet they're going to get the backs

631
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 2: in space and try to get them the football and

632
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 2: make some plays. I mentioned eighteen plays of fifteen yards

633
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 2: or fifteen yards or more. A number of those are

634
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 2: made by the guys I'm talking about. So to me,

635
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 2: that's the matchup. It jumps out my front seven, including

636
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 2: maybe a safety. It drops down the box against the

637
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 2: backs and the tight end in the run game, in

638
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 2: the pass game.

639
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it. I'm gonna take mine a little

640
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 1: step further than that, and my matchup is going to

641
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: be winning the line of scrimmage. And I'm going to

642
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: say that on both sides of the ball, because obviously

643
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: we know Atlanta's going to have a new tackle on

644
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: the right side to start this game out. And what

645
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 1: is the biggest asset going into this season that we

646
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: know right now is that has two outstanding running backs

647
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: that if those guys don't get going, that's going to

648
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: disrupt the offense. Well, how do you get those two

649
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 1: guys going as you win at the line of scrimmage?

650
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: How do you get Michael pennockx Junior comfortable throwing the

651
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: football down the field when you win at the line

652
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and he doesn't feel pressure, he's not having

653
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: to eliminate half the field because he's scrambling. That's winning

654
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage. How do you end up

655
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: slowing down Baker Mayfield and this Buccaneers offense. I know

656
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,479
Speaker 1: it's a new year, but in twenty twenty four they

657
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 1: led the league in third down conversions. You win the

658
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, you get pressure in his face, you

659
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: get people off of blocks, and then that sets up

660
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: your linebackers and your secondary to make plays on the

661
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: football down the field. To me, this comes down to

662
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 1: winning the line of scrimmage. It's not the sexy pick.

663
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: It's not what fans are looking for. They want to say,

664
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 1: is Michael Penny's going to throw for three point fifty?

665
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: Is Bejean Robbinson going to run for one hundred and

666
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 1: thirty five and two touchdowns? Those, to me, are all

667
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: products of what happens on the offense line and the

668
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: defensive line. Which team wins the line of scrimmage. Because

669
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: Tampa wants to run the football too, don't get it twisted.

670
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: They want to throw it with Baker, but they got

671
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: two really good running backs that had success last year.

672
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 1: They want to win the line of scrimmage as well.

673
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: I think it comes down to winning the line of

674
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: scrimmage on both sides.

675
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 2: I think it's a great call, Rack, and I think

676
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 2: that when you start talking about sacking the quarterback that's

677
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 2: winning at the line of scrimmage on the defensive side

678
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 2: of the football to get after Baker, protecting Penix and

679
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 2: giving him an opportunity to get the ball out. So

680
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 2: I think I think you're dead on I think that

681
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 2: even with all of that, even with what DrAk and

682
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 2: I just said, if you look at these two games

683
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 2: last year, a lot of that stuff happened and we

684
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 2: still won both games. A lot of it didn't happen

685
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 2: and we still won both games. So even with all

686
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 2: the numbers and things and the rudimentary pieces of football

687
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 2: that you're supposed to take care of, it can all

688
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 2: go screwy and you can still win the game. So

689
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 2: all that being said, this is kind of this will

690
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 2: be an interesting matchup in interesting and you can bet

691
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 2: how much. Here's a question for you. Okay, think about Okay,

692
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 2: Tampa wins the division and scrambled at the at the

693
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 2: back end to win it and tried to give it

694
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 2: back to us when they lost to Dallas and all

695
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 2: those kind of things, but still won the division but

696
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 2: still stuck in their craw Gotta be a little bit.

697
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 2: How much does it stick in a player's mind. We

698
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 2: won the Vision. We didn't beat these guys either time.

699
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 2: I mean, you got a leg up because you wanted

700
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 2: to be How much is that maybe maybe even even

701
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 2: more magnified because it's the opening day game that you're

702
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 2: being reminded, Hey, you didn't beat these guys either time.

703
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think there's there's so many different angles that

704
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: you can take as far as how a team, how players,

705
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: how coaches, or however they motivate their team, Like what

706
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 1: is the message from Tampa side, Like, y'all, we won

707
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,239
Speaker 1: the division last year, we went to the playoffs, but

708
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: this team beat us twice, Like are we gonna let

709
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: that happen again? Like you just never know what Todd

710
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: Bowles is going to say with his team, what Rahe

711
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: Morris is going to say with his behind closed doors,

712
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: what the message is going to be, how they get

713
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: motivated or the flip side is going to be For

714
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons players, the guys that actually have been

715
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: here a long time, the Jake Matthews, Chris linstrums of

716
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: the world, those guys have said, we haven't been to

717
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: the postseason. We just talked about at the beginning of

718
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: the shows in twenty seventeen, like we want to get there.

719
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: This team has been there. They have been the one

720
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: that stood in our way the last few years. Every team,

721
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: every player has an individual motivation. It's just how can

722
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,239
Speaker 1: you use that and harness it, but stay focused on

723
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: the task at hand. And so I'm going to bring

724
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 1: this back to you and you kind of let us

725
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: down to one key in the game. Give us one

726
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,719
Speaker 1: other key that you think is big for a land.

727
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: We always talk about keys as analyst. Right going into

728
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: the game, we talked about matchups. Arch led us to

729
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: a little bit of a key. Let's get one more

730
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: key from you before we close this up, all right.

731
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 2: So I mentioned tackling to me, tackling on that side

732
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 2: of the football, the defensive side of the football is

733
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 2: going to be key. There's no question about the fact

734
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 2: that you've got to tackle guys in space. And I

735
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 2: talked about the distribution of the football and those kind

736
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,959
Speaker 2: of things. All right. So the second one is an

737
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 2: easy one, and it's one that you and I talked

738
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 2: a lot about. We've talked about the turnover ratio. Neither

739
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 2: one of these teams were very good the turnover ratio.

740
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 2: I believe, I want to say Tampa was minus two.

741
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 2: We were minus six. Ball security, Now, I'm not just

742
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 2: going to say turnovers, because anybody can say turnovers, but

743
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 2: ball security is going to be key because remember, the

744
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:17,720
Speaker 2: entire Falcon unit offensively has not been in a game

745
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 2: or played at that speed from and especially the skill guys. Now,

746
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 2: we've tried to do turnover drills out here, and you

747
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 2: got guys raking at the football and I think they've

748
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 2: done a really good job of that. But there's that

749
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,720
Speaker 2: odd time where you're a little loose to the football

750
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 2: and the ball gets punched out, which can change a game.

751
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 2: We talked about how close these two games were a

752
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,879
Speaker 2: year ago. That changes the football game. You turn it over.

753
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 2: You talked about Tampa turned it over three times. We

754
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 2: didn't turn it over at all in Tampa. You win

755
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,439
Speaker 2: the football game by five points, a one score game.

756
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 2: Ball security for me. And then an ancillary piece of

757
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 2: that is the is the matchup. Maybe we can talk

758
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 2: about that in a second. Tell me your keys to

759
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 2: what we get into this game.

760
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's what I've kind of thought about. Is is

761
00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 1: kind of an extension of what you were just talking

762
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: about hasn't been out there. Starting defense, by and large,

763
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: has not been out there. So one of my big

764
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: keys in this game is which team can Atlanta play

765
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:12,320
Speaker 1: with a clean operation? And what does that mean? Well,

766
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,800
Speaker 1: how about false starts backing you up to first and fifteen.

767
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 1: How about holding penalties on second down backing you up

768
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 1: to second and twenty. How about trying to convert on

769
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: third down when you've got seventeen yards to pick up

770
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: a first down? How about defensively, when you look like

771
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: you got a third down stop and you get called

772
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: for a defensive holding, that's an automatic first down. What

773
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: happens on a shot play down the field that it

774
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: looks like aj Terrell's in perfect position, knocks the football away,

775
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 1: gets called for a pass interference because his right hand

776
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,319
Speaker 1: is wrapped around the hip of the wide receiver. To me,

777
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 1: that's staying on schedule. But that's playing with a clean operation,

778
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 1: and it's playing with great fundamentals. And everybody hears you

779
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:53,839
Speaker 1: talk about that all the time. Well, guess how you

780
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: avoid holding penalties? You play with great fundamentals? Guess how

781
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 1: you avoid false starts? Focused and you're locked in, the

782
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 1: only thing you're paying attention to is your quarterback, not

783
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: what's being barked at on the other side of the ball,

784
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 1: the movement from the defense trying to stem and adjust,

785
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: or the somebody in the third row screaming your number

786
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 1: that you didn't do anything last year. Okay, it's a

787
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:20,760
Speaker 1: mental life fantasy. I needed you and you let me down.

788
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: So those are the things that we always talk about

789
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: staying on schedule, but I wanted to expand it so

790
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 1: you guys all understood what we were talking about is

791
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 1: that it's hard at any level of football to convert

792
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 1: on third and seventeen. Well, guess what, stay out of

793
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 1: it at all costs. Stay out of those situations. You

794
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: can convert in the NFL in third and four, third

795
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:45,399
Speaker 1: and seventeen is extremely difficult. And we had a guy

796
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,399
Speaker 1: when I was playing, a Michael Victim might have been

797
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 1: one of the best ever to do it because he

798
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 1: could run like nobody else could, and I don't think

799
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: he sure did right, So a clean operation is what

800
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: I'm looking for. Now. You were kind of leading towards

801
00:36:58,960 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: matchups and stuff.

802
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 2: I think that's it's such a good call because of

803
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 2: what we've been kind of the overall feeling of this

804
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 2: is there's a bit of unknown Tampa, you know, Baker

805
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 2: Mayfield didn't get on the field. There's a lot of

806
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 2: things that they don't know potentially about their team or

807
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 2: that they're going to be dusting the rust off, if

808
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 2: you want to put it in those terms, and are

809
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 2: what is one thing that kind of you got to

810
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 2: kind of get up speed on is fundamentals when you

811
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,879
Speaker 2: finally get back on the field and you're at game speed.

812
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 2: As much as you try to simulate it here at

813
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 2: Flowery Branch, it's hard to do because you don't want

814
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 2: to hurt each other. So now all of a sudden

815
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 2: you're at game speed. It's ramped up a little bit

816
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 2: more ball security. I want to get off the ball

817
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 2: on that guy, and I'm jumping a little bit. All

818
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 2: the fundamentals you're talking about, was that foot where it

819
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 2: was supposed to be? Is that hand where it's supposed

820
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 2: to be. It's magnified significantly, So rack all over it

821
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 2: with the fundamentals. Okay, So how do you create a

822
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 2: situation where you got a young quarterback? How do you

823
00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 2: create an atmosphere where he can flourish? And to me,

824
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 2: one of the keys and I know you feel this

825
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:07,359
Speaker 2: way as well, Zach Robinson and the game plan they're

826
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 2: putting together for the Falcons to give him an opportunity

827
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 2: to not only distribute the ball to London, into Pitts

828
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 2: and to Jon Robinson and everybody. How well do you

829
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:20,240
Speaker 2: kind of get him situated? Because you can bet who's

830
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 2: one of the best defensive coordinators in the National Football

831
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 2: League and a guy that will blitch you when he

832
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 2: gets off of the bus. Okay, he's blitzing you in

833
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 2: the parking lot, let alone waiting to third down or

834
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 2: waiting to second and long. Todd Bowles is going to

835
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 2: have some looks that we've been talking about these two

836
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 2: games from a year ago. We might not see any

837
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 2: of that. Todd Bowles is going to have different things

838
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 2: and different ways to come after Pinnis that he's never

839
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 2: seen before, let alone seen on tape. So to me,

840
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 2: that matchup between we talked about the new defensive coordinator

841
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 2: here in Atlanta and new offensive coordinator in Tampa, and

842
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 2: that's intriguing, and how's that gonna match how about the

843
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 2: venerable one that's the defensive coordinator down they're in Todd

844
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,479
Speaker 2: Gowles and Zack Robinson, who guided Atlanta to a top

845
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 2: ten offense here a year ago. How does that meld together?

846
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is no disrespect to the college game,

847
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: but this is to me where I think the NFL

848
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: has a step up on the college game because of

849
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: how important coaching, scheme and game plan is in the NFL.

850
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,320
Speaker 1: Because in the college game, even at the biggest of colleges,

851
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 1: you can out talent people at times, right like you

852
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: can just have better players. That generally does not happen

853
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 1: in the NFL. The worst team in the NFL still

854
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 1: has Pro Bowl caliber players. So that's where scheme and

855
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: game plan is so vitally important to win. So to

856
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: answer your question is Zach Robinson has to take all

857
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: the information that he had from Michael Pennix's rookie season,

858
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 1: the offseason, training camp, oh to all that stuff and

859
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 1: figure out, Okay, what does he do the best and

860
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: what's going to get him the most comfortable within that

861
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Speaker 1: first call at ten or fifteen plays that they generally

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Speaker 1: script if they can stay on script, right, is how

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Speaker 1: do we get him comfortable? It's pound the football, get

864
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Speaker 1: Bijan and Tyler, get them six, seven, eight. So then

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Speaker 1: now you got defense starting to come down and pay

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Speaker 1: attention to the run game. But then where is Pennis

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Speaker 1: most comfortable? Is it a slant, is it a hitch?

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Speaker 1: Is it a flat route? I don't know the answer

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Speaker 1: to that question because I don't talk to Michael Pennock

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Speaker 1: Junior all the time. That's what your offensive coordinator gets

871
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Speaker 1: a chance to do is see him all the time

872
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Speaker 1: and what is he the best at? And then you

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Speaker 1: get him going there, and then you let that open

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Speaker 1: everything else up. And if you can get that part early,

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Speaker 1: then everybody calms down and then you can start taking

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Speaker 1: your shots downfield. You can get a little bit more creative.

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Speaker 1: But if you get stuck coming out the box and

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Speaker 1: you can't pick up two yards, then that that first

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Speaker 1: fifteen plays that goes out the wind right. That's great

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Speaker 1: because it well.

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Speaker 2: And it's a good point too because in Rack and

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Speaker 2: I can pontificate on this forever as far as scheme

883
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Speaker 2: and how you approach. Remember, there's a possibility when you

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Speaker 2: come out of the box that everything Rack just talked

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Speaker 2: about running the football being at second in second and

886
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 2: four or third and four, third and three, that doesn't

887
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 2: work out. They gang up against the run and said, hey,

888
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Speaker 2: we're going to make the new quarterback beat us. We're

889
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 2: going to take the runaway and now he's going to

890
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Speaker 2: have to make some plays downfield. You can bet that

891
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 2: Zach Robinson has another plan in his pocket. Okay, what

892
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,919
Speaker 2: happens to my quarterback doesn't get off to a fast start,

893
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 2: or what happens if I don't give him the opportunity

894
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 2: to make some plays, which I'm trying not to. But

895
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Speaker 2: let's say he misses some. Let's say he's a little nervous,

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Speaker 2: which doesn't sound like Pennis gets. Let's say he throw

897
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Speaker 2: over throws a couple and all of a sudden, I

898
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Speaker 2: need to get him in a rhythm. There's going to

899
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Speaker 2: be an adjustment. And that's what's beautiful about the National

900
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Speaker 2: Football League. All the plans and all the numbers and

901
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 2: all the things Racking I are throwing at, you can

902
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 2: go completely up and smoke he and his throw it

903
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 2: in the air. Now, even more paramount about what Rack's

904
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Speaker 2: talking about is the coordinators. Now those adjustments in game,

905
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Speaker 2: adjustments where you say, Okay, my quarterback's off to a

906
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Speaker 2: slow store, or we're not doing very good in man coverage.

907
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 2: We need to adjust at whatever it might be. That's

908
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,839
Speaker 2: where these coordinators take it to another level. That's why

909
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 2: they're coaching at this level. That's why they're coordinators at

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Speaker 2: this level. And bet that as well. As you know,

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Speaker 2: Todd Bowles and his staff have have have alternative ideas

912
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 2: of how to do things. So do the Falcons as well.

913
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Speaker 2: You have to be able to adjust. This a big

914
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,400
Speaker 2: boy league, and you get ready because you're gonna get

915
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Speaker 2: thrown a curve ball at some point on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I could tell you that I warned you when we

917
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Speaker 1: started the show that we were excited. We didn't have shock.

918
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Speaker 1: We didn't have shock here today, I, me and Arts

919
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 1: are just out here going and we could probably go

920
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,839
Speaker 1: for another thirty to an hour or two an hour

921
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Speaker 1: and a half to you, guys don't want to hear that,

922
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Speaker 1: so we're gonna let you go. Thanks so much for

923
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Speaker 1: joining me. Pregame pregame showing, pregame show on Sunday Sunday.

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Speaker 2: This guy right here and he's and Taylor visitor.

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Speaker 1: On Monday at one o'clock on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, on Sunday, I think I'm in the building.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're gonna be in the building as well. In

928
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Speaker 1: the building is well, all three of us will be

929
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Speaker 1: in the building on Sunday. And just so you know,

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Speaker 1: Falcons Audible will be back every Wednesday throughout the regular season,

931
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Speaker 1: so that's when you need to set your alarm or

932
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: however it is that you get your YouTube podcast, your

933
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:23,840
Speaker 1: Apple podcasts on Spotify, set your alarm on your phone

934
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Speaker 1: to Wednesdays to check out the guys, and generally we

935
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 1: will have the day shopping back with us. Because he

936
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Speaker 1: was not able to join us this week. However you

937
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Speaker 1: choose to join us, we are happy to have you.

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Speaker 1: I told you we were excited. Me and O are

939
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Speaker 1: getting ready. Let's go baby, one of the Duars one.

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Speaker 1: It's coming divisional opponent, Tampa Bay Bucks coming here to

941
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Speaker 1: the Mercedes Benz Stadium. Rise up, Baby, Thanks so much

942
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Speaker 1: for joining the Falcons. Aubel presented by at A T.

943
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Speaker 1: We will see you next week.