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Speaker 1: What's up everybody, and welcome to another edition of the

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Speaker 1: Falcons Final Whistle Podcast. I'm Scott Bear inside the Atlanta

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Speaker 1: Falcons headquarters and Flower. Yeah we're back, people back together.

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Speaker 1: Ye this morning it was good, no joke. Guys. The

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons Cafeteria, Luget fan services, they know what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: We had some caso today for lunch, full epic fiesta.

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Speaker 1: Really yeah, I know you all came on to listen

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Speaker 1: to us talk about caso, but you know, and we're

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Speaker 1: back off the rails in one minute again like a tradition.

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Speaker 1: But nonetheless it was Chris this time. It was he

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Speaker 1: started talking about fancy food and it was delicious. Uh,

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Speaker 1: enjoyed it. Anyway. We didn't come on just to give

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Speaker 1: you a food review. I could yo, yeah for sure,

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Speaker 1: um and they'd get several stars, probably five. But nonetheless,

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Speaker 1: we are here to talk about the news of the week. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Really what happened on Monday afternoon that Falcons wide receiver

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Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley has been suspended and definitely at least through

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two season for violating the NFL's gambling policy. Nonetheless,

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Speaker 1: he's going to be unavailable to the Falcons for the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two season, and that's what the focus of

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Speaker 1: Now the discussion is what happens next? How does this

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Speaker 1: impact the Falcons? How has it impacted the Falcons. It's

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Speaker 1: been a crazy turn of events. For how long have

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Speaker 1: has Calvin Ridley been the topic of are they going

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Speaker 1: to trade him? Or are they not going to a

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Speaker 1: trade him? Now they're obviously definitely not going to trade him,

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Speaker 1: and they're left with somebody who is still with the team,

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Speaker 1: but again suspended and unavailable to the team going into

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. It all happened in a whirlwind tory. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, over the course of a Monday afternoon, and

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Speaker 1: maybe it broke the internet. I don't know. It definitely

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Speaker 1: felt that way because we're in this little microcop Yeah right. Also,

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Speaker 1: I just hit my head on the back of a cabinet.

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Speaker 1: So if I start, if I start talking crazy, that's crazy.

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Speaker 1: That's it. But no, I went into yesterday thanking we're

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Speaker 1: recording this podcast on Tuesday, So the Calvin stuff happened

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Speaker 1: on Monday. I went into Monday thinking that I'm coming

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Speaker 1: something green like a salad maybe, and I the Calvin

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Speaker 1: pint of ice cream for lunch. Shout out Ben and

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Speaker 1: Jerry's Milk and Cookies sponsor me at Tory Underscore Machelany.

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Speaker 1: But no, on a serious note, this was really really

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Speaker 1: big news in terms of where the Falcons are at

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Speaker 1: they're going. Just kind of looking at the salary cap,

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Speaker 1: which is something that I've been looking at, gosh, every

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Speaker 1: main thing you need to know about how this affects

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Speaker 1: books for eleven point one million in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: That was his cap hit, and essentially, with him suspended

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Speaker 1: ultimately means that that eleven point one million dollars is

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Speaker 1: right now, whereas the Falcons before this news broke, we're

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Speaker 1: seven million dollars over the cap They now have three

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of where they are and how this

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Speaker 1: we're just talking money, and in terms of the uncertainty

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Speaker 1: at the wide receiver spot, it was always there, right Chris,

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Speaker 1: that weren't very many guys under contractor you wouldn't know

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Speaker 1: terms of the trade speculation that was going all over

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Speaker 1: But you know, that's I guess it's story for a

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Speaker 1: different day, for dinner to night. I just kind of

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Speaker 1: So it's safe to say the Founcks receiving corps is

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Speaker 1: that that Arthur Smith and terrified. No, we're prepared for

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Speaker 1: the possibility of him not being or not in this situation,

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Speaker 1: but the possibility of not being here. So while the

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Speaker 1: that might be the worst in the league at the moment.

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Speaker 1: They have a lot of time to figure things out

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Speaker 1: and hopefully we'll have a bit of cap space to

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Speaker 1: over the course of the next two years. Right, And yep,

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Speaker 1: of go over how the Calvin Ridley news changes the

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Speaker 1: the same, and in light of the news, how high.

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Speaker 1: Are you drafting wide receiver? And there's some mock drafts

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Speaker 1: a pass catcher. The Falcons have used passed the first

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Speaker 1: round draft picks on pass catchers quite a few times. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it's the most general of all of them. How

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Speaker 1: does this change the outlook of the twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: first off, the way you said, so this question's a

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Speaker 1: little general right at dagger Dagger to the heart, Scott.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a good broad question to launch, Okay, conversation.

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Speaker 1: It was a compliment. Maybe it was backhanded. Is this

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Speaker 1: stuff to tell? Here's the thing Chris and I. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Oh I saw the look like dang. Okay, Scott, come

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Speaker 1: after my question. I'm fine. I'm trying to get you

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Speaker 1: in a good argumentative place. Okay, that is true. Scott

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Speaker 1: and I are going to fight on a podcast sooner

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Speaker 1: provoke me. Um. He was like, just trash talk me

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Speaker 1: So if you're looking at like how this idea of Calvin,

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Speaker 1: to happen with Calvin Ridley, you had to bring in

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Speaker 1: like yet another asset would have been obviously beneficial here. Um.

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Speaker 1: think most people would would it be, like, right in

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Speaker 1: But I'm not saying no to drafting a receiver with

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Speaker 1: or moving on the draft board to get what you

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Speaker 1: want with this. Russell Wilson to Denver News, I think

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Speaker 1: it makes that this is more draft talk, but it

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Speaker 1: Now they have theirs, that need isn't quite as strong anymore.

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Speaker 1: But that's a topic for another podcast. We're gonna have

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