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Speaker 1: It is week one of the regular season. It is

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Speaker 1: finally here, ladies and gentlemen. This is the Falcons Audible,

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Speaker 1: presented by AT and T, who got the same crew

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Speaker 1: in front of you, maybe wearing different shirts than we

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Speaker 1: did last week, but we're delivering the same knockout material.

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Speaker 1: I'm Derrek Rackley, That's DJ Shockley, and that's Dave Archer.

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Speaker 1: We ready to talk some regular season football, y'all. It

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Speaker 1: is finally here after all of the podcasts that we

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Speaker 1: had as far as free agency wrap up and draft

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Speaker 1: wrap up, and it's the off season Ota special. All

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Speaker 1: that is in the rear view mirror, and I know

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Speaker 1: you are all excited to watch some regular season football

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Speaker 1: as it comes to us this Sunday Mercedes Ben's Stadium

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Speaker 1: against the Carolina Panthers. Here's what we were going to

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Speaker 1: talk about today. We're gonna get right into some keys.

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Speaker 1: Like let's talk about some keys to a victory for

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons this weekend. We will talk about an area.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's a phase, maybe it's a player, maybe it's

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Speaker 1: something the guys have where the Falcons need to step

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Speaker 1: up in order to make those keys to become a

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Speaker 1: reality and get a victory. And then maybe again, if

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Speaker 1: we have time, we'll go down memory lane and see

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Speaker 1: if the guys can tell us any memories from their

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Speaker 1: first season opener, maybe as a rookie, maybe it was

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Speaker 1: just a season or opener that sticks out to you.

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Speaker 1: But first Arch, if you can do this, summarize this

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Speaker 1: Falcons Panthers matchup in one word.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Having called this game over the last twenty years twice

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Speaker 3: a season, I guess this will be our twentieth season,

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Speaker 3: So nineteen years twice, you think, congratulations twenty nineteen years

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Speaker 3: calling it twice a year. The one thing that sticks

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Speaker 3: out to me over the years is this is a

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Speaker 3: really physical game. Okay, so physical would be would be

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Speaker 3: the game would be the word I would.

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Speaker 2: Come Okay, does the lead up count for word count

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Speaker 2: or or I.

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Speaker 1: Knew that us going with this topic was going to

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Speaker 1: bring something. I figured you were going to call him

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Speaker 1: out on physical game, physical words.

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Speaker 2: What do you have? Can we go? Can you do it?

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Speaker 2: Can you do it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? No, no, no, no, you didn't take it. I'm

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Speaker 4: going with I had a couple of words when I

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Speaker 4: you know, I thought about this one word Okay, cool,

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Speaker 4: let's go with intense it's an intense game. I felt

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Speaker 4: like over the years it's become one of those games

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Speaker 4: similar to how over the years we started preparing for.

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Speaker 2: Like New Orleans, but we really did not like.

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Speaker 4: I think this game is becoming that because of how

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Speaker 4: close it's been over the years and how you know,

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Speaker 4: this game Ultimately, every division game matters, but I think

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Speaker 4: Carolina has taken on a different kind of feel over

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Speaker 4: the last few years. And I remember when it came

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Speaker 4: here last year, that crazy game we had here.

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Speaker 2: It was intense.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, we got physical, we got intense.

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Speaker 2: You got what you got.

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Speaker 1: I've got quarterbacks. I think this is going to be

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Speaker 1: an interesting game of quarterbacks. Atlanta, as we know, has

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Speaker 1: be a lot of eyeballs on what he can do

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Speaker 1: this year. And then of course, speaking of one, number

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Speaker 1: one Bryce Young overall pick for the Carolina Panthers, So

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Speaker 1: what is he going to do for this organization? Is

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Speaker 1: he the answer for that quarterback position moving forward for

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Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. So I think there's gonna be a

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Speaker 2: I like it.

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Speaker 3: Well, you guys going ahead and explained yours. I just

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Speaker 3: explained why I would have a prodition. No difference, there's

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Speaker 3: no difference. No, you explained why it was intense. He

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Speaker 3: explained why it was quarterback. I never explained why it

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Speaker 1: Do you want to explain why it's fysical? Explain why

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Speaker 3: Okay, these are two teams that ran them in these

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Speaker 3: Was on a Thursday night in Carolina, and Dante Foreman

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Speaker 1: Well, I love the explanation because I feel like it's

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Speaker 1: a great segue into our first topic where we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about keys. So Arch, I'm going to go

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Speaker 1: right back to you. So if you're looking at this matchup,

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Speaker 1: let's start on the offensive side of the ball here.

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Speaker 1: So Atlanta is on offense. Do you still feel like

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Speaker 3: Well, I think certainly because of maybe the key you

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Speaker 3: rushing a year ago. We've got guys we know who

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Speaker 3: key for me offensively is to stay out of third

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Speaker 3: try to keep both their quarterbacks yep, out of third

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Speaker 1: All right, So offensively arch says stay out of third long.

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Speaker 1: What comes to you as far as offensively for Atlanta

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Speaker 4: I think it's a correlation of what Archie has mentioned

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Speaker 4: Situation, whether that's throwing it on first down and hey,

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Speaker 4: I think early down success is going to be huge

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Speaker 4: this is the first real one that matters for this season.

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Speaker 4: You're the guy, You're taking control of it. If you

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Speaker 4: mix it up on first down throwing it and run it,

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Speaker 4: or either it's getting Densmon Rider on the edge.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you create a short edge with.

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Speaker 4: You know, movement, and I think that's a big key,

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Speaker 4: will be staying out of that third and long. But

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Speaker 4: if you can do it on first and second down

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Speaker 4: saw in the first preseason game, or not the first,

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Speaker 4: the second one where the offense had a chance to

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Speaker 4: move the football. You had a couple of fall star pentings,

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Speaker 4: you had a holding penty. Those things set you behind.

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Speaker 4: So now it's first and fifteen, first and twenty, and

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Speaker 4: I think first and second out efficiency, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: I think it's a great point, DJ And it's eerie

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Speaker 1: that you say that because that was one of the

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Speaker 1: keys that got hammered into my brain when I was

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Speaker 1: that time, Restless Soul and Jim Mora Junior is we

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Speaker 1: always talked about keys, and to the average fan, you

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Speaker 1: always hear about third down conversions, right, but we always

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Speaker 1: But if you actually sat down and tallied it up, say, okay,

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Speaker 1: on this series on first down, did they get four

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Speaker 1: you are going to look and see did they succeed yes?

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Speaker 1: Did they miss out? Then yeah, that's probably why the

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Speaker 1: be Desmond Ridder And what I'm what I mean by

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Speaker 1: plan personally where where you make the decision as far

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Speaker 1: the preseason to Drake London, then go make those plays.

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Speaker 1: But it's him using his decision making sometimes, like the

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Speaker 1: long drive that we saw against the Bengals. Use your legs,

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Speaker 1: go pick up a first down, no doubt. But I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm interested to see the decisions that Desmond Ridder makes

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Speaker 1: offensively to start for us as one of the big

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Speaker 1: Let's go defense with DJM coming right back to you,

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Speaker 2: You know, I think it's easy enough to talk again.

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Speaker 4: About the line of scrimmage, which obviously is gonna be

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Speaker 4: a big parties the game, but I'm gonna go on

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Speaker 4: the back end. I think playing top down, this is

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Speaker 4: a team Archer talked about at the end of the

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Speaker 4: ball game last year. Here, DJ Moore goes over the

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Speaker 4: top of you. And that's when you have the big play.

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Speaker 4: I think one of the things that helps a quarterback

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Speaker 4: let it loose. And if you allow the big play

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Speaker 4: coming to his first ball game, the confidence builds and

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Speaker 4: there's nothing like trust me.

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Speaker 2: As Arch can tell you.

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Speaker 4: As a quarterback, being able to hit a deep ball

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Speaker 1: How about this smash the explosive play opportunities.

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Speaker 2: I just tried. I tried to bring savage. I like it.

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Speaker 3: Gotta halloweenis right there to Halloween.

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Speaker 3: Well, so, so prevent explosive plays playing from the back end.

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Speaker 3: Can't allow that, And so how do you do that?

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Speaker 3: You don't allow the explosives that you guys just talk

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Speaker 2: How do you do that?

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Speaker 3: certainly in this in case, it's apropos. Young quarterback first

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Speaker 4: If you go back to Bryce Young's mo in college,

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Speaker 1: Okay, hey, listen, we know that Bryce Young played at Alabama.

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Speaker 1: but that's one thing that I'd like to see out

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Speaker 1: It's the most It's the statistic in the NFL that

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Speaker 3: And most teams a year ago seventeen turnover takeaways turnovers takeaways,

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Speaker 1: Exactly, So there you go, exactly, all right. So we

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Speaker 1: talked about some offensive and defensive keys. Now, DJ, let

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna go to the offensive side of the ball,

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Speaker 4: I think the guys around him have to help him

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Speaker 4: do some extra with it. Don't just catch it fall them? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I love that point, DJ, because I mentioned this a

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Speaker 3: let's tackle well. This is a defense that has shown

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Speaker 3: But when you get a chance to get a tackle

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Speaker 3: Got to make sure that you just do what you're

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Speaker 1: And I'm going to take that one step further Arch,

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Speaker 1: I want to see them flex their muscles in Arch.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, these over the years it's going to go back

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Speaker 3: ninety eight.

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Speaker 1: like some of the best defense jones in Kansas City, Right,

439
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Speaker 1: they have a guy that is a menace, that is

440
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Speaker 1: an absolute game plan nightmare. How do we slow him down?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: So maybe it's not one person for Atlanta, but they

443
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Speaker 1: brought some reinforcements in where I'm not necessarily saying this

444
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Speaker 1: has to be a sack all the time, but like

445
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Speaker 1: where you're seeing Falcons jerseys in the backfield, where you're

446
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Speaker 1: seeing Falcons jerseys pushing offensive linemen back into the quarterbacks

447
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Speaker 1: lab when you're seeing running backs come up to the

448
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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage having to stop and bounce and find

449
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Speaker 1: a different hole, right, Like that's the type of front

450
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Speaker 1: seven that I would like to see out of this

451
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Speaker 1: Falcons team. We've talked, They've talked a lot about Mantra right.

452
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Speaker 1: Defensive front has done it, defensive backfield has done it.

453
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Speaker 1: Ryan Nielsen trying to set a new precedent of how

454
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Speaker 1: this defense is going to attack. Let's see it on

455
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Speaker 1: the field. Now, let's see it on the field, because

456
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Speaker 1: you want to win win up front on defense.

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Speaker 4: And I think that's where this defense will be. It'd

458
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Speaker 4: be a collection of guys and I mean you look

459
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Speaker 4: at the way it's constructed, and you looked at the

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Speaker 4: way Ryan Nielson wants to get after the quarterback. And

461
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Speaker 4: of course we haven't seen the full compliment of it

462
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Speaker 4: because all these guys haven't been together and you know,

463
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Speaker 4: attacking in that kind of style with the defense they want.

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Speaker 4: But I think you look at the collection of guys,

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Speaker 4: it's going to be a compilation of maybe this guy

466
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Speaker 4: has five, maybe this guy has six, maybe this guy

467
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Speaker 4: has four, and it adds up to what you wanted

468
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Speaker 4: to be at the end of the year. And I

469
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Speaker 4: think that works even better because you want to have

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Speaker 4: the depth and like you guys mentioned, coming to a

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Speaker 4: game knowing, all right, I got to go block Julius

472
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Speaker 4: Peppers over here.

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Speaker 2: You knew coming in every week that was a dude

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Speaker 2: you had to account for.

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Speaker 4: Yes, But when you come into a game knowing, I

476
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Speaker 4: don't know which guy's gonna be this week, I don't

477
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Speaker 4: know which guy I want to give the one on

478
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Speaker 4: one two And I think we saw in Cincinnati where

479
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Speaker 4: you know they tried to double Grady, they try to

480
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Speaker 4: double on your mana and Kalais comes slat free because

481
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Speaker 4: he's the one on one. Those I think I have

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Speaker 4: going to be the matchups throughout the year that you

483
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Speaker 4: watch and say, Okay, it could be any given guy

484
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Speaker 4: on his defensive front, or we've heard how much Arthur

485
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Speaker 4: Smith talked about I love the way kateen Ellis can

486
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Speaker 4: rush like that can be a part of the two

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Speaker 4: add known guys like that. I think it's gonna be

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Speaker 4: interesting to see how these guys are used in these

489
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Speaker 4: different spots.

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Speaker 1: I'm all about a collective effort, because if at the

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Speaker 1: end of the season we look at sack numbers, or

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Speaker 1: we look at opposing running game or rush defense and

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Speaker 1: they're in the top five or ten.

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Speaker 2: You'd be cool with that, right be cool with that.

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Speaker 1: What about your keys?

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Speaker 2: What about your areas?

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Speaker 1: Shoot us a comment down below, let us know. Maybe

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about it on the next show. Maybe that

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Speaker 1: will end up being one of the keys that we have.

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Speaker 1: All Right, final discussion, arts coming back to you. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about memory lane a little bit. Season openers. Okay,

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Speaker 1: can you remember a season opener, either from your rookie

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Speaker 1: year or maybe it was an anticipated year throughout your

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Speaker 1: career where one game, the opening game of the season

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Speaker 1: sticks out to you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, year three, I had won the job as a

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Speaker 3: starter here and we closed the season when they think

508
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Speaker 3: two two or three wins to close the season before out.

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Speaker 3: One of those wins was over New Orleans. Beat him

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Speaker 3: in New Orleans. We came back, we opened up New

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Speaker 3: Orleans here or I mean, sorry, in New Orleans again.

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Speaker 3: But it was the opening game of the season, and

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Speaker 3: it was Jim Morris senior and he's not a senior,

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Speaker 3: but for this lack of a better way to describe it,

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Speaker 3: the senior most Jim Morrow was coaching at in New Orleans,

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Speaker 3: Bobby Abert and all those guys down there, and we

517
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Speaker 3: went down there and smoked him, beat him thirty one ten.

518
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Speaker 3: But it was a build up to here's our arch

519
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Speaker 3: rival and all that kind of stuff, and so it

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Speaker 3: was a fun, fun day to go down there.

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Speaker 2: Handy, Huh, what you look like that wants to know

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Speaker 2: the numbers?

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Speaker 1: He said, that's all fine, and Danny like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I want to know.

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Speaker 3: I had a decent had a decent day. We put Yeah,

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Speaker 3: we put thirty one out. I think I was, uh,

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Speaker 3: what was I think? If I think for about two

528
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Speaker 3: ten two tubs had about fifty yards rushing. Yeah, a

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Speaker 3: little bit like Dave Weimer was a defense.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you a story.

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Speaker 3: Roight here. Dave Weimer, former Notre Dame Fighting Irish, played

532
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Speaker 3: corner for them for a long time. We're up at

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Speaker 3: we're up in the game, we're mall and we had

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Speaker 3: just gone we'd gone on a twenty one play eleven

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Speaker 3: minute drive and Riggs Pounds went in from the I

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Speaker 3: mean they they were this is the third quarter. They

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Speaker 3: get the ball back, they go three and out and

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Speaker 3: they punt it to us. We go on a seven

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Speaker 3: play or ten to seven to ten play drive. It

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Speaker 3: was like seven or eight minutes long. I bootlegged one

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Speaker 3: out of bounds. You know, got the first down and

542
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Speaker 3: bopped out of bounds. Wimer said, dude, just stay in

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Speaker 3: bounce man.

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Speaker 1: We're trying to get.

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Speaker 2: Trying to get over with running. Arch says.

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Speaker 1: Season opening wins are always sweet, but New Orleans, New Orleans,

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Speaker 1: it's just even a little bit more sweet when you

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Speaker 1: remember the Atlanta Falcons DJ one stick out from you.

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Speaker 1: I'll even extend it for you to college.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I like to yeah because my rookie year, Michael was

552
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Speaker 4: here and I told my Ax Hill didn't Matt Ryan

553
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Speaker 4: was here, so no chance to start for your boy,

554
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Speaker 4: and so I'll go back to Yeah, I go.

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Speaker 2: You probably have never heard this story.

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Speaker 4: My first collegiate start and we're playing Boise State, and

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Speaker 4: I think we're supposed to be the only upset the

558
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Speaker 4: entire weekend, and.

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Speaker 2: Uh they came to us.

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Speaker 4: And uh, I was excited for that game and got

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Speaker 4: my first start and first start, you know, three from

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Speaker 4: five tubs and ran and one and uh we ran.

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Speaker 2: Boise up out of there. And it was a good day.

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Speaker 2: It was a good day. A lot of people were

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Speaker 2: taking some things back.

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Speaker 4: They said, a bunch of boy coming into that season,

567
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Speaker 4: so it was it was kind of good to bit.

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Speaker 3: You would stuck it out to the thing that it

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Speaker 3: was cool about DJ's career at Georgia as you had

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Speaker 3: a guy named David Green was pretty good player. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and Shock didn't transfer. He could have gone somewhere anywhere

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Speaker 3: else in the country. He had had to sit out

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Speaker 3: a year, but he could have started somewhere else, like

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Speaker 3: he didn't do that. He was a homegrown kid. He

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Speaker 3: stayed here, played high school ball here, waited for his opportunity,

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Speaker 3: and when he got his opportunity, he was sec Player

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Speaker 3: of the year. And so that's good on you, bro.

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Speaker 1: That brings up another question that I'd like to ask you,

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Speaker 1: but we're gonna ask it another time. That could end

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Speaker 1: up being another thirty minute conversation.

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Speaker 2: Love that.

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Speaker 1: By the way, you get all kinds of tubs like

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Speaker 1: my my my memory is no touchdown, okay, but I

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Speaker 1: do remember my very first game in the regular season

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Speaker 1: two thousand uh We opened up against San Francisco at home.

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Speaker 1: Jeff Garcia was the quarterback at the time. It was

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Speaker 1: my first year snapping, and I had a Hall of

588
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Speaker 1: Famer and Morten Andersen is my kicker, right, So I

589
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Speaker 1: just kind of even though there's already pressure as a

590
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Speaker 1: rookie coming into a specialist position. There's a little bit

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Speaker 1: more pressure. When Martin Anderson had already been in the

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Speaker 1: league for like fourteen to fifteen years, right, just came

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Speaker 1: back over from New Orleans, and he's expecting perfection. Right,

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Speaker 1: So sure enough, first half we get We end up

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Speaker 1: with five field goals in the first half night right.

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Speaker 1: Then in the second half, Chandler kind of warms up

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Speaker 1: a little bit. He ends up hitting Sean Jefferson for

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Speaker 1: like a forty eight yard touchdown. I think I think

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Speaker 1: tem matth Is scored in that game one time too.

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Speaker 1: We ended up winning like thirty I don't think it

601
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Speaker 1: was like thirty six to twenty eight or something like

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Speaker 1: that over the forty nine ers. But I just remember

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Speaker 1: that was a busy day for me because we had

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Speaker 1: a lot of field goal and extra point opportunities. So

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Speaker 1: it was nice to be able to snap to Morton

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Speaker 1: for a long time.

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Speaker 4: Aguy, I mean, I mean, we got to give you

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Speaker 4: a lot of credit because me and ours we get

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Speaker 4: at least twenty twenty five attempts to get it right.

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Speaker 2: You get one to throw back there, gotta be right, well,

611
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Speaker 2: he run down.

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Speaker 3: He'd snapping on punts too, and he down there tackling.

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Speaker 1: Trying to throw throw my stuff around?

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Speaker 2: Was that erectly to ractly made it?

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Speaker 3: Tackle?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Downfield?

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Speaker 1: Another show. I will give you guys a story about

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Speaker 1: the one. The hardest hit that I've ever taken was

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Speaker 1: by Donovan Darius, the former Jackson. Yeah, blindside, and I

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Speaker 1: will never forget that one for the rest of my life.

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Speaker 1: But that's gonna be in another Okay week one coming

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Speaker 1: up this weekend. Hope, I hope you guys are excited

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Speaker 1: as we are. Atlanta Falcons Carolina Panthers at the Mercedes

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Speaker 1: Benz Stadium. Regular season is here. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: joining us here on the Falcons Audible presented by A

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Speaker 1: T and T on behalf of dj Arch I'm rack

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Speaker 1: see you next time.

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Speaker 2: Everybody, just be one to know baby. Let's go babait.