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Speaker 1: We are back. Let me rephrase that.

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Speaker 2: No, we are back on the Falcons Audible presented by

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Speaker 2: AT and T and Fellas.

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Speaker 1: It has been too long. It has been too long. Yes, hurt,

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Speaker 1: the boys are back in town.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I've said that before, but guess what

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it again. Were back in town because

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Speaker 2: guess what football is back, baby. Yes, training camps have opened,

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Speaker 2: and yes, that means you get the three of us

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Speaker 2: back and guess what You're gonna get us on a

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Speaker 2: much more regular basis now because fellas, we got plenty

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Speaker 2: to talk about.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: We always try to find things in the offseason.

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Speaker 2: I swear every football outlet, every media outlet, tries to

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Speaker 2: find a story to just make a thirty minute show

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Speaker 2: in the offseason. No, guess what, we don't need to

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Speaker 2: make a show out of something. We got plenty to

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Speaker 2: make a show out of. So we are back. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna be here for let's call it twenty to thirty minutes.

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Speaker 2: I say to thirty because sometimes the Fellas get a

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Speaker 2: little long winning because they've passionate about this stuff.

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Speaker 3: YEA.

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Speaker 2: By the way, if it's been a while and you

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Speaker 2: haven't seen us before, or I don't know how you

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Speaker 2: could forget who this is.

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Speaker 1: That's d J. Shockley, that's Dave Archer. I'm Derek Rackley.

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Speaker 2: This is the Falcons Atto presented by AT and T

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Speaker 2: and we are back for the twenty twenty four season.

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Speaker 2: Because training camp is open. Fellas, before we get into

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Speaker 2: the action on the field, some people like to know

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Speaker 2: what football players do in the offseason. We do former

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Speaker 2: football players now in the broadcasting industry doing the offseason.

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Speaker 2: One quick cool thing you did this offseason.

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Speaker 3: Took our family to Mexico.

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Speaker 4: We had a nice family vak in Mexico and had

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Speaker 4: a good time and uh, you know.

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Speaker 1: I got a now you look the same yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, it's good man. We good little bak

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Speaker 3: Need that all right? Dave?

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Speaker 1: What about you?

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Speaker 5: We went to the beach, though, you know that's different.

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Speaker 4: First off, No, first off, we check to see how

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Speaker 4: much it costs to go to Florida.

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Speaker 3: Same amount you go to Mexico.

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Speaker 5: So I went down to to test the rip tide

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Speaker 5: had a great time and that was our big excursion.

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Speaker 2: For this, Okay, okay, good, Well, I guess you could

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Speaker 2: say I took a trip, but I don't take vacations

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Speaker 2: and so my my summers are softball travel. So I

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Speaker 2: did take trips to Florida, to Kansas City, to Colorado,

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Speaker 2: but that's but that's what we do.

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Speaker 3: People.

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Speaker 4: You go here and yea is my man, Rex, Rex

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Speaker 4: got a dollar that's nasty.

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Speaker 2: Good little ball, good little Maybe we'll end up talking

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Speaker 2: it's opened in twenty twenty four. Guys, excited, Excited, we're back.

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Speaker 2: Excited is a little different for us, because I don't

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Speaker 2: kind of a different level. I know things have changed,

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Speaker 2: like the training camp that we have on the field.

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Speaker 2: When I do this, the Falcons practice literally like right.

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Speaker 3: Back here there.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so it's not like I'm like trying to massage

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Speaker 1: I was so excited to get to camp.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, and it's probably not as much as a

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Speaker 1: How much will we see.

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Speaker 2: Guys like Kirk Cousins Michael Pennix when we get into

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Speaker 2: this camp. There's there's been so many changes as there

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Speaker 2: we got a new head coach. You got a new

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Speaker 4: I think you pointed it out obviously having a lot

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Speaker 4: But then we also talked about having a new head coach,

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Speaker 4: Adding a new quarterback to the mix makes everything different

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Speaker 1: You know, guys, during camp.

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Speaker 2: When we say camp, we're talking about OTAs, mini camps

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Speaker 2: That stuff has to accelerate a little bit more now, right.

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Speaker 5: Well, it's certainly going to be based on making sure

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Speaker 5: He can't do anything with it if he can't get

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Speaker 2: So DJ, we got two quarterbacks here, and before you know,

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Speaker 4: Well, I think Archi did a great job of breaking

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Speaker 4: like any other offensive coordinator will do. Of course, I

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Speaker 3: Kind of leaned at me and said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: He's like, I go downhill.

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Speaker 3: And I think that's vertically. I think that's horizontally.

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Speaker 4: This is an offense that when you come watch them,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think this is a time of the

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Speaker 2: easy to get excited because your record is zero and zero, right,

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Speaker 4: You know, I think it's gonna be fun to see

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Speaker 4: And we've seen aj Terrell play at a high level

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Speaker 4: So it's gonna be fun to see how this group,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, gotta be able to take the football away. And

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Speaker 2: Jared, you got Ellis coming back, You've got some you

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Speaker 2: got Anderson coming back. Landman got a lot of very

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Speaker 2: much needed experience last year. So again hoping that everybody

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Speaker 2: comes back healthy. But what is kind of your outlook

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Speaker 2: for the front seven on this defense?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it would mirror a little bit about

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Speaker 5: what we talked about with Zach Robinson's crew on the

445
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Speaker 5: other side of the ball, and the versatility you've got

446
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Speaker 5: with the two backs, the receivers that you can hand

447
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Speaker 5: it to throw it to the tight end.

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Speaker 1: All that you.

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Speaker 5: Start looking at the front seven defensively that Jimmy Lake's

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Speaker 5: gonna deal with. Now all of a sudden, you look,

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Speaker 5: you got two fire breathers a draft that in the

452
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Speaker 5: that are going to play into your line. You've got

453
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Speaker 5: one guy coming off the edge, it's a new guy,

454
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Speaker 5: but you're blending him in with with David Anyamata and

455
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Speaker 5: you're blending in with Grady Jarrett and then you you

456
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Speaker 5: just mentioned the linebacker corps. You had a J. T.

457
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Speaker 5: Bertrand to that kid they drafted out a Notre Dame.

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Speaker 5: And what you thought, well, you kind of wondered where

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Speaker 5: the linebackers at all of a sudden, that looks like

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Speaker 5: a position of strength for this football team. And you

461
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Speaker 5: know they're going to find a guy or two that

462
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Speaker 5: they're gonna be able to plug into that rotation. Potentially

463
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Speaker 5: from a linebacker standpoint in camp, that's gonna blend well.

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Speaker 5: So I just look at it what Jimmy Lake can do.

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Speaker 5: They're going to operate out of a you know, pseudo

466
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Speaker 5: three four style. Okay, but we know everybody kind of

467
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Speaker 5: miba's in different ways. You have to have some versatility

468
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Speaker 5: from a defensive standpoint to be able to do that.

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Speaker 5: Brandon Dorriles, we were talking about his longs reach. His

470
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Speaker 5: arms reached from here to the wall.

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Speaker 3: It's how long he is.

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Speaker 5: Roz talked about the length of some of these players.

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Speaker 1: The power of ruc Aroro.

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Speaker 5: He I mean, he roote come just ripped through guys.

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Speaker 5: So if you turn him loose through a gap, and

476
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Speaker 5: you got dor Less playing on one side. Those guys

477
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Speaker 5: are going to be coming in spelling on the Anamadas,

478
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Speaker 5: in the in the in the Grady Jarretts of the world.

479
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Speaker 5: And then you've got guys on the outside with Trice

480
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Speaker 5: and people like that coming. Oh yeah, by the way,

481
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Speaker 5: Carter's still here, he can come off. You've got a

482
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Speaker 5: myriad of guys. You may even see Kaden Ellis. Because

483
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Speaker 5: of the health the linebacker situation right now with Troy

484
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Speaker 5: Anderson and the way Nate Landman came on last year,

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Speaker 5: Ellis is going to be coming off the.

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Speaker 1: Edge some now.

487
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Speaker 5: Now all of a sudden, you talk about mixing and

488
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Speaker 5: matching and trying to figure out if you're an offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's get let's we got to get Ellis blocked.

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Speaker 1: Where's he at? You know?

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Speaker 3: Now we got it.

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Speaker 1: We got to get Grady Rock where's he at?

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Speaker 5: You know? In different guys like this. Dor Lest kid's

494
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Speaker 5: a problem. But now all of a sudden, he's lined

495
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Speaker 5: out out of my tackle. He's not on he's not

496
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Speaker 5: on the guard. In the three technique, the versatility that

497
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Speaker 5: they have is very similar shock in my opinion, to

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Speaker 5: what you can do offensively with all those weapons. I

499
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Speaker 5: think Lake has a very similar situation.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so interesting you use it in that fashion

501
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Speaker 4: because we always think the versatility and being able to

502
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Speaker 4: do multiple things goes to like an offensive line mode

503
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Speaker 4: or saying a back can play in a shloud or

504
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Speaker 4: just come out of the backfield. But you've got defensive

505
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Speaker 4: lineman who can go anywhere down the line or scrimmage.

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Speaker 4: That is a problem because you don't know how you

507
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Speaker 4: go an account for you telling abou Kate and Nellert's

508
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Speaker 4: come out of the edge. Are you counting him as

509
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Speaker 4: an outside back, you're counting him as a down guy.

510
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Speaker 4: How are you counting? And as former quarterbacks, we need

511
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Speaker 4: to know that. We need to know how we are

512
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Speaker 4: counting these guys, so we could pick up this pass

513
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Speaker 4: pro and say who is sliding to.

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Speaker 3: So there are a lot of things that's going to.

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Speaker 4: Be issues, I think for offensive cordators when they have

516
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Speaker 4: to really game plan for this style of defense where

517
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Speaker 4: you can have so many guys in the fact that

518
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Speaker 4: our mentioned it's so much depth already at these different spots.

519
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Speaker 4: It's going to give you a lot of reassurance when

520
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Speaker 4: it comes to what you can do on that defense side.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm kind of speaking to the choir here,

522
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Speaker 2: but like, I'm really excited to see Jarrett Nonyamada on

523
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Speaker 2: the field for an extended period of time this year.

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Speaker 2: I think that's what this organization was planning for last year.

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Speaker 2: And then unfortunately Grady goes down and you miss one

526
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Speaker 2: of the more dynamic interior pass rushers in the National

527
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Speaker 2: Football League and you don't get to pair them with

528
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Speaker 2: a new toy that you brought in in free agency

529
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Speaker 2: last year. So hopefully everybody stays healthy you get a

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Speaker 2: chance to see those guys in the type of havoc

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Speaker 2: they can create up front. But DJL wanna put you

532
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Speaker 2: on the spot because this is probably what fans want

533
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Speaker 2: to hear. One of the biggest discussions among draft night

534
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Speaker 2: was Michael Pennix Junior being drafted and not necessarily addressing

535
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Speaker 2: pass rushing. So I'm gonna put you on the spot

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Speaker 2: for all the Falcons fans and the NFL fans that

537
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Speaker 2: are out there watching and listening and they want to

538
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Speaker 2: know where's the Falcon's pass rush gonna come from. I

539
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Speaker 2: want you to give your most educated guests from what

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Speaker 2: you've seen, so far in training camp, the things that

541
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Speaker 2: you've seen play out so far in OTAs, and what

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Speaker 2: people can expect that to look like in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 3: I'll say this.

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Speaker 4: The owner of the Atlanta Falcons just spoke a little

545
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Speaker 4: while ago while we you know It's you know Tuesday,

546
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Speaker 4: were doing this podcast, and the one thing he said

547
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Speaker 4: to me that stuck out was, well, I'm glad we

548
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Speaker 4: don't listen to everybody else around the league. I'm glad

549
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Speaker 4: that we have our own independent thoughts of how we

550
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Speaker 4: can make this franchise better or how we can make

551
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Speaker 4: this organization fit the molde that we want.

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Speaker 3: And I think the thing that comes to.

553
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Speaker 4: Mind for me is, obviously we're not in those rooms

554
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Speaker 4: all the time listening to how they go about how

555
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Speaker 4: they want to fill out a team. But if this

556
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Speaker 4: staff feels as though the players they have in house

557
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Speaker 4: can get home, if they have the kind of guys

558
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Speaker 4: they feel like can get to the quarterback, then I'm

559
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Speaker 4: gonna ride with them. If they feel like, Okay, I

560
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Speaker 4: feel like Therenzo card I like advocating call the I

561
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Speaker 4: like Kayan nellis the better, you know, come up we

562
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Speaker 4: go and draft Uprailan Trice. They feel in this system

563
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Speaker 4: with the guys that they drafted, or the guys they

564
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Speaker 4: went out of free agency, or the guys they brought

565
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Speaker 4: back are capable enough, then that's.

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Speaker 3: Good enough for me.

567
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Speaker 4: Because obviously everybody has an opinion. I think we all

568
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Speaker 4: said it as well, Oh let's go get this guy.

569
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Speaker 4: I think we should go draft this guy. But not

570
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Speaker 4: knowing the workings as much as they do, it may

571
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Speaker 4: sense to me to say, all right, let's go see

572
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Speaker 4: what happens. And you look at the depth, You look

573
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Speaker 4: at the guys you have on the roster, and you

574
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Speaker 4: say why not? And then you point to, okay, what's

575
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Speaker 4: around them. If you got a guy like Grady, you

576
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Speaker 4: got a guy like on your Mata talk about doorles

577
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Speaker 4: and his long arms and all this kind of stuff,

578
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Speaker 4: and their problems on the inside, guess what happens. It

579
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Speaker 4: frees up one on ones on the outside. So it's

580
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Speaker 4: a it's a combination of if we got problems up

581
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Speaker 4: and down this line of scrimmage, there's gonna be one

582
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Speaker 4: on one somewhere. And I think it doesn't have to

583
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Speaker 4: just be the edge rushers. It could be the guys

584
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Speaker 4: on the inside pushing that pocket, because as we know

585
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Speaker 4: many archer's been there, there's nothing worse than that dude

586
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Speaker 4: coming right down the middle, middle of that pocket. So

587
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Speaker 4: if you got that issue and now you say, all right,

588
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Speaker 4: let's double these guys, and now you've got some long

589
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Speaker 4: arm speed guys coming out the edge, they probably gonna win.

590
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Speaker 4: They one on one most of that time, because that's

591
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Speaker 4: what they do. So I'm looking forward to seeing exactly

592
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Speaker 4: how they use these guys. But if they feel like

593
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Speaker 4: it's already in house and we feel good about it

594
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Speaker 4: and then have to go get that rate pick on

595
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Speaker 4: a pass rusher, I wait to see what it looked like.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I just think that, no question about it. I

597
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Speaker 5: think shock, you hit it right on the head. This

598
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Speaker 5: is going to be this group. Defensively, the way they

599
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Speaker 5: envision them is they envision them as a pack of wolves.

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Speaker 5: There's not one, and maybe there's a couple of dominant

601
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Speaker 5: wolves in the group. Grady's a dominant wolf and so

602
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Speaker 5: is probably Jesse Bates or Kaden Ellis. But they're gonna

603
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Speaker 5: hunt as a pack. And so when you look up

604
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Speaker 5: and you got forty five or fifty sacks on the year,

605
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Speaker 5: which would be a good number you know, you get

606
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Speaker 5: up and towards that sixty, then you're really getting after it.

607
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Speaker 5: But you get forty five to fifty sacks, and they

608
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Speaker 5: come from fourteen different players or ten different players. That's

609
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Speaker 5: the way they want to hunt defensively. They want to

610
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Speaker 5: hunt as a group and different guys. Where Caden's outside,

611
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Speaker 5: Troy Anderson blitzes through the middle, Dorles gets his as

612
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Speaker 5: a young guy. All of a sudden, here comes Grady.

613
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Speaker 5: There's a lot of guys. And that's what I'm looking

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Speaker 5: for from this defense is for them to hunt as

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Speaker 5: a pack.

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Speaker 1: Not necessarily said.

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Speaker 5: Having Arnold b Katie have sixteen sacks. That'd be great

618
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Speaker 5: if he did, But I'm okay if he has eight.

619
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Speaker 5: And then you look over to the other side and

620
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Speaker 5: Breyland trusts Trice has eight, and Dorles has five and

621
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Speaker 5: Grady has six. That's what I'm looking for, And I

622
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Speaker 5: think that's what they envision this defense. They envisioned him

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Speaker 5: to hunt as a pack.

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Speaker 4: Yes, right, How easy is it if you got just

625
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Speaker 4: the JJ Watt, or you just got a Max Crosby,

626
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Speaker 4: or you got one guy who you know is that guy.

627
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Speaker 4: I can slide, I can chip, I can do all

628
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Speaker 4: these things. I know where that guy's gonna be. I

629
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Speaker 4: know who is the problem. Well, to Archer's point, if

630
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Speaker 4: I got seven eight guys who are problem, what am

631
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Speaker 4: I gonna do? And I think that's a good point.

632
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Speaker 4: Is if you got so many different guys who can

633
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Speaker 4: get to the quarterback, that's make an issue. It's hard

634
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Speaker 4: for him off of the corternat and say all right,

635
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Speaker 4: let's key in on one guy and if we shut

636
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Speaker 4: him down, then we got a chance to win the

637
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Speaker 4: ball game. But you can't shut all those guys down.

638
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Speaker 4: So I like the hunting as a.

639
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Speaker 2: Pack started this conversation with the talk of not addressing

640
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Speaker 2: pass rushing with the top ten pick. I would be

641
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Speaker 2: remiss if we did not discuss our top ten pick.

642
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Speaker 2: I got two quarterbacks in the room, so we talked

643
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Speaker 2: about it. After Michael Pennock Unior was drafted, DJ I

644
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Speaker 2: want to come to you and say, what do you

645
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Speaker 2: think the role this year looks like for our top

646
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Speaker 2: ten pick? You know, Coach Rock came out and said,

647
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Speaker 2: as an organization, we made the determination that quarterback is

648
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Speaker 2: not going to be an issue for us in the

649
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Speaker 2: near future. Okay, So that's the reason why they went

650
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Speaker 2: and got them. So what's the role going to look

651
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Speaker 2: like for Michael Pennock Junior this year?

652
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Speaker 3: I got two things.

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Speaker 4: First one is become the biggest sponge that you can

654
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Speaker 4: ever be in your entire life. You got a guy

655
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Speaker 4: who was going to his thirteenth year in the NFL.

656
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 4: Last year in eight games, had over three thousand yards

657
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 4: eighteen touchdowns. By the way, the Falcons had seventeen total

658
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 4: all year last year. And you're gonna have this guy

659
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 4: sitting next to you every single day who will absolutely

660
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 4: show you the way. So become that sponge day in

661
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 4: and day out. Second part about this is every day

662
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 4: that you step into the building, every day that you prepare,

663
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 4: you prepare like that next step could be yours. And

664
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,439
Speaker 4: if you go and attack it in that manner, you

665
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 4: can't tell me that he won't take it to the

666
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 4: field and be the best player that they already know.

667
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 3: You was to be that excited about a guy.

668
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 4: We heard Raw, we heard Terry, we heard everybody talk

669
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 4: about how they want to out to Washington and it's

670
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 4: when it is howling, and this guy impressed him more

671
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 4: than anything. To have a guy come in and have

672
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 4: the ability to baby sit behind a guy like Kirk Cousins,

673
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 4: a true professional, he has to be the ultimate sponge.

674
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 3: Now.

675
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 4: One thing that I saw was pretty cool that they're

676
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 4: doing in camp now is Kirk Cousins as well as

677
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 4: Michael Pennix have a camera on the top of their

678
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 4: on top of their helmet, and you think, oh man,

679
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 4: it's cool. Yeah, they get to see exactly where their

680
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 4: head is. But there's so many other nuances to it.

681
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 4: I heard Michael Pennix talk about, Yeah, I get a

682
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 4: chance to hear how Kirk Cousins calls plays in the huddle.

683
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 4: I can see how he commands it. I can see

684
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 4: what he's looking at. There's so many things that he

685
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 4: can take you that me and arts never had a

686
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 4: chance to see. But you've never had a camera to

687
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 4: be able to see the guy in front of us,

688
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 4: how he operates in the huddle, what he says, how

689
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 4: he talks, how he communicates. All these things are so

690
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 4: good that he can watch and learn from. And I

691
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 4: think he's already gonna be ahead of the schedule because

692
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 4: of what he's done in the I mean, he's been

693
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 4: phenomenal already in practice. You can see the demeanor that

694
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 4: he has and I think the fact that he's got

695
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 4: so many guys around him that's been there and done it.

696
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 4: You talk about how many quarterback coaches that are already

697
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 4: on this roster that could absolutely help him, and then

698
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 4: you got a guy who has been there and done it.

699
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 4: He's in probably one of the best positions I think

700
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 4: of a quarterback coming into the league.

701
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't imagine, like you know, with the

702
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 2: camera on the helmet. I'm sure there's probably some of

703
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 2: this going on. It might not be the best viewing experience,

704
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 2: but to your point, shock like the fact that if

705
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 2: you're really gonna be that sponge and you're Michael Pennix

706
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 2: and you're watching the replay of this stuff on Kirk's helmet,

707
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 2: and like you see him do one of these numbers,

708
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,360
Speaker 2: and you can ask him like, hey, what are you

709
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 2: looking at right there? You talk about invaluable experience right there,

710
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 2: and then Kirk can say, oh, well, that peek over there.

711
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 2: I was trying to get the outside linebacker to show

712
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 2: his hand move it, move one step to the right

713
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 2: to open up the hole for the slant right behind him.

714
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 2: I mean, you talk about an aha moment right there.

715
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 2: You just saw it all like with your own eyes,

716
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 2: and then you're able to come back. Like before Arch

717
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 2: we would have to just have those conversations and then

718
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, if it happens again, I'll let you

719
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 2: know if it happens again.

720
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 4: And here's the other part of that attention to detail

721
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 4: that I love that this organization. Donny Ryce talked about it.

722
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 4: They got two video boards out there. Arch we seen

723
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 4: him last few days and it instantly gives you what

724
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 4: the last play was, quick replay of it. Let's just

725
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 4: say something happens with Kurt and Zachar Robinson and Michael

726
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 4: Penning standing right here, and they can go through it

727
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 4: right now on the field and learn it as opposed

728
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 4: to going back into the meat room and you're like, dang,

729
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 4: what was that play again?

730
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 3: It was?

731
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 4: I think it was in team. It's like the fourth

732
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 4: play and they can learn it right then and right now.

733
00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 4: So the tension of detail be able to learn it

734
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 4: on the spot huge.

735
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is a really cool dimension they've added. It's

736
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 5: brand new this year. They got a gigantic jumbo board

737
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 5: out there that replays, as Shock said, the play that

738
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 5: they just ran. You can be coming jogging back the

739
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 5: huddle looking to Seeay, did I stem that guy the

740
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 5: right way? Did I get where I was supposed to

741
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 5: get to? Did I get the stretch? You know whatever?

742
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 5: It is an unbelievable teaching tool. They have the ability

743
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 5: to rewind it, rewind it right there if they want to.

744
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 5: They want to slow practice down and take a look

745
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 5: at something. So the real time learning Shock hit it

746
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:32,239
Speaker 5: out of the ballpark on that.

747
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: And as far as.

748
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,479
Speaker 5: Michael Pennix and what he should be doing, what we

749
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 5: need to do is just re rack what Shock just

750
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 5: said and play it for him, because Shock, that is exactly.

751
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: What he should be doing, no question about it.

752
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys talked a little bit about the video board.

753
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 2: Like I've I'm just starting to think with every like

754
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 2: you think as a as a as a country, as

755
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 2: as a world, if you will, Like AI has become

756
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 2: really huge, right I'm just starting to think at like

757
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 2: where technology is going to go for the National Football League,

758
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 2: right like all of the next if we're sitting here

759
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 2: in five years, Lord Willing, and we're talking about the

760
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 2: things that I can't even imagine some of the technology

761
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 2: that they're gonna be able to do to better prepare

762
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 2: these guys to get better, to get ready to play,

763
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 2: to learn, I mean, far beyond anything that we had

764
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,719
Speaker 2: back when we were playing. Don't want to sit here

765
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 2: and say the old guys. Last conversation Here is anything

766
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 2: that you guys have seen so far through training camp,

767
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 2: And if you haven't, that's okay. But from a name

768
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 2: or two, like a free agent, a rookie or somebody

769
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 2: else that has caught your eye that you think can

770
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 2: make a difference. And I'll start with you on this one.

771
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 2: Arch somebody. It can't be a Grady Jair. It can't

772
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 2: be Jesse Bates, it can't be Drake London. It's got

773
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 2: to be somebody else a little bit less heard of.

774
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, and I'm going to take someone

775
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 5: we've heard of. In your fantasy draft. It's coming up

776
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 5: probably in the next month or so prior to the

777
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 5: regular season. If you don't draft Kyle Pitts on your team,

778
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 5: you are an idiot. Kyle Pitts is going to have

779
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 5: a monster season.

780
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 3: Get ready.

781
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 5: I mean if you hopefully there was a lot of

782
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 5: people that'll shock you. And I were at checking your

783
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 5: high school and thanks to those people out there, great

784
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:14,959
Speaker 5: hosts and allowing us to come out there the Gwenett

785
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 5: County Schools really cool. Kyle Pitts went off out there

786
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 5: the other day. I mean catching the ball on the sideline,

787
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 5: going over the top of people he's playing with.

788
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 3: You know that.

789
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 5: Purpose that guy you saw as a rookie, Well why

790
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 5: not the guy that was kind of his quarterback his

791
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 5: rookie year just walked back through the door with younger

792
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 5: legs and all that. And Matt Ryan is now Kirk

793
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 5: Cousins is That's that's who he's got.

794
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 3: So that would be the.

795
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 5: First thing that I would say is is don't be

796
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 5: surprised if that guy has a monster year. In fact,

797
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 5: I'm predicting that he has a gigantic season as far

798
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 5: as a guy off off the kind of off the

799
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 5: main highway a little bit. How about Smith Williams, the

800
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 5: young young man and for James Smith Williams. We acquire

801
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 5: James Smith Williams in free agency from the Washington Commanders.

802
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 5: Had some mixed reviews. There was banged up some He

803
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 5: has looked really good in camp. I mean stout on

804
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 5: the perimeter. He's gonna play kind of a kind of

805
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:20,359
Speaker 5: a stand up linebacker, larger sized linebacker, but he's had

806
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 5: some really good moments against the run, uh and and

807
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 5: shown some prowess against the pass as well. I think

808
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 5: he's gonna be a nice mix to that. And I

809
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 5: think that that was a that was kind of a

810
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:33,240
Speaker 5: quiet acquisition that has He's got playtime in the National

811
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 5: Football League, He's had success in the league, played his

812
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 5: college ball at NC State. I think the kid, this

813
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 5: guy has a chance to maybe make a difference.

814
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 4: How about you, shock uh, I think one of the three receivers,

815
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 4: I think Rary mclo's been a guy that that's kind

816
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 4: of stuck out to me a little bit. You watch

817
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,800
Speaker 4: some of the things that he can do within this offense,

818
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 4: and you're talking about just finding extra guys that get

819
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 4: the ball in space. We know what Bejean to do

820
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 4: in space. We know what you know you're trying to

821
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 4: trying to feature Kyle. I think he's gonna be the

822
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 4: jack of a trade where you get him probably you know,

823
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 4: four or five touches a ballgame or something, and one

824
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 4: of those probably goes to the house, or he picks

825
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 4: up a big first down, or he breaks a couple attack,

826
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 4: whatever it may be. I think he's gonna be the

827
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 4: guy that inside that slid area, a guy that you

828
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 4: can find creative ways to get the football team wavers

829
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 4: on a bubble screen, or maybe it's you know, quick

830
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 4: little auction routes or something, but one of those kind

831
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 4: of guys that when they're doubling all those other guys,

832
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 4: he's gonna find a way to go win. So I'm

833
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 4: looking forward to seeing, you know, out of the three

834
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 4: we brought in, Rondo Moore, I think Darnelle Moon's gonna

835
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 4: be awesome, gonna be a guy that absolutely disjudges the field.

836
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 4: But Ray Ray on the inside is a guy that

837
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 4: you got to be looking forward to seeing how they

838
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:42,720
Speaker 4: value him in this offense.

839
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's it kind of has to happen, right, Fellaws,

840
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 2: Like I think opposing defenses were that are game planning

841
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 2: for Atlanta years past, it'd say, can't be beat by

842
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 2: Drake London, can't be beat by Kyle Pitts. And then

843
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 2: and then last year they had to say, all right,

844
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 2: this be Jon Robinson's kind of like a wide receiver, right,

845
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 2: but they've got to have that wide receiver threat that's

846
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 2: gonna take some pressure off to let Drake London do

847
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 2: what Drake London can do because we've seen flashes, we've

848
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,320
Speaker 2: seen glimpses of what the mismatches that he can create.

849
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 2: But if you can always roll a safety over top

850
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 2: because you're not necessarily worried that somebody on the backside's

851
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 2: gonna be able to beat you, or there's not been

852
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 2: somebody that's proven in a two man game that's gonna

853
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 2: run a combination route with Drake and they're gonna make

854
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 2: a defense pay, they're gonna sit on him. So that's

855
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 2: what this offense needs. I'm gonna go with I'm gonna

856
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 2: give you, guys one one name. You mentioned it earlier,

857
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,240
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna go with Ruke Roro for a couple

858
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 2: of reasons. When you get drafted and the owner is

859
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 2: talking to you and you're basically not even paying attention.

860
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 1: You're just telling him, let's go.

861
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,760
Speaker 2: Like, I want to see the energy in the passing

862
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 2: passion that we saw in draft night from him coming

863
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 2: up through the middle on the defense right.

864
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: Very well schooled.

865
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 2: Had a year or two with Brent Ventables at Clemson,

866
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 2: one of my opinion, one of the better defensive coordinators

867
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 2: in college football. The guy's got the passion he's got

868
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 2: the power. As you talked about, we need more guys

869
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 2: creating havoc on the defense, somebody that I'm interested to

870
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 2: see if they can find the role for him. And

871
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 2: when he gets the opportunity, that passion that we saw

872
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 2: from you on draft night, I want to see it

873
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,240
Speaker 2: from snap to whistle.

874
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: Aren't you kay?

875
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,320
Speaker 3: Every time? Right? I mean, I'm gonna call him the

876
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 3: Big O A lot I was gonna call.

877
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 5: I was hoping that, like they gave him ninety eight,

878
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 5: I was hoping they give him ninety nine, they call

879
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:25,279
Speaker 5: him agent ninety nine. Aged ninety eight just doesn't have

880
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 5: the same feel to it. I might do that a

881
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 5: little bit. I told him I was gonna call him

882
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:29,320
Speaker 5: the Big O O.

883
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:29,879
Speaker 3: That's great.

884
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 2: That's great for those that'll swrinkle in a.

885
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 5: Rourer road from time to time.

886
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 2: For those that are unaware, we have three broadcasters that

887
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 2: call games up here, and sometimes the last names that

888
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 2: are challenging are a nightmare because when you're trying to

889
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 2: call something full speed in action and you're just trying

890
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 2: to rip a last name off and then all of

891
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 2: a sudden you just start stumbling and stumbling and stumbling.

892
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: It just like kills. The whole action of you trying

893
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: and Dave is gonna have to guarantee all three of

894
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 1: us have problems.

895
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 5: Been sitting in your car going rooke a row row row.

896
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 1: And in your car it seems so easy. Yeah, and

897
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: then then you start thinking about in person.

898
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 3: That's when you're like, yeah.

899
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 2: But then when you're trying to say that, he comes

900
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 2: off the hip of David Anyamada, and then you're trying

901
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 2: to say anyamada and Row row to get telling you

902
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 2: it's a recipe for exactly they go, Let's go all right,

903
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:26,800
Speaker 2: that's gonna wrap it up for the Falcons Audible presented

904
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 2: by AT and T. Hopefully we gave you a little

905
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 2: bit of refresher, gave you a little bit of excitement

906
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 2: as we are now in training camp, and it's just

907
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 2: think about some of the things that we got coming

908
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 2: down the line. We got joint practices, we got preseason

909
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 2: games coming up, and that's when position battles start coming

910
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 2: a little bit more clear, start figuring out who's gonna

911
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 2: be on the field, and then you won't really get

912
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 2: a chance to see what this offense is gonna look like,

913
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:47,879
Speaker 2: as Arts told us, until we get to the first

914
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 2: regular season game, but that's okay. We want to keep

915
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 2: a little bit of that stuff to ourselves, a little

916
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 2: bit tight to the vest.

917
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:55,839
Speaker 1: And then when we get to opening weekend we can

918
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 1: let it go.

919
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 2: Let's go, all right. That's DJ Shockley as Dave Archer.

920
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 2: We are back on Derek Coractley. So happy to be

921
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,240
Speaker 2: back here to talk about some NFL footballs Atlanta Falcons.

922
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 2: Hopefully we're back here on a weekly basis, and if so,

923
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 2: we plan to bring it for you each and every week.

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00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, everybody,