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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Tory macleenny onmnus upon and tarn Walk here for the

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Speaker 2: Falcons final whistle pregame show presented by Zaxby's Man Do

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Speaker 2: We Have a Doozy? The Falcons are back in primetime

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Speaker 2: for the first time since win.

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Speaker 3: Taran twenty twenty two for Primetime twenty twenty for Monday Night.

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Speaker 1: There We Go. I knew, I knew she had that

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Speaker 1: on tap.

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Speaker 2: I knew that you had those dates right off the

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Speaker 2: dome or yeah did though?

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Speaker 1: No, no, you're duly right, that was right? No, no,

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Speaker 1: thank you.

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Speaker 2: So Monday night football matchup with the Atlanta Falcons facing

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Speaker 2: the Philadelphia Eagles up in Philly. It's going to be

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Speaker 2: a mad house because it's also the first time that

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Speaker 2: the Eagles are back in the United States of America

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Speaker 2: for a game. They started off their twenty twenty four

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Speaker 2: season down in Brazil beating the Green Bay Packers. What

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Speaker 2: was it thirty four to twenty nine? Lot to talk

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Speaker 2: about going into this matchup, Falcons are coming off of

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Speaker 2: their Week one loss against the Pittsburgh Steelers, where they

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Speaker 2: lost to a team that did not score a touchdown

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Speaker 2: only scored ten points themselves. So let's really get into it.

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Speaker 2: I want to start with this idea of the Falcons

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Speaker 2: are back in primetime, and I know I said it

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Speaker 2: off the top, but I do think that's a pretty

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Speaker 2: big deal because they didn't have a primetime slot at

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Speaker 2: all last year. This has been a team that, even

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Speaker 2: if they have been in a primetime slot in the

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Speaker 2: last few years, hasn't really gone super well for them.

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Speaker 2: So more than anybody else, you two have been in

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Speaker 2: every conversation with players and coaches this week. You've been

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Speaker 2: in the locker room. What are the Falcons contingency saying

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Speaker 2: about tonight or not tonight but Monday night, and what

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Speaker 2: it means for even the franchise as a whole.

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Speaker 4: You want to go, Yeah, I mean it's a little

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Speaker 4: bit boring, but it's kind of just like and I

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Speaker 4: get that mentality of like, it's just another game. It

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Speaker 4: doesn't matter if it's at night, if it's at Monday Thursday,

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Speaker 4: doesn't matter when the ball snapped. It's like football, right,

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Speaker 4: And I totally get that. Is like, you know, you

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Speaker 4: kind of have to have that like neutral mindset and

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Speaker 4: you can't get too higher love riding that world coaster.

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Speaker 4: But Jesse Bates. I loved what he said where he's like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: like the whole world is watching, like we want to

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Speaker 4: go out and show what we can do, especially after

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Speaker 4: that that Week one you know, bummer, Yeah, like you

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Speaker 4: you definitely want to turn it up in those moments.

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Speaker 3: M hm no, I second what she said. It was

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Speaker 3: mainly like the coaches and yeah, the coaches. I don't

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Speaker 3: know where I was going to add to that, because

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Speaker 3: it was the coaches who were saying it's more exciting

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Speaker 3: for the players than it is for us. For us,

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Speaker 3: it's still game planning for a game. Football is football

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Speaker 3: at the end of the day. But you did have

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Speaker 3: a few players be like, oh, I mean it is

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Speaker 3: exciting because Jesse said that even though he has been

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Speaker 3: in primetime in his career. But there are some younger ones,

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Speaker 3: say but John Robinson where you could see the smile

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Speaker 3: on his face where he's like big lights, big stage,

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Speaker 3: like let's do it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And to the point that what Jesse was saying, it's

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Speaker 2: like the Falcons went out last week in Week one

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Speaker 2: and didn't play to the level of expectation, particularly on

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Speaker 2: our expectations for them, they didn't meet them and they

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Speaker 2: have said we didn't meet expectations. The whole talking point

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Speaker 2: year is there's a difference between perception and reality. Perception

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Speaker 2: of this team is that it's a good roster, it

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Speaker 2: can go win games, it can be leaders in their division.

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Speaker 2: The reality of what it was in week one was

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Speaker 2: not that, and they have to turn it around. They

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Speaker 2: have to turn it around quickly because, like what I

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Speaker 2: said on this show this time last week was like,

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Speaker 2: you can't hide, You cannot hide from the onslaught of

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Speaker 2: powerhouse football that you need to be ready to play

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Speaker 2: in the first four weeks of this season based on

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Speaker 2: the schedule that you've been dealt. That again comes up

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Speaker 2: in week to Monday Night football in Philadelphia against a

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Speaker 2: when we're kind of thinking about the differences of what

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Speaker 2: expectations and reality and perspective should be, with all eyes

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Speaker 2: on the Falcons offense, because that's where the eyes are

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Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, what.

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Speaker 1: Did I know?

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Speaker 2: We all had different points of contact between locker room

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Speaker 1: But for the two of you.

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Speaker 2: When it comes to what Kirk Cousins and Zach Robinson

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Speaker 2: has said about this unit and how it needs to

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Speaker 2: bounce back from week one to week two, what's been

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Speaker 2: the most telling thing that you've heard them say going

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Speaker 2: into this matchup.

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Speaker 1: What's tough is I.

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Speaker 3: Don't feel like they've necessarily been talking about what they're

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Speaker 3: going to change moving forward, because the questions have.

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Speaker 5: All been geared toward what already happened. If that makes sense, No, that.

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Speaker 3: Makes sense, and so if anything, the moving forward is

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Speaker 3: cleaning up mistakes, making the operation smooth, no turnovers, operate

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Speaker 3: like they think they can.

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Speaker 5: But that's about where that.

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Speaker 3: Ends, because the questions keep circling back to Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 3: Was in pistol, Kirk Cousins Achilles, Yeah, Kirk Cousins, this

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Speaker 3: like play calling this, and I understand why, but I

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Speaker 3: do feel like we're still living in week one in

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Speaker 3: because again, it was the biggest story, and the point

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Speaker 3: they keep making is the game plan was contingent on

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Speaker 3: the season and if so, week two will prove that.

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Speaker 3: If they go out and do the exact same thing,

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Speaker 3: then you can't say it's going to eb and flow right.

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Speaker 3: But so you can let that one go like play

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Speaker 3: calling was what it was because of the game. Sure

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Speaker 3: believe it, because that's what they said. You don't have

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Speaker 3: insight into those meetings. Yeah, And then when it comes

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Speaker 3: to Kirk and his achilles, he said he's fine, Zach

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Speaker 3: Robinson said he's fine. Raheem Morris said he's fine. If

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Speaker 3: we could talk to the team doctor, I'm sure he would.

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Speaker 5: Say he's fine.

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Speaker 3: I don't know who on Twitter is a doctor being

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Speaker 3: like hmmm wrong.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing. This thing has taken on a life

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Speaker 2: Exactly, and the Achilles can fly right Like I truly

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Speaker 2: it's really hard for me sitting here right now. And

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Speaker 2: because I understand where people are coming from. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: understand that given what the offense looked like on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: they have come to their conclusions and they're sticking with them.

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Speaker 3: They were disappointed and need something to blame, where the

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Speaker 3: Falcons aren't blaming anyone.

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Speaker 2: The thing is is the Falcons are sitting there being

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Speaker 2: like Zach Robinson literally verbatim said, I take full responsibility.

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Speaker 5: Yeah that was a big way. Yeah, it really was.

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Speaker 4: That was my biggest takeaway, right like that, He.

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Speaker 2: Literally stood up there and said the first couple things

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Speaker 2: the way that this offense missed a step. And I

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Speaker 2: I thought that was very telling. This is the first

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Speaker 2: and the fact that in his first press conference where

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 6: I need to be better.

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Speaker 5: There are things of volume.

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Speaker 2: Right like, there are things that I know I need

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Speaker 2: to do better to prepare this offense, and in moment

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Speaker 2: nuances of game calling, like I know and play calling

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Speaker 2: I need to.

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Speaker 1: Be better too.

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Speaker 2: At the end of the day, though, I think I

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Speaker 2: believe it or not. I just there's no conspiracy that

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Speaker 2: the Falcons are doing what they're doing and did what

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Speaker 2: they did Game one because Kirk Cousins can't physically do something.

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Speaker 2: And the reason why I say that is like, we

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Speaker 2: I again, I understand why people feel that way, but

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Speaker 2: when they're I just recommend that people go back and

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Speaker 2: more than anything we can say, you cannot believe me.

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Speaker 2: You can kind of tune me out if you want to,

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Speaker 2: but go and just listen to Zach Robinson and Kirk

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Speaker 2: Cousins press conferences from Thursday afternoon. I felt like they

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Speaker 2: were asked the questions that they needed to be asked

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Speaker 2: about pistol, shotgun, under center, Kirk's health, play calling, all

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Speaker 2: of those things, and I felt like the answers that

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Speaker 2: they came very prepared with answers to explain what happened

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and they were giving full explanations. I know. The

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Speaker 5: one thing that everyone was also harping on was these stance. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: Kirk stands concenter r right foot four.

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Speaker 3: He was squared up and if I could stand up

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Speaker 3: see it. But the point of being square is so

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Speaker 3: your back off to one side of the defense. Because

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Speaker 3: if you were right foot forward and you're turning the

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Speaker 3: opposite way, you're really shutting yourself off.

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Speaker 5: Is that like the blindside right there? Like exactly, it's

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Speaker 5: a new blind side.

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Speaker 2: But that's the thing, is like, that's what Kirk was

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Speaker 2: talking about. And he talked about talking to Peyton Manning

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Speaker 2: and going back and looking at Peyton Manning and when

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Speaker 2: he knew that foundationally fundamentally back in April that using

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Speaker 2: and working out of pistol was something that Zach Robinson

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Speaker 2: really wanted to do. He was like, Okay, I need

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Speaker 2: to evolve my game. And to be fair, Taran, you

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Speaker 2: actually wrote the story on atlantafalcons dot Com about like

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Speaker 2: this isn't actually an evolution of his game. This is

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Speaker 2: something he's done before.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he started in the square stance when he was

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Speaker 3: with Washington because they ran in the pistol and so

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Speaker 3: he's like, I did that in twenty twelve.

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Speaker 5: I did that in twenty three.

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Speaker 3: I think then he switched to left foot forward and

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Speaker 3: then he switched to right foot forward and stuck with it.

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Speaker 5: But he's tried all three. He's done all three.

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Speaker 3: And he's just doing what's best in this moment, and

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Speaker 3: he thinks that is being squared off.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and if.

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Speaker 4: We zoom out a little bit, those was just week one,

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Speaker 4: like just one game, Like this guy is not following

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Speaker 4: I know that the fifty offensive plays. Yeah, Like there's

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Speaker 4: gonna be it's gonna be a like we all knew

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Speaker 4: this when schedule least came out, there was like it's

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Speaker 4: gonna be rough. And then you have the you know,

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Speaker 4: Kirk Cousin just coming off an injury and like the

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Speaker 2: Let's talk a little bit more about this matchup as

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Speaker 2: we move on. Philadelphia is coming off of a thirty

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Speaker 2: four to twenty nine win over the Green Bay Packers

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Speaker 2: last week in Brazil, Brazil, which we the three of

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Speaker 2: us watched that game together in Poor on the beltline

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Speaker 2: celebrating Terrence's birthday, which was super fun. But I really

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Speaker 2: well rounded offensive attack. It with Sekwon Barkley's Eagles debut,

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Speaker 2: and he ran for one hundred and nine yards on

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Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts was twenty of thirty four through the air

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Speaker 1: Five and still lost.

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Speaker 2: So to me, that tells me this is a defense

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Speaker 2: that'll bend. They'll bend, they'll bend, but they're not breaking.

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Speaker 1: I think.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Packers were one for four in the red zone,

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, tick one barklay like without a question, like that's

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 4: But defensively, I find it interesting that the Eagles, you

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Speaker 4: said seven point one per.

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Speaker 6: Yards per play average.

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Speaker 4: They had seven point eight yards per carry on the rush.

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Speaker 1: So but Jean, yeah, coming in like coming in hot.

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Speaker 4: And then and then for the Falcons, like they hold

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Speaker 4: they hold Nay Harris to like three point five yards

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Speaker 4: that's not That's something I'll look like root for with

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Speaker 4: So like, obviously Saquon Barkley is on a whole other

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you got run game just on both sides

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Speaker 3: I'm glad she touched on the because I'm just going

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Speaker 3: to week one, I want to see the Falcons offense

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Speaker 3: show us more. Yeah, and you have a good defense

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Speaker 3: in the Eagles. They Raheem Morris has talked about it,

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Speaker 3: saying they're one of the best. They applauded the defensive coaches.

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Speaker 3: They have some really good secondary weapons. That it's kind

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Speaker 3: of like, all right, all eyes on, you prove that

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Speaker 3: Week one was a fluke. Yeah, that it was an

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Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, the defense did its job. The defense

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Raheem Morris said, we played winning football in two of

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Speaker 5: Was the storyline, Yeah, that.

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Speaker 1: Was the storyline coming out of that game.

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Speaker 2: And it's up to this Falcons offense to show that

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Speaker 5: And we talk about team identity.

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Speaker 4: you can Yeah, just figure it out.

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Speaker 5: With the locker room speech.

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Speaker 3: I know this is where your identity is made forged.

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Speaker 1: And put me into coach. I'm ready for the.

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Speaker 5: Pregame sit iron.

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Speaker 2: When y'all see the pregame speech and it's on the

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Speaker 2: don't be surprised. All right, guys, we are going through

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Speaker 2: our last topic and it is a new game that

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Speaker 1: I love a game.

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Speaker 2: It's called Higher and Lower, so it's pretty self explanatory.

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Speaker 2: We are interning this game where I asked Taran and

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Speaker 2: Omna exactly what the name of the game states. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna go through five key stats from the Falcons lost

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Speaker 2: last week against the Steelers. Omna and Arran, you must

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Speaker 2: give a prediction. Will this stat that I'm saying be

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Speaker 2: good about it. Everybody understand we do very self explainatory.

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Speaker 2: I don't watch I watch it. Okay, let's start off

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Speaker 2: with Jean Robinson. Last week he had sixty eight rushing

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Speaker 2: yards on eighteen carries. Do you feel like that will

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Speaker 4: Higher, especially the yards the carries. I think it might

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Speaker 4: if you have eighteen carries, you gotta have some higher

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Speaker 1: Cool, Okay?

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Speaker 5: Lower?

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Speaker 3: Lower?

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Speaker 2: I knew Arran was gonna come in with some hot takes,

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Speaker 2: all right, Why lower?

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Speaker 3: Because I think they're gonna want to kind of balance

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Speaker 3: Because you did see Kyle Pitts and Drake London combined

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Speaker 3: I think, oh, Drake Alive had three targets?

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Speaker 1: Nost Kyle together? Kyle and Drake had five catch up?

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Speaker 3: my bad, thank you? Yeah, but yes at numbers nonethe

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Speaker 3: So that's why I think Jon's numbers might be pulled

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Speaker 3: that Bajeon was in.

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Speaker 2: This is something that I even asked Zach Robinson about

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Speaker 2: on Thursday. I was like, Jeon was in on fifty

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Speaker 2: Is that kind of and he said, he was like,

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't get too bogged down on what you saw

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Speaker 2: in week one. Yeah, and that become like a trend.

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Speaker 2: He and he even said like, and you know, Tyler

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Speaker 2: So Bajeon had eighteen, Tyler Alger had three. So I

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Speaker 2: don't I almost kind of feel in between both of

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Speaker 2: y'all where I do feel like eighteen carries if you

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Speaker 2: have seventy four plays instead of fifty six. Fifty to

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Speaker 2: fifty six, then eighteen is right on par. But you

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Speaker 2: would hope that the yards would be more. But I

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Speaker 2: also feel like what you're saying can be true at

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Speaker 2: the exact same time where it's like getting Tyler Alger

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Speaker 2: more involved, getting the past game going a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: So, it'll be interesting.

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Speaker 5: To see not Toy breaking the rules of her own game.

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Speaker 1: In the first I'm the moderator. I can break it

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Speaker 1: is my game.

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Speaker 2: Let me have this, Okay, Ray Ray McLeod, he had

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Speaker 2: seven targets on Sunday nights or Sunday afternoons game. Do

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Speaker 2: and I'm going to start with you because I think

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with lower.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, mainly because of what I said for the exact

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Speaker 1: Omna SAME's Ray Ray show Baby, No.

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Speaker 4: I'm kidding done, Yeah, back it up. No, Lower, You've

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Speaker 4: got to get those other guys involved. With how talented

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Speaker 2: Right, And I even Zach Robinson said we got to

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Speaker 2: So I'm also gonna go lower. Let's move to the defense.

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Speaker 2: The defense had two sacks against the Steelers, one and

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Speaker 2: Matthew Judon. Amna going back to you, do you think

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Speaker 2: the Falcons will sack Jalen Hurts higher or lower than

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Speaker 4: I don't want to break the rules. I feel like

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Speaker 6: So did justin fields, right.

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Speaker 4: But they were still able to get to break that

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Speaker 3: Okay, Karen, I circled higher, but then sitting here, I

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Speaker 1: Okay, there you go.

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Speaker 3: But I think it's solely because I think you're gonna

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Speaker 5: I'm more comfortable now another week.

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Speaker 3: Of practice in where he can truly show his past

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually I think I'm gonna agree with you.

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Speaker 2: is not the right word, but it was very It

443
00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:53,679
Speaker 2: was very fundamental, very basic. It wasn't very elaborate, it

444
00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:57,160
Speaker 2: wasn't very flashy, which I think worked well for this defense. Obviously,

445
00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:01,680
Speaker 2: Steelers didn't score a touchdown, so that's all well and good.

446
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,399
Speaker 2: I say higher because I do think that we haven't

447
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Speaker 2: seen even an iota of what this defense has in

448
00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:13,919
Speaker 2: its arsenal and what it can do and kind of

449
00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:19,359
Speaker 2: getting more different, getting different looks involved some more elaborate blitzes.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps you know, we'll see on that.

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Speaker 2: But I even though it is Jalen Hurts in the pocket,

452
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Speaker 2: I think you can learn a lot from going from

453
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Speaker 2: justin Fields and his skill set and kind of seeing

454
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Speaker 2: how the mistakes that you maybe made and allowing him

455
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Speaker 2: to leak out of the pocket a little bit more

456
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Speaker 2: to look at Jalen Hurts and be like, Okay, we

457
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Speaker 2: feel like, we're in a better spot than we were

458
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Speaker 2: in Week one.

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Speaker 1: We understand this.

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Speaker 2: Type of play, quarterback play. We know he's gonna when,

461
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Speaker 2: we know how he can hurt us with his legs.

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Speaker 2: So how do you gain plan against that? And I

463
00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:56,720
Speaker 2: think the Falcons defense, there are a lot of veterans

464
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Speaker 2: on this defense, and I think that they I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's one of those things where I think you even

466
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Speaker 2: talk about somebody like Jesse Bates. I feel like sometimes

467
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Speaker 2: Jesse Bates is a guy who he sees something happen

468
00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:10,000
Speaker 2: once and he gets maybe burned on it, or he

469
00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:11,960
Speaker 2: doesn't play it exactly how he wants to, and it's

470
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Speaker 2: very regularly. Do you see someone like him make the

471
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Speaker 2: same mistake twice? And I think that mindset and that

472
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Speaker 2: mentality can bleed over into the entire defense. We're moving on,

473
00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:27,080
Speaker 2: going back to the offense. They had three turnovers against

474
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Speaker 2: the Steelers, two interceptions and one was a botched snap,

475
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Speaker 2: fumbled snap that the Steelers are covered. Taran, do you

476
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Speaker 2: think three turnovers higher or I'll even say, like stay

477
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Speaker 2: the same for this one. Do you think it'll stay

478
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Speaker 2: the same or be higher or do you think that

479
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Speaker 2: they'll rectify that and it'll be lower.

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Speaker 3: So with this one, my mindset was more so what

481
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Speaker 3: they need, and so I went lower because I don't

482
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Speaker 3: think the offense that we saw last week is what

483
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Speaker 3: this offense is going to be on a consistent basis.

484
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Speaker 3: But at the same time, I need to see it

485
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Speaker 3: to believe it for sure. So they need lower.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I absolutely agree they neat it, and I also

487
00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 4: think it will be lower because I think that this

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Speaker 4: this offense, Kirk Cousins, this offensive line like they're veterans.

489
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Speaker 4: They know how to do this, they know how to

490
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Speaker 4: play in a tough environment. Kirk Cousins has been you know,

491
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Speaker 4: played at Philly several times, so they they should get

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Speaker 4: it done and I think they will.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, I'm also you know what I'll go I'll

494
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Speaker 2: go lower with you guys. You know, feeling feel like

495
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Speaker 2: things are you want things to evolve in the right direction.

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Speaker 2: And if the Falcons do not turn the ball over

497
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Speaker 2: three times against the Steelers, perhaps we're having a very

498
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,880
Speaker 2: different We're probably still having the same points of contention

499
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Speaker 2: that we have and same talking points, but maybe we're

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Speaker 2: talking about a win and.

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Speaker 6: Not a loss.

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Speaker 5: They're not as bolded. Yeah, if there's not three.

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Speaker 3: It can be the same topics, but it's not bold

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Speaker 3: highlighted exclamation.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, and it's not the sky is falling and Kirk

506
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Speaker 2: Cousins is hurt and like, what in the world is

507
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Speaker 2: Zach Robinson doing? Which is like now the prevailing like

508
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Speaker 2: talking point of the last five days, last one, and

509
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Speaker 2: then we'll wrap up offense. Y'all had to know I

510
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,199
Speaker 2: was going to get a formation question here, because we

511
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 2: can't go two minutes without someone asking us about formation. Pistol,

512
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Speaker 2: shotgun under center, Kirk Cousins stance. I know we talked

513
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Speaker 2: about it at the top of the show. The Falcons

514
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:28,480
Speaker 2: only had two snaps from under center, granted again very

515
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Speaker 2: shortened drives, so we don't know how many more were

516
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Speaker 2: in Arsenal Arsenal, But we have also heard from Zach

517
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,119
Speaker 2: Robinson and Kirk Cousins this past week saying we like

518
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Speaker 2: working out a pistol.

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Speaker 5: I loved that, right, I like the pistol.

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Speaker 3: I like the variety game stil end of story for

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Speaker 3: me exactly.

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Speaker 2: He's like, and the Rams did had eighty percent or more.

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Speaker 2: I can't remember they had seventy four offensive plays. Eighty

524
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Speaker 2: percent or more was in shotgun or pistol, and they

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Speaker 2: had ten of seventy seventy four plays run under center.

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Speaker 3: You ready for the number of pistol, please, let's go.

527
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 3: Sixty three point two percent were pistol for the Rams.

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Speaker 1: So here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: No one out there is asking about Matthew Stafford and

530
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Speaker 2: if he's hurt, like you know.

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Speaker 3: Like Sean McVay is not, like, well, let me explain

532
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Speaker 3: why we ran out of pistol.

533
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,359
Speaker 2: Right, No one's asking No one's asking that question. It's

534
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Speaker 2: just the fact that this is.

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Speaker 1: All new in Atlanta.

536
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Speaker 5: There's a lot of detail.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of details. So that's beside the point.

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Speaker 5: AnyWho.

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Speaker 2: The fal Falcans offense ran two had two plays from

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Speaker 2: under center. One was a fourth and one call that

541
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Speaker 2: it was a hand offf to Bajon. It looked like

542
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Speaker 2: it was going to be a quarterback snake ended up

543
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 2: handing it off to Pajon. And then the other one

544
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Speaker 2: was in the fourth quarter when I believe it was

545
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:44,359
Speaker 2: when Kirk Cousins Spike clocked the ball or clocked it.

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Speaker 1: So two snaps under center, higher or lower.

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Speaker 3: Ladies, if you want to do it on the kunt

548
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Speaker 3: of three, okay, one, two, three, higher.

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Speaker 4: But you hesitate because here's the thing, it's a higher

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Speaker 4: with the caveat.

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Speaker 1: I think you can go much lower than two, say lower, but.

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Speaker 3: You hesitated, You hard hesitated and waited to see what

553
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Speaker 3: I was gonna.

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Speaker 4: Say, yes, and I don't know higher, And if it's higher,

555
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,399
Speaker 4: it's gonna it's not gonna be by much more. I

556
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,680
Speaker 4: don't think they're gonna go and throw everything away because

557
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:20,479
Speaker 4: of what other people are saying, because of the questions.

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00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:22,640
Speaker 4: This is something that Kirk Cousin said was a big

559
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 4: fundamental philosophy. They started in April, and like you guys

560
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Speaker 4: said with the Rams, that's where Zach Robinson comes from.

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Speaker 4: They're not gonna just throw everything out because things went

562
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Speaker 4: wrong in week one. They're gonna keep doing what they've

563
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Speaker 4: been installing for the last you know, several months.

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Speaker 1: No, that's a great point.

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Speaker 5: I'm just like equal to.

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Speaker 3: Tarn rebuttal oh I said higher though, oh no, oh,

567
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Speaker 3: go higher, higher, high.

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Speaker 5: You know what I would love though.

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Speaker 2: If they come out in the first drive and it's

570
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Speaker 2: all under center.

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Speaker 3: No, they do none, they do not just like prove

572
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Speaker 3: them double down complete out of pettiness and be like

573
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Speaker 3: not a single snap under center, But that's not gonna happen.

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Speaker 5: It's gonna be higher than two.

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00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, because even yesterday I practice, we saw Kirk taking

576
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,239
Speaker 3: snaps under center and I was like, whoa, But that

577
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,120
Speaker 3: was all training camp too, exactly.

578
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: That was another thing that I was like, what are

579
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 1: we doing here?

580
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 2: Because there were a bunch of like videos and stuff

581
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 2: that were posted from open media period about Kirk. It's

582
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 2: just proof and it was like they did that all

583
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 2: of training camp too, like every time we saw them

584
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Speaker 2: working on individual drills like they were working under center

585
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 1: Like that's the thing is like none of this is new.

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00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 2: I don't guarantee it, but if we're using the Rams

588
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 2: offense as a base point, which just should we knew

589
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 2: this going into twenty twenty four because of Zach Robinson's history,

590
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 2: because of the reason you know what you know, you know,

591
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 2: you know you're not gonna.

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Speaker 5: Just flip it exactly week one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I do think that it'll be higher. But

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00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 2: I also add to both of y'all's point the little

595
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 2: caveat that it's like they have said and they even

596
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:03,360
Speaker 2: they said it this week, like we like pistol, we

597
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 2: like it. And if here's the thing is, if they

598
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 2: go out against Philadelphia and they are able to run

599
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,160
Speaker 2: seventy plus plays, I do think you see a lot

600
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Speaker 2: more variety than what they were not able to show

601
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Speaker 2: in the second half, particularly against the Steelers. So that's

602
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Speaker 2: where I'll leave it. People can disagree with us all

603
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 2: day long. Honestly, if you disagree with us, go ahead

604
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Speaker 2: and just comment down and say why.

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00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 1: You disagree with us?

606
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,159
Speaker 5: Like, do it nicely?

607
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 1: Well, disagree too much?

608
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 3: You can all you want. Yeah, just say nice, Just

609
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 3: say yeah, nicely, say nice?

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Speaker 1: You say terrible today, You're welcome.

611
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Speaker 2: All right, We're gonna end on that Falcons Monday night football.

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Speaker 2: We are back in primetime, baby, So everyone makes sure

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Speaker 2: you like comment, subscribe even.

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Speaker 1: If you don't like the conversation, tell us why why not.

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Speaker 1: I'm just kind of setting myself. We love discourse. Apparently.

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Speaker 3: I'm just I'm at the point where like whatever or

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00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 3: is about to give out her phone number today, text

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00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 3: me what you think, call me get away.

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Speaker 4: The Falcons are the same, They're like, say what you

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00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 4: want to say. We're gonna go employ a Monday night regardless.

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Speaker 4: There you go, Omna, that's a great note to end

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Speaker 4: on again. Falcons final Whistle presented by Zaxby's.

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Speaker 1: For Omna Tarran, I'm Tory. We will see y'all on

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Speaker 1: Tuesday morning, bright and early. Amna and I will be there.

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Speaker 1: Tarran will be on a flight back from Philadelphia.

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00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 2: So she won't be sitting down with us, but we

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Speaker 2: have someone filling in and I'm really excited to have

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Speaker 2: her have her podcast debut.

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Speaker 6: So we will see you on Tuesday,