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Speaker 1: What's going on Falcons fans. Tory mcaleney joined by Will McFadden,

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Speaker 1: and we are coming to you once more to go

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Speaker 1: over some free agency targets. Now. This is a series

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Speaker 1: of stories that we are doing over the course of

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Speaker 1: the next few weeks as we're leading into free agency.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't already, Will and Tarren walk actually set

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Speaker 1: down not too long ago to talk about five ed

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Speaker 1: drushers on the open market, or who will be on

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Speaker 1: the open market, who they really liked, the kind of

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Speaker 1: the pros and cons for each, Why one guy made since,

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Speaker 1: why maybe another guy made more since? If you haven't

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Speaker 1: seen that, go check that out. You can find it

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Speaker 1: on any of our podcast channels, whether it be Spotify, YouTube,

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Speaker 1: Apple Podcast, all of those things. But today we're not

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Speaker 1: talking about ed drushers. We will be talking about cornerbacks.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: As we're kind of setting the stage a little bit,

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Speaker 1: it's important to note that some news came out on

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Speaker 1: Wednesday afternoon where basically the NFL informed teams that the

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Speaker 1: salary cap for each club would be between about two

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy seven point five million and two hundred

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Speaker 1: and eighty one point five million. Now, I know, I

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Speaker 1: just threw some numbers and figures at you, but basically

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Speaker 1: what you need to know is that from twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: three to twenty twenty four there was the single largest

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Speaker 1: went up just over thirty million dollars that teams could use.

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Speaker 1: Now you're looking at about a twenty million jump on

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Speaker 1: From twenty four to twenty five, again, lots of numbers,

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Speaker 1: will can you kind of just contextualize that for the

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Speaker 1: people at home and what this means not just for

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Speaker 1: the Falcons who are a bit in the red and

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Speaker 1: we'll have to make some decisions as we inch closer

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Speaker 1: and closer to the league year, but kind of what

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Speaker 1: this means for the league overall.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think overall, like for players, for teams, this

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Speaker 3: was pretty good news. Right Like, when the salary cap

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Speaker 3: little bit more because teams just have more to spend,

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Speaker 3: But if you're a team like the Atlanta Falcons, who

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Speaker 3: going into the off season was already in the red.

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Speaker 3: They already had to kind of figure out a way

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Speaker 3: to become cap compliant before anything has even started. This

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Speaker 3: gives you a little bit more wiggle room now. The

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Speaker 3: sites like over the Cap and spo track, I don't

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Speaker 3: know how updated they are, given that this news just

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Speaker 3: happened on Wednesday, as we record on Thursday, but you know,

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Speaker 3: I would imagine the Falcons still have a little bit

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Speaker 3: more work to do to get back to even on

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Speaker 3: the cap, but this definitely helps alleviate some of that.

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Speaker 3: From a kind of competitive standpoint when it comes to

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Speaker 3: impact to me at all because it's across the league.

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Speaker 2: It's a flat ray, so it's.

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Speaker 3: Not a head of advantage if all thirty two teams

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Speaker 3: enjoy the same kind of amount of alleviation there for

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Speaker 3: the salary caps. So I don't think if anything like

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Speaker 3: this means the Falcons are going to be like more

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Speaker 3: free agency now. If anything, I think it just means

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Speaker 3: that they've got a little bit more flexibility with maybe

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Speaker 3: these really hard tough decisions right, because the salary cap

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Speaker 1: I agree, and I will say too that this is

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Speaker 1: the NFL informing teams on Wednesday. According to reports, there

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Speaker 1: isn't even a set number.

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Speaker 1: It was a range, and so even now as we're

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Speaker 2: Like four million dollars that they're deciding between.

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Speaker 3: But they'll negotiate with the NFLPA, the Players Association and

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Speaker 3: The backdrop of yes, the whole free agency conversation.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, but today specifically, we are going to go through

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Speaker 1: Will McFadden's list of five cornerbacks that the Falcons could

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Speaker 1: look to in free agency, and we're going to start

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Speaker 1: off with the first one is Carlton Davis. His twenty

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Speaker 3: I so a little bit of a background on how

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Speaker 3: really looking for were a couple of things. Guys who

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Speaker 3: Falcons have looked at when they've done this rotating cast

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Speaker 3: So that was kind of the age range that I

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Speaker 3: was looking And then mostly guys who excelled in zone coverage.

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Speaker 3: which I think is indicative of just how Rahie Morris

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Speaker 3: got great man coverage skills, but he's also smart. He's

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Speaker 3: He was drafted initially by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, so

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Speaker 3: the Falcons have some familiarity with him. But he was

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Speaker 3: a key part of why the Lions defense throughout the year,

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Speaker 3: even when they were losing guys and ultimately Carlton Davis

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Speaker 3: went down in Week fifteen with a broken jaw or

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Speaker 3: the season. But that's not an injury that like, I'm

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Speaker 3: worried about lingering. I broke my jaw and I've had

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Speaker 1: Right, You're still yapping like the best of them.

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Speaker 3: It's a little dig in there. I feel like the

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Speaker 3: word yapping was no. I love choice.

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Speaker 1: I love to yap. I'm a big wine and yap girly.

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Speaker 1: Like that's half of what I do in my personal

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Speaker 3: At least my jaw doesn't click, right, you know, so

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Speaker 3: yapping with no clicks is what you want?

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Speaker 1: What do you do for like a jaw injury? Like

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Speaker 3: They wired my jaws shut for sixteen weeks. Freshman year

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Speaker 3: no lingering effects. I would expect Carlton Davis to be

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Speaker 2: Of a jaw surgery.

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Speaker 1: He's like, I've actually lost thirty pounds.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, could you imagine that that's true? I

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Speaker 3: Well, they've got way better stuff than ensure for players,

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Speaker 3: I'm sure, but he's just been solid kind of throughout

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Speaker 3: his career. Right, He's not going to be maybe your

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Speaker 3: high high end, but the Falcons, because of salary cap constraints,

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Speaker 3: But Carlton Davis is definitely a big ticket acquisition. It

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Speaker 3: would give them one of the best cornerback tandems kind

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought up the price tag, though I

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Speaker 1: still kind of and you even wrote this in your

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Speaker 1: I still think that he may be a little bit

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And that was kind of the one thing is

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Speaker 1: like when you have so many needs, particularly defly, and

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Speaker 1: top dollar I'm talking ed dressers and I'm talking cornerbacks,

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Speaker 1: like it is one of those, and you don't have

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Speaker 1: you have to be very strategic as to who you're

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And how often do we talk about the front

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Speaker 3: perhaps they look at this as we're spending a lot

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Speaker 3: on aj Trel Jesse Bates, those guys. If we put

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Speaker 3: kind of the most expensive guy by far on this list.

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Speaker 3: The rest of the guys are more in the affordable range.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's move forward a little bit. The next

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Speaker 1: guy on your list Isian Fulton, and he's twenty six

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Speaker 1: years old. Last team in twenty twenty four was Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles Chargers. He had fourteen starts fifteen appearances. I actually haven't,

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Speaker 1: like I'm going off of who Christian Fulton was for

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Speaker 3: Yeah, at LSU, he was really like well known, high

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be the plan for each each

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Speaker 1: Each of these And the guy that I'm going to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're hoping to get what Mike Ces gave.

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Speaker 1: You lest name exactly, And that's kind of the bear,

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Speaker 1: But but Will why did you include him on this list?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a great player for you to

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Speaker 1: And that's the thing too, is that I feel as

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Speaker 2: It's just they've got some decisions to make it.

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Speaker 2: So I just I kind of filed that away. I

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Speaker 3: one that the odds are bettered because he would be

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Speaker 3: reuniting with Jerry Gray, who was in Green Bay when

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Speaker 3: they drafted him, and that right there kind of tells

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Speaker 3: you that Jerry Gray probably liked him coming out of Georgia.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think something that a lot is overlooked

444
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Speaker 1: during this time period is it's all about connections. Like there,

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Speaker 1: you do see a lot of times where it's like, oh,

446
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Speaker 1: if you have the opportunity to go out and get

447
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Speaker 1: ex player because ex player is really great and really awesome,

448
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Speaker 1: and like you don't have a connection coaching or front

449
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Speaker 1: office wise, then you take them because of who they are.

450
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Speaker 1: But a lot of roster building is who if I'm

451
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Speaker 1: Kyle Smith or if I'm Terry Fontnau or Jerry Gray, Like,

452
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Speaker 1: who of these guys who we can be who can

453
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Speaker 1: be placeholders? Do I trust to be able to come

454
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Speaker 1: in and be serviceable in certain areas? And Eric Stokes

455
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Speaker 1: is somebody who I think kind of fits that mold

456
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Speaker 1: a little bit of you talk about the connection with

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Speaker 1: Jerry Gray, and Jerry Gray kind of is a big

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Speaker 1: potential guy, and I think that he very much is

459
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Speaker 1: such a good evaluator of not only talent, but how

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Speaker 1: to get the most out of talent. And I think

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Speaker 1: that that piece of it shouldn't be overlooked.

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Speaker 3: Especially again Green Bay. Kevin King like that another kind

463
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Speaker 3: of injury reclamation project. And I think the FOUC had

464
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Speaker 3: like some big plans that maybe never never fully manifested.

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Speaker 3: For Kevin King, this year, but yeah, Eric Stokes is

466
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Speaker 3: another player that I think fits that bill.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's wrap this up with the last name

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Speaker 1: on your list of Vante Maddox, who is twenty eight

469
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Speaker 1: years old. He was on the Philadelphia Eagles coming off

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Speaker 1: of a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good for good, fresh off the parade.

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Speaker 1: Fresh off the parade. He is somebody who is a

473
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Speaker 1: bit more of a role player. And you kind of

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Speaker 1: brought up the whole We were actually having a discussion

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Speaker 1: and pull the curtain back a little bit. Will and

476
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Speaker 1: I were actually having a discussion about, Okay, when we're

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Speaker 1: doing these five targets that we like or don't like

478
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Speaker 1: or whatever, doing these listicles. At first, I was like, Okay,

479
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have a slot corner story, and then you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have an outside corner story. And then the more

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Speaker 1: we were talking, We're like, let's lump them together.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad we did.

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Speaker 3: Ultimately, after like looking deeply at all of them, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm glad we did.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we made the right decision. But this

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Speaker 1: is somebody who I think kind of fits that mold

487
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Speaker 1: of He could be someone who you could slot inside

488
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Speaker 1: according to what you decide to do with d Alford,

489
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Speaker 1: who is a restricted free agent. So I'll give the

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Speaker 1: floor to you. What about Maddox is something.

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Speaker 3: That you liked, So yeahs as I just kind of

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Speaker 3: alluded to, it's not like the best year I think

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Speaker 3: for slot corners in free agency, but like I didn't

494
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Speaker 3: see d Alfred coming when he had kind of a

495
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Speaker 3: breakout year in twenty twenty three and played really well,

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Speaker 3: as some.

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Speaker 1: Slot corners will just kind of like pop out of nowhere.

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Speaker 3: You're like, what Brian Poole another great example an undrafted

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Speaker 3: free agent, So Avante Maddox when I was looking at

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Speaker 3: kind of the field, he is somebody who has played

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Speaker 3: a lot of snaps for the Philadelphia Eagles now the

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Speaker 3: last two years, two years ago because of injury, this

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Speaker 3: past year because of the presence of Cooper degen Right,

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Speaker 3: who just kind of took over in the secondary, which

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Speaker 3: I think.

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Speaker 1: You kind of expected. Like when you saw that the

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Speaker 1: Eagles drafted degene you were like, that's he's going to

508
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Speaker 1: slot right in into the slot, like that's why you

509
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Speaker 1: went out and got him. And that doesn't right, But

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Speaker 1: that doesn't minimize what Maddox was able to do for

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Speaker 1: the defense during his what is it, over three six

512
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Speaker 1: hundred snaps over the course of his career, which is

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Speaker 1: in Will's story, which I thought was absolutely hilarious.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's he basically was the starter there for

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Speaker 3: like four or five years, and then they decided to

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Speaker 3: bring him back on the one year deal this past season.

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Speaker 3: But crucially, like vic Fangio comes in as the defensive coordinator,

518
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Speaker 3: you have a change there in scheme and sometimes you know,

519
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Speaker 3: when they draft two corners, that's going to tell you

520
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Speaker 3: something about how the defensive coordinator probably feels about those

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Speaker 3: two corners. But like Avante kind of took the role.

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Speaker 3: I think of that like six man in the secondary

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Speaker 3: for the defense. But he's a good special teams player. Again,

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Speaker 3: he's got a lot of experience. He did spend a

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Speaker 3: year in that Vic Fangio defense, and there are little

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Speaker 3: tendrils of that scheme in Atlanta here. So for that reason, again,

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Speaker 3: I think the Alford still would be the leader in

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Speaker 3: the clubhouse because he hadn't up and down twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 3: But as you've mentioned, like they've got holes, they can't

530
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Speaker 3: spend money everywhere, and if you can bring the Alford back,

531
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Speaker 3: knowing about him everything that you do. Knowing his strengths,

532
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Speaker 3: knowing his weaknesses, you can maybe build out around him

533
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Speaker 3: from there, but he would be cost effective. He is

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Speaker 3: a restricted free agent, so you know, we'll see kind

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Speaker 3: of how they decide to go about that. But if

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Speaker 3: they do move on from de Alford, I think of

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Speaker 3: Aonte Maddox of all the other slot guys out there,

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Speaker 3: he was kind of my favorite to be able to

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Speaker 3: step in on a short term.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, I'm really curious to see.

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Speaker 1: You know, we can talk all day long about what

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Speaker 1: we're valuing and how we're valuing it in free agency,

543
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Speaker 1: and what we're valuing in the draft and.

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Speaker 2: Traits big trades. Guy, only the traits.

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Speaker 1: Only the trades. We're only trading. We're gonna start mock

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Speaker 1: drafts soon. Like, there's a lot of things that are

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Speaker 1: going to be up in the air, honestly until we

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Speaker 1: get to the end of the draft. Like, but the

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Speaker 1: key thing that I want people to know is, like

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Speaker 1: what the Falcons do or don't do in free agency

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Speaker 1: is going to directly affect I think their draft strategy.

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Speaker 1: And I don't necessarily think that's like every year, Like

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people last year was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: you went out and got Kirk Cousins, So they're sure

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Speaker 1: is heck not gonna get a quarterback like in number

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Speaker 1: eight overall, But like so sometimes it doesn't really matter.

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Speaker 1: But I do think considering the salary cap situation in

558
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Speaker 1: Atlanta right now, the holes that they have that they

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Speaker 1: need to feel, I do think that it will be

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Speaker 1: more obvious at least I think once we see what

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Speaker 1: they do in free agency. So I say all that

562
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Speaker 1: to say that we're gonna be talking about free agency

563
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Speaker 1: for the next couple weeks, but we're actually gonna take

564
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Speaker 1: a pause on free agency talk for a little bit

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Speaker 1: because we are leaving on Monday. We're recording this on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: We're leaving Monday to go up to Indianapolis for the

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Speaker 1: NFL Combine, which is basically I say it's the quarter

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Speaker 1: zip Capital of the world because all of the menfolk

569
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Speaker 1: like that work for teams. They all wear quarter zips

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Speaker 1: and so the only thing you see like up in

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis is in quarters.

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Speaker 3: App yes, I have seventeen quarters zips. I gotta pick

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Speaker 3: up home absolutely.

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Speaker 1: So we are going to the quarterzip capital of the

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Speaker 1: world next week in Indianapolis. We will actually Will and

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Speaker 1: I and arn a bit too, will be on Radio

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Speaker 1: Row on Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday is a big day

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Speaker 1: because it'll be Terry Fontno and Raheem Morris's media scrums

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Speaker 1: and podiums and they're gonna swing by and chat with

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Speaker 1: us on Radio Row that morning. We will have coverage

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Speaker 1: of all of that on Atlanta Falcons dot Com, our

582
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Speaker 1: YouTube channel, the podcast channel. Literally, we're gonna blow it

583
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Speaker 1: up because it's gonna be really this is the first

584
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Speaker 1: time that we're talking to Terry Fono and Raheem Morris

585
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Speaker 1: since their end of season press conferences, and there's been

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Speaker 1: a lot of developments that have come to light that honestly,

587
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Speaker 1: they're gonna talk about. Yeah, So that'll be on Tuesday,

588
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Speaker 1: and then we're also going to be talking to some

589
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Speaker 1: national media folks and Terren's gonna be walking around talking

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Speaker 1: to a lot of player prospects. So we have a

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Speaker 1: lot on the table for next week. Will it's been

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Speaker 1: a minute since you've been to the combine are what

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Speaker 1: are you most excited about getting back up there?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: My god, the steak dinners, Right, it's just my like,

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Speaker 3: Ali and I went to a lovely steakhouse for Valentine's Day,

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Speaker 3: and the whole time I was just in my mind comparing.

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Speaker 3: I was just comparison shopping, and I was like, this

599
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Speaker 3: is good. This is really good. No shots to any

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Speaker 3: steakhouse in Atlanta. I'm not going to name which one,

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Speaker 3: but no free ads. If you want to give me

602
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Speaker 3: a free steak dinner, I will say your name our podcast. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but I just like that is when I think Indianapolis,

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Speaker 3: I kind of think of that. Not only because of that,

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Speaker 3: the show Parks and rec is So is one of

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Speaker 3: my favorites. So that is the real reason I'm excited.

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Speaker 3: But as you mentioned, it's just the convention aspect of

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Speaker 3: it all. Like it's one of the reasons why I

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Speaker 3: love to go to things like the Senior Bowl, things

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Speaker 3: like the Combine, even you know, the one year I

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Speaker 3: went to the Pro Bowl. Like having people who do

612
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Speaker 3: this because when the season starts, everybody kind of like

613
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Speaker 3: spreads out. National media members are going to you know,

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Speaker 3: you may have like two at one game, but like

615
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Speaker 3: three at another game, because there's a lot of big

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Speaker 3: games each weekend, and this is really the time where

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Speaker 3: I think everybody comes together everybody's excited because the draft

618
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Speaker 3: is right around the corner, and it's the first time

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Speaker 3: you really get the chance to like talk like we

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Speaker 3: do every single day, like you're in this industry because

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Speaker 3: you just love to freaking talk about football. So for

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Speaker 3: that aspect, I like going up there. But what about you, Like,

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Speaker 3: what do you like? And then what do you hope

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Speaker 3: we learn?

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Speaker 1: My big thing is always like I love knowing what

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Speaker 1: national media thinks of the Falcons because I think we're

627
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Speaker 1: so ingrained in it and we're kind of in such

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Speaker 1: a bubble because like we're in the building and it's

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Speaker 1: all we're talking about, and kind of how the team

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Speaker 1: is perceived from the outside looking in is always something

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Speaker 1: that I find very, very fascinating. When we talk to

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Speaker 1: national media members or scouts for other teams or coaches

633
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Speaker 1: from other teams, it's always like, how do they view

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Speaker 1: what's going on in Atlanta? And because I think think

635
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Speaker 1: it allows us to kind of get out of our

636
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Speaker 1: own heads about like the minutia bits and pieces of

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Speaker 1: the organization that we may be super ingrained in but

638
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Speaker 1: like nobody else knows about. So I always very much

639
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Speaker 1: enjoy that conversation. But I also enjoy and this is

640
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Speaker 1: just like me personally. We do a Women of the

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Speaker 1: NFL Happy Hour on Tuesdays and it started seven years

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Speaker 1: ago and that first one was actually one of my

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Speaker 1: first times ever at the combine. I was, you know,

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Speaker 1: fresh newly into I was still covering college football at

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Speaker 1: the time, and I remember going and there were probably

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Speaker 1: like fifteen of us like that just kind of all class. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it wasn't a super big thing. And now here

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Speaker 1: we are seven years later and it's huge. And we've

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Speaker 1: talked about how like it went from not a lot

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Speaker 1: of women being a part of it to now it's

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Speaker 1: like women. It's like exploded in seven years time. And

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Speaker 1: as a women in sports and as somebody who like

653
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Speaker 1: a lot of my friends are working in sports and

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Speaker 1: seeing what they're doing, it's just such an amazing thing

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Speaker 1: to see how big this thing has gotten. And that

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Speaker 1: is something I literally, I think I posted about it

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Speaker 1: on Instagram, like this is my favorite thing, like my

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Speaker 1: favorite event of the entire year. And it's not even

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Speaker 1: like full it's not a sanctioned event. It's just like

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Speaker 1: the women just putting on well, it's literally just the

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Speaker 1: women being like we're going here from six to nine.

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Speaker 3: So is it the camaraderie for you, or is it

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Speaker 3: the seeing the advancements in kind of like women proliferating

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Speaker 3: around the league and in media and sports media, because

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Speaker 3: I know, like that's a huge personal kind of I

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Speaker 3: think it's project for you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's both, Like I'm friends with a

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Speaker 1: lot of people, so and to your point, it's like

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Speaker 1: you don't get to see them that often. So like

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Speaker 1: beat reporters and other locations unless you're playing that team,

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Speaker 1: you don't really see them during.

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Speaker 3: The We don't see like Jordan rod Reeve right just

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Speaker 3: like throughout the year.

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Speaker 1: But I hate Right exactly, but I like hang out

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Speaker 1: with her at the combine every year because I love

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Speaker 1: her like and I think that that part of it's

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Speaker 1: really nice. But it's also again it's the fact that

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Speaker 1: it started with like fifteen or sixteen people in a

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Speaker 1: room to now we're talking about like we need to

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Speaker 1: go to a different place because the place that we're

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Speaker 1: in can't hold how many people are coming and like

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Speaker 1: a who are participating in there and having conversations. And

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Speaker 1: it's also kind of spread out a bit to include

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Speaker 1: like trainers and equipment managers and coaches and media members like.

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Speaker 1: It started out as just like a media members like women,

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Speaker 1: female beat reporters who cover NFL teams, and then it

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Speaker 1: exploded into it's literally every if you work in the

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Speaker 1: NFL in any capacity in are a woman, please come,

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Speaker 1: please be there because I just it's been so it's

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Speaker 1: been the best part of the combine for me personally

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Speaker 1: for years.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm super excited for you to get to renew

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Speaker 3: that in tradition. I'm looking forward to chatting up with

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Speaker 3: Tony Romo at our quarterszip so of course Wednesday evening,

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Speaker 3: you know, as he and I'll go back many many

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Speaker 3: of your nus.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's like everybody. We have the Women of

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Speaker 1: the NFL Happy Hour, and then we have a quarters

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Speaker 1: of happy Hour, which has to be held at the

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Speaker 1: Convention Center because there are so many men in quarterships.

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Speaker 3: It's held at the fifty yard line and we stretch

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Speaker 3: just end zone to end zone.

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Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. But thank you guys so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: This is I know, we really the last five minutes

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Speaker 1: of this. For producer Sam, it's like, guys, ripe it up.

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Speaker 3: Shout out to y'all for sticking along if you don't, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: but we.

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Speaker 1: Will be coming back to you guys from Radio Row again.

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Speaker 1: Follow us on everything, Spotify, Apple, podcast, YouTube, all the things.

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Speaker 1: We will be there. We will be on the ground

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Speaker 1: and I think we're going to get a lot of

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Speaker 1: new information that I'm really excited to really fill out.

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Speaker 1: So thank you guys so much for joining us, and

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Speaker 1: we will see you in India. Happiness,