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Speaker 3: Happy Friday Falcons fans, and welcome to our new show.

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Speaker 3: It is called The Friday Five. I'm Will McFadden. I'm

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Speaker 3: joined Tory mc laney and Taron Walk who were holding

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Speaker 3: up fives at me, which is awesome. I love it.

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Speaker 3: We're getting in the spirit and what this show really

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Speaker 3: is is our attempt to have a little bit more

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Speaker 3: fun heading into the football weekend. So each show we're

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Speaker 3: going to incorporate some element of five into the rundown.

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Speaker 3: That's really just kind of it. Did we just choose

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Speaker 3: five because of the alliteration, Tory?

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Speaker 1: I think we did. I don't really actually remember how

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Speaker 3: And did we did have that?

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Speaker 1: Some point in the early iteration of this show. I

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Speaker 1: But we're still learning, we're still trying to figure out

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean one week we may have five topics.

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Speaker 1: Will would know the most kids. Yeah, that doesn't sound good.

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Speaker 3: All right, move right along. So that is the spirit

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Speaker 3: we are bringing to this new show and we're excited

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Speaker 3: to start this journey with you all. If you have

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Speaker 3: you can, whether you want to do that on Spotify, YouTube,

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Speaker 3: we're going to share our five biggest things for the

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Speaker 3: start with Terrean. So Taran, I want five adjectives, words,

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's not one of them.

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Speaker 3: I want to all of them right there.

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Speaker 1: I want to preface this by saying I took it

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Speaker 1: There is one curve ball, and I'm curious why I

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Speaker 4: Okay, So word number one is Nascar. Am I supposed

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Speaker 3: Keep going?

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Speaker 4: Know that of Thailand? There are six locations. I've been

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Speaker 3: Is it only in Thailand than Okay, just to Thailand.

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Speaker 3: Visit five of the six restaurants America base gotcha? Okay,

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Speaker 3: so a small thie chain, yes in America?

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Speaker 3: I actually cook. I actually cook dinner.

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Speaker 3: Ironically, we were having kind of the kickoff cookies today

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Speaker 3: I'm I'm a cooker. Cooker right, culinary arts only.

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Speaker 3: There you go, cooking chef's cinema. That's my second word here,

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Speaker 1: Okay, So for Will's cooking, I am actually the anti cooking.

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Speaker 1: quarterback's best friend is true for this team and has

440
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Speaker 1: to be true for this team. Get after the mother quarterback.

441
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Speaker 1: Put some respect behind this roster. Despite there being a

442
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Speaker 1: lot of individual pieces that get national attention, changed the

443
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Speaker 1: narrative to make it a team wide endeavor.

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Speaker 4: That last one was setting one breath. I did it.

445
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Speaker 3: It's so great. Pretty soon we'll be able to nail

446
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Speaker 3: those in under five seconds. Yeah, so that's something to

447
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Speaker 3: work towards. All right, I'm going to go through my

448
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Speaker 3: and then you guys maybe identify one or two that

449
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Speaker 3: you want to lean in on. Number one is learn

450
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Speaker 3: how to win in different ways. I think this season

451
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Speaker 3: that's going to be crucial for you to reach the postseason.

452
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Speaker 3: Number two, at least two new standouts on standout players

453
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Speaker 3: on defense need to emerge. Number three Weeks eight through

454
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Speaker 3: thirteen are the most important games this season for Atlanta.

455
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Speaker 3: Number four, well, the kicking game remain a concern, and

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Speaker 3: Number five week seventeen against the Rams is going to

457
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Speaker 3: be huge.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So the one that I want to kind of hoe

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Speaker 1: in on a little bit is you said at least

461
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Speaker 1: two new standout players on defense need to emerge. Do

462
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Speaker 1: you have kind of a list of the running group

463
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Speaker 1: that you're like, if these guys emerged, it means that

464
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Speaker 1: we're talking about this defense differently.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I do. I think Brandon Dorles is one of

466
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Speaker 3: the guys on that list, but you could also grow

467
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Speaker 3: row like, I'll take one of those two guys. Zach

468
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Speaker 3: Harrison is another young defensive lineman. Obviously, if one of

469
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Speaker 3: the Ed rushers, James Pierce or Jalen Walker, those guys,

470
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Speaker 3: but Divine Diablo is a player, he would be on

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Speaker 3: my short list. If I was going to pick two,

472
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Speaker 3: it would probably be it would probably be Brandon Door

473
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Speaker 3: listen to Divine Diablo. But I think the fact that

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Speaker 3: you can rattle off a few of these candidates is

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Speaker 3: why I think that there's a good chance this happens.

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Speaker 3: And also, you know, I think the Falcons need those

477
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Speaker 3: guys to step up because those are a lot of

478
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Speaker 3: new faces on this defense who are going to be

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Speaker 3: playing significant roles.

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Speaker 4: My question is why the Rams.

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Speaker 3: Why the Rams?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, your last one. Why Week seventeen is going to

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Speaker 4: be huge?

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Speaker 3: So a couple of reasons. I'm so glad you asked

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Speaker 3: this term. First off, let's think back to Week seventeen

486
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Speaker 3: last year. That was a little game against Washington prime

487
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Speaker 3: time with a lot of stakes on the line, you know, frankly,

488
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Speaker 3: and so I kind of feel like the season is

489
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Speaker 3: going to be taking a similar shape, and the Rams

490
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Speaker 3: to me are a team where if you look at

491
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Speaker 3: the NFC West, I really expect San Francisco to have

492
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Speaker 3: bounce back. You I think Seattle is going to be good.

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Speaker 3: So the Rams could be in that mix for the

494
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Speaker 3: wild card spot. Atlanta could be right there too, So

495
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Speaker 3: a late season game with also some draft implications because

496
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Speaker 3: if Atlanta is a playoff team, who has that first

497
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Speaker 3: round pick next year? Los Angeles, right, So that changes

498
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Speaker 3: a lot of the calculus. So I think there's a

499
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Speaker 3: lot going to be at stake for the Rams one

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Speaker 3: way or another, whether they're in the playoffs or not,

501
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Speaker 3: because of the draft implications. And then I just kind

502
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Speaker 3: of think that the way that this schedule is going

503
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Speaker 3: to be shaping up, that Week seventeen could be a

504
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Speaker 3: meaningful week for Atlanta if they are in the playoff hunt.

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Speaker 1: Oh I fascinating. All right, give us your five really

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Speaker 1: quickly again for the people, and then we'll move on

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Speaker 1: to Tarran.

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Speaker 3: All right. Number one, learn how to win in different ways.

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Speaker 3: Number two at least two new standout players on defense

510
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Speaker 3: need to emerge. Number three. Weeks eight through thirteen are

511
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Speaker 3: the most important for Atlanta this season. Number four will

512
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Speaker 3: the kicking game remain a concern? Number five Week seventeen

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Speaker 3: against the Rams is going to be huge. All right, Tarn,

514
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Speaker 3: you're year five.

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Speaker 4: I'm just kidding, okay.

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Speaker 2: Number one, actions speak louder than words, which they know

517
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Speaker 2: with this whole quote move in silence end quote, slogan

518
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Speaker 2: that has been preached as of late.

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Speaker 3: Do you want to explain the move in silence kind

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Speaker 3: of quote a little bit?

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Speaker 2: This is how I interpret it, at least because no

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Speaker 2: one has actually explained it. But it's more so that

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Speaker 2: they're not gonna say they're gonna be good. They're not

524
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Speaker 2: gonna say they're gonna make the playoffs. They're not gonna

525
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Speaker 2: say they're gonna win the Super Bowl. They're gonna show it,

526
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Speaker 2: like they keep saying, leave it on the grass. Let

527
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Speaker 2: the grass do the talking, yeah, which isn't like actual

528
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Speaker 2: grass talking. It's their play is going to show that

529
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Speaker 2: this is a winning team. Like their actions will show

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Speaker 2: this as a winning team, not their words.

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Speaker 4: That's how I interpret it. So they're moving in silence.

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Speaker 3: That's that's how I interpret it as well.

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Speaker 4: Cool.

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Speaker 2: I was like, no one's actually defined it, and so

535
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Speaker 2: we're gonna go with what I think. Number two win

536
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Speaker 2: in week one, enough said. Number three also enough said,

537
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Speaker 2: win the NFC South. It has been since two thoy

538
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Speaker 2: seventeen that the Falcons have made the playoffs. The drought's

539
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Speaker 2: gotta go water the field. I don't like that analogy.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry I did it. Number four Michael Pennock Junior

541
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Speaker 2: living up to the hype that has been building since

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Speaker 2: Week sixteen last year. I think people are putting a

543
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Speaker 2: lot of stock in those three games, and I can

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Speaker 2: understand why, but I think that's also putting pressure on

545
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Speaker 2: such a young quarterback to live up to these expectations

546
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Speaker 2: that are coming out of just three games. So I

547
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Speaker 2: want to see that in a full season, not just

548
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Speaker 2: three games, not just the first half of the season,

549
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Speaker 2: an entire season.

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Speaker 4: He shows us who he.

551
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Speaker 2: Is, and that might not be immediate, it might be later,

552
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Speaker 2: so a different week seventeen kind of feeling yep.

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Speaker 4: Then number five. Remain healthy.

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Speaker 2: It's important every season, but with a week five by

555
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Speaker 2: and the final two thirds of the.

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Speaker 4: Season are going to be long and grueling, and.

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Speaker 2: As Will said, weeks eight through thirteen, I agree, are

558
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Speaker 2: going to be really tough, and so getting through the

559
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Speaker 2: first half or not even first half, first third of

560
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Speaker 2: the season, which is tough on its own, getting through

561
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Speaker 2: the middle third, which features an international game, which is

562
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Speaker 2: gonna be tough also physically, yeah, and then going to

563
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Speaker 2: the final third when it kind of matters the most,

564
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Speaker 2: that final push into the playoffs. So this season, I think,

565
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Speaker 2: more than most, staying healthy is key.

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Speaker 3: I want to dig in on the Michael Pennocks expectations

567
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Speaker 3: a little bit more because I agree with you, I think,

568
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Speaker 3: and I'm guilty of it as well. As those three

569
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Speaker 3: games were awesome from Michael Pennix, and I do think

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Speaker 3: that doing it for seventeen games is a different beast.

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Speaker 3: And I've been asked a lot over the last couple

572
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Speaker 3: of weeks, like what do you expect to see from

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Speaker 3: this offense? From Michael Pennox out there week one, and frankly,

574
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Speaker 3: I kind of don't know what to expect, Like I

575
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Speaker 3: think we did see some of that over those final

576
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Speaker 3: three games, but this is gonna be new offense. It

577
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Speaker 3: is a whole new year. He's now done training camps

578
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Speaker 3: as a starter, So kind of what's the mindset you're

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Speaker 3: going into the season these first four games, Like are

580
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Speaker 3: you going to practice some patients with Michael Pennix even

581
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Speaker 3: though we saw kind of what it really can look

582
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Speaker 3: like of those three games, or do you need to

583
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Speaker 3: see him kind of hit the ground running now that

584
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Speaker 3: he's had this ramp up period into the season and

585
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Speaker 3: he's taken all these reps as the starter, Like, where

586
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Speaker 3: do you fall on.

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Speaker 2: That I would practice patients? I would love to say

588
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Speaker 2: hit the ground running, especially since we're saying the first

589
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 2: part of the season is rather tough. But he's only

590
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Speaker 2: in his second year and I do think it is

591
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Speaker 2: going to be a completely different look than last year.

592
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Speaker 2: Maybe not totally, but they have a playbook now surrounding

593
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Speaker 2: Michael Pennox Junior, whereas last year the playbook was surrounding

594
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Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins and then they switched it or they adapted

595
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Speaker 2: it to Michael. This is a completely different ballgame essentially,

596
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Speaker 2: and so seeing how that plays out will be interesting.

597
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Speaker 2: And I'd rather see simplicity and clean.

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Speaker 4: Clean, cleanliness. And that's not how I.

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Speaker 2: Like it, but like play to start is key, Like

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Speaker 2: let him get comfortable and then throw the snot out

601
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Speaker 2: of the ball.

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Speaker 3: There you go, Hey, what about you? Sorry?

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Speaker 1: I think for me it's you invested a number eight

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Speaker 1: overall pick in Michael Penis Junior when you did knowing

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Speaker 1: you had Kirk Cousins on the roster. Like I, I

606
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Speaker 1: also get the like patient approach of it, but I'm

607
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Speaker 1: not really feeling very patient.

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Speaker 3: Let me see something out of number Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think ultimately for the Falcons to get where they

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Speaker 1: want to go, you're gonna need a lot for Michael

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Speaker 1: Pennocks Junior. And I think that is he's a He's

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Speaker 1: in as good of a situation as I think I

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Speaker 1: would argue. There are a lot of quarterbacks that My

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Speaker 1: big thing about this is that, sorry now I'm about

615
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Speaker 1: to get on a soapbux so Bob, there are I've

616
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Speaker 1: always said a quarterback's early success in his career is

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Speaker 1: indicative of the pieces around him, and the stability of

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Speaker 1: the offensive plan around him. Michael Pennocks has the most

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Speaker 1: stability I would argue of hardly anybody else in the league,

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Speaker 1: considering how many returners he has in front of him

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Speaker 1: and that he's throwing to. He has one of the

622
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Speaker 1: most dynamic running backs in the league and Bajon Robinson

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Speaker 1: to help him out as a secondary part of this

624
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Speaker 1: offensive attack. So for those reasons, it's like, we should

625
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Speaker 1: see some dynamic play early, we should see them putting

626
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Speaker 1: up points, we should see all of that. And if

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Speaker 1: we don't, then I'm concerned because I think that you

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Speaker 1: do not draft Michael Pennock's number eight overall when you

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Speaker 1: already have a multimillion dollar quarterback who's been a VET

630
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Speaker 1: in this league for thirteen years sitting there, if you

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Speaker 1: do not have conviction that he can come in and

632
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Speaker 1: play for you well and take your team to the

633
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Speaker 1: next level. I want to see the time is now

634
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Speaker 1: for that next level. Kyle Pitts is on the fifth

635
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Speaker 1: year of his contract, Drake London will be playing on

636
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Speaker 1: the fifth year next year, but Jon Robinson's rookie year

637
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: is running out or halfway through it. Time for this

638
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Speaker 1: offense and the investment you made and all of these

639
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Speaker 1: offensive players is now. It's not in the future. It

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Speaker 1: is twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: Well, twenty twenty five kicks off on Sunday one pm

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Speaker 3: against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Again, please check out the

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Speaker 3: pregame show one hour before kickoff on the YouTube channel.

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Speaker 3: A few more things though, if you want to check

645
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Speaker 3: out Atlanta Falcons dot com, we had our season kickoff

646
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Speaker 3: video just getting you a hype for the season. Writ

647
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Speaker 3: large go up on the site Thursday. You can follow

648
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Speaker 3: along on any Darnell Mooney injury news, any team injury

649
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Speaker 3: news for both Atlanta and Tampa Bay with the injury

650
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Speaker 3: reports that go out each afternoon. And then we had

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Speaker 3: a roundtable discussion kicking off the season with Tory, Taylor,

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Speaker 3: Arch and Shock. So if you're a fan of kind

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Speaker 3: of the Network, you're gonna see some of your favorite

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Speaker 3: faces there as well. Before we get out of here, though,

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Speaker 3: I just want a five word prediction from both of

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Speaker 3: y'all on Sunday's game. So Tory five words predicting Sunday's.

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Speaker 1: Game make Baker Mayfield's life difficult. It's not really a

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Speaker 1: prediction as much as it is go and freaking do it.

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Speaker 3: There you go, manifest it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I don't think mine's a prediction either, just like a

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Speaker 2: statement that needs to be done set the tone for season.

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Speaker 4: I couldn't put the in there, all right.

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Speaker 3: Mine is watch out for Jesse Bates Good, it's in

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Speaker 3: a big game for number three. All right. Well, thank

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Speaker 3: you guys so much for tuning in for the very

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Speaker 3: first Friday five. Whether you watch it on YouTube, whether

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Speaker 3: you heard it on your favorite podcast platform, we appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: Be on the lookout for a final whistle coming brand

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Speaker 3: early Monday morning. It will be recapping this season opener.

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Speaker 3: You will hear from Tory and I breaking it all down.

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Speaker 3: Four quarters of action. So excited, let's go or we

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Speaker 3: will see you all then. Until then, take care,