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Speaker 1: What's up Dirty Bird's Tory mclaney, Tarrn Walk an Omna

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Speaker 1: Sapon coming to you with the Falcons Final Whistle Podcast.

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Speaker 1: I know what you're thinking, where's Will Well? Will's doing

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Speaker 1: the camp report today because yours truly wasn't really able

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Speaker 1: to watch practice. So what's really fun about this podcast

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Speaker 1: is I'm kind of sitting in the seat that you,

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Speaker 1: the viewers and or listeners are where fans aren't allowed

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Speaker 1: to practice. We don't know what's going on. If you're

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Speaker 1: a fan, you have no idea, you have no clue.

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Speaker 1: It's only what we tell you or what you see.

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Speaker 2: On was not allowed.

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Speaker 3: I was not allowed out of practice. No I'm kidding.

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Speaker 1: I was allowed out of practice. I just had a

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Speaker 1: bunch of other things that I was doing a bunch

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Speaker 1: of other projects that I was working on. So Omna

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Speaker 1: and Taren were out there the whole entire time. So

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Speaker 1: we're going to go through it a little bit. So, guys,

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Speaker 1: I do want to start because for a little bit

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Speaker 1: of practice, I was in my office, which my office

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Speaker 1: at the facility overlooks the practice fields, and at one

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Speaker 1: point I looked up because the walls were shaking because guys,

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Speaker 1: on the field were screaming so loudly, and I'm, you know,

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Speaker 1: multiple football fields away and I still could hear them.

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Speaker 3: Tell me a little bit.

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Speaker 1: About this moment because I saw Charlie Warner was involved,

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Speaker 1: I saw Jesse Bates.

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Speaker 3: So when do y'all take this?

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Speaker 1: Because this was a moment that I, I mean, even

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Speaker 1: from one hundred feet away, I was like, oh, dang,

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Speaker 1: something's happening.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'll let Tarn really get into it because

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Speaker 4: I forgot my phone upstairs and I need to use

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Speaker 4: it to record pressers afterwards. But I was kind of

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Speaker 4: in a similar position as you as I was far away.

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Speaker 4: I was kind of like in the cafeteria watching from

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Speaker 4: afar and the same thing. I just saw that ball

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Speaker 4: goat like dart up in the air, and I was like,

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Speaker 4: who got that, Charlie to day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I was the only one there.

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Speaker 3: I guess you and Will who's currently working on the camper.

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Speaker 2: Fort this falls on me.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, Kirk was really airing the ball out today,

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Speaker 5: so it wasn't a surprise to see it go up

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Speaker 5: and out. But what was surprising was who leapt up,

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Speaker 5: like got off the ground really high to grab it

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Speaker 5: and it was really deep down the field, which you

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Speaker 5: wouldn't expect for a tight end. Y'all have already given

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Speaker 5: away that it was the Charlie Warner who caught this

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Speaker 5: ball over the Jesse Bates the third and so everyone

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Speaker 5: was just like, wait a.

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Speaker 2: Minute, was that was that?

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Speaker 5: Charlie. We're like looking at her notes being like you

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Speaker 5: saw that right, like, because every every other like deep

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Speaker 5: ball had been going to Drake London, who had an

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Speaker 5: immaculate practice And I'm sure we'll get to that.

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Speaker 2: I will, but you don't expect Charlie Warner to.

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Speaker 5: Be, gosh, thirty forty yards down there leaping along the

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Speaker 5: sideline behind Jesse Bates for a pass.

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Speaker 2: But he got it. And I think when you rewatch

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Speaker 2: the video, doesn't it like it hit.

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Speaker 3: Off of Jesse's hand. It was crazy there.

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Speaker 2: And then Charlie grabs it just like this.

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Speaker 1: It was crazy because I obviously saw it kind of

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Speaker 1: the back end of it, the back end of the play.

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Speaker 1: But then I was able to watch a video that

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Speaker 1: one of our social reporters got and then looked at

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Speaker 1: some photos that our team for Talk for Jay also took,

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Speaker 1: and there's this one photo that is crazy. You look

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Speaker 1: at this photo and you're like, Jesse base made the play.

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Speaker 1: Jesse made the play like there was no doubt that

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Speaker 1: this was a broken up pass and it was a

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Speaker 1: great play by Jesse. But for some reason, the ball

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Speaker 1: when it hit his palm, it tipped up towards Charlie

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Speaker 1: instead of away from him, and Charlie came down with it.

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Speaker 5: I've never seen that, Maybe not never, but like this

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Speaker 5: training camp alone, I haven't seen the team so excited

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Speaker 5: they swarmed that.

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Speaker 2: Man. Well, this was the loudest and offensive.

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Speaker 4: There are many times a day where there was really

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Speaker 4: good run defense and the defense was just going crazy

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 1: It was honestly one of the more energetic practices I

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Speaker 3: And I didn't even see it. I just heard it,

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Speaker 2: Think that it was even from the sideline right, And.

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Speaker 3: I think that's pretty notable. Because we're in the dog

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Speaker 3: days of camp right now, we are a little over halfway.

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Speaker 1: They're gearing up to go up to Baltimore this weekend

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Speaker 1: for their second preseason game. Fifty three man roster cutdowns

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Speaker 1: are coming. This is a big time period for preseason,

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Speaker 1: so I'm kind of just curious on the when you

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Speaker 1: look at this practice and the energy that there was today,

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Speaker 1: what did you take from from that in the context

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Speaker 1: of the fact that we're in the middle of training camp.

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Speaker 4: I think it just makes you excited for the season, Like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: we have Baltimore, we have Jacksonville, but like I can

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Speaker 4: feel like Week one coming already, and honestly, I feel

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Speaker 4: like that energy. I mean, honestly, it's gonna start with

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Speaker 4: Raheem because he has the most energy anyone, but like

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Speaker 4: Kirk Kirk being the guy that like when you're just

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Speaker 4: like throwing deep balls down the field and like Drake

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Speaker 4: London's gonna catch it, that makes things fun, like we're

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Speaker 4: just having fun, Like I'm having fun watching it right.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting that you bring up Drake London and

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Speaker 1: we've been circling around this topic for the first five minutes.

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Speaker 1: Let's get into the Drake London of today. Because I

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Speaker 1: want to preface this by saying that Monday was a.

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Speaker 3: Tough day for Drake.

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Speaker 1: I looked back on that practice and the DB's were

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Speaker 1: giving him nothing.

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Speaker 2: I had an entire note just on no offends, london struggles.

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Speaker 1: And whether or not it was actually him or the

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Speaker 1: connection with Kirk or the DB's actually playing very very

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Speaker 1: well on Monday. There just wasn't that connection on Monday,

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Speaker 1: and who knows what it was, but it wasn't there,

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Speaker 1: and you could see and you could sense, and I

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Speaker 1: think Drake London would say the same thing that there

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Speaker 1: was a level of frustration that things weren't working on Monday.

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Speaker 1: But we I truly think saw the best of Drake

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Speaker 3: This was the best that he looked.

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Speaker 1: And I say that again not from being out there,

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Speaker 1: the pictures, the videos that I saw. This was Drake

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Speaker 1: London almost kind of being like and I took Monday personally.

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Speaker 3: So Taren, what did you see from Drake today?

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Speaker 2: Got?

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Speaker 5: I mean, Drake's first catch was a long shot down

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Speaker 2: He was all the way down there.

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Speaker 5: And then there was another completion right after that didn't

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Speaker 2: It's the same thing, long shot.

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Speaker 5: Down the right, Drake catches it, probably another touchdown, and

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Speaker 5: it's just like that was two almost back to back,

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Speaker 5: like there was one sneak in there beforehand.

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Speaker 2: Then you have him later and.

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Speaker 5: It's again exact same play, but coming at us rather

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Speaker 5: than away from us. Yeah, same right down the sideline

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Speaker 5: and it's a deep shot and he catches it and

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Speaker 5: like again touchdown. He was so close there's no way

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Speaker 5: he would have gotten taken down that. You're like, okay,

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Speaker 5: I see you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I saw this one photo of him and it looked

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Speaker 1: like a game day photo because it was like sol it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he was like screaming, he had his helmet off. What

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Speaker 1: was that moment? Like did either of y'all see it?

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Speaker 5: But like that I think was on the other side

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Speaker 4: I know exactly what photo you're using we're talking about,

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Speaker 4: because I used that for the best thing I saw. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and yeah, he just it reminds me of like, you know,

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Speaker 4: his helmet, Yeah, was just like screaming and yeah, I

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Speaker 4: mean that I wrote about that in in that Check

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Speaker 4: that out. Check it out. He's always got to plug it.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, he was seven for nine. He looked really good,

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Speaker 4: and yeah he did have that that that practice last

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Speaker 4: what was it Monday time? Isn't real, but he was

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Speaker 4: zero for three and Kirk and he had like a conversation.

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Speaker 4: They're pretty animated afterwards, and you could see that he

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Speaker 4: that edge, because he had that edge on Monday, like

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Speaker 4: he was visibly upset, and today he was visibly excited.

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Speaker 4: It's just it's nice to see Drake kind of like

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Speaker 4: get that rhythm and see him like really come into

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Speaker 1: What's interesting about Drake from a personality standpoint is he

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Speaker 1: had what's this like dichotomy to his personality because every

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Speaker 1: just very like lack of daisical isn't the right word,

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Speaker 3: Very California like. He he leans into that until he

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Speaker 1: On the field, though, there is this passion and aggression

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Speaker 1: that comes out time and time again, and it is

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Speaker 1: something that Darnell Mooney actually talked about a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago when he was asked, you know, what is

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Speaker 1: it about Drake London that surprised you or intrigued you

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Speaker 1: the more you've gotten to know him, And he said,

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Speaker 1: he has this aggression that he taps into when he's

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Speaker 1: percent today and that's the Drake London that the Falcons need.

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Speaker 1: That type of Drake London who is sprinting downfield, making

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Speaker 1: these one handed grabs, who's excited, who's you know, maybe

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Speaker 1: not taking his helmet off in the game, but you know, you.

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Speaker 3: Know what I mean. And I think that that's something

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Speaker 1: If you're the Falcons, you need to see from him

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Speaker 1: and that connection with Kirk Cousins. I'm curious. I know

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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins had his press conference after practice. I was

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Speaker 1: curious if Kirk said anything about Drake.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he he mentioned that the conversation they

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Speaker 4: had on Monday's practice that he didn't think any of

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Speaker 4: those incompletions were drops. He thought that those were being

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Speaker 4: big plays and the coverage what they were all over him.

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Speaker 4: There was a pass break up by Jesse, there was

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Speaker 4: one by Anthony Johnson, Like, but Drake was still hard

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Speaker 4: on himself, he said, and like he's he.

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Speaker 1: Took that person He took it personally. It's just that

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Speaker 1: meme of and I took that personally. That was Drake,

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Speaker 1: Drake's face, our social team, you heard it.

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Speaker 5: You're hard to here first looking at like my notes

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Speaker 5: from today's practice. In total, if you were to like

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Speaker 5: let the plays play out, I had Drake with four

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Speaker 5: touchdowns and then so I only had one incompletion from him,

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Speaker 5: and it's because Kevin King was like all over him,

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Speaker 5: like it was incredible coverage that it's like, that's not

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Speaker 5: on Drake. That's like it was just a really good play,

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Speaker 5: Like you gotta give credit where creditory, Like I was

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Speaker 5: like trying to find the other one that you were referencing,

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Speaker 5: but yeah, I have them with one incompletion only.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk a little bit more about this defense

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Speaker 3: And I'm not just talking.

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Speaker 1: I know we talked a lot going into the season

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Speaker 1: What do you feel, tarn that you've learned in this

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Speaker 5: No, for sure, I like I don't think of it

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Speaker 5: Kevin King. There's a story coming out about him tomorrow

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Speaker 2: That it's like, that's a good problem to have.

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Speaker 5: I think I'm more curious about safety now given the

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Speaker 5: because yes, there's Richie Grant, but you need a little

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Speaker 1: The follow up question is, as we've gone through these

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Speaker 2: Can I say? I don't know? I mean, like, yeah, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean I think that's fair, like.

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Speaker 5: We weren't looking at anyone else, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 5: And I don't know that anyone has necessarily separated themselves,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, But that's the I mean, the beauty of things.

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Speaker 2: Of course, Lucas Dennis was making his name.

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Speaker 1: What's super interesting, is that you know, we can, we

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Speaker 5: Jerry did name Micah Abernathy as his like my eyes

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Speaker 1: Yeah, which would make sense. I feel like Mica is

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Speaker 3: He took reps last year. That's that's not up for debate.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think that that's what this time is

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Speaker 3: That to me has to happen.

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Speaker 1: I know they're not technically on the roster as those positions,

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Speaker 3: They are coming off there.

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Speaker 5: But we were saying for so long that Braylen Trice

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting to see Arnold.

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Speaker 4: He's getting a lot of reps because he'll get him

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think that the and I said

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Speaker 4: Like he did, and he said that was kind of

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Speaker 4: I mean it was we could see that.

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Speaker 3: You could see that from your offer.

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Speaker 4: Right, yeah, And it was just fun because we also

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Speaker 1: Was like very close, right, Yeah, I know d Alfer

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Speaker 1: That point, I think it's like these things were maybe

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Speaker 1: He knows he has some big bodies downfield that he

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Speaker 1: I mean maybe there's always that. Yeah, that's always a possibility.

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Speaker 1: Camp Champ should be. Three yes, one two three Drake London.

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Speaker 5: Okay, great, I didn't even.

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Speaker 1: Honorable mentioned to Kirk Cousins forgetting the ball in the

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Speaker 1: He is not just a blocking tight end, y'all. He

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Speaker 1: he has. But all in all, Drake London, this is

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Speaker 1: Will has the documentation of all the Camp Champs, so

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Speaker 1: I know Clark Phillips had two Clark, but haven't we

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Speaker 3: Week or this week this this preseason.

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Speaker 4: Well if it would have been like the open practice

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Speaker 1: Okay, so maybe this is Drake London's very very first

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Speaker 2: Drake.

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Speaker 1: Congrats Drake well worth it today is a big day

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Speaker 1: We will be back again tomorrow on Thursday to wrap

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Speaker 1: up the week and get ready for the falcons second

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