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Speaker 1: We are back with another edition of The Falcon's Audible,

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Speaker 1: presented by AT and T. I am Derek Rackley. I'm

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Speaker 1: back with my guys, DJ Shockley and Dave Archer. And

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Speaker 1: as you can see, the guys just got a little

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Speaker 1: bit different feel to their bodies. They got some smiles

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Speaker 1: on the face because we're coming the first episode of

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Speaker 1: this podcast in twenty twenty one after a Falcons victory,

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Speaker 1: so we will talk about some of the excitement that

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Speaker 1: happened to that. But before I get to the guys,

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Speaker 1: let me give you a quick rundown of what we

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Speaker 1: are going to cover in this episode. First of all,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask the guys to call their shot. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna give us one play, maybe one player that happened

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Speaker 1: in last weekend's game that they felt like change the

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Speaker 1: momentum and put things in the favor of the Atlanta Falcons.

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Speaker 1: Will also take a look at did the Falcons turn

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Speaker 1: a corner in that game? Maybe the performance is something

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Speaker 1: that they can build on for weeks ahead, or maybe

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Speaker 1: the guys feel differently. We'll get into a debate, maybe

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Speaker 1: maybe not, on whether the defensive performance from Sunday is

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Speaker 1: something that we can expect for weeks to come, or

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Speaker 1: maybe that was a one week affair. I'll get the

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Speaker 1: guy's opinion on that. Maybe we'll have a little bit

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Speaker 1: of argument. We will have a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: story time where we get into a situation where maybe

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Speaker 1: DJ and Arch can tell us a similar scenario. Maybe

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Speaker 1: they got their season started off on a slow note,

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Speaker 1: but then they were able to move things forward throughout

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Speaker 1: the rest of the season. Then, of course, we will

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Speaker 1: finish by taking a look ahead at the Falcon's next

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Speaker 1: opponent as they get into Week four of the NFL season. So,

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Speaker 1: without further ado, DJ, I'm gonna start with you. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna get in to call your shot again. The rule

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Speaker 1: here is not really rules, okay, these are just kind

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Speaker 1: of the policies maybe the guidelines. We need you to

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Speaker 1: call your shot. So you need to pick one player

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Speaker 1: or one play that you felt like made a difference

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Speaker 1: in Sunday's game, maybe turn the momentum put things on

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Speaker 1: the side of the Atlanta Falcons. So with that being said, ready,

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Speaker 1: set go. Just see that that was a crossover right there,

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Speaker 1: the shot. Cameron Nizelek I called a special teams out

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Speaker 1: last week. How about this six punts average forty seven

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Speaker 1: yards and three inside the twenty. Cameron, that's my dude,

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Speaker 1: I can yes, yes, Yeah, that's awesome. This is the

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Speaker 1: interesting part about a segment like this, Dave, because you

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Speaker 1: go second, I'm gonna go third. You gotta be ready, right,

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Speaker 1: because what happens if VJ takes the one that you

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Speaker 1: were gonna go with? So this is kind of a

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Speaker 1: stall tactic to that's pretty good at a really good Okay,

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Speaker 1: your turn, Dave, call your shot. What did you hit it?

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Speaker 1: From Sundays? He didn't think. Yeah, great call. By the way,

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Speaker 1: Nis Lack was monster. Dante Fowler with another late sacks

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Speaker 1: strip forces the ball out forces the third and nineteen

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Speaker 1: with two minutes to go, and it provided the opportunity

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Speaker 1: for Atlanta to get the ball back to drive down

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Speaker 1: and kick the game winner. Yeah. Not only did he

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Speaker 1: get the strip sackbod, he was held on the play too.

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Speaker 1: There was a penalty. So that shows how talented and

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Speaker 1: how good for two break it. Guess what, guys, I

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Speaker 1: don't even have to think about it, because when you're

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Speaker 1: the host of the show, you can kind of twist

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Speaker 1: the rooms. So I'm actually gonna go with a drive

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Speaker 1: of the game. I'm gonna say it was the Falcons

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Speaker 1: touchdown drive in the fourth quarter, right after the Giants

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Speaker 1: have put a touchdown on the board. And I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about taking time off the clock to eight minutes forty

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Speaker 1: nine of ten passing on that drive. For the Atlanta

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Speaker 1: Falcons to answer so often, it's so important how you

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Speaker 1: answer a touchdown drive. They tied up the game, and

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Speaker 1: we obviously know what you can. Also, you can expand

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Speaker 1: on your thoughts a lot longer than you and I

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Speaker 1: got to you got to talk a lot precise somewhere

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Speaker 1: for the precise. I like it. I like it. I

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Speaker 1: like it. All right, So good, we got we got

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Speaker 1: to call shot a little bit. All right, So let's

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Speaker 1: the Falcons turn a corner? Okay, sometimes it's easy in

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Speaker 1: they've arrived. Right now, they're going to end up building

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Speaker 1: build on in this performance. So did the Falcons turn

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Speaker 1: now I see this team taking off. I think there

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Speaker 1: drive of the game creates another long yarded situation Atlantic

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Speaker 1: a play zone forces the field goal. That's the second

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Speaker 1: time we've seen interior pressure. Remember it was Marlon Davidson

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Speaker 1: last week got the sack. This time Grady Jarrett gets

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Speaker 1: to back weeks late in the second half. The one

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Speaker 1: a sack that created a long yardage situation. I think

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Speaker 1: you're seeing that become a little bit more of a pattern.

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Speaker 1: Interior pressure, edge pressure, something we have not noted or

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Speaker 1: seen very much of. I think that is turning a corner. Now,

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Speaker 1: if we turned the corner completely defensively, it's not happening

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Speaker 1: for four quarters. Happened in the second half of this game.

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Speaker 1: It happened in the third quarter of the game against Tampa.

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Speaker 1: You could might even say the second half against Tampa.

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Speaker 1: So two second half performances when you look at no

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Speaker 1: performance certainly turning the page for us. Yeah, and obviously

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Speaker 1: Dave as the two quarterbacks here, Arch decides to go

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Speaker 1: a little bit more defense, DJ. Did you see anything

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Speaker 1: offensively that you felt like maybe the Falcons are turning

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Speaker 1: not really seeing that on the field, but offensively, were

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Speaker 1: I'll say that when you think about some of the

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Speaker 1: You did what you need to do, You ran the

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Speaker 1: I think about this arch is what's going on in

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Speaker 1: last week, two or two, this week you were scoring touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: When you get down there, you're converting them, and I

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Speaker 1: the corner is Yeah, we've always moved to football really

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Speaker 1: well from twenty to twenty, but once you got inside

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Speaker 1: fact that I think the DNA of this team is

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Speaker 1: the past is all together. I did a breakdown and

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are going to see,

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Speaker 1: this Matt comes up to the line of scrimm and

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Speaker 1: Patterson is the safety. And that is why I think

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Speaker 1: the pass game will come along and will continue to build.

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Speaker 1: So I think the DNA is there. I think the

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Speaker 1: right direction. I love the way that you did that, DJ.

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Speaker 1: You definitely build it on that. We haven't turned the

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Speaker 1: It could be different. We could be in a different

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Speaker 1: a great play call. When the Falcons got down on

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Speaker 1: He comes back with play action and he slips Lee

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Speaker 1: And to think a little bit of a tendency breaker there.

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Speaker 1: Did you did you have to jump in DJ where

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Speaker 1: thought that was an awesome call because you start out

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Speaker 1: here's I mean because he had three targets in the game,

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Speaker 1: So everybody's like, where's Kyle Pitts? And now you put

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Speaker 1: him out? Why anybody thinks, oh, they're definitely throwing the

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Speaker 1: fade to him. You're not throwing the fade. But then like, okay,

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Speaker 1: hand it to our big back. You don't even do that.

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Speaker 1: You slip Lee Smith out and it's an easy touchdown.

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Speaker 1: I love the creativity. I love using the personnail. You

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Speaker 1: have to set it up, so I'll just agree with

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Speaker 1: what you're at. Yeah, now it's speaking of mirage. You

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Speaker 1: call there. But you also mentioned DJ Cordarrel Patterson, and

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Speaker 1: as I watched this Falcon's offense, the more I see

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Speaker 1: the value in what he does. Now I'm gonna make

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Speaker 1: this comment because I'm not at the Falcons meetings. I'm

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Speaker 1: not at Falcons practice, so I don't know what goes on.

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Speaker 1: But I believe he had thirteen touches in the game,

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Speaker 1: and I like that number for Cordarell Patterson because it

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Speaker 1: seems like he finds ways to make plays guys. Whether

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Speaker 1: it's his physicality when he goes up against the defensive

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Speaker 1: a lot of times he's got the footwork and the

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Speaker 1: Scott Bear, Torry mcuhanny and Chris rim as they debate

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Speaker 1: And DJ, I'm gonna start with you. Can you think

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Speaker 1: And I think all that ultimately will help you down

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Speaker 1: maybe where you had some youth, because we know that

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons have some youth in specific position groups

432
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Speaker 1: and maybe you experienced some of the same and you

433
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Speaker 1: were able to turn it around through the course of

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Speaker 1: the season. Well, I'd like to say we turned it

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Speaker 1: around through the season, but be honest with you, guys,

436
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Speaker 1: when you get off to a slow start, it takes

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Speaker 1: a lot of resolve and you got to have some

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Speaker 1: pretty good veterans to make sure you flip it around.

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Speaker 1: And I think this team has a couple older veterans

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Speaker 1: on the team and then some middling veterans that I

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Speaker 1: think can make it happen, but it's hard to do.

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Speaker 1: I remember in eighty five we started off really poorly.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't even playing, I was a second year man,

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Speaker 1: but we had a bunch of young players on our team,

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Speaker 1: and we got off to a horrible start. But we

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Speaker 1: close was the season really well. We finished the season

447
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Speaker 1: and it was a springboard into the following year. We

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Speaker 1: finished I think three we finished three and one in

449
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Speaker 1: the land of final four games of that season, and

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Speaker 1: we started the next year four and zero, and so

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Speaker 1: it was a springboard through year. And that's hard to

452
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Speaker 1: carry through the off season, but it did carry into

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Speaker 1: our offseason training and the excitement of the young players

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Speaker 1: kind of carrying on. Now, that's not what the fan

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Speaker 1: wants to hear. They we want to know about right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about next Yeah, so, but

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Speaker 1: I do like the fact that they went on the road,

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Speaker 1: and you guys know as well as I do, and

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Speaker 1: anybody that's that watches this game very good. It's hard

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Speaker 1: to go win on the road now and you see teams,

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Speaker 1: you know, Tampa look like look pretty good. They went

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Speaker 1: out there and the Rams handed it to them, right,

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Speaker 1: So you got to you gotta make sure that you

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Speaker 1: are dialed in each every weekend. Styles make fights. We'll

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Speaker 1: have a different fight with Washington this weekend than we

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Speaker 1: had with the with the Giants this last weekend. So

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Speaker 1: I think the confidence you gain from winning on the

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Speaker 1: road is exponential over potentially even winning at home. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it's interesting that you mentioned, Dave as far as

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Speaker 1: the youth, and I think back to two thousand and

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Speaker 1: two and we had what everybody would remember that remembers

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Speaker 1: two thousand and two, a very young and inexperienced quarterback room,

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Speaker 1: one that consisted of a Michael Vick, a Doug Johnson,

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Speaker 1: and a Kirk Kintner. You can't get a whole lot

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Speaker 1: more young and inexperience in that quarterback room. In that season,

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Speaker 1: Dave will remember we started one in three. We lost

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Speaker 1: our opener to Green Bay in overtime, which was yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: and we start the season. We had an early bye week,

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Speaker 1: so we were one in three, but then we ended

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Speaker 1: up picking up a victory and we ended up ripping

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Speaker 1: seventh straight while we had a tie in the middle

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Speaker 1: of the season. Dave remembers that against Pittsburgh Steelers, when

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Speaker 1: I actually sat on the sidelines that game. It was

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Speaker 1: two thousand and two. I didn't even know that you

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Speaker 1: could tie in the NFL at that time, full fifteen

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Speaker 1: minute overtime period. Well, we went through a stretch where

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Speaker 1: we were seven oh and one after starting one and three,

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Speaker 1: So it can happen. And to Arch's point, something has

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Speaker 1: to spring the young players as well as the veterans

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Speaker 1: to give them the confidence and the momentum to believe

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Speaker 1: that every single game they can go out to win.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see if the Falcons can do that and

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Speaker 1: build off of that victory with the Giants. Now, let's

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Speaker 1: go ahead and close things down as we end up

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Speaker 1: taking a look to this weekend. It was week two

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Speaker 1: of the NFC East for the Atlanta Falcons. This time

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Speaker 1: I'll be at home, DJ. Give us your kind of

498
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Speaker 1: early preview of the Atlanta Falcons against their opponent this

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Speaker 1: weekend coming up with Washington. Well, I think it obviously

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Speaker 1: starts with you know, they got a guy who was

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Speaker 1: from here playing quarterback, went to Collins Hill and Taylor Heinekey,

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Speaker 1: so you know he'll be excited to be back in

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Speaker 1: his hometown in front of you know, some of his

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Speaker 1: friends and family to play here stepping in, there's a

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Speaker 1: familiar phase that wants to play here for the Atlanta

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Speaker 1: Falcons and JD. McKissick, who they use a lot and

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Speaker 1: a lot of different rolls, similar to like how we

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Speaker 1: use Cornell Patterson. He's a big part of what they

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Speaker 1: like to do. And I think the other part of

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Speaker 1: it is, Uh, this Washington defense that everybody expected to

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Speaker 1: be just so good coming into this season, but you

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Speaker 1: look at him coming into this this year. Now they're

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Speaker 1: allowing four hundred and thirty two yards a game, which

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Speaker 1: is thirty first, and thirty points a game, which is

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Speaker 1: twenty nine. So this defense is not what everybody expected

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Speaker 1: it should be coming into this game. But at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, it's kind of what it's coaches speak.

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Speaker 1: But the Falcons have to play their their style of

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Speaker 1: ball game, and you know, you don't worry too much

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Speaker 1: about what they're doing as far as getting prepared. Obviously

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Speaker 1: the adjustments will be there, but this is a Washington

522
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Speaker 1: team that's looking to get a win as well. Obviously

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Speaker 1: they got there, they got their buzz handed to him

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Speaker 1: and Buffalo. I don't think many people expected him to

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Speaker 1: go to Buffalo and get a win but they got

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Speaker 1: a quarterback now and Heineken who's got a couple starts

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Speaker 1: on his belt, and we'll be excited to come back

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Speaker 1: to his hometown. I know that, you know everybody talks

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Speaker 1: about you just start will start to think about the

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Speaker 1: record of an opponent. Right, Washington's gonna come in here,

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Speaker 1: and they're sitting at one and two as well, so

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Speaker 1: they're at a very pivotal point in their season. But Dave,

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Speaker 1: if there's one thing that we know about the NFL

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Speaker 1: guys that prepare the right way, they're not worried about

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Speaker 1: what Washington's doing. Atlanta's got to worry about what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: So thinking about what Atlanta needs to do by themselves, Yes,

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Speaker 1: you can go ahead and point out some things that

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Speaker 1: they're going to have to focus on with Washington, But

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Speaker 1: what does Atlanta need to do this weekend to even

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Speaker 1: their record at two and two? Well, I think one

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Speaker 1: of the things that's going to jump out at me

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Speaker 1: is can you create as a wide receiver corps and

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Speaker 1: or pass receiving corps. Can I create early wins or

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Speaker 1: separation so my quarterback can get the ball out Right now,

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Speaker 1: we're seeing Matt have to stand in a pocket and

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Speaker 1: hold the football, and you can see anybody that plays

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Speaker 1: at both the Shock and I both stood when it

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Speaker 1: starts to take too long, your clock goes off in

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Speaker 1: your head and you get a little antsie. Now, Matt,

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Speaker 1: we were able to move a little bit. That's not

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Speaker 1: what Ryan's game is. He's going to climb in a

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Speaker 1: pocket and get it out, and so guys aren't creating separation.

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Speaker 1: This is a team it's going to play more man

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Speaker 1: coverage than they've seen probably in the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: This is something that this team likes to do. They

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Speaker 1: do have four former or I'm sorry seven four former

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Speaker 1: number one draft picks. Four of those guys up front

558
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Speaker 1: that are rushing the passer, but three more guys in

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Speaker 1: the second and third level that are former number ones

560
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Speaker 1: that maybe played for somebody else that are on this team.

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Speaker 1: So this is a team that's used to playing at

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Speaker 1: a pretty high level. They played really well, as Shock

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Speaker 1: said a year ago. But I'm if I'm a Falcon

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Speaker 1: group and I'm a unit, and there's one particular unit

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Speaker 1: in particular in my mind, it's my wide receiver corps.

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Speaker 1: I take a lot of solace in the fact that

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Speaker 1: Oz made a couple of plays, a couple of tough catches,

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Speaker 1: Lamide Zekias, you got some from Ridley. Ridley dropped the ball.

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Speaker 1: He'll be working on that. And how do I get

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Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts involved against some man coverage and get him

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Speaker 1: the football more. He showed tremendous resilience, guys, and I

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Speaker 1: don't think it could be over stated. He's the number

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Speaker 1: one draft pick. Everybody wants to talk to me. Everybody

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Speaker 1: wants to know when is he going to make a play.

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Speaker 1: He didn't make a play until the fourth quarter of

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Speaker 1: the game. Yet you didn't seem hang his head. There

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Speaker 1: was no frustration. And when they finally got man coverage,

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00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: he runs a great route, a pressure break on a

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Speaker 1: dig route, catches the tough grab of the guy all

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Speaker 1: over him, and then wins on the corner route to

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Speaker 1: put us in field goal position to win the football game.

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Speaker 1: I thought that showed a lot of maturity for a

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Speaker 1: guy that actually should be in his senior year at

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Speaker 1: Florida right now. But he kept his resolve and he

585
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Speaker 1: kept his focus, so when his team called on, he

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Speaker 1: made some plays. That's the group I'm looking for. Your

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Speaker 1: pass receivers create separations so Matt can get the ball out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Dave, I'm kind of in the same camp. Like

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Speaker 1: that was the one thing that watching the game is

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Speaker 1: I wanted to see more explosiveness. I want to see

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Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley beat somebody deep and if it doesn't work

592
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Speaker 1: the first time, that's okay, dial it back up again later.

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Speaker 1: But for him to just be doing five yard hitch

594
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Speaker 1: routes and eight yard curl routes and twelve yard comeback

595
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Speaker 1: along the sidelines, let's all fine and dandy, but this

596
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Speaker 1: guy is an elite talent, Like I want to see

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Speaker 1: him downfield, beating coverage, finding the open spot of the

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Speaker 1: zone and making something happen. The same thing with Kyle Pitts.

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Speaker 1: And trust me, Arthur Smith knows the same thing. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna try to find ways to get the ball into

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Speaker 1: these guy's hands and let them be explosive because that's

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Speaker 1: the type of athletes they are. That's what I would

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Speaker 1: like to see against this team. And as you mentioned, David,

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Speaker 1: it's not going to be easy with this defense, and

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Speaker 1: I will say that to Arthur Smith's defense and I'm

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Speaker 1: not trying to create excuses here, but a shock We've

607
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Speaker 1: probably played three of the worst defenses from an explosive

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Speaker 1: play standpoint you could possibly play, because all they want

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Speaker 1: to do is play a shell. They just want to

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Speaker 1: sit over the top and make you throw all the

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Speaker 1: ball underneath. And so it's really chested Ryan's patience, the

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Speaker 1: receiver's patients to go ahead and take the five, six,

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Speaker 1: seven year to dump off to the backs, be positive

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Speaker 1: and find ways to move the chains. That way, I

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Speaker 1: think you're gonna get opportunities, like you're talking about Rack,

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Speaker 1: where you're gonna see a little bit more man coverage

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Speaker 1: this weekend, and you might have some shots over the top. Well,

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Speaker 1: that'll be exciting to see if we end up getting

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Speaker 1: some of those matchups and if Matt just has enough

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Speaker 1: time to cut that ball loose and see if these

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Speaker 1: guys can be all right, guys, that's gonna do it

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Speaker 1: this week. I know we got a lot more that

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Speaker 1: we can talk about, but sometimes you just got to

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Speaker 1: wrap it up. DJ Shoppy, Dave Archer, great stuff is

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Speaker 1: always Appreciate you guys joining me on this great work.

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