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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, and welcome to a special edition of

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Speaker 1: the Falcons Final Whistle Podcast. We are here at Mercedes

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Speaker 1: Benz Stadium in the Delta Sky Club recording this podcast live.

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Speaker 1: I'm Scott Bear with me as my tag team partner

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Speaker 1: Tory mclaney, and also here a very special guest cornerback,

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Speaker 1: AJ Terrell. AJ Terrell is here everybody. Yeah, Now, a

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Speaker 1: couple quick things about the format, right, So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have twelve minutes or so with our main man here,

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Speaker 1: and then after that we're going to open it up

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Speaker 1: for questions from you guys to ask me and to

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Speaker 1: ask Tory. So get those questions ready. We are gonna

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Speaker 1: have that mic circulating around. This is going to be

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Speaker 1: a really great time to get to know AJ and

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Speaker 1: get to know this Falcons team better. So with all that, AJ,

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Speaker 1: first question to you. You see all these people jacked

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Speaker 1: up to see a guy from their hometown playing for

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons. What's it like to interact with the

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Speaker 1: speaking appreciate it. It's just it's different, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, Just a bigger platform and just got a

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Speaker 1: lot to you know, give and just out there playing

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Speaker 1: on the field. Just give me a lot of motivation. AJ,

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Speaker 1: It's funny you have been at the Braves you throughout

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Speaker 1: the first pitch, then you were at Laney and added

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Speaker 1: you were the Golden spike hitter. I'm pretty sure that's

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Speaker 1: the name of what you were up those two. What's

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Speaker 1: the more difficult? I thought the pitch was gonna be sweet,

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Speaker 1: but it wasn't sweet. Yeah, I had ended up spiking

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Speaker 1: out one in the ground. The spike was easy though, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, but there's both great experiences and just something

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Speaker 1: that I definitely loved doing. So it was just giving

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Speaker 1: back in my way. Yeah, how much did it mean

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Speaker 1: to kind of see other Atlanta fan bases kind of

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Speaker 1: take to you the way that they do. It means

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Speaker 1: a lot. That means, you know, it's just growing, no

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Speaker 1: year after year, just out there, just off my play

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Speaker 1: and just the presence of me being on the field

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Speaker 1: and playing with my teammates and just get everybody, you know,

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Speaker 1: tighten it, you know, just the fan base and everybody.

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Speaker 1: I just appreciate everybody just locking in with us and

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Speaker 1: riding alone this this this path that we're going on

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Speaker 1: and just try to get to the playoffs. Get some

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Speaker 1: ws you grew up playing youth football right down the

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Speaker 1: road basically at Ben Hill Park, right you were there

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Speaker 1: for the Oom squad, for the Oom squad. What's it

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Speaker 1: like playing professional football so close to where you grew

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Speaker 1: up and how important this area is to you? So

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Speaker 1: so surreal, um, just being able to, like right now,

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Speaker 1: just being down the street from Camberton Road, right where

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Speaker 1: uh Ben Hill is and just being on the big

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Speaker 1: just like amazing, Like it's so surreal now, Scott, I know,

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Speaker 1: wanted to ask about your brother. Is it nice to

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Speaker 1: see him? I mean, you get to see him kind

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Speaker 1: of go through what you went through not too long ago.

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Speaker 1: You're not that old man. How does it feel thing

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Speaker 1: him kind of go through that what you did? It's

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Speaker 1: no surprise, you know, just all the work we don't

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Speaker 1: he is is is making me proud, you know, just

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Speaker 1: setting setting away and paving his way, you know, to

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Speaker 1: college is definitely amazing and and you're kind of paving

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Speaker 1: your way into this league, and in year one you

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Speaker 1: had a really good year. Year two it seemed like,

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Speaker 1: I mean second team All Pro? Right, second team All Pro?

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Speaker 1: That says a lot. How are you able to make

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Speaker 1: that jump in year two to be one of the

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Speaker 1: just going out there and just playing calm free and

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Speaker 1: just having fun with the game. I think recently you

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Speaker 1: were named one of the league's most appreciated players, and

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Speaker 1: I know, right and then underrated is a word that

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Speaker 1: feel hearing that? Controlling me? Like, Yeah, I ain't really

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Speaker 1: just experienced. You know, Casey definitely a hell all pro himself,

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Speaker 1: like a blessing, just having an older brother and just

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Speaker 1: getting some knowledge from me, you know, weekend, week out

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Speaker 1: whenever we talk about what we're excited to see in

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Speaker 1: Hayward every single time. Now that you've gotten to know

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Speaker 1: him a little bit. I know it's only been a

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Speaker 1: I know you just said experience, but what do you

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Speaker 1: him outside of outside of football, so we already had

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Speaker 1: to relate, you know, you've got somebody that you talked to.

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Speaker 1: You you know, some people can't relate with what you know.

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Speaker 1: I'm being in But like I said, he got so

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Speaker 1: much experience anything I asked that he could tap in

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Speaker 1: Trying to Hey, we're gonna get some WS this year. Um,

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Speaker 1: we gotta go to the playoffs, and that's that's the

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Speaker 1: going out there and winning that one game each week

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Speaker 1: is the main thing. Okay, this is the fun part

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Speaker 1: of the podcast. We're gonna have a little bit fun,

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Speaker 1: even though we've we've already been having fun, I mean,

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Speaker 1: gonna do a lightning round. I'm gonna have like a

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Speaker 1: go real quick and you're gonna answer these questions. Some

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Speaker 1: are funny, some are not. So you're ready, let's go.

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Speaker 1: You're ready, Okay. Fave artist or song that you're playing

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Speaker 1: right now? Little baby? There you go. Memorable play as

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Speaker 1: a falcon. You're most memorable, will play as a falcon.

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Speaker 1: There are a few to choose. There are a few.

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Speaker 1: My first pick here last year gets the Patriots. There

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Speaker 1: you go. Your biggest pet, peeve. I got a lot

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Speaker 1: of those, I see, see I have a problem with,

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Speaker 1: like slow driving. Yeah. The main one is smacking. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I hate what somebody eat next to me and they smacking, Like,

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Speaker 1: okay to self see him out at a restaurant, for sure.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call you out. Your favorite fashion trend? Fashion?

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Speaker 1: You got some game day fits? I've seen those going, right,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot you I don't think that that one

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Speaker 1: I'm mad to just keep. Okay, well, we'll save it

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Speaker 1: for during the saxon. Yeah, that one all right. If

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Speaker 1: you're choosing text call or FaceTime text the fam is

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Speaker 1: like tight. If we ain't tight, just texts me like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna answer, no phone, car FaceTime. You're okay.

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Speaker 1: The last movie you watched Life, good one. Y'all know

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Speaker 1: what life is? Is that the one with Eddie Murphys. Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: move is awesome? Good one. Um. The teammate that you

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Speaker 1: like it. I like it. Um. Your favorite Atlanta restaurant

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Speaker 1: gonna be American Delhi. Okay, all right, I can get

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Speaker 1: behind that. There you go. Um. Now, I have seen

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Speaker 1: What's your favorite outfit of his? Uh? I like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: marathon definitely from Nipsey Hustle. So I like that word.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, man, I appreciate the time. Now

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Speaker 1: we're going to enter into phase two of this podcast.

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Speaker 1: There's gonna be a microphone circulating around. If you guys

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Speaker 1: have any questions about AJ about the twenty twenty two Falcons,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna stick around for ten fifteen minutes something like that.

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Speaker 1: Ask her any anything that you anything that's on your mind.

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Speaker 1: We can definitely talk about and tories. So anybody who

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Speaker 1: But Tori, as we head through this OTAs right, we're

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Speaker 1: lot of these new players. What are your impressions of

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Speaker 1: this team? Kind of as you're getting to know a

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Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you guys again next week