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Speaker 1: We are back on the Falcons Audible presented by AT

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Speaker 1: and T. Not only are we back, but we're back

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Speaker 1: with the Falcons victory after a Week one win over

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Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. I'm Derick Crackley. That's DJ Shockley throwing

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Speaker 1: up the dubs over there, right, okay, right here, we've

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Speaker 1: been having it. We've been having a spirited conversation about food,

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Speaker 1: pregame food, in game food, postgame food, and so anyway,

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Speaker 1: that's where we were going there, and I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: apologize right now. I forgot my spectacles today. So if

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Speaker 1: you guys see me kind of look in this direction,

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Speaker 1: or if I read something that sounds completely off base,

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Speaker 1: just give me a break. Okay, All right, here's what

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about. Top performers from the Week

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Speaker 1: one game against Carolina for the Falcons, the significance of

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Speaker 1: that victory. I think we all know what that is,

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Speaker 1: but we'll talk a little bit about it, and then

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Speaker 1: week one to week two, maybe where the Falcons need

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Speaker 1: a little bit of fine tuning before they face off

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Speaker 1: with the Green Bays. All right, before we get into that, DJ,

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Speaker 1: all three of us were at the game on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: describe the atmosphere of Mercedes Benz Stadium for the Falcons

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Speaker 2: I'll be honest, it has not felt like that in

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Speaker 2: a long time. I thought it was electric. I thought

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Speaker 2: all the endgame stuff was pretty cool, all the white

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Speaker 2: flags waving, you had Gezy doing a commercial break, you

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Speaker 2: had to swag surf going on. It was un I

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Speaker 2: mean you started at the beginning of the game where

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Speaker 2: you got big Boy and you got Mike Vic doing

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Speaker 2: the open and then the team comes out and it

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Speaker 2: just felt like how Atlanta should be. It felt like

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Speaker 2: what it felt years ago when you're winning and you're

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Speaker 2: playing well and things are going great and the fan

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Speaker 2: base is feeling good. I enjoyed the atmosphere is one

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Speaker 2: of those places where you felt.

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Speaker 3: Like, I'm glad I'm here. You know, I'm glad I'm

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Speaker 2: Like it felt good to be in the building and

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Speaker 2: I think we all talked about it coming in.

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Speaker 3: Was the optimism.

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Speaker 2: Arthur Smith talked about how this is gonna be a

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Speaker 2: really fun team the coach, but then you wanted to

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Speaker 2: see it, and then there were a lot of things

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Speaker 2: to be happy and cheer about. So I was glad

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Speaker 2: to see the fans show up, and I'm glad to

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Speaker 2: see the fans, you know, make some noise and be relevant.

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Speaker 1: It's a great point because if anybody watched on television,

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Speaker 1: you might have missed half of the stuff that we're

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Speaker 1: talking about because it was a lot of this stadium

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Speaker 1: production stuff that happened during breaks. I mean, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: that they probably highlighted some things on the television, but

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Speaker 1: not only the people you mentioned, but Andrew Jones in

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Speaker 1: the house, Germaine Duprix in the house, and probably many

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Speaker 1: other celebrities.

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of Falcons t I was in the building,

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Speaker 1: which is its arch. It's it's something that's very cool,

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Speaker 1: very unique to Atlanta because there are so many, I

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Speaker 1: guess you just call them famous people, so many personalities

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Speaker 1: and that really want to support the Atlanta Falcons. What

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was she come on, do it with this,

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Speaker 4: come on, let's get it going.

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Speaker 1: So you gotta stay with me, and I'm ready.

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Speaker 4: Here we go, there we go, get it going.

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Speaker 3: Little swag sir.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, all.

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Speaker 3: Right, no, it was it was.

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Speaker 4: It was in an atmosphere you want for an opening

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Speaker 4: day game, right, I thought the Atlanta fan answered the call.

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Speaker 4: There were a ton of fans there. Really cool that

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Speaker 4: the Falcon staff and those that were there passed out

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Speaker 4: the flags. That always makes it bigger when you get

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Speaker 4: the flags and the flags were waving. I've had a

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Speaker 4: Was the fourth and one stop. Yeah, you know Atlanta

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Speaker 4: doesn't do anything on the first series of downs. Really

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Speaker 4: kind of an inept first drive if you will, punt

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Speaker 4: and the players sub subsequently responded with a stop that

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Speaker 4: kind of warded their excitement and stuff like that. But yeah,

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Speaker 4: those moments where you felt like this team was six

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Speaker 4: and three in this building a year ago. They're now

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Speaker 4: one to oh this year in the building. So seven

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Speaker 4: of the last ten games in the bins they've won. Oh,

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Speaker 4: by the way, you're playing in the bins this weekend.

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Speaker 4: Let's load it up. I don't want to see a

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Speaker 4: lot of green and gold. This a heritage team coming in.

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Speaker 4: I know that in Green Bay, and I know there's

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Speaker 4: some Green Bay fans here in this city. Let's load

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Speaker 4: it up with black and red.

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Speaker 3: But did you get Wes. It's a swagger starf from

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Speaker 3: a boof Wich. He can't do it.

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Speaker 4: Takes it takes a little bit of rhythm to get

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Speaker 1: But I try to get it going a little bit

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Speaker 1: before we move on from the atmosphere, Can I just

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Speaker 1: get your guys' take on Freddie Falcon because I was like,

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Speaker 1: good call, bruh okay. So before the game, he comes

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Speaker 1: down from the rafters like double bungee corded like coming

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Speaker 1: ain't no way, Like I don't know how much they're

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Speaker 1: up there. Hardest working bird in the city. He's dangling

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Speaker 1: was like, this is really cool doing flips at halftime.

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Speaker 1: Yeah he is Freddie Freddy turned up for week one.

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Speaker 4: Well, and he and real quickly he's a guy that

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Speaker 4: if you start the guy that plays Freddie Falcon and no,

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Speaker 4: that's not an actual bird but there, but Freddie Falcon

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Speaker 4: hardest working bird. I say that the dude is everywhere

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Speaker 4: he's at hospitals, He's everywhere trying to bring that goodwill

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Speaker 4: and and everything that Freddie Falcon stands for. So congratulations

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Speaker 3: N Mascot of the week, how about yeah?

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Speaker 1: How about overall? Though, Like I'm not trying to get off,

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Speaker 1: turning up to at how do you explain what blooper

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Speaker 1: he's got the larger mid section?

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Speaker 4: Then the Philly fanatic already kind of make that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's still hilarious. Okay, it's still good.

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Speaker 3: Falcons.

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Speaker 1: Mascots are doing their thing. Let's get back to the Falcons,

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Speaker 1: shall we. Let's dive into the game a little bit. Arch.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna come right back to you, top performers. You

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Speaker 1: could go a number of different directions here, player, position, group.

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Speaker 1: What are you thinking here?

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, how do you not take the defensive

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Speaker 4: player of the week? In my opinion, Uh, Jesse Bates

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Speaker 4: the third came here as a high price free agent.

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Speaker 4: He came here on the premise that obviously the guy

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Speaker 4: can play center fielding and tackle people. I remember you

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Speaker 4: synopsis is on on one on Jesse Bates, which you did.

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Speaker 4: I did one on John new Smith and how they

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 4: Your assessment of Jesse Bates and his ability to come

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Speaker 4: down and tackle ten tackles in this.

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Speaker 1: Game, folks?

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Speaker 4: Your your your assessment of his ability to get his

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Speaker 1: I don't know what else the guy could do.

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Speaker 4: So as far as stars go, I think it starts

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Speaker 4: with Jesse Bates the third He's what you had hoped.

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Speaker 1: He would be.

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Speaker 4: He's exactly what you got in the game. If this

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Speaker 4: the next sixteen games, boy, you talking about a stealing

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking the same thing. Arch Like, I'm sitting there

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Speaker 1: section one nineteen and I see the first one. I

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Speaker 1: ten tackles. I was like, well, they already got their

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Speaker 1: money's worth him, right, DJ what you think? Do you do?

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Speaker 3: You do you?

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Speaker 1: I took the low playing hat. Get yourself with Are

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Speaker 1: you gonna you're gonna back him up? Or do you

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Speaker 2: I definitely will back Arch up. And I mean, for one,

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Speaker 2: he wears the number three, so obviously he's gonna be

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Speaker 2: it really okay makes sense now, but Archie spot on

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Speaker 2: Jesse was everything and more that you wanted in that

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Speaker 2: You're talking about Algier and Robinson, two guys who came

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Speaker 2: yard rusher. You knew he did it last year, his

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Speaker 2: rookie season coming in. How would that dynamic work again

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Speaker 2: with you bringing in the number eight?

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Speaker 3: Overall?

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Speaker 2: Pick all the excitement about Vgon coming in and he

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Speaker 2: was everything and more.

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Speaker 3: I saw the land.

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Speaker 2: Dot com put up a real nice clip of you

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Speaker 2: guys arching west in the booth, and it was I

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Speaker 2: think it was the same feeling that I had and

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Speaker 2: a lot of people had on the first touchdown of Vigon,

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Speaker 2: he's about to get in the zone. And I saw

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Speaker 2: the video and I see you just lean back and

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Speaker 2: laugh like like come on, bro, like seriously, this is

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Speaker 2: what you want to do, Like when you touch it,

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Speaker 2: it's unbelievable. That's how I was thinking to like, I mean,

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Speaker 2: be his first One's pretty cool. You're talking about one

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Speaker 2: hundred and seventy seven all purple jars, between them three

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Speaker 2: touchdowns the first time I comes in the game, buses

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Speaker 2: off a nineteen yard run, buses off of you know,

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Speaker 2: twenty some yard run. And of course you had great

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Speaker 2: blocking up front. And but those two guys together are

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Speaker 2: going to be fun to watch seeing them both on

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Speaker 2: the field at the same time. It's fun to watch

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Speaker 2: and both those guys feed off each other. You love

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Speaker 2: the energy, You love what they bring to this offense.

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Speaker 2: And oh yeah, I mean they got a guy named

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Speaker 2: CP who's gonna be back to so at that.

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Speaker 4: You couldn't ask for a better opening play to kind

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Speaker 4: of introduce yourself to the to the the city than

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Speaker 4: John Robinson gave for you on that little swing screen.

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Speaker 3: That's what you what. That's where it starts with.

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Speaker 2: the defense play well enough on this ball game where

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Speaker 2: you know you have some short fields would help you.

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Speaker 2: But going two for ten on third down, not protecting

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Speaker 2: your quarterback, not stopping to run, those are key issues

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Speaker 2: in a game where usually in the National Football League

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Speaker 2: you're probably not gonna come out the other end of it,

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Speaker 2: but because you had those turnovers, you're usually have an

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Speaker 2: avenue where you can win those ball games. I think

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Speaker 2: you have to protect the quarterback but also be better

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Speaker 2: on those third down situation. You had some some stuff

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Speaker 2: going on first and second down that really hurts you,

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Speaker 2: that got you behind the chains a lot of time.

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Speaker 2: First and twenty or first and fifteen that really are

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Speaker 2: drop killers to start. So you can understand how you

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Speaker 2: were two of ten, but you can't have that issue again.

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Speaker 1: This week for the for the average fans that's listening,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna say two of ten, that's just twenty percent

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Speaker 1: what is good in the NFL. Just so you know,

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Speaker 1: somewhere in the neighborhood of forty to forty five percent,

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Speaker 1: you're probably near the top of the league in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: That's not gonna sound great, right. That just shows how

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Speaker 1: good it is, how good defenses are in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and how difficult it is. Like you're not going to

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Speaker 1: see very many teams going out converting seventy to eighty

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Speaker 1: percent on third down. It just doesn't happen. Arts what

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Speaker 1: sticks out to you as far as improvements that need

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Speaker 1: to be made.

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Speaker 4: Well, certainly the third down stuff is a big deal.

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Speaker 4: Those third downs. You face ten third down situations. Six

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Speaker 4: of the ten third down situations were eight yards or more,

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Speaker 4: five of them were ten yards or more, which goes

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Speaker 4: to what shock was talking about, and one of keys

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Speaker 4: shockhead going into this game was what are you doing

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Speaker 4: on first and second down to make sure you're not

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Speaker 4: in third and eight, third and ten, third and twelve,

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Speaker 4: which you face the entire gambits are really difficult in

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Speaker 4: the quarterback. Makes it difficult on the play caller. It's

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Speaker 4: very difficult to execute those situations because it changes the

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Speaker 4: dynamic defensively. As far as what I'm worried about. If

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Speaker 4: it's third and twelve, I'm probably not thinking run. I'm

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Speaker 4: coming after you and I'm going to heat you up

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Speaker 4: in different ways, So it makes it difficult. So third down,

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Speaker 4: so first and second down. Going back to what Shaq said,

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Speaker 4: you've got to eliminate the pre snap penalties. If you know,

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Speaker 4: Dez gets out of the pocket on a play, does

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Speaker 4: a great job of buying time, gets out of the

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Speaker 4: pocket and finds Kyle Pitts twenty six yard completion that

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Speaker 4: shows the ball over the midfield stripe on Carolina side

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Speaker 4: of the field. It comes back because of a holding penalty.

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Speaker 4: Too many of those kind of mistakes. Got to stop

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Speaker 4: making those kind of mistakes, and unfortunately it's becoming a

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Speaker 4: little bit of a thing here, because that's what happened.

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Speaker 4: If you remember in the preseason they were bothered by

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Speaker 4: pre snap penalties and or self inflicted wounds. It came back.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to point out a couple of things that

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Speaker 4: I thought were superlatives in the game. I thought your

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Speaker 4: coverage downfield was phenomenal. I mean, shock, how many times

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Speaker 4: did we see Bryce Young get out of the pocket

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Speaker 4: or be forced out? And give the front four credit

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Speaker 4: because we didn't blitz a lot, but you pressured him

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Speaker 4: out of the pocket. Now it got better in the

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Speaker 4: second half because you made him throw it away. But

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Speaker 4: he was getting out looking he couldn't find anybody. There

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Speaker 4: were guys covered everywhere, so plaster coverage down on the

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Speaker 4: back end. And when he did dump the ball off.

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Speaker 4: How good was the tackling in the open field? Man

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Speaker 4: Atlanta didn't miss a lot of tackles on defense. So

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Speaker 4: those are a couple of superlatives. I know we were

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Speaker 4: talking about maybe getting better. Certainly, we've got to shore

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Speaker 4: up our interior run game. You cannot get pushed around

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Speaker 4: to the tune of one hundred and fifty yards in

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Speaker 4: the interior. It'll be interesting to go back. I looked

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Speaker 4: at the tape yesterday. I thought that we were doing

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Speaker 4: a lot of stuff the linebackers trying to run people through.

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Speaker 4: Maybe you're running yourselves out of plays. Be interesting to

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Speaker 4: see what Ryan Nielsen decides to do to maybe keep

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Speaker 4: those linebackers in position to make play. I think he

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Speaker 4: did more of that in the second half. Troy Anderson

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Speaker 4: ten tackles in the game, so I think that got

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Speaker 4: better in the second half. But yeah, I think there's

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Speaker 4: some minimal things to clean up. I think everybody's pointing

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Speaker 4: at the quarterback if you go back and look at

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Speaker 4: the game, I'm not sure what else does was supposed

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Speaker 4: to do. He completed fifteen of the eighteen throws he made,

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Speaker 4: and he got out of the pocket. Some of that

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Speaker 4: was nullified, as I just suggested. He had a couple

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Speaker 4: balls dropped. He was in uncomfortable situations the entire game.

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Speaker 4: And oh, by the way, we didn't get Burns blocked

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Speaker 4: the whole first half. So I'm not sure what else

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Speaker 4: you were supposed to do. So it was an efficient

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Speaker 4: game by him, But you won the football game.

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Speaker 1: The very first opening drive. And I'm behind Atlanta where

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Speaker 1: they're at, and we had just kind of talked on

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Speaker 1: the pregame show about Burns and you know, he's kind

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Speaker 1: of was in a contract dispute at the time, but

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Speaker 1: he was still practicing and all of a sudden, this

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Speaker 1: all this stuff, and he did sit out like a

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Speaker 1: couple of days or whatever. And then like the first

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Speaker 1: three plays I watched and I'm like, Wow, this dude

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Speaker 1: is next level right here. And he just continued to

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Speaker 1: cause havoc the entire like you said, the.

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Speaker 4: Entire first and that movie line came to mind for me.

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Speaker 4: Pay that men his money you worried.

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Speaker 3: About came down here in Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. He might have said it under his

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Speaker 1: breath in the first half, like have I earned it?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 1: Do you know what you're missing? But you know, just

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Speaker 1: like we talked about, the challenge doesn't stop in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: You you mentioned Lucas van Ness and Preston Smith and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know a lot of guys that the Green Bay

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Speaker 1: has is gonna yeah, so he's gonna have a little motivation.

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Speaker 1: And so I know you mentioned Kay Walk. I'm surprised

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Speaker 1: you didn't mention all the Georgia. I figured all this

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Speaker 1: second half and Walker intercepty for a testim, I mean.

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Speaker 3: Got my back.

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Speaker 1: So so what are you saying, Georgia bulldogs be doing

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Speaker 1: the thing.

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying, I hope not this week, but you know,

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Speaker 3: making some noise.

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Speaker 1: All right. So that's that's the uh. That's kind of

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Speaker 1: what we feel like the areas of growth and some

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Speaker 1: areas to focus on as we go up against the

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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. That'll wrap it up for us here, folks.

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