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Speaker 1: Dirty Birds.

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Speaker 2: What's up and welcome to another edition of Falcons Final

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Speaker 2: Whistle presented by Zaxby's. I'm your host Will McFadden. I

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Speaker 2: am sitting in a broadcast booth in Mercedes Benz Stadium

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Speaker 2: with Tarren Walk and Tory mclaney, and we are overlooking

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Speaker 2: the cleanup crew here at Mercedes Benz Stadium. Because the

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Speaker 2: Falcons just wrapped up their second open practice of training camp,

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Speaker 2: there's a lot to dig into. I felt like it

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Speaker 2: was a really balanced practice tory. What were your main takeaways?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was well. First off, it was just a

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Speaker 3: fun night. In general.

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Speaker 4: I think that there was this moment that I'm writing

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Speaker 4: about in the camp report that I'm simultaneously doing as

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Speaker 4: we are recording this podcast.

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Speaker 3: But Dave Archer was.

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Speaker 4: M seeing the evening and he at one point was like,

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Speaker 4: I need everybody to get loud for someone we haven't

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Speaker 4: seen in a while, and he did his famous you

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Speaker 4: shall not pass call radio call that he does for

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Speaker 4: a Grady jar At Sack, and the halo board showed

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Speaker 4: Grady on the field, and that to me was like

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Speaker 4: such a cool moment because the crowd that was maybe

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Speaker 4: the loudest the crowd got the entirety of the practice,

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Speaker 4: and there was a lot of really cool plays and

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Speaker 4: really fun moments that we did get to see, but

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Speaker 4: that moment was, honestly, it kind of felt like the

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Speaker 4: heart of the entire evening. And then of course after

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Speaker 4: the practice ended, you got to see fans down on

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Speaker 4: the field, players signing autographs, and to see also, I'll

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Speaker 4: say this, Kirk Cousins in a Falcons uniform in Mercedes

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Speaker 4: Benz Stadium hitting Drake London down the sideline for like

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Speaker 4: a forty five yard grab. Like there was just a

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Speaker 4: little bit of a different type of energy tonight that

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Speaker 4: I thoroughly enjoyed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was definitely electric here at times, Aren what

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Speaker 2: was your thought?

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Speaker 5: You could definitely hear fans screaming for Grady Jared. So

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Speaker 5: I'm glad you brought that moment up because I could.

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Speaker 3: Just hear people behind me be like ninety seven. I

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Speaker 3: was like, oh, yeah, we're back, we are back. But no,

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Speaker 3: I mean, it was a great atmosphere. I thought it was,

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Speaker 5: For there not being fans and flowery branch, but it

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Speaker 5: definitely helped lessen that blow, Like construction stanks. No one

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Speaker 5: enjoys it, but the facility is going to look pristine

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Speaker 5: once finished. And so I think doing this and then

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Speaker 5: allowing fans to come down onto the field and wait

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Speaker 5: out for interviews not interviews that's.

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Speaker 3: Us autographs was really special.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and it was interactive. I kind of want Dave

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Speaker 5: to narrate all of our practices. Actually, I was enjoyable

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Speaker 5: to be like, oh thanks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like who's day.

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Speaker 2: I definitely heard him do that you shall not pass,

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Speaker 2: but I kind of I was up in the press box,

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Speaker 2: you guys were down on the field. It it kind

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Speaker 2: of came through in little fits and starts for me,

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Speaker 2: so I was like, is he doing a Lord of

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Speaker 2: the Rings quote? What's happening right now? But I appreciate

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Speaker 2: the context and filling it in for me there. And

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Speaker 2: there's one other you know you kind of mentioned Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 2: I don't believe he's ever played at Mercedes Benz Stadium, right.

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Speaker 2: He was supposed to last year, but he gets hurt

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Speaker 2: right before the Vikings come here to Atlanta, and I

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Speaker 2: believe the only other times were in.

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Speaker 2: So for and this is something that I remember Matt

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Speaker 2: Ryan specifically kind of mentioning and talking about when they

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Speaker 2: moved from the Georgia Dome to Mercedes Benz Stadium. Is

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Speaker 2: the importance of kind of getting your sight lines as

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Speaker 2: a quarterback knowing, all right, there's this game clock right,

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Speaker 2: because that's a key thing that the quarterback has to know.

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Speaker 2: And every stadium is different, so just knowing like where

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Speaker 2: think it was a really important Somebody asked about the

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Speaker 2: rookies getting out here and having a run through for them,

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Speaker 2: but I think it was a very important run through

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Speaker 2: for Kirk Cousins and he kind of like aced this test,

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Speaker 2: I think with flying colors. I'll let Tori start, but

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Speaker 2: like her, Cousins continues to just look really really sharp

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Speaker 3: For Atlantis Offins, Yeah, he really does.

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Speaker 4: And it just goes to show again I've said this

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Speaker 4: at nauseum, but like it just goes to show why

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Speaker 4: you pay him the money that you pay him because

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Speaker 4: of the accuracy that we are seeing from him day

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Speaker 4: in and day out, practice in practice out. We literally,

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Speaker 4: I kid you not had a fifteen minute conversation between

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Speaker 4: the three of us before we started recording about what

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Speaker 4: his total how he ended the night, what his total

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Speaker 4: stat line was through the air, and we kind of

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Speaker 4: went back and forth on a couple of things. We

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Speaker 4: think it's anywhere from eighteen of twenty one to nineteen

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Speaker 4: of twenty one, huge range. So really, Nicolain diming this

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Speaker 4: really like, this is a man who threw twenty one passes.

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Speaker 4: I think we can agree on that, and only had

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Speaker 4: maybe two or three incompletions in the entirety of of

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Speaker 4: the afternoon of the evening. And this is on top

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Speaker 4: of the day that he had out at second or

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Speaker 4: High School, where he only had one or two incomplations,

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Speaker 4: one of which was a drop and one of which

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Speaker 4: was an interception by Troy Anderson, which I still think

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Speaker 4: may have been a sack, but giving it to Troy.

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Speaker 4: But I say all this to say, like, there's just

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Speaker 4: a level of efficiency in this offense that you can't miss.

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Speaker 4: And especially having been here for the last few years

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Speaker 4: a piece of this offense that was missing, I don't

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Speaker 4: feel that way right now, And Kirk Cousins does a

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Speaker 4: really good job, I think too. And we've made mention

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Speaker 4: of this before, where he's hitting a bunch of different guys.

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Speaker 4: He's hitting Tyler Algier on a screen, he's getting Drake

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Speaker 4: Pitts on a crossing route. Like. There are just so

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Speaker 4: many guys that he has a connection to that it's

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Speaker 4: almost gotten to the point that if there is a

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Speaker 4: what he didn't catch it or he overthrew he underthrew it,

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Speaker 4: like it And that's the part of it that I

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Speaker 4: can't say we've had in Atlanta for the last couple

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Speaker 2: Right, And when you talk specifically about the like spreading

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Speaker 2: the ball around, if everybody thinks back to like the

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Speaker 2: twenty sixteen season when Matt Ryan set the NFL record

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Speaker 2: for most different players with a touchdown reception, that is

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Speaker 2: not to say that like Michael Pruett wasn't catching touchdown

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Speaker 2: where you see John Fitzpatrick catch touchdown pass. You know,

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Speaker 2: maybe Charlie Warner catch touched it like guys who aren't

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Speaker 2: Kyle Pitts or Drake London. And it's because I think

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Speaker 2: Kirk is really spreading the ball around.

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Speaker 5: Is Sharon the Love something I know we talked about it,

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Speaker 5: or even Raheem Morris talked about it earlier this week,

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Speaker 5: Like that collective hold your breath moment when Kirk does

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Speaker 5: get hit.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that happens, he went out right, but.

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Speaker 1: Moment I don't want him to.

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Speaker 3: Keep getting hit.

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Speaker 5: But like, the more he gets hit, the less worried

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Speaker 5: I am about that injury because that's been my biggest

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Speaker 5: question mark is how is he going to be full speed,

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Speaker 5: full participation when the season comes. Because that's not a

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Speaker 5: casual injury to come back from.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's not what Grady Darrow went through. But

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Speaker 3: still I would argue it's equally as awful.

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Speaker 5: An injury is bad, nonetheless, but something that stood out

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Speaker 5: to me after I think they were punting, but Kirk

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Speaker 5: around cones and whatnot, like even though there's maybe ten

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Speaker 5: and just watching him operate as if there's not a

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Speaker 5: one hundred percent healthy all along.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, back pedaling with the the yeah, And it's just

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Speaker 4: he's not worried, and that's what you want.

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Speaker 3: While everyone else might be, he's not.

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Speaker 2: That's where I keep coming back though, to your story,

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Speaker 2: your excellent story about Brady Jared and kind of what

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Speaker 2: he said at the end of mini camp and just

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Speaker 2: his return and talking about how he felt like two

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Speaker 2: then imagine where I will be in two months, and

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Speaker 2: it's going to be that much better. And that's kind

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Speaker 2: of what I keep thinking about with Kirk, where it's

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Speaker 2: like he's doing all of this stuff right now, we're

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Speaker 2: fact that we are quibbling over whether he missed two

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Speaker 2: because it would be important to Kirk. He would be

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Speaker 2: sitting here like tooth and nail, being like, no, I

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Speaker 2: didn't have that in completion?

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 2: Because this dude, we've talked about it, the simmering like

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Speaker 2: something that I also noticed from him today that I love,

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Speaker 2: waiting until the play has been exhausted and then being like,

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Speaker 2: multiple moments today where I clocked It's like Drake was

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Speaker 2: checkdown guy. Let's live get six yards on this play.

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Speaker 2: Second and four let's keep it rolling. And if anybody

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Speaker 2: was listening to Believe in Falcons last year, first off,

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Speaker 2: thank you, thank you for following and listening to to

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Speaker 2: our great podcast now. But I was just asking Desma

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Speaker 2: Ritter kind of week one, Week two, Week three, just

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Speaker 2: take the easy thing. What the defense is giving you, right,

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Speaker 2: If it's not there down the field, go to Bijon,

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Speaker 2: go to Tyler all jeer like, find your dump off weapon,

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Speaker 2: get them the ball quickly in space and let him

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Speaker 1: That's totally fine.

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Speaker 2: And that is what I love seeing from Kirk tonight

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Speaker 2: and frankly throughout training him.

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Speaker 3: It's lived to fight another down exactly. That's exactly what

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Speaker 3: it is.

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Speaker 4: And it's you know, sometimes don't make something too complicated

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Speaker 4: when it doesn't have to be. Yeah, and you know

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Speaker 4: there are gonna be times where you're going to be

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Speaker 4: very last play that Kirk Cousins, he was trying to

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Speaker 4: go deep to Darnell Mooney and it fell short again

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Speaker 3: To a fifty three man cut down.

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Speaker 1: I would absolutely back up on that.

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Speaker 4: So I'm so curious to see how his role honestly solidifies,

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Speaker 2: About to start a role clarity rinking game on this podcast.

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Speaker 2: I think every single time role clarity. Yeah, as long

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah he was. I grabbed him after practice he

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Speaker 4: And that was something that I found super interesting. It

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Speaker 4: It's contingency rights, it's them putting kind of simulating this

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Speaker 3: Ye, here comes the storm, Here comes the storm. And

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Speaker 3: I really do I think that's exactly what they were.

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Speaker 2: And that's a question that's a question for him in Miami,

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Speaker 2: But let's talk about some of that other talent, like

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Speaker 2: Yung Way Ku had an awesome day to day. We've

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Speaker 3: It was a young Way.

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Speaker 5: I think it was his first field goal attempt, and

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Speaker 3: And he still made it. Of course, like that was.

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Speaker 3: Was you was, Young Way, you kill it?

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Speaker 3: He was good.

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Speaker 2: I mean he he dooinked one, but it was it

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Speaker 3: That's crazy.

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Speaker 2: It's all I need to see. Pack that man up,

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Speaker 4: Give them three weeks Honestly, yung Way was this is

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Speaker 2: to kind of like defend the run with your your

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Speaker 2: like girth and your your personnel, and then that allows

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Speaker 2: you on the back end to really focus on the pass.

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Speaker 2: And yet I saw several like pretty good runs from

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Speaker 2: both the first team and the second team offense against

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Speaker 2: the first team defense. Is that concern for the defense

446
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Speaker 2: or is that more like, Hey, you're going against an

447
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Speaker 2: offense line that we just talked about geling against running

448
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Speaker 2: backs that are really good in this league, like where

449
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Speaker 2: you're out on that sort.

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Speaker 4: I also, I mean, I give a pass to this

451
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Speaker 4: defense when it comes to defending the run. Because the

452
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Speaker 4: best way to defend the run is to go all

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Speaker 4: out with it, and you can't go all out with it.

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Speaker 4: You can't tackle like Jon running kind of along with

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Speaker 4: let's just say Cale McGary and Chris Linstrom and you

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Speaker 4: have Kaden Ellis.

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Speaker 3: He's not gonna.

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Speaker 2: He's not throwing himself against that ball like he would

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Speaker 2: on a side.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the same thing with Grady, same thing with David

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Speaker 4: on Yamada. Like I to me, it's I have a

462
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Speaker 4: hard time passing judgment on the defense and how they

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Speaker 4: look in practice in training camp defending the run. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: because of that, they're not gonna have them going full send.

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Speaker 2: So long runs are more byproducts of it being camp, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: than any concerns.

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Speaker 4: I don't want anything. Yeah, I don't have any concern

468
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Speaker 4: at this point. Like I thought, ask again in a week. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I mean if they go out in this, you know,

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Speaker 4: second team defense cannot stop Miami from running the ball,

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Speaker 4: like then, yeah, that's cause for concern. But I think

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Speaker 4: just by nature of the way the practices is run, I'm.

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Speaker 3: Not concerned about it. You've seen a lot of Carlos Washington.

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Speaker 4: And you're going to continue to see a lot of

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Speaker 4: Carlous Washington.

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Speaker 2: I think he is right, Like the battle between he

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Speaker 2: and Jase McClellan is going to be really interesting because

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Speaker 2: you know, obviously Jase being a draft pick, I think

479
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Speaker 2: a lot of people had him kind of early on

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Speaker 2: penciled in is that third running back, and Carlos Washington

481
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Speaker 2: has made it a competition.

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Speaker 1: Like he's looked good.

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Speaker 2: I think I was talking with Dave Archer at one

484
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Speaker 2: practice and he was like, man, you know, twenty eight

485
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Speaker 2: just like looks like an NFL running back, Like he

486
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Speaker 2: just is built well, he's like proportionate, he's impact, he

487
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Speaker 2: carries the ball, he's smooth like that you were mixing

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Speaker 2: him up with yeah, with Aver because I'm like, they

489
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Speaker 2: just all looks interesting.

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Speaker 4: Because Carlos Washington is someone who is very, very loved

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Speaker 4: in this locker room. And I'm not just talking about

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Speaker 4: you know, Tyler Algier and Jean Robinson really really like him.

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Speaker 4: But Michael Petrie always, always always makes a point if

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Speaker 4: he's talking about his room and you know everybody's gonna

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Speaker 4: be like Bajon and Tyler, he always makes a point

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Speaker 4: of saying, and Carlos too. Kirk Cousins did the exact

497
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Speaker 4: same thing when we talked to him this week when

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Speaker 4: he's talking about the run game and he's talking about

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Speaker 4: driving with guys, and he made a comment about I

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Speaker 4: really like Carlos Washington too, in the way that he plays,

501
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Speaker 4: in the way he attacks the game.

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Speaker 3: Like when you when.

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Speaker 4: People say this stuff, it's important to listen. And I

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Speaker 4: think you cannot overlook what Carlos Washington has has meant

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Speaker 4: to the locker room and the coaching staff.

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Speaker 3: They really really like him.

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Speaker 2: I'm kind of thinking ahead and I almost feel like

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Speaker 2: our last podcast before the first preseason game, we each

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Speaker 2: need to come in with like for each order, here's

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Speaker 2: two guys that we're gonna wt because like somebody like

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Speaker 2: Carlos Washington, I would expect to play a lot, so

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Speaker 2: you could easily put him in like the second.

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Speaker 1: Quarter or the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 2: But just some of these guys, Timona Harris, you know,

515
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Speaker 2: guys who we have been watching that we feel like

516
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Speaker 2: we'll get some of these these runs and just provide, yeah,

517
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Speaker 2: provide a name for the fan base to be like, hey,

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Speaker 2: first half, watch this, but then you know, second half,

519
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Speaker 2: third quarter, fourth quarter, Like here are two guys that

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Speaker 2: really lock in on because that's what we'll be doing.

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Speaker 2: So I think that that'll be a good way to

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Speaker 2: talk about guys like Carlos Washington, talk about guys like

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Speaker 2: Bradley and I. I also want to quickly touch on

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Speaker 2: the tight ends before we get out of here, because

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Speaker 2: I look at this room almost you could make a

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Speaker 2: comparison to the running back room right where you're like

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Speaker 2: the Jean Kyle Pitts, those are your guys. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if there's a Tyler all Year in the mix,

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Speaker 2: but when you look at Fitzpatrick, Warner, and Dwelly, they're

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Speaker 2: they're all like right there to me, and they're all

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Speaker 2: pretty similar and then can do some of the same things.

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Speaker 2: And Dwelly's come along, but I've been really impressed with

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Speaker 2: the other two as well. So, like Tori, is this

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Speaker 2: a good problem to have for the Falcons.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's like inside linebackers. It's like running backs.

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Speaker 4: I feel like you can never have too many good

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Speaker 4: players who And the point that you make about when

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Speaker 4: it comes to Rosswlly, Charlie Warner, and John Fitzpatrick, they

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Speaker 4: do have similar tendencies in what their strengths are. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: they're inline blockers, like they that is something they are

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Speaker 4: here to help out in the run game. But you

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Speaker 4: saw today a connection with Rosstwelly and Michael Pennick Junior

543
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Speaker 4: specifically that showed up on a couple of occasions that

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Speaker 4: I think people kind of forget because Charlie Warner and

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Speaker 4: Rosswlly come from the forty nine er system. They maybe

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Speaker 4: have had a few catches in their career in Kyle

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Speaker 4: Shanahan's offense. That doesn't mean they don't have the capabilities

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Speaker 4: to be pass catchers. It's just like they were prioritized

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Speaker 4: in a different way. So I'm really curious to see

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Speaker 4: kind of what shakes out with that group, and I

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Speaker 4: do think that they'll end up keeping four tight ends.

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Speaker 4: I know I always joked the last three years that

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Speaker 4: like any time with an Arthur Smith offense, you always

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Speaker 4: take like five tight ends plus one, because here there.

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Speaker 3: Were just so many tight ends everywhere over the last

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Speaker 3: three years.

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Speaker 4: But I think for me, those four are I think

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Speaker 4: that Kyle is kind of one of one. He's Kyle

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Speaker 4: Pits and you use him in a very different way.

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Speaker 4: But those three have almost become kind of interchangeable for me,

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Speaker 4: and I think that is that's a almost a tip

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Speaker 4: of your cap to John Fitzpatrick, who, all be honest,

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Speaker 4: at the beginning of training camp was running with the threes.

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Speaker 4: And we've seen him, i think, move up this this

565
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Speaker 4: depth chart, not even the depth chart, but we've seen

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Speaker 4: him get more opportunities with the second team. I think

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Speaker 4: here recently, I.

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Speaker 3: Think they're all moving up.

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Speaker 5: Those three, the three Musketeers, they're like each nibbling their

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Speaker 5: way into the formation. That was too much, But Dwelly's

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Speaker 5: name was brought up multiple times on.

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Speaker 3: Wednesday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

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Speaker 5: He had a bunch of catches and I asked Warner

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Speaker 5: about him afterward and he's like, he's a really good

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Speaker 5: all around tight end. Like I am not surprised. I've

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Speaker 5: been seeing this for the past three four years. Like

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Speaker 5: he has really good hands. So maybe Dwelly does take

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Speaker 5: a step up in the passing game rather than just blocking.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's wrap up tonight's podcast with our camp champ, Saren.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to you first. Who stood out tonight young Waycup.

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Speaker 2: Yes he did for that fifty seven yard field goal.

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Speaker 2: Give the kicker some love, I love it, toy.

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Speaker 1: Who you got?

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Speaker 3: I have Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 4: He was so good to not and I honestly I

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Speaker 4: did have an honorable mention as Young Waycu. We have

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Speaker 4: a Google doc and we write down who are Camp

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Speaker 4: Champ nominations are, and I would like to go on

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Speaker 4: the record that I had Kirk Cousins, Will had Young Waycu,

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Speaker 4: and Taren didn't look at it.

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Speaker 3: She didn't alright, anything down, so she's taking both of ours.

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Speaker 3: Do we have to redo this again?

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Speaker 2: I would like to go on the record and say

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Speaker 2: it's a bad idea to put the Camp Champ thing

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Speaker 2: in the dock, and I'm going to remove that section

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Speaker 2: so that none of us knows who anybody has any

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Speaker 2: more moving forward.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I honestly didn't get down to that part.

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Speaker 4: So honestly, I think we can all agree, though Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna ultimately fall on Kirk, even though yeah,

601
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Speaker 2: Yung Waiku deserves a shout out. I think Drake London

602
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 2: deserves a shout out. Jade Bertrand probably deserves a shout out.

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Speaker 2: But Kirk again, like, it's just time, It's just time

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Speaker 2: that we give it to him because he's been the

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Speaker 2: most consistent piece of every single practice so far. I

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Speaker 2: can't believe we're eight practices in and this man has

607
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Speaker 2: not gotten camp champ yet.

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Speaker 1: So it's pastime.

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Speaker 3: It is time. The time is nigh, and I.

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Speaker 4: Truly think that when it comes to Kirk Cousins, we

611
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Speaker 4: haven't given it to him because we've just been so

612
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Speaker 4: enamored by the people who are around.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what a good quarterback does. That is

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Speaker 2: the perfect, I think encapsulation of what the hope is

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Speaker 2: for Atlanta's offense is that the quarterback almost becomes an

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Speaker 2: afterthought early in the season because we're so excited to

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Speaker 2: let these shiny sports cars out of the garage and

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Speaker 2: like take them for test drives. Yeah, that's been a

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Speaker 2: little bit of what training camp has felt like, where

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Speaker 2: it's because it's a home run derby pitcher who's just

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Speaker 2: putting the ball down the strike zone every single time.

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Speaker 2: You're more focused on the person knocking the ball out

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Speaker 2: of the park than the pitcher. And that's that's exactly

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Speaker 2: what the offense should be and that's why you bring

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Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins here. Sure people talk about Kirk Cousins in

626
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Speaker 2: debate whether he's great or elite or whatever, but you

627
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 2: can absolutely win in this league without Aaron Rodgers, without

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Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes. If you have a quarterback that gets the

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Speaker 2: ball out on time, it's the ball out accurately, and

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Speaker 2: you have a great support system and a cast of

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Speaker 2: talent around them, that is such a recipe for success.

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Speaker 2: We saw the Rams when it's Super Bowl with that

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Speaker 2: type of offense, and I really think that they can

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Speaker 2: do it here in Atlanta.

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Speaker 3: There's something to be said about just not messing up.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's something to be said about just getting the

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Speaker 4: ball into the.

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Speaker 3: Hands of your playmakers.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 5: It's also so fitting that he's getting it with his

641
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Speaker 5: first time in Mercedes Benz.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I love that.

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00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:19,959
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little cherry on top of there.

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Speaker 4: There's a little bit of what's the word, poet, nostalgia, No, serendipity, serendipity.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I was saying nothing. No, not that either.

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Speaker 2: So congratulations to Kirkland Signature Cousins for winning the Camp

647
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Speaker 2: Champ of practice number eight. We are going to wrap

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Speaker 2: things up there and head on home for some much

649
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Speaker 2: needed R and R after a long day of covering

650
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Speaker 2: the Atlanta Falcons. But thank you guys so much for

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Speaker 2: listening to Falcons Final Whistle presented by Zaxby's for Tarren Walck,

652
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Speaker 2: Torry mcleaney. I'm Will McFadden. We will see you guys

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Speaker 2: on Tuesday, because Sunday were Saturday. Sunday we're off Monday.

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Speaker 2: There is a practice, but we are going to be

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Speaker 2: in transit down to Miami, so you guys will hear

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Speaker 2: from us on Tuesday after a joint practice with the Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: Get excited. It's almost here. Can't wait. We will see

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Speaker 1: you guys then