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Speaker 3: I can get chills a little bit thinking about what

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Speaker 1: Welcome everybody. The Falcons Audible presented by AT and T

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Speaker 1: is back and your crew is back. That's right, everybody.

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Speaker 1: We told you that we will be back when there

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Speaker 1: would be breaking news that happen with the organization and more.

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Speaker 1: A busy month of January. Yes, we are into February,

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Speaker 1: but pretty much everything has happened in January. By the way,

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Speaker 1: For those that are joining us via video, that's DJ Shockley,

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Speaker 1: Dave Archer. I'm Derek Rackley. Those that are joining audio, well,

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Speaker 1: you're just gonna have to envision which I was pointing

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Speaker 1: at three.

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Speaker 2: Of the best looking guys you seen.

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Speaker 1: That was very good. And you went with that very

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Speaker 2: Every now and then I can bring it up.

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Speaker 1: So we are back. But before we get into all

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Speaker 1: of the action that has happened with the Atlanta Falcons organization,

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Speaker 1: it is Super Bowl Week and so do us a

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Speaker 1: favor in the comments, tell us who you're picking for

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Speaker 1: the game this week? And why? Okay, who do you got?

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Speaker 1: You got Patriots, you got Seahawks, you got a skin

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Speaker 1: let's start with you shocked, okay, going on for the

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Speaker 4: So I am I am on the fence right now

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Speaker 4: because I like the host.

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Speaker 2: You know, you like to have a good time to

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Speaker 4: Always you got like a host like you. I appreciate that,

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Speaker 4: you know, it's a compliment. Uh So I haven't decided

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Speaker 4: whole food and all that kind of stuff. But if

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Speaker 4: But for me, I'm a simple dude when it comes

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Speaker 4: Or you got wings, you got pizza, you got all

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Speaker 3: shock invitation.

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Speaker 1: You fight everybody else to day hour.

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Speaker 4: Bro, I give him forty eight alf and people want

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Speaker 1: But let's right between the lines here. Okay, forty eight

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Speaker 1: A little bit? It is kind of weird, you know what?

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Speaker 4: Able to tomato. I eat a tomato just slicing it.

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Speaker 2: Well, what other weird things? You say a lot of

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Speaker 1: How long do we have?

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Speaker 1: because not only has there been some developments in this organization,

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Speaker 1: but the Atlanta Falcons have their new general manager, Ian Cunningham. Welcome.

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Speaker 1: There's been a lot of welcome to Atlanta has been

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Speaker 1: going on over the past four weeks. One is Ian Cunningham.

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Speaker 1: So who is Ian Cunningham? If you missed the press conference,

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Speaker 1: national media outlets. I Cunningham as a very impressive background.

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Speaker 1: Started his career in the scouting department with the Baltimore Ravens,

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Speaker 1: and that is briefly about his background.

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Speaker 1: I was, as I was watching the press conference the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's very calculated wreck in how he answers stuff

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Speaker 3: And he's done everything to me that he needed to

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Speaker 2: He's ready for this opportunity.

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Speaker 4: I think Arch mentioned the way they're aligning when you

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Speaker 3: Player currently on the team, obviously, I think what it

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Speaker 3: A lot of times as a player, we were all

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's well said, and those are perfect thoughts

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Speaker 4: Now, I thought you did a good job of, you know,

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Speaker 4: I was one of those back end guys. Everybody knows

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Speaker 3: It's such a it's such an interesting position to be

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Speaker 3: You don't really establish you establish a relationship, and as

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Speaker 3: much as you think it's to you, it's kind of

440
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Speaker 3: superficial and there are guardrails on it and a those

441
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Speaker 3: kind of things. And I think Ian Cunningham, with what

442
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Speaker 3: he's gone through to this point, has a really good

443
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Speaker 3: ideal what that looks like and how that feels. Because

444
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Speaker 3: as much as you come out and shake your hand

445
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Speaker 3: and stuff like that, he's also you know, I'm looking

446
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Speaker 3: to upgrade this roster. And I think you guys touched

447
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Speaker 3: on that pretty hard.

448
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean his job now is he's at you know,

449
00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:08,800
Speaker 1: you could call at the top, but there's a couple

450
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Speaker 1: of tops. Obviously Matt Ryan up there as well. But

451
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Speaker 1: like you know, football operations now falls in his lap,

452
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Speaker 1: and it's like all the decisions that are made, the

453
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Speaker 1: decisions that are not made, the depth that is there,

454
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Speaker 1: the depth that is not there, those ultimately fall on

455
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Speaker 1: his shoulders. We talked about it. He said, this is

456
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Speaker 1: the job that he wanted so he understands everything that

457
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Speaker 1: comes along with it. But there is a tremendous amount

458
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Speaker 1: of pressure on people like Ian Cunningham, like Kevin Stefanski,

459
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Speaker 1: even like a Matt Ryan because of the responsibility placed

460
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Speaker 1: on those guys shoulders. Now we did talk about a

461
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Speaker 1: new name in Ian Cunningham. There's also a new name

462
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Speaker 1: that I wanted to get these guys to comment about

463
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Speaker 1: because it's the new offensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons,

464
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Speaker 1: which is going to be Tommy Reese. And if you

465
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Speaker 1: followed at college football, you know about Tommy Reese, former

466
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame quarterback. But he has quickly ascended his way

467
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Speaker 1: through the coaching ranks and taking everything that he's learned

468
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Speaker 1: as a quarterback and now climbing up the NFL ranks

469
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Speaker 1: and he's going to be the next offensive coordinator. So

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Speaker 1: one thing that I was reading about shock, I wanted

471
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Speaker 1: to come back to you about, Okay, what is Tommy

472
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Speaker 1: rees what does he like to do? What's he paramount?

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Speaker 1: And one of the things I read was he's he

474
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Speaker 1: wants to establish the run game and he wants to

475
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Speaker 1: play physical at the line of scriptage. And you talked

476
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Speaker 1: about what trenches.

477
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Speaker 2: Right.

478
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Speaker 1: So my question to you, maybe on a broad scale shock,

479
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Speaker 1: is what can Falcons fans expect with Tommy Reese now

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Speaker 1: as the offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think we already talked about the alignment of

482
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Speaker 4: what you know, from mad Ryan to Ian Cunningham to

483
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Speaker 4: Kevin Stefanski, what they're going to build this offense around,

484
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Speaker 4: which is physicality, which is in the trenches, which is

485
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Speaker 4: being able to run the football, but also being able

486
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Speaker 4: to marry all that together, run and pass, play action,

487
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Speaker 4: boot game, getting your quarterback on the perimeter, making things

488
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Speaker 4: look same, look the same formation wise, but also it's

489
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Speaker 4: gonna look totally different with the type of runs that

490
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Speaker 4: you have. And I think obviously coming up through the ranks,

491
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Speaker 4: like you mentioned in the way he's came obviously, you know,

492
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Speaker 4: he's a guy with a really cerebral mind of what

493
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Speaker 4: he wants to do offensive wise, I think he's kind

494
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Speaker 4: of went on the same path that Stefanski was where

495
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Speaker 4: he had to take over, you know, I think he

496
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Speaker 4: took over like Week ten last season for the Browns

497
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Speaker 4: and his ability to be able to, you know, get

498
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Speaker 4: those guys in positions you're talking about having to deal

499
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Speaker 4: with multiple quarterbacks when he was in Cleveland trying to

500
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Speaker 4: figure out what's best for them. But you look at

501
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Speaker 4: the style in which that they did things, and you

502
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Speaker 4: look at what was in Cleveland with a guy like

503
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Speaker 4: Kushaon Jenkins looks very similar to a guy that wars

504
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Speaker 4: number seven around here. Not as good, but has the

505
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Speaker 4: same kind of qualities of you know, hey, we want

506
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Speaker 4: to go stred zone. We want to get you outside,

507
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Speaker 4: get your running one way, and then we cut it

508
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Speaker 4: back then come back. You can run inside, you can

509
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Speaker 4: run you know, duo, you can run, play action off

510
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Speaker 4: of it. But it all marriages together under center and

511
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Speaker 4: a gun. And I think Tommy Reese is a similar

512
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Speaker 4: guy in Stefanski and why he felt he was okay

513
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Speaker 4: to give him the range to be able to call

514
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Speaker 4: it plays and he's seen him done. He's done at

515
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Speaker 4: the highest level in college football, but also has had

516
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Speaker 4: opportunities to do it here. And a guy that you

517
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Speaker 4: think is going to come in and understand playing the

518
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Speaker 4: quarterback position in this league what is going to take.

519
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Speaker 4: But also, like you mentioned, being able to run the

520
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Speaker 4: football is paramount for any quarterback that you have that's

521
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Speaker 4: gonna be playing quarterback here with the Falcons gonna run football,

522
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Speaker 4: You're gonna help the quarterback out, but you're also going

523
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Speaker 4: to be very multiple in how you attack defenses. And

524
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Speaker 4: that's what's going to be interesting to see is how

525
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Speaker 4: he blends all that together with the talent that's already here.

526
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Speaker 4: But I think this is a guy who has the

527
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Speaker 4: capabilities to get it done.

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Speaker 1: Former Notre Dame quarterback arch offensive coordinator for the Irish

529
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Speaker 1: spent some time at Alabama's the offensive coordinator that made

530
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Speaker 1: the lead to the NFL has been a couple of

531
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Speaker 1: years now with Kevin Stefanski's coaching tight ends his first

532
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Speaker 1: year and then but then getting more involved in the

533
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Speaker 1: coordinator position, and you got to think that a guy

534
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Speaker 1: like Tommy Race and Kevin Stefanski are excited again, we're

535
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Speaker 1: gonna kind of take contract stuff out of it. If

536
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Speaker 1: there's one thing I have a pretty good feeling about

537
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 1: is Majon Robinson's gonna be here next year. But him

538
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Speaker 1: and Drake London, this offensive line that's there's pieces there

539
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Speaker 1: and I think that's probably what was alluring to all

540
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Speaker 1: these guys, Tommy Reis, Kevin Stefanski, Ian Cunningham is there

541
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Speaker 1: is some promising talent on this roster. If they can

542
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Speaker 1: just add to it, compliment it, there's a chance that

543
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Speaker 1: they can break through. They were one game, one game

544
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Speaker 1: away from the postseason less last year. Think about all

545
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Speaker 1: those games that kind of slipped through the fingers and

546
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Speaker 1: it would have been a completely different finish to the year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's not forget. This was the number eight rushing

548
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Speaker 3: team in the National Football League last season. So you're

549
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Speaker 3: talking about coming in and dominating the line of scrimmage

550
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Speaker 3: and coming off the ball and running it with the

551
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Speaker 3: guy that led the league in yards from scrimmage and

552
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Speaker 3: Majohn Robinson, and there's gonna be some pieces they are

553
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Speaker 3: going to have to add around. And we'll have another

554
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Speaker 3: show that talks about free agency and all those kind

555
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 3: of things, so we don't need to dive into that.

556
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Speaker 3: I think one of the things that I know fans

557
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Speaker 3: are concerned about. Tommy's a young coach, there's no question

558
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Speaker 3: about that. Still probably still trying to cut his teeth

559
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Speaker 3: a little bit on this thing. He and Stefanski have

560
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Speaker 3: worked together, so I think that's a positive. Their vision

561
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Speaker 3: of what they want to do is a positive. This

562
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Speaker 3: is a different roster than that they had in Cleveland,

563
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Speaker 3: So there's some positive attached to that as well. The

564
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Speaker 3: thing that I think that people are forgetting is how

565
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Speaker 3: do you get better at anything you do?

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Speaker 1: Just keep doing it repetition.

567
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Speaker 3: There's going to be an improvement, right, The more times

568
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Speaker 3: you do it, the better you're going to be. And

569
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Speaker 3: so I don't think that's being counted into this thing

570
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Speaker 3: as we see the numbers that, Okay, this is what

571
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Speaker 3: Cleveland did last year offensively, and wow, that's what we're getting.

572
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Speaker 3: That's not the case at all, because I'd like to

573
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Speaker 3: think that anybody, and I don't care what your walk

574
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Speaker 3: of life is, that the more you get a chance

575
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Speaker 3: to do it, the better you're going to be at it.

576
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Speaker 3: So you've got to take We talk about players in

577
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 3: their first year, they're exponentially better the second season. So

578
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Speaker 3: why wouldn't that be the case with a guy that

579
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Speaker 3: calls plays in the National Football League. This is a

580
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Speaker 3: guy that had to go through a really rough patch

581
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Speaker 3: like Shock's talking about with the dancing thing that was

582
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Speaker 3: going on at quarterback, the moving chairs going on at

583
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Speaker 3: quarterback last year. The thing that I like is that

584
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Speaker 3: the head coach is an offensive guy, comes from the

585
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Speaker 3: offensive side of the football and your offensive coordinator have

586
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Speaker 3: worked together. They have a similar idea of what they

587
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Speaker 3: want to be. And then you factor in the fact

588
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,239
Speaker 3: that you are going to improve. There's no way you

589
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 3: can improve with the information you've garnered, either by trial

590
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,880
Speaker 3: or you know, by fire, whatever it might be. You're

591
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 3: going to be a better version of yourself this year.

592
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Speaker 3: And then you get that rejuvenation thing. Anybody gets a

593
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Speaker 3: shot of adrenaline. Everybody's had a shot of adrenaline for

594
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Speaker 3: some reason that they just something's happened, and you feel

595
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Speaker 3: that adrenaline. That's what Tommy Reese is getting moving here

596
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 3: all of a sudden. Number seven is a guy he

597
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,640
Speaker 3: can hand the football to. Number five is that dog

598
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 3: on the outside he's going to throw the football to.

599
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Speaker 3: He's got an offensive line that was eighth in the

600
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Speaker 3: league and run in the football. He's got some pieces

601
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Speaker 3: to work with. So there's some obviously, there's some questions,

602
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Speaker 3: and I'm not trying to paint a scenario where he's

603
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 3: going to have all the answers. But guess what, I've

604
00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 3: talked about it a number of times. The other side

605
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 3: of the ball gets paid to do their job too,

606
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 3: and so you're going to run into some roadblocks, but

607
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 3: how do you adjust and those kind of things. The

608
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 3: thing I've heard about Tommy is that he's a bright,

609
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:14,239
Speaker 3: young mind that would mirror some of the guys that

610
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 3: we hold in high esteem now and and where I'm

611
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:22,160
Speaker 3: talking about, uh, some of the similar feelings you have

612
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 3: about a young Kyle Shanahan, about a young Sean McVay,

613
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 3: some of those guys, uh, you know, Matt LeFleur, some

614
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 3: of these guys that have risen to a level, and

615
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:37,160
Speaker 3: there's some of those some of those characteristics that those

616
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Speaker 3: guys have had. I hear people saying that they see

617
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 3: some of those things in Tommy as well. Now, again

618
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 3: that's got to come to come to play, but I

619
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Speaker 3: like the direction he's had it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, if you're if you're one of those that's

621
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Speaker 1: going to be out there criticizing young you better get

622
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Speaker 1: with the new age of the NFL. Because when we

623
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Speaker 1: were here, when we were playing guys like I think

624
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Speaker 1: back to you know, obviously, Dan Reeves had been around

625
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Speaker 1: a long time, and I'm thinking around the other coaches

626
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 1: that have been around a long time, Mike Holmgren, Brian Billick, Right,

627
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,360
Speaker 1: these are all the head coaches that were that were

628
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: coaching when I came into the league. But then now

629
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Speaker 1: you talked about some of the younger names. Look at

630
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Speaker 1: Joe Brady in Buffalo, he's young. Look at Kevin O'Connell,

631
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Speaker 1: look at there's so many guys that are that are young.

632
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,119
Speaker 1: Like Kyle Shanahan was a young tough. Now now a

633
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,199
Speaker 1: look at him. Yeah, now we look at him as

634
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: as older an experience, but you don't remember like how

635
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: young him and Mike McDaniel, all these guys were when

636
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Speaker 1: they were working up in Washington in that Shanahan tree.

637
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Speaker 1: That's what's going on now. It's like the NFL has

638
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: has turned into these young, bright minds, both offensively and defensively.

639
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: And that's just the new wave of this game now.

640
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: And Tommy Reese is the next one for the Atlanta Falcons. So, guys,

641
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: before we wrap up, let's kind of talk about now

642
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: that we've got the front office and pretty much the

643
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: coaching staff in place, shock give the fans kind of

644
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: a snapshot of what the next let's just call it

645
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Speaker 1: four weeks is going to look like for this organization

646
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Speaker 1: as they continue to move and progress toward the twenty

647
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Speaker 1: twenty six.

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Speaker 4: I'm saying the biggest thing for this collection, this crew

649
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 4: is getting together with all the different pieces to figure

650
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Speaker 4: out what this roster can look like and what do

651
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Speaker 4: you want to do with it. And you heard Cunningham

652
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 4: talking about it in this press conference on Tuesday. He

653
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 4: said on Wednesday, I'm sitting down with the Saldar Cap people.

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00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 4: Monday we started draft prep. I mean, there's no stopping.

655
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Speaker 4: They're hitting this thing running and now you're freak out. Okay,

656
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Speaker 4: we got some we got some free agents, We've got

657
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Speaker 4: some guys who are on fifth year. We got guys.

658
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Speaker 4: To figure out what do we want to do with

659
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Speaker 4: these guys, and then we move into okay, here's free agency,

660
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Speaker 4: here comes the combine, here comes the draft. All this

661
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Speaker 4: kind of stuff is aligned for you to say, all right,

662
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Speaker 4: this is where we start. So I think the next

663
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Speaker 4: you know, two or three, four weeks, it comes down

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Speaker 4: to this roster. You dive deeper into Okay, this guy

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Speaker 4: does he fit what we want to do? Does this

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Speaker 4: guy really you know, as a guy that we feel

667
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Speaker 4: like can give us a boost on the office, defensive

668
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Speaker 4: special team. You get all the coordinators together and say,

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Speaker 4: all right, going office the side and say, hey, does

670
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Speaker 4: this guy we feel like give us a chance to

671
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Speaker 4: go win ball games. If he doesn't, hey, let's go

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Speaker 4: find somebody else. That's what those conversations are about right now.

673
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Speaker 4: And it's brutal as that you're gonna sit down, you're

674
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Speaker 4: gonna talk through does this guy fit the financial piece

675
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Speaker 4: up you talked about it.

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Speaker 2: There's gonna be a lot of.

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Speaker 4: Guys who, hey, they been really good for the last

678
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Speaker 4: three four years, but maybe they don't fit what we

679
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Speaker 4: want to do going forward. And like you mentioned, this

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Speaker 4: is not a we got two three years to get going.

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Speaker 2: No no, no, no no.

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Speaker 4: This is a roster that we've talked about for last

683
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Speaker 4: you know, year and a half, two years is ready

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Speaker 4: to go win right now. So this roster is about now.

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Speaker 4: Ian Kinneham said it in his press conference. He said,

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Speaker 4: we're not about the future. We're about right now. We're

687
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Speaker 4: not gonna give up stuff for the future to build.

688
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Speaker 4: We gotta go build right now. And I think that's

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Speaker 4: what it's about. So next three four weeks is finding

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Speaker 4: out about this roster and then you figure out, Okay,

691
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 4: the roster tells me what are we going free agency?

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Speaker 4: Where do we go in the combine, where do we

693
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Speaker 4: go in the draft? All that kind of stuff works

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Speaker 4: hand in hand. And that's what's going to happen over

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Speaker 4: the next few days.

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Speaker 1: And we were talking Arch Shock already mentioned it the

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Speaker 1: last few weeks of the season, like what are these

698
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Speaker 1: guys playing for? Well, guess what's going to happen. This

699
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: front office of this coaching staff is going to go

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Speaker 1: look at the last couple of games and see what

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Speaker 1: did we get out of this player? What did we

702
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Speaker 1: get when there was nothing on the line, right and

703
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Speaker 1: can we build around that? And if we can't, Arch,

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Speaker 1: it's like, all right, hey, we have two or three

705
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Speaker 1: holes right here. These have to get addressed. Like these

706
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Speaker 1: are all those tough conversations Shocks talking about that are

707
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Speaker 1: about to happen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys nailed it.

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Speaker 3: They're trying to mesh what they have on the roster

710
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Speaker 3: now with the vision that they're talking about the strength

711
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Speaker 3: on both sides of the football. Up front, how do

712
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Speaker 3: you marry the back indo that whether it's the skills

713
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Speaker 3: guys on offense or the guys in the back end

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Speaker 3: on defense, how much is that merry up with? What

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Speaker 3: will you want to do you have a pretty good

716
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Speaker 3: idea what your philosophy is defensively doesn't mean that Jeff

717
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Speaker 3: Ulbrick doesn't want to add a piece or two here

718
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 3: or there in that defensive group that was so good

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Speaker 3: fifty seven sacks or whatever it was side the all

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Speaker 3: time record for Falcons in a sax y had two

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Speaker 3: safeties that stole the ball what eight times in the

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Speaker 3: back end? You'll love the way that looks, but you

723
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Speaker 3: still want to maybe do some things back there. Those

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Speaker 3: are some of the things that he will be sitting

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Speaker 3: down with the coaching staff and evaluating. And certainly a

726
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Speaker 3: lot of the eyes from a Falcons fan is on

727
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Speaker 3: the offensive side of the football. And right now, the

728
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Speaker 3: biggest question is obviously about the quarterback, and Michael Pennix

729
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Speaker 3: is a guy that is that is busting his ass

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Speaker 3: right now in trying to get back from the injury.

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Speaker 3: And I've heard people say on local radio E SUF,

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Speaker 3: what does that matter, who's going to be the quarterback

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Speaker 3: the first first week of the season. Well, none of

734
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Speaker 3: that can happen unless he's working his rear run off

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Speaker 3: right now to get himself in position to do that.

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Speaker 3: And it it feels good to me to know that

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Speaker 3: my quarterback potentially for the for opening Day, is doing

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Speaker 3: everything he possibly can in the first part of February

739
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Speaker 3: to make sure he's ready for training camp or ready

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Speaker 3: for that first game. That's that work ethic, that's that

741
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,959
Speaker 3: attention to detail that he's going to need to show

742
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Speaker 3: when he gets a new game plan from Tommy Reese

743
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Speaker 3: or when they start installing in early April because they

744
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 3: get the extra time because of the new staff on

745
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 3: trying to absorb a new offense, if he's working that

746
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,719
Speaker 3: hard just to do squats and do all the kind

747
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Speaker 3: of things he can do to strengthen his knee so

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Speaker 3: he can do the stuff that Shock's talking about bootlegging

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Speaker 3: and some of the kind of things they're going to do,

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Speaker 3: and then I know that he's going to apply that

751
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Speaker 3: same attention to detail to absorbing the offense and then

752
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Speaker 3: ultimately leading his guys, lining people up. I'm excited about

753
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,479
Speaker 3: it and so rest assured that one of the feature

754
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Speaker 3: pieces of your offense, and Michael Pennix is doing everything

755
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Speaker 3: he can possibly do to make sure he's ready to

756
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Speaker 3: go opening day.

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Speaker 4: One thing you want to add is Archer mentioning the

758
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Speaker 4: attention to detail. And this has to go with the

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Speaker 4: new general manager, Ian Cunham. This still happened in the

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Speaker 4: press comments. But I watched the interview he did, and

761
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Speaker 4: we talk about the players and what they play for

762
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Speaker 4: and how do you evaluate these guys and this process

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Speaker 4: starts now. I saw an interview where he talked about

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Speaker 4: there's certain things I look at when I look at tape,

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Speaker 4: where I look at practice film, where I look at

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Speaker 4: a game film, I look at body language, what happens

767
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 4: when a guy gets beat, or what happens when a

768
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 4: guy does play well? How does a guy take coaching?

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00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 4: On the sideline, All those little things can tell me

770
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 4: a lot about the player, without even talking about his

771
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 4: physical talents that are on the field. All that kind

772
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 4: of stuff gives me an insight into Okay, what kind

773
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 4: of player is this? Is this the kind of guy

774
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Speaker 4: that we know if things are going bad, he's not

775
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 4: gonna sulk, he's not gonna be in the tank about it.

776
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Speaker 4: Or if he's trying to take coaching, how does he

777
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 4: take coaching? I can watch all that by sitting up

778
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,919
Speaker 4: in the booth looking down watching this guy, and those

779
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 4: are the tensions of details that you say you love

780
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 4: from your general manager, because he's not just looking at

781
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 4: the talent part of it. He's gonna go talk to

782
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 4: those other coaches and say, you know what what happened

783
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 4: back in week seven when he got beat versus so

784
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,399
Speaker 4: and so and they were picking on him, How did

785
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 4: he respond to that. That's gonna tell him a lot

786
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,880
Speaker 4: about the player that the player might not even know

787
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 4: about before he makes a decision on this guy we

788
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 4: want to bring back. So there was so many things

789
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,439
Speaker 4: that are going to take place during this process of

790
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 4: which guy fits our personnel, which guy fits our team?

791
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,320
Speaker 4: Just off just visually talking to people, but also watching

792
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 4: how guys took to certain things that happened in game

793
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 4: or in practice. That gives him idea, Oh, I know

794
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:19,360
Speaker 4: what kind of kid this is? He?

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00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 3: Shock's got an interview like tomorrow for assistant general manager.

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00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 2: We don't have assistant joke Shock.

797
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 1: Listen, breakdown. It all matters, Every little bit matters. So

798
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: hopefully you like to break down here. If we told

799
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Speaker 1: you that we're going to keep you up to speed

800
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Speaker 1: on all of the big moments that happened in the offseason,

801
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: and speaking of which, what is coming next for all

802
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 1: of you? Why is he pointing at us. Well, the

803
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: next thing is coming up is the now that we

804
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: have just gotten through the All Star Games, right, all

805
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: of the juniors and seniors have played those games. The

806
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: next one is the Combine coming up, right, So just

807
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 1: about three weeks coaches will be heading to the Combine

808
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: to look at the next wave of players. And then

809
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:01,839
Speaker 1: after that shortly we'll be coming Free agency opens, right,

810
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 1: so then we will get a chance of see what

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Speaker 1: veterans will be coming to this organization and the obviously

812
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:08,839
Speaker 1: after that you'll be leading into the draft and we'll

813
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 1: see what rookies will be added to this organization and

814
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 1: what moves they end up making in the draft to

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Speaker 1: potentially end up stock miiling some more picks. I don't know.

816
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:20,240
Speaker 1: Ian Cunningham just said, I like a lot of picks.

817
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 1: I like options. He said he likes at bats, swings

818
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Speaker 1: at the plate. All right, So anyway, that was gonna

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Speaker 1: wrap it up for this one. We'll be back to

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