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Speaker 1: The Falcons Audible presented by AT and T is back

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Speaker 1: once again. The fellas are here. I'm racked. This is Arch,

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Speaker 1: that's Shock. We're going with the little what do you

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Speaker 1: call a red white red sandwich? I was thinking of

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Speaker 1: like a Rojo oreo or something like that. Is there

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Speaker 1: anything that's like a red white red sandwich? Anyway, that's

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Speaker 1: what we're rocking today. If you could think of one,

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Speaker 1: send it in to us. Maybe we'll give you a

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Speaker 1: shout out on the next show. I can see, I

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Speaker 1: can see Arch is still over there, just I mean,

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Speaker 1: Shock is over there, cranking.

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Speaker 2: Sout red velvet.

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Speaker 1: It could be some red velvet, Yes, a few layers

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Speaker 2: I like that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Uh. There's been a few things that have

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Speaker 1: happened for this organization since we last met. But before

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Speaker 1: we get to that, I want to start it off

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Speaker 1: with a little bit more of a lighter note, because yesterday,

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Speaker 1: as we sit here and record, instead of the Falcons

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Speaker 1: going on in the practice field, they got surprised. They

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Speaker 1: visit to a local water park, and so sometimes you

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Speaker 1: gotta do that. Sometimes you need to just re energize

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Speaker 1: the guys right in the middle.

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Speaker 2: Of the let me tell you something. We had fifteen

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Speaker 2: straight days in two a days, two days in full pass.

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Speaker 1: Hey when he prefaces it with let me tell you something,

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Speaker 1: this is about to get serious of this, that'd be

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Speaker 1: a large no. So here's my question for you too. Okay,

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Speaker 1: they went to the local water park. Are you guys

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Speaker 1: water park fans or are we amusement park fans like

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Speaker 1: roller coasters and stuff? If you had to pick between

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Speaker 1: one or the other. We're talking about summertime. We're talking

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Speaker 1: about ideal conditions, waterproof or amusement park.

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Speaker 3: I mean gonna tell you right out of the band,

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Speaker 3: I'm afraid of heights. So roller coasters is a I

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Speaker 3: can't say. I'm gonna say big note, big note'.

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Speaker 1: Say, like like a hockey sticks.

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Speaker 3: Yes, okay, I am afraid.

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Speaker 1: But so you so you don't do roller coasters at all?

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Speaker 1: What about the family.

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Speaker 3: I rode a roller coaster with my son because he

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Speaker 3: is the daredevil. My my wife, my daughter, My wife,

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Speaker 3: she says she used to do it. Now she's telling

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Speaker 3: me old because I don't have kids and I can't

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Speaker 3: do it any more. So she says she don't know

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Speaker 3: no more. My daughter terrified like me, My son, daredevil

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Speaker 3: wants the highest roller coast. Okay, so we went on

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Speaker 3: a roller coaster this this this summer, just because my

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Speaker 3: We walk up to the the we walk up to

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Speaker 3: Then my son looks at me and I gotta I

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Speaker 3: gotta save today. I get the roller coaster. I'm sure

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Speaker 3: to be the other way over. So you took for

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Speaker 3: the team terrified.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so that was one. What happens if he wants

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Speaker 3: Ain't no next one? And done?

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Speaker 1: Baby, your poor son. You better hire somebody to go

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Speaker 3: Go ahead to go ride by yourself. What of y'all

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Speaker 2: Can't do it the same way? Okay, same question. Roller coach.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna get is a log round. I'll do that

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Speaker 2: log right now? They can they take it one time

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Speaker 2: and you go down. That's it, water splash in your face.

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Speaker 3: You're good at that? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You know what when I was a kid, I was

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Speaker 3: Why are you like your stomach and your chip, why

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Speaker 3: are you like that feeling that that that's.

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Speaker 2: Not you get beat around to and you get off

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Speaker 2: It felt like you played full quarters of football.

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Speaker 1: With no pads, say roller coast.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about my son passed out on? Oh boy,

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Speaker 1: Is it one of those videos that you see on

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Speaker 3: There's just just like that, just like that, the wave?

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Speaker 1: So hopefully none of the Atlanta Falcons as they were

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Speaker 1: going down the water rides did the pass out thing,

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Speaker 1: but they did get a little bit of a treat

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Speaker 1: for the task at hand. So fellas as I mentioned,

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Speaker 1: since we sat here and I believe fellas it happened

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Speaker 1: the evening after we recorded our last podcast, the Falcons

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Speaker 1: made some splashes. So we haven't had a chance to

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Speaker 1: and started big roster moves not only for this organization,

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Speaker 1: start with Matthew Judon shocked. The biggest conversation, One of

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Speaker 1: the biggest conversations around this organization was pass rusher. What

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Speaker 1: are they gonna do? Who's it gonna be. We've even

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Speaker 1: had discussions here about it's gonna be an attack by committee,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not saying that that's going away, but the

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Speaker 1: NIO Falcons got themselves a legitimate pass rusher. What's your

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Speaker 3: Approven veteran, a guy who's been there, who's done it,

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Speaker 3: and you have seen him put the work in, and

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Speaker 3: I think you go back to the draft and we

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Speaker 3: all talked about, oh, we all wanted to get a

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Speaker 3: pass rusher here there. If you can go back to

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Speaker 3: that day in April and say, you know what, we

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Speaker 3: one to twenty two, my man had twenty eight sacks.

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Speaker 3: Last year when he tour his bicep, he had played

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Speaker 3: in four games, had four sacks. If I tell you

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Speaker 3: I'm cool with that. Matthew Judne Is I think one

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Speaker 3: way he goes about his business, a guy who's been

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Speaker 3: me as a football player. As a man, I can't

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Speaker 3: really demand or ask anything that I haven't worked for.

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Speaker 3: Going to go work for it, I have to go

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Speaker 3: prove myself to them. I mean, what kind of statement

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Speaker 3: his previous place, he wanted the money it was disgrunnled,

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Speaker 3: improving it. And I tell you, this guy still has

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Speaker 3: that edge. He still has that that fight you want

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Speaker 3: best out of out of Matthew judoonns. So I'm excited

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Speaker 3: to see this man go. I'm excited to see him

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Speaker 3: go play in this system. It's gonna be fun to

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Speaker 1: He's got that edge because he's essentially in a contract year.

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Speaker 1: And if you go out and look, because I did this,

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Speaker 1: I went out and looked at the guys that are

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Speaker 1: I believe Bosa's number one at like thirty four million

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Speaker 1: average per year, and the top call it six guys

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Speaker 1: of the reason why he's got that attitude because he

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Speaker 1: knows that carrot's out in front of him.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so not only did they get proven pass rusher,

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Speaker 1: they get a pass rusher that's proven in his contract year,

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Speaker 1: and he knows that carrot that's out there, even though

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Speaker 1: he's maybe a little bit older. You go out and

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Speaker 1: of those monster contracts. What does he bring to this organization?

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Speaker 2: Rack? I had to go look and see where Allendale,

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Speaker 2: Michigan was. That's where Grand Valley State is, the Division

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Speaker 2: two team that Matthew Judon played for when he was

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Speaker 2: coming out. So if there was every guy with a

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Speaker 2: Don't know where it is, right. You mentioned sixty six

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Speaker 2: sacks in his career, thirty his last thirty eight games,

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Speaker 2: he's got thirty two sacks. You talked about all that.

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Speaker 2: What he brings is a heavy handed guy that has

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Speaker 2: the versatility to play outside linebacker, but he's got versatility

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Speaker 2: a tape on Matthew Judon, and you're gonna find moments

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Speaker 2: into sixty six sacks where he got singled up on

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Speaker 2: looked at sacks against tackles, and he can run through

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Speaker 2: He certainly has the athleticism the speed to blow by,

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Speaker 2: and then he's also got the ability to change direction

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Speaker 2: on the quarterback and the balls out. He's generated on

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Speaker 2: ten twelve force fumbles in the sixty six sacks. They're

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Speaker 2: getting a versatile player that you guys just pointed out

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Speaker 2: has probably always had a chip on his shoulder and

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Speaker 2: thankfully for us, hasn't lost it because he's in that year.

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Speaker 2: And that was so refreshing what Shock just mentioned that

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Speaker 2: he said, well, the Falcons don't know me. I need

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Speaker 2: to go prove it to that. He's proven to the

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Speaker 2: National Football League and he's the thirty third best player

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Speaker 2: based on player voting in the National Football League. He's

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Speaker 2: the number thirty three guy on the top one hundred.

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Speaker 2: So he's proven it to his peers.

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Speaker 3: He's proven it there, but.

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Speaker 2: He wants to prove it to the Falcons. That's great

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Speaker 2: news to us.

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Speaker 1: Well, and guys, this is an area where I felt like, again,

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Speaker 1: I always look at it from an opposing offense standpoint. Okay,

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Speaker 1: if you don't have that guy in the outsider, you

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Speaker 1: don't have that alpha and the inside either. You don't

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Speaker 1: really force an offense to game plan around somebody, right,

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Speaker 1: And Matthew Judon now to me, demands the respect in

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Speaker 1: game plan meetings when you're gonna set up a pass

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Speaker 1: play against this Atlanta Falcons defense, that they have to

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Speaker 1: know where he's at. They have to circle him, they

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Speaker 1: that player was here before. I don't know if that

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Speaker 1: player has been here in a while out on the

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Speaker 1: edge for the Atlanta Falcons. And now DJ they've got

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and one of the last coolst that I saw.

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Speaker 2: and all those kind of things. So, but to get

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Speaker 2: back to your original point, rack. This is a big

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Speaker 2: week for probably fifteen or fifteen or so guys, you know,

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Speaker 2: ten or fifteen guys that are trying to and you're

438
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Speaker 2: not even guaranteed that anymore. Remember we used to make

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Speaker 2: you used to make a team. Oh I made the team.

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Speaker 2: You lean back and mete. There's always things going on

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Speaker 2: from another team thirty one. Other teams are cutting guys

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Speaker 2: and stuff like that that maybe they covet somebody. And

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Speaker 2: the next thing, you know, if I'm so, I need

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Speaker 2: to play myself not just to the forty fifth spot

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Speaker 2: on the roster, I need to try to get myself

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Speaker 2: up to the thirty seventh spot on my roster or

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Speaker 2: something like that.

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Speaker 3: It's a great point. You know. I was one of

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Speaker 3: those guys who were absolutely on the fringe, and I thought,

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Speaker 3: in that same kind of manner, is how can I

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Speaker 3: stick out? How can I be a guy that they say,

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Speaker 3: you know what, we cannot afford to put him on

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Speaker 3: the practice squad. Now, I think there are a lot

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Speaker 3: of guys on this team who are looked at in

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Speaker 3: that light, and then you look at Okay, if you're

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Speaker 3: one of those guys, how can I how can I

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Speaker 3: provide this team with the best skill set and give

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Speaker 3: them the ability to really put me in a position

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Speaker 3: where I have to go out and be on this team.

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Speaker 3: I think there are a lot of guys who you say, Okay,

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Speaker 3: how can I be a guy who can win on

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Speaker 3: that third phase? As we know, special team is a

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Speaker 3: huge part of it. We know about you know, the

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Speaker 3: top guys. A lot of those guys are not gonna

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Speaker 3: be on streusure team. But how can I stand out?

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Speaker 3: I saw a guy like D'Angelo Malone last couple weeks

467
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Speaker 3: playing his butt off on special team. And we know

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Speaker 3: how deep that outside linebacker that front seven room is.

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Speaker 3: Can you make a push? We saw my man Natron

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Speaker 3: last week, I mean go crazy on the defense side

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Speaker 3: of the ball. Was all over the field. Then he

472
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Speaker 3: turns around and he's, you know, catching kickoffs. How versatile

473
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Speaker 3: of a player can you be that? They say, you

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Speaker 3: know what, this is a guy that we don't have

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Speaker 3: to bring in two other guys. We got one guy

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Speaker 3: who can do two different things. So I think there

477
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Speaker 3: are a bunch of guys who you say, who can

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Speaker 3: you flash one more time? For me? You're right here

479
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Speaker 3: sitting on top of that fence. Can you flash for

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Speaker 3: me enough that I say, you know what, this guy

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Speaker 3: that deserves to be on his football team. And I

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Speaker 3: think that's where a lot of guys are.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and individually, none of us has lost in our

484
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Speaker 2: minds that not all of them we're gonna make it.

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Speaker 2: I just said, add sixty five for fifty three. There's

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Speaker 2: thirty one other teams in the league. Ye, you know,

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Speaker 2: and all the tape you're putting out there, Believe me,

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Speaker 2: these scouting departments are scouring the league for guys that

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Speaker 2: fit what they want to do, have a certain mentality.

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Speaker 2: Atlanta's roster is talented. We've talked about it. So these

491
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Speaker 2: guys are going to be on somebody else's roster. And

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Speaker 2: that's part of it too. As much as we want

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Speaker 2: them all and we want to wrap our arms around

494
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Speaker 2: all the guys and keep him here in Atlanta, you

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Speaker 2: want him to play in league and so there's gonna

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Speaker 2: be an opportunity if they can go out and ball

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Speaker 2: out this week.

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Speaker 3: Art, Is this a team that you think is the

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Speaker 3: deepest has been in a long time? Because you talk

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Speaker 3: about having so many guys on this freaking roster. You

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Speaker 3: look around, he say, which guy can you let go?

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Speaker 3: Cause it's gonna be tough. Is this the deepest you've seen?

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Speaker 3: You know, you've been around and call these games for years.

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Speaker 3: To have a team this deep, and we've talked about

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Speaker 3: it going into camp, how deep this team was gonna

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Speaker 3: be in a lot of spots. Is this one of

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Speaker 3: the deepest you've been.

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Speaker 2: Around, No question about it. Shock, And I think that

509
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Speaker 2: for the first time in a long time. The depth

510
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Speaker 2: for me is on the defensive side of the ball.

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Speaker 2: You know, a lot of times you're looking at, Okay,

512
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Speaker 2: all the bells and whistles on offense, we've got six receivers,

513
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Speaker 2: we've got five running backs, we got three tight ends. Well,

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Speaker 2: we still have some guys that can play on that

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Speaker 2: side of the ball. But I started looking at the defense. Yet,

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Speaker 2: how many defensive linemen can you keep? Yeah, they you

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Speaker 2: and I were talking about. I mean, there's you can

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Speaker 2: go like ten deep on the D line. No, I'd

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Speaker 2: really like to keep that guy. I would like to

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Speaker 2: keep that guy. I'm looking at my list. I got

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Speaker 2: nine d lining on here. I don't know if they

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Speaker 2: can keep that many guys.

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Speaker 1: I mean I kind of did the same exercise, not

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Speaker 1: necessarily with names, but more or less of numbers, like

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Speaker 1: how to make the numbers work? And I wrote down

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Speaker 1: sixty tackles and five outside linebackers, right, So that's essentially

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Speaker 1: eleven guys, but you're probably thinking more interior guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And there's just not enough roster spots.

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Speaker 1: There's just fifty three, right, So there's some tough decisions

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Speaker 1: that are made, and like you said, maybe a guy

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Speaker 1: that ends up getting released here is picked up immediately

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Speaker 1: by another team. But for the younger guys. You made

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Speaker 1: a couple of comments when you were talking about special teams.

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Speaker 1: You're talking about deserve, you were talking about flash right,

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Speaker 1: special teams. I look at it this way, and this

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Speaker 1: kind of goes all the time when you're trying to

537
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Speaker 1: make any kind of team, is how can you make

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Speaker 1: my job so hard as a coach that I can't

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Speaker 1: afford to not have you on the team. That's what

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Speaker 1: they have to do. You got to make yourself so

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Speaker 1: valuable that that coach has no choice but to put

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Speaker 1: you on it because you are that important to the team.

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Speaker 2: It's a great call, and that's what they're trying to

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Speaker 2: You would be ill as a coach if you saw

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Speaker 2: him on another helm. If I ever, let go if

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Speaker 2: he has another helmet on it, he's not on my team.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be ill. That's got how you got to

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Speaker 2: make the coach feel.

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Speaker 1: So that's what we will find out on Friday, and

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Speaker 1: then the next few days after that is the Atlanta

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Speaker 1: Falcons prepare to pare down their roster to the initial

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Speaker 1: we always got to say it, the initial fifty three

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Speaker 1: man roster, and this thing will evolve every single day,

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Speaker 1: if not every single week, of the entire twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four NFL season. That's going to wrap it up for

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