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Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody to another edition of the Falcons Audible,

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Speaker 1: presented by AT and T and Dare I say the

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Speaker 1: final edition of this season, I'll call it to twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty season, even though we're into twenty twenty one. As

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Speaker 1: we all know, the NFL spills into the next year.

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Speaker 1: But this will be our final episode of the season,

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Speaker 1: wrapping up a Falcons year of four and twelve. Of course,

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Speaker 1: missing out on the postseason, but we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: about some other issues that relate to the Atlanta Falcons.

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Speaker 1: And before I get to my guys DJ Shockley and

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Speaker 1: Dave Archer, let's talk about what we got on the

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Speaker 1: docket today. Of course, after the final weekend of the

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Speaker 1: regular season, the Falcons secure, if you will, the number

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Speaker 1: four pick in the NFL Draft, so i'll get the

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Speaker 1: guys thoughts on where they feel like the Atlanta Falcons

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Speaker 1: should attack with that number four pick. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one opponents. That's also something that gets

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Speaker 1: established right at the end of the season. Of course,

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Speaker 1: you always know you're gonna play your conference opponents, your

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Speaker 1: divisional opponents, but the other opponents that they're gonna face

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Speaker 1: this year, we'll talk about some of those guys, some

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Speaker 1: of those teams, how we feel like this strength of

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Speaker 1: schedule stacks up in Atlanta's favor and horse There's been

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Speaker 1: a lot of news going on about the Falcons head

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Speaker 1: coach and the GM, so we'll talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: about that. And then finally, we did hear from Arthur

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Speaker 1: So I'll see if the guys have any mind shattering

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Speaker 1: thoughts and opinions about what they said. And of course,

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Speaker 1: one of the biggest areas every single year, especially with

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Speaker 1: quarterback room, whether or not he's going to return, where

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Speaker 1: the Falcons should go with that, but a lot of

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Speaker 1: questions and hopefully we'll deliver, not necessarily some answers, but

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Speaker 1: some opinions. And with that I'll get to my boys,

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Speaker 1: because they've always got some good, strong opinions, some big

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Speaker 1: smiles on their faces, even though we've had a bad season.

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Speaker 1: As far as the Falcons go, we try to keep

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Speaker 1: it nice and positive here, keep it entertaining, keep it riveting.

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Speaker 1: Dave Archer, DJ Shockley. I want to start with this Arch,

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Speaker 1: I want to get your opinion first. Okay, there's been

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Speaker 1: a lot of we are technically out of twenty twenty, right,

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Speaker 1: but we can still talk about twenty twenty and all

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Speaker 1: the things that came along with it. So Arch, give

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Speaker 1: me the most weird, crazy, zany thing about the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty NFL season in your opinion. Well, it's really easy

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Speaker 1: for me, guys. It's this crappy Zoom thing we have

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Speaker 1: to do to do these stupid interviews, and I've had

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Speaker 1: to do it all year long with Okay, it starts

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Speaker 1: for me on Monday, where I have to do the

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Speaker 1: coaches show on Zoom. Then I do a player interview

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Speaker 1: two hours later on Zoom. And then on Wednesdays, when

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Speaker 1: I'm normally again out at Flowery Branch like I was

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Speaker 1: be at Monday's, I've got to do an interview for

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Speaker 1: the coach for the radio for pregame show, and an

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Speaker 1: interview with the quarterback for the pregame show, all on

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Speaker 1: Zoom and hopefully my internet's down, and it just so

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Speaker 1: happens that my subdivision decides, you know what, that subdivision

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Speaker 1: has been there for twenty years. We're gonna rewire things.

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Speaker 1: What so now my internet's down like half the day,

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Speaker 1: and then they always pick when I have to be

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Speaker 1: on Zoom. So I cannot wait gafellas to be able

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Speaker 1: do my duties for Falcon Radio off of this stupid

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Speaker 1: zoo we've been. We've become so dependent on one internet

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Speaker 1: connection and if not, we all look silly as we're saying, okay,

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Speaker 1: it's not really breaking up yet, but that's what would

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Speaker 1: doing internet work in his neighborhood and he's looking out

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Speaker 1: the window saying, Hi, guys, I'm trying to do work

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Speaker 1: in here. Please just get a steady internet connection. DJ,

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Speaker 1: what's the weirdest, craziest thing for you out of this

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Speaker 1: I mean, who thought coming into twenty twenty, mask would

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Speaker 1: be the main storyline for coaches, players, people in general

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Speaker 1: wipers for him to clean off his mask. It was

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Speaker 1: a defrosters which can we turn that thing on high? Please? Oh?

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Speaker 1: All right? So so we got internet connectivity and zoom

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Speaker 1: most of us saw the college football season. You know,

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Speaker 1: DJ calls games. I called games. Dave does a little

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Speaker 1: I came into this season back in let's call it

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Speaker 1: So Yeahelie, these dudes made it through all these games

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Speaker 1: both Arthur Blank and Rich McKay have said, we're not

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Speaker 1: gonna be very important that they're able to weigh the philosophies.

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Speaker 1: I know that mister Blank said some things that I

433
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Speaker 1: thought stuck out to me. He said, I don't believe

434
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Speaker 1: an owner should hamstring his people that are going to

435
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Speaker 1: make the decisions. I thought that was very pointed. He

436
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,119
Speaker 1: made a very very pointed point of reiterating his fact

437
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Speaker 1: that he is not tied to any particular idea as

438
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Speaker 1: long as you have a plan that meets the criteria

439
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:42,720
Speaker 1: you just talked about rack that you could do short term,

440
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Speaker 1: mid term, and long term. He also said, and Rich

441
00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 1: McKay said this, He said, sustainability of your philosophy has

442
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Speaker 1: to be in place. And what does that mean? Well,

443
00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:57,080
Speaker 1: if you win, people are gonna come get your coaches. Okay,

444
00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:58,639
Speaker 1: we saw it happen here in Atlanta. I went to

445
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl Kyle Shannah and was gone, do you

446
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:07,240
Speaker 1: have the sustainability to maintain revolutions on offense? With Kyle gone, Well,

447
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:09,800
Speaker 1: there's some thought that we weren't able to do that,

448
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,600
Speaker 1: and that's one of the reasons we're in the whole.

449
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Speaker 1: We're in. So that's also going to be a part

450
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Speaker 1: of the mix as you look long term. If we

451
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Speaker 1: do get back to success, which I firmly think we

452
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Speaker 1: will with mister Blank and Rich McKay guiding the ship,

453
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Speaker 1: what's your sustainability. Let's win now and let's get it going.

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Speaker 1: But when guys come and get your coaches, what are

455
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Speaker 1: you going to be able to do? You're gonna be

456
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Speaker 1: able to keep it going. I thought that was very

457
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Speaker 1: interesting as well. Yeah, and DJ, one thing that kind

458
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,600
Speaker 1: of stuck out to me that Richard McKay said as

459
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,439
Speaker 1: well is that they are not going to sacrifice the

460
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Speaker 1: future by anything that they're going to do in the

461
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Speaker 1: immediate So what that meant to me was making any

462
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Speaker 1: huge trades where they're going to have to give away

463
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Speaker 1: a bunch of draft picks or something like that because

464
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Speaker 1: they want to grow and build this team. But I'm curious,

465
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Speaker 1: from your standpoint, what's stuck out to you as far

466
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Speaker 1: as this head coach and or general manager search. From

467
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Speaker 1: what you heard yesterday for Arthur Blank and rich McKay,

468
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,399
Speaker 1: there are a couple of things and aren't alluded to

469
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Speaker 1: the fact that, Yeah, you've interviewed a couple of head

470
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Speaker 1: coaches already. When you get the GM GM in line,

471
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Speaker 1: does that happen again, Because obviously Arthur Blake and Rich

472
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Speaker 1: McKay can go to the GM and say, hey, here's

473
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Speaker 1: what the conversation was like between whoever the head coaches

474
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Speaker 1: may be, and then the GM's gonna want to come

475
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Speaker 1: back and say, all right, I want to sit down

476
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Speaker 1: with these guys as well, so we may get a

477
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 1: chance to see these guys for multiple times if you're

478
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Speaker 1: Arthur Blake and Richard McKay, which goes a long way.

479
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Speaker 1: The second part of it is is when I when I

480
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Speaker 1: watched the press conference, the thing that stuck out to

481
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Speaker 1: me that rich McKay said was it's about the process overpower.

482
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Speaker 1: And I thought the process of going through this situation

483
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Speaker 1: meant more than the power. And a lot of people

484
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,280
Speaker 1: think about, Okay, the GM, the head coach, who's gonna

485
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Speaker 1: make all the decisions, all that kind of stuff matters. Yeah,

486
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Speaker 1: but it's about getting to the process of who are

487
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Speaker 1: the best fifty three, who are the guys that can

488
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Speaker 1: help his staff continue to move this organization into the

489
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Speaker 1: right direction. It's not about the egos, because a lot

490
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 1: of people think about the egos of this situation of Okay,

491
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 1: here comes a new guy, he gets to do everything

492
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Speaker 1: his way. But I think it's all about the process

493
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Speaker 1: of how they get to this point as opposed to

494
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Speaker 1: who makes all the decision, who gives all the power

495
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 1: to make these you know, crazy decisions as we go

496
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Speaker 1: into the draft. So the process over power, I thought

497
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Speaker 1: was a huge statement that I thought rich McKay mentioned,

498
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Speaker 1: you know one other thing, Rack real quickly, I just

499
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Speaker 1: want to mention and to jump into your thoughts on it.

500
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Speaker 1: Mister Blank said something else that I thought was very

501
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 1: important and it might have just kind of been glossed over,

502
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,439
Speaker 1: was he says, we have to acknowledge our own failures.

503
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Speaker 1: And that's him and being introspective on the selections and

504
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Speaker 1: the process they went through like shocks, talking about and

505
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Speaker 1: Rich McKay as well about acknowledging where they missed it.

506
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Speaker 1: And Rich talked about how are you looking an offensive

507
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,919
Speaker 1: DA guy or defensive guy? And he told the story

508
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Speaker 1: about going to getting Bobby Petrino and how that was

509
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 1: a failed mission because of the way they approached that.

510
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Speaker 1: So they are acknowledging and looking and self evaluating. We

511
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 1: look at it as you know, the self scout we

512
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: talk about as analysts and talk about in football, they're

513
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 1: scouting themselves. Is the mistakes they've made prior that they're

514
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Speaker 1: going to try to stay away from those potholes they

515
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Speaker 1: fell in before. I thought that was very important as well.

516
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 1: And Raxa to piggyback off that, I think, just to

517
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Speaker 1: take it a little bit step further. They also mentioned

518
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Speaker 1: the fact of Okay, when we've been in this position,

519
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 1: we've done the self scout like ours talked about, but

520
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,879
Speaker 1: to have new fresh minds come in and say, Okay,

521
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: I understand the financials, I understand the players that are

522
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 1: here right now, but have you thought about X, Y

523
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Speaker 1: and Z. And they said, throughout this process they've learned

524
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Speaker 1: the more they've learned more about their organization because they've

525
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:48,439
Speaker 1: had different eyes maybe to come in and get a

526
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Speaker 1: different look on what they're doing. So I thought that

527
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 1: was pretty pretty prominent that they've mentioned they're learning in

528
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Speaker 1: this process as well, not just going out and saying, hey,

529
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Speaker 1: what do you want from us? They're learning about their

530
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,680
Speaker 1: team as well as well as doing a self scout.

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Speaker 1: So I thought that was pretty cool. With all the

532
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Speaker 1: success that Arthur Blank has had throughout his business career

533
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Speaker 1: with home Depot and his family businesses, Rich McKay's experience

534
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 1: as a as a lifelong NFL guy and most recently executive,

535
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: I feel like Atlanta is in a great position. And yeah,

536
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: you could sit there and say that they made some mistakes,

537
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,359
Speaker 1: but just like arch Mension, they acknowledge those mistakes, whether

538
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 1: it was personnel, whether it was coaching staff, they've acknowledged

539
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Speaker 1: those they're trying to use all of that information to

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Speaker 1: make this hire, these hires better in twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: for the Atlanta Falcons. So let's take that one step further. DJ,

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Speaker 1: let me start with you. So, if you had a

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Speaker 1: message for the new head coach or general manager of

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons as far as how they're going to

545
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Speaker 1: approach twenty twenty one, or maybe maybe just their tenure

546
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Speaker 1: with this organization, that would be what when I watched

547
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 1: this team this season and I watched certain things that

548
00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 1: took place, the one thing that was a glaring issue

549
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: for me was the details of the game. And I'm

550
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 1: sitting there watching stuff that happens throughout a game. And

551
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 1: as players, we all know about the situational awareness, and

552
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: as fans watching the game, But situational awareness is as

553
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,679
Speaker 1: simple as it's third and twelve and you're the corner

554
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 1: on the right side and you have the deep third,

555
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: but you don't play the deep third because there's a

556
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 1: guy that's in the underneath zone. But that's not your responsibility.

557
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: Your responsibility to be on the deep third. You have

558
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,640
Speaker 1: a guy playing underneath, So don't worry about that. Those

559
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: are some of the things that that really irked me

560
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 1: throughout the year is the emphasis on details, and if

561
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 1: I have the opportunity, it's making sure that this team

562
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: understands the emphasis for details, situational ball and finishing is

563
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Speaker 1: just as supported as starting a ball game. We've seen

564
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Speaker 1: sometimes throughout the year where you start a ball game

565
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 1: you don't finish. You may finish well, but you don't start.

566
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Speaker 1: Those are the things that have to be ingrained into

567
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,119
Speaker 1: this ball club because we saw it too often this

568
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,719
Speaker 1: time this year. We saw it through sixteen ball games.

569
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 1: There was an emphasis where sometimes guys weren't doing what

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Speaker 1: they're supposed to do. Earlier year or late in the year.

571
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: You weren't concerned about how you start as how you finish. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Arthur said something yesterday in the press conference Arch that

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Speaker 1: I'll kind of lead you in with and he's kind

574
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: of making a joke and he was talking to the

575
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,160
Speaker 1: media members that everybody has their answers for how they're

576
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: going to fix the franchise, but nobody ends up submitting

577
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 1: their names for either of those positions, the head coach

578
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: or general manager, which is what we're kind of doing

579
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,680
Speaker 1: right here. But arch. Your message for the next head

580
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 1: coacher general manager would be what well, I think first

581
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: of all, you got to get him to come in right,

582
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: and so you've got to sell the program to a

583
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: certain extent. Obviously, they're going to come in with a

584
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: plan and an idea, and you're gonna sway me to

585
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: hire you with your plan. But also I've got to

586
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: show you there's six or seven other spots available in

587
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: the National Football League that a lot of these guys

588
00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 1: are going to get interviewed for. So I have to

589
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: sell myself to a certain extent to them to make

590
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,719
Speaker 1: sure that they understand. And I think it all begins

591
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 1: with mister Blank. Ownership is huge in this league, and

592
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: there's been no one more dedicated from a facilities, from

593
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: paying guys to providing every possible opportunity to come in

594
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: to a first class operation. How you travel, I'm fortunately

595
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: you travel at the club. How where they stay, what

596
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: they do, there is not a cost cut. Ever, in

597
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: mister Banks, that's not who he is. He expends everything

598
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 1: he possibly can to make sure that the guy that's

599
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: coaching and the GM have every resource available. That's first

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Speaker 1: and foremost for me. If I know that that gives

601
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: me the warm and fuzzy feeling guys about the job

602
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 1: right away. And oh, by the way, this roster's got

603
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,719
Speaker 1: some guys that have been to the mountaintop before. This

604
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: is a bunch, not a bunch of guys that have

605
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: never done it before. There's a good number of guys

606
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: that were standing on this football team on the field

607
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: in Houston when that disaster happened, but they won their

608
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 1: way to the Super Bowl in two thousands sixteen. A

609
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: good number of those guys are still on that roster.

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00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,239
Speaker 1: That tells me that I've got guys that know how

611
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: to get there. Now I've got to provide them that

612
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 1: path to get there. And the situational awareness that shocked

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00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: up back is Upton. He and I have talked about

614
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: every Sunday. This is a team that's devoid of situational awareness.

615
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: That'll be the first thing from a coach when you

616
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 1: come in. You're going to need to provide these players.

617
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,959
Speaker 1: But those things, to me line up to make this

618
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 1: job very attractive. You know. I think we're all kind

619
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 1: of on the same page here and what our message is,

620
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: and it's it has something to do with what we've

621
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Speaker 1: seen on the field. Or what we didn't see on

622
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 1: the field, and just some things that we feel like

623
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 1: maybe can help the next regime have some success. And

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00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 1: I'll kind of finish with this and we'll get things

625
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: wrapped up. But I feel like it's it's a situation

626
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: where it's not rocket science, but it is, guys, right,

627
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 1: because being a head coach and motivating fifty three grown,

628
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: rich men is extremely difficult. But this new general manager

629
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 1: and this new head coach have got to find a

630
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: way to get these players to play harder, to play smarter,

631
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: to play faster, and what I would call have a

632
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: relentless pursuit to win every play, every quarter, every game, because,

633
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: as you guys mentioned, starting has not been so good,

634
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: Finishing has not been so good. But no matter if

635
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 1: they're an undrafted free agent or they're a veteran that

636
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: just signed a one hundred million dollar contract, they need

637
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 1: to adopt a mindset that every single play might be

638
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: their last, and they've got to win that play. Whether

639
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: it's protecting Matt Ryan in a pass play, whether it's

640
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 1: blocking up front for whoever the running back is going

641
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 1: to be next year, whether it's not missing a tackle

642
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: in the flat against some of these electric playmakers in

643
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: the NFL. Every single play we always talk about four

644
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: to six plays usually makes the difference in a ballgame.

645
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: Can they make those four to six plays next year,

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Speaker 1: the year after, and the year after, and maybe that

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Speaker 1: will be the difference in getting them back into the postseason. Fortunately,

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Speaker 1: real quickly, before we jump out, real quickly, match Job

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Speaker 1: has decided to retire from the National Football League. Match

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Speaker 1: Shob will not be celebrators. One of the great players

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Speaker 1: that's ever played the game, and he probably should be.

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Speaker 1: Match Job had a tremendous career. Was drafted here all

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Speaker 1: the way Backwood and O four came in as a

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Speaker 1: as a young quarterback backed up Michael Vick. Went on

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Speaker 1: to have outstanding career at Houston. Was a pro bowler,

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Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl MVP through for over four thousand yards

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Speaker 1: three times I think in his care two or three

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Speaker 1: times in his career, an illustrious career. Thirty nine years

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Speaker 1: of age. Matt's gonna step away. He's got a young family,

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Speaker 1: he said. I think he's gonna get into some broadcasting

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Speaker 1: as well. But I just wanted to wish match Job

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Speaker 1: one of the more gracious and cooler dudes I've had

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Speaker 1: a chance to be around. Wish him luck in his

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Speaker 1: next endeavor, which I'm sure will be very successful. The

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Speaker 1: man from Virginia who came in here to back up

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Speaker 1: the backup Michael Vick went on to have an outstanding

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Speaker 1: career in last sit to his thirty nine years of old.

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Speaker 1: Just the best wishes to match Job and his family.

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Speaker 1: Just to piggyback on that, I had opportunity to spend

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Speaker 1: a couple of years with Shabby before he went on

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Speaker 1: to Houston, and for me to be a rookie to

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Speaker 1: come into the National Football League and for me to

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Speaker 1: have the opportunity to sit in a quarterback room and

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Speaker 1: share it with him was probably one of the better

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Speaker 1: moments and times in my career as far as being

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Speaker 1: with him and also being with Matt, because I learned

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Speaker 1: so much from those guys. I remember just being more

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Speaker 1: of a student of the game learning from Shabby. Shabby

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Speaker 1: was one of those guys who you would tell him

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Speaker 1: the personnel, or you would tell him the ending of

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Speaker 1: the play, and he knew the beginning. Like just one

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Speaker 1: of those type of guys who gave everything he had

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Speaker 1: from day one and supported me. Who was a guy

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Speaker 1: who you know your drafted guy to come in. He

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Speaker 1: looking at him like maybe he's a replacement, but the

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Speaker 1: guy helped me anytime I asked. It's still a good

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Speaker 1: friend to this day. So well said Arch, and he

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Speaker 1: definitely deserves to be mentioned one of the guys who

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Speaker 1: have done it and done it at a high level

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Speaker 1: sixteen years. Just does not happen overnight, and it's a

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Speaker 1: reason why this guy has been celebrated by us. The

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Speaker 1: Shore a good friend of ours and was actually one

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Speaker 1: of my holders early on, I should say about midway

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Speaker 1: through my career, but when he was young, it was

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Speaker 1: one of my holders. And I'm leaving guys something real quick.

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Speaker 1: My wife and I had a pretty integral part in

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Speaker 1: setting up him up with his now wife, and I

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Speaker 1: don't want to take any credit for the fact that

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Speaker 1: he's married and he's had a very happy marriage because

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Speaker 1: that's all him and his wife. But wishing him the

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Speaker 1: best his wife, Laurie and his beautiful kids. As as

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Speaker 1: you guys both mentioned, he's gonna have plenty of success

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Speaker 1: in his life after football, So we're hoping that we

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Speaker 1: have some success in life after this podcast. DJ Dave,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys, letting me jump in the boat

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Speaker 1: with you guys this year as we talked some Falcons

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Speaker 1: some issues around the NFC South and National Football League.

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Speaker 1: And I would be remiss if I didn't think a

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Speaker 1: couple of guys, Sam Larson and Dan gab two guys

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Speaker 1: from the Falcons digital media department, that have been our rocks,

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Speaker 1: keeping us prepared, giving us all the details, and uh

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Speaker 1: Sam fighting through zoom and editing as he could through

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Speaker 1: samr so you know, he rowing the boat for us. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'll see what you did there with a little Minnesota reference. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was my pleasure. So that's gonna wrap it up

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Speaker 1: for this season of the Falcons Audible presented by AT

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Speaker 1: and T. I'm Derek Rackley is again mob fellas uh

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Speaker 1: DJ Shockley deve Archer. It's been a joy. It's been

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Speaker 1: a pleasure with you guys this season, and hopefully they'll

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Speaker 1: ask us back to do some stuff in the future.

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Speaker 1: With that being said, fellas, let's uh, let's sign off

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Speaker 1: and uh we'll see these Atlanta Falcons fans hopefully very soon. Again.

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Speaker 1: Once again, that's Atlanta Falcons presented. Atlanta Falcons Audible presented

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Speaker 1: before the end of the season. That's gonna wrap things

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Speaker 1: up for us. Appreciate everybody joining us. Have a great

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