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Speaker 1: We are back on the Falcons audible. It is Game Week,

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Speaker 1: by the way it is presented by AT and T.

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Speaker 1: It's game week, everybody. Game week, Week one of the

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Speaker 1: National Football League seasons. Finally upon us, upon us. I

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Speaker 1: told you last week that we're going to be back

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Speaker 1: this week, and we were actually talking about some games,

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Speaker 1: you pull them up on your app, whichever one you use.

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Speaker 1: And I think everybody out there that that does the

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Speaker 1: everybody's been really busy when it comes to the NFL

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Speaker 1: this is Shock as always. We are here to talk

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. We're here to talk week one, okay, our fellas,

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Speaker 1: before we get into actual action on the field. I

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Speaker 1: think it's pretty cool to note that the Atlanta Falcons

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Speaker 1: name their captains for the twenty twenty four season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was pretty hype to get that called.

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Speaker 1: DJ that they didn't call you, Okay, I mean I

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Speaker 3: It was actually a little surprise that you got the call. No,

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Speaker 3: you didn't get the call.

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Speaker 1: He didn't get the call. He got the call to

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Speaker 1: four captains for you could be the the Falcons audible, DJ,

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Speaker 1: I will elect you that, and I'm sure arguing with it.

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Speaker 1: The captains for this year will be our incoming starting quarterback,

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Speaker 1: year ago. Kirk Cousins thirteenth season, Jake Matthews eleventh season,

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Speaker 1: DJ will start with you, I don't think this is

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Speaker 1: But when you saw the four names listed as captains,

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Speaker 2: I thought about exactly what you say, how many years

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Speaker 1: You know what's interesting here, Fellaws, is that Jesse Bates

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Speaker 3: And an unbelievable job Racks correct in the group that

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Speaker 3: Just an amazing job.

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Speaker 1: I watched that.

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Speaker 1: You feel it? You feel did you guys watch anything?

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Speaker 1: Grady does that? Annie does that?

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Speaker 1: And I'm going, what about doing Actually I did? I

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Speaker 3: I just I was just so impressed with how they

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Speaker 1: Really cool. So check it out. It's a really good

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Speaker 1: deal on a awesome deal with Grady Jarrett and the

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Speaker 1: just arch. Sometimes you just can't be greaty, Okay, just

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you wonder what motivation there is for those guys. Okay,

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Speaker 2: to keep it real. When you play against your former team,

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Speaker 3: Well, this is a team that kind of the bread

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Speaker 3: two formidable guys. But the one thing that comes to

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Speaker 3: mind for me for Kirk is as much as you

436
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Speaker 3: want to take your shots, and I think this is

437
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Speaker 3: where he's He's a tremendous upgrade from what we've had

438
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Speaker 3: at quarterback for the last couple of seasons is his

439
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Speaker 3: understanding of down and distance and making sure that he

440
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Speaker 3: stays in good spots, because if I get locked in

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Speaker 3: second and long in third and long situations against this group,

442
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Speaker 3: that's not good, correct, And I can't chip releasing and

443
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Speaker 3: all that kind of Stuff's fine on first and second down.

444
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Speaker 3: When I get into third down, I'm want to spread

445
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Speaker 3: out and I want to attack the secondary with as

446
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Speaker 3: many guys as I can. If I'm chip releasing, then

447
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Speaker 3: I'm really muddying the water on what my look is.

448
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Speaker 3: So I can get the ball out to extend the

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Speaker 3: drives and get first downs. So if I can stand

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Speaker 3: down in distant situations that are good, then I don't

451
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Speaker 3: have to worry about that as much because the ball

452
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Speaker 3: is going to come out on time, right. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And the last thing to that point is we talk

454
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Speaker 2: so much about how we have linebackers of the athletic

455
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Speaker 2: that can rush the pass like a Kate Nellis. They

456
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Speaker 2: got a guy in Patrick Cooyen coming over from Baltimore,

457
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Speaker 2: similar statue. Very athletic will rush the pass as well.

458
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Speaker 2: Is a tackling machine as well. Have to count for

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Speaker 2: him as well in his defense because He's one of

460
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Speaker 2: those guys that could be a game wrecker as well

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Speaker 2: if you give them a chance.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, personnel is not lacking with the Pittsburgh Steelers, like

463
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Speaker 1: they got They got a really talented team. And and

464
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Speaker 1: here's the other thing that we know is that they're

465
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Speaker 1: going to travel well. Pittsburgh always travels well. There it's

466
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be loud at times when Atlanta is on offense.

467
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Speaker 1: And that's just how it is. That's just the nature

468
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Speaker 1: of the way that the Pittsburgh Steelers travel. And we

469
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Speaker 1: all know that. Guys, we've been in in whether it

470
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Speaker 1: was the George Dome or you know you we didn't

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Speaker 1: play Mercedes Been Stadium, but like we know, we've played

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Speaker 1: them before and they travel extremely well. Let's talk Let's

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Speaker 1: flip it around. Let's talk about their offense against our defense,

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Speaker 1: because I don't want to make this all about the

475
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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons offense. Yes, they're going to have two new quarterbacks,

476
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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's going to start. They also have justin fields

477
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Speaker 1: as well. You mentioned George Pickens. Uh, you got a

478
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Speaker 1: little bit of background with you. You and by the way,

479
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Speaker 1: i'd have made a comment about you. You made you

480
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Speaker 1: made this comment earlier about going up against your former teammates. Okay,

481
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Speaker 1: not everybody goes and puts ten guys in the NFL

482
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Speaker 1: from their college every year. DJ, Like Iowa State in

483
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Speaker 1: Minnesota might get two or three guys every year, okay,

484
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Speaker 1: and it might take like seven years to play agent

485
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Speaker 1: or former teammates. It's not like every game you're gonna

486
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Speaker 1: play against eight Georgia Bulldogs.

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Speaker 2: My man as always, everybody's got plays, all right, So

488
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Speaker 2: DJ is true, because what are.

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Speaker 1: The challenges that this Falcons defense are gonna see when

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh is on offense?

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Speaker 2: You know, I think the number one thing that comes

492
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Speaker 2: to mind for me, even though he's not at the

493
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Speaker 2: level that he was years ago, but his ability to

494
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Speaker 2: create and make extra plays in Russell Wilson, and I

495
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Speaker 2: think that's part of the game that's gonna be a

496
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Speaker 2: big part of it is Russell. Yeah, he's gonna throw

497
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Speaker 2: it around a little bit, but he also wants to

498
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Speaker 2: improvise a little bit. He wants to get outside the

499
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Speaker 2: pocket little but he wants to, you know, climb the pocket,

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Speaker 2: get outside and make that extra second or third play

501
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Speaker 2: on the outside. I think we have to do a

502
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Speaker 2: very good job. For one, what we say plastering on

503
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Speaker 2: the back end. Don't just because he's scrambling you get

504
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Speaker 2: off your receiver. I think that's a big part of

505
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Speaker 2: the ball game, is him being able to be mobile

506
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Speaker 2: and move and use his legs. And I think obviously

507
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Speaker 2: we've known Arthur Smith's and we know the type of

508
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Speaker 2: quarterbacks he's had over the years where he wants guys

509
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Speaker 2: to move. Ever since you know Mariota and Dez and

510
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Speaker 2: having guys that can you know, use the naked bootleg

511
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Speaker 2: game and get on the outside, to use the perimeter

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Speaker 2: as a as another guy on the edge. I think

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Speaker 2: that's part of the game as well as limiting and

514
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Speaker 2: Russell Wilson in those extra plays when he starts to

515
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Speaker 2: get outside the pocket, because that's when you think about, hey,

516
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Speaker 2: it's third and seven and here he goes, you get

517
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Speaker 2: a good pass for us, you force him out, and

518
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Speaker 2: then he gets outside the pocket, he either runs or

519
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Speaker 2: he finds a guy and to keep the drive going.

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Speaker 2: Those are the plays I think that you kind of

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Speaker 2: think about in a ball and like, okay, well we

522
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Speaker 2: should have got out the field there, but it leads

523
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Speaker 2: to a field goal or it leads to extra points.

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Speaker 2: Those are plays in the game that I'll be looking

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Speaker 2: for that hopefully we can kind of withstand and not

526
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Speaker 2: allowed to have four or five six plays of that

527
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Speaker 2: nature throughout a game.

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Speaker 1: I mean, gotta be opportunistic on defense, because the one

529
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Speaker 1: thing that we know about Russ is there's not a

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Speaker 1: throw that he doesn't think he can make and he's

531
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Speaker 1: gonna take. He's gonna cut it loose like that's love

532
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Speaker 1: him or hate him. That's one of the things he does.

533
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Speaker 1: He's gonna take the shot down the field. He's going

534
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Speaker 1: to take the go route down the seam, he's going

535
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Speaker 1: to take the skinny post. He's going to try to

536
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Speaker 1: make the big play. But when he makes it, when

537
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Speaker 1: he makes that throw, and it's not necessarily online, you

538
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Speaker 1: got to be there to make a play. But what

539
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Speaker 1: else sticks out to you arch from their offense that

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Speaker 1: may present some issues.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's interesting too, the conversation with Russell Wilson that

542
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Speaker 3: he you know, he got benched at the end of

543
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Speaker 3: the year in Denver for whatever money reason.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what it was.

545
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Speaker 3: But the guy had twenty six touchdowns and only eight

546
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Speaker 3: picks last year. Yeah, he was right around three thousand

547
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Speaker 3: yards passing with a couple of games left, So it's

548
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Speaker 3: like he was playing really bad, and the year before

549
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Speaker 3: he struggled, but under the under that regime, but with

550
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Speaker 3: with Sean Payton there he played pretty good. So it's

551
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Speaker 3: not like we've got a guy that's coming in. It's

552
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Speaker 3: just damage material that's take it over at quarterback. This

553
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Speaker 3: guy is a legitimate Super Bowl winning quarterback. Probably should

554
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Speaker 3: have two in his pocket had they been able to

555
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Speaker 3: convert that throw on the.

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Speaker 1: Goal when he was in Seattle.

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Speaker 3: All that being said, obviously, Arthur Smith wants to run

558
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Speaker 3: to football and Najia Harris a big back and run

559
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Speaker 3: the ball. He and Jalen Warren, who is kind of

560
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 3: an unsung hero and kind of a gem that maybe

561
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Speaker 3: only people are starting to find out about, had one

562
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Speaker 3: year at Oklahoma State, played his first couple of years

563
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Speaker 3: at Utah State, and kind of burst on the scene

564
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Speaker 3: last year when Najia Harris was down a little bit,

565
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Speaker 3: Jalen Warren was in the game. These two guys rushed

566
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Speaker 3: for sixteen hundred yards and ten touchdowns combined a year ago.

567
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Speaker 3: Jalen's a good receiver, raut of the backfield it has

568
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Speaker 3: his Najie Smith or Naji Harris, so look for that

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Speaker 3: piece to still stay in the mix. Now, this offensive

570
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Speaker 3: line is going to be interesting to see how they

571
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Speaker 3: figured this out. Zach Fraser was a second round draft

572
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Speaker 3: pick out of West Virginia, two time All American. He's

573
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Speaker 3: a good player. He's a rookie center. Okay, it looks

574
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Speaker 3: like Sayamalu, their left tack or left guard is going

575
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Speaker 3: to be out of the game. He has a peck injury,

576
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Speaker 3: and so they're going to start potentially Spencer Anderson, who

577
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Speaker 3: has limited number of snaps in the National Football League,

578
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Speaker 3: played all the way to the all across the offensive

579
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Speaker 3: line at Maryland, did not play left guard. That's where

580
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Speaker 3: it looks like he's gonna play. Now he play. He's

581
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Speaker 3: filled in at left guard during training camp, so he's

582
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 3: gotten some reps, but that's not necessarily you know, he's

583
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Speaker 3: got a background for him. Right then you've got youngsters

584
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Speaker 3: like Fontu, the kid from Washington. He's been banged up.

585
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Speaker 3: He's at a knee. They don't know if he's gonna start.

586
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Speaker 3: They don't know if they want to start two rookies

587
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Speaker 3: on the offensive line. So there's a lot of flux

588
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Speaker 3: going on with Pittsburgh's offensive line. Why I am saying

589
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Speaker 3: that to me, it's early blood in the water. If

590
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Speaker 3: i'm defensively, I'm gonna try to attack that. I'm gonna

591
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Speaker 3: try to say, Okay, hey, we're gonna overwhelm you big crowd,

592
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Speaker 3: everybody being loud, my guys, Judon's coming off the ball,

593
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Speaker 3: Grady's coming off the ball. Let's go get him, Let's

594
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Speaker 3: attack him, and let's overwhelm, overwhelm. I sense that that

595
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Speaker 3: might be in the mix here. And don't let George

596
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Speaker 3: Pickens make a big play.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, because he's got the ability to do that.

598
00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 1: He is a big time playmaker and he can make

599
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Speaker 1: you pay if you if you let your guard down.

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Speaker 1: Before we wrap up, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: have you, guys give me something that you are most

602
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Speaker 1: interested interested in seeing this week. And it could be

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Speaker 1: a play, it could be player, it could be a matchup.

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Speaker 1: But DJ, here's the rule. Okay, you got to stick

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Speaker 1: to my rules. Both you guts words or less on

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Speaker 1: what you're looking to see, ten words or less. If

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Speaker 1: you go past ten words, you're gonna get that.

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Speaker 2: All right, I think I'm good. I'm good. Let's go.

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Speaker 2: I'll asking a question.

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Speaker 1: You're out of words, all right?

611
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Speaker 2: Go? Mine is I want to see how a healthy

612
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Speaker 2: cowpits is used in this offense?

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Speaker 1: Nice? Okay, that's a good one. That's good.

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Speaker 3: We got it, healthy cowpits in this offense. Arch blocking

615
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Speaker 3: the front seven of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 1: Love it mine defensive line line of scrimmage, Matthew Judoon, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I like it. Okay, you got you got seven? Okay,

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Speaker 1: see nice, that was very that was very economic by

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Speaker 1: I think. All right, that's gonna wrap it up with

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Speaker 1: the Falcons at presented by AT and T one PM

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Speaker 1: this Sunday, Mercedes been Stadium, Pittsburgh Steelers will be in town. There,

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Speaker 1: well you be there because all three of us will

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Speaker 1: be there. Get in the house. This weekend is the

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons kick off the twenty twenty four NFL season.

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Speaker 1: You know what we need to do, start fast. Let's

626
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Speaker 1: get on a board right away. Let's find a way

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Speaker 1: to get some stops on defense, and let's come away

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Speaker 1: with a victory and start this thing one and oh

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us. I'm rack. That's Arch

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Speaker 1: that shock. We'll be back next week to wrap everything

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Speaker 1: up from Week one of the NFL season. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining us. Everybody, blow the roof open, baby,