WEBVTT - Ep. 26: A Turning Point Game Ahead | Jags A.M. Podcast 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:04.160 Jaguars are heading to London for two consecutive games. You guys, 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:06.520 what are your concerns about this team going abroad right now? 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:08.600 I have not. You know, this is a group that's 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:10.760 been over there, you know, from a player's perspective, and 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:12.760 the travel logistics team has done this for a couple 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.520 of years together, so I think they've got this one nailed. 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:17.799 Yeah. I have no concerns about the trip. I have 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:20.120 concerned it's about the game. I wanted to get a. 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:40.280 Lad Welcome to JAG's am presented by Field's Auto Group. 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:44.240 It's Thursday, It's travel Thursday. We're headed to London later 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:46.680 on today, and I know they got everything in down 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.000 pat but still gonna be a change of scenery. Some 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:50.479 of the players talked about it. We're gonna get to 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:52.599 that in big things. You guys, it's old hat for you. 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:54.280 So are you excited to go for the week this 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.200 time or you just kind of excited to see what 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:56.800 the team comes up? 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:56.920 Oh? 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:58.680 Yeah, no, I am. I mean I enjoyed. We went 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.240 over there in twenty fourteen and spent the week, and 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:05.800 I enjoyed it. Enjoyed being around our team right and 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.520 spending time in London a little bit here and there. 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:12.040 I enjoyed the changes Therey two. It's a nice perk. 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.680 Yeah, I mean I was for home but Mary out. 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.399 But within the context of this, it is nice to 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.760 get over there. For us. You get a couple of 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.039 days we actually see it, and I think for the team, 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.399 which is what people care about, I think it does 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.959 help that second week. I think getting into a routine 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:36.720 over there will feel more like a home game than 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.640 maybe the home game, which is the first game, which 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:40.800 is the second game, which. 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:44.240 Is you know, one other thing you know over the 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:46.760 ten years now, because the tenth game will be played 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.400 while we're over there. They've built that Union Jack's Club 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.680 up and you see familiar faces. You see them at 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.240 the pub with the party, you see them out and about, 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.560 you see them at the stadium. You know, kind of 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.000 like when you come in here. It's nice. It feels 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.880 like home away from home for the franchise. 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.160 Some familiar faces in the UK. 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.080 Let's get to our big things this week as we 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.280 head over to England. Our first thing is big picture 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:12.720 things not looking great right now, especially the last two weeks. 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.440 This team has not performed, but they're only three games 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.679 into the season. There's still fourteen more games, and dun 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:21.960 Peterson is focusing on figuring things out quickly before things 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:22.440 get worse. 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:25.440 It's not how we start, it's going to be how 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.920 we finish, you know, the season. And you know, yeah, 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:32.720 we we're making mistakes. It's not like you know, teams 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.280 have really done much, you know, to us as far 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:38.120 as beating us. Where we were beating ourselves, you know, 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.360 and that's usually the case. And you know, once we 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.920 figure out and a lot like last year, we were 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:46.200 kind of beating ourselves. And once we figure out how 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.600 to you know, kind of get out of our own way, 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.760 take care of the football, tackle better, all those types 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.560 of things, then things begin to go in your favor. 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.919 Yes, you need to focus on big picture, but Brian, 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:58.880 they also need to get better right now, because if 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:00.160 you dig yourself into a big of a hole, you're 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:00.680 not gonna be able. 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:01.080 To get out of it. 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.400 Well, John said he wants to see them get a lead, right. 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.000 I mean talking to these guys, none of them on 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.840 camera want to admit that there's a confidence issue at 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.000 this point that they're uh, oh, what's going to go 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.840 wrong next? But you do get that sense talking to 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:15.680 them that there is some of that going on, and 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.840 so for them to get a lead and to feel 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.880 like the team that they believe they are supposed to 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.079 be coming into the season would be really important. And 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:25.600 I don't want to be dug right now and having 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:27.640 to try to come up with another thing to say 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.320 or another psychological tact to get these guys to believe 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:32.239 in themselves again. 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.680 It's such a strange dynamic. This was a team last 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:40.440 year that thrived on the comeback, I mean, and right 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:45.320 now it feels like they're a team that you hate 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.160 to say it, because they almost came back against Houston, 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.120 then you have the weird play. So I don't know 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.880 if they've lost their confidence, but they do feel like 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:55.160 a team right now that I'm interested to see on 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.640 Sunday how they respond to that first moment of adversity, 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:02.440 because they have not necessarily responded great in the last 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:06.520 two weeks to situations. You'd love to see them get 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:11.040 back to that. How fast has it changed against the Colts? 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.480 Didn't you feel the whole game they were gonna pull 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:13.720 it out? 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:14.000 Yes? 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:15.640 Yes, in two weeks time. 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.800 And in eight days from the five minutes for the 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.120 Chiefs game, to five minutes after the Texans, all of 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.800 a sudden, that sort of goes away. Guess what, Bryan's 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:25.360 a week to week league. It's true. 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.280 It's remarkable, it really is, especially when you put in 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:32.000 the perspective of a team that last year loved these situations. 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.360 It's hard to put your finger on exactly what what 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:39.480 caused it, right, but right away you know what will 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:40.960 fix it, and that is some success. 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.240 And I don't think it's press clippings. No, I don't 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.039 think I think it and I don't understand they're not 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:47.960 reading them, and that's a good way to get into 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.880 the subject for Doug. But I think it's expectations. You know, 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:56.000 last year they've played with house money except for the 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.960 last game of the season where people expect them to 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.560 beat the Titans, and what happened And I was lost 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:03.400 the Tiger like it was tight. 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:05.760 Joshua Dobbs Titans not Tanne Hills. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:12.200 Yeah. So at some point this team needs to get 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:16.480 a good w as the team that people expect them 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:18.599 to and then they say, okay, we can play this way. 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:22.200 Fascinating game and they Sunday. 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.920 On those fronts, it's certainly going to be interesting, big 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.680 thing number two London isn't calling. We've heard a lot 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:29.320 about the change of scenery what that can do for 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.839 a team, but Doug Peterson addressed the fact that, yeah, 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:33.919 change of scenery is fine, but it depends on the 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:35.440 focus of the team. 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.840 I've got to trust the players, you know, and you know, 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:41.360 they've got to do the right thing. They've got to 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.359 be in the right frame of mind, and and I 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:45.200 have to put it back on them, you know, to 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.200 make the right right decisions and right choices. 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:48.719 And you know, by. 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:54.960 By keeping by keeping the schedule and the routine the same, 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:57.120 they can give them the same sort of. 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:01.840 You know, the same habits they have here. 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.280 They love Doug Peterson powering through the fire alarm going 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.039 off and building yesterday. But what he says is true. Yeah, 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:10.680 change of scenery is nice and lovely, but this is 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:11.600 about them playing. 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.040 Football and doing it in the. 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.000 Game as well, because at practice at this point, we 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:16.560 don't even know if you can take much from it. 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:18.040 It's more about what they're actually going to be able 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.120 to execute. John, do you feel like that's true at 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:21.800 this point? Can you hear much or see much at 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:22.640 practice at this point? 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.560 I'm not sure you can see much in practice. I'm 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:29.279 not sure you can see during the press conferences. It's 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:32.839 become a very hard game to analyze this Sunday's game 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.880 because we've talked through the issues so much. We know 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.000 that their issue has been not scoring in the red zone. 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.039 We know it's been they can move the ball and 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.720 then right when those moments hit. So I don't know 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:47.400 how you know anything about this team until you get 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.240 to third and six on Sunday at the twenty five 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.280 yard line and see if they can punch it in 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:56.880 until they get behind. This team was great in those 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:02.039 situations for the last eight games last year. Clicking you 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.919 get the idea that if it could click once, it 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:09.240 would keep click and all of a sudden, oh, you know, but. 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:11.000 Firing a little cylinders. 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.480 That hasn't happened yet. And again I keep saying, it's 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.040 a fascinating game, one of the more interesting games since 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.760 I've been covering the Jag Because you feel like they're good, 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:21.600 you feel like they have a chance to be good. 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.720 There's gonna be some moments on Sunday where you feel like, 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:28.120 if they don't get this, if this goes the other way, 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.000 you wonder if you wonder what it's going to do. 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.000 Their confidence. It's a turning point game. It's not must win, 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:37.640 but boy, it's, as I said, winning, woinden't stink. 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.560 I spent some time yesterday in the locker room talking Andrancisco, 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.440 and he said, they're talking to each other right, not 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.440 in a negative way. They are talking in a realistic 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.840 way about how to approach this. They're being honest with 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.920 each other. He used the word transparent. They're all talking 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.320 about where they are and what they're thinking so that 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.640 together they can get through this. I get this this 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.320 week when things go bad, at least on the defensive 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:04.600 side of the ball, because that's where I spent a 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:06.720 lot of my attention yesterday in the locker room. They're 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.000 ready for it. They are ready to put their hand 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.200 in the ground or to leap his eyes as they 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.560 can and knock a pass away. They're not gonna let 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.559 a bad player, adversity get them off track. 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:20.880 And one piece of hoke, I'm gonna give you some hope. 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.880 That sounds well, you're gonna give it means more coming 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:28.280 from you, obviously, but not a hopeful guy. 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:33.520 They when Doug kind of put a foot in their 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:37.520 butt on Sunday. They came out and they played really 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.480 well with a lot of energy in the first part 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.520 of that third quarter and looked like the team you 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.000 expected it to be. And then you had a weird 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.880 play go against him. So maybe that's what it took 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.560 and maybe what we saw early in that third quarter, 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.280 because my guess is the foot span and the butt 0:08:55.320 --> 0:09:00.000 all week. So I I gotta believe they come out 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.960 with their hair on fire on Sunday, and maybe that's 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:07.120 what we'll see. They had dug such a hole on 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.440 Sunday that one little bad thing went against him, as like, okay, here. 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.400 We go again. So maybe that's the ray of your 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:17.440 hope was good coming from you. It's a little brighter 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.640 because well, you know, things are never bright exactly. That's 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:22.400 why I say hope comes for him. It means a 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.520 little bit more. I will say this. I've been talking 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.840 about Doug at press conference. I've been watching body language. 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.160 I thought yesterday he was himself for the first time 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.960 since before the Colts game. I thought, that's Doug Peterson. 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.040 You know, his energy level was where it needed to be. 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.240 He was, you know, witty and popped up. You know, 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.640 at the end of that side about dum about bedcheck 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:41.200 and all of that kind of stuff, because don't forget 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.560 there's been some incidents in London through the years with 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.079 some of the fellas getting out and about Doug's not 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:47.000 gonna have any of that. 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:47.440 Of course not. 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.360 We're gonna go to our third big thing quickly. Third 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:54.080 things first, this team has struggled mightily on third down 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.360 so far this season. They're ranked I think twenty ninth 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.640 in the league. Trevor Lawrence talked about that issue yesterday. 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.440 Just keep playing free, played like it's a normal down, 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.319 like nothing's different. You know it's third down, but this 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.760 shouldn't change anything. And I think that's kind of emphasis too, 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:12.199 and for all of us to just go play. 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:13.760 You can play like it's any other down. But I 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:15.439 would like to see them convert a little bit more. 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.160 And you have to get those percentages up, Brian. If 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.000 you want to be among the best of the best. 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:20.520 You got to stay on the field. You know. It 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:22.840 made me last week when they failed on first down, 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:24.559 right when there was new completion on first Down'm like, 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.640 oh boy, now you got second to ten. You better 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.680 get something done here. The failures on third down have 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.199 bled back to first down, and if you don't get 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.080 six yards on first down, you're thinking, man, are we 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:35.640 gonna be able to convert and stay on the field 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:40.400 right third down? Just it's got to be near forty 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.320 five to fifty percent if you want to go offensively 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:44.280 where you think you can. 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.679 That dynamic you talked about, it sort of feels like 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:50.000 that's where they are. Every little failure. Okay, we got 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.040 two yards on first down. Now we're in trouble. Right now. 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.840 It feels like that's what the team's going through. And 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.800 I even asked Trevor, how do you He said it 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:00.000 was a good question, by the way, to hear that. 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:00.920 I did hear that, yea. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:06.679 I said, thank you, Trevor. You hope that they can 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.040 find that balance, because that's what I was asking, was, 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:12.160 you know you're talking about urgency all week and then 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.000 you want to go out and play relaxed. I thought 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.600 he gave a great answer of you feel the urgency 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.880 and you feel the focus all week so that you 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:23.439 can not have to think on Sunday. They stuff to 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.760 think on Sunday at some point though, So again a 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:31.520 fascinating balance of how you find that calmness, that zen, 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.360 whatever it is, and I kind of tailed off the 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.240 question when I asked him, but I guess that's what 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:40.480 they always go through. Yeah, that's what professional athletics is, 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.240 is knowing that your job's on the line and still 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.720 being able to relax and have fun. It just feels 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:50.839 like particularly focused on that concept this week, and again 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:52.480 I can't wait to watch it on Sunday. 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.199 Done gets through this and gets this team firing. He's 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:56.640 got a careers, some motivational speaking. 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.679 Oh my goodness, he's already got book deals. He's already 0:11:58.679 --> 0:11:59.959 got one book. He can get ten more. 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:01.679 All right, stay with us. We're gonna hear from our 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.480 Falcons insiders. We look ahead to this weekend's game against Atlanta. 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.120 Come welcome back into jags am. On this Thursday, we 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:12.320 get ready to go to the UK, So we're gonna 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:16.280 check in with our Falcons insider. Tory mclhaney is joining 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:18.600 us today because we're gonna talk a little bit about 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.079 the Falcons and the opponent that we're going up against, 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.120 because this is gonna be a good one. Tory, did 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.960 you pack already? Are you a late last second packer? 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.360 I just finished packing and we leave this afternoon, so 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:31.280 I'm proud of you. 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:32.000 You have her take. 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.520 I was gonna say, I already realized I forgot my toothbrush, 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.200 so I'm gonna have to make a run really quickly. 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:40.000 But we make this trip pretty frequently. What's the preparation 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:41.840 been like for the Falcons this week getting ready to go? 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.720 Well, we don't go to London as much as you 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.280 guys do, but we have been in the last two years. 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.880 We went in twenty twenty one, and so I think 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:52.680 it's just kind of following a lot of the similar 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.840 processes that I set up at that point. Now with 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.760 a new team, with a bunch of new guys who 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:02.400 weren't on this team, who were kind of making this 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:04.880 trip forever, either the first or second time. So there's 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:06.000 a little bit of everything going on. 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:08.679 You guys were often a really hot start, kind of 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.800 ran into the Lions dead on last week. Where's the 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:13.679 team at? Where's the mentality at? 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.520 Yeah, So I actually think it's pretty similar to probably 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.560 where y'all are. They're coming off of a loss that 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.360 they wanted to be better, They wanted to play better 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:26.200 against Detroit and they didn't, and they were shut out offensively, 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.560 and so there's almost a sense of redemption I think 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.400 on the line in London for this Atlanta Falcons team, 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.880 where they want to go out and show that the 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:35.720 first two games and what they were able to do 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:39.480 there wasn't a fluke and that the Detroit game was tory. 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.800 So much of the attention when it comes to the 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.559 Falcons is on Kyle Pitch, Bjeon Robertson, Drake London. Right, 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.200 not enough people know outside of Atlanta and maybe the 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.160 NFC South that much about Desmond Ritter. So give us 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.080 a sense of where he is in year number two 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.400 and you know where his confidence level is as a 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.120 starting quarterback of this team. 0:13:58.600 --> 0:13:58.880 Yeah. 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:02.200 So I think with Desney Rider, he is as comfortable 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.640 and confident in the scheme as we've seen him. And 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.440 I think even after the loss, I think it was 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:12.040 still on some plays you see that he is really 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.240 understanding what Arthur Smith is asking of him. And I 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.880 think that that's what's gonna take time, is all of 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:21.280 these pieces working together. You talk about Kyle Pitch, Drake 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.520 Blend and John Robinson, Tyler, algebr Husband Ritter. These are 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.160 all guys playing together for the very first time, and 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.000 so there are some kings to work out, as we 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.520 saw against Detroit, But this is an offense that has 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:35.040 a lot of potential. It's just about finding ways to 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:36.600 get into a rhythm early. 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:44.160 Tory appreciate you doing this. What the concept of Arthur 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.440 Smith as a coordinator and as a play caller always 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:50.040 fascinates me because he's willing to run his way back 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.160 into games if he's down. There's that heavy commitment to 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.520 the run that he had in Tennessee and I sense 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.400 that with the Falcons. Do teams have a tough time 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:02.520 defending them because of that because his philosophy is so 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:04.280 much different in some situations? 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:05.920 Yeah, I think so. 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.880 I think what Detroit did well though, is that they 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.920 completely took away the run very early, and the Falcons 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.560 were in a lot of long first and second or 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.440 second and third downs, and so they're kind of working 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:18.960 behind the chains, and when you do that, you're in 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.480 obvious passing down situations, and I think that's where the 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.000 Falcons kind of got off kilter. But when the run 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:27.320 game is going, as we've seen even last year and 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.520 bleeding into this year, the Falcons can do some really 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:35.680 dangerous things. With Jean Robinson, Tyler Algier and potentially Corderrell Patterson, 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.800 who may or may not have his twenty twenty three 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.760 debut in London. We're still kind of waiting on that tory. 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:43.280 One more question before we get you out of here. 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.440 At the defense, you guys have so many new starters 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.680 this year, a familiar face to us, Kalays Campbell of 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.520 course joining you guys, and you guys have really committed 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.880 to that and played probably a lot better than maybe expectations. 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:55.680 Have you been impressed what you've seen on the defensive 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:56.520 side of the ball so far. 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:58.080 I really have been. 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.880 You can really feel the money that was pumped into 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:05.320 this defense with guys like Jesse Bates and Kalayis Campbell, 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.880 but Dupre, David An Yamada, Cayden Ellis. I mean that 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:12.240 could go on and on, Jeff Akuda, who is working 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:16.320 his way back into this starting lineup. So for this defense, 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.440 they are kind of firing on all cylinders right now, 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:22.000 even though they have some moments where you know, there's 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.520 some explosives giving up. But for the most part, this 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.640 is a defense that really turns it on, I think 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:30.120 when it matters most, and that's something that over the 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.000 first three games of the season that has been very 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.560 evident to me that they get better as the game 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:35.960 goes on. 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:37.360 Very good. 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:38.880 Should be a good one, Tory. We'll see you at 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:40.960 Wembley on Sunday. Thanks for joining us. 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.920 Awesome, Thanks you guys. All right, stay with us. 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.920 We'll preview our matchup coming up this week against the Falcons. 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.160 Will do he will? He won't? He might seefter the break. 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.400 I don't know all the characters necessarily and all that, 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:03.920 but I definitely I've watched all of them. Character it'll 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:05.680 be cool, it'll be interested, it'll be cool for the kids. 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.159 I think, you know, if I was a kid and 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:10.159 they did that for a football game, it'd be definitely 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.879 entertaining something i'd want to watch. But yeah, I don't know. 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:13.800 Do you guys know what. 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:15.560 Character I'm supposed to be? Are they have? 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:20.280 They said that it's just me. Okay, just in Andy's room, tryer. 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.760 Lawren's talking about that toy story broadcast that they're going 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.960 to do between the Falcons and the Jaguars. We talked 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:27.800 a little bit about. I'm not just entirely sure how 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:29.919 it works. I'd imagine if I have no idea how 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:31.560 it was, I'm very intrigued to see what it looks like. 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.480 I'm a fan of it. Anybody you can get more involved, 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:36.200 kids involved, whatever you have to do. I like the 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.680 Nickelodeon games. I think that's kind of silly. My nephews 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:41.440 really like that, so more power to them. Have fun 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:41.719 with it. 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.120 Yeah, you got to capture the young audience. And it's 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.320 not like you're going to keep watching the NFL on 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:50.440 that right medium to get older. But if it gets 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:55.640 kids fried up about it and they get interested, you know, hey, hey, 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:57.720 maybe Taylor Swift will do the same thing. 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.440 Oh gosh, we can't do that. We don't have time. 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:01.359 Oh yeah, I'm. 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:02.160 Swifty all the way. 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.280 I think I canve Nahim one song. The interesting part 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:10.119 is is that you know, with phones and with the 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.960 Internet and everything, the kids can be distracted away from 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.920 the NFL, especially if their team isn't any good, right, 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:18.320 if the team that their parents follow isn't a good team. 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.840 So this is an interesting it's an innovative way to 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:25.160 capture that young audience and get them on football. 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:25.720 I love it. 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:27.840