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Speaker 1: You are listening to Falcon's audible podcast. I'm Matt Tebeek.

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Speaker 1: Joining me today is Falcon's general manager Thomas Mitschroff and

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Speaker 1: head coach Dan Quinn. Gentlemen, thanks so much for being here.

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Speaker 1: I know it's a busy weekend, but thanks for joining

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Speaker 1: us to good to be on with you always good.

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Speaker 1: All right, So before we get into roster cutdowns and

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Speaker 1: everything happening today and today's not over yet, there's still

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Speaker 1: a waiver claim period and then you're putting together the

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Speaker 1: practice squad too, right, practice squad. Yeah, we're waiting to

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Speaker 1: find out who will be claimed. We have our list

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Speaker 1: right now, not only have our own guys but guys

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Speaker 1: out in the in the world that we're looking at

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Speaker 1: as well. So it's a it's a busy time right now,

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Speaker 1: but we'll know within the next hour and a half.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, everyone thinks the final roster set, but it's

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Speaker 1: really not. It's a very fluid thing heading into week one, correct, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for sure it is, and there's lots of factors that

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Speaker 1: go into that. From a veteran side of things, practice squad,

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Speaker 1: who's developed thing, and yes, definitely fluid, you know, certainly

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Speaker 1: through the first, you know, a couple of weeks of

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Speaker 1: the season, all right, so before we get into this

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Speaker 1: year's team, um too much and everything that's gone down.

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Speaker 1: The last time I sat with you three, or the

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Speaker 1: three of us sat down you two m was late

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Speaker 1: February and that was the last time. Yeah, geez, and

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Speaker 1: a lot has happened, you guys, Each of you, Thomas

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Speaker 1: and coach you, both of you guys had like your

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Speaker 1: boxes you wanted to check off. Now, for casual fans listening,

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Speaker 1: this was before free agency, This was before the combine,

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Speaker 1: the draft, mini camps, OTA's preseason. Thomas, I know that

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Speaker 1: you talked about specifically building this team, having a mix

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Speaker 1: of youth and veterans, and the other thing you talked

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Speaker 1: about was finding those those guys that for ant of

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Speaker 1: the foxhole type guys, right right. I mean, look, that

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Speaker 1: was really important for us, and I keep coming back

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Speaker 1: to the fact that we have, you know, Dan's approach

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Speaker 1: really open to developing those young guys. You get that

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Speaker 1: fire and passion with that group. Of course, Dan sets

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Speaker 1: the tone at that not only on the offense, but

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Speaker 1: on the entire team and then you get our coaching

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Speaker 1: staff a fall in line, and the players believe it

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Speaker 1: and they feel it. It's really interesting when we release

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Speaker 1: the players. Unfortunately, that's going to happen. I swear to

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Speaker 1: a t I continue to say this. These guys want

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Speaker 1: to come back here because it's such a special situation

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Speaker 1: for them to be around that energy that Q brings

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Speaker 1: with his staff, and they believe that they can continue

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Speaker 1: to get better. But not only that, but they'll play

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Speaker 1: if they're good. They will play on this team. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter if they've been here one day or ten years.

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Speaker 1: And when I think of everything that you've got to

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Speaker 1: do on top of that, the one word that comes

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Speaker 1: to mind is balanced. You talk about youth and experience,

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Speaker 1: but also the salary cap. A lot of people didn't

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Speaker 1: think that we would the Falcons would be would be

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Speaker 1: able to bring back guys like Grady Jared and Dion Jones.

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Speaker 1: And this is on top of Matt Ryan getting an extension,

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Speaker 1: now you've agreed to terms with Matt Bryant. That's a

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Speaker 1: lot of balancing that that's, you know, job well done.

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Speaker 1: I think This is a good lesson for everyone and

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Speaker 1: ourselves included, because you can get caught up thinking that you're,

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Speaker 1: you know, so narrow with your approach and then you

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Speaker 1: realize that with CAP creativity, and I believe we've we've

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Speaker 1: done a really good job within this organization. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I've worked closely with Nick Poke on it, of course,

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Speaker 1: dialed in on it. They continue to provide the right

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Speaker 1: information for, you know, for Dan and I to make

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Speaker 1: the decisions on these and they're big, they're big decisions,

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Speaker 1: and there's a lot that goes into it. But I

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Speaker 1: will agree with you at the beginning of all that

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Speaker 1: et cetera, and coach you talked about just to rewind

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Speaker 1: then you've also had some balancing too with your head

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Speaker 1: finding players. And so how is so for each of you?

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Speaker 1: Have you you, guys feel like at this point, I

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Speaker 1: Tubek podcast. There is no such thing as casual. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: one word that I think you could put in that

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Speaker 1: word nasty. Yeah, and that was you know, we had

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Speaker 1: been an excellent offseason. Having Freeman back has been a

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Speaker 1: But I would say we got nastier and we've gotten closer.

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Speaker 1: Numbers wise, just looking at the roster, pretty consistent with

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Speaker 1: it was just unbelievable because there was so much talk

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Speaker 1: I played a little word phrase association with these guys. So,

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Speaker 1: Oh excellent. Yeah, I thought that was a good answer.

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Speaker 1: I like it, guys. I know that you're working hard

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Well, to the to the big army out there,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate it. And it's always fun being on with you. Man.

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Speaker 1: You always got good perspective on the team and the

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Speaker 1: rocking with you and with them. Yeah, we can't either.

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Speaker 1: We're we're I've been here three years. This is this

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Speaker 1: But yeah, thank you that the kind words and go

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