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Speaker 1: which will beat the Los Angeles Chargers. First question to

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Speaker 1: Let me start with you, what did you do? What

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Speaker 3: I think for most guys it's an opportunity to get

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Speaker 1: Cand of make a confession to you guys, I don't

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked so much about third down kind of

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Speaker 2: You know how tough that is, right shack and then

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to stay with you quickly. I mean

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Speaker 3: It is an I guess see, you start with Herbert

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Speaker 3: be a little bit higher. You got to worry about him.

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Speaker 3: And then obviously my guy from Georgia and Ladd is

436
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Speaker 3: leading their team's they you know, went up in the

437
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Speaker 3: draft to go get him. He's leading him in targets

438
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Speaker 3: and yards and receptions. Just seems like the reliable guy

439
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Speaker 3: that Herbert looks for, especially on that money down we

440
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Speaker 3: talked about on third down, one of the key cogs

441
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Speaker 3: for him on the outside just as a rookie. And

442
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Speaker 3: Disleek the tight ends not a bad player as well either.

443
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Speaker 3: So this is an offense that absolutely is going to

444
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Speaker 3: push the envelope. You talk about, you know a team

445
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Speaker 3: last couple of weeks to team scoring. This is a

446
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Speaker 3: team that's want to They're gonna push the ball vertically.

447
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Speaker 3: They got a quarterback who can move, we can throw

448
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Speaker 3: it around. This will be a tough test for our defense.

449
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Speaker 3: It's a good test coming out of the break. And

450
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Speaker 3: this is a playoff team. They're right in the middle

451
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Speaker 3: of it just like we are. So every single game

452
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Speaker 3: matters for them, every single game matter for us. But

453
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Speaker 3: the good thing about it is, like we mentioned, they

454
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Speaker 3: played on Monday night. It's gonna be a shorter week

455
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Speaker 3: for them, and they got they gotta travel across the

456
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Speaker 3: country to Atlanta, So you're hoping coming in that maybe

457
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Speaker 3: they have some heavy legs.

458
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Speaker 1: Coming in here.

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Speaker 3: But this is an offensive unit that definitely will get

460
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Speaker 3: the attention of this entire staff and team because they

461
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Speaker 3: played some good football so far and they just ran

462
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Speaker 3: into a team last night that's cooking on all ciilers

463
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Speaker 3: right now.

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Speaker 1: To Baltimore Ravens defensively, not to Pigeonhole youth, that's where

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Speaker 1: you wanted to go. But they've got some pretty good

466
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Speaker 1: names over on that side of the ball when you

467
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Speaker 1: look at Khalil, Mack and Mosa, and they got a

468
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Speaker 1: former Falcons about Dupree playing over there on that side

469
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Speaker 1: of the ball as well. But again, this could be

470
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Speaker 1: offense or defense arts. But what's the out to you

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Speaker 1: that maybe could be the biggest challenge for Atlanta when

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Speaker 1: they're going up against the Chargers.

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Speaker 2: Well, you talked about trends with our defense, and certainly

474
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Speaker 2: the four for four in the red zone that Denver

475
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Speaker 2: had against Atlanta skews those numbers and puts the numbers

476
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Speaker 2: where you were talking about twenty nine points per game,

477
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Speaker 2: obviously giving up what was it, thirty thirty eight points

478
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Speaker 2: to the Denver team. That's what's going on with their defense.

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Speaker 2: If you look at their defense, in the first eight

480
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Speaker 2: weeks or ten weeks of the season, they were given

481
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Speaker 2: up about thirteen points per game. The last two weeks

482
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Speaker 2: they've been given up. They've given up twenty nine points

483
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Speaker 2: per game defensively in their last two games. So they're

484
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Speaker 2: trending in the wrong direction defensively as well. This is

485
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Speaker 2: the number seven or number ten defense total defense in

486
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Speaker 2: the league. You mentioned they were the number one scoring defense.

487
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Speaker 2: They're sixth and sacks. So this is a team that

488
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Speaker 2: can get after you, and it's multiple guys. It's not

489
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Speaker 2: just one guy. There's a number of guys getting after

490
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Speaker 2: the passer, which is always dangerous. If you've got one sack,

491
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Speaker 2: then you got a way to chip him or get

492
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Speaker 2: on him. But they've got multiple guys getting to the quarterback,

493
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Speaker 2: which has caused a problem. But they are trending in

494
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Speaker 2: the wrong direction. I think they probably know that, Like

495
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Speaker 2: Shack says, that's something that will stick out to them

496
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Speaker 2: that rubbed them wrong, like Quintin Johnson dropping that little

497
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Speaker 2: crossing route that could have been a difference last night.

498
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Speaker 2: He had a little crossing route that he could have

499
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Speaker 2: caught that could have maybe got them in position to

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Speaker 2: potentially send that in game to overtime. The other piece

501
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Speaker 2: of it, and Rack, I'll lean on you here. Darius

502
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Speaker 2: Davis is as good as there is in the league

503
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Speaker 2: in punt returns. He's averaging over fourteen yards of return

504
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Speaker 2: and he had another one last night. I think he

505
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Speaker 2: had about a seventeen eighteen yard return last night against Baltimore.

506
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Speaker 2: In these kind of games, guys, you got two teams

507
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Speaker 2: that are playoff caliber teams that are going head to head,

508
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Speaker 2: and now we're gonna turn the page to December, and

509
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Speaker 2: you want to be playing meaningful ball in December, which

510
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Speaker 2: Atlanta is in control of their own destiny. All of

511
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Speaker 2: a sudden, the little plays that creep up, the special

512
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Speaker 2: teams place return where you can return it eighteen twenty

513
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Speaker 2: yards all of a sudden, that's two first downs. The

514
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Speaker 2: offense doesn't have to get talk to me about that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, that's the third phase of the game

516
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Speaker 1: that we generally talk about only when it ends up

517
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Speaker 1: hurting you, right, And we talked about it a couple

518
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Speaker 1: of weeks ago in the Saints game, right, And we

519
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Speaker 1: don't want to belabor that issue. But that's the reason

520
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Speaker 1: why this is a three phase football game. And so

521
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Speaker 1: often in the NFL, it's a quarterback ends up winning,

522
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Speaker 1: or it's a running back Dereck Henry or Lamar Jackson dominates,

523
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Speaker 1: and so all the focuses on the offense, or a

524
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Speaker 1: defense comes out and they have seven or eight sacks

525
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Speaker 1: and they were stifling and the opposing offense couldn't do anything.

526
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Speaker 1: But then there's always a few games that you look

527
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Speaker 1: back and say, we gave up three returns, we had

528
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Speaker 1: a ball knock loose on a punt, and we missed

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Speaker 1: three field goals. Yeah, right, And then you realize how

530
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Speaker 1: important that third phase of the game you talked about it.

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Speaker 1: If you have a good returner, you not only like

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Speaker 1: you said, you end up getting maybe a couple of

533
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Speaker 1: free first downs, right if you have an eighteen twenty

534
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Speaker 1: yard return, But then you think about field position, Right,

535
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Speaker 1: how much different is the drive when you start at

536
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Speaker 1: your own forty five versus your own twenty.

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Speaker 3: About the Washington Dallas game, Yeah, that's all special team.

538
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Speaker 1: You're talking about a return from turping.

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Speaker 3: And then obviously you come back and Washington has a

540
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Speaker 3: crazy play to go tie up, and you missed the

541
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Speaker 3: extra point, like you don't talk about it until it

542
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Speaker 3: comes up some good point.

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Speaker 1: So a three phase game and you'll need somebody like

544
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Speaker 1: Bradley Pinion to be on his game. And the best

545
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Speaker 1: way to minimize a guy that's a good punt returner

546
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Speaker 1: or kickoff returner is don't give him very many chances.

547
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Speaker 1: If it's punt you directional, you kick towards the sideline.

548
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Speaker 1: You make sure that things got a nice five seconds

549
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Speaker 1: a hangtime on it, and your guys on the outside

550
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 1: and the inside they gotta win. You gotta get down

551
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Speaker 1: in his face, right But the moment you give I'll

552
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Speaker 1: kick your coverage or somebody gets locked up at the

553
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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and a guy has space, he has room.

554
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Speaker 1: There are electric athletes in this game, and they're gonna

555
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Speaker 1: find a way to make somebody.

556
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Speaker 3: There with their ever nervous moments for you like that

557
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Speaker 3: where you know, yay, y'all kick this coverage and you're

558
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Speaker 3: coming down. There's fifteen yards away from you, bro.

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Speaker 1: You know some of the people that have to cover,

560
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Speaker 1: right man, some of the returners that was playing well.

561
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Speaker 1: I think this is back dirty. Special teams was still

562
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Speaker 1: like a thing.

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Speaker 3: I mean, a couple of who you had to face

564
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Speaker 3: Ed Reid.

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Speaker 1: Hester, I mean, Brian Mitchell early in my career. I'm

566
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Speaker 1: trying to think of some other guys that were out

567
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Speaker 1: there as well.

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Speaker 3: Kester was pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he worked out.

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Speaker 2: Did they give my gold jacket?

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Speaker 3: Ye?

572
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Speaker 1: So yeah, it was some pretty pretty good ones out there.

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Speaker 1: So let's let's talk about keys here, guys. We always

574
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Speaker 1: talk about keys, but it's gonna be there's gonna be

575
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Speaker 1: a couple of areas in this game where it's going

576
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Speaker 1: to be big time that Atlanta either has success or

577
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Speaker 1: they're able to shut something down. So I know, again,

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Speaker 1: I know we're early in the week and Tuesday as

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Speaker 1: we tape here for a Sunday game, but DJ, let

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Speaker 1: me start with you a couple of things that come

581
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Speaker 1: to your mind for this matchup, specifically that's going to

582
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Speaker 1: have to happen for Atlanta to kind of wash those

583
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Speaker 1: two losses away before the bye week, but to get

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Speaker 1: back on the winning track against the Chargers.

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Speaker 3: I think we go back again some of the pre

586
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Speaker 3: games and guys who've had success or team that had success,

587
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Speaker 3: and I think you've given them kind of the two

588
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Speaker 3: way go at times, and I think you got to

589
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Speaker 3: force this Chargers team to be one dimensional, whether it's

590
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Speaker 3: you know, stopping the run or being really stout in

591
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Speaker 3: the pass game when out lowing the deep shots, or

592
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Speaker 3: you know, limitsing those big time plays. I think you

593
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Speaker 3: got to force this Chargers team to be one dimensional

594
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Speaker 3: and then here comes Okay, if they have to throw

595
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Speaker 3: it every single down, or throw it more often because JK.

596
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Speaker 3: Dobbins is out, or you know, maybe you know, I mean,

597
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Speaker 3: I guess it was not as good as he is.

598
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Speaker 3: You know, when you're talking about coming out of the backfield,

599
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Speaker 3: if you force him to be one dimensional, guess what

600
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Speaker 3: you could change up? It looks a lot more. Maybe

601
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Speaker 3: you could drop more guys in. Coach, Maybe this is opportunity.

602
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Speaker 3: Maybe you can finally get to the quarterback and get

603
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Speaker 3: him on the ground because he's dropping back forty five

604
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Speaker 3: times to throw the football. Or maybe our offense is

605
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Speaker 3: putting up points and guess what we're up? You know, ten, twelve,

606
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Speaker 3: fourteen points it is, and they got to throw the football,

607
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Speaker 3: and here comes, you know, our pass rushers showing up,

608
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Speaker 3: Here comes Judi. It comes great, he comes all the

609
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Speaker 3: guys who would expect it to have that kind of impact.

610
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Speaker 3: And I think that could be a big part of

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Speaker 3: the ball game. Forced them to be one to mention

612
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Speaker 3: this ball game. Don't give them that two way go.

613
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Speaker 3: Don't give them that you know, the play action and

614
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 3: be able to move around and all that kind of

615
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 3: stuff you get after Justin Herbert, you forced them to

616
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Speaker 3: be one dimensional. I think defensive you've got a good

617
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Speaker 3: chance to have a good play versus.

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Speaker 1: So let me throw this out to you guys, right,

619
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Speaker 1: like we all know that the most basic and simple,

620
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Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter what level you play at defensively

621
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Speaker 1: or for a team, is you got to be able

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Speaker 1: to stop the run. Right, That's what every coach is

623
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Speaker 1: going to tell you. Gotta be able to stop the run.

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Speaker 1: Force them to be one mentional, just like you talked about.

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Speaker 1: My question to you, Arch is this. You got a

626
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Speaker 1: quarterback in Justin Herbert that we know can make every

627
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Speaker 1: single throw on the football field that has not turned

628
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Speaker 1: the ball over this year. And DJ just talked about

629
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Speaker 1: he's got three pretty good receivers. It's almost like in

630
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Speaker 1: the NFL, if you face the wrong group. What I

631
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Speaker 1: mean by group, I mean quarterback, even running back coming

632
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Speaker 1: out of backfield. But he's got multiple receivers and tight

633
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 1: end as well, where that doesn't necessarily always hold true,

634
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Speaker 1: because Patrick Mahomes can kill you, Josh Allen can kill you.

635
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Speaker 1: And Justin Herbert is a too that has the talent

636
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Speaker 1: to where if you do shut down the run game,

637
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Speaker 1: they might just go ahead and throw it forty five

638
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Speaker 1: times and put the game on his shoulders and feel

639
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Speaker 1: pretty good about their chances. Would you agree, Yeah, no

640
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 1: question about it.

641
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Speaker 2: And when you look at the tape, he's going to

642
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 2: have a bunch of tape to look at where we've

643
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 2: played veteran quarterbacks and whether it's Patrick Mahomes willing to

644
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Speaker 2: take what you give him, or whether it's a young

645
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 2: quarterback in bo Nicks that's willing to take what you

646
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Speaker 2: give him. He's going to see that. And if he

647
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Speaker 2: has to throw it forty five times and we're not

648
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Speaker 2: making him hold the football and he can drop the

649
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Speaker 2: ball off, he's going to take a five yard throw.

650
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Speaker 2: Now that's just as good as turn around and handed

651
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Speaker 2: it to Gus Edwards for five yards or JK Dobbins

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Speaker 2: for five. Now I'm second in five and I throw

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Speaker 2: a little outroute. Now it's third and two. You know

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Speaker 2: now what it does do to me, and Shaq'd be

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Speaker 2: interested to hear. What do you think is it makes

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Speaker 2: you be more perfect? You got to be more precise.

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Speaker 2: You're not turning it around and handing it to a

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Speaker 2: guy for three or four yards. Now you're trying to

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Speaker 2: throw it. And you and I both had coaches tell you, hey,

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Speaker 2: when you throw the ball, three things can happen, and

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Speaker 2: two of them are bad, you know. So so if

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Speaker 2: if they're not precise, like you know, Quentin Johnson drops

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Speaker 2: a little shallow drag route where he may still be

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Speaker 2: running if he caught it last night, you've got to

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Speaker 2: be percise. You can't drop the football. So it makes

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Speaker 2: you me but you've got to be willing to maybe

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Speaker 2: hug them a little bit more if they're gonna throw it,

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Speaker 2: if you can take away the run like you're talking

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Speaker 2: about and make him hold the football. And also you're

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Speaker 2: going to have to bring your big boy pads this week.

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Speaker 2: This dude's a big dude at quarterbacks and it's not

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Speaker 2: one of these kind of deals. You're gonna wrap him

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Speaker 2: up and pull him down by an arm. If you

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Speaker 2: watch Baltimore last night, they sacked him four times. They

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Speaker 2: probably should have had another five sacks, but he ran

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Speaker 2: out of them. So you better better bring the pads,

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Speaker 2: you better bring your arms, but bring your body to

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Speaker 2: put this big dude on the ground because he's gonna

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Speaker 2: be able to extend play. Right.

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you as Arch is talking about, you know,

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Speaker 3: being able to you know, get these guys to the

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Speaker 3: ground and all that kind of stuff. Obviously me and

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Speaker 3: Arch have no idea what this is like when I'm

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Speaker 3: about to ask you, but is it tough coming off

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Speaker 3: of buy a week or is it tough late in

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Speaker 3: the year to still be good at tackling, because obviously

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Speaker 3: as you get into the latter part of the season

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Speaker 3: some of the fundamentals go away. As we know, is

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Speaker 3: it tougher to do that or is it just a

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Speaker 3: mindset thing of Hey, I got to go make this play,

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Speaker 3: I get this guy to the ground.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it's a great point, and I think

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Speaker 1: it's the latter. It has to be a mindset because

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Speaker 1: of where we are now in the National Football League

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Speaker 1: is and I would say it might even be the

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Speaker 1: same in college because guys, when you get in this

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Speaker 1: point in the season and practice, you ain't tackling like

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Speaker 1: you're not doing it. Now. You might work on some

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Speaker 1: drills where you're going up and you're fitting up against

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Speaker 1: a bag or you're fitting up against the player, but

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Speaker 1: it's not full speed, and we know that's not realistic

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Speaker 1: in a game, nobody's ever standing there, right, So it's mindset,

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Speaker 1: it's focusing on technique, and then it's being a pro

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Speaker 1: because you can't constantly work on tackling. It's just it

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Speaker 1: just doesn't happen. So it's but it's all about form

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Speaker 1: fitting right to your point, Like, you can't go up

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Speaker 1: and end up thinking that you're going to take somebody

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Speaker 1: down with an arm tackle because you took the bad angle, right,

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Speaker 1: and it's everybody working together, right. You don't want to

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Speaker 1: have too many opportunities where you're making a solo open

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Speaker 1: field tackle because we know the guys are electric in

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Speaker 1: the NFL, they're going to make the first person miss.

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Speaker 1: You can't have it just be one guy there to

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Speaker 1: be able to make the tackle.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, to me, that's the key when you talk about

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Speaker 2: that in rack, that's a great point is it's got

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Speaker 2: to be a collaborative effort.

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Speaker 1: Now, sure you're going.

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Speaker 2: To be one on one in space, people are always

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Speaker 2: trying to get their best guy in space against somebody.

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Speaker 2: But the way we play defense here, it is a

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Speaker 2: collaborative eleven group outside inside a guy over the top,

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Speaker 2: and you need to tackle that way. And so you

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Speaker 2: can't be laxed in your responsibility. If I'm supposed to

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Speaker 2: be the outside guy, be the outside guy. If I'm

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Speaker 2: coming inside out, I've got to be there, you know,

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Speaker 2: so my guy outside knows he can use the but

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Speaker 2: you know, or you're using the boundari as an extra defender.

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Speaker 2: So those techniques you're talking about in just simply tackling

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Speaker 2: also have to equate to the concepts that we have

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Speaker 2: defensively that help you get a guy on the ground because.

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Speaker 1: You got a lot of hats at the football. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, final question for you guys. I'm gonna it's

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Speaker 1: a one or two word answer, and that's really hard

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Speaker 1: for you guys. I'm just saying, all right, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: give you the question and the I'm gonna let you

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Speaker 1: think about it for a second. The Falcons will win

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Speaker 1: if all right, DJ, let them let the wheels turn

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Speaker 1: a little bit, because you're going first. One or two words.

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Speaker 1: The Falcons will win if protect Kirk I like it

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Speaker 1: two words. He didn't even follow it up.

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Speaker 2: Arch.

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Speaker 1: I'm so proud of this dude. Right now, I'm proud

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Speaker 1: to protect Kirk. Okay, Arch, you're on the clock.

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Speaker 2: One word, that's the name that tune. Let's let's so,

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Speaker 2: I need to try to jump to the other side

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Speaker 2: of the ball. Then a little bit here, nothing easy

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Speaker 2: like it.

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Speaker 1: Like it, all right, protect Kirk. Nothing easy. You guys

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Speaker 1: got was yours offense. Mine was defense defense. Okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: So then I'm I'm gonna be total picture. They execute

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Speaker 1: the win, they execute. We did it three for three

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Speaker 1: two words. This weekend real quickly, though he can't let you.

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Speaker 2: I know you wanted to sign us out. We're we're

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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving week here and hopefully you guys are gonna check

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Speaker 2: us check us out here before Thanksgiving. Good favorite side.

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Speaker 1: Dish, Favorite side dish is green bean cast role for me?

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Speaker 2: Nice, Oh, I know, Grandma's got something.

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Speaker 3: I'm all about, some good dressing. And I said dressing.

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Speaker 3: That stuffing that is the.

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Speaker 1: Corn bread dressing, read dressing.

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Speaker 3: Just heads it.

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Speaker 1: Throw a little Thanksgiving in there, a green bean cast roll,

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Speaker 1: a little us to know, dried onions on top, creamy

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Speaker 1: mold already get a drifted in. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get it this week because I'm actually going

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Speaker 1: to be working an NFL game in Green Bay on Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 1: so hopefully whatever restaurant we go to is going to

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Speaker 1: have my green Ving cast role. Hopefully you all have

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Speaker 1: a very happy Thanksgiving. Uh so, thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: joining us here. As I mentioned, Falcons are back at

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Speaker 1: action this weekend at home Mercedes Benz Stadium, one o'clock BM.

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Speaker 1: That game is on CBS l A Chargers. Hope you're

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Speaker 1: watching it. We will all be there. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us here on the Falcons Audible presented by

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Speaker 1: AT and T. We'll see you next week, everybody. Take

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Speaker 1: care and happy Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 2: Happy Thanksgiving,