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Speaker 1: Dirty Birds. What's up? And welcome to another edition of

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Speaker 1: Falcons Final Whistle presented by Zaxby's I'm your host Will McFadden,

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Speaker 1: joined by Tory mclaney and Tarren Walk and we're here

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Speaker 1: to break down the Atlanta Falcons against the Denver Broncos.

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Speaker 1: This is a different opponent than the Falcons usually. See,

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Speaker 1: we got an AFC opponent. They're out there, not fully

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Speaker 1: on the West Coast, but in the Mountain area. Have

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Speaker 1: you guys ever been to Denver before?

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Speaker 2: I have not. I've been in the Denver airport.

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Speaker 3: I have also been in the Denver airport, but never

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Speaker 3: actually like the state of Colorado.

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Speaker 4: Think it was a layover from Wisconsin to New Orleans. Oh,

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Speaker 4: make that make sense? Thank Southwest, I believe. But yeah,

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Speaker 4: all I remember about the airport is I could not

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Speaker 4: find any food and your girl was famished.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we had a layover there. I've ran through the

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Speaker 3: Denver airport like full on forty times sprint on our

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Speaker 3: way back from Montana when we shot the Troy Anderson

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Speaker 3: documentary and we had a layover in Denver. I definitely

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Speaker 3: almost took some people out like on.

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Speaker 1: The Yeah, I hear Denver airport has a good run

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Speaker 1: defense too, apparently.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not it's impressive, not good enough to stop me, apparently,

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Speaker 3: But I still got there with plenty of time.

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Speaker 1: That's a shame, Terran, that you weren't able to find

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Speaker 1: any food Denver has, Like I mean, I don't think

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Speaker 1: surprisingly like I do think their food scene is pretty

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Speaker 1: well known.

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Speaker 3: Breweries I think are where.

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Speaker 1: It's a great they have great pizza too.

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Speaker 3: Weir here and I feel like this this would actually

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Speaker 3: be your place, knowing how much you love a good brewery.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, Teraren actually should.

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Speaker 4: How many times over under ten? How many times am

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Speaker 4: I going to be like I could move here?

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Speaker 3: No? She So I feel the need to say this

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Speaker 3: every single time we go anywhere. I usually get a

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Speaker 3: text from Aren within the first hour of us being

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Speaker 3: there saying I could move here. She's very adamant, like about.

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Speaker 2: I am a one drink, I could move here kind of.

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Speaker 3: So I guarantee I don't think it's I really don't

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Speaker 3: think it's going to even take an hour until like

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Speaker 3: we're gonna land in Denver and you're gonna be like

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Speaker 3: I feel it in my spirit.

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Speaker 2: Casually misses the plane.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you need to be a big just like weekend

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Speaker 1: getaway person, are you Yeah, she.

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Speaker 4: Definitely when there's a home gamehit.

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Speaker 1: So the Falcons have been really good away from home

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Speaker 1: so far this year outside of last week. They are

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Speaker 1: three and one now after that lost to New Orleans.

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Speaker 1: But they're looking to get their fourth win away from

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Speaker 1: the confines of Mercedes ben Stadium. To do that, though,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have to beat a very good defense. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, when when we look at this matchup, I

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Speaker 1: really think that that's where we should start. You know,

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Speaker 1: Denver has the second most sacks in the league. They

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Speaker 1: have thirty five on the season, find only the New

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Speaker 1: York Giants. Their first in yards per play allowed, allowing

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Speaker 1: just four point seven, and they are fourth end points

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Speaker 1: per game allowed, allowing seventeen point seven. So, Tory, when

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Speaker 1: we start about this or when we start talking about

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Speaker 1: this game, probably want to start upfront and work our

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Speaker 1: way back. Right. So Denver's pass rush, what are you

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Speaker 1: seeing from them?

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Speaker 3: Oh, they're so good. They're really good. And they're good

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Speaker 3: with just kind of sending the four guys that they

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Speaker 3: have up there. You know, it's they they aren't really

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Speaker 3: I mean I say this, I'm not watched every single

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Speaker 3: game that the Broncos have played.

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Speaker 1: I have watched every single.

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Speaker 5: Snape a second, but I will say what they're able

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Speaker 5: to do upfront is very special because it's it's very

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Speaker 3: They're not doing anything super elaborate to to put pressure

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Speaker 3: on a quarterback. It's just guys are just winning up

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Speaker 3: front more than they're losing. And I do think that

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Speaker 3: this is one of the biggest challenges, if not the

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Speaker 3: is going to face this year. I go back to

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Speaker 3: now looking back, like nothing's changed like that, there's still

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Speaker 3: going up to Philly, and I know, Will you and

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Speaker 3: I were talking about this, gosh, this may have been

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Speaker 3: like a low scoring just like brawl, just because you

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Speaker 3: know how Denver's defense wants to play this thing. You

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Speaker 3: know how good they are and how good they've been.

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Speaker 3: I don't think they I think the Falcons have scored

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Speaker 3: at least twenty six points in a game like five

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Speaker 3: or six times. Don't quote me on that. Denver has

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Speaker 3: not really allowed more than that in I would say

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Speaker 3: expecting this to be whoever has the ball last and

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Speaker 3: has the ball kind of bounced their way in the

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Speaker 3: fourth quarter is how this game could go good.

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Speaker 2: It's the game I.

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Speaker 1: Know when you talk about kind of the dudes that

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Speaker 1: they just have upfront, you're totally not wrong, right, and

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Speaker 1: it's not Yeah, they're going to crab the line of scrimmage,

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Speaker 1: advance Joseph, their defensive coordinator, is going to present some

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Speaker 1: of the looks that like Steve Spagnolo presents that Todd

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Speaker 1: Bowles that even here in Atlanta with Jimmy Lake and

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Speaker 1: Rahee Morris, where you will get linebackers walked up on

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. You're gonna see seven, maybe eight

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Speaker 1: gonna come and more often than not, Yeah, it's just

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Speaker 1: their main guy, four guys. But I was I was

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Speaker 1: doing a little research on this. They have their main

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Speaker 1: four pass rushers, they're starting four. Each has more pressures

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Speaker 1: than Cayden Ellis on this team, who is the leading

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Speaker 1: pressure getter for Atlanta's defense. So yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 1: I was trying to think of the right way to

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Speaker 1: phrase that. I'll I'm happy with pressure getter.

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Speaker 3: Cayden pressure getter, Creiden keV No, Caiden pressure getter, Craidon Keshen.

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Speaker 1: All right, we are going downhill. Hey, but Zach Allen,

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Speaker 1: who was actually on the injury report, is limited on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: He's got he leads the team with forty two quarterback pressures,

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Speaker 1: which is tied for eighth in the NFL. Then you've

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Speaker 1: got Nick Benito, who is essentially their TJ. Watt. Right,

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Speaker 1: few are TJ Watt, but he is, for all intents

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Speaker 1: got thirty two quarterback pressures. Jonathan Cooper another outside linebacker,

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Speaker 1: he's got thirty two quarterback pressures, and then John Franklin

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Speaker 1: Myers has twenty two quarterback pressures. Kanellis has twenty. To

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Speaker 1: put that in perspective, so when we are looking at

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Speaker 1: with your front four. So Taran, as you're looking at

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Speaker 1: attack this style of defense, Tory brought up kind of

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Speaker 1: the first few opponents that Atlanta played, we can maybe

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Speaker 1: look back at what they did as a form of attack,

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Speaker 1: but I think Atlanta's offense has found a second gear

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Speaker 1: since then. So how would you go about this?

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Speaker 2: The first WHOA?

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Speaker 4: The first uh in yards per play allowed like stuck

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Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh, be scared kind of way. It's

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Speaker 4: more so use that to your advantage because if you

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Speaker 4: just have four yards per play, that's three and you

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Speaker 4: get a first down, math three times threes and I

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Speaker 4: know you don't get a first down. Okay, four times

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Speaker 4: three is twelve.

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Speaker 1: That's fourteen.

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Speaker 1: Calculator now, oh gosh.

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Speaker 4: But the point is that if the Falcons are able

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Speaker 4: Ray McLeod, Jean Robinson, I mean you can throw Tyler

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Speaker 4: it's like, just be productive with them. You don't need

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Speaker 4: these big plays. You don't need to air it out

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Speaker 4: like you have been this season. That if you just

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Speaker 4: can move the ball consistently, who cares if it's four

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Speaker 4: also goes with running the ball, like it doesn't have

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Speaker 4: to be pass past past four four four like run pass,

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Speaker 4: run pass. They don't have to be these massive plays.

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Speaker 4: And I think that's the way they're going to be

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Speaker 4: able to move the ball against this defense that has

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Speaker 4: proven they can limit plays so much.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, yeah, here's the.

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Speaker 3: Thing is like this this offense, I think we have

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Speaker 3: seen that if it's moving forward, if it's picking up

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Speaker 3: moving forward, if they don't have these negative plays tackles

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Speaker 3: for a loss, sacks, penalties, they usually can stay on schedule.

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Speaker 3: It's when those things happen, these kind of shoot yourself

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Speaker 3: saw that early against Pittsburgh when when they're not kind

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Speaker 3: of just moving the sticks even a little bit, it

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Speaker 3: kind of frazzles the drive itself. So I think for them,

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Speaker 3: it's keeping things, keeping the foot on the gas to

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Speaker 3: the extent of just like we're only going forward. Like

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Speaker 3: I know, they love to run the little like screen

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Speaker 3: outs and everything like that, and that's fine, but this

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Speaker 3: is a defense that is quick, they're athletic, they're aggressive.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna run to the ball, they're gonna tackle well like,

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Speaker 3: it's gonna be difficult. It's gonna be a very hard

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Speaker 3: fought game offensively. And again, another thing too is when

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Speaker 3: you're finish finish drives. That has been a huge point,

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Speaker 3: talking point of this team this week. Finish drives. I

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Speaker 3: don't think you're gonna have very many opportunities to punch

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Speaker 3: the ball in, So you have if you only have

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Speaker 3: two or three opportunities to punch the ball in, you've

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Speaker 3: got to punch the ball into the end zone. Because

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Speaker 3: I do think that the way Denver's offense is operating

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Speaker 3: right now, they're gonna get their place, They're gonna get

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Speaker 3: their moments. I think they're gonna punch it in, so

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Speaker 3: you have to answer with six and not three.

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Speaker 4: You can't hesitate either. Kirk Cousins needs to get the

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Speaker 4: ball out quickly. He needs to either hand it off

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Speaker 4: or pass it really fast because otherwise, like Toy said,

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Speaker 4: since his defense is so fast, you're gonna be pushed

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Speaker 4: backwards rather than be moving forward. And at this point,

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Speaker 4: Kirk has been sacked at least twice in the last

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Speaker 4: four games, so you kind of want that to end

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Speaker 4: here so you don't get behind the chains, only in front.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I will say too that Kirk's been better, Maybe

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Speaker 3: not this past game, but Kirk's been better in the

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Speaker 3: last probably like month and a half when compared to

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Speaker 3: the first four games of the season of like being

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Speaker 3: able to convert under pressure. I think he's been handling

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Speaker 3: and understanding kind of his progressions and trusting his receivers

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Speaker 3: to see kind of like what version of Kirk Cousins

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Speaker 3: we see in Denver this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think everything you guys said about staying on schedule,

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Speaker 3: Right, You're not helping yourself out.

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Speaker 2: Let's not get cute. Basic ball, basic ball, move.

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Speaker 3: Forward terrence, like, just hand it to Tyler and Bejon

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Speaker 4: Yeah, little dunk pass to Drake here, a little dunk

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Speaker 3: Just she's like, we don't want last we want the sustenance.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, substance, substance and sustinance.

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Speaker 1: I think what you said that tarn about the quickness

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Speaker 1: you want. I don't. I think when you saw Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: when you look at Kirk against pass rushers or four

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Speaker 1: And that's where I do think it comes down to

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Speaker 3: So and I'll say this, well, none of it story

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Speaker 3: none of it freaking matters if you're not scoring touchdowns,

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Speaker 3: and I truly don't. We're talking about kind of being

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Speaker 3: having this patient approach and potentially putting together double digit

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Speaker 3: And this Falcons defense has been willing to let offenses

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 3: And shrink the field in the red zone and then

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Speaker 3: game plan since day one. What you can't get into

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Speaker 3: where you are putting these drives together, you're getting going,

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Speaker 3: you have over four hundred yards of total offense.

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Speaker 2: And then you don't score.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't it doesn't matter if you're not scoring right.

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Speaker 3: And that is where it even goes back to the

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Speaker 3: And I agree that this is kind of the flip

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Speaker 1: Like without the yards don't matter if you're not scoring.

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Speaker 3: So I just wanted to add that. Sorry, I came

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Speaker 3: on strong. I'm very pad. It's been a minute since

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Speaker 3: I've been in the podcast studio. I missed this.

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Speaker 2: So many coffees have you had?

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Speaker 3: This is only my second, but there's three shots in here,

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Speaker 3: so of espress can you imagine?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I was like, that explains a little bit more.

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Speaker 4: Okay, where can I get some Just kidding, but like

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Speaker 4: the Falcons can't do what you're doing with your coffee.

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Speaker 4: Don't just overload it too quickly, is what we're saying too, Like,

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Speaker 4: make sure you're being efficient, score the touchdowns, finish the race.

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Speaker 4: Be the tortoise, not the hair god, the tortoise that

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Speaker 1: I love that it's I wanted that brewing in your

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Speaker 1: brain while Tory's coffee was brewing in her pot. Tory, though,

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Speaker 1: which matchup in this game, looking from Atlanta's offensive perspective,

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Speaker 3: Matthews, Nick Bonito against Jake Matthews. I do think that

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Speaker 3: like in a game, you have moments where each guy wins,

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Speaker 3: That's going to affect what Kirk Cousins can do in

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Speaker 3: in this is that matchup specifically, and if Jake Matthews

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Speaker 2: Sorry, oh you're good.

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Speaker 3: I just very visual person, right, Yeah, so I do that.

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Speaker 3: That to me is the biggest to the point earlier,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's important. Don't leave Jake Matthews on exile

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Speaker 1: right because yeah, that's why a game wrecker is called

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Speaker 1: the matchups a domino effect exactly. And so I think

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Speaker 1: It's more a flat series. I think you said it

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Speaker 1: was just kind of a couple of drives there early

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Speaker 1: heard that Jimmy Lake has, you know, changed things up

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Speaker 4: I like what Jimmy Lake is doing. Do we want

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Speaker 1: No? No, no? What would you do?

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Speaker 2: Okay? What would I do?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: I'm going to rely on the stats? Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 4: There have been ninety two games this season where the

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Speaker 4: not enough. In mind, when it comes to the Falcons,

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Speaker 4: that's two thirds.

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Speaker 2: So you know what I would.

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Speaker 4: Do it was, I would queue up that touchdown drive

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Speaker 4: and then I'd show the celebration postgame. Queue up the

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Speaker 4: touchdown drive, show the celebration.

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Speaker 2: Que up. Okay, I'm not gonna say.

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Speaker 1: So, we're doing a little association here.

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Speaker 2: Score on the first drive like the puck.

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Speaker 3: What happens Pavlovian effect with the dog.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you got a little subliminal message.

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Speaker 4: Because then you're like numbers, prove it and then look

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Speaker 2: It's both I love it.

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Speaker 1: What about you, Tori? What would you do?

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Speaker 3: So? I feel like I'm a naturally competitive person and

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Speaker 3: And I feel very strongly that you, in order to

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Speaker 1: I would lean into that you're gonna buy everybody competition

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Speaker 1: and Jeanes no, no, no, I don't know if Lee.

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Speaker 3: No, they I don't think they do. No.

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Speaker 2: I that one was a rough one.

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Speaker 3: Well, they're all I personally would kind of do the opposite.

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Speaker 4: Approach, like, you know, we're going to run that defense

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if I there's a reason why

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Speaker 3: I'm not a coach, and maybe this is the reason why.

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Speaker 3: But like challenging these guys to the point of being

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Speaker 1: Know, no Ichick approach, No, just kind of right this

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Speaker 3: No, that's literally that's literally me. But I truly do

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Speaker 3: you can do better. I know that you so. But

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Speaker 3: that's a tough line to walk because you do have

437
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Speaker 3: to understand, like offensive guys are paid a lot of

438
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Speaker 3: money to make a lot of plays too. But I

439
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,879
Speaker 3: just have a lot of confidence in this defense and

440
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Speaker 3: how smart it is and kind of leaning into outsmart

441
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Speaker 3: these guys because you can it is where I would land.

442
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Speaker 2: What would your father do oh.

443
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Speaker 3: I actually don't know. I've never been in a like

444
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:37,880
Speaker 3: a locker room with him. That's a great question. I'll

445
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Speaker 3: have to ask him. I imagine though, that he is

446
00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:44,320
Speaker 3: very here's what you did wrong, like very calculating, and

447
00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:46,639
Speaker 3: like here's what you did wrong. Here's how you fix it.

448
00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:47,400
Speaker 3: Go do it?

449
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Speaker 1: So just like a normal team correct.

450
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, what do I fall under?

451
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Speaker 1: You just told us YEA.

452
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Speaker 2: Called his normal? What's mine?

453
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Speaker 1: Heavy?

454
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Speaker 3: No?

455
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Speaker 1: I think I actually, uh, it's crazy that you brought

456
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Speaker 1: up the tortoise in the hair, because what I would

457
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Speaker 1: do is I would just read that book, but just

458
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Speaker 1: not the ending. And in my version the hair winds,

459
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Speaker 1: it's just like going away. The tortoise never comes back.

460
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Speaker 1: You just start fast and you play fast and you

461
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Speaker 1: end fast and the Yeah, okay, the lesson is that

462
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Speaker 1: you just keep going, you know, as a parent. The

463
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Speaker 1: lesson is whatever I make the book only finishes the

464
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Speaker 1: way that it was written, if I read it that way,

465
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Speaker 1: honestly true?

466
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Speaker 2: Is half the book left? What do you mean we're

467
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Speaker 2: done reading?

468
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Speaker 3: No?

469
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Speaker 1: No, no, we're getting the revised version. We're getting some

470
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Speaker 1: deleted chapters in my version of the Tortoise in the hair.

471
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Speaker 1: So that's what tortoise. All the grown men in the

472
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Speaker 1: auditorium would just have to listen to me read the

473
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Speaker 1: tortoise in the hair and then close it halfway and

474
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Speaker 1: be like and then the hair one in a landslide,

475
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Speaker 1: go do that? Go? Team? All right? Motivation, So let's

476
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Speaker 1: talk about Bonix a little bit, uh Tory. What are

477
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Speaker 1: some of the challenges the Bix would present him?

478
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Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh, he's been pretty dang good recently. I

479
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,159
Speaker 3: think that the Bonicks that you saw in the first

480
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Speaker 3: probably three four weeks of the season is not the

481
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Speaker 3: same Bonnicks that you're seeing in the last four weeks

482
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Speaker 3: of the season. It feels like a tale of two

483
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Speaker 3: different seasons almost for him, which I do think is

484
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Speaker 3: indicative of rookie quarterbacks and the positions that they're put in.

485
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Speaker 3: And we talk about Kirk Cousins, who's been in the

486
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Speaker 3: league for thirteen years, who it took him a while

487
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:28,199
Speaker 3: to get used to this offense and the playmakers and

488
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Speaker 3: how the style that they wanted to play, how it

489
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Speaker 3: would look on a game day. Bonnicks coming in as

490
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Speaker 3: a rookie, having played in a bunch of different systems

491
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Speaker 3: in college but having to establish himself as the guy.

492
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Speaker 3: I think that he is somebody who is seeing things

493
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Speaker 3: very well right now. To the point of what we

494
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Speaker 3: were saying earlier about how this defense, this Falcons defense,

495
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 3: it gets smarter, and this is something I wrote about

496
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Speaker 3: on Monday, but I feel like this is a living,

497
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Speaker 3: breathing entity. This defense. Their level of play rises as

498
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 3: their play count does. Like the more they see, the

499
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Speaker 3: more they feel, the more tendencies that they pick up

500
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Speaker 3: on in a game, the better that they get. And

501
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Speaker 3: I think the stats would prove that their first half

502
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Speaker 3: stats versus their second half stats.

503
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Speaker 2: Oh, I have his season stats. Oh, they do prove it.

504
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Speaker 3: Okay, there we go. I'll take your word for it.

505
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,879
Speaker 3: But this defense is a living and breathing entity, and

506
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:30,680
Speaker 3: I think that bon Nicks has showed us that he

507
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Speaker 3: is as well. I think he's getting better and more

508
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 3: confident and more comfortable the more reps that he gets,

509
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Speaker 3: and I know that he's somebody who going back to

510
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Speaker 3: what I was saying before too about the how this

511
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Speaker 3: game could mimic some of the earlier games in the

512
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Speaker 3: season with also what Bonnicks can do as kind of

513
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Speaker 3: a mobile guy and how he can extend plays. He

514
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Speaker 3: has that ability. He's shown it time and time again.

515
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Speaker 1: He's fifth in scramble yards quarterbacks.

516
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Speaker 3: So this again, this game is going to be for me,

517
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:07,120
Speaker 3: very indicative of what it was against Jalen Hurts. Justin fields,

518
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Speaker 3: Patrick Hoolmes.

519
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Speaker 1: So do you try to pressure quarterback like that more?

520
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 1: Or do are you more? Let's play coverage and.

521
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Speaker 3: Well, because this Falcons team hasn't consistently been able to

522
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 3: affect the quarterback, I'm willing to play a bit more safe, Okay,

523
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Speaker 3: because we're eleven games into this season and I think

524
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Speaker 3: we can only truly count maybe the Dallas game as

525
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Speaker 3: a game that I felt the strongest about this defensive

526
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Speaker 3: front and the pressures that they were putting on Dak Prescott.

527
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Speaker 3: Because of that, I it's really hard because it's like

528
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Speaker 3: they haven't consistently been able to withstand a quarterback, even

529
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Speaker 3: the most stoic of quarterbacks in the pocket. So if

530
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Speaker 3: that's the case, I don't want them leaving kind of

531
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Speaker 3: their areas their guys to go after the quarterback because

532
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Speaker 3: then we've just seen guys to just be able to

533
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Speaker 3: dump it down and I'm just not I can't trust

534
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Speaker 3: it just yet. I don't want to send the house

535
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Speaker 3: and then they get a twenty yard gain with Bonix

536
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Speaker 3: just kind of being like ooh so.

537
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Speaker 1: And even last week against New Orleans, I mean, they

538
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Speaker 1: blitzed at the second highest rate of the season according

539
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Speaker 1: to Nexten stats, didn't really get home. So it's one

540
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Speaker 1: of those where even at the times when they have

541
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Speaker 1: brought extra guys, brought extra pressure, it's not getting home

542
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Speaker 1: the way that you would want. And Bonix has proven

543
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Speaker 1: he can get the ball out quickly. But somebody on

544
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Speaker 1: Atlanta's defense he's got a little bit of a homecoming

545
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Speaker 1: this weekend is Justin Simmons, who had an all Pro

546
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Speaker 1: career in Denver, was one of the best safeties in

547
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Speaker 1: the league there, established himself with the Broncos. What are

548
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Speaker 1: you expecting to see from him? Taren in his return,

549
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Speaker 1: I was so.

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Speaker 4: Ready with the Bonuck stat anyways, but with Justin. Fortunately,

551
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Speaker 4: I haven't talked to him myself this week, so I

552
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Speaker 4: can't say what he is saying or repeat it. Jesse

553
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Speaker 4: Bates today did say that Justin still refers to Denver

554
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Speaker 4: as his home. He's like considering this home commun essentially,

555
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Speaker 4: which makes sense considering he was rafted by the Broncos

556
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 4: in twenty sixty and was there until this season. That's

557
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 4: a long time in one place. That's more than one contract.

558
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 4: That means a lot. They gave him his chance, and

559
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 4: they gave him multiple chances. But alas he is here.

560
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,679
Speaker 4: And I went back, since I didn't talk to him

561
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Speaker 4: this week, to his intro presser, and there was one

562
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Speaker 4: quote that really stood out to me from that that

563
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 4: kind of speaks volumes about maybe how he feels a bit.

564
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Speaker 4: But he said, quote, I'm not going to talk about

565
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Speaker 4: it much because that stuff's in the past that I'm

566
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Speaker 4: moving forward. But I was in Denver for eight seasons.

567
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Speaker 4: In those eight seasons, five head coaches, six of you

568
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Speaker 4: include an interim coach, So a lot of turnover, a

569
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Speaker 4: lot of heartbreak, a lot of potential in some seasons

570
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 4: end quote.

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Speaker 1: And.

572
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Speaker 4: You're not able to rattle off all those numbers without

573
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Speaker 4: it meaning something to you. And he says he's not

574
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Speaker 4: going to talk about it, and then he did talk

575
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Speaker 4: about it.

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Speaker 1: Kind of sounds like he wished he had more stability

577
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 1: there in Denver.

578
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think it's probably still a bruise, for

579
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 4: lack of a better term, where like now going back.

580
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 4: Maybe he's poking it and it's probably an emotional game.

581
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Speaker 4: I assume it's going to be an emotional game if

582
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 4: he says he's going home. I think that's a fair assumption.

583
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Speaker 4: But I don't think you can let that get to

584
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 4: your head too much. But I do think a win

585
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 4: in Denver would mean more to him than possibly anyone

586
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:18,400
Speaker 4: else on the team.

587
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:22,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, especially because he chose to come to it exactly.

588
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 3: That's a big part of the story. It's not like

589
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 3: Matthew Judon where he gets traded to Atlanta. It's Justin

590
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,919
Speaker 3: Simmons was sold on this Falcons team, on this organization.

591
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 3: He chose to be here, which I think in this

592
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 3: context when you're having to leave home, it took so

593
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Speaker 3: much for.

594
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Speaker 2: Him to leave, right.

595
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Speaker 1: Yeah. And I think when you look at him and

596
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Speaker 1: almost compare him to a player like Grady Jarrett or

597
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 1: Jake Matthews or whatever, when you're not the quarterback or

598
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 1: when you're not like a head coach, there's only I

599
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: think so much impact you can have on the overall

600
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: direction of a team. And so for even as good

601
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: of the player as Justin Simmons was, Denver's defenses have

602
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 1: historically been pretty good over the years, but their overall

603
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 1: team success after Peyton Manning left an amazing Hall of

604
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 1: Fame quarterback, have gone kind of into different directions. So

605
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: you understand why he still feels that way because I

606
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 1: think if Grady Jared, god forbid, we're playing on another team,

607
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,479
Speaker 1: you would hope he still says Atlanta's home right for

608
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: many different reasons, but he would still feel that connection

609
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: even though he maybe went somewhere else for more team success.

610
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 1: And that is what we hope Justin Simmons has here

611
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: in Atlanta and that that continues on Sunday. So Tory,

612
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,479
Speaker 1: who else on the Broncos offense has your attention?

613
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 3: Probably Marvin Mems.

614
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: Oh interesting, Okay.

615
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 3: Why I thought so? I'll go back to March, and

616
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 3: he was somebody who was coming up on a contract

617
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 3: year during free agency, I believe, and he was somebody

618
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Speaker 3: who every single time that I was thinking about moves

619
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Speaker 3: that the Falcons could make guys who I kind of

620
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 3: liked looking at, who were available and who I thought

621
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 3: they could get for a reasonable price before they got

622
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 3: Darnell Mooney. Of course, I kind of liked the way

623
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Speaker 3: that Marvin Mims played. I thought he was somebody who

624
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 3: hadn't necessarily reached the full potential that I believed him

625
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 3: to have. And I think with Bnix as his quarterback,

626
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Speaker 3: I do think that it's kind of opening the door

627
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:28,239
Speaker 3: more for him and he and I don't know if

628
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 3: it's just because like he has my attention, because he

629
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 3: had it in the off season, that's probably it.

630
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 2: But I do attention as attention.

631
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like, I kind of like the way he

632
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 3: plays and so, but I also I say that from

633
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 3: a personal standpoint, but probably like taking off like the

634
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:49,719
Speaker 3: personal hat and putting it aside. Like this offensive line

635
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 3: for the Broncos has been so good recently, and especially

636
00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 3: considering how inconsistent, yeah, how not consistent the Falcons pass

637
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 3: rush has been. It feels like they could just kind

638
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 3: of stand there all day and just let bone Nicks

639
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 3: like pat the ball until kind of something materializes. Because

640
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 3: that's how good they've been. And I can't watch what

641
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 3: they've done recently without giving props to that offensive line unit.

642
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 3: They've been really, really good and haven't really made that

643
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 3: many mistakes.

644
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: For sure, Taran, you're about to jump out of your

645
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: skind with stat what's up?

646
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Speaker 4: Well, they've given up sacks, so which is bound to

647
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 4: happen regardless. There have been three games in which the

648
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 4: offensive line hasn't allowed bone Knicks to get sacked at all.

649
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 4: But the thing that stood out to me a lot

650
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 4: when looking at Bonnick stats, and I was like eager

651
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 4: to say it, so I'm glad we found a way

652
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 4: to loop it in is in the first two games

653
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 4: he threw two interceptions in each. Since then, aka, in

654
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 4: the eight games since then, he has only thrown two,

655
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Speaker 4: and it's only one in one game apiece. And it's

656
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Speaker 4: just that alone shows how much he has a rook

657
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Speaker 4: He grew quickly, and I was talking to Matthew Judon

658
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Speaker 4: in the locker room today and he's like, yeah, he's

659
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 4: bound to make rookie mistakes, but we can't bank on

660
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Speaker 4: that because he has shown that he is able to

661
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Speaker 4: progress really quickly and he is performing well as both

662
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Speaker 4: of you as mentioned.

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Speaker 2: He also has had a long college career, so he's.

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Speaker 4: Playing He's been doing this for a while, even if

665
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Speaker 4: he's just a rookie in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Yep, No, you guys are spot on, and I mean

667
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: Bonicks against Kansas City a really good defense in its

668
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: own right. He was twenty two of thirty two hundred

669
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Speaker 1: and fifteen yards and two touchdowns. Again, they only lost

670
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Speaker 1: by two points to the Chiefs. We saw what the

671
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Speaker 1: Broncos did to the Buccaneers earlier in the season, blew

672
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Speaker 1: them out. Like they've had some pretty impressive any innoc whims, Yeah,

673
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: like the Broncos are no joke at all. But one

674
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Speaker 1: thing that really stood out to me about Bonicks in

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Speaker 1: this last game on third down especially, he completed nine

676
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Speaker 1: of his ten pass attempts for six first downs eighty

677
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Speaker 1: three yards, and both of his touchdowns came on third down.

678
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Speaker 1: So when we talk about again getting off the field

679
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Speaker 1: or staying on the field and kind of matriculating down

680
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Speaker 1: it that's gonna be huge is really both quarterbacks how

681
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Speaker 1: decisive they can be on such a critical down. So

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Speaker 1: let's quickly pivot to one thing the Falcons need to

683
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Speaker 1: do to get a win on Sunday, Toy. We'll start

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Speaker 1: with you.

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Speaker 3: Score. I am weird, funny, but you didn't score against

686
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Speaker 3: the Saints. I think you have to be able to

687
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 3: put these It goes right back to what we're talking

688
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Speaker 3: about at the beginning. You have to be able to

689
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Speaker 3: put the ball in the end zone. If you are

690
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Speaker 3: having these long, meticulous drives, like you cannot just stall

691
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Speaker 3: after six to seven minutes on the three yard line.

692
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Speaker 3: You have to punch it in. You're not gonna win

693
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Speaker 3: this game if you aren't taking advantage of those opportunities,

694
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Speaker 3: because again, I do not think you're gonna have very

695
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 3: many because of how good this defense is, so that

696
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 3: it's finishing these drives. Finish these drives and it gives

697
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 3: you a chance because again, like I can't look at

698
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 3: this game and feel confident one way or the other

699
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 3: because of the way that both teams are built right

700
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Speaker 3: now and the way both teams are playing right now,

701
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Speaker 3: and how I feel like to a certain extent, it's

702
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 3: like I just keep thinking that this is gonna be

703
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 3: like a low scoring brawl, that it's gonna come down

704
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Speaker 3: to whoever has the ball last, whoever has the ball

705
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Speaker 3: within the final two minutes of the game, is gonna come.

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Speaker 1: Out on top.

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Speaker 3: And if you have the if you're the Falcons and

708
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Speaker 3: you have the ball in the final two minutes of

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00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 3: the game, you gotta put points on the board, because

710
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Speaker 3: if it's gonna go the way that I think it will,

711
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 3: you won't have a lot of opportunities.

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00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: To do that, all right, So scoring points.

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Speaker 3: Scoring points a little bit of a hot.

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Speaker 1: Take, honestly, Karen and I that's kind of wild and

715
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Speaker 1: out there. See if you can bring it back to

716
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Speaker 1: reality what the Falcons have to do to win.

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Speaker 4: I'm lumping two different things together and calling it win

718
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 4: the chain game. Okay, Like the offense has to stay

719
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Speaker 4: ahead of the chains as we talked about, like keep

720
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Speaker 4: moving them and whatnot. But then when you read that

721
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 4: third downstat I was like, hullo, they gigs. The defense

722
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 4: has to get Denver off the field. If that is

723
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Speaker 4: the case, don't let them keep picking up first downs

724
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Speaker 4: if you've already got them on third.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think both of those, like points, where are

726
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: gonna be at a premium keeping possession, time of possession.

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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be at a premium in

728
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,839
Speaker 1: this one as well for that reason. Turnovers, Like I

729
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: think in this one, especially winning the turnover battle, it's simplistic.

730
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: It's kind of like I think we're all identifying the

731
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 1: main facets of winning a football game. But that's because

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Speaker 1: to Torre's point, this is you have to such an

733
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Speaker 1: evenly contested battle on paper, yeah, right like, and let's.

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Speaker 3: Be honest, like they didn't do that against the Saints.

735
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 4: They didn't looked at each other and we're like, if

736
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Speaker 4: there was just a turnover right here.

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Speaker 3: But again, I feel like.

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Speaker 1: The approach was it was different inherently. I kind of

739
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 1: think that they felt, hey, like, all we need to

740
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: do is connect on kind of one of these shots,

741
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 1: like they like Bijon having that explosive touchdown run was great.

742
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Speaker 1: If they had one more of those, they win that game.

743
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Speaker 1: It's just you they weren't able to kind of connect

744
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: on enough of them. But I don't know if their

745
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: approach was let's work our way down the field in

746
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: more of a intentional fashion. I kind of think they

747
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: felt they could get a few haymakers against the Saints defense.

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Speaker 3: Devil's advocate. They didn't do that.

749
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Speaker 1: They didn't, right Like, So that that's the.

750
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Speaker 3: Thing is Like, I again, I go back to the

751
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 3: point were we're making earlier four hundred yards to total offense.

752
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Speaker 3: It's like, so what so what you didn't You didn't win,

753
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 3: you didn't score, you didn't finish drives, you didn't do

754
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 3: what fundamentally you needed to do. Turnovers and they lost

755
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:43,359
Speaker 3: the game.

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Speaker 2: So to the fundamental, it's a sick ball.

757
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Speaker 3: It's kind of like, Okay, your approach can be one thing,

758
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 3: but if that approach doesn't work, then it's just kind.

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Speaker 1: Of like, yeah. But I think there's a difference in

760
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: the approach not working one game and the approach itself

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Speaker 1: being bad.

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying the approach was like bad, no, right,

763
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Speaker 3: and you were terrifying.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's the approach in and of itself, I

765
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Speaker 1: think was sound when you looked at what that Saints

766
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: defense was and what other teams had done against them,

767
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Speaker 1: and still you weren't able to do that. So the

768
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: execution there wasn't there the on both sides of the ball, right,

769
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Speaker 1: So this week is going to be an execution heavy

770
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Speaker 1: approach because you're not really going to get I think

771
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Speaker 1: any of those easy looks that you didn't get against

772
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Speaker 1: the Saints that you thought maybe you would. Right, So

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00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 1: let's let's wrap up with or actually I guess I

774
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: need to do no, I did turn over margin? Cool,

775
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: all right, let's wrap up with Closest to the Pin

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Speaker 1: and Tori, this is the first time you've ever done

777
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Speaker 1: Closest to the Pins that's that's gonna be fun. But

778
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: we're going to start with Taran Tarren. You've got Justin

779
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Speaker 1: Simmons tackles.

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Speaker 2: I did eight, I know is high. It would be

781
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Speaker 2: a season high for him.

782
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 3: No, that is high for him.

783
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Speaker 2: But come on, he's going home.

784
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's going to be up already to get rather go.

785
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 2: Big for this one. Ready to take the yell?

786
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Speaker 1: All right, a rocky mountain.

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Speaker 3: Eight. You did not with any confidence at all. You're like,

788
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:04,760
Speaker 3: I'm going to say this number, but I'm not confident.

789
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 4: I'm manifesting for thirty one. There you go, not thirty

790
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 4: one tackles eight for thirty one, It's.

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Speaker 1: Like, all right, thirty one. Sorry. You've got Kyle Pitt's receptions, Yeah,

792
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,280
Speaker 1: four four receptions? Yeah, okay.

793
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 3: Or I feel like that's a healthy number for what

794
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 3: we've seen from him. I do think that because you

795
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 3: have to spread the ball out. Drake Clendon is healthy,

796
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 3: Donald Moon, who's good. John Robinson has gone over one

797
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 3: hundred yards from scrimmage in each of the last five games.

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Speaker 3: I feel like you're not going to get an overwhelming

799
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 3: amount of targets to Kyle Pits. But I could see

800
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 3: anywhere from like five or six going his way, and

801
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 3: I think if you can catch three or four of them,

802
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 3: that be I'm going to go on the higher end.

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00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 3: I'm going to give it to him for four receptions.

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00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 1: All right, love it. I've got Kirk Cousins rushing yards.

805
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Speaker 1: I went with negative seven.

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00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 3: Which is that's hilarious, that's absolutely.

807
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: And I'm counting sack total. Yeah, so I I kind

808
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 1: of think there's one or two sacks in there, but

809
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: I do think he's got like four rushing yards and

810
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 1: then and then it goes back a couple of sacks. Yeah,

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00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 1: so negative seven. This is like the weirdest closest to

812
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Speaker 1: the pin I think we've done so far.

813
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 3: We've got where am I?

814
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: I've got four receptions and we've got negative seven rushing yards.

815
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Speaker 1: So we will see how all of that shakes up stick.

816
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 1: Like actually eight tackles for Justin Simmons, I mean yeah,

817
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:36,919
Speaker 1: it depends, I guess on the on the game plan,

818
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: your Guestimy get into the secondary a lot. But let's

819
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:42,399
Speaker 1: hope not Honestly.

820
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 3: If if Justin Simmons has eight tackles, something's happened, Like

821
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 3: it's not good.

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Speaker 2: Hey, the career high for the guy going home?

823
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:50,720
Speaker 1: Would that be his career?

824
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 3: Now?

825
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 2: Okay, question is this season it came out to naturally?

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go ahead and get out of here.

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