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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, and welcome to the latest edition of

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Speaker 1: the Falcons Final Whistle podcast, presented by Zaxby's I'm Scott

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Speaker 1: Behar alongside Tory mclanney and Tarren Walk and we are

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Speaker 1: here on a Friday morning after a late Thursday night

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Speaker 1: with some major news from the Atlanta Falcons that broke

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Speaker 1: among media outlets. Tarn we'll say about four forty nine,

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Speaker 1: and it was formally announced by the team at what

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Speaker 1: eight forty eight.

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Speaker 2: It would be like the cemetery, I'm mom.

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Speaker 1: And the big news is that the Falcons have hired

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Speaker 1: their nineteenth head coach in franchise history, someone that Falcons

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Speaker 1: fans know well, someone that Tory covered when she was

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Speaker 1: with the Athletic Raheem Morris. So we're going to break

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Speaker 1: down that decision from every angle. We're going to dive

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Speaker 1: into the what was a very extensive Falcons head coaching

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Speaker 1: search and go through everything that you need to know

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Speaker 1: about Raheem Morris, what he's going to bring to the table,

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Speaker 1: and every thing that we learned about the Falcons over

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Speaker 1: astonishingly only the last two it's been two and a

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Speaker 1: half weeks.

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Speaker 3: That's insane, Actually.

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Speaker 2: A half weeks.

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Speaker 1: Ye, the Falcons parted ways with Arthur Smith and now

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Speaker 1: they have a new head coach.

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Speaker 2: So let's just dive right into it.

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Speaker 4: I think it's like January thirty eighth.

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Speaker 2: I know exactly.

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Speaker 1: General reactions, general reaction to Raheem Morris returning to the

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Speaker 1: Falcons coaching staff.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think this is something that a lot of

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Speaker 5: people within the organization. I know for me personally too,

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Speaker 5: it's pretty exciting. I think that Raheem Morris is somebody who,

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Speaker 5: even though things didn't work out for him in his

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Speaker 5: first three seasons with Tampa Bay as the head coach there,

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Speaker 5: I do think that he's a person and he's a

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Speaker 5: coach that as he has garnered more experience more time.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you look at all the different positions he's coached,

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Speaker 5: and he's been a coordinator, and I think that the

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Speaker 5: three seasons that he had in Tampa Bay is not

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Speaker 5: as indicative of who the Falcons are getting now you

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Speaker 5: think about how many years have passed and how much

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Speaker 5: gross right. And I know, like from having spoken to

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Speaker 5: him before about this that time in Tampa Bay, because

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Speaker 5: I know a lot of people on Twitter and everything

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Speaker 5: are talking about like, oh, like You could have hired

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Speaker 5: Bill Belichick, who's the winning as coach in you know

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Speaker 5: the history of the NFL. But you hire somebody who

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Speaker 5: spent three years in Tampa Bay and didn't put together

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Speaker 5: a winning season.

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Speaker 2: He did six ten and six, two seventeen and thirty one.

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Speaker 5: Over us, right, Yes, So it's like, Okay, this is

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Speaker 5: why why should we be excited about this?

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Speaker 3: You should be excited about this.

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Speaker 5: Because that those three seasons are very different from where

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Speaker 5: this person is now.

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Speaker 3: And I think from.

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Speaker 6: What was it two thousand and two to right now,

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Speaker 6: would hope everyone's grown so.

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Speaker 5: Right, So I think there should be this level of excitement.

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Speaker 5: Also the fact that there was so much just we

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Speaker 5: haven't talked to players, but just from their social medias

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Speaker 5: and kind of seeing their Instagram posts and their Twitter

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Speaker 5: reactions and everything like that, it seemed like they were

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Speaker 5: they're excited about this hire, definitely. And I know from

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Speaker 5: you know, there are guys here who have been taught

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Speaker 5: and coached by Raheem, Grady Jarrett being one of them,

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Speaker 5: Jake Matthews, Chris Lynstrom, Aj Terrell. I mean, all these

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Speaker 5: guys were here when Raheem was here as an interim

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Speaker 5: head coach three seasons ago. It feels like a lifetime

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Speaker 5: because Raheem Morris went out and went to the Rams

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Speaker 5: in LA and won a Super Bowl with them. The

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Speaker 5: Falcons have completely reholed their entire organization. From a salary

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Speaker 5: cap standpoint, from a defensive standpoint, they brought in Kyle Pitts,

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Speaker 5: Drakelund and Jon Robinson. They're still looking for a quarterback, yes,

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Speaker 5: but this entire ross has been retooled from the time

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Speaker 5: that Raheem Morris is here to the time he is now.

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Speaker 5: So I think just overall, I would just like caution

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Speaker 5: people to jump to conclusions, because the Falcons say they're

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Speaker 5: in win now mode, and they went out and looked.

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Speaker 5: They went through fourteen candidates to try and find somebody

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Speaker 5: who could lead this team to winning. Now they believe

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Speaker 5: it to be Raheem Morris, so let's see what can happen.

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Speaker 3: I think there's reason to be hopeful.

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Speaker 6: I went back and forth because seeing the players' reactions,

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Speaker 6: it made me think, like, what am I missing here?

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Speaker 4: But I didn't cover him in twenty twenty or before that.

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Speaker 6: And but with that said, they're excited and I think

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Speaker 6: someone brand new and it comes in with that excitement.

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Speaker 6: But to play Devil's advocate, I go back thinking, well,

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Speaker 6: why didn't this happen the last time then when he

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Speaker 6: was an interim head coach? Why not give him the

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Speaker 6: upper tunity then instead of three years later?

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Speaker 4: But you do see what he.

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Speaker 6: Did with the Rams, and he did well there against

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Speaker 6: Super Bowl, and it does make.

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Speaker 4: Me go back and forth. So like I'm I think

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Speaker 4: it's both ways. I think the positives and negatives are like,

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Speaker 4: ooh right.

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Speaker 5: I think it's fair to say, well, here we are

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Speaker 5: three years after he was interviewed for the job that

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Speaker 5: he ultimately got three years later.

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Speaker 3: I think it's fair to ask that question.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure it will be asked of Arthur Blank when

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Speaker 5: that introductory press conference happens, and I think it's a

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Speaker 5: fair question and I'm looking forward to hearing kind of

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Speaker 5: what they have to say. I also think, from the

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Speaker 5: perspective of having covered Raheem Woris, I know you brought

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Speaker 5: that up, like I did cover him for a year.

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Speaker 5: It was you know, the Falcons go zero to five

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Speaker 5: to start the twenty twenty season, dan Quinn Thomas dimitrov

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Speaker 5: Are let go. Raheem Morris steps in for the final

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Speaker 5: eleven games of the season as the interim head coach,

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Speaker 5: who's defensive coordinator prior to that, and I enjoyed my

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Speaker 5: time covering Raheem Mors. He stepped into a situation that,

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Speaker 5: let's be honest, wasn't fun. There was a big target

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Speaker 5: I think on the Falcons just in general, just to

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Speaker 5: just when you look back at that time and I'm

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Speaker 5: you know, time has passed, but I just remember kind

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Speaker 5: that the team was missing in that moment.

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Speaker 3: They were on such a skid.

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Speaker 5: They hadn't won a game, and he was a positive

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Speaker 5: force that I think did do wonders for this locker

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Speaker 5: room in that moment and a time that was unprecedented too.

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Speaker 5: People forget, like the COVID year twenty twenty, like that

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Speaker 5: was really difficult. I know for me personally too, to

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Speaker 5: have to like try and make connections with this locker

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Speaker 5: room by not being in the locker room for sure,

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Speaker 5: trying to make connections with this coaching staff that have

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Speaker 5: no idea what's going to happen to their jobs after

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Speaker 5: these eleven games are over. That was a hard time

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Speaker 5: for everyone, and I do think you have to give

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Speaker 5: credit where credit is due to Raheem Morris for really

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Speaker 5: like things could have crumbled, things could have disintegrated, and

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Speaker 5: I think because of his energy and because of the

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Speaker 5: respect that the players had for him at that time,

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Speaker 5: was the reason why this team ultimately stayed together.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I'm I also just think I.

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Speaker 5: Always appreciate that when lose good days, bad days, when

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Speaker 5: you show up exactly the same every single time and

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Speaker 5: you give respect to people every single day, that that matters.

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Speaker 3: To me as a journalist covering a head coach.

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Speaker 5: And I can say that about Raheem Morris every single day,

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Speaker 5: every single question, whether it was easy or a hard question,

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Speaker 5: he answered it. He was respectful, and I personally liked

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Speaker 3: I really did.

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Speaker 6: I would like to say that was the one thing

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Speaker 6: I required out of a coach when we did at a

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Speaker 6: round table. Yeah, being sociable and whatnot, like a good

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Speaker 6: presence to the public. But going back to how he

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Speaker 6: was as an interim coach, I pulled some of those

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Speaker 6: numbers four and seven isn't necessarily something you want to see.

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Speaker 6: But if you look at those losses, there were only

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Speaker 6: two that were double digit and the others were five

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Speaker 6: those seven losses.

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Speaker 1: Within the context of what Toy is saying, with the

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Speaker 1: stress of the COVID year and all the protocols that

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Speaker 2: Everybody may be blown out of here, right that there's

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Speaker 2: that and that happened. Trying to work.

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Speaker 1: With a cloud hanging over your head in any walk

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Speaker 1: of life is difficult. Imagine that with cameras everywhere and

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Speaker 1: your performance being graded on a Sunday. So I think

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Speaker 2: And the thing that I like about this higher.

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Speaker 1: There's something that came on our social media, I think

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Speaker 1: late Thursday night, and it's a video of there's lots

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Speaker 1: of videos of Raheem Morris dancing, okay, there are, but

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Speaker 1: there's one where Raheem is dancing after a victory and

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Speaker 1: then the camera scrolls over and it's Arthur Blank also

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Speaker 1: a culture where you want to win. Now, look, that's

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Speaker 1: all well and good. You need talent too, I can.

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Speaker 2: Outside the quarterback spot.

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan's obviously a legend outside the quarterback spot.

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Speaker 2: I'll bet your depth wise.

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Speaker 1: That the team that he's gonna inherit is more talented

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Speaker 2: So what can he do with the talent?

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Speaker 1: How can Terry Fonteau continue to acquire talent to.

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Speaker 1: Before we get into more about Raheem Morris, let's just

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Speaker 1: talk about the search a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Two and a half weeks.

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Speaker 4: I'm eighteen days.

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Speaker 1: At fourteen candidates, eighteen total interviews. I know that because

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Speaker 1: I overheard Tarn in the office next to me say

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Speaker 1: that to Tori. So I didn't come up with it myself,

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Speaker 1: but I did steal it fair square with.

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Speaker 6: The symmetry of eighteen days and eighteen interviews. Not that

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Speaker 6: it was day by day by day, but symmetry.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So fourteen first interviews, four second interviews, and four

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Speaker 1: additional ones scheduled, but they never got to the two

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Speaker 6: But then there was the first one that never came

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Speaker 6: to fruition with because the Raiders hired him before the.

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Speaker 1: Right, So technically yeah, so there were a lot of candidates.

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Speaker 1: They looked at offensive guys, defensive guys, people with head

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Speaker 1: coaching experience, of which Raheem Morris is the first head

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Speaker 1: coach hired by Arthur Blank with previous head coaching experience.

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Speaker 2: I think that.

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Speaker 1: Ain't nothing, by the way, and when you look at

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Speaker 1: the search in totality, they interviewed Mike Rabel, they interviewed

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Speaker 1: that was a driving force, right. We saw the wins

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Speaker 1: of it's a fade a complete right, and then in

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Speaker 1: terms of what the national conversation was. But I think

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Speaker 1: ultimately going with a guy like Raheem Morris again, just

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Speaker 1: like what you were saying, don't let's not do a

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Speaker 1: tail of the tape, right, because it's about what you're

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Speaker 1: getting organizationally and how you can uplift this group. Now, look,

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Speaker 1: his offensive coordinator higher is going to be as important

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Speaker 5: I think too that, Like I something I can say

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Speaker 5: If you have someone who can lead a group of men, trust,

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Speaker 1: I'm beyond excited to work side by side with Raheem

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Speaker 1: we move forward, and it really, in my opinion, kind

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Speaker 1: of emphasizes Terry font Know's role and importance in this organization.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's warranted because if you go back

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Speaker 1: to the first what Arthur.

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Speaker 2: Blank was saying, he talked back.

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Speaker 1: On Ary in early January about the track record of

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Speaker 1: what Terry Fontnau has done with his draft picks. Not

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Speaker 1: everybody agrees with that, every single one, and that he's

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Speaker 1: been a really good general manager. Maybe he said great,

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Speaker 1: but it was a positive statement about what Terry Fontnau

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Speaker 1: has done here. And I think it's a good way

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Speaker 1: if you want to win. Now, keep one part stable.

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Speaker 1: The personnel department is stable. You're not starting over. You're

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Speaker 1: not changing philosophies. On that side, I think that can

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Speaker 1: be an accelerant if you bring in a good culture guy,

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Speaker 1: a guy who can activate things, and you have a

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Speaker 1: personnel department who trusts each other and they can just

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Speaker 1: keep going with the draft and free process.

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Speaker 3: To me, it wasn't this whole thing.

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Speaker 5: And what I think the hiring of Raheem Morris shows

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Speaker 5: you is that the Falcons were not looking for a

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Speaker 5: change in philosophy. They were looking to enhance the philosophy

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Speaker 5: that they already have set right, And that is what

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Speaker 5: I feel like this hire of Raheem Morris says, because

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Speaker 5: if you were to pick someone else who wanted to

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Speaker 5: come in here and fundamentally change the culture, fundamentally change

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Speaker 5: the philosophy, then it kind of does create this like

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Speaker 5: butting of heads between the head coach and the general manager,

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Speaker 5: especially if you have this model of its fifty fifty.

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Speaker 3: Percent and of control of the organization.

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Speaker 5: So when I look at this, when I read about this,

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Speaker 5: when I, you know, hopefully when we get the chance

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Speaker 5: to talk to Terry font and O, Raheem Morris, Arthur

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Speaker 5: blank et cetera, et cetera, I feel like.

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Speaker 3: That's almost the emphasis that they.

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Speaker 5: Should have is that it's like, we did this to

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Speaker 5: enhance what we feel like we have in the building right.

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Speaker 1: Now, Especially because Raheem Morris has already been in this building,

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Speaker 1: and while there's been a a ton of turnover from

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Speaker 1: when he was here the last time, there is general

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Speaker 1: there is some continuity in the building. He knows who

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Speaker 1: Greg Beatles is, he knows who like a lot of

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Speaker 1: the support staff below. The names that you know are

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Speaker 1: so in terms of enhancing that philosophy and continuing what

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Speaker 1: they consider an upward trajectory. That this is the way

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Speaker 1: that you can infuse a guy that's familiar, a culture guy,

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Speaker 1: an energy guy, and a guy who can.

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Speaker 2: Work well and merge with what Terry.

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Speaker 1: Fontin has done a lot of good work, not only

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Speaker 1: in terms of draft and fre agency, but also in

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Speaker 1: terms of clearing up cap issues right so that they

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Speaker 1: can kind of merge and then continue upward. So that's

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Speaker 1: what I think the moral of this story is, and

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Speaker 1: it's it's been a fascinating one. Right We're dealing with

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Speaker 1: major players and major names on the national stage.

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Speaker 6: I wonder how much of an emphasis this. I feel

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Speaker 6: like I need to talk with my hands because you

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Speaker 6: all were and I can't do it.

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Speaker 2: Lap.

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Speaker 6: But I wonder how much of a topic of conversation

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Speaker 6: this was in the interview process, Like how willing are

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Speaker 6: these candidates to do this fifty to fifty relationship, because

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Speaker 6: you know some of.

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Speaker 4: Them were big names who may not have wanted that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's something that you know you would I

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Speaker 5: would love to be a fly on the wall for

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Speaker 5: all of these eighteen interviews, but I don't get paid for.

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Speaker 1: That if they could have turned this into that, like

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Speaker 1: uh that like next Flix F one documentary style, like

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Speaker 1: we're living.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, right, in a hard Knocks world, we.

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Speaker 1: Are, but that would be fascinating and Okay, So, and

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Speaker 1: there's so many questions that we don't have answers to

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Speaker 1: because we're recording this podcast the morning after the hiring announcement.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Scott and I left at like ten

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Speaker 5: o'clock twelve hours later.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's gonna be plenty more to discuss because.

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Speaker 2: There's gonna be a press conference.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Terry Fonteau and Arthur Blank and

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Speaker 1: Raheem Morris beyond some of these statements through these press conferences,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to see not only what they say,

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Speaker 1: within the actions that back them up.

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Speaker 2: Right, we're already.

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Speaker 4: Actually speak louder than words.

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Speaker 1: We're getting and we're getting ready to start an coordinator

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Speaker 1: tracker as we speak, because there's another phase to this thing.

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Speaker 2: So so I think.

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Speaker 4: Eighteen days in counting, nineteen days in counting.

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Speaker 1: Now, and I think it's going to be fascinating to

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Speaker 1: see how it all turns out, because oh yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think the Falcons are going to be examining some quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: over the course of the next couple of months too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's another part of this whole thing.

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Speaker 5: It's like we haven't even scratched the surface of kind

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Speaker 5: of what the biggest I mean, the head coach was

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Speaker 5: always going to be a big topic of conversation. Of course,

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Speaker 5: coordinators big topic of conversation.

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Speaker 6: But I think you need your Rudolph the one we

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Speaker 6: found our Santa, because for those who have listened to

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Speaker 6: the previous episode, you'll know what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 3: Ignoring that analogy, no, I mean anymore, the quarterback conversation

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Speaker 3: is one that's going to be the biggest question of

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Speaker 3: the off season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and to watch this offseason play out is going

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Speaker 1: to be fascinating. So will all the discussions and conversations

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Speaker 1: that we're going to have with some of these new

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Speaker 1: pieces of the organization to see if they can in

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Speaker 1: fact merge together and continue and continue moving up and

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Speaker 1: fulfill what will be high expectations in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 3: Also get excited, you know, like this is a new season.

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Speaker 5: Who is yeah, like new era, Like let's go into this,

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Speaker 5: I think with an open mind. But I mean, I know,

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Speaker 5: I'm pretty excited to get Raheem in the building because

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Speaker 5: I personally really like Rahem as a person, so.

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Speaker 4: I'm excited to meet him, right, So yeah, and I.

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Speaker 2: Too enjoy wearing my hat backwards, so this will.

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Speaker 5: Be I feel like everyone should know that when we

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Speaker 5: found out that Raheem was being hired, Scott was wearing

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Speaker 5: a hat and he proceeded for the rest of the

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Speaker 5: day to turn it backward.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean solidarity.

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Speaker 1: I think Okay, we could go we could go on

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Speaker 1: forever because I think this is a fascinating choice among

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Speaker 1: some fascinating options. And now that they've made it, now

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Speaker 1: it's time to turn the page and we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: more Falcons final whistles for you throughout the course of

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Speaker 1: the off season. So for Taron and Torre, I'm Scott,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for listening, rating, reviewing, and subscribing

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Speaker 1: to the Atlanta Falcons podcast. And oh, subscribe to our

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons YouTube channel.

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Speaker 2: Why don't you while you're at it. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again, probably post press conference, let's

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Speaker 1: be honest.

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Speaker 3: Yeah probably, Yeah, care from us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sooner rather than later. See you