1
00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:04,120
Speaker 1: Atlanta comes away with a twenty seven twenty four victory

2
00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,280
Speaker 1: over the Chicago Bears last weekend. Welcome into the Falcons

3
00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:11,240
Speaker 1: Audible presented by AT and T My Boys. DJ Shockley's

4
00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,800
Speaker 1: overly hype today. I hope that's a precursor for the

5
00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:17,480
Speaker 1: energy on the show. Hearts wants to fight you now

6
00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:19,520
Speaker 1: because you just put his shoulder out of place. That's

7
00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:26,000
Speaker 1: just talking about going to the chiropractor, and I guess

8
00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:28,960
Speaker 1: DJ just took care of it for you, So we're

9
00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,760
Speaker 1: good to go. Um, We're gonna go ahead and talk

10
00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,760
Speaker 1: about a little bit of Falcons, shall we. Um. Here's

11
00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:38,680
Speaker 1: what we are going to talk about. Cordero Patterson CP

12
00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:40,760
Speaker 1: in the house. He did a little something something in

13
00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:42,120
Speaker 1: the game. We'll talk about it here in just a second.

14
00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,640
Speaker 1: We're gonna break down the battle, how Atlanta got the

15
00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:48,800
Speaker 1: victory over Chicago and justin fields injuries. Unfortunately, that's a

16
00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,040
Speaker 1: part of the game. Falcons are gonna have to move

17
00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:53,400
Speaker 1: forward with a couple of significant injuries. We are going

18
00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,200
Speaker 1: to go on the road play the Washington Commanders will

19
00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,000
Speaker 1: have the Fellas breakdown with Atlanta is going to be

20
00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,320
Speaker 1: seeing in that matchup, and then maybe if we have time,

21
00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:05,080
Speaker 1: a little bit of story time about an unbelievable play

22
00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,880
Speaker 1: other than what CP did last weekend, maybe that we've

23
00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,800
Speaker 1: seen throughout our career. If we have time, let's do

24
00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,720
Speaker 1: you guys go with that? All right, let's go quick

25
00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:17,160
Speaker 1: reaction here, fellas, hopefully you came prepared. All right, I

26
00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:20,680
Speaker 1: need a word or two words, or maybe a short phrase,

27
00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,600
Speaker 1: but nothing long and drawn out or here archer. Okay,

28
00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:27,560
Speaker 1: it's all right, but but I'm gonna start with Jay.

29
00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:35,240
Speaker 1: You have time to be Corderyl Patterson on his return touchdown?

30
00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:41,360
Speaker 1: Is the blank? The answer the ANSP can do it

31
00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:50,040
Speaker 1: all calabate. No, No, The answer is okay, pause, Now

32
00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:52,240
Speaker 1: you can talk about practice. No, go ahead, I'm sorry.

33
00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:55,480
Speaker 1: Now you can explain CP. I mean, we see this

34
00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,840
Speaker 1: dude every week, and I'm like, what can't this dude do.

35
00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,440
Speaker 1: He's played riding back, he's played slide, he played kick return.

36
00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,120
Speaker 1: I want to he probably can go guard. Somebody, probably

37
00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,640
Speaker 1: go rush the passer. Don't let a quarterback get hurt

38
00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:09,640
Speaker 1: because he might just go ahead and get behind center

39
00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,600
Speaker 1: and anything you need. He probably gonna play tight end

40
00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:15,880
Speaker 1: this week. So we're gonna be all right, Dave CP

41
00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:22,560
Speaker 1: is gon give you a sound who kills the freight train? Baby?

42
00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,280
Speaker 1: How about how about the how about the kicker? Going

43
00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:31,880
Speaker 1: like this is I'm watching the game, guys, and my

44
00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:34,440
Speaker 1: wife is right there, and um I knew I was

45
00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:36,200
Speaker 1: watching him back on record, and so I knew it

46
00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:38,160
Speaker 1: was about to happen, and I was like, watch this

47
00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,280
Speaker 1: real quick, and she gets he gets to the point

48
00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:42,320
Speaker 1: to where the kickers there and the only thing she

49
00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:46,040
Speaker 1: says on the entire play goes, kicker doesn't have a chance, none,

50
00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:51,000
Speaker 1: no chance. Um, So I'm gonna say CP is royalty.

51
00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:55,080
Speaker 1: Very seldom throughout your NFL career do you get to

52
00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:59,240
Speaker 1: be at the top of any NFL record book. And

53
00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:01,440
Speaker 1: he ain't even done yet, not to say that he's

54
00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,800
Speaker 1: gonna get very many more chances, because we know the

55
00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,639
Speaker 1: game has changed on kickoff return. But CP just said,

56
00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:08,800
Speaker 1: guess what, I don't care three yards deep. I'm taking

57
00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,240
Speaker 1: it out. I trust myself. So he is now in

58
00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:14,920
Speaker 1: a class of his own, on top of the NFL

59
00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,400
Speaker 1: nine kickoff return for nine return touchdowns in his career

60
00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:25,000
Speaker 1: alone by himself. Amazing accomplishment to bring the balls name

61
00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:27,440
Speaker 1: back up. So yeah, what happened? Yeah? By the way

62
00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,400
Speaker 1: and West dropped this and I didn't. I didn't research

63
00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,240
Speaker 1: it that deep, but West talked about nine kickoff returns

64
00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,400
Speaker 1: for touchdowns. West goes for my partner on Falcon Radio.

65
00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,400
Speaker 1: Three of the nine have been returned against the Chicago Bears.

66
00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:49,400
Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, so yeah, and the enjoy kind of

67
00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:51,080
Speaker 1: reminds me maybe we'll get to a letter of a

68
00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,280
Speaker 1: guy named Devin Hester that I saw on a Chicago

69
00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:56,560
Speaker 1: Bears jersey that was pretty lethal returning the ball as well.

70
00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:58,240
Speaker 1: All right, let's break this down a little bit, Dave.

71
00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,280
Speaker 1: I want to come to you, Um Halkins seemingly back

72
00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:04,320
Speaker 1: on track, Um, kind of give us your quick synopsis

73
00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,600
Speaker 1: on how you think they got this one done. There's

74
00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,440
Speaker 1: a number of plays that you can point to, some

75
00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,600
Speaker 1: momentum swings, but what stuck out to you the most.

76
00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,000
Speaker 1: I think that just the resilience of the team. They

77
00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,720
Speaker 1: continue to They got off to a fast start, really

78
00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:17,680
Speaker 1: good opening drive. I think they may have faced one

79
00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:21,280
Speaker 1: third down in the drive. They really dictated from a

80
00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:26,520
Speaker 1: tempo standpoint to a h you know, formation standpoint. Groups

81
00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:28,400
Speaker 1: of guys in the game thought it was a really

82
00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,080
Speaker 1: well called opening drive. Marcus Mariota made a throw on

83
00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,920
Speaker 1: the play that I said on the broadcast, there's five

84
00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:37,440
Speaker 1: guys maybe on a planet, and make that throw. Okay,

85
00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:39,680
Speaker 1: he's on the dead run to his left, does not

86
00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:44,800
Speaker 1: even get his STIPs rotated somehow swivels his hips or

87
00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:49,120
Speaker 1: swivels his shoulders and get strake London in the back line. Yeah,

88
00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,000
Speaker 1: guy breathing down on him, losing ground. I mean it

89
00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,479
Speaker 1: was a it's a big time play. I mean, for

90
00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:56,640
Speaker 1: all that we've been talking about, or everybody's been talking

91
00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:59,640
Speaker 1: about about the quarterback play, I thought he played some

92
00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,839
Speaker 1: p national quarterback this weekend. That he was very efficient

93
00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,000
Speaker 1: with the ball, took care of the ball and made

94
00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:07,719
Speaker 1: some plays that only a few guys can make. I

95
00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,720
Speaker 1: thought that was number one. And defensively, they were relentless

96
00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,680
Speaker 1: this weekend. Defensively, there there was an idea that this

97
00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,200
Speaker 1: guy could hurt you if you let him, and they

98
00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:19,400
Speaker 1: didn't let him. Yeah, DJ, I mean we talked about

99
00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:21,479
Speaker 1: this last week. One of the biggest keys. Even though

100
00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,840
Speaker 1: and Atlanta had struggled a little bit against the run

101
00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,560
Speaker 1: two of the last few games against Carolina, Carolina had

102
00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:28,960
Speaker 1: kind of pounded on him. But this was going to

103
00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,680
Speaker 1: be a different animal, you're gonna have the quarterback position

104
00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:35,840
Speaker 1: and a really elusive runner. Really it's his strong suit,

105
00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,640
Speaker 1: right that's what he does best right now, and he

106
00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,440
Speaker 1: had a number of opportunities. They still found his yards,

107
00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,160
Speaker 1: but by and large they limited the ones that can

108
00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,520
Speaker 1: be really damaging, the ones that can really end up

109
00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,080
Speaker 1: changing the course of the game before. I don't want to,

110
00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:52,080
Speaker 1: I don't want to pigeonhole you into anything. But defensively,

111
00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:54,359
Speaker 1: what did you see and how were they able to

112
00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,159
Speaker 1: have success against justin Fields. I think it was an

113
00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:59,280
Speaker 1: unbelievable job for those guys up front, and all of

114
00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:01,240
Speaker 1: a sudden, we all know the back end in the

115
00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,359
Speaker 1: front end works together. But I thought it was a

116
00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,599
Speaker 1: number of times where the way they rushed him was

117
00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:09,440
Speaker 1: so important. I mean, there were times where we talked

118
00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:11,359
Speaker 1: about it last week and it had to happen where

119
00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:13,520
Speaker 1: you get up feel but then those guys on the

120
00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,839
Speaker 1: inside pushed. There was a couple et stunts up front.

121
00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,040
Speaker 1: I think the sat Grady had was a tackle in

122
00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:22,159
Speaker 1: stunt where Lorenzo comes inside and Grady, you know, Luke

123
00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:25,200
Speaker 1: tron outside and Lorenzo's getting the pressure. But because Grady

124
00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:27,400
Speaker 1: stayed at the proper depth. He was able just to

125
00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,520
Speaker 1: fall back into it on it. There were a number

126
00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:31,880
Speaker 1: of instances like that where they rushed him in a

127
00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:34,560
Speaker 1: way where he had really nowhere to go. And you

128
00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:37,880
Speaker 1: think about the everybody talks about that scramble player he had, Well,

129
00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,360
Speaker 1: they had pretty good contain on him, like you know,

130
00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:42,000
Speaker 1: he went left and had to come back right, but

131
00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,120
Speaker 1: they're still with guys in his face. I thought they

132
00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,080
Speaker 1: did a good job of rushing him. And you're talking

133
00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:48,640
Speaker 1: about one sack in first half and three in the

134
00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,440
Speaker 1: third quarter. I think that was kind of the big

135
00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:54,160
Speaker 1: big point in the ball game, but where he started

136
00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,760
Speaker 1: to kind of feel the game because they were starting

137
00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:58,360
Speaker 1: to hit him. They were starting to get after him

138
00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,279
Speaker 1: because of because of maybe just necessity, a lot of

139
00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:04,520
Speaker 1: these guys thrust it into the lineup early on in

140
00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:06,440
Speaker 1: the season. And now now when you fast forward when

141
00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:07,840
Speaker 1: we're in the second half of you they played a

142
00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:09,920
Speaker 1: lot of football, right. They always say when you get

143
00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:12,040
Speaker 1: past well, I don't know, eight nine, ten to eleven games,

144
00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:14,520
Speaker 1: like you're not rookie anymore. Right, So these guys have

145
00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,920
Speaker 1: they've studied from veterans, they've been on the field, they've

146
00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:19,800
Speaker 1: seen a lot of situations and a a lot of times

147
00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,120
Speaker 1: arch that's what it takes for a rookie to learn.

148
00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:24,840
Speaker 1: Maybe it's making some mistakes, Maybe it's getting out of

149
00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:27,720
Speaker 1: position one time, going back into the film room and

150
00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,040
Speaker 1: the veterans and the coaches saying, all right, in order

151
00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:32,720
Speaker 1: to have success at this level, you've got to take

152
00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:35,240
Speaker 1: this angle. Whatever the small adjustments. Maybe I think it's

153
00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:37,680
Speaker 1: a great point that the young players coming in and

154
00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,760
Speaker 1: making a difference. So we talked about CP as far

155
00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:43,480
Speaker 1: as just a quick little hitter at the top, Dave,

156
00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:46,880
Speaker 1: let's just talk about it's kind of a dumb question

157
00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:48,840
Speaker 1: to say what he means to this team, But you

158
00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,440
Speaker 1: just never know where he's going to affect the game.

159
00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:54,440
Speaker 1: Maybe it's running the football, maybe it's catching passes out

160
00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:56,920
Speaker 1: of the backfield traditional wide receiver or tight end set.

161
00:07:56,960 --> 00:07:58,720
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, they just happened to

162
00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:00,880
Speaker 1: throw him back there in a kickoffer turn and he

163
00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,280
Speaker 1: makes one of the biggest plays of the season. Maybe

164
00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:07,160
Speaker 1: for Atlanta. It's hard for an opposing team to respond

165
00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:11,680
Speaker 1: to the momentum gained by such a huge return. It's

166
00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:14,480
Speaker 1: almost like the guy, even though he hasn't returned a

167
00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:16,560
Speaker 1: whole lot of kicks as of late. He just has

168
00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:20,000
Speaker 1: that vision that is just ingrained in his head throughout

169
00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:23,120
Speaker 1: his career because he knew exactly where that scene was

170
00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:25,920
Speaker 1: gonna open up. Arch. He didn't take the bait to say,

171
00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:28,920
Speaker 1: oh something, flashes, I'm gonna go out to the right.

172
00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,320
Speaker 1: He knew exactly where the scene was gonna open up.

173
00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:33,520
Speaker 1: He trusted it, and then as soon as he saw it,

174
00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:38,319
Speaker 1: he just took off flashes. Oh yeah, I see what

175
00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:42,679
Speaker 1: you did there. Yeah, a little superio stuff there. Yeah.

176
00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,160
Speaker 1: The vision. Trust is a great word, because I thought

177
00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,800
Speaker 1: that Marquis Williams and his staff Coach Hoffman, those guys

178
00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:50,640
Speaker 1: did a really good job of making a couple adjustments.

179
00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:52,600
Speaker 1: I thought CP was about right to set sail on

180
00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:55,040
Speaker 1: a couple before that, there was a couple of guys.

181
00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,880
Speaker 1: There was a guy that ran through. They had Quikowski,

182
00:08:57,880 --> 00:08:59,400
Speaker 1: I think, trying to block a guy and a guy

183
00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,439
Speaker 1: kept getting clean and he was in CP's face, kind

184
00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,920
Speaker 1: of stutter stepped, his feet, couldn't really get up to

185
00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:07,839
Speaker 1: full speed. Once he hits about twenty twenty five, about

186
00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:10,640
Speaker 1: the thirty yard line, he's kicking it into gear. He

187
00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,440
Speaker 1: couldn't quite get to that spot, they made an adjustment,

188
00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,040
Speaker 1: got that guy blocked, and so you trust it, like

189
00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,280
Speaker 1: you're talking about. He trusted that guy was blocked. So

190
00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:20,840
Speaker 1: when he got to twenty five to thirty, then all

191
00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:22,679
Speaker 1: of a sudden accelerator came because he knew the guy

192
00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:24,839
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna be there, and he trusted the crease and

193
00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:28,640
Speaker 1: hit it, and of course the kicker waved at Nall.

194
00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:30,800
Speaker 1: He kind of got into the vision. He got in

195
00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:36,320
Speaker 1: the way. Maybe, UM, I don't yeah, if that kicker

196
00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:40,520
Speaker 1: has seen any highlights lately, he's like, um, he's done

197
00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:43,720
Speaker 1: this to linebackers, Like, you know, this is not my ideal.

198
00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:48,199
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna go ahead and stay on. All right,

199
00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:50,480
Speaker 1: So you mentioned a joke, you know, kind of play

200
00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:55,200
Speaker 1: next week. Unfortunately in the NFL, injuries happen, um, and

201
00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:57,000
Speaker 1: you kind of alluded to it, Dave, So let's go

202
00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,559
Speaker 1: back and kind of visit this. Because Kyle Pitts goes

203
00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,160
Speaker 1: down with an injury, gets put on the reserve list,

204
00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,959
Speaker 1: so they're gonna be without his services, and you kind

205
00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:07,480
Speaker 1: of alluded to it. Maybe this is a time where

206
00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:10,160
Speaker 1: CP gets more involved in the passing game, maybe kind

207
00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:13,320
Speaker 1: of turns into a little bit of Kyle Pitts. What

208
00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,760
Speaker 1: is Atlanta gonna miss without him in the lineup? And

209
00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:19,080
Speaker 1: where do you suppose the passing game goes from here? Well,

210
00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:21,240
Speaker 1: in shotgun, I'll will tell you. When you take one

211
00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:23,280
Speaker 1: of your weapons off the field, now it changes the

212
00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:25,559
Speaker 1: dynamic or what I'm looking at as a quarterback. And

213
00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:29,240
Speaker 1: now of a sudden, Kyle's effect on coverage is now

214
00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:32,920
Speaker 1: that he's not out there. So how can I affect that? Well,

215
00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,880
Speaker 1: the guy that's got maybe the most notoriety to him

216
00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:39,400
Speaker 1: is Cordarrell Patterson. So now Caleb Huntley and Tyler al

217
00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,600
Speaker 1: Juror hand running the football the bulk of it, and

218
00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:45,640
Speaker 1: now Avison's CP becomes that slot guy at six foot three,

219
00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:49,559
Speaker 1: big time target guy, can run, creates problems much like

220
00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:53,240
Speaker 1: Kylewood Drake London will slide inside. I would assume and

221
00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:55,880
Speaker 1: play a little bit more slot stuff as well. Because

222
00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:58,280
Speaker 1: of the emergence of Demere Bird has made some plays

223
00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,000
Speaker 1: over the last recent weeks. We saw Corderio Hodge to

224
00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,040
Speaker 1: make a big catch in this game. So those guys

225
00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:04,800
Speaker 1: are gonna have to pick up the load. Oz gonna

226
00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:06,679
Speaker 1: have to pick up the load. Maybe outside the numbers

227
00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:09,079
Speaker 1: and now London at six foot five or six four,

228
00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,839
Speaker 1: slides inside along with CP to give you those big,

229
00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,559
Speaker 1: big receivers. Ferture will be up. He's a guy that's

230
00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:18,440
Speaker 1: a good receiver. We saw him in training camp, emerges

231
00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,400
Speaker 1: a guy that can catch the football. Michael Prue, it's

232
00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:22,360
Speaker 1: going to get more of an opportunity I got. I

233
00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:24,079
Speaker 1: think as a guy that's got more in the tank

234
00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:26,600
Speaker 1: than what we've seen has one touchdown grab in the year.

235
00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,600
Speaker 1: So yeah, we're gonna have to, you know, spread it

236
00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,000
Speaker 1: out over some guys. But I think you're probably looking

237
00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,319
Speaker 1: at London and CP as guys that can operate in

238
00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,400
Speaker 1: the slaughter and DJ we've been in these situations before

239
00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:39,920
Speaker 1: as players like it's not there's no time to feel

240
00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:41,599
Speaker 1: sorry for yourself, no time to say what are we

241
00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:43,959
Speaker 1: gonna do without Kyle? Just like Arch talked about, it's

242
00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,720
Speaker 1: about adjustments. So where do we go from here? Different

243
00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:48,600
Speaker 1: guys have to step up and you just have to

244
00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:51,240
Speaker 1: pick up the load somebody. They've got guys that can

245
00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,839
Speaker 1: be weapons. You mentioned like CP is probably the closest

246
00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:57,200
Speaker 1: thing that looks almost like Kyle. He's got the height,

247
00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,280
Speaker 1: he's got the strength, he's got the route running ability.

248
00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:01,360
Speaker 1: He's probably even got an edge on him because he's

249
00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:03,760
Speaker 1: got the experience. Yeah, and I think one guy that

250
00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,640
Speaker 1: goes under the radar, who Archard's mentioned as Pruett, the

251
00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:08,959
Speaker 1: guy is athletic, the guy can run, a guy can move.

252
00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:12,400
Speaker 1: He is a bigger body guy as well. And CP

253
00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:14,840
Speaker 1: is absolutely gonna be used in multiple ways. I mean,

254
00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:19,040
Speaker 1: we watched the forty nine ers, you know, last night

255
00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:22,079
Speaker 1: play and you know the debo's using every facet of

256
00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:24,240
Speaker 1: the game. Christian McCaffrey, I think it's gonna be similar

257
00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:26,839
Speaker 1: to what you have to do now. But I think

258
00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:30,679
Speaker 1: the biggest thing is he added so much in the

259
00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:33,920
Speaker 1: past game as far as the attention that he at

260
00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:35,760
Speaker 1: the game. So I think now you move another guy

261
00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:38,160
Speaker 1: there who people already know about it, and A four

262
00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:41,360
Speaker 1: is CP, and he's gonna attract similar attention because when

263
00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:42,800
Speaker 1: the balls in his hand, I mean, think about it.

264
00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:44,640
Speaker 1: We threw him a little slip screen out there on

265
00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:46,760
Speaker 1: third down and he goes and pick up the first down,

266
00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:48,439
Speaker 1: picks up seven eight yards and bowls a couple of

267
00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:50,600
Speaker 1: guys over. Those are the little things that you can

268
00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:53,120
Speaker 1: do to get him a football, right, away. That's you know,

269
00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:55,320
Speaker 1: not as taxing as turn around and hand it off

270
00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:57,959
Speaker 1: to him. You got two backs who you absolutely trust

271
00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,640
Speaker 1: back there. Now you use him on the outside. So

272
00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:02,840
Speaker 1: they're gonna be some guys who can make some plays.

273
00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:06,280
Speaker 1: We've seen. We thought Bird and Oz were just deep threats.

274
00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:08,800
Speaker 1: We've seen them guys catch, you know, underneath stuff, catch

275
00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:10,839
Speaker 1: over routes, catch or whatever it may be. You have

276
00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:13,400
Speaker 1: guys who can make plays. Now is a good instance

277
00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:15,400
Speaker 1: for now the ball can be distributed all the way

278
00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,160
Speaker 1: around and it's balling. I think in the first series,

279
00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,319
Speaker 1: aren't you may bed to correct me. In the first series,

280
00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,599
Speaker 1: I think seven different guys either touched or ran the

281
00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:25,880
Speaker 1: football in that particular drive. That's the distribution of your life.

282
00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,720
Speaker 1: I think this will continue to grow now not having

283
00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:32,880
Speaker 1: you know, not having pits on the field. Yeah, so,

284
00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:36,800
Speaker 1: how many guys can they get involved in the passing

285
00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:40,320
Speaker 1: game against the Washington Commanders. We've talked about it already,

286
00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:42,199
Speaker 1: we talked about the Bears game. They've enjoyed it for

287
00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:45,240
Speaker 1: their twenty four hours or so. It's time to move forward.

288
00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,360
Speaker 1: This episode in part brought to you by the Home Depot.

289
00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:52,360
Speaker 1: Everything you need for your next home improvements project is

290
00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:55,199
Speaker 1: just a tapaway on the home Depot app. The home

291
00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:58,560
Speaker 1: Depot app Digital toolbox gives you access to how to guys,

292
00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:02,199
Speaker 1: project calculators, an image search so you'll know exactly what

293
00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,559
Speaker 1: you need to pick up. With the tap of the finger.

294
00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:07,480
Speaker 1: You can rent and reserve the right tools for the job.

295
00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:11,400
Speaker 1: Also browsed through millions of items from top brands that

296
00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:14,600
Speaker 1: you can have delivered right to your door. Whatever your project,

297
00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:17,360
Speaker 1: find exactly what you need with the home Depot app.

298
00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:21,360
Speaker 1: Download the home Depot app. Today, Falcons are gonna go

299
00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:23,360
Speaker 1: on the road. They're gonna face the Washington Commanders, a

300
00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,640
Speaker 1: team that's kind of played two different seasons. Okay, one

301
00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:30,840
Speaker 1: they're opener. They proceeded to lose four straight games. They were,

302
00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:33,720
Speaker 1: you know, in the dumps of the NFL, and then

303
00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:35,640
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they make a couple of changes.

304
00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:37,680
Speaker 1: They win five of their last six games, not to

305
00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:41,280
Speaker 1: mention a victory over the Philadelphia Eagles at Philadelphia, who

306
00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,280
Speaker 1: was undefeated at the time. And they've got to be

307
00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:47,360
Speaker 1: feeling a different sense of where their season is at.

308
00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:49,560
Speaker 1: So Dave kind of walk us through what Atlanta is

309
00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,440
Speaker 1: going to see with Washington. This weekend. Would you guys

310
00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:54,280
Speaker 1: have done such a great job of breaking down the

311
00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:59,000
Speaker 1: opponents in previous weeks. What animal do they face this week? Well, defensively,

312
00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:00,800
Speaker 1: this is one of the better teams in the league.

313
00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:05,080
Speaker 1: They're they're playing with a confidence that would indicate who

314
00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:07,840
Speaker 1: where they were drafted. They've got four number one picks

315
00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,680
Speaker 1: or five number one picks in their front seven. Their

316
00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:12,800
Speaker 1: front four are all number one picks. Two of those

317
00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:16,320
Speaker 1: guys from Alabama. They are getting after people up front,

318
00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:19,800
Speaker 1: and it's not they're having to blitz people. They're able to.

319
00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,480
Speaker 1: They're actually playing to their their expectation, if you will.

320
00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:27,160
Speaker 1: I think their third in the league in defense. Their

321
00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,160
Speaker 1: third in the league. I think on third down defense,

322
00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:31,560
Speaker 1: they're one of the top teams against the run. They're

323
00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:33,680
Speaker 1: defending the pass equally as well. I think teams are

324
00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:35,760
Speaker 1: averaging I don't know, two hundred and twelve yards a

325
00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:37,760
Speaker 1: game in passing, which puts them ten or tenth or

326
00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,880
Speaker 1: twelfth in the league against the pass. So overall, that

327
00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,560
Speaker 1: puts them in the top five defensively in the National

328
00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:45,480
Speaker 1: Football League. That's really kind of where their bread has

329
00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:48,840
Speaker 1: been buttered. That's what they did to Philly. They limited Philadelphia.

330
00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:51,880
Speaker 1: Now give give the offense some credit. They are running

331
00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:54,920
Speaker 1: the ball with some success too. There's another Alabama players

332
00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:57,320
Speaker 1: they like drafted Alabama Bryan Robins. Ryan Robins has run

333
00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,520
Speaker 1: to football extremely well. And Taylor Heineken, the old local

334
00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,360
Speaker 1: product Collins Hill High School, has stepped in. He's had

335
00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:06,040
Speaker 1: opportunities before. Remember he made it a couple of plays

336
00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,960
Speaker 1: against Atlanta last year running around and scrammed with throwing

337
00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,160
Speaker 1: the ball up for grabs and winning a game. So

338
00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:14,200
Speaker 1: they're playing with confidence. I think that's the number one

339
00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:16,640
Speaker 1: thing shot, because it seems like, you know, when you

340
00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:18,840
Speaker 1: get a couple of when you mentioned what five of six,

341
00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,400
Speaker 1: so all of a sudden, what you were doing before

342
00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:23,960
Speaker 1: kind of has gone. What we're doing now is kind

343
00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,320
Speaker 1: of who we are. And so there's a confidence level there.

344
00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:30,360
Speaker 1: Mclaurin's a big time receiver, but confiden, Yeah, a lot

345
00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:33,080
Speaker 1: of high level confidence for them right now. And so

346
00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:35,440
Speaker 1: I think that that's kind of carrying him. So and

347
00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,120
Speaker 1: you're talking about these defense in that six game span,

348
00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:41,280
Speaker 1: they haven't given up more than twenty one points. That

349
00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:43,400
Speaker 1: tell you how good a defensive play arches spot on.

350
00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,080
Speaker 1: They're only giving up one hundred and three rushhards a game,

351
00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:48,320
Speaker 1: which is six and the National Football League. That tells

352
00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:52,360
Speaker 1: you how good they are defensively. And the confidence that

353
00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:56,440
Speaker 1: that Heineke has came in and played with it's obviously

354
00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,200
Speaker 1: because he became the guy. Now they had a chance

355
00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,040
Speaker 1: to go back to Carson Witz, but this guy gave

356
00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,080
Speaker 1: them something else that everybody around him has played a

357
00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:07,280
Speaker 1: lot better. So this is gonna be a tough task

358
00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:09,680
Speaker 1: going up there because they're playing good football. And you

359
00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:13,359
Speaker 1: mentioned upfront we always talk about the trenches part of

360
00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,000
Speaker 1: the game, being able to run a football. This is

361
00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:17,600
Speaker 1: gonna be a game where we're gonna see just how

362
00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:20,040
Speaker 1: physical it can be. It will be because they're gonna

363
00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,240
Speaker 1: want to bring it. How much confidence do you guys

364
00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:25,000
Speaker 1: think that our team takes from this last weekend. It's

365
00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:28,879
Speaker 1: throwing it out. They're kind of a topic here. Normally

366
00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:32,680
Speaker 1: Fred Lanta to win, it's limited possessions and own the football.

367
00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,320
Speaker 1: That didn't happen this weekend to the tune of about

368
00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:38,679
Speaker 1: eight minutes where you didn't they had the ball more

369
00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:41,359
Speaker 1: than you did, you turn the ball over more than

370
00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,800
Speaker 1: they did, and you still won the football game. Now

371
00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:46,520
Speaker 1: it lost third down yeah, it lost third. So and

372
00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:50,919
Speaker 1: now granted you had a special team score, they got

373
00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,240
Speaker 1: a couple opportunities to special teams wise as well, so

374
00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:57,000
Speaker 1: that maybe that balances out. So where does the Falcon

375
00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:59,960
Speaker 1: confidence level sit right now? To me, it would be

376
00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,440
Speaker 1: in a good spot right now after kind of disappointing,

377
00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:06,360
Speaker 1: a real disappointing loss on Thursday night. No, I would

378
00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:08,800
Speaker 1: agree with you. They should feel confident, but they also,

379
00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,520
Speaker 1: to your point, should know, especially an offensive side of

380
00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:15,240
Speaker 1: the ball, that they're gonna have their hands full up front,

381
00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:17,320
Speaker 1: right Like, this is not necessarily going to be a

382
00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:20,040
Speaker 1: game where they can manhandle the front four, the front

383
00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:23,160
Speaker 1: seven for Washington, because you mentioned all the dudes, right

384
00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:25,240
Speaker 1: Like in the NFL. You could sit here and talk

385
00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:27,760
Speaker 1: about scheme and coaching all you want, but at the

386
00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:29,760
Speaker 1: end of the day, you got to have some dudes, now, right,

387
00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:31,639
Speaker 1: You got to have some players, and they've got some

388
00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:33,159
Speaker 1: players on that side of the ball. But at the

389
00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:36,359
Speaker 1: end of the day, DJ, they can't they can't veer

390
00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:39,240
Speaker 1: too far away from their identity, right Their identity is

391
00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:42,600
Speaker 1: still run the football. Let Marcus get out on the perimeter,

392
00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:45,240
Speaker 1: make some plays with his legs and then make a

393
00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:48,040
Speaker 1: couple of those throws that he made last week on

394
00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:52,160
Speaker 1: occasion point somewhere throughout the game that helped them move

395
00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,080
Speaker 1: the chains that help them get that explosive play. They

396
00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:57,200
Speaker 1: can't just say, oh, this is a good front seven.

397
00:18:57,440 --> 00:18:59,120
Speaker 1: We got to start chucking the ball all over the fat.

398
00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:02,240
Speaker 1: But he was decided more aggressive shock and the run

399
00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,800
Speaker 1: game this week. I thought he was to. I mean

400
00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:11,399
Speaker 1: just there were opportunities where I think because listening to

401
00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:14,159
Speaker 1: you talk to him last week, he said there were

402
00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,240
Speaker 1: times where I have to play better. I just forced

403
00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:19,720
Speaker 1: the issue and this one you can see it deciled.

404
00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,040
Speaker 1: So when he decided to go or make a play,

405
00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,240
Speaker 1: he did it with confidence. And that's what is so

406
00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:27,160
Speaker 1: good about this guy. And we talked about it last

407
00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:29,320
Speaker 1: week when everybody said, oh, should you make the change

408
00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:31,280
Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff, I said, the stuff we've

409
00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:33,639
Speaker 1: seen from him that has been good, the stuff that

410
00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:36,640
Speaker 1: we've seen him make the plays, has been when he's

411
00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:38,920
Speaker 1: had that decidled confidence say all right, I'm gonna go

412
00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:40,520
Speaker 1: do this, I'm gonna take off, i'm gonna run, I'm

413
00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:42,600
Speaker 1: gonna make this throw. And there were some in that

414
00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,480
Speaker 1: game where you said, this is why you're still riding

415
00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:48,359
Speaker 1: with Marcus because he has done this, He's shown this,

416
00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,280
Speaker 1: and I think to your point about the identity, it's

417
00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:54,000
Speaker 1: so huge because last week I thought we showed that

418
00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:56,280
Speaker 1: type of Denny in a in a tough, hard fall

419
00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,040
Speaker 1: game where everything was tight, it was close. Offensively, you

420
00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:00,920
Speaker 1: did everything you need to do, especially run the ball,

421
00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,840
Speaker 1: mark is making plays. Defensively, you're talking about, Okay, they

422
00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:06,720
Speaker 1: will point in the game where you're down by team,

423
00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,480
Speaker 1: but in that second half, you put the clamps on them.

424
00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,520
Speaker 1: You don't allow a score in the third quarter. This

425
00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,240
Speaker 1: is a Bears team that hadn't happened to all year long.

426
00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,120
Speaker 1: You close the game out. How many one score games

427
00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:19,840
Speaker 1: as team has been and now you maybe finish it.

428
00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,240
Speaker 1: This is a recoalation of how the confidence of how

429
00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:25,520
Speaker 1: this team should be feeling good about it because you're

430
00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:27,680
Speaker 1: in a game where it could have easily win the

431
00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:30,720
Speaker 1: opposite way, but you continue to fight and there you go.

432
00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,119
Speaker 1: You gotta come out with a win. Yeah, we've talked

433
00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:36,040
Speaker 1: so much about offense in this matchup, and and don't

434
00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:38,240
Speaker 1: get me wrong, it's gonna be a challenge on defense

435
00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:41,560
Speaker 1: for Atlanta because as you mentioned that Washington wants to

436
00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,040
Speaker 1: try to run the football. This is gonna be a

437
00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,639
Speaker 1: little different there. Even though Heineke will run with it

438
00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,600
Speaker 1: is no Justin Fields, right. So this the goal is

439
00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:51,560
Speaker 1: to be be stout up front, win the line of scrimmage,

440
00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:54,639
Speaker 1: limit the running game, and then I think you have

441
00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:57,080
Speaker 1: to make sure that McLaurin doesn't beat you. He is.

442
00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:58,760
Speaker 1: They're going to throw the ball to him a lot.

443
00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:01,040
Speaker 1: He doesn't. He hasn't punched in the end zone a

444
00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:04,119
Speaker 1: bunch this year, but he is a dynamic receiver and

445
00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:08,240
Speaker 1: he can make some things happen. Bret coming into that

446
00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:11,879
Speaker 1: Bears game. Offensively, they were one of the hottest teams

447
00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,080
Speaker 1: in the league. They had three games when they had

448
00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,720
Speaker 1: scored thirty plus points coming in, and even when they

449
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,439
Speaker 1: lost those games, they were the hottest team in the league.

450
00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:21,239
Speaker 1: And you held him with twenty four, You hit him

451
00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:24,159
Speaker 1: the seven points in the second half. That is a

452
00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,000
Speaker 1: huge confidence. But because everybody's talking about how good this

453
00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:30,119
Speaker 1: office has been, how good Justin Fields has been, and

454
00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:31,960
Speaker 1: your stimulon whether it's hurt or nine and the second

455
00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,680
Speaker 1: half that's irrelevant. You did your job and you held

456
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,800
Speaker 1: him to it. Yeah, watched this good up front. Yeah,

457
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,800
Speaker 1: they're pretty good on defense. But this is a totally

458
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 1: different game. It's a totally different team who says you

459
00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,399
Speaker 1: can't come in there and dominate them and you know,

460
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,399
Speaker 1: stifle them, just as you did last week when the

461
00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,040
Speaker 1: Bears came. We got to pay attention to what the

462
00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:53,440
Speaker 1: coaches are doing end game, because this staff has been

463
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,399
Speaker 1: as good as any staff I've seen them, been doing

464
00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:59,439
Speaker 1: these games for twenty years. About adjusting end game. They

465
00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:01,800
Speaker 1: made half time adjustments. What were you getting beat with?

466
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,159
Speaker 1: You're getting beat with quarterbacks sweep. They were running the sweep,

467
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 1: ran it where he walked in, didn't even didn't even

468
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,440
Speaker 1: touch him when he scored right in the first half.

469
00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 1: Did you see quarterbacks sweep? In the second half, they

470
00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,480
Speaker 1: tried it twice and filtered him back inside and he

471
00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:16,400
Speaker 1: got his rear in tattooed a couple of times coming

472
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,560
Speaker 1: to the inside, and all of a sudden it started

473
00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,080
Speaker 1: to kind of go that went away, Okay. Their adjustments

474
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:24,320
Speaker 1: to secure the edge set the edge turning back to

475
00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 1: the inside. No quarterback wants to run up in narrow

476
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,080
Speaker 1: character six three, two, twenty five or not. There's a

477
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:30,760
Speaker 1: lot of guys hunting in there, and they're looking for

478
00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:34,040
Speaker 1: your rear in so you don't like that the adjustments

479
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 1: I think that this kid's staff continues to make in

480
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,720
Speaker 1: game or at halftime. We've seen it from an offensive

481
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:43,200
Speaker 1: standpoint where you're down twenty one to nothing to Tampa

482
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,040
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you make some adjustments and

483
00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,440
Speaker 1: here comes the run game. You start getting the run game.

484
00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,840
Speaker 1: We've seen it all year long. There's only been one

485
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:51,320
Speaker 1: game that got away from me, and it got away

486
00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 1: from you quick and Cincinnati. Everything else has been right

487
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,280
Speaker 1: there for you to take. Even the Thursday night game,

488
00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,760
Speaker 1: you had that long drive, throw a touchdown, pass, get

489
00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:00,159
Speaker 1: a three and out, You got the football with a

490
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,000
Speaker 1: chance to go tight or win it. Yea, even in

491
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,800
Speaker 1: your worst you've had a chance to win a football game.

492
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 1: And it's because of what the staff's doing and the

493
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 1: ability to these guys to absorb changes in game or

494
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 1: at halftime. Absolutely continue to make those strategic adjustments in

495
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 1: the second half and continue to believe right like you

496
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,320
Speaker 1: guys talked about, they played with some momentum. Believe that

497
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 1: they can go on the road and they can beat

498
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,159
Speaker 1: this team. Because you could say all you want, but

499
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,399
Speaker 1: every game in the NFL's a grind. There's not too

500
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:30,960
Speaker 1: many times you can circle it and be like, yeah,

501
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:32,720
Speaker 1: we're gonna win that game. Yeah, I mean it, just

502
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen in the NFL. So Atlanta Falcons go

503
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,320
Speaker 1: on the road. Falcons at five and six facing Washington

504
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 1: Commanders at six and five. Guys, before we sign off,

505
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,280
Speaker 1: I've mentioned it at the top unbelievable place. So we

506
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,440
Speaker 1: saw one last weekend with Cordell Patterson, and I want

507
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,359
Speaker 1: you guys to give me an unbelievable play. And now

508
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,359
Speaker 1: we're talking about like an unbelievable play, So it can't

509
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 1: just be like something that was really cool, Like it's

510
00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 1: got to be unbelievable. All right, it'll be really cool too. Yeah,

511
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:07,879
Speaker 1: I guess. All right, the semantics I mentioned in my

512
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:12,119
Speaker 1: career being on special teams, I faced a lot of

513
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,200
Speaker 1: those guys that Cordell Patterson just ended up passing, right,

514
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 1: Josh Cribbs, Devin Hester even played with one here in Atlanta. Yeah, yeah,

515
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 1: you actually you want you want me to give you

516
00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 1: a quick story. You want to talk about fear. I'll

517
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,159
Speaker 1: even I'm gonna go back to my college days. You

518
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,119
Speaker 1: want to know a guy that I feared that I

519
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,920
Speaker 1: played against in college. Went to a school up there

520
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 1: in Michigan that was pretty good. His name was Charles Woodson. Okay,

521
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 1: and I have this picture in my garage. I don't

522
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 1: have it hanging up anymore because it's gotten old, but

523
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,880
Speaker 1: there's a picture of me running downfield on punk coverage

524
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,480
Speaker 1: and it's me one other linebacker in Charles Woodson in

525
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:53,960
Speaker 1: the middle of the picture, and it is a beautiful picture.

526
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,160
Speaker 1: I got it because it was Seawood and I knew

527
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: he was going to be special. Asked me if I

528
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 1: was anywhere close to not a chance old, I mean, whatever,

529
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 1: the it's I mean, it's it was a frame like

530
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 1: the corners are starting to curl up, and it's not

531
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:16,159
Speaker 1: walworthy anymore. Okay, So anyway, my play real quick is

532
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 1: the play from Michael Vick when we played against Minnesota

533
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 1: up in Minnesota, where he scrambles, goes through the middle,

534
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 1: two defenders end up colliding into each other. He goes

535
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 1: full speed into the end zone. To me, that was

536
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 1: one of the more unbelievable plays that I've seen from

537
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 1: I mean, you could you could make a laundry list

538
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 1: of plays that Michael Vick made, but that was one

539
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: of those that you can watch that highlight today and

540
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 1: you're like, man, that dude was sick. Unbelievable plays that

541
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,159
Speaker 1: you guys remember, either from your careers or just that

542
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 1: you guys watched as a fan. I'll go to um

543
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 1: the guy who was here, who a man, Julio Jones.

544
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 1: The catch he made Verse Carolina on top of Luke

545
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 1: Keekley's head, on top of two guys right there, and

546
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 1: he goes up, snatched up, and then he goes to school.

547
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 1: Most guys that catch it with a hundred meter finishing.

548
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 1: You saint both finishing a record time. When I saw that,

549
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:16,399
Speaker 1: I was like, that's stupid, Like how do you do that?

550
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 1: And then go this is another ten fifteen million dollar

551
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: guy who is the best in the league, and you

552
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 1: made him look like he was your kid brother. He

553
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:30,199
Speaker 1: was unbelievable to watch. I was mouth was open, all right,

554
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,439
Speaker 1: Julio against Panthers. What you got damn? So, I mean,

555
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 1: I guess I can dive into two the archives here

556
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: and I spent some time this last week. We had

557
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 1: a charity event down at the stadium for some people,

558
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 1: and my old teammate Billy White Shoes Johnson was there.

559
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,119
Speaker 1: And shoes, made a lot of plays in his curries

560
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 1: on the seventy fifth anniversary team. He's on one hundred

561
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,639
Speaker 1: anniversary team. I mean, the guy should be in the

562
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:53,440
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. One of the great kick returners of

563
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 1: all time. But he made a play on a big

564
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,639
Speaker 1: ben play against the forty nine ers in old Fulton

565
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: County Stadium. Play where Bart hung the ball deep two

566
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 1: shoes and a lot of guys running down the field,

567
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: Stacey Bailey, Floyd Hodge rolling the running down, Ronnie lots

568
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 1: down there, Dwight Hicks, They're all down there trying to

569
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 1: defend it. And the ball comes down and somehow it

570
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 1: gets between everybody about the two yard line and it

571
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 1: bounces off a Floyd Hodge, one of the Falcon receiver's

572
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 1: knee bounces up in the air and goes backwards, and

573
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 1: Billy Johnson, looping around, catches it and somehow gets in

574
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 1: the end zone on the last play of the game

575
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: to win the game against the Niners. Just one of

576
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,920
Speaker 1: the big ben plays that kind of live in lore

577
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: here in Atlanta. There's been a lot of big ben

578
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: plays that worked out for Atlanta, but that was one

579
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 1: where Billy Johnson made a play. Is cool. I'll give

580
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 1: you a cool one real quickly in light of we're

581
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: going to celebrate John Madden for this week and thanks

582
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving. He loved the ter Duncan and all the

583
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 1: stuff that went along with that. I remember standing in

584
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 1: the end zone. This is when I was at Philly

585
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:58,880
Speaker 1: and Jim mcmannon and I were out throwing the ball

586
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:00,679
Speaker 1: a little bit and Madden walked out in the end

587
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 1: zone threw his cup of coffee in the end zone

588
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 1: and I looked over and kind of game across like as, oh, sorry,

589
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: just marking my territory. I said, you're too late. He goes,

590
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: what do you mean? I go, Seth Joyner. He's in

591
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 1: a cup and he sprinkles it on the end zone

592
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 1: pylons to keep the team out of the end zone

593
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 1: the opposition. His mouth dropped openly. No, when does he

594
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 1: do it? It was classic time, true John Madden fashion.

595
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 1: Oh it was it was classic. Yeah, John mad God

596
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 1: rest his soul. One of the greats of all time.

597
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 1: Just celebrating John Madden on this week where they're going

598
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 1: to celebrate him on that such just a few of

599
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: our unbelievable, awesome, fantastic plays that we've been a part of.

600
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 1: With this coop cool plays, maybe we'll get a chance

601
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: to see another one this weekend. Atlantic goes on the

602
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 1: road and face the Washington Commanders. As I mentioned, five

603
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: and six against six and five. Thanks so much for

604
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: joining us here. I'm the Falcons ONBO presented by AT

605
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: and T. Continue to like, scribe, review on Spotify, iTunes,

606
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 1: upkins dot com, and YouTube or however you get your

607
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: podcast with tre. If you get it any other way,

608
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: let me know because those are the four that I know.

609
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: He's Arch, he's Shock, I'm Rack. We'll see you next time, everybody.

610
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us a place sho