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Speaker 1: Dirty Birds. What's Up?

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Speaker 2: And welcome to another edition of Falcon's Final Whistle, presented

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Speaker 2: ivaxx's I'm your host Will McFadden, joined as always by

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Speaker 2: Tory mclaney, and we have an amazing guest. We have

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Speaker 2: Kay Adams, the host of Up and Adams on Fando

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Speaker 2: TV and streaming live on YouTube weekdays at eleven am Eastern.

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Speaker 2: Usually I'm so bad at those, but I practiced in

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Speaker 2: the mirror last night and had to make sure that

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Speaker 2: I got a lockdown, so till.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for being amazing and for inviting me on. Tory.

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Speaker 3: Great to see you stealing your sweater. Of course, it's

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Speaker 3: in the team shop. Everybody snatched it up before I do.

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Speaker 3: I'm so excited to be here. The energy in the

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Speaker 3: building is amazing.

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Speaker 4: It's a lot of fun, it really is.

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Speaker 5: So first things first, let's let's go through practice today.

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Speaker 5: You had your little setup up on the balcony cut

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Speaker 5: to watch practice kind of from a bird's eye view,

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Speaker 5: if you will. And the main point that I think

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Speaker 5: everybody took from this was that one we're recording this

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Speaker 5: on Kirk cousins birthday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and the.

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Speaker 5: Music playing was very Kirk Cousins centric. From what I

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Speaker 5: have heard sources in the bill tell me hashtag sources

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Speaker 5: that this was like what he picked out, this is

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Speaker 5: what he wanted.

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Speaker 3: I needed to talk to no one to know that.

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Speaker 3: I was sitting there and just watching. I go, wow,

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Speaker 3: that is like Green Day after Fallow, Up Boy, after

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Speaker 3: Jimmy Eat World, after the Killers, Like this is Kirk

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Speaker 3: Cousin's birthday playlist, either bat or They made a playlist

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Speaker 3: or turned on the Pandora station for two thousands just

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Speaker 3: to let him rock out. And I thought that was

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Speaker 3: so cute and amazing. And it was song after song,

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Speaker 3: bangor after bangor, and it took me back to just

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Speaker 3: you know, college bartending. It was amazing, and I think

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Speaker 3: all of the media really appreciated it.

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Speaker 4: Today we were vibing out there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was providing an education toward young players as well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we were keeping the vibes time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean it's his thirty sixth birthday. I'm sure

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Speaker 3: he's happy to, you know, be celebrated. We brought him

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Speaker 3: some cupcakes from up in Adams and I think Coat

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Speaker 3: said he'd give him a hearty birthday, a happy v Day,

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Speaker 3: and I said, yeah, I don't think you have to

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Speaker 3: get him anything. I think you and Terry did your

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Speaker 3: things and got him enough toys for his birthday.

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Speaker 2: You did enough though, absolutely, Yeah, they got him two

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Speaker 2: gifts over the weekend. Yes, what'd you think about the

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Speaker 2: Matthew jud Don and Justin Simon signings.

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Speaker 3: I was with the Patriots. I kicked off my twenty

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Speaker 3: team up in Adam's training camp tour up there, and

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Speaker 3: I asked every person whether it was their quarterback, Jacobe Brissett,

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Speaker 3: their head coach, Dorod Mayo. I said, can this be

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Speaker 3: a top five defense, which it could be with Jude

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Speaker 3: you don't have him? And across the board it was,

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Speaker 3: you know, he's that important. We want him out here.

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Speaker 3: Business is business. I thought that it's going to be

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Speaker 3: a huge lift energy wise, not that you need it

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Speaker 3: because you have all running around, but just you know,

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Speaker 3: he brings a spark and I think a bit of

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Speaker 3: maybe more than anything, confidence that they can win a

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Speaker 3: Super Bowl here. I know that sounds a little wild,

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Speaker 3: but Matthew's not coming down here. If that's not the case.

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Speaker 3: He isn't agreeing to the trade, He's not you know,

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Speaker 3: without a new deal in place. He's not saying, let

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Speaker 3: me just ride this out. None of that stuff's even

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Speaker 3: in his head. If he doesn't think at chops or whatever.

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Speaker 3: That wasn't him, that was Simmons. But in the process

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Speaker 3: to be. I think that's huge. I think it's huge

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Speaker 3: for younger players to see. I could see it in

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Speaker 3: a ten year veteran Grady Jarrett's eyes. Today, I have

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Speaker 3: a guy who means business. And Beijon thought that the

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Speaker 3: most important impressive thing was that he finishes. He finished.

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Speaker 3: Even just today he's dipping his toast, his first little taste.

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Speaker 3: He finished to play and he was still down field

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Speaker 3: need to finish. That's what all the best teams do.

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Speaker 3: So Judah, I'm super excited about I think when you

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Speaker 3: add you know, you see some teams have a lot

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Speaker 3: of success with adding that veteran presence to win a

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Speaker 3: you see it with the Chiefs and Tyrone Matthew. It matters.

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Speaker 3: It matters that little there's that little and it's always

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Speaker 3: that guy that makes a play. When he needs to,

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Speaker 3: and hopefully that's Judah and Simmons. Of course, Turnover Machine

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Speaker 3: loved him, had a lot of suitors. Another thing of

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Speaker 3: confidence in the building of he could have gone other places.

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Speaker 3: He wants to be here. We went to Chops and

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Speaker 3: you know, we did our one two charisma punch of

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Speaker 5: So you had the chance to sit down with Jean Robinson,

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Speaker 5: Grady j Raheem Morris for your show this morning. When

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Speaker 5: you look back at those conversations, what do you take

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Speaker 5: from those conversations and understanding maybe even what Raheem Morris

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Speaker 3: It's energy. It is the entire Raw experience is energy.

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Speaker 3: I knew you know, you can't. He's a very special person.

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Speaker 3: I can't bring up his name to anyone in the

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Speaker 3: NFL family without them lighting up. It's just true. It's

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Speaker 3: he's different. I asked him if he likes being the

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Speaker 3: most well liked coach, what's it like being the most

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Speaker 3: well liked coach in the NFL? And he said, I

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Speaker 3: don't want I want to be the most winning coach

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Speaker 3: in the NFL. Want through a wall. Let's yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: it's it's what you need. I think he's got a

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Speaker 3: lot of confidence. I'm excited. I'm very curious to see

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Speaker 3: how the play calling goes on defense. Yeah, it's got

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Speaker 3: to be him. I can't see it not being him.

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Speaker 1: He really you think so, I think I'll have an

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Speaker 2: And that's why the Justin Simmons acquisition is so interesting

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Speaker 2: to me because if you kind of look at but

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Speaker 2: they've been doing in Los Angeles, and really I think

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Speaker 2: where the kind of individuality of this defense can be

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Speaker 2: the flexibility that they have on that back end. So

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Speaker 2: I really think that when you talk about a guy

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Speaker 2: like they are going to have every single trick up

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Speaker 2: guys out there that I think are much more capable

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Speaker 3: Sure, but you, I mean, one person's calling the place

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Speaker 3: and it's always fascinating, and I think it's a worse

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Speaker 3: so it'll be interesting to see what decision they come to.

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Speaker 3: There's a huge selflessness on this team, which I can see.

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Speaker 3: It's what you're saying, and I think it comes from

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Speaker 3: something that I'm hearing all the player stress and it's

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Speaker 3: clear communication. It's hard to have a team full of superstars.

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Speaker 3: It it's hard to keep everyone happy. Take special people

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Speaker 3: like Bijon, but takes clear communication from coach this is

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Speaker 3: what the deal is. We're running the ball aton Kirk

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Speaker 3: whole offense is going to run through Robinson, all of that.

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Speaker 3: It takes clear communication, you know, to run a defense selflessly,

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Speaker 3: another thing that I really enjoyed about our conversation.

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Speaker 5: Something he talks about all the time is role clarity.

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Speaker 5: It comes up every single day with Raheem Morris and

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Speaker 5: something that I'm really interested when you're talking about roles

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Speaker 5: and you're switching over and talking about the offense a

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Speaker 5: little bit. The infusion of Kirk Cousins into this offense

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Speaker 5: immediately changes the expectation that you have for overall play,

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Speaker 5: overall production. So the question that we have for you

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Speaker 5: think stands to gain the most by having Kirk Cousins

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Speaker 3: Out of who, out of pits, who hits Bajon Drake

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Speaker 3: Bajeon one hundred percent? I think it's his best friend.

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Speaker 3: You've got a thirty six year old quarterback coming off

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Speaker 3: Hall and Aaron Rodgers. Your offensive line is looking good.

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Speaker 3: But Jean told me that himself. He's really happy with that.

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Speaker 3: He volunteered that information, did not, Yes, he told it.

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Speaker 3: He told me that. And this is somebody who wants

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Speaker 3: of that. I think balance the team, run the ball,

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Speaker 3: off of four hundred sixty three scrimmage yard season who

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Speaker 3: He is not satisfied, and I love that about him.

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Speaker 2: That's when running backs, I mean, they make a big

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Speaker 3: I asked him about going to a Week one Arthur Smith,

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Speaker 3: what's that going to be like? You know, you get

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Speaker 3: thirty five ki to touches, You're he goes, I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: go give him a big hug. Watch my show. It's

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Speaker 3: an interesting bite, he says. I'm going to give him

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Speaker 3: I think I think at times last year he wanted

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Speaker 2: Fair certainly, maybe near the goal line like stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: You get those kind of high leverage situations. You're an athlete,

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Speaker 2: you're a competitor. You want the ball in those spots.

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Speaker 2: And so I totally understand that if you had to

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Speaker 2: right now, if we had to make you stake your

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Speaker 3: If they're not a top ten offense, what are we

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Speaker 3: doing here? Absolutely? I don't know. Zach Robinson. Well, trust

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Speaker 3: Bejeon when he's sitting there telling me he's a total mastermind.

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Speaker 3: I have confidence he's gonna give me the ball when

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Speaker 3: you're loaded like this. Top ten is easy, Breezy. I

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Speaker 3: have big expectations for this team. They're the team to

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Speaker 3: beat not only your division, but with the help on defense,

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Speaker 3: hopefully you know these additions, these lifts, it's not just

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Speaker 3: Grady Jarrett and everybody else. That's how it's seen on

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Speaker 3: a national level. I think I don't know if it's

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Speaker 3: how it's seen here in Atlanta, but it's the defense

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Speaker 5: You make such a good point too about the infusion

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Speaker 4: Well, that was what I was going to ask you.

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Speaker 3: What's Kirk thinking? What's Kirk thinking like he wants to be?

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Speaker 2: Well, But that is like the funny duality of all

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Speaker 2: Way and you've seen, I mean the way that he

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Speaker 3: But you're right, it is his team. I mean, if

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Speaker 3: that's another interesting little wrinkle in coach's decision not to

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Speaker 5: Yeah, just one last thing about the tour that you've

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Speaker 3: I think interesting. The ideas about preseason are all over

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I took a point that's fascinating, and I'm just

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Speaker 3: We're headed to We're headed to New Orleans.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you're saving the worst for last.

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Speaker 3: It's like not worried about New Orleans at all.

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Speaker 5: Well, I could go back and forth on it.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. In history will tell you this.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Kay, We really appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you guys so much for listening and watching today's

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Speaker 2: episode of Falcons Final Whistle, presented by Zaxby's Four k

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Speaker 2: Adams and Sparaclaney and Will macatten and we will see

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Speaker 2: you guys tomorrow