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Speaker 1: It's game week. Everybody. Week one of the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two NFL season is upon us. Thank you for joining

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Speaker 1: us here on the Falcon's Audible, presented by AT and T.

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Speaker 1: I'm Derek Rackley with my guys is always in the

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Speaker 1: flesh in studio. This week, DJ Shockley is back. He

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Speaker 1: doesn't have this work commitments right now, so yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: actually here. And of course, Dave Archer, we've got some

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Speaker 1: excitement because look, not that all the rest of the

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Speaker 1: season is not excited to talk about, but when you're

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Speaker 1: actually getting ready for regular season and you're gonna see

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Speaker 1: more than like four minutes of starters, you're looking forward

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Speaker 1: to some things going on, not to mention the fact

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Speaker 1: of the opponent that is coming into the house. So

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Speaker 1: let's dive right into it. Here's what we're gonna cover today,

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Speaker 1: of course, our first Reaction season opener here at Mercedes

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Speaker 1: Been Stadium. We're gonna talk about the Saints. The Saints

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Speaker 1: come into the into the house this week, and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna kind of give you a little bit of background

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Speaker 1: of what the New Orleans Saints look like right now,

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Speaker 1: because there's been some changes with them, just like there

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Speaker 1: has been with every team throughout the NFL. What's it

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Speaker 1: gonna take on the field to beat New Orleans? And

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Speaker 1: then finally, I'm gonna toss it up and see if

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Speaker 1: the guys have any favorite season opening memories from their career.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna take a trip down memory lane. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: my memory isn't all that great in these days, but hey,

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Speaker 1: we'll still do it, all right, So guys, let's get

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Speaker 1: into it first fractions, Dave, I want to start with you.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of things that you could be excited about.

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Speaker 1: It's week one, it's the rivalry, it's a home game

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Speaker 1: at Mercedes Benz Stadium. What's got you the most excited

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Speaker 1: for this weekend? Well, I think it's all of that, really,

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Speaker 1: but it's the new guys you got on the fields.

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Speaker 1: There's a breath of fresh air. There's some newness to

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Speaker 1: this football team. Obviously, what the two quarterbacks or the

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Speaker 1: quarterback and Marcus Mariotte is going to bring to the

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Speaker 1: table from ability to stretch the sideline to sideline make

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Speaker 1: some plays there. Drake London, you're expecting him to be

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Speaker 1: he is coming back from his injury where he's sustained

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Speaker 1: against Detroit. So I think just the newness of it

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Speaker 1: get that way. But then you throw in Saints at home,

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Speaker 1: first game. What's not to be excited? Dave? I want

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Speaker 1: to I want to bounce it right back to you

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Speaker 1: because you also call the games on the radio for

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Speaker 1: the Falcons, and this is gonna be the first season

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Speaker 1: opening game that you're gonna call without a certain guy

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Speaker 1: playing quarterback. How is it gonna be for you? I

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Speaker 1: mean not that it's nostalgic or anything like that, but

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Speaker 1: you've been if there was one constant that you would

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Speaker 1: always prepare for, it was Matt Ryan was going to

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Speaker 1: be taking the first snap. That's not going to be

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Speaker 1: the case. So what have you wrapped your mind around that?

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Speaker 1: Your head around the new quarterback here because it's been

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Speaker 1: the same guy for a long time. Yeah, well no,

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Speaker 1: it's okay. No, he set it up so well right,

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Speaker 1: it was like a storybook type. Um. Yeah, Matt Ryan

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Speaker 1: was was a phenomenal player. I think he's a Hall

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Speaker 1: agree with that. Fourteen years you're the best quarterback it's

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Speaker 1: some newness there. I actually exchanged text with Ryan after

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Speaker 1: this then. I'd call I've called every game of Ryan's

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Speaker 1: me back, says Archimisia. He says, love being down here,

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Speaker 1: excited about the new opportunity, missing all you guys I

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Speaker 1: wish the Falcons does, but success and all that kind

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Speaker 1: I want to throw it over to you. We're talking

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Speaker 1: d none of the above. What what's got you excited? Well,

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Speaker 1: one of the things that really sticks out for me

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Speaker 1: going to score points differently, it's going to you know,

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Speaker 1: just the newness of it, I think is going to

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be read what you got right there,

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Speaker 1: mean there is a lot of excitement because it's it's

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Speaker 1: season on and one, it's just a different feel, right,

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Speaker 1: It's just like, right, you start the season off with

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Speaker 1: we all heard DMP talk is all season. How excited

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Speaker 1: So you know what it's like inside one of those

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Speaker 1: he's excited about this bunch. I don't know what you're

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Speaker 1: That's gonna change, right, and if if you're made of

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Speaker 1: there is there's a lot of newness. I think you're

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Speaker 1: far as running back goes, it's gonna look differently this year.

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Speaker 1: As you mentioned, quarterbacks that are gonna have more carries

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Speaker 1: really exciting. So let's take a quick little shift here.

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Speaker 1: Because we've talked a lot about the Atlanta Falcons, a

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Speaker 1: about the opponent, guys, DJ, I'm gonna bring it right

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Speaker 1: back to you for the fans that are watching that

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Speaker 1: scouting report of what the New Orleans Saints look like

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Speaker 1: been there twelve years. I think it is as a

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Speaker 1: last year he had three interceptions in one hundred and

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Speaker 1: nineteen when he had thirty plus interceptions. It's time sitting down,

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Speaker 1: you know, watching Drew Brees has helped him. In two

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Speaker 1: twenty one, he kept sixty seven percent of his passes

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Speaker 1: So having some weapons around him, having some guys around

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Speaker 1: I think he's kind of understood that part of the

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Speaker 1: ball game for us. And I let Arch talk more

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Speaker 1: organization arch is obviously adjusting because they were in such

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Speaker 1: So I think the linebackers I played a huge role

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Speaker 1: pressure on the shock. Such a good point in the linebackers,

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Speaker 1: because who has been Alvin Kamara's kryptonite, Dion Jones and

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Speaker 1: my opinion, one of the best, if not the best

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Speaker 1: In fact, he's been the Saint breaker, if you will.

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Speaker 1: Had the interception in the end zone in the Color

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Speaker 1: He had to pick six his rookie year in New Orleans.

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Speaker 1: He's had big games against these guys and he won't

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Speaker 1: play in this game. So someone in shocks to shocks point,

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Speaker 1: one of those linebackers is gonna have to step up

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Speaker 1: and be that guy. That's you. Hey, my eyes are

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Speaker 1: then obviously the communication on the defensive side of the

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Speaker 1: of all these different playmakers that they have. So there's

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Speaker 1: some of the keys that we feel like are going

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Speaker 1: to be a necessity for Atlanta to get to win.

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Speaker 1: Let us know what you guys think. Feel free to

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Speaker 1: on the next show. Maybe it'll end up being a

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Speaker 1: key for next week. All right, guys, let's talk a

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Speaker 1: little bit about So we talked about what the Atlanta

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Speaker 1: a victory. Let's kind of take a step back and Arch,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna come back to you. What kind of opening

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Speaker 1: week memories do you have your first game of the season,

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Speaker 1: whether it was rookie year, whether it was later on

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Speaker 1: in your career, what kind of sticks out to you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is an easy one. We opened against the Saints

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Speaker 1: in New Orleans my third year in the league. It

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Speaker 1: was Jim morris seniors first game as their head football coach,

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Speaker 1: and we win, and we thumped their rear end. We

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Speaker 1: got after him. We held the ball for almost thirty

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Speaker 1: eight minutes of the game, Joe Riggs had over one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards rush. The memory that sticks out

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Speaker 1: in my mind is we're up twenty twenty one to

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Speaker 1: three at the time and we get the ball. I

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Speaker 1: believe it was twenty one to three at the time,

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Speaker 1: and we get the ball early to mid part of

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Speaker 1: the third quarter, and we go on this march eighteen plays,

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Speaker 1: shove it down their throat, Riggs scores. Riggs scores from

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Speaker 1: about three yards out, punches it in. We jump up

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Speaker 1: at that point I guess twenty eight to three at

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Speaker 1: that point on the Saints, and they get the ball,

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Speaker 1: go three and out, and they kick it back to us.

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Speaker 1: Their defense had just been on the field for like

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Speaker 1: eight minutes. We come, we start a march again. I

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Speaker 1: bootleg one. How the pocket ran out of bounds about

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Speaker 1: fifteen yards up the field and Dave Wymer, their starting corner,

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Speaker 1: comes over and he goes, art's just staying bounds, man,

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Speaker 1: We ain't got nothing. We're all done. We ended up

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Speaker 1: beating him thirty one to ten and just smack them

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Speaker 1: around at Yeah, that was Dave. What did you tell

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Speaker 1: us before we started your record against the Saints? Where

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Speaker 1: I have not lost the Saint. Yeah, it's much better

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Speaker 1: than I could say, because I think I was about

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Speaker 1: five hundred against the Saints when I was when I

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Speaker 1: was playing DJ. What about you, what kind of opening

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Speaker 1: week memories can you remember? I just remember my rookie year,

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Speaker 1: um my rookie year coming into the league, and we

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Speaker 1: were playing Carolina on the road, and Carolina and No. Six,

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Speaker 1: and I think all the talk was about how good

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Speaker 1: Carolina's gonna be. There's gonna, you know, be a super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Calibratina At, Jake delom At, Keishawn Johnson, Steve Smill. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they were, they were loaded, and we went out and

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Speaker 1: thumped him in that ball game. It was fun. I

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Speaker 1: mean my first every game watching Mike had a couple

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Speaker 1: of touchdowns. Ward ran for like one hundred and thirty yards.

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Speaker 1: Jinks had a touchdown. I remember Brooking and Ed Hartwell

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Speaker 1: and I mean guys like, I mean, we had just

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Speaker 1: got an Abe that year. Abe had two sacks in

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Speaker 1: his first game that year. Big Grady Jackson was in

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Speaker 1: the middle just about him. Bay. Yeah. So I mean

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Speaker 1: we were we we felt good about it going in.

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Speaker 1: It was just cool to ever see uh from a

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Speaker 1: guy who grew up watching this team to be a

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Speaker 1: part of it and then going a role similar here.

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Speaker 1: But you're playing at home, but had the vision game

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Speaker 1: and go out and beat Carolina was pretty cool. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's awesome. I tried to remember something like my rookie year,

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Speaker 1: and I actually had to go back and look it up.

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Speaker 1: I'm not one of these nostalgic guys that you know,

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Speaker 1: you talk to some guys and they're like, oh, you

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Speaker 1: remember that played from two thousand and one, like in

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Speaker 1: the second quarter when something. I was like, nope, okay.

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Speaker 1: But in two thousand was my rookie year and we

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Speaker 1: played against the San Francisco forty nine Ers. That game

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Speaker 1: was here at home. I think it was the next year,

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Speaker 1: we did the West Coast trip arch and I think

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Speaker 1: we had the Raiders and the forty nine ers back

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Speaker 1: to back and we were there for ten days. But

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Speaker 1: I'll just never forget like playing against the forty nine ers,

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Speaker 1: like a very historic team in the NFL. I was,

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Speaker 1: you know, starting as a long snapper that year, and

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Speaker 1: just the butterflies that I dealt with. You know, as

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Speaker 1: your first NFL game, you want to make an impressions

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Speaker 1: and as a long snapper. You know, you're kind of

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Speaker 1: always like you gotta be perfect, right, Like you're you're

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Speaker 1: one of those guys that's towards the end of the roster, right,

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Speaker 1: like you make a mistake two and your date, your

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Speaker 1: days are going to be limited in an NFL uniform.

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Speaker 1: So I lasted eight years, so I think I did

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Speaker 1: a decent job. But we ended up winning that game.

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Speaker 1: It was close. It was thirty six to twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: I believe it's Jeff Garcia was the quarterback at that time.

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Speaker 1: Two thousand sounds about right, Is that right, Dave? So

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Speaker 1: we're yeah, yeah, So we're describing three wins to start

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Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, Atlanta struggled here of recent years and

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Speaker 1: an opening day games, so it'd be great to get

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Speaker 1: a little, nice little place. We talked about three. Let's

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Speaker 1: let's go ahead and this weekend, all right, So that's

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Speaker 1: gonna wrap it up here this week on the Falcons

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Speaker 1: Audible presented by AT and T. I hope we gave

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Speaker 1: you a good rundown of what we felt like Atlanta

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Speaker 1: was gonna look like, what New Orleans is gonna look like.

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Speaker 1: Took a little trip down memory lane and I'll try

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Speaker 1: to jog my brain. See if I get some really

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Speaker 1: good memories for you the next time. But hey, we

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Speaker 1: talked about it. Three opening week victories here, let's go

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Speaker 1: ahead and get a fourth one this weekend at Homer

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Speaker 1: City has Been Stadium in Atlanta Falcons hosting their bitter

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Speaker 1: rival than New Orleans Saints. Thanks so much for joining

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Speaker 1: us here on whichever platform you get your podcast Atlanta

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Speaker 1: Falcons dot Com, Spotify, YouTube, iTunes, all of those, we

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Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. Continue to like, comment, subscribe,

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Speaker 1: come check us out every single week as we'll be

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Speaker 1: talking Atlanta Falcons for Dave Archer, DJ Shockley. I'm Derek Rackley.

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Speaker 1: We'll see it next time. Thanks a lot. Beat the Saints.

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