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Speaker 1: Week thirteen in the NFL has officially concluded. Welcome into

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Speaker 1: the Falcons Audible presented by AT and T. Falcons come

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Speaker 1: away with a thirteen to eight victory on the road

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Speaker 1: at the Saggy Length uncomfortable New York Jets. But sometimes

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Speaker 1: it gets like that when you get into November, December,

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Speaker 1: and January in the National Football League, especially when you're

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Speaker 1: traveling up north. Here's what we're going to talk about today.

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Speaker 1: I'll ask the guys here if they remember their worst

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Speaker 1: games that they've played as an NFL player or even

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Speaker 1: in their college days. We will break down the matchup

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Speaker 1: between the Jets, talk about some of the defense, because

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Speaker 1: the defense has been a difference maker the last couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks, and then we'll just quickly review the state

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Speaker 1: of the NFC South as we move forward. Guys, before

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Speaker 1: I ended up getting into the show, I felt like

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Speaker 1: it was a good thing to do to congratulate Bradley

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Speaker 1: Pinion being the nominee for the Atlanta Falcons for the

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Speaker 1: Walter Payton Man of the Year that was just announced.

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Speaker 1: I believe today as we record consider one of the

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Speaker 1: most prestigious awards the National Football League. It is given

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Speaker 1: to a player that has outstanding community service activities off

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Speaker 1: the field as well as excellence on the field. So

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Speaker 1: Atlanta knows all too well about this with having Klays

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Speaker 1: Kambell on the roster. He won the whole thing for

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Speaker 1: the National Football League a few years ago. But Bradley

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Speaker 1: Pinion will be the representative for the Atlanta Falcons this year.

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Speaker 1: So congratulations graduations doing a fantastic job on special teams guys.

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Speaker 1: Before we get into the game, the reason why we

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Speaker 1: talk about worst weather NFL games is because it was

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Speaker 1: yucky up there. First of all, Arch was it bad

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Speaker 1: was it awful?

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Speaker 2: The wind was blowing, so that that adds to it.

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Speaker 2: And then the temperature. The temperature wasn't bad. We've all

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Speaker 2: played in nasty weather games, and the worst weather you

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Speaker 2: can play in, in my opinion, is about thirty eight thirty

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Speaker 2: nine forty degrees in raining. That's the worst because you

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Speaker 2: in between. You play in the snow. Oh you brushed

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Speaker 2: nearly as severe as rain, wind and cold weather. So

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Speaker 2: the temperature wasn't as bad as it could have been.

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Speaker 2: But when I got up Sunday morning and you know,

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Speaker 3: Glad I'm not playing that. Yeah. So was it it

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Speaker 3: sleeve or no sleeve day?

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Speaker 2: Well, no, I think from a from a it was

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Speaker 3: For players, I might have might have gone.

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Speaker 2: I might have gone with the heater on the arm,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you could go no sleep, all right.

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Speaker 1: So that was that was the actual conditions for the

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Speaker 1: Jets game. But Arch, I'll come right back to you

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Speaker 1: and even come to your mind as far as the

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Speaker 2: In, Yeah, there's a there's a ton of but when

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Speaker 2: you come when you combine this was a really good

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Speaker 2: I'm getting ready to mention, but it was a defense

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Speaker 2: it was twenty five degrees at kickoff. The sun was

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Speaker 2: You thought, okay, ideal, probably late November day in Chicago.

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Speaker 2: But then at halftime we came out and it was

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Speaker 2: because there was blowing sideways. The wind is blowing off

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Speaker 4: So then it went from twenty five degrees to like five,

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Speaker 4: It went Mommy, can I go home?

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Speaker 1: I can only imagine walking back out from halbits. I'd

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Speaker 3: Okay, so you.

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Speaker 1: Mentioned one o'clock game. Sometimes you can get by with

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Speaker 1: We beat Brett Farvan and snowing.

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Speaker 3: And everything was fine. That was great, no problem, But.

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Speaker 1: We lost that game, and to your point, I was like,

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Speaker 3: Mom? I don't like uh.

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Speaker 1: So we got two votes here for Soldier Field. Anything

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Speaker 1: you remember, DJ, don't.

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Speaker 3: We go to Soldier Field here in a few weeks

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Speaker 3: two yes later, it's in January. I think when we go.

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Speaker 4: Sorry, so I remember a game, and I think this

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Speaker 4: is even worse for me. Uh, you guys actually were

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Speaker 4: I don't say lucky, but unlucky enough for me. I

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Speaker 3: And it was cold, I mean, it was rained.

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Speaker 4: It was coming in sideways, and obviously you know how

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Speaker 4: you fans who come out here and do it every week. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: this won the life for me. So I was glad

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Speaker 4: I was never drafted to a cold weather team, and

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Speaker 4: just crazy enough. We didn't have many cold weather games.

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Speaker 4: We either played them early in the year or we

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Speaker 3: So lucky enough for me, I didn't have to go

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Speaker 4: But I remember that one because I was so ready

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Speaker 3: Already over over, already a couple of soup and a

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Speaker 2: Real quickly, I know we need to get in on

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Speaker 2: I've ever seen more of an intimidation factor pre game

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Speaker 2: one of the coldest weekends they'd had in that time

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Speaker 2: of December in Chicago. Go figure, right, But we come

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Speaker 3: We have no chance to. We have kicked off this game.

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Speaker 3: We're playing against that guy. We got no chip. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, my close second, by the way is Lincoln

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Speaker 3: We lost that game.

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Speaker 1: I remember they had to shovel the snow out of

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Speaker 3: That's right, a close second.

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Speaker 1: Right, All right, let's get into actual football, because most

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Speaker 1: Football's played in a cold weather and elements. So let's

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Speaker 1: get into this game that was played in elements. Atlanta

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Speaker 1: Falcons come away from with a thirteen to eight victory.

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Speaker 1: I called it a high scoring Atlanta Braves contest.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we were fortunate we got the Ronald exactly.

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Speaker 1: But you know, sometimes it goes like that, Fellas. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: you just don't have everything hitting on all cylinders. The

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Speaker 1: Arch let me come to you what couple of things

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Speaker 1: getting another interception, the defense has a whole buckling down

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Speaker 1: second game in a row, not allowing a touchdown. But

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Speaker 1: what parts stuck out to you that allowed Atlanta to

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll talk about the other side of the ball,

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Speaker 2: in the fact that we took care of the football.

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Speaker 2: Ironically enough, I was out here on Wednesday and Atlanta

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Speaker 2: ice water, and were taking snaps from the centers. Ironically enough,

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Speaker 2: thought it was reflected Arthur, you kind of grow into

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Speaker 2: going a certain direction. Defense playing at a high level.

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Speaker 2: They were playing pretty good defensively as well, especially in

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Speaker 2: conversion situations. So how much do you tailor your play calling,

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Speaker 2: especially with both teams being pinned. You mentioned Bradley Pinion

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Speaker 2: phenomenal game, monster game. I think you forty four yard net. See,

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Speaker 2: he had pinned the Jets a ton of times. They

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Speaker 2: So you got to kind of play call and play

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Speaker 4: First off, what ARGs mentioned Bradley Payon nine punch four

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Speaker 1: He's putting us in situations to be able to play ball.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no question about it.

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Speaker 2: Really good that you bring up the numbers. How about

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Speaker 2: The first guy they went and got was Jesse Bates,

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Speaker 4: Talk about with all those guys, and it's exactly what

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Speaker 1: DJ what my three keys to the game were, win

439
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Speaker 1: the turnover margin, stay salty on defense, and make somebody

440
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Speaker 1: other than Mike Evans beat you. It's real, Isn't that crazy?

441
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Speaker 1: So is there anything else that comes out to you, Arch,

442
00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,680
Speaker 1: because those are the three that we've kind of outlined here.

443
00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:37,080
Speaker 1: Getting after Baker Mayfield as well, But what what? How

444
00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:39,679
Speaker 1: does Atlanta get that third straight victory of the season.

445
00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,159
Speaker 2: Well, certainly, I mean every game you play in you

446
00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,040
Speaker 2: gotta you can't turn the football over, so that that

447
00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:46,080
Speaker 2: goes without saying.

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Speaker 3: I think.

449
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Speaker 2: But to me is the Bucks have found a little

450
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Speaker 2: bit of ground in the running game. They lost to

451
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Speaker 2: the Colts two weeks ago, but they ran for the

452
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Speaker 2: ball for about one hundred and twenty five hundred and

453
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Speaker 2: thirty yards. This weekend, they beat Carolina in a close game,

454
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Speaker 2: one score game in Tampa. They ran for about one

455
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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five hundred.

456
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Speaker 3: And thirty yards.

457
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Speaker 2: That can't happen. Atlanta held them to seventy three yards

458
00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:10,600
Speaker 2: rushing in the first game last time. That's got to

459
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Speaker 2: be the number. Make Baker have to drop thirty five

460
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Speaker 2: or forty times in the game to beat you. And

461
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Speaker 2: let's remember now one of the big plays in the game,

462
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Speaker 2: Baker gets out of the pocket and runs for a

463
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Speaker 2: first down into Atlanta territory that puts him in position

464
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Speaker 2: to not just kick the tying field goal to go

465
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Speaker 2: win the football game. Anyamata makes the sack that forces

466
00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:35,800
Speaker 2: the field goal on that last drive against Tampa. We

467
00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,560
Speaker 2: didn't face a quarterback that could move this week. Both

468
00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,320
Speaker 2: these guys are kind of where they're supposed to be

469
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Speaker 2: or wherever. We've had a problem with quarterbacks moving around.

470
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Speaker 2: So Baker knows that, Baker knows he made a play

471
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Speaker 2: against them. So it's not going to be necessarily schedule

472
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Speaker 2: runs for Baker, but there's going to have to be

473
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Speaker 2: some discipline. This pass rush is coming. You guys talked

474
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Speaker 2: about it, Bud Dupree, how about Arnold Ebukatie the two

475
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Speaker 2: speed rushes last two weeks getting home, You're gonna need

476
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Speaker 2: to see some of that. But the discipline member Eva

477
00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:08,440
Speaker 2: Katie won against Kyler Murray, but that didn't work out.

478
00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:10,760
Speaker 2: Murray got out of pockets. So gonna have to be

479
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Speaker 2: a little bit more disciplined with the quarterback. I would

480
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Speaker 2: start for me, make sure they're one dimensional, Make Mike

481
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Speaker 2: Evans make the plays, make them make the plays in

482
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Speaker 2: the passing, don't let them have a two way go

483
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Speaker 2: in the run game, and do not let the quarterback

484
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Speaker 2: extend plays.

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Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, mean you mentioned Kyler Murray, Josh Dobbs. Obviously

486
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Speaker 1: the quarterback runs and those two games ended up being

487
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Speaker 1: kind of the demise of Atlanta losing, and so you're right.

488
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Speaker 1: The last couple of weeks Derek Carr Boyle not necessarily

489
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Speaker 1: known as running quarterbacks, but don't want to let that

490
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Speaker 1: kind of creep up and end up being a difference

491
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Speaker 1: in the game. Before we close it out, guys, last

492
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Speaker 1: topic is this weekend is going to be the nineteen

493
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Speaker 1: ninety eight celebration. Okay, twenty five years. Wanted to ask you, guys, DJ,

494
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Speaker 1: you might be too young. I don't know if you

495
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Speaker 1: had a memory of the nineteen ninety eight team. I'm

496
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Speaker 1: gonna start with Arch to give you a little bit

497
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Speaker 1: of time to think about it, because you need to

498
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Speaker 1: any of the memories that stick out to you that

499
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Speaker 1: ninety eight season.

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Speaker 2: Well, the defense was a defense that created major havoc.

501
00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:12,080
Speaker 2: They had a front four that could get after the

502
00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,720
Speaker 2: pass or Chuck Smith maybe the anchor of that defense.

503
00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,679
Speaker 2: As far as the front four goes Jesse Tuggle, the

504
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,879
Speaker 2: tackling machine in the in the second level, the hammer

505
00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:24,120
Speaker 2: bringing the noise. But they were really disruptive defensively, if

506
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:28,000
Speaker 2: I remember correctly, they led the NFL and takeaways that year.

507
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Speaker 2: Had a chance to sit down with Jamal Anderson here

508
00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:34,119
Speaker 2: during the offseasons we got ready for the How do

509
00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:34,800
Speaker 2: you remember that?

510
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, the Encyclopedia of Knowledge.

511
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Speaker 2: But Jamal of course had a monster year that year,

512
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Speaker 2: and we remember him doing the dirty burden stuff like that.

513
00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:46,719
Speaker 2: But he had a couple of big catches in games too,

514
00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:48,960
Speaker 2: catching the ball to backfield. If you go back to

515
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,960
Speaker 2: the championship game against Minnesota, their number one concern was

516
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:56,439
Speaker 2: Jamal running the football. Well, they snuffed Jamal out, they

517
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,160
Speaker 2: took the run game away. But if you go back

518
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Speaker 2: and watch the game, Jamal made three key blocks, including

519
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 2: a block that allows Chandler to hit Mathis for the

520
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 2: score that puts it to sends the game to overtime.

521
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Speaker 2: Right at the end of the game, Jamal contributing in

522
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 2: any way he could, and that was his contribution was

523
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,159
Speaker 2: I got a block because they're shutting me down in

524
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 2: the run game. And Chandler threw for over three hundred

525
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:20,720
Speaker 2: yards in the game. He was a monster in the game.

526
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 2: Bo both receivers went off in the game. Mathis had

527
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Speaker 2: a big day. So that's what I remember. The NFC

528
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Speaker 2: title game.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 2: I've tried to forget the Super Bowl, much like I

531
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 2: tried to forget the sixteen Super Bowl. For the part,

532
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:35,480
Speaker 2: at least the final quarter but yeah, it was a team,

533
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 2: a very good team that havoc on the defensive side,

534
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 2: and they would pound you with the run game with

535
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Speaker 2: Jamal Anderson.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll just follow real quick arts because I was,

537
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Speaker 1: to believe, a junior in college that time at the

538
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Speaker 1: University of Minnesota, Okay, and they played against the Minnesota

539
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Speaker 1: Vikings in said NFC championship game, and I just remember

540
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 1: the buzz in the city. And I wouldn't say that

541
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Speaker 1: I was a you know, die hard or devout Vikings fan,

542
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 1: but like that's the team that you grew up watching

543
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,199
Speaker 1: when you grow up in Minnesota, and they had a

544
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,880
Speaker 1: fantastic year that year as well. And so I remember

545
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 1: that clash in the ninety eight NC Championship game with

546
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Speaker 1: with the Falcons going up against the Vikings. And then

547
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 1: as I came into the NFL as a rookie, never

548
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,160
Speaker 1: thinking that I was going to land with Atlanta Falcons,

549
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:23,199
Speaker 1: all of the guys that you just mentioned basically were

550
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,160
Speaker 1: still on the roster, minus Chuck Smith was not there.

551
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Speaker 1: But you know, I started with the Jamal Anderson's, the

552
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:32,120
Speaker 1: OJ Santiago's, Tea, Matt Ray Buchanan, Chris Chandler, all those

553
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 1: guys were still there, still kind of trying to bust

554
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,120
Speaker 1: out the dirty bird a little bit still in two thousand,

555
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,159
Speaker 1: my rookie year. But I got a chance to play

556
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Speaker 1: with a lot of the guys that made up that

557
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Speaker 1: ninety eight.

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Speaker 2: Scotty Scott case No was in dow He had gone

559
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 2: to Dallas. Yeah, he had gone to doll He won

560
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 2: him a Super Bowl, I believe in ninety six with

561
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Speaker 2: the Cowboys.

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Speaker 3: I mean you you.

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Speaker 1: Might have been in like what eighth, ninth, tenth, great

564
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Speaker 1: at the time.

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Speaker 4: I'm not even gonna I'm not even gonna sell it

566
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Speaker 4: the waters of what you guys just talk about, because

567
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,880
Speaker 4: you guys gave it great detail. But I remember during

568
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,240
Speaker 4: that time, all that I cared about at that time,

569
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,400
Speaker 4: being just a young pup was Man, that dirty bird

570
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 4: looks cool.

571
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 2: I try that You weren't even the legend of shock

572
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,959
Speaker 2: you were. You were still don the stove brewing.

573
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 4: I was trying to eat peanut butter. Seven of the

574
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 4: game weight during that time became.

575
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Speaker 2: A legend, became a legend.

576
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Speaker 1: You were growing and on your shirt you have the

577
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Speaker 1: old logo. The ninety eight season would still have been

578
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Speaker 1: a black helmet. But at least it was the old logo,

579
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Speaker 1: and uh, I will say I get a little bit

580
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:39,479
Speaker 1: of jealous of Falcon shocks Falcon swags sometimes sometimes when

581
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Speaker 1: we do this podcast, this.

582
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Speaker 4: Was this was I mean, I'm gonna get people insight rack.

583
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 4: We do some stuff in the game and they would

584
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Speaker 4: give us certain things to wear at halftime, and Rac

585
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,400
Speaker 4: would always be kind enough to say, all right, shot,

586
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 4: I'm gonna let you choose, because he could have easied

587
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,360
Speaker 4: been like, shock, here's what they gave you. So sometimes

588
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 4: I got to choose what I.

589
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Speaker 3: Want to I get. I get extra tight T shirts.

590
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, generally, don't get warn again, brother, Yeah, are getting

591
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:10,120
Speaker 2: ready to get out of here?

592
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 3: Yeah? All right, I get it real quickly.

593
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 2: I got to throw some praise out Clark Phillips, the

594
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 2: third comes in off the bench at corner.

595
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 3: AJ got hurt in the.

596
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 2: In the first series of downs coming up to tackle

597
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 2: Breeze Hall. Clark came in and played an unbelievably good game.

598
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Speaker 2: I had a chance to talk to him on Monday.

599
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Speaker 2: You talk about a guy that's been dialed in all year,

600
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 2: waiting for his opportunity. This is a dude that played

601
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 2: everywhere for Utah last year was a consensus All American

602
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 2: six interceptions a year ago. He comes here as a

603
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Speaker 2: fourth round draft pick and they've played him in a

604
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 2: lot of different places. He gets plugged in in corner

605
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 2: and he looks up and who's standing across fro him.

606
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 2: Garrett Wilson, the raining rookie of the year. You know

607
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 2: what he said to him, said, you duck me in

608
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Speaker 2: the twenty two Rose Bowl.

609
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 3: Man here to get mine? How about that? Yeah?

610
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 2: Remember he sat out the Rose Bowl game because because

611
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 2: he's going to the NFL, so I wanted you do.

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Speaker 3: We have Clark Phillips a ton of credit.

613
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 2: How about Andre Smith coming off the bench as well,

614
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 2: taking over for Nate Lamb and Nate Lammon got banged

615
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 2: up in the game. We had a number of guys

616
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 2: get banged up on defense, and we'll find out midweek

617
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:11,959
Speaker 2: as we as we air this. We're not sure on

618
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,120
Speaker 2: some injuries. Hopefully a lot of these guys get back.

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Speaker 2: But it talks about Terry Fontino. It talks about the

620
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,880
Speaker 2: staff putting a depth together. When you plug a guy in,

621
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 2: there's no step down. You've got guys that could come

622
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 2: in the play competently, can play within the scheme and

623
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 2: you have to change the system. So shout out to

624
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 2: all those guys.

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Speaker 4: Let me give a shout out to to one guy

626
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Speaker 4: who does a phenomenal job.

627
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 3: Is a man art right here. And I say this

628
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 3: because after.

629
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 4: The ballgame he talks to coaches, players and everybody.

630
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:41,439
Speaker 3: He talks to Arthur Smith.

631
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Speaker 4: And if you've watched Arthur over the last couple of years,

632
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,919
Speaker 4: it's hard to get Arthur Smith to smile or to laugh.

633
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 4: Two weeks in a row, Arch has found a way

634
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 4: to get Arthur Smith to smile at laughing. This week

635
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 4: it was asking about the production of the tight ends

636
00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 4: to get the tight ends.

637
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:02,400
Speaker 3: Of football certain what gets them going right?

638
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 4: And when he mentioned the tight ends, you can see

639
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 4: a smile col up, and then he brought it back

640
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,199
Speaker 4: like I can't be too excited about it as we know,

641
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:10,880
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna have loved the tight ends and Archs

642
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 4: brought up so phenomenal job about you heart getting Uh

643
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 4: it helps when we win, So.

644
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 1: That helps Arch to your credit, Like listen, I'll be

645
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: I'll stand here and talk. We can talk falcons for

646
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: like an hour. But the powers that be kind of

647
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: tell us that yeah, for viewing, Like how long you

648
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 1: guys stay and listen and watch like there's a certain

649
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 1: time period that they want us to cut it off.

650
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: But anyway, we could sit here and talk about Falcons

651
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 1: and football and breaking things down for a long time,

652
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 1: but we'll go ahead and wrap it up. That's the

653
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 1: Falcons Audible, presented by AT and T Atlanta. Falcons stay

654
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: atop the NFC South and they got a chance to

655
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: provide a little bit of distance with a victory at

656
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Speaker 1: home this weekend against the Buccaneers, And if and when

657
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Speaker 1: that happens, we'll be right back here next week to

658
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 1: wrap it all up right for you here on the

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Speaker 1: Falcons Audible. Thanks so much for joining us.