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Speaker 1: We are back with the Falcons Audible presented by AT

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Speaker 1: and T. We are just as we are recording this

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Speaker 1: podcast about forty eight hours before the Falcons kickoff for

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Speaker 1: their second preseason game at home against the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 1: I'm Derek Rackley. This is Dave Archer and DJ Shockley

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Speaker 1: joining you once again to talk about all things Falcons.

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Speaker 1: Here's a quick little rundown as far as what we're

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Speaker 1: going to talk about what stood out. We will talk

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Speaker 1: about Miami. I know we're a few days past that

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Speaker 1: and we're already ready for the next game, but we

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Speaker 1: will talk a little bit about what happened in Miami.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about this evolving defense, we'll think about what

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Speaker 1: to expect from the Falcons as they go up against

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati in the second preseason game, and then maybe, if

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Speaker 1: we have some time, some memories of our first home matchup,

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Speaker 1: whether that's preseason or regular season to cap us off.

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Speaker 1: So let's get it started, Dave, we are talking a

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Speaker 1: little bit about some of the travel issues.

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Speaker 2: Let's not go into that part again. Yeah, let.

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Speaker 1: But let's talk a little bit about the Miami matchup.

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Speaker 1: Because we talked about the joint practices going into the game.

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Speaker 1: But then we finally got a chance to see this

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Speaker 1: team on the field playing what they would call real football,

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Speaker 1: well or at least kind of real football, real preseason football.

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Speaker 1: What were some of the things that stuck out to

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Speaker 1: you in the matchup that you liked.

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Speaker 2: In that game?

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Speaker 3: No, I think personality wise, Atlanta wants to be physical

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Speaker 3: and get after you both on both sides of the

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Speaker 3: line of scrimmage. And albeit you weren't seeing your the

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Speaker 3: twenty two that are going to line up maybe the

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Speaker 3: first play of that game against Carolina, it transcends all

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Speaker 3: the way down through whatever level, because that's the way

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Speaker 3: Atlanta played during the two open practices or two practices

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Speaker 3: they had with Miami. They mauled the Dolphins on both

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Speaker 3: sides of the ball. That was indicated to me by

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Speaker 3: watching some tape down there, also talking some of the

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Speaker 3: some of the guys, some of the coaches, they mauled

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Speaker 3: them down there. Physicalities what you're looking for. So then

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Speaker 3: some of the things that Ryan Nielsen had talked about defensively,

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Speaker 3: we need to be aggressive, five sacks, we need to

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Speaker 3: take the allway four takeaways, and these are the guys

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Speaker 3: you can imagine how it translates to those guys that

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Speaker 3: that kind of paints a picture of the culture he

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Speaker 3: as we make some of those adjustments defensively, and hey,

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Speaker 3: the Falcons can come off and run the football. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you know, and they were able to do that too,

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Speaker 3: So that gives you an idea of what we potentially

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Speaker 1: I think it's a great point, Dave, because yes, the

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Speaker 1: average fan could say, oh, well, we didn't get a

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Speaker 1: to see Ritter and Baits and so on and so

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Speaker 1: forth going down the road. But at the end of

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Speaker 1: in the depth chart, they're practicing the exact same thing.

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Speaker 1: They're getting preached the exact same thing from the coaching staff,

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Speaker 1: and they are putting their spin on what that physicality is,

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Speaker 1: what that new style of defense is on the field.

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Speaker 1: Dj It, we got an interesting preseason perspective here. You're

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Speaker 1: calling the games on TV, You're calling the games on radio,

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Speaker 1: guys are both sitting up on the bird's eye view.

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Speaker 1: What did you see in the game that stuck out?

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Speaker 4: Arschanows like I got do to bird's eye view from the

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Speaker 4: But I think physicality was a good word the Arts mentioned.

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Speaker 4: I thought the intensity was there. I thought they matched.

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Speaker 4: The thing that I enjoyed watching the most was watching

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Speaker 4: how they practice those two days, like Arts talked about,

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Speaker 4: and then that transfer over to when the lights came on.

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Speaker 4: And I think for a lot of people that's what

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Speaker 4: And that's a lot of pressure, trust me as a

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Speaker 4: were a couple opportunities in the game, just for example,

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Speaker 4: throw it into coverage. Those are like small things that

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Speaker 4: Hey I want to make the big play.

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Speaker 2: I want to go.

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Speaker 4: And do the extra But Wodside, along a bunch of

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Speaker 4: most important when you go back and you watch this game,

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Speaker 4: the lights came on on Friday night, they showed it.

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Speaker 1: All the excitement leading up to this season with this team,

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Speaker 1: and to your point, DJ, it's Logan Woodside basically gets

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, we don't.

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Speaker 1: We don't plan on rolling anybody else out here. And

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Speaker 1: he did an admirble, admirable job, Dave, he singled out

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Speaker 1: Logan Woodside. Is there another player or maybe a position

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Speaker 1: group or two players that stuck out to you with

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought the two linebackers have played, Tay Davis

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Speaker 3: they got after it so well that you saw transaction

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Speaker 3: midweek that Michael Walker, who had over one hundred tackles

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Speaker 3: an excellent player for this team. The Falcons did him

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Speaker 3: a solid because necessarily he didn't necessarily fit into what

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Speaker 3: I think almost immediately signed with the Bears, so he

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Speaker 3: care of him. Over his three years of service here,

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Speaker 3: he did a pretty good job. But that tells you

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Speaker 3: where that is his aggressiveness. Landman's a guy that just

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Speaker 3: seems to be around the ball all the time. And again,

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Speaker 3: we're not talking about Troy Anderson yet, We're not talking

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Speaker 1: So often you hear the coaches talk about it this

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Speaker 1: time of the year, so often, you're going to make

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Speaker 1: this team by your play on special teams number one.

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Speaker 1: And I've heard Arthur Smith say this a few times.

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Speaker 1: We're trying to find guys to see if they can

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Speaker 1: go out and make plays, but guys that we can

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Speaker 1: trust if we get into a pinch, right, let's just say,

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Speaker 1: God forbid Caden Ellis end up getting hurt down the road.

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Speaker 1: Is it a guy like Davis that can come in,

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Speaker 1: they're looking for flashes, They're looking for the consistency in

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Speaker 1: Recentle call, these are the trust factor that you start

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Speaker 1: building up right now in the preseason that maybe ends

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Speaker 3: And you know, we should mention Godwin Edgabouke he's got something.

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Speaker 3: This is a dude, And I talked to him post

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Speaker 3: I was on my couch two weeks ago, you know.

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Speaker 3: And so he gets an opportunity to carry the rock

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Speaker 3: and I thought, I thought Carlos Washington did a good

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Speaker 3: back full extremely well. But Iguabouke his his He's got

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Speaker 3: a little shoulder move, dead leg move that completely had

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Speaker 3: the Dolphins off off schedule. Yeah, and then you can't

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Speaker 3: go very much further without mentioning, you know, the guys

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Speaker 3: Kyle Hinton. Ryan noosel that right side center to the

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Speaker 3: the run game. I mean, Igua Buke had what seventy

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Speaker 3: him a ton of credit for running the rock and

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Speaker 3: maybe producing one of those opportunities you're talking about, because

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Speaker 3: they let him return a kickoff after that, and so

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Speaker 3: he might be able to contribute there. But you know,

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Speaker 3: there's a couple other guys that deserves some.

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Speaker 4: Man saw him come down and have a play on

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Speaker 4: might have been punt return month one time, okay, pushing

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Speaker 4: a guy out abound. I mean just the multiple ways

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Speaker 4: some of the things that probably nobody expected him to

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Speaker 4: do in that ball game. And arts brings up the

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Speaker 4: touchdown great seal by hitting. He just talked about it.

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Speaker 4: Guys up front making those plays tighten riping around on

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Speaker 4: the inside, making you know, a good block to seal

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Speaker 4: it and nice cutback vision there. I mean it was

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Speaker 4: that's something you just you got to have, Like you said,

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Speaker 4: been on the couch for two weeks and then come

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Speaker 2: That's exactly what you want to see.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and especially knowing the position group that he's in

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Speaker 1: right drafted or running back a year ago, drafted one

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Speaker 1: in the first round this year going to be a difficult.

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Speaker 2: Position to make.

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Speaker 1: But if you understand, okay, I don't necessarily have to

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Speaker 1: be the number two, the number three. Maybe I start

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Speaker 1: on practice squad and maybe that's where I make my

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Speaker 1: living until my opportunity presents itself. Maybe I get elevated

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Speaker 1: because I'm such a good special teams player, because they're

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Speaker 1: looking for those type of guys. And I think it

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Speaker 1: was good that you mentioned Mayfield basically out of football

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Speaker 1: with an injury a year ago. Arthur Smith has been

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Speaker 1: very open and honest. We are looking for that third

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Speaker 1: DJ preseason is tough because, like these guys are going

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Speaker 1: But if you're looking at this from an offense perspective,

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Speaker 2: A little bit.

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Speaker 4: And I think that's the number one thing is execution

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Speaker 4: Just the little small things that maybe a fan wouldn't notice.

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Speaker 3: up roses. It's going in the right direction, but they

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Speaker 3: still have a lot of things to accomplish in these

436
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Speaker 3: last two games of the preseason prior to playing Carolina.

437
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Speaker 4: To give an example of what Arts just mentioned, Ryan

438
00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:18,080
Speaker 4: Nielson spoke yesterday and for as good as the Falcons

439
00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:21,760
Speaker 4: defense looked, having four forced turnover, five sacks, all that

440
00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:25,280
Speaker 4: kind of stuff that look good, Ryan Nielson still said

441
00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,600
Speaker 4: that was not the standard. The standard is still out there,

442
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Speaker 4: And what Arts just mentioned was when they turn on

443
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Speaker 4: the table they see certain things, there's still so many

444
00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:36,959
Speaker 4: different areas that they can get better at. There's so

445
00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:39,840
Speaker 4: many different things that they can improve on. So, yeah,

446
00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:42,719
Speaker 4: that looked good, but there's probably eight, nine, ten other

447
00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,600
Speaker 4: plays that were out there that they can continue to

448
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Speaker 4: get better at. So there's always things that you can

449
00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:51,600
Speaker 4: work on within yourself and everything looks good, Yeah, you

450
00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:53,399
Speaker 4: want those good things to happen now, because if you

451
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Speaker 4: come out of that ball game and getting no turnovers,

452
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Speaker 4: no sacks, and everybody's still asking questions, now, this is

453
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Speaker 4: something to build on. But you'd love to hear that

454
00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:03,399
Speaker 4: he say, you know what, the standards still out there.

455
00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:05,360
Speaker 4: We're still in search of it, and we're going into

456
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Speaker 4: our second preseason game, still looking to amplify that. Herd

457
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Speaker 4: Grady Jared talk about, Hey, I'm glad to see those

458
00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,040
Speaker 4: guys get out there, but guess what, we want to

459
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Speaker 4: take it to a new level when we get out there.

460
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Speaker 4: So there is always more that even the guys on

461
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Speaker 4: the inside are looking to do better as much as

462
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Speaker 4: you know, you watch the table and say, man, that

463
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Speaker 4: looks like a good showing. Yeah, but there's so much

464
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Speaker 4: more that they say, all right, we can we can

465
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Speaker 4: continue to rise raise that bar limit more.

466
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Speaker 1: And in all fairness, the first preseason game, they're not

467
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Speaker 1: going to be at their standard. And I would ask

468
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Speaker 1: you guys this question, will they ever be at the standard?

469
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Speaker 2: Dude? You know what I'm saying, standpoint like.

470
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Speaker 1: Football that they want to play. But is a coach

471
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Speaker 1: ever going to be like, yeah, that's us, that's the standard.

472
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Speaker 1: I mean maybe they do, but they always want to

473
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Speaker 1: push the envelope a little bit more. Sure, that was

474
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Speaker 1: closer to what we're looking for.

475
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Speaker 2: But I think we can do this faster. I think

476
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Speaker 2: you can get.

477
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Speaker 1: Your hands on him a little bit more on the

478
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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, right because because we're always looking for

479
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Speaker 1: perfection in this everybody's great, so you gotta be great

480
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,840
Speaker 1: with your fundamentals and mechanics. So I understand what he's

481
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Speaker 1: talking about, and that's and to play to the standard.

482
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Speaker 1: But I'm also like, will they ever actually get to

483
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Speaker 1: the standard?

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Speaker 4: I think it's more the consistency part of it. Like

485
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Speaker 4: we talked about, there's flashes of it, you can see it,

486
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Speaker 4: but I think if we can see it happen more

487
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Speaker 4: often than we do it not happen, you can start

488
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Speaker 4: to get to that standard, you know what I mean. So, like,

489
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Speaker 4: I think the consistency part of it is huge in

490
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Speaker 4: the fact that he wants to see it happen more

491
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Speaker 4: than it has happened. But I think there's still a

492
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Speaker 4: room where you can say, all right, there's still way

493
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Speaker 4: too many bus there's way too many a means here,

494
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Speaker 4: there's still a guy who didn't give maximum effort there.

495
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Speaker 4: But if we can consistently do it eighty ninety percent

496
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Speaker 4: of the time, that'll help our defense try to get

497
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Speaker 4: to that standard.

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Speaker 1: Dave, you mentioned one thing that I kind of kind

499
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Speaker 1: of sparked the thought in my head. You said communication

500
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Speaker 1: could still be better, the talk in the back end

501
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Speaker 1: and everything. I just wonder again, this is not taking

502
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Speaker 1: anything away from the other defensive backs that we're in there.

503
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Speaker 1: Does it does it maybe improve or is there a

504
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Speaker 1: sense of comfort when Jesse Bates gets in the backfield?

505
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Speaker 1: And the reason why I say that is because when

506
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Speaker 1: I was playing, like, there was a different.

507
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Speaker 2: Level you know this, you guys both know this.

508
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Speaker 1: There was a different level of communication when Keon Carpenter

509
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Speaker 1: was in the secondary when he was playing for us,

510
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Speaker 1: because he was just kind of like the leader back there,

511
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Speaker 1: Like he was always talking. He's getting people set up

512
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Speaker 1: in the right spot, and if they weren't in the

513
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,040
Speaker 1: right spot, he was going to let him know after

514
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Speaker 1: the play. And yes, Jesse Bates is new to this organization,

515
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Speaker 1: but when you've been around the league, you've played at

516
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Speaker 1: a high level, and you've been considered a leader, there's

517
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Speaker 1: just like that sense of comfort and calm with a

518
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Speaker 1: guy like that. I don't maybe I'm signaling them out, Dave,

519
00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 1: but maybe it does get a little bit better if

520
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Speaker 1: you get a couple series with a guy like Jesse

521
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Speaker 1: Bates in the back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's fair to say. I think Richie

523
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Speaker 3: Grant probably brings a similar similar mode to it. You

524
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Speaker 3: got a couple of guys that have played a lot

525
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Speaker 3: of football over the last couple of seasons. There's no

526
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Speaker 3: question about that. You get veteran players out there that's

527
00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,119
Speaker 3: going to be a little better, guys that have worked together.

528
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Speaker 3: This is a group that is a little bit new,

529
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Speaker 3: especially when you start talking about Flowers at corner or

530
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 3: whether it's a Couda at corner at some point, so

531
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Speaker 3: two of the four guys in a base defense or

532
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 3: different guys or new guys. So it's a learning process

533
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 3: that continues to happen. In watching some of what happened

534
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,240
Speaker 3: in Miami, it happened with Jesse on the field, So

535
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 3: there's some things going on that they still have to

536
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 3: work through, some checks they still need to get to.

537
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,560
Speaker 3: And again, the thing we need to keep in mind

538
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,480
Speaker 3: if you're a fan is don't get too caught up

539
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:29,200
Speaker 3: in the game plan and all that kind of stuff.

540
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Speaker 2: For preseason.

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Speaker 3: There's gonna be some bus some things, some conversation issues

542
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Speaker 3: maybe in the back end, but once you get into

543
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,199
Speaker 3: the regular season, they're gonna hone down what they do

544
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,800
Speaker 3: to specifically fit the Carolina Panthers, and then the next

545
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Speaker 3: week and the next week on and so that communication

546
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 3: will transmit for four days in camp, and they'll have

547
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Speaker 3: it honed down to what they're doing, and so how

548
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:51,360
Speaker 3: they're gonna adjust to a bunch look, or how they're

549
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 3: gonna adjust to a five wide look, all that stuff

550
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,119
Speaker 3: will be simplified and be ready by the time they

551
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Speaker 3: step on the field.

552
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Speaker 2: On Sunday, I had.

553
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Speaker 4: A chance to talk to Ajall and Jeff Acuda doing

554
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Speaker 4: training camp, and I asked him that very question, And

555
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 4: the first thing aj said was he smiled, and he said, Man,

556
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:11,639
Speaker 4: you know what, It's gonna be so fun because I

557
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 4: will get a chance to be more aggressive.

558
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 2: And I said, what do you mean.

559
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Speaker 4: He said, Well, the communication we've already started is there's

560
00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 4: times in practice. Well, I've already said, hey, man, you

561
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Speaker 4: got my back. Hey, I'm gonna play a little bit

562
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 4: more inside. Hey, I'm gonna be more aggressive on this

563
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 4: route if I see this, So that communication has already started.

564
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Speaker 4: Accuda said the same thing. Having a veteran guy back

565
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Speaker 4: there who understands everything that's going on around us gives

566
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Speaker 4: us the opportunity to be more aggressive in our particular

567
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 4: coverage or whatever we see up front. So I thought

568
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,119
Speaker 4: it was neat to hear them say that, and people say, oh,

569
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Speaker 4: that's just you know, they only been going to training

570
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Speaker 4: care a couple weeks.

571
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:46,040
Speaker 2: Well, you forget that.

572
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,440
Speaker 4: At OTA's they've had mini camp, They've had all these

573
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Speaker 4: times to you never know what they've done off, you know,

574
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 4: away from practice. But they both mentioned having Jesse back

575
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 4: there gives them more confidence to play their role.

576
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Speaker 2: Maybe we'll see a little bit of that against the Bengals.

577
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Speaker 1: Obviously kind of a little bit of a special double

578
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 1: doozy for him going against his former team, But maybe

579
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Speaker 1: that'll play out a little bit more once we get

580
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Speaker 1: into the regular season.

581
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Speaker 2: But Jeon talked a will closed.

582
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Speaker 1: With this, but Jeon talked about his first home game

583
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Speaker 1: in getting on the field, and he was talking about

584
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,199
Speaker 1: the excitement and everything. Arch I want to ask you,

585
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Speaker 1: do you do you do you remember anything from a

586
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Speaker 1: preseason home game or regular season home game that was

587
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Speaker 1: really stuck out to you.

588
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Speaker 2: That you remember.

589
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Speaker 3: I remember my I started the first preseason game my

590
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Speaker 3: second year. It was Steve Barkowski and I were here

591
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Speaker 3: and Bart was the veteran quarterback, and they had fashioned

592
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Speaker 3: this idea this young guy that had played one game

593
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,119
Speaker 3: the year before was going to challenge Bart for the

594
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Speaker 3: starting job. I came in was as ready as I

595
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Speaker 3: could be. But here's a guy that's as good a

596
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,560
Speaker 3: passers I've ever seen ever play the game as who

597
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 3: I was going up against. But Bart was very reassuring

598
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 3: and very comforting and taught me a lot of stuff.

599
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Speaker 3: But I started the first game against Washington and we

600
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Speaker 3: had a little we had a little quick game to

601
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Speaker 3: start the game off with, and we had not rubbed

602
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 3: the balls up at all. The quarterbacks had gotten I

603
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 3: had gotten on the balls or anything like that. So

604
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 3: this was one of those hot, steamy nights in Atlanta

605
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 3: in early August. I took a snap, you know, tried

606
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 3: to keep my shoulders here, but I got to get

607
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:20,159
Speaker 3: over here to throw this hitter out. I got an

608
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,239
Speaker 3: off corner, easy throw, and as I come through, the

609
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 3: ball completely comes out of the road and he's rotating

610
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 3: behind my head because I'm searching.

611
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 2: Guy scrambled.

612
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 3: I got back on the ball, but pretty good first

613
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Speaker 3: opportunity to throw the ball in the guy that's challenging

614
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 3: Bart for the starting job now. So I ended up

615
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Speaker 3: being on the field because Bart got hurt later on

616
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Speaker 3: in the year. But that was not that was a

617
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Speaker 3: fairly auspicious beginning to what I thought was going to

618
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Speaker 3: be maybe my chance to get out there and play.

619
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Speaker 1: For those that don't know, the footballs when they come

620
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: out of a plastic bag have's this like nasty gloss

621
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Speaker 1: on it to where if it hasn't been broken in

622
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 1: or scrubbed or rubbed off, like good luck trying to

623
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: throw a spiral being accurate. I mean, I know as

624
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: a long snapper, as quarterbacks, but anyway, now they've got

625
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,439
Speaker 1: trainers managers that work those balls in.

626
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 2: But as soon as they come out of.

627
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 3: Us, it's the Charlie Brown version of pulling the ball

628
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,160
Speaker 3: away from Charlie's to kick it my throw by just

629
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 3: flail like.

630
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,880
Speaker 2: This and the balls back here. Any balls sailing out

631
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 2: of your hand?

632
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:19,479
Speaker 4: Oh?

633
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 2: Absolutely.

634
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 4: Remember first ever game We're playing against the Patriots in

635
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 4: the Georgia Dome and it's like Brady on the other

636
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,439
Speaker 4: side and I coming into fourth quarter, and it was

637
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,920
Speaker 4: pretty cool because fans stayed around obviously, just probably the

638
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 4: Georgia fans aren't going the game. You hear people barking

639
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 4: arts probably remember the people barking coming in Lay in

640
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,880
Speaker 4: the fourth quarter. Nobody ever stayed around for the fourth quarter, right,

641
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 4: and I come in. I'm still excited. I mean, this

642
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 4: is the first quarter for me and some of the

643
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,640
Speaker 4: arch We got a nice easy throw in the first one.

644
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Speaker 2: Find you some easy.

645
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 4: It was literally stick routes on the inside, hitches on

646
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 4: the outside, like Day one installed Day one throws. I'm

647
00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:00,119
Speaker 4: just I'm talking about I'm talking about gassed up. I

648
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 4: hear people, bargain people. I come and hold of everybody's

649
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 4: excited hype. Oh I got an off corner eight feet

650
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 4: above the guys that completely.

651
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 2: Air melt it.

652
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 4: So I get over that, and uh, it actually is

653
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 4: pretty cool. Uh. We have to go down last series

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Speaker 4: to go win the ball game. I throw a sluggo

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Speaker 4: to slid, go to my man Kevin Youngblood, and we

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Speaker 4: end up beating the Patriots in first ever game. Everybody's hi,

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Speaker 4: coming up to me, pat me up back, and this is,

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Speaker 4: you know, my rookie year. And I remember coming off

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Speaker 4: the field walking off with Mike. Mike's like, not bad,

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Speaker 4: not bad. So it was a it was a huge

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Speaker 4: highlight for sure.

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Speaker 2: Row ball that was air veiled over.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, the the great part about this job is

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Speaker 1: you get you know, you can flush that stuff and

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Speaker 1: you can go down you make those big plays. The

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Speaker 1: bad part about this job is, no matter how good

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Speaker 1: you play, you still got to come into the meeting

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Speaker 1: room and you got to watch that ball slip out

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Speaker 1: of your hand.

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Speaker 2: You got to watch the mail.

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Speaker 4: Can we just get to the top.

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Speaker 1: So hopefully this week we don't see any balls slip

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Speaker 1: out of Desmond Ridder's hands or no air mails over

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Speaker 1: eight feet over the top of the wide receivers. All right,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for the Falcons. Audible presented by

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Speaker 1: AT and T Again. Falcons back in action at home

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Speaker 1: this week against the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 2: You guys, we forgot about Joe. What's going on?

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Speaker 4: You got.

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Speaker 3: Over somebody's head.

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Speaker 2: Don't talk about that real quick.

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Speaker 1: This will not be a home game, but you kind

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Speaker 1: of when you mentioned Tom Brady and stuff. My very

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Speaker 1: first game, Archie, remember this was we played the American

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Speaker 1: Bowl against the Dallas Cowboys in Tokyo, Japan.

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Speaker 2: My very first game.

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Speaker 1: Is an NFL player, I get on a flight for

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Speaker 1: sixteen hours to go to Japan. Had never been out

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Speaker 1: of the country, right, so we land. You know, your

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Speaker 1: jet lagged all this other stuff you're only there for

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Speaker 1: like four days. First event you go to is like

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Speaker 1: a meet and greet, right, You're supposed to put on

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Speaker 1: something nice. So I come downstairs, we go into this

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Speaker 1: big ballroom. The first four people that I see when

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Speaker 1: I walk in this room Jerry Jones, Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin.

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Speaker 2: And Emmitt Smith.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, wait a minute, Like I'm about to play

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Speaker 1: against these guys. I've been watching them and idolizing them

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Speaker 1: my entire career. And I literally walk next to all

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Speaker 1: three of these guys that are, you know, gonna be

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Speaker 1: Hall of famers. And that was my first taste of

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Speaker 1: NFL preseason action. Granted it wasn't at home, but you

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Speaker 1: want to talk about a wake up and smell the

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Speaker 1: coffee and kind of like a maybe you've made it

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Speaker 1: a little bit moment.

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Speaker 2: That was.

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Speaker 1: That was my first, my first preseason game against what

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Speaker 1: they call America's team and all those stars.

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Speaker 2: That was. That was a pretty cool one. You had

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Speaker 2: that he's got eighty five.

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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, right, right, we got a little

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Speaker 1: bit of everything, and then you're just throwing slugs.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna do it for the Falcons. Can we close? Now?

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Speaker 4: You got it, bro, You got it.

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Speaker 1: Falcons Audible presented by AT and T's. We've mentioned Falcons

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Speaker 1: at home this week and the Mercedes Baden playing the

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals. Get a chance to see some starters this week,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully, if we did our job, we'll be back

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Speaker 1: here to talk about that game next week.

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Speaker 2: Hope you enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: Everybody, continue to pull us up on however you get

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Speaker 1: your podcast, like, subscribe, review, all of.

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Speaker 2: Those fun things that you do. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 2: joining us. Everyone, take care,