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Speaker 1: Trust me, I love you. Get all of that. You

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Speaker 1: got all that? Yeah? Whoo, yeah, you got all that.

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Speaker 1: Happy Friday Falcons fans, Welcome back to the Friday five.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host Will mcfadd and I am joined as

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Speaker 1: always by Tory mclaney and Tarren Walk. We are going

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Speaker 1: to go over the five things that you need to

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Speaker 1: know about the Atlanta Falcons heading into this weekend's matchup

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Speaker 1: against the Washington Commanders. The Falcons one and two coming

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Speaker 1: off of, you know, a loss that a lot of

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Speaker 1: people spent a lot of time talking about this week,

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Speaker 1: so they have a chance to get right back on

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Speaker 1: the horse and head into the bye week on a

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Speaker 1: positive note. But kind of before we really dig into

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Speaker 1: the state of the Falcons and things like that, I

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Speaker 1: kind of want to just know where the fans heads

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Speaker 1: are at. We do a mail bag twice a week

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Speaker 1: on Atlanta Falcons dot com. Tory, you kind of got

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Speaker 1: the first crack at the mail this week. What were

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Speaker 1: the questions? The fans were asking.

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Speaker 3: A lot of anger about where the offense is, which

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Speaker 3: I think is you know, valid when you in the

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Speaker 3: last eight quarters of play you've scored one touchdown in

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Speaker 3: the argument could be made that once you got you know,

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Speaker 3: inside the ten the vikings based on what the game was,

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Speaker 3: let you score that touchdown. So ultimately, I think that

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Speaker 3: there was a lot of like, the fans sentiment is

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Speaker 3: really disappointed in the offensive production at this point in time,

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Speaker 3: and that's where they've landed all week long. And I

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Speaker 3: anything that any anyone has shown on film reviews or

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Speaker 3: that's going to change that sentiment is if this offense,

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Speaker 3: this Falcons offense, goes out against the Washington commanders and

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Speaker 3: And until they do that, like the fan sentiment is

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Speaker 3: are more consistent within your operation. There's nothing really I

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Speaker 3: fans are saying. That that's I understand, and I think

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Speaker 3: it's incredibly fair and incredibly valid. When you go through

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Speaker 3: divisional play. And that's again the Falcons are how to

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Speaker 1: And Taring, you've done a great job covering all of

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Speaker 1: the press conferences throughout the week, talking to the players,

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Speaker 1: the coaches, and sharing that news on your Twitter account

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Speaker 1: at Taryn Walk. So what have you been met with

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Speaker 4: Of your replies, the people are active on the Twitter.

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Speaker 4: I don't know that the vibe has changed from Sunday

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Speaker 4: I don't think it's going to change unless there's a

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Speaker 4: completely different outcome this Sunday. So it's a little bit

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Speaker 4: of a scary place right now. Scroll in the feed.

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Speaker 4: I will say yesterday going off of what toy and

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Speaker 4: don't feel that way. I feel like sometimes when you

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Speaker 4: have these types of games as coaches, you say, Okay,

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Speaker 4: do we need to pull back to simplify. Maybe we're

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Speaker 4: we put too much on the play, We were trying

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Speaker 4: So I would actually kind of counter to say, in

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Speaker 1: Gotcha, Yeah, I mean so it sounds like, again as

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Speaker 3: I think they kind of have the same reaction as

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Speaker 3: When you lose thirty to nothing against an NFC South

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Speaker 3: And I think Raheem Morris kind of said it best

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Speaker 3: Like you have all of these stones that are being

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Speaker 3: so rightful stone throwers throw away. I have no arguments,

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Speaker 3: back to what Bajon Robinson said, and I said that

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Speaker 3: What Bajon Robinson said in the locker room after that game,

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Speaker 3: And it's something that like I've kind of clung to

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Speaker 4: Something that came to mind this like literally today when

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Speaker 4: Obviously one comes with a happier connotation than the other,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think That was a fascinating question that was

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Speaker 1: like there's that's what matters, what you do. However, there

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Speaker 1: result being a positive one on Sunday, Terran, do you

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Speaker 1: move on from wide receivers coach I Killer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So it came out on Monday night that the Falcons.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So TJ. Yates has experienced working with with Drake

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Speaker 1: Yates back working with those guys, you know, Tory. Why

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Speaker 3: All I can kind of say is what Rahee Morris

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Speaker 3: Great point, So, I think what Rahiem said was that

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Speaker 1: You almost had two guys with thousand yards. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the quote is is right now we have

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Speaker 3: not just them. There's no blame going around. But obviously

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Speaker 3: you have to make moves like that. But he said

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So the Falcons hired Zach Robinson last year and

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Speaker 4: Maybe we will see the fruits of this change sooner

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Speaker 3: Go back to Sunday. It was very obvious and Raheem

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Speaker 3: Arguably, honestly not even arguably, that was the worst performance

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Speaker 3: Our reporting is that Raheem Morris, Zach Robinson said that

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Speaker 1: Did they provide any examples of something they didn't do

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Speaker 3: So I think that Zach moving down to the sideline

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Speaker 1: So even if they wanted to have some of those conversations,

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Speaker 3: But at least the Falcons have tried to do something.

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Speaker 4: The week five bye is kind of a blessing and

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Speaker 4: Are we going to see like return on investment? Not

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Speaker 2: That's fair?

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Speaker 4: Like that's a fair that sinds a weird word, but

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Speaker 1: Effects exactly, Yeah, cause.

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Speaker 1: Would say the week five bye is a blessing. At

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Speaker 4: The team itself isn't going to give credit anywhere after

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Speaker 4: every unit has to be better. Every unit quote unquote

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Speaker 4: played poorly last Sunday. You can't say anything else after

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Speaker 2: Like it's a small sample size, but it's a good start.

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Speaker 3: Also, that is the second lowest yards per came average

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, that is the grid Splitz defense.

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Speaker 1: But the grit splitz was that good. The most points

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Speaker 1: There you go. Nobody could stone wall. But because this

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Speaker 1: They are currently sixth in sacks per pass attempt. Ten

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Speaker 3: I also think that they have gotten off the field

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Speaker 3: on third down exactly, like that was something that in

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Speaker 3: Carolina specifically. When people are like, oh, like the defense,

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Speaker 3: the defense, I'm like, but I believe they held Carolina

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Speaker 3: to like three of eleven they got off the field

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Speaker 3: and or had to settle for a field goal because

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Speaker 3: field position was what it was. Like, I'm okay with that,

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Speaker 3: Like I'm always about the Like, trust me, I love defense.

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Speaker 3: I think defense wins championships. I know that this is

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Speaker 3: a quarterback pass heavy like era that we're living in,

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Speaker 3: but I love defense. I love watching good defenses get

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Speaker 3: after it. And I think that what I have seen

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Speaker 3: from this defense and what Jeff Ulbrich has done and

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Speaker 3: what these new pieces have done, I think it's it's

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Speaker 3: just been very refreshing that the move and decisions that

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Speaker 3: were made in the off season are panning out for

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Speaker 3: this unit specifically, and now you need the offense and

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Speaker 3: special teams pick it up. And to the point of,

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Speaker 3: like I know everybody is. I know I tweeted about

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Speaker 3: like the stats that Taran was giving this week, and

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Speaker 3: everybody's like, finally, when the Falcons have like a solid defense,

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Speaker 3: their offense can't score.

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Speaker 2: And it's like I get it.

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Speaker 3: I understand that that point of view, but it's just

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Speaker 3: it is kind of true to a certain extent, Like

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Speaker 3: the defense is doing what they need to do to

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Speaker 3: keep games in check, and I like watching them play.

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Speaker 1: But you need all three phases. But that's kind of

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Speaker 1: what gives me a little bit of optimism that they

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Speaker 1: can figure out this offensive piece because they figured out

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Speaker 1: the defensive piece, right, Like, that was the last challenge

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Speaker 1: ahead of them, So now you've got to get the

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Speaker 1: next one. But there's a challenge ahead of Atlanta's defense

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Speaker 1: this weekends. Aran They've got a couple of mobile quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: We don't know necessarily, we don't know. You want to

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Speaker 1: fill us in on the situation that they face with

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Speaker 1: Washington's offense.

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Speaker 4: So Jayden Daniels is the starting quarterback, but he is

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Speaker 4: dealing with a knee and and did not play in

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Speaker 4: Week three. A familiar face to the Falcons, Marcus Mariota,

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Speaker 4: stepped in Daniels's absence.

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Speaker 2: What did he do?

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Speaker 4: He threw for two hundred one yards and added forty

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Speaker 4: on the ground. He threw for forty three yard touchdown

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Speaker 4: and ran for a two yard touchdown. The Commanders beat

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Speaker 4: the Raiders forty one to twenty four, almost said twenty three.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why.

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Speaker 4: But Daniels was back at practice this week for the

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Speaker 4: first time since his injury, albeit he was in a

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Speaker 4: limited capacity, So it's still up in the air. Everyone

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Speaker 4: on the Falcons side said, we're going to prepare for both.

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Speaker 4: You expect him to say that. Dan Quinn during his

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Speaker 4: press conference earlier this week said, we'll continue to rely

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Speaker 4: on the medical team to fully clear Jade and Daniels.

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Speaker 4: But what I can say is he is doing everything

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Speaker 4: you can possibly can to get there. The guy's an

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Speaker 4: ultimate competitor, you know that. I know that he is

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Speaker 4: absolutely digging. So I don't know who's gonna play.

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Speaker 1: So then, Tori, how how are the Falcons going about?

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Speaker 1: Kind of it's not a new problem in the u

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Speaker 1: NFL right over the course of the season usually you'll

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Speaker 1: face this. So how are they going about preparing for

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Speaker 1: both guys?

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Speaker 3: Well, the good news is for the Falcons is that

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Speaker 3: both guys' skill sets are kind of working off of

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Speaker 3: one another and they kind of do the same thing.

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Speaker 1: Like Jane Daniels to Peyton Manning.

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Speaker 2: Right exactly.

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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, like Marcus Mariota and Jayden Daniels, like

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Speaker 3: there are obvious differences between their games, like especially because

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Speaker 3: we know we covered Marcus, you know, for a year

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Speaker 3: here in Atlanta, and so you know, both guys are

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Speaker 3: very willing to move out of the pocket if things

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Speaker 3: break down, and not even when things break down. There

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Speaker 3: are some RPO stuff that they do that they have

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Speaker 3: design runs specifically for the quarterback to get out in space.

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Speaker 3: And I think that is where as I'm thinking about

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Speaker 3: how this defense plays this commander's team, there is a

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Speaker 3: small part of me that thinks that we could see

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Speaker 3: a more conservative approach by Jeff Olbrick and this defense

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Speaker 3: to account for how Jade and Daniels and Marcus Mariota

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Speaker 3: can pick up yards on the ground, whether it be

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Speaker 3: on a scramble or an actual design run.

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Speaker 1: And you think like a defensive spy a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do think.

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Speaker 1: Player to specifically be looking at the quarterback eyes on

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Speaker 1: the court.

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Speaker 3: Yes, And so I mean that, and I also kind

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Speaker 3: of mean maybe seeing even less full out blitz opportunities,

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Speaker 3: Like I don't think the highest they are blitzing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they are crazy.

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Speaker 3: They are blitzing at a very high level, and they're

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Speaker 3: they're seeing a lot of like productivity from those blitzes,

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Speaker 3: and so I think that we may not. And this

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Speaker 3: is just I haven't talked to Jeff Ulbrick, like I

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Speaker 3: don't know what he's planning to do against Sunday. Actually, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm actually spying. I'm the one. But I do think

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Speaker 3: that there could be a level of more like less blitzes,

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Speaker 3: more conservative, keep everything in front, make sure that you

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Speaker 3: have your lane, your spot, your assignment, and make sure

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Speaker 3: the edges are kind of covered. I don't think that

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Speaker 3: is a bad thing, and I also don't think it's

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Speaker 3: gonna be indicative of what we see from this kind

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Speaker 3: of moving forward down the road. But I think when

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Speaker 3: you know the threat level of either Jayden Daniels or

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Speaker 3: Marcus Mariota getting out of the pocket, there needs to

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Speaker 3: be adjustments may and I think those could be some

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Speaker 3: slight tweak So we may not see the sack numbers

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Speaker 3: that you saw against JJ McCarthy and the Minnesota Vikings

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Speaker 3: in Week two. But I think that's okay if it

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Speaker 3: means that you're not giving up a ten fifteen yard

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Speaker 3: explosive from one of these quarterbacks, whoever they may be.

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Speaker 1: And I think kind of the state of Atlanta's offense

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Speaker 1: right now. Obviously coming off a game where you scored

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Speaker 1: no points, like I could see the defensive game plan

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Speaker 1: being a little bit more. Hey, we got to keep

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Speaker 1: this low scoring, so we may not take as many

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Speaker 1: risks because we can't afford if something goes against us,

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Speaker 1: at least right now, because we may not know what

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Speaker 1: we're getting on the other side of the ball. The

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Speaker 1: hope is one day that, Yeah, you're putting a lot

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Speaker 1: of pressure on opposing offenses, which puts you in the

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Speaker 1: position to then kind of attack and be on your

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Speaker 1: front foot. But the Commanders have the best yards per

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Speaker 1: carry UH in the league right now. Obviously with a

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Speaker 1: dual threat quarterback that's going to be a little bit higher,

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Speaker 1: but they're also second in the league with two point

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Speaker 1: one yards before contact on designed run. So that's taking

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Speaker 1: out scrambles, that's taking out any of the broken down plays.

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Speaker 1: So this is an offensive line that can move the

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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. Atlanta's defense is going to have to

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Speaker 1: be ready, But that is all we've got for you, guys.

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Speaker 1: On today's episode of The Friday Five, the Falcons will

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Speaker 1: be you're looking at me like you got something.

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Speaker 2: Else, got it more? Rate, you got more as if

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Speaker 2: it wasn't great, No, I don't have any more. But

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Speaker 2: don't say like all you've got all right?

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Speaker 1: No that you get all of that? You got all that? Whoo,

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Speaker 1: yeah you got all that? Is that better for you to?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 2: But it was a little loud.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about now. I'm uncomfortable down your speaker.

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Speaker 1: It's getting crazy in here, man. That is the energy

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Speaker 1: start of the show with. But we're ending it with

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Speaker 1: the show and I hope everybody takes that energy into

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Speaker 1: their weekend and has an amazing one and is ready

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Speaker 1: for hopefully an amazing game on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Go Dogs, Go god.

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Speaker 1: A Crimson tied turning Crimson right now, so we should

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Speaker 1: probably wraptle all right. Thank you guys so much. This

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Speaker 1: is great. Share it if you like it, and we

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Speaker 1: will see you guys after the game on Sunday for

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Speaker 1: final whistle. Until then, take care