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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Falcons Audible presented

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Speaker 1: by AT and T with my guys Dave Archer and

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Speaker 1: DJ Shockley. I'm Derek Rackley. We are here each and

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Speaker 1: every week. We are here on a Thanksgiving week for you.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully you guys are doing all of your festivities, hopefully

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Speaker 1: working out burning some calories before the big meal happens

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Speaker 1: on Thursday. You know, you got a preface a work.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm doing. I'm doing. I'm doing right now.

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Speaker 1: It's all between the ears, Okay, So you know, I

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Speaker 1: feel like if you put in the work, then you

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Speaker 1: can act on Thursday. Never minds between the rib cages,

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Speaker 1: he said, stop between the ears, between the rib cages.

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Speaker 1: There will be plenty between the rib cages come Thursday.

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Speaker 1: All right, here's the quick rundown on what we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about this week. We're I'm gonna ask the

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Speaker 1: guys what to watch out for in the Falcons matchup

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Speaker 1: this week against Jacksonville. They're going to say a player

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Speaker 1: that they think is primed for a breakout performance in

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Speaker 1: the next game. We're gonna talk about the defense having

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Speaker 1: being a strength for the Falcons in their last game,

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Speaker 1: even though they ended up losing, there were some things,

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Speaker 1: some positives that came out of it. From a defensive standpoint,

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Speaker 1: We'll talk a little bit about that. We'll get into

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Speaker 1: a bigger picture about the division and what has been

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Speaker 1: happening around the NFC's health. We'll look ahead to the Jaguars,

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Speaker 1: and then maybe the best part. I'm gonna ask the

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Speaker 1: guys one of their favorite Thanksgiving traditions or dishes that

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Speaker 1: they cannot live without, so you can think about yours.

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Speaker 1: And so when we get to that segment, you can say,

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Speaker 1: if these guys don't say X, Y or Z, they

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Speaker 1: ain't real all right, all right, So that's gonna do it, guys.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's get into it here. Um, what to watch

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Speaker 1: out for. Here's how I'm gonna set it up. Who

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Speaker 1: is the Falcons player that is primed for an explosive

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Speaker 1: performance this coming week against Jacksonville. Could be offense, it

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Speaker 1: could be defense, but somebody that you guys think needs

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Speaker 1: to step up or you've seen enough Dave to where

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Speaker 1: I think this guy's gonna take the next step in

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Speaker 1: his development. I'm the guinea pig here. Let's go our.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna go with the run game, because

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Speaker 1: Lord knows we need to be able to run to

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Speaker 1: football right we have not run the ball at all

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Speaker 1: this year. I'm gonna go Mike Davis. Mike Davis is

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Speaker 1: a guy that I think has the ability. For whatever

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Speaker 1: reason is, numbers are being cut down because maybe submit effectivists.

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Speaker 1: We did see Quadriolison step in and play pretty well.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Mike Davis on a Thanksgiving Mike Davis

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Speaker 1: is gonna get it done. He's maybe he's one of

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Speaker 1: those guys that accepts the challenge and says, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I need to do more. I need to find a

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Speaker 1: way to make more plays for my offense. DJ, you

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Speaker 1: got another guys at offense? Is a defense? What you think? Yeah, Rack,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay on that side of the ball. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say a guy in Russell Gage, you think about

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Speaker 1: what he did last year. You know what's in him.

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Speaker 1: You know he has the capabilities to be a guy

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Speaker 1: that can step up and catch a bunch of balls

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Speaker 1: for your last three games. He's got nineteen targets in

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Speaker 1: the last three games. That tells you there's an infants

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Speaker 1: on trying to get him the football and he's got

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Speaker 1: twelve receptions for you know, only one hundred and thirteen yards.

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Speaker 1: But he is a guy that can get seven, eight

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Speaker 1: nine catches in the ball game and be a difference maker.

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Speaker 1: As we both talked about, I want to get the

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Speaker 1: run game going. Absolutely. We got Kyle Pitts, we got

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Speaker 1: a couple of guys hurt. We don't know if Cordell'll

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Speaker 1: be back. We hope he does, but if he does it,

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Speaker 1: we need another guy to step in and mode and say,

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Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna take a little pressure of my

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Speaker 1: know he's played inside, he's played outside. Russell Gage, come on, baby,

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Speaker 1: be that dude. I hear you. And guys, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: kind of stay on the same wavelength here, Dave. You

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Speaker 1: talked about run game, DJ passing game. I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: in the passing game as well. And I'm gonna say

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Speaker 1: eliminated is a kiss. He made a really nice catch

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Speaker 1: in the game last week. I think it was towards

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Speaker 1: the end of the second quarter. Ball had to get

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Speaker 1: out of Matt's hands quickly. He was running a crossing route.

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Speaker 1: But he's another guy where maybe he's somebody that says, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I gotta get off the line of scrimmage quickly. Ball's

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Speaker 1: probably gonna be coming out. I gotta find a way

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Speaker 1: He's another one of those guys. Look, when you don't

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Speaker 1: in the game, it's the old adage, somebody's got to

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Speaker 1: step up. You say gage, I says a kiss. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it's both of those guys. Mike Davis steps in, helps

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Speaker 1: out with a little bit of run game, keep the

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Speaker 1: defense is honest. With some play action Dave, and maybe

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Speaker 1: we can start moving the ball down the field a

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Speaker 1: little bit. So we're staying offense here. If you got one,

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Speaker 1: make sure you send it in to us. Let us

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Speaker 1: know what you're thinking. A guy that's going to have

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Speaker 1: an explosive performance this weekend against Jacksonville, Well, we didn't

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Speaker 1: talk about defense, But there were some positives. Even though

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Speaker 1: you end up in a game that's truly lopsided like

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Speaker 1: it was against the Patriots, there were some things that

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Speaker 1: were better. Okay, the Dallas game was one of those

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Speaker 1: that you want to just forget as a defense. So

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Speaker 1: how was the defense get improved from one week to

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Speaker 1: the next, And Dave, I'll come back to you. What

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Speaker 1: things did you see on the defensive side of the

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Speaker 1: ball that gave you reason to be encouraged. Can't sit

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Speaker 1: there and say that the Falcons have arrived, right, It's

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Speaker 1: been a struggle of a season. But what did you

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Speaker 1: see defensively that you felt like they made progress? Maybe

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Speaker 1: they're starting to get it a little bit. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think money down is where you go. You go third down.

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Speaker 1: There was New England was four of twelve on third down.

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Speaker 1: You also want to the red zone. You forced field

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Speaker 1: goals and that's ultimately in the National Football League. Defensively,

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Speaker 1: you're not going to shut people down, but can you

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Speaker 1: win the money down situations and that's the conversion down

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Speaker 1: third down and when they get in the red zone,

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Speaker 1: can you limit their scoring to three points? They did that.

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Speaker 1: It was a winning defense. Your performance to me, that's encouraging,

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Speaker 1: and they've we've seen signs of before where they've done

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Speaker 1: something similar. And I'll go back to the Dallas game. Guys,

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Speaker 1: I think we get skewed a little bit because the

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Speaker 1: Dallas game got so sideways that that was one quarter

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Speaker 1: a little weird. Obviously, defense getting he stops the offense

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Speaker 1: So I would say the defense is coming and I

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Speaker 1: the red zone DJ a quote from Arthur Smith after

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Speaker 1: the game. He says, I thought the defense fought and

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Speaker 1: played pretty well against the Patriots, and we haven't put

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Speaker 1: He basically said, they gave us a chance and we

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Speaker 1: didn't take advantage. So he saw it during the game.

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Speaker 1: He knew that the defense played better, but we did

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Speaker 1: not get the performance from an offensive and special team

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Speaker 1: standpoint to be able to help compliment What did you

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Speaker 1: see defensively that gives promise. The thing that's encouraging for

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Speaker 1: me is the Falcon's defense ability to become more multiple

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Speaker 1: in the ball game and we got three sacks in

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Speaker 1: But I remember hearing dp's talking maybe a week or

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Speaker 1: start giving these guys more. And when you turn on

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Speaker 1: at some of the things they're doing defensively as far

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Speaker 1: as scheme wise, or guys are blitzing from where guys

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Speaker 1: playing middlefield or cover two. I mean, there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of different things that going on pre snaps as

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Speaker 1: do we get creative to you know, get some production.

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Speaker 1: I think DMPs is trying. He's found a couple of

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Speaker 1: ways where he could be creative on the defensive side

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Speaker 1: I feel like these are seasons where coaches truly get challenged.

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Speaker 1: This is where they have to learn how to adapt

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Speaker 1: because Arthur Smith coming from Tennessee and he might be saying,

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Speaker 1: rely on is X, Y and Z, Well that's just

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Speaker 1: but you got to find a different answer to it.

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Speaker 1: You guys talked a little bit about what you felt

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Speaker 1: was the strength. We've talked this season about pass rush

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Speaker 1: has not been consistent enough, and there's been some time,

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Speaker 1: especially in the Dallas game, where the past defense has

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Speaker 1: I feel like if there's one spot right now you

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Speaker 1: could say that the Falcons are in pretty good shape,

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Speaker 1: it's probably the linebackers. I think those two guys are

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Speaker 1: playing at a really high level. They don't miss a

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Speaker 1: ton of tackles. They can both run sideline to sideline,

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Speaker 1: and Foyer knows what everybody's doing and where ever somebody's

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Speaker 1: supposed to be, And that's the kind of quarterback that

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Speaker 1: like he Panics, gets everybody lined up, and once that,

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Speaker 1: you know, all three levels of that defense continues to

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Speaker 1: play together, they're gonna make some strides. Am I gonna

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Speaker 1: sit here and say that they're shutdown. No, we're not

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Speaker 1: going to go that far yet, But every week something

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Speaker 1: some of the things that we felt like where the

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Speaker 1: positives that came out of the defense or performance. One

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Speaker 1: all right, there's a two, three, four plays in the

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Speaker 1: wide open. There's nobody around him. Well, I don't know

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Speaker 1: the touchdown where you hit one guy running wide open

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Speaker 1: for him, something that they can, you know, kind of

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Speaker 1: be a list paid for. But this is an offense

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Speaker 1: that I think Brady said on Monday night that they

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Speaker 1: kind of started to find their way in that ball game.

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Speaker 1: And with the amount of guys he has around him,

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Speaker 1: and if they take care the football, they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: tough to be. Yeah, to me, it's their defense. We

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Speaker 1: know Brady's gonna go get his He had thirty completions

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Speaker 1: in the game, and he's got that wealth of talent.

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Speaker 1: But their defense had not played very well the last

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks in their losses, their defense holds the

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Speaker 1: Giants to just sixty six yards Rossi and Sakar and

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Speaker 1: Barkley back on the field. He was a non factor

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Speaker 1: and they took the ball away three times. That's to me,

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Speaker 1: that's where their bread's buttered. If you go back to

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and look how they harass Patrick Holmes Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: that to me, that's the key for them because because

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Speaker 1: Brady's gonna do what he does, But can you limit

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Speaker 1: the opportunities for the other team's offense they did in

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Speaker 1: this game. Yeah. So NFC South as it currently stands,

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay seven and three, New Orleans Saints five and five,

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Speaker 1: Carolina five and six, Atlanta four and six. So not

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Speaker 1: necessarily going to get into a playoff discussion here. But

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Speaker 1: even though the Falcons have struggled the last couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: there's not been a lot of separation created in the division.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna come right back to you as we look

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Speaker 1: ahead to next week, because that's what this organization is

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Speaker 1: doing right now. They're looking ahead to next week facing Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: Things probably have not gone the way the Jaguars anticipated

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Speaker 1: after drafting Trevor Lawrence this year. Obviously had some issues

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Speaker 1: with urban Meyer. But what is it going to take

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Speaker 1: for Atlanta to get back on track and put a

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Speaker 1: win in the column this weekend against the Jaguars. I

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Speaker 1: think it's simply about Atlanta going out and getting first down.

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Speaker 1: So I think if you string first downs together the

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Speaker 1: old adages, if I can move the chains enough, the

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Speaker 1: goal line is going to hit me in the face

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Speaker 1: and you've got your three for twenty two on third

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Speaker 1: down the last two games, you've got to go get

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Speaker 1: third downs. You got to convert on third down. They're

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Speaker 1: not bad on the defensive side of the football, not great,

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Speaker 1: but they're not bad. Their offensive side of the football

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Speaker 1: struggled much like Atlantis has. This is the number two thirty.

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Speaker 1: It's the number thirty two ranked team on third down

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Speaker 1: conversion on offense. Well, Atlanta's thirtieth in the league running

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Speaker 1: the football, twenty ninth in the league on offense. So

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Speaker 1: these are two offenses that are trying to find some

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Speaker 1: foothold and this will be the game where one of

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Speaker 1: them does and one of them doesn't. So I think

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Speaker 1: it's more about trying to go out and just put

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Speaker 1: first downs together. And if you do that, I think

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Speaker 1: that you'll get some confidence, like I talked about on

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Speaker 1: the offensive side of the football, and things will be

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Speaker 1: in to begin to go your way. DJ. We talked

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Speaker 1: about this previously Atlanta one and four at home, three

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Speaker 1: and two on the road. And the Jaguars are coming

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Speaker 1: off a couple of losses themselves, so they're probably sitting

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Speaker 1: in a similar situation, maybe questioning themselves a little bit

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Speaker 1: what do we need to do to get back on track.

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Speaker 1: But I ask you once again, because it always gets

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Speaker 1: talked about it's not about what the opponent does, it's

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Speaker 1: what the Falcons do. And I think that's probably more

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Speaker 1: or less the point for anything this year for Atlanta

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Speaker 1: is they've got to worry about themselves. But what do

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Speaker 1: you think are some of the keys for them to

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Speaker 1: get back on track against Jacksonville. I think what Arch

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Speaker 1: mentioned on offense is tremendous, and I think we talk

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Speaker 1: about what we do on the defensive side of the

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Speaker 1: ball and with having the ability to maybe get more

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Speaker 1: first downs, I think if we're able to take the

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Speaker 1: football away from that gives the offense more opportunities. And

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Speaker 1: Lawrence has got nine interceptions on the season, He's been

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Speaker 1: sag nineteen times, so the guy's been under some drest,

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Speaker 1: as you know we've seen here been on the drest.

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Speaker 1: It does not bowl well for for anybody. But if

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Speaker 1: you're able to turn the football over you, then you

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Speaker 1: start giving your offense more confident because they're gonna have

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Speaker 1: more opportunities to do great things or do better things

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Speaker 1: on that side of the ball. So I think we've built,

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Speaker 1: we started to build on the last week, well, we

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Speaker 1: got three sax Aj Turrell finally went up. He got

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Speaker 1: one took the ball all away, and you can see

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Speaker 1: it kind of give that whole entire sideline a lot

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Speaker 1: of confidence when you have those type of plays. So

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Speaker 1: if you can do this on the road, it gives you,

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Speaker 1: I think better, it gives you a better chance to

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Speaker 1: win his ballgame. DJ. You mentioned the the issues with

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Speaker 1: pass protection and the interceptions for Trevor Lawrence. So opportunities

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Speaker 1: are going to be there for Atlanta. Can they make

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Speaker 1: the plays, Can they get the opposing offense off the field,

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Speaker 1: and just try to find ways for Matt to get

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Speaker 1: back on the field, and like you said, string together

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Speaker 1: first downs and see if they can end up getting

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Speaker 1: in score in territory. All right, Last, but not least,

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Speaker 1: it is Thanksgiving week, all right. DJ said that he

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Speaker 1: has been working out. Dave, No, he hasn't got to

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Speaker 1: that point yet. All Right, guys, I want you to

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Speaker 1: give me your your dish or two on Thanksgiving. That

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Speaker 1: is non negotiable. Okay. So, like let's just say your

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Speaker 1: your wife is going to invite some family over. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it's a family that you've never celebrated this hot, this

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Speaker 1: holiday with, and and they call up and they say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna bring X Y and Z and DJ. You

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Speaker 1: and Dave say, all right, but we are gonna have

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Speaker 1: this because these two things, one thing, whatever it is,

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Speaker 1: is non negotiable, and you can't just say turkey. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's the easy cop up. What do you got for me? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna go ahead and jump off. I gotta

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Speaker 1: have dressing. Dressing is number one for me. I don't

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Speaker 1: do the cranberry, so I don't do all that. I

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Speaker 1: just need some dressing with some good gravy on it.

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Speaker 1: And I'm good. We already got the fry turkey, we

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Speaker 1: got smoked turkey, we got a little bit of everything.

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Speaker 1: We got we got a little bit of everything. But

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Speaker 1: we gotta have the dressing. I need the mac and cheese, okay.

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Speaker 1: And then to finish me off, okay, and go ahead

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Speaker 1: and knock me all the way out. I need some

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Speaker 1: good old peach column Okay, piece. I didn't know if

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Speaker 1: you was gonna add another side, but I was thinking

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Speaker 1: that dessert has come right, because Thanksgiving it's not Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: without the dessert spread, no doubt. Okay, Dave, what do

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Speaker 1: you got here? Yeah? I really I'm riding with shock

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Speaker 1: cornbread dressing by itself. Okay, you can do. You can

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Speaker 1: even have the turkey if you want to. As long

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Speaker 1: as I have cornbread dressing. It's a meal in itself.

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Speaker 1: I cannot eat the turkey without the cornbread dressing. Sprinkle

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Speaker 1: in some of the you know, sweet potato cast rolls,

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Speaker 1: sprinkle in some uh some uh what green bean cast role?

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Speaker 1: Yes you want to, yes, but cornbread. It's my mother's

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Speaker 1: cornbread dressing. My wife has learned how to make it.

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Speaker 1: She makes it extremely well. Gotta have the d y'all

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Speaker 1: can see if y'all k you about to cry right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about it right now. I know what about

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Speaker 1: to say. He might be crying, but I'm gonna have

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Speaker 1: a hard time. You know what's interesting is is I

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Speaker 1: guess it's kind of traditional, but like we were growing up,

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Speaker 1: like we had mashed potatoes and gravy for Thanksgiving and

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Speaker 1: I moved to the South and that's not a big deal.

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Speaker 1: It's not a big deal, big deal And like family,

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Speaker 1: they'll make mashed potatoes, but they wouldn't have gravy. That's

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Speaker 1: and I was lighting, Criminal's criminal. It's like peanut butter, jella,

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Speaker 1: standwich jelly, so that afterwards they started like as a token,

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Speaker 1: adding the gravy first, exactly. Gray was like the turkey,

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Speaker 1: no doubt. Um, I like your green being casserole. I

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Speaker 1: like it with the the fried onions on top of it.

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Speaker 1: Just gotta give it a little bit of a crunch,

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Speaker 1: just a little bit of a consistency. Oh yeah, but

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Speaker 1: actually I set the rules here, but I'm going to

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Speaker 1: break them slightly. Gooday, my wife's family is not a

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Speaker 1: turkey family. Oh, they don't have a turkey at all.

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Speaker 1: So like the like the first couple of years, like

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Speaker 1: I made a turkey and they're like, okay, good, Like

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Speaker 1: I'll try a little bit of it. And then like

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Speaker 1: the next couple of years it was like, we don't

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Speaker 1: really like turkey. And I just had one of these

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Speaker 1: with my wife. Oh no, excuse me, what what the last?

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Speaker 1: So they eat ham? Okay, when have you ever seen

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Speaker 1: like if you type up Thanksgiving on your phone, turkey

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Speaker 1: comes up. It's not a pig. No, okay, it's not

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Speaker 1: a slice of ham. No, it's a turkey. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: never heard thanking hands. So it's a rite of passage. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So they will have ham, but the Rackley side of

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Speaker 1: the family will be making. You gotta be there, right,

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Speaker 1: Do you guys have Thanksgiving without turkey? Ridiculous? If you do,

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Speaker 1: I hope not. I hope not. I enjoy those enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: I'll start to get stressed out for a little work out.

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Speaker 1: We're good, Okay, we're good. I did get two workouts

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Speaker 1: in this week. I'm gonna do one more tomorrow, so

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Speaker 1: I feel like I earned my meal this week. Yes,

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Speaker 1: where we at in the week. We're kind of early

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Speaker 1: in the week, aren't we Tuesday? Yeah, okay, it started.

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Speaker 1: I'll never miss mom win. I understand it. I got

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Speaker 1: my work in Monday. But that's one workout for this week.

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Speaker 1: Now we know this is gonna win. It's just gonna

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Speaker 1: this is gonna air like maybe when we when we

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Speaker 1: go into air with our with our podcast. He'll be

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Speaker 1: later today. Okay, so coming out today. So we only

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Speaker 1: had one day in this week? No, no no nod. You

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Speaker 1: work out twice yesterday. You say he had got it

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Speaker 1: in a day. As we are finishing, it's about twelve twenty. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So Dave, there's plenty of time left for you to

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Speaker 1: get because listen to me here. Okay, you're green bean

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Speaker 1: casserole that one workout is only taking care of that?

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Speaker 1: Is that all you're gonna eat this week? Well, the

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Speaker 1: green bean castle is the least of our works. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so how many workouts have you gotten in this week

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Speaker 1: to help shed off some of that thanks Giving it?

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Speaker 1: Or maybe you're gonna wait till afterwards, or maybe you're

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Speaker 1: gonna say, guess what I am doing it? Sorry it's Thanksgiving. Hey,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna wrap it up for us this week. Um,

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Speaker 1: hopefully you enjoy all of your favorite dishes, whether it's

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Speaker 1: some of the things that we talked about or make

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Speaker 1: sure you have a turkey on Thanksgiving. Everybody, thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for joining us. We will be back next week

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Speaker 1: to recap the Falcons game with Jacksonville on behalf of

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Speaker 1: DJ Shockley Dave Archer. I'm Derek Rackfy. Thanks so much

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

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Speaker 1: Take care of everyone, Copper right, no doubt. Oh day

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Speaker 1: baby m