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Speaker 1: Hey everybody, and welcome back to Falcons Audible. I'm Dave Archer.

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Speaker 1: That is not DJ Shockley or Derek Rackley. They will

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Speaker 1: be back next week.

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Speaker 2: They're out doing some things, last minute things here with

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Speaker 2: summer vacation ending training camp. Were on the eve of

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Speaker 2: training camp. I've got senior editor and staff writer Will

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Speaker 2: McFadden with me. Will has been dialed in with his

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Speaker 2: team for the last couple of months and watching them

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Speaker 2: with the OTAs, and obviously we are off time gathering

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Speaker 2: information and getting ready to go. So this is Falcons

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Speaker 2: Audible presented by AT and T. We're great to be

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Speaker 2: with you, Will great to have you with us, and

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Speaker 2: can't wait. You and I are going to do a little

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Speaker 2: bit more of this throughout the season, I hope.

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Speaker 3: Hey, yah man, I'm so excited Dave to get the

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Speaker 3: chance to talk some Falcons football with you. When I

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Speaker 3: was here the first time around, it was a pleasure

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Speaker 3: getting to pick your brain anytime you'd walk by my desk.

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Speaker 3: So very excited for this conversation, but honestly just excited

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Speaker 3: to be back on board and for a great season hopefully.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're all excited about this thing getting started.

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Speaker 2: I think the optimism for me will around this. You've

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Speaker 2: been around this team a great deal prior to being

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Speaker 2: with the team before your other job than coming back,

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Speaker 2: You've been around this team for a long time. So

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Speaker 2: the optimism in the city I would like in it.

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Speaker 2: And I don't you know, I'm kind of backing off

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Speaker 2: a little bit like this, but I'm talking about you know, seventeen, sixteen,

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Speaker 2: seventeen from an optimism standpoint.

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Speaker 1: Your thoughts.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's I'm glad you said seventeen first, because

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Speaker 3: thinking back to the sixteen offseason, I would say the

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Speaker 3: optimism wasn't really there, right. You think back to dan

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Speaker 3: Quinn's first season in fifteen, they got off to a

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Speaker 3: great start, but the finish is not what anybody wanted.

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Speaker 3: So when you're looking at sixteen and that offseason, it

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Speaker 3: was kind of like, all right, is Kyle Shanahan the

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Speaker 3: right guy to be the offensive coordinator? Like things were

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Speaker 3: going through into seventeen and eighteen was the one that

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Speaker 3: really felt like the peace optimism to me before the

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Speaker 3: injuries really kind of took the spine out of that

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Speaker 3: this is I think somewhere in It's definitely above the

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Speaker 3: sixteen offseason to me, because expectations are I think higher,

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Speaker 3: because the roster is in a better spot than maybe

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Speaker 3: it was towards the tail end of that Matt Ryan

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Speaker 3: bit like the energy is coming from from the staff

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Speaker 3: a little bit more. It feels like and some of

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Speaker 3: these younger players that they're counting on, I do think

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the staff is a high energy staff.

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Speaker 2: I think that as the fans get to know a

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Speaker 1: Of changeover on the staff.

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Speaker 2: You know, Rahiem's brought in a number of guys that

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Speaker 2: he knew with his time in LA He's got guys

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Speaker 2: that he's admired from Afar that were a different with

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Speaker 2: different teams. Even some kid guys that have risen up

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Speaker 2: You'll recognize some of the names, names like Lance Schulters,

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Speaker 2: this league are now part of this staff and a

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Speaker 2: part of Raheem Morris's staff. But Raheem is an energy

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Speaker 1: Get now.

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Speaker 2: He keeps it real right. We heard him, We've heard

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Speaker 2: him on a number of conversations. We've had private conversations

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Speaker 2: with him. Give me your impressions of Raheem Morris and

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Speaker 2: what Raheem has done in these in these months leading

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Speaker 3: I think Raheem is incredibly smart, which I don't think

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Speaker 3: that's usually how people lead off because his charisma is

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Speaker 3: he uses it to deflect and to obfuscate in a

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Speaker 3: He does it in a way that makes you feel

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Speaker 3: But he's so good I think at rallying everybody behind

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Speaker 3: But he's coming back here now, I think from a

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Speaker 3: I think specifically going out to LA and being a

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Speaker 3: part of everything that Sean McVay has been creating over

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Speaker 3: equip Raheem Morris with maybe some of the modern elements

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Speaker 2: Yeah, such really good points. I think that any time

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Speaker 2: to look at a guy like Sean McVay who'd been

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Speaker 2: probably from a staff standpoint, because you begin to find

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Speaker 2: that's one of the things that Terry Fontina talks a

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Speaker 2: A lot of these guys on the staff that come

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. I mean, I feel like sports history is riddled

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Speaker 3: We're right back to it. I mean, it's the it's

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Speaker 3: that internal just combustion of ideas, of beliefs, of philosophies

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Speaker 3: Raheem did in selecting his staff, because a lot of

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Speaker 3: So keeping guys like Jerry Gray TJ. Yates some of

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Speaker 3: West Coast and one of the coolest franchises. I feel

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you in such a good analogy there.

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Speaker 2: We hear the iron sharpens iron a lot, and sometimes

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Speaker 2: I think it kind of gets lost because it's it's

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Speaker 2: But how about in the meeting rooms and stuff. We'll

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Speaker 2: just pointed that out. If that was pretty cool to hear,

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Speaker 2: we'll break that down for us. Okay, so there's our staff.

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Speaker 2: There's kind of we're excited about the staff. I will

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about this roster.

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Speaker 2: When we begin to think about training camp, old days

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Speaker 2: Guys show up in the radar role. How important is

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I kind of feel like that's almost some of the

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Speaker 3: the game. But football nowadays is such a year round sport,

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Speaker 3: So from a media standpoint, we've got everything we can handle.

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Speaker 3: But even players, you know, they're not checking out totally

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Speaker 3: When you only have I don't know, sixteen training camp practices,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, training camp dramatically different than it was forty years ago,

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Speaker 2: probably rightly so. They will just point out, and we

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Speaker 2: their family, go back to California. Talk to Drake London.

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Speaker 2: Drake was leaving after the last OTA to go back

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Speaker 2: he returned here this last week to get ready for

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Speaker 3: So yeah, for lots of guys I've seen, they don't

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Speaker 3: developed a bond pretty quickly. And so, yeah, like Kyle

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Speaker 3: is going to benefit from Kirk's presence because frankly, like

440
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Speaker 3: Kirk is the best quarterback and the most proven quarterback

441
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Speaker 3: that he's had since Matt Ryan, and we all saw

442
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Speaker 3: what Kyle Pitts was able to do in year one.

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Speaker 3: But I think there's also kind of that shared bond

444
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Speaker 3: of coming off of injury and feeling like, Okay, we

445
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Speaker 3: can communicate on that level, we can check in and

446
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Speaker 3: see how you do and how is how are you

447
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Speaker 3: mentally kind of coming back from that. But Kyle now

448
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Speaker 3: being kind of two years removed, I think from that injury,

449
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Speaker 3: the expectation is that he's just going to be in

450
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Speaker 3: a much more comfortable place physically. We've already seen some

451
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Speaker 3: of the videos of him working out this summer and

452
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Speaker 3: he looks great. He frankly looked pretty good to me

453
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Speaker 3: last training camp. Yeah, Like, I didn't notice any real

454
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Speaker 3: issues that would leave me thinking, Okay, maybe twenty twenty three.

455
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Speaker 3: The goal is just going to be to get through

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Speaker 3: the full season, which is kind of what he came

457
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Speaker 3: out to say afterwards. But I'm so excited to see

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Speaker 3: what he's going to look like out there on the field.

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Speaker 3: And then again, yeah, Cousins being able to get the

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Speaker 3: ball to him on time, get the ball to him

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Speaker 3: where it's supposed to be and accurately. And then the

462
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Speaker 3: final part of the Kyle Pitts of it all is

463
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Speaker 3: just kind of the role that he's going to operate in. Right,

464
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Speaker 3: We've heard Zach Robinson say tight end and receiver some

465
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Speaker 3: things like that. The fact that they brought in Charlie

466
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Speaker 3: Warner and and Dwelly like, I think that that tells

467
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Speaker 3: me they could want to free Kyle up to focus

468
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Speaker 3: on some more of those receiver elements and keep another

469
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Speaker 3: tight end in there. So Dave, like, we went through

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Speaker 3: the whole Arthur Smith experience, and I think a big

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Speaker 3: part of that was the personnel packages, Like that was

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Speaker 3: kind of to me the defining theme was just this

473
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Speaker 3: creativity and like manipulating what defenses are going to do

474
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Speaker 3: based on your offensive personnel. Is that overblown a little bit?

475
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Speaker 3: Like the twelve personnel with Kyle Pits really being a

476
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Speaker 3: wide receiver, so it's kind of eleven personnel in deployment,

477
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Speaker 3: but it's like twelve personnel on paper? Like is that real?

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Speaker 3: Do you think that will have a bigger impact maybe

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Speaker 3: this season than it has previously for it?

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Speaker 1: I do think it will.

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Speaker 2: I think that you mentioned a great way of putting it,

482
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Speaker 2: freeing Kyle up, and that's got to be music to

483
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Speaker 2: your ears as a fan. I want to see the

484
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Speaker 2: original version of Kyle Pits. Now we know we had

485
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Speaker 2: the injury, and Will just dock coumented what he went

486
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Speaker 2: through last year, just kind of trying to.

487
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Speaker 1: Get through the year. You could see it.

488
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Speaker 2: He would dip the shoulder, try to keep people off

489
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Speaker 2: his leg, and I think that he is in the

490
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Speaker 2: inactive parts of the games doesn't necessarily serve him well.

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Speaker 2: I think you need to get him involved, keep him involved,

492
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Speaker 2: and this is a guy that, to me, Will is

493
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Speaker 2: a five to ten receptions a game guy, maybe fifteen

494
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Speaker 2: targets a game. Got to get him involved in the

495
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Speaker 2: red zone and I think those things will come out.

496
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Speaker 2: But getting back to your original point, I do think

497
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Speaker 2: that they were trying to disguise the blemish that was

498
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Speaker 2: the quarterback position. And Atlanta does not have to disguise

499
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Speaker 2: the quarterback anymore. They're not going to have to protect

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Speaker 2: the quarterback. Okay, now, protect yes from a protection standpoint,

501
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Speaker 2: but not protect him against making mistakes. It's going to

502
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Speaker 2: screw everything up, right, And I think that was part

503
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Speaker 2: of it, and guys like you know, Kyle Pitts and

504
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Speaker 2: Jean Robinson, even Drake London, you know, they suffered because

505
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Speaker 2: of that. You had to kind of cover the blemes shot. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think that. I think you're right it was it

507
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Speaker 2: fake or not? No, I think that there was some

508
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Speaker 2: some truth to all of that stuff. But now all

509
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Speaker 2: of a sudden, you look up and if you want

510
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Speaker 2: to go eleven personnel and Kyle's in the game, it's

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Speaker 2: legitimately eleven personnel. He's standing in the slot and he's

512
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Speaker 2: going to go down the field and make some plays. Okay,

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Speaker 2: let's finish this piece up, and we appreciate you being

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Speaker 2: with us here on Falcons Odwall presented by AT and T.

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Speaker 1: Will McFadden Dave Archer.

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Speaker 2: Questions, because there's always going to be questions. What is

517
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Speaker 2: the biggest question. There are a number of questions on

518
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Speaker 2: this team, obviously Kurt. Whether Kurt's ready to play all

519
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Speaker 2: those kind of things. We think he will be. Love

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Speaker 2: where we are with Michael Pennix, and we'll get into

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Speaker 2: all that stuff as we get into camp. Your biggest

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Speaker 2: question as camp starts.

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Speaker 3: Here, Yeah, my biggest question, and you're right to point

524
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Speaker 3: out the injuries. You're right to point out, you're Grady

525
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Speaker 3: and Kirk coming off. How are they going to look

526
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Speaker 3: Bajon going in the year two? I think is he

527
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Speaker 3: could make a huge leap. I've got a piece coming

528
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Speaker 3: out today actually on kind of comparing him to like

529
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Speaker 3: Chris Johnson, CJ two K, Christian McCaffrey, Le'Veon Bell, those

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Speaker 3: types of players and the leap they made from year

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Speaker 3: one to year two, and how he compares favorably. But

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Speaker 3: my big question actually doesn't have to do with this

533
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Speaker 3: specific player, doesn't have to do with a specific position.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of a thirty thousand foot view of the

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Speaker 3: offseason and when Rich McKay and I believe you were

536
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Speaker 3: at this press conference at the end of the year

537
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Speaker 3: press conference with Arthur Blank and Rich McKay when he

538
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Speaker 3: said most teams in our position where they are now

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Speaker 3: looking for a new head coach and they're looking for

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Speaker 3: kind of a new staff to go along with it.

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Speaker 3: They're also looking for a new direction. And the Falcons

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Speaker 3: didn't feel like they needed a new direction at least

543
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Speaker 3: from kind of where they were. I think a roster standpoint,

544
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Speaker 3: and I'm just so fascinated to see if they were

545
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Speaker 3: right in that kind of estimation because they did address

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Speaker 3: the quarterback position in kind of the biggest possible way

547
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Speaker 3: you can, and I agree with that being the clear

548
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Speaker 3: number one need, but there was an opportunity cost associated

549
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Speaker 3: with that in that you now are having questions about

550
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Speaker 3: the number two corner spot, right you are still saying, okay,

551
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Speaker 3: like the pass rush is going to be the sum

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Speaker 3: of its parts once again. So I'm just again kind

553
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Speaker 3: of fascinated to see if the Falcons are as close

554
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Speaker 3: as they felt they wore this offseason from a roster

555
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Speaker 3: standpoint to where they really were. Just if we can

556
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Speaker 3: go get the best quarterback available and get high level

557
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Speaker 3: quarterback play, we think we're golden and like we can

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Speaker 3: reach the playoffs and then, as Raheem Mor says, we'll

559
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Speaker 3: see what happens from there. But that's kind of just

560
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Speaker 3: when we get everybody out of there on the field

561
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Speaker 3: and we kind of take in all, right, like what

562
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Speaker 3: is the makeup of this team? I'm just really going

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Speaker 3: to be fascinated and have that kind of question in

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Speaker 3: the back of my mind of like is this the

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Speaker 3: team they felt they had and is Kirk Cousins really

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Speaker 3: going to be kind of that piece to put him

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Speaker 3: over the top.

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Speaker 2: You almost wonder Will if that's like the question that

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Speaker 2: they have in their minds as.

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Speaker 1: Well, did we make the right so?

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Speaker 2: And I think that as much as you go about

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Speaker 2: this with conviction and you're you're completely committed to this idea,

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Speaker 2: they are always gonna be Okay, is this guy gonna

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Speaker 2: step to the task? Is this guy gonna be that guy?

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Speaker 2: I'll go a little bit more specific. You mentioned the

576
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Speaker 2: third or the second corner, Clark Phillips. The third will

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Speaker 2: open probably as a starting corner opposite aj Terrell, and

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Speaker 2: it'll be interesting that is not an area. Like Will

579
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Speaker 2: said that they attack from a depth Standpointet brought in

580
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Speaker 2: a couple of veteran players. Antonio Hamilton comes in, Kevin King,

581
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Speaker 2: who hasn't played very much. You have on the roster

582
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Speaker 2: already in Mike Cues and d Alford, guys that can

583
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Speaker 2: play corner that played Nickel predominantly last year. So if

584
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Speaker 2: everybody stays healthy, I think your first four guys, you like,

585
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Speaker 2: should Clark step up and to the task. He was

586
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Speaker 2: a ballhawk at Utah. He had some moments last year,

587
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Speaker 2: but there was some learning moments and corners. Like a

588
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 2: gunslinger in the Old West, you're gonna walk out in

589
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Speaker 2: the middle of the street. You're either gonna win or

590
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Speaker 2: you're gonna lose. Fortunately, nobody's shooting a gun at him,

591
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Speaker 2: but he's gonna win some battles and lose some battles.

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Speaker 2: And n aj Terrell has gone through that as well.

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Speaker 2: Another one for me, will is pass protection, because we

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Speaker 2: know that this team is still going to try to

595
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Speaker 2: run the football, but there's going to be a predominant

596
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Speaker 2: change to wanting to.

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Speaker 1: Throw the ball more.

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Speaker 2: And you've got a put you've got a guy that

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Speaker 2: can really process. From a quarterback standpoint, we got the

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Speaker 2: receivers they went out and got in free agency, the emergence.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully Kyle Pitts comes back. The running backs look set.

602
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Speaker 2: Your weapons are set. That means you want to attack.

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Speaker 2: But to do that, you got to protect the passer.

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Speaker 2: And you don't have a guy that's gonna run around

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Speaker 2: back there in Kirk Cousins. He can move and has

606
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Speaker 2: great pocket awareness, but there'll be some challenges and and

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Speaker 2: to me, a couple of the challenges, just to be honest,

608
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Speaker 2: Caleb McGarry on that right side is going to have to.

609
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Speaker 2: He's gonna have to step up and be a little

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Speaker 2: bit better of a pass protector, and I think Drew

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Speaker 2: Dolman is going to have to is gonna have some

612
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Speaker 2: challenges in the interior up front, not saying that everybody's

613
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Speaker 2: not going to be challenged, and these guys are all

614
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Speaker 2: they prayed well together as a unit. But I think

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Speaker 2: if you're going to throw the football seven to ten

616
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 2: times more per game potentially as where we're looking, I

617
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Speaker 2: think the run game will still be there in play

618
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Speaker 2: action how important? In my opinion, it's really important the

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Speaker 2: play action becomes a major part of this.

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Speaker 3: Your thoughts on that, Yeah, I actually I'm going to

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Speaker 3: toss you back a question because in your study of

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Speaker 3: kind of the Rams offense, do you expect to see

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Speaker 3: more three five seven step drops from Kirk? And then

624
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Speaker 3: kind of the second part to that is in your

625
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 3: experience playing quarterback and just you know, studying the position

626
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Speaker 3: as well as you do, Like, is it more important

627
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Speaker 3: for Kayla McGarry to have that great pass protection year

628
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Speaker 3: or Drew Dolman if you had to pick one of

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Speaker 3: the two, because you'd have to get pressure right in

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Speaker 3: your face if you're Kirk Cousins or coming right around

631
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Speaker 3: that blind side, So like, how do you factor all

632
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Speaker 3: of that? And then again the three five seven step drop.

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Speaker 3: I know it's going to depend based on the route concepts,

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Speaker 3: but is this an offense because Dirk Cutter's offense I

635
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Speaker 3: think featured a lot more of those seven step let's

636
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Speaker 3: air it out type of things. Is this in the

637
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Speaker 3: three to five range? And could that protect Kirk a

638
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Speaker 3: little bit as well?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? No, I think it's a good point.

640
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Speaker 2: I think the ball will come out, and I think

641
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Speaker 2: that Kirk's ability to process pre snap is going to

642
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Speaker 2: help him as well as to you know, determining from

643
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Speaker 2: a pre snap book standpoint, having an idea. You don't

644
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Speaker 2: pre determine when you're gonna throw the football, but you

645
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 2: have a pretty good idea what teams are going to do,

646
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 2: and then that first step of your drop, you confirm

647
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Speaker 2: what the coverage looks like and the ball comes out.

648
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Speaker 2: His ability to do that will help him. Getting back

649
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Speaker 2: to your idea about protection, there's no question with Cousins

650
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Speaker 2: and what he does drop back pass or classic pocket passer,

651
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 2: interior pressure is what destroys a guy more than anything else.

652
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Speaker 2: If that's what you bring to the table. Now, certainly

653
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 2: you don't want edge pressure, but you can you can

654
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Speaker 2: help cover up edge pressure. You talked about maybe some

655
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Speaker 2: of the tight ends that could be in the game

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Speaker 2: that helped cover that up. Chip blocking with the back

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Speaker 2: coming out difficult sometimes to create help for the interior

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Speaker 2: sometimes now sometimes we have a guard. Usually the center's

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Speaker 2: not locked on one on one. He usually has a

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Speaker 2: guard chipping over and helping out. But they can heat

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Speaker 2: you up in a couple of the gaps and all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden you one on one and try to

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Speaker 2: expose you. I think Drew will be fine, It's just

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Speaker 2: that was an area of concern. That was an area

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Speaker 2: of concern on the outside. I think we'll be okay there,

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Speaker 2: but it's still a question and it's something you're looking for,

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Speaker 2: much like the corner UH situation. We'll see how that

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Speaker 2: plays out as well. I do like some of the

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Speaker 2: players that we have on the roster. I mentioned that

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Speaker 2: due to the construction here at IBM Performance Field, the

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Speaker 2: Falcons are unable to host fans for the AT and

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Speaker 2: T training camp this year at and T Falcons Training Camp,

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Speaker 2: so they're gonna host some off sites and these are

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Speaker 2: pretty cool in my opinion. Will we get kind of

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Speaker 2: back to our old Friday night lights thing that we

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Speaker 2: did back several years ago, where we're gonna go to

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Speaker 2: Checkinger High School in Buford on Saturday. That's just Saturday

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Speaker 2: coming up free to the public. Come on out. It's

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Speaker 2: six to eight thirty. Come out and watch practice. It's

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Speaker 2: your opportunity to first get a glance at your Atlanta Falcons,

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Speaker 2: your thoughts about returning to one of the one of

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Speaker 2: the high schools here in the city of Atlanta.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be so much fun. Yeah, it's gonna be.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you hate the fact that fans can't come

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Speaker 3: out to Flowery Branch for any of the training camp practices,

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Speaker 3: But having seen what kind of the first day when

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Speaker 3: fans can come to Flowery Branch and how many people

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Speaker 3: do show up on what that hill looks like. I

689
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Speaker 3: know that Secondary High School is going to be jam packed.

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Speaker 3: I know parking is going to be a nightmare. So

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Speaker 3: get there early if you plan on coming. It's just

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Speaker 3: going to be such a fun atmosphere. It's going to

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Speaker 3: feel like kind of like high school football Friday night Lights,

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Speaker 3: that whole just feel in Georgia. That is so special

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Speaker 3: this time of year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing like football in Georgia and certainly Atlanta going

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Speaker 2: back to high school, second year high school in Buford.

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Speaker 2: Be there Saturday night, the twenty seventh. That's this Saturday night,

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Speaker 2: coming up six to eight thirty. There also is another opportunity.

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Speaker 2: In fact, that's the first time Atlanta's gone back to

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Speaker 2: a high school since twenty sixteen, So pretty cool to

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Speaker 2: revisit some of those moments that.

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Speaker 1: Were a lot more special.

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Speaker 2: Also a practice on August the second at Mercedes Been Stadium.

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Speaker 2: There are tickets for this one. There are only five dollars.

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Speaker 2: These proceeds are benefiting support of medical programs and treatment

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Speaker 2: services at Emory Healthcare. So the money is going to

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Speaker 2: a really cool cause. So you know, you're not shelling

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Speaker 2: money out to the to the team, You're actually giving

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Speaker 2: it to a nice cause. But you can come out

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Speaker 2: and watch your team. But you can go to Mercedes

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Speaker 2: Been Stadium, which is probably gonna obviously going to house

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Speaker 2: a lot more. If you'd like to come down, we'd

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Speaker 2: love to see down there. That is on August the second,

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Speaker 2: and that also will be from six to eight thirty,

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Speaker 2: So come on down, make a contribution of five dollars,

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Speaker 2: come watch your team and before the first preseason game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's the best way if you've never been

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Speaker 3: to Mercedes Been Stadium. Every year, this is the best

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Speaker 3: way to get inside, just to check it out. Like

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Speaker 3: it for no other reason than that, if you've never

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Speaker 3: been to the stadium, come in watch Falcons have a

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Speaker 3: training camp, practice, walk around, check out the amazing digs

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Speaker 3: because it's voted so highly in the fan Experience rankings

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Speaker 3: every single year for a reason.

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Speaker 2: Dude, you knocked it out of the park. Make sure

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Speaker 2: you check out Will McFadden's stuff on Atlanta Falcons dot com.

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00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 2: Guy is dialed in, is doing a heck of a job.

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Speaker 2: He's our new senior editor and staff writer here with

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Speaker 2: the Atlanta Falcons. He's been around this team for a

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Speaker 2: long time. Don't don't think that Jesus has been here

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Speaker 2: for a couple of months. He's been around this team

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Speaker 2: for a lot of years. So get ready for his

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Speaker 2: stuff and check it out because Will's going to be

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Speaker 2: really dialed in along with Tory Macandy and everybody else.

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Speaker 2: Atlanta Falcons dot com. Stay tuned to Atlanta Falcons dot com.

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Speaker 2: Because you can find all your information you want to

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Speaker 2: know about the team through training camp. I know you

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Speaker 2: can't be out here, and I'm sure a bunch of

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Speaker 2: those guys are getting on the field will be low

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Speaker 2: liupset that they don't have the fans on the side.

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Speaker 2: But stay tuned to Atlanta Falcons dot com because this

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Speaker 2: guy and everybody else on this staff will keep you

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Speaker 2: dialed in what's going on. Make sure you like, subscribe

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Speaker 2: and review at Spotify, iTunes, Atlanta Falcons dot com. We

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Speaker 2: just mentioned and YouTube Atlanta Falcons and for Falcons Audible

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Speaker 2: DJ and Rack will be back next week. But this

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Speaker 2: guy is here and he did a great job. I'm

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Speaker 2: Dave Archer. Appreciate you joining us and we'll see you

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