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Speaker 2: Yeah, you guy can get chills a little bit thinking

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Speaker 1: yes we are light one pair, but there is a

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Speaker 1: reason behind it, folks. And if you've been a regular

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Speaker 1: a college football playoff. So uh, DJ Shockley's not gonna

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Speaker 1: their college football playoff matchup. Whenever you are taking this

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Speaker 1: be holding it down here for the Falcons audible this week.

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Speaker 1: So normally you get three, this week you get two.

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Speaker 1: primetime matchup, final primetime matchup of the season is done.

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Speaker 1: Atlanta finishes four and one in primetime matchups this year.

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Speaker 2: Good good to bring him up.

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Speaker 2: He's brilliant. He's there. You think about geniuses in different

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Speaker 2: Ah?

432
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Speaker 1: That's beautiful? You know, how did you do that?

433
00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:16,160
Speaker 2: You know? He does that and in just the ninety

434
00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,000
Speaker 2: three yard run like you're talking about, he's got a

435
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:22,480
Speaker 2: defender that's clean in the hole two yards deep in

436
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Speaker 2: the backfield, and it's his eyes are He's not even

437
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,960
Speaker 2: looking at this dude. He's already talking thinking about that

438
00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:35,120
Speaker 2: second third level because it's boom booming. That guy's.

439
00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:37,040
Speaker 1: Was the chance.

440
00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:38,960
Speaker 2: I don't know, if you go back and it's like

441
00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,800
Speaker 2: he goes into some kind of trance or something like

442
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,680
Speaker 2: that where you ask him about how'd you make that

443
00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:49,600
Speaker 2: guy miss? What was there? Gather? I adin't see him

444
00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,800
Speaker 2: because his mind is working at such a different in

445
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:58,800
Speaker 2: a different place, and his body matches physically, he matches

446
00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,000
Speaker 2: his mind to be able to see it. You know,

447
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,840
Speaker 2: I made the analogy a couple of weeks ago about

448
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,240
Speaker 2: think about yourself trying to if you've ever gone to

449
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,399
Speaker 2: a subway, whether you're in New York or wherever, or

450
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,520
Speaker 2: here in Atlanta with Marta and there's it's rush hour

451
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 2: and there's people spilling off the train and you're trying

452
00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:18,719
Speaker 2: to get by people to get on. Maybe you're at

453
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:20,800
Speaker 2: the maybe you're at the airport and you're trying to

454
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,640
Speaker 2: get on the plane. Train you and you know you're

455
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,640
Speaker 2: you're in the B gates. I need to get the seagate.

456
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:28,400
Speaker 2: My plane is getting ready to leave, and there's people

457
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:32,920
Speaker 2: spilling off. He making people miss to get on the train.

458
00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,639
Speaker 2: That's who he is. It's it's amazing his ability to

459
00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:40,480
Speaker 2: make people miss. But now you're you're exactly right, racket.

460
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:44,520
Speaker 2: There's a brilliance to what he's doing. Take advantage of it,

461
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:48,440
Speaker 2: Falcon Fans, because you are seeing and I've mentioned it

462
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:50,359
Speaker 2: a number of times, whether it's on interviews on the

463
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:52,640
Speaker 2: radio here, We've talked about it on our podcast. You've

464
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,399
Speaker 2: mentioned it as well. Rack you're seeing one of the

465
00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,879
Speaker 2: potentially not potentially one of the great football players of

466
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 2: his time, weaving his magic and he's on your team.

467
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 2: And yes, we want to get him into the playoffs,

468
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,879
Speaker 2: and we'd like to see him on the grandest stage

469
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:10,600
Speaker 2: in the super Bowl, and hopefully we can do that

470
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,639
Speaker 2: here in the next year or so. But you're witnessing

471
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Speaker 2: one of the great players INFL history. The only player

472
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Speaker 2: I can think of that even is that Bijan is

473
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:27,240
Speaker 2: creeping into I've mentioned to him before, the best running

474
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,159
Speaker 2: back I've ever seen in my life was Walter Payton,

475
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 2: and that's because he could do everything. That's what this

476
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,399
Speaker 2: guy is. He can do everything. You know, we talk

477
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 2: about him catching the football, making people miss speed, power,

478
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 2: run through guys. Watch him pick up blitzes in this game.

479
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,720
Speaker 2: They came with pressures, but Jean Robinson steps up. He's

480
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,920
Speaker 2: your number one back. He's the leader in yards from

481
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Speaker 2: scrimmage in the National Football League. He's shortening guys necks

482
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 2: that are coming on blitzes to protect his quarterback. That's

483
00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:00,399
Speaker 2: what Walter Payton was. Go back and throw Sweetness's film on.

484
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 2: That's who this guy is. And it's just I mean,

485
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,159
Speaker 2: I get chills, save down your back. You and I

486
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 2: are we kind of get kind of giggly and goofy

487
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 2: think talking about this guy, and then you throw in

488
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Speaker 2: the fact that he's one of the one of the

489
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,119
Speaker 2: best human beings ever met. I mean, I get a

490
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,119
Speaker 2: chance to be around him, probably more than I should.

491
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Speaker 2: But he is such a gracious, team oriented dude. Enjoyed Atlanta.

492
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Speaker 2: You got one of the greats.

493
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Speaker 1: Listen. I said this to myself. I think I might

494
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Speaker 1: have said it to the guys that were in the

495
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Speaker 1: control room when I was doing the game on Monday night,

496
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 1: and I said, this guy better get a new contract

497
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:37,639
Speaker 1: like pronto, because guess what, thirty one other other NFL

498
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Speaker 1: teams are going to be in line.

499
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Speaker 2: No, he ain't getting out of here.

500
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, like every single team in

501
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,399
Speaker 1: the national footing is ready to open up their check books.

502
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,639
Speaker 2: I saw mister Blank out here, big truck. He was

503
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 2: backing it up himself.

504
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:53,959
Speaker 1: You know they truck breaks trucks. He ain't getting out

505
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Speaker 1: of here. Listen, you you said it eloquently. Arch. You

506
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,919
Speaker 1: just you can't find a better package. In my opinion,

507
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 1: you can't find what he does, or shall I say

508
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 1: what he can't do, combine with the person that he is.

509
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: You just can't find him. And I think everybody is

510
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 1: now understanding why the Falcons drafted him in the first

511
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 1: round the year after they had a thousand yard rusher,

512
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,600
Speaker 1: because they saw all of that. They sat down with

513
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 1: him as a person, and they saw who he was

514
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: off the field, and they saw the magic that he

515
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 1: could make on the field. And Guys, he's doing more

516
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,359
Speaker 1: in the NFL than he did in college, because I

517
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 1: called a couple of games in college, and he was

518
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 1: pretty darn good in college. Do any of that stuff

519
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: that he's doing with the Atlanta Falcons.

520
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,000
Speaker 2: Sitting there going, damn, what did I miss?

521
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:42,680
Speaker 1: Why did I what did.

522
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 2: I give it to? The other game?

523
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Speaker 1: And you mentioned Walter Payton. Listen, I mean the other

524
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 1: accomplishment that he ended up getting on Monday night is

525
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 1: he now has the most scrimmage yards by a player

526
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Speaker 1: under the age of twenty four in NFL history. The

527
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,880
Speaker 1: two guys that he passed on Monday night, Barry sand

528
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,360
Speaker 1: You get in the conversation with Barry Sanders, I don't

529
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Speaker 1: care what it is we just mentioned.

530
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Speaker 3: And Barry Sanders and you're gonna mention another guy that's

531
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Speaker 3: probably he's still playing and he is the closest thing

532
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 3: to John Robinson right now as far as what he

533
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 3: can do or to your point, arch what he cannot do.

534
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Speaker 1: And now Jon Robinson sits atop that list, how many

535
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: other lists is he going to sit a top before

536
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 1: it's all set?

537
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 2: It's like going when you go to your refrigerator, you

538
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 2: know there's milk in the refrigerator.

539
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 4: Should be okay, Well maybe maybe at the Racy Rackley's

540
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 4: responsible for that if he's not heavy, but no, it's

541
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Speaker 4: one of those deals where you expect, Okay, when I

542
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,120
Speaker 4: go to the utensil drawer, there's gonna be a knife

543
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 4: in there.

544
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Speaker 2: There's gonna be a fork in there. Right. That's who

545
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,399
Speaker 2: this guy is when you come to the game. This

546
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 2: is his fiftieth career game. He now has twenty seven

547
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,119
Speaker 2: games of one hundred plus yards from scrimmage. That's like

548
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,119
Speaker 2: going to the utensil drawer and saying, yeah, I know

549
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 2: where the knives are. When I bring Brejon Robinson to

550
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 2: the game, I know I'm getting one hundred yards in

551
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 2: some capacity out of the guy.

552
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:05,159
Speaker 4: So I know.

553
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 2: We sprinkled a lot of sugar on net and hopefully

554
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,920
Speaker 2: you guys have enjoyed that because he's he's all of

555
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 2: that in a bag of donuts.

556
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, five games this year alone with one

557
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,479
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five scrimmage yards. That's three more than

558
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,120
Speaker 1: any other player in the league this year, three more

559
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: games than any other player with one hundred and seventy

560
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: five yards or more scrimmage yards. So that kind of

561
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: sums up twenty seven to twenty four. Big time win

562
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 1: for the Falcons over one of the best teams in

563
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 1: the National Football League on Monday night in Week seventeen.

564
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 1: So let's let's turn a page and talk about Week

565
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: eighteen Arch, because unfortunately, there are fourteen teams that make

566
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: it to the postseason. There are eighteen teams that are frustrated.

567
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,959
Speaker 1: Either they just missed out, either they had a disaster

568
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:54,439
Speaker 1: of a season, or somewhere in between. But regardless, they

569
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 1: have fell short of their goal, which is to get

570
00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,119
Speaker 1: into the postseason tournament, to give yourself a chance. You

571
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 1: never know what's going to happen. Now, neither of these teams,

572
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,160
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons or the New Orleans Saints, are going

573
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:09,679
Speaker 1: to be in. But oddly enough, this game has implications

574
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 1: to who does get into the NFC South which is

575
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:17,639
Speaker 1: wild to think about when Atlanta was eliminated from postseason contention,

576
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 1: But now that they have gotten on this winning streak,

577
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: now it's not really gonna matter because the game is

578
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: going to be between Carolina and Tampa's going to be completed. However,

579
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 1: if Carolina loses that game and Atlanta wins, Carolina still

580
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 1: goes because of some weird tiebreakers that end up, so

581
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 1: the Atlanta's game still has some postseason ramifications, which is

582
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: a little wild, but even more wild arches you think

583
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: back and you're like, one victory over Carolina, Yeah, just

584
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,239
Speaker 1: get one victory over at Carolina, and now look at

585
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 1: the different situation that we would be in right now.

586
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you beat Carolina, you lost him in overtime here,

587
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 2: remember it's a thirty twenty seven loss. You can throw

588
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 2: away Week three because that was that was kind of

589
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 2: a disaster football game. But yeah, in the second game

590
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 2: here in Atlanta, you win, you lose thirty twenty seven,

591
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 2: You could even and I know the fan out there

592
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 2: and there there's a lot of sports talk here in

593
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 2: town that are not necessarily looking at the things that

594
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 2: we just talked about with John Robinson and all that

595
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. There may may be more angst about

596
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 2: the fact that you did have a couple of games

597
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 2: on the hook that you could have won. I mean,

598
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 2: pick one even let's say you lose to Carolina twice.

599
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 2: Pick another game out the Colts, pick out the Patriots game,

600
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 2: the Jets game. I mean, you could go through a

601
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 2: list of games that if you got one of them, now,

602
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you win this weekend, there's a

603
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 2: chance you go ahead and win the division anyway, even

604
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 2: with the law. And think about on the other side too,

605
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about the Saints. Saints are on

606
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 2: a four game winning streak now. Tyler Shuck, their quarterback,

607
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 2: has slid in, the young quarterback out of Louisville Young.

608
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 2: I say, he's bit like Pennis. Played a lot of

609
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 2: college football, but now he's playing at a high level.

610
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 2: And they've won four straight. He's playing a pretty good level.

611
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 2: And they beat Carolina, they beat Tampa. If they win

612
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 2: this game against Atlanta, they finished second in the division,

613
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,479
Speaker 2: they're gonna be they're going to slide into that spot too.

614
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 2: So they're playing for a great deal from a pride

615
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 2: standpoint to So here's here's a class I don't know

616
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 2: if you were in these as Saint games Saint games,

617
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 2: but I played in a lot of these games where

618
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 2: we were eliminated from playoff contention, but it was the

619
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 2: Saints late in the year. These end up being rock

620
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 2: fights between these two teams because they don't like each other.

621
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 2: This is truly Bears Packers, you know, you can pick

622
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 2: one out, maybe Raven Steelers. There's a couple of rivalries

623
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 2: in the league that kind of go outside the realm

624
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 2: of National Football League stuff. And we're both in the South.

625
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 2: Came into the league one year apart from when our

626
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 2: Atlanta came in first, and then New Orleans came in

627
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 2: the next year. You kind of got shoved in the

628
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 2: NFC West, you were, you know, and so there's been

629
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 2: kind of that little brother big brother, or we deserve

630
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:11,959
Speaker 2: this and you guys don't. And so there's a lot

631
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 2: of pettiness going on between the two. So there's a

632
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 2: lot on the line for this, even though you don't

633
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 2: have any playoffs stuff.

634
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: Well, just think about it. Kind of does support the

635
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: point that I made earlier about players and coaches don't

636
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 1: really care about draft positioning. Go back four weeks ago,

637
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: the new Orleans Saints at the time were two and ten.

638
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: Don't you think if there was a care about whether

639
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: or not you wanted to get the highest draft pick possible,

640
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: that would have been the time for the Saints to

641
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 1: quote unquote tank their season and have an opportunity to

642
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: get the one or two or three overall pick. Well,

643
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: what have they done. They've won four straight games, and

644
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: they've done it with arguably their most dynamic player not

645
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: being in the lineup and Alvin Kamara and don't know

646
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: what his status is going to be against the Falcons

647
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: this weekend. But they're now six and ten, as you mentioned, Arch,

648
00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: and four straight wins. Tyler Shuck has been over three

649
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: hundred yards passing each of the last two games, three

650
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three yards in a couple of touchdowns

651
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: last week, and not even having Kamara in the game,

652
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:13,239
Speaker 1: and they're still finding ways to win football games. So, Arch,

653
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you this, what can Atlanta kind of

654
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 1: go back to the first matchup and Harness and have

655
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: a better start to finish, because I think that's probably

656
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: been one of the biggest issues for Atlanta this year

657
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 1: is start to finish. Solid performance from the opening kick

658
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: to finishing the game hasn't quite always been there. What

659
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: can Atlanta take from that first game arch and improve

660
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 1: on to put a better performance out there this Sunday

661
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: at home.

662
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 2: Well, I think that you continue to want to take

663
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 2: away the two way go. We talked about the rams,

664
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 2: and can you take away Stafford's two way go. I

665
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 2: think you did that early in the game where you

666
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 2: took Kyron Williams and break Korum to a certain extent

667
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 2: out of the game where they weren't able to run

668
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 2: the football and they had to lean kind of on

669
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 2: their passing game, and so you built that twenty one

670
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 2: point lead. I think that in this game, if you

671
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 2: can kind of take that away. Now, Shuck has been

672
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 2: really good, as Rak has said, He's completing over this

673
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 2: four game stretch of wins, four consecutive wins. That's over

674
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 2: Tampa Carolina. Two teams are gonna play for the division,

675
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 2: the Jets and Tennessee. He's completed seventy two percent of

676
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 2: his passes and averaging about two hundred and sixty yards

677
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 2: per game through the air. He's only thrown one interception.

678
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 2: I think in those those two games, those four games,

679
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 2: he's got four touchdowns. He's run for a touchdown and

680
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 2: that might be the piece to it as well. In

681
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 2: the three games, he's run the ball twenty one times.

682
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 2: This is something he did in college. He was at Oregon,

683
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 2: he went to Texas Tech. Got kind of injured in

684
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 2: both places, more at Texas Tech than maybe Oregon, as

685
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 2: he started as a young guy at Oregon and then

686
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 2: went to Louisville and had a really good final year

687
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 2: at Louisville. His ability to run with the football is

688
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 2: kind of massed a little bit because he's a big

689
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 2: dude sixty three six four two hundred and forty pounds,

690
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 2: but he's run for over one hundred yards in the

691
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 2: last four games, so that'll be something that will have

692
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 2: to kind of corral. He had seven carries for twenty

693
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 2: two yards against Atlanta in that first game. That was

694
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 2: just his third start of his career. This guy has

695
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 2: blossomed a great deal over the last eight games since

696
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 2: he started. So I would think, okay, let's make them

697
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 2: don't give up the big play, which again that's plagued

698
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 2: Atlanta's defense a little bit. Rack you're doing such a

699
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 2: good job, and then the explosives, the rams, that's who

700
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 2: they are, but they had ten plays of fifteen yards

701
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 2: or more in the game. That's something you can't give

702
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 2: up to New Orleans. Don't help them out chuck through

703
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,479
Speaker 2: the ball forty three times in the game. It's against

704
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:39,399
Speaker 2: Atlanta for two hundred and forty three yards. So when

705
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 2: you factor that out, it's if you do the math

706
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 2: real quick, that's like six yards in attempt. That's where

707
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 2: you'd like to kind of keep it. If you let

708
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 2: him get into that seven eight yards at attempt. Now

709
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you're having some problems and they're

710
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 2: making some plays against you. So that's kind of what

711
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 2: I would lean into there. What are your thoughts on

712
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 2: how you kind of keep New Orleans from staying on

713
00:34:59,120 --> 00:34:59,439
Speaker 2: this train?

714
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: They're on back to back challenges for the defensive backfield.

715
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: After the game against the Rams, Raheem Morris ends up

716
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,840
Speaker 1: giving aj Terrella a game ball because of his performance,

717
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: most notably against Pukuinakua throughout the course of the game,

718
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: and Pukuinakua had his second worst yardage performance of his

719
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 1: season this year mostly due to Terrell and what this

720
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: defense was able to do to him. I reason why

721
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: I say that is Chris Olave is coming off to

722
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: of his best performances of his season. He's got three

723
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: one hundred yard games this year, and two of them

724
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: have come the last two weeks. They have been force

725
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:32,879
Speaker 1: feeding him the football. He's a guy that we've known

726
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: about for a number of years, right.

727
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think he's heard us a couple of

728
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 2: times before, if a couple of times. Yeah, it's like

729
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 2: he's banged up every time we play him.

730
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: Twenty seven targets the last two weeks, eighteen receptions, So

731
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 1: they are they are force feeding him the football. So

732
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: this is how life is in the NFL. Right, you

733
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 1: get one challenges behind you, guess what, you better turn

734
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,399
Speaker 1: the page because you got Christal Lave coming into town.

735
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 1: And I would imagine it's going to be similar story

736
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: for them, especially if we don't see an Alvin Kamara

737
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: in this game because of his versatility. So rise to

738
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: the challenge there, find a way to get takeaways. Last game,

739
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: Shuck did not throw a touchdown pass or they had

740
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,839
Speaker 1: one interception. Beauzavier Watts ended up picking him off that game, right,

741
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 1: So we saw three last game. Are they able to

742
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 1: do that again? So those are some of the things

743
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 1: that come to mind. We mentioned the one most consistent force.

744
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: We talked about him a lot, but Jean Robinson, Like,

745
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 1: what has he got up his sleeve, you know, the

746
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: last week of the season, Like, what is he going

747
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: to show us this week that's different than every other week?

748
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's a surprise and it's a

749
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 1: pleasant one every single week that we see him on

750
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: the field.

751
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're going to throw the tape on it.

752
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 2: They're going to see be Jon Robinson making plays on

753
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 2: him in that game in mid season too, so Beijon

754
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 2: had a pretty good game against New Orleans. A couple

755
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 2: of numbers for you, real quickly. I don't want to

756
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 2: get lost in the menagerie of numbers, but this Saint

757
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 2: team has been really pretty good against the pass. They

758
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 2: only giving up one hundred and eighty yards through the air.

759
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 2: They've been one of the best teams in the league

760
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 2: on third down. Teams are converting at just thirty seven

761
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 2: percent or I'm sorry, thirty four percent on third down,

762
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 2: which is third best in the National Football League, and

763
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 2: they're getting the ball out. They've got nineteen takeaways on

764
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 2: the year, I think, nine interceptions, ten fumble force fumble

765
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 2: fumble recoveries, so they've been getting some takeaways in this

766
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 2: stretch where they've put the four games together. Schuck started

767
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,760
Speaker 2: eight games. We mentioned he's won five of his eight games,

768
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,360
Speaker 2: so there's a little bit of a changing of the

769
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,399
Speaker 2: guard and changing of the feeling under Kellen Moore down there.

770
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:22,720
Speaker 2: They've kind of been losing the last couple of seasons,

771
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden they got this young quarterback

772
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 2: that they're feeling pretty good about, especially in the last

773
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,879
Speaker 2: four weeks, like you talked about. So I think they're

774
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 2: coming in as a different football team, one because of

775
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 2: the quarterback and two because of the kind of the

776
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 2: feeling that's going on. And we're kind of feeling different

777
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 2: about ourselves as well. So just two sacks away we

778
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 2: got to get. We need three sacks. You set the

779
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 2: all time record, and I know it's you know, it's

780
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:52,280
Speaker 2: like icing on maybe a pile over in the corner,

781
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 2: but it's still some stuff that you kind of begin

782
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 2: to build on and think about for next season.

783
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: That's so that's great that you mentioned that, because that's

784
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: what I'm going to end up kind of combining here

785
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:05,359
Speaker 1: in our last comment is going to be building First

786
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,439
Speaker 1: of all, you have the rivalry matchup, right, Like, there's

787
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: enough to get excited for this game because of that. Right.

788
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: Then there's this thing about going into the off season

789
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 1: on a solid note, right, three game winning streak as

790
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 1: it stands right now, can you go into the offseason

791
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 1: with this positive note, right that you beat a rival,

792
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: that you had this winning streak going into the off season,

793
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: that you might have set the all time single season

794
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: sack record for the franchise that but Jehan Robinson's been

795
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: able to do. Give this team promise. Yes, there's going

796
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: to probably be some changes, There's gonna be some new personnel.

797
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: Whatever it ends up happening, we don't know that's in

798
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 1: the future. But I know this in my career is

799
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:44,840
Speaker 1: that when you're out of the postseason, you want to

800
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: send yourself into the offseason on a positive note. So

801
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: let's get to some keys here and it's just the

802
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: two of us, But how does Atlanta do that? Get

803
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: the rivalry matchup, maybe get the sack record, go into

804
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 1: the off season, and on a positive note it ultimately

805
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 1: beat the Saints this weekend. What's one of the big

806
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:02,879
Speaker 1: keys that goes through your mind?

807
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that the energy rack that you're talking

808
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 2: about is real. I think people say, wow, it doesn't

809
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 2: carry over from your year. Teams are different. That potentially

810
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 2: is a little bit more associated I think with college football.

811
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,839
Speaker 2: I think that in the NFL because of personnel, if

812
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 2: you've got a fifty three man roster, a big turnover

813
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 2: in the roster would be twenty players, fifteen players. A

814
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,479
Speaker 2: lot of times you get the same core of guys

815
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 2: coming back. And certainly this team has got a young

816
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 2: core of players that are going to come back. So

817
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 2: because they're a young team, and I'm gonna throw this

818
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 2: back at you, Yeah, how much did this does this

819
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,800
Speaker 2: team because of eight years of inactivity in the playoffs

820
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 2: counting this season, and the core of those players has

821
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 2: not been here the eight years. You've got guys that

822
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 2: have come from winning programs. Jalen Walker, James Pearce Junior,

823
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 2: Jean Robinson, Drake Lennon, different guys have come from winning

824
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,879
Speaker 2: organizations in college and realize and have kind of been

825
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 2: mired in this, you know, losing scenario. How much did

826
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 2: they need to kind of learn how to win at

827
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 2: this level? Is there is there is there anything to

828
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 2: that or is it that?

829
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:19,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, because you could make the same argument for

830
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs, like what was the difference with them, Yes,

831
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:26,280
Speaker 1: they had a really good quarterback. But what did Patrick

832
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 1: Mahomes do and Andy Reid when they turned things around

833
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 1: in Kansas City is they turned around the belief that

834
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 1: we are winners and we're gonna win every single year.

835
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: Now that's not the case this year with the Chiefs,

836
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:42,800
Speaker 1: but that's everybody's mentality. Go back to the Patriots, Like

837
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 1: I always joke around about this, but like tell me

838
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 1: who Tom Brady's. Yes, he had some stints where he

839
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:52,839
Speaker 1: had he had Rob Gromkowski, one of the greatest tight

840
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: ends ever played the game. He had Randy Moss for

841
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: a couple of a cup of coffee, Okay, but his

842
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: wide receiver corps thout the majority of his career was

843
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:06,320
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman, Danny Amondola. Like he made these guys stars.

844
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,439
Speaker 1: But more than that, the organization became to the point

845
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:14,320
Speaker 1: to where the expectation was winning, Like that's all we know,

846
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 1: that's all that's accepted here, and we have a relentless

847
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: effort to do just that. Right. Yeah, everybody's gonna argue

848
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 1: with me and say they had Tom Brady. You're right,

849
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 1: they had Tom Brady. Who's to say that Atlanta Falcons

850
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,839
Speaker 1: don't have John Robinson. He touches the football a lot.

851
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: Michael Pennix needs to turn into that player. But there

852
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 1: has to be that belief that not just we're getting

853
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: to the postseason, but like that's just the first step. Right.

854
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 1: Like the teams that are really good, like the Buffalo Bills, now,

855
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: their goal is not getting into the postseason. They've been there,

856
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: They do that every year. Their goal is to win

857
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. How do you change that tenor? That's

858
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:57,880
Speaker 1: the tenor that has to be changed in this organization.

859
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: And to your point, it's a collective effort of the

860
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: players learning how to win, but then having such a

861
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 1: sour taste in their mouth with defeat that they don't

862
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,400
Speaker 1: allow it to happen again, right, And they get themselves

863
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 1: to where they're an eleven and four team going into

864
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: Week seventeen and not where they were at right. So

865
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 1: you're right, it's a whole lot of shifting of the

866
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 1: brain in heart, if you will, And that's where this

867
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 1: organization has to get to.

868
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 2: These the teams that play and we just talked about

869
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 2: one score games here early on in the in the podcast,

870
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 2: and so what allows you to win some of those games?

871
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 2: And some of it has to do with what you're

872
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:39,399
Speaker 2: talking about most these teams, the difference between the team

873
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 2: that's going to pick first in the draft and the

874
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 2: team that wins it. You could put those teams on

875
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 2: the field and they could play pretty evenly with one another.

876
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 2: It's just it's weird how this league, the parody in

877
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 2: the league. So what is it that gets you over

878
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 2: the hump? It's expectation of you know, obviously doing the

879
00:42:57,280 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 2: work during the week, but the expectation level you go

880
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 2: in to the game with.

881
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: I expect to.

882
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 2: Win and if things go wrong, I'm going to do

883
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 2: something well collectively with my teammates. So it's going to

884
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 2: change the tenor of the game. The Rams tried to

885
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 2: do that. They expected to win that football game the

886
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 2: other night. They're down twenty one, twenty one to nothing,

887
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 2: and they storm back in the game. They made some plays.

888
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 2: We fortunately made enough plays to win the football game.

889
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 2: But that's what it's about. But the mentality that you

890
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 2: get and I don't know, maybe we're brocking up the

891
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 2: wrong tree, but here, but to close out the season

892
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:35,280
Speaker 2: with four straight wins, beating your division rival in Tampa,

893
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 2: beating your division rival with the Saints, beating a team

894
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 2: that could have a chance to win the football win.

895
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 2: The whole thing builds a momentum when you go into

896
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 2: the offseason because the bulk of these guys are going

897
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 2: to come back. Yes, there's a question market the key position,

898
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 2: the quarterback position. We don't know when Michael will be ready.

899
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 2: We don't know what Kirk's plans are, what the organization's

900
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 2: plans are for Kirk, and so we'll figure that out

901
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 2: the next month. But the core guys around him have

902
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,879
Speaker 2: done a great job. And I'll point to the game

903
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 2: in Tampa. You're down fourteen points in the fourth quarter,

904
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 2: you come back to win the game. You're down ten

905
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 2: points early to a cardinal team. I know that's not

906
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 2: it's going to be picking in the top five, probably,

907
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 2: but they had you down in their building by ten points,

908
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 2: and we're pretty much dictating the way those game was

909
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:22,799
Speaker 2: going to go. And you came back in that game

910
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 2: one finding way to win and win those games and

911
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 2: not saying, oh okay, well we've lost. We've lost five

912
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:30,760
Speaker 2: in a row and we're down fourteen points to Tampa.

913
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 2: It's their building. They're going to go win the division. Yep,

914
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 2: that didn't happen. And so that's what Rack's talking about,

915
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 2: that turn of mentality a little bit that when you

916
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:42,399
Speaker 2: show up on practice day on Wednesday, that now you're

917
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 2: preparing to expect to win, and I'm doing the work

918
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:48,359
Speaker 2: to put that together. There's a lot of mental peace

919
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 2: to this fans, and I know the physicality that we

920
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 2: talked about with with what Jon Robinson brings to the

921
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 2: table or Brandon Dorles brings the table, is definitely pre

922
00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:59,879
Speaker 2: piece of the equation. But mentally going into the game

923
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 2: thinking I'm supposed to win this game and I'm gonna

924
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 2: do everything I can. If it goes sideways in the

925
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 2: game somewhere, which it inevitably will, I'm going to make

926
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 2: something happen to change that course and not say, oh man,

927
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 2: we're not going to get this one. And there is

928
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 2: something to that, because you just mentioned one of the

929
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 2: great organizations in this league, the Kansas City Chiefs, have

930
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 2: been doing that for the last decade. Didn't happen for

931
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 2: him this year, but hey, that's who they like.

932
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 1: It arched like that relentless determination to win is what

933
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 1: you're looking for in this game. And mine's kind of

934
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: to a similar fashion. It was like, let's put it

935
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:34,760
Speaker 1: all together, right, Like we saw a team on Monday

936
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 1: night that's got off to an extremely fast start, right,

937
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 1: got up twenty one points to a team that had

938
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:45,800
Speaker 1: not happened to all season long. Right, but they finished.

939
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 1: But it looked a little clunky coming down the stretch.

940
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 1: But that's the other thing is finish and win a

941
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 1: turnover margin in sacks? Can we set that new record?

942
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 1: And can special teams be stronger? We've seen way too

943
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:00,360
Speaker 1: many issues this year on special teams. There was a

944
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: field goal that was blocked and brought back for a

945
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: score this week. Can we put that all together? Can

946
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 1: you put everything together in the final performance of the

947
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:13,840
Speaker 1: season to give everybody in this organization that glimmer of

948
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: hope is not necessarily the right phrase, arch because that's

949
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 1: like you're trying to grab onto something. That was just

950
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 1: like there was a lot of really good moments to

951
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: this season, but like put it all together where you

952
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:27,360
Speaker 1: can say two weeks in a row, after a Rams

953
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 1: game and after a Saints game in Week eighteen, to

954
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: say that's two really good performances of a team that

955
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: I feel like has got the pieces to put things

956
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 1: together in twenty twenty six and to make some noise.

957
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 4: Is that fair?

958
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 1: Yeah?

959
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 2: I think it's it's certainly fair. And I know the

960
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 2: fans sit there saying, well, wait a minute. You know

961
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:45,760
Speaker 2: you guys are trying to your guys are again putting

962
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 2: sugar on that pile in the corner, and there's there's

963
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 2: there's certainly validity to some of that what you're saying,

964
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 2: But what you're trying to do is you're trying to

965
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 2: build that mentality that goes to win, and so there's

966
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 2: a building process that goes on. We talked about the

967
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 2: young players and all that kind of stuff, and what

968
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 2: Rack's talking about is exactly right. I know you don't

969
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 2: want to hear that. You want to say, well, who

970
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:09,879
Speaker 2: do I blame because we didn't make the playoffs because

971
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:11,760
Speaker 2: there was a thought that this team was a playoff

972
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:15,320
Speaker 2: football team and not taking that off the table, this

973
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 2: team underachieved, if you will, So what do you do

974
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 2: with the back end of the season to make sure

975
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:24,400
Speaker 2: that doesn't happen next year? Is there something you can do?

976
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:26,840
Speaker 2: And I think they're trying to do that now. We

977
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 2: don't have any idea Rack and I don't have any

978
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:30,360
Speaker 2: idea of sitting here right now, who's going to be

979
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 2: calling the shots or who's going to be throwing the

980
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 2: football or all that kind of stuff next year potentially

981
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 2: for the team. But we have a pretty good idea

982
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 2: that number seven is going to be here, number five

983
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 2: is going to be here. You know, James Pierce Junior

984
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 2: is gonna be coming off the edge. So some of

985
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 2: the guys that you've hung your hat on this year

986
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,879
Speaker 2: are coming back next year, and they're trying to leave

987
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 2: a nice taste in their mouth so they can they

988
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 2: can build in the offseason.

989
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: Well, one thing that me and Arch do know is

990
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: that the Falcons have a Week eight team matchup at

991
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: one pm on Sunday, saying for New Orleans Saints.

992
00:47:57,239 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 2: By the way, I didn't have my I should have

993
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 2: bore the Grinch again. Remember I had the gauns. We're

994
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 2: gonna steal, are going to steal last Christmas. We took it.

995
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 2: We took Stafford's Christmas from him.

996
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 1: But uh, you could have worn it again. I wouldn't have.

997
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have had it because it's still holiday season,

998
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: right you can still wear the Grinch in holiday season.

999
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 2: Let just throw that gon there you go there by.

1000
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 1: The way, Falcons doing the thing in their sixteen and

1001
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 1: three in their throwbacks since two thousand.

1002
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm starting the campaign now. Red helmets, red helmets.

1003
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 2: Who's with me? That's the helmet I wore with you.

1004
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 2: I got a red helmet hanging on my wallet, my house.

1005
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: I look at it.

1006
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:33,720
Speaker 2: Red helmet.

1007
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:35,840
Speaker 1: I never go there. All I wore was black helmets.

1008
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:38,280
Speaker 1: So and I'm kind of jealous of that. So sixteen

1009
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 1: and three in throwbacks since two thousand, Okay. We'll be

1010
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 1: back next week to wrap up the Saints game, and

1011
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: we will also do a season in review next week

1012
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:50,800
Speaker 1: as the season will come to a close. But we

1013
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:53,400
Speaker 1: still got one more game left for the Falcons to

1014
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: go out there and put a really good performance on

1015
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 1: the field. Hopefully next week Shock would be back in

1016
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 1: town and he'll be joining us here to recap every thing.

1017
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 1: But until then, Shock, go dogs, Good luck to Georgia

1018
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 1: in the college football playoff, and hopefully there's a couple

1019
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 1: more games after the one coming this week, so on

1020
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 1: behalf of Shock. Who's not here, Dave Archer, I'm Derek

1021
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:13,279
Speaker 1: Rackley by the.

1022
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 2: Way, yeah, real quickly. Minnesota. Yes, Minnesota won their ninth

1023
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 2: consecutive bowl game.

1024
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: Is that the the kind of side joke was that PJ.

1025
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 1: Fleck All he does is win ball games?

1026
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 2: Well, that's for sure pretty good. Now, it was a

1027
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:29,839
Speaker 2: you know, it was a bowl game, but they weren't

1028
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 2: on the same sideline. It might have been kind of

1029
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,399
Speaker 2: a you know, a lesser bowl game if you will.

1030
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:36,880
Speaker 2: But hey, nine consecutive balls won.

1031
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 1: I am proud.

1032
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 2: We don't get a chance to rain a lot of

1033
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 2: accolades on the Golden Gophers.

1034
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 1: But here you go, right there we go, Minnesota gold

1035
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,720
Speaker 1: Gophers won their ball game. We'll see if shocks Georgia

1036
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 1: Bulldogs can do that as well. Did didn't? I Alwa

1037
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: State just play.

1038
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:57,399
Speaker 2: Too, Iowa State didn't go to a ball game. Mass

1039
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 2: exodus as coaches left, and I think we've we've got

1040
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 2: two guys on scholarship left. I always state it's a

1041
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 2: different story. Thank concentrate on Minnesota A story.

1042
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 1: For another day. Yeah, okay, so yes, back next week

1043
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:12,759
Speaker 1: to recap everything from this twenty twenty five season. A

1044
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 1: couple things for you to think about for the off

1045
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:17,239
Speaker 1: season and then we will take fortunately a little bit

1046
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 1: of a hiatus, but until then, thanks so much for

1047
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 1: joining us. This week. I'm the Falconatibo presented by AT

1048
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:24,320
Speaker 1: and T, and every week that you have done, hopefully

1049
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: you've learned something and appreciate our comments and opinions, and

1050
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 1: we'll give you some more of that