May 13, 2022 • 27 mins
Scott, Kris and Tori discuss every aspect of the Falcons 2022 schedule, including key matchups, dates and times of the most important games, including those at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. They break down the tough stretches and easy roads, identifying whether the Falcons can exceed expectations while navigating a tough slate. 00:00 Intro 00:14 2022 Schedule 02:01 First Reactions 06:09 Bye Week 11:08 Schedule Challenges 23:39 Goodbye to our friend, Kris
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, everybody, and welcome to a special edition of
the Falcons Final Whistle Podcast presented by Windows eleven, and
we are here to talk schedule, which was just released
by the NFL. We know what we have long known,
who the Falcons were going to play and where, but
not the win. The win has now been unveiled for
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weeks one through eighteen. We have the preseason slate. We
know exactly how things are going to be laid out here.
So in the spirit of really good radio and podcasting,
I'm going to read from a list. Okay, just like
just to start out there, for those of you that
don't have a second screen, which you should, this video
on YouTube on like your eighty five inch plasma is
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still a thing. I don't know, I don't know something.
I don't think so Alie de or yeah something. Anyway,
put it up big and then have a second screen
on the schedule for reference after I read this thing off.
But basically, they have the preseason slate that starts at
the Lions at the Jets home against the Jaguars, and
then they have the regular season. They have nine home games,
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they have eight road games, including playing the entire NFC
West so here we go. They start Week one at
home against the Saints, then at the Rams at the
Seahawks home against the Browns, at the Bucks forty nine
Ers home Bengals away Panthers home, Chargers home at Carolina
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Panthers on a Thursday night. That one's going to be
a fun one, followed by home against the Bears in
week eleven. Week twelve is at Washington, Week thirteen home
against Pittsburgh, then the bye took me a long time
to say that word. And then in week fifteen at
New Orleans, Week sixteen at Baltimore home against Arizona home
against Tampa Bay. If you couldn't remember that again, just
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head on over the website check it out. And basically
we're here to kind of break this schedule down right
that now we know the exact order of how they're
going to play these teams, and I guess instant reaction here, guys, Tory,
what are your first thoughts on this schedule kind of
seeing it all play out right here in front of you. Yeah,
I mean, I think it's really interesting to look at.
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I think schedule release in general is a very interesting day,
and I know that people are really excited about it,
and as you should be. It's you should be excited
about it. But to me, schedule release is not really
as big as big of a deal as what I
think many think it is, because when you're looking at
schedule release, it's exciting to know when and where you're going,
who you're playing when, But it's not the time to
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count the ws and the l's and to really like
get into the nitty gritty of prediction. Because I have
an issue and I feel like I've said this on
the podcast for I have a problem with predictions, like
I think predicting things is so stupid and because it's
just like one of those things where it's like you
can try and predict all day long, but no one
knows what the heck's going on. I think I said
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that in the draft. It's like we can go and
make as many mock drafts is what we want to make,
but no one knows how it's actually going to shake
out on draft night. Same thing with season, same thing
with schedule A least, it's like we can look at
this all day long and be like, oh, yeah, you're
playing this person. Then you don't have a bye week
until here at the end of the day. It's how
prepared this team is to actually play their opponents. And
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with the NFL being how it is, especially in the
last couple of years, we have seen where anybody can
be anyone on any given Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, any
of it. Like anyone can be anybody at any time.
And so that's why I'm kind of anti predictions when
it comes to schedule last day, though I do know
it's exciting. Everyone should be excited. Yeah, And I mean
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when you look at this slate, I just think now
you can kind of see how the Falcons fall and
winter is going to play out, right, because they have
so much roster turnover heading into it that my natural
thought is how are they going to start? How are
they going to use that preseason to kind of get
going Chris, especially because they have a new quarterback Matt
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Ryan obviously in Indianapolis, not a part of this schedule
as an opponent or obviously as the home team's quarterback.
When you look at the first section there Saints at
Rams at Seahawks home against the Browns, obviously you have
the preseason. How key is that for the for the
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fort all these new contributors to kind of hit the
ground running. Do you think it's possible to start hot
even against that section of opposition with so many new guys. Yeah,
I think starting hot can also look different ways. I
don't think starting hot necessarily mean not saying that if
you start owing four, obviously that would be disappointing and
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could you know, hinder momentum going into later in the season.
But I think starting hot can mean This is gonna
sound weird, but I heard people say this phrase before,
but like, there's a way to lose a game versus
like losing and versus if you lose like forty to nothing,
or you lose twenty five to twenty four or twenty
eleven to twenty three, or you played really hard at
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the end of a game. Right, So there's a way
to build momentum within the first four games. I think
there's this team is brand new, there's a lot of
new faces all over, So to be through the first
four games, you'll see are these guys as bought in
as guys last season work? Because it seemed like last
season guys are bought in, Guys are playing till the
end of games and playing hard. They believed in what
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was happening. Now, you bring in a bunch of new faces,
you lost a staple at quarterback. Our guys still going
to be bought in, and you'll learn that through the
first four games, which I think could arguably be the
toughest part of their schedule. Yeah, and we're going to
get into tough stretches. We are going to get into
some tough teams that they play outside of the NFC South.
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We're gonna take a look at their bye week and
not make bold predictions. I promise you that. But before
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Windows eleven at Windows dot com. So my first reaction,
and I said it as I was reading over the schedule,
is bye week Week fourteen so long? That seems so
late far away? That seems late now. Last year they
kind of had to have it early because they played London.
The new York Jets in London, they had a bye week,
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so that would have been week six, right. That seems
too early. Week fourteen seems too late, like a long
time away. Now. I'm sure right before we get there,
everybody will say that it's a great time to have
the buy because that's what they always say. But it
seems too late, right, It just seems I mean, there's
only four games left after that one. Yeah, I mean,
I think I'm all about the bye week being rot
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in the middle of the season, you know, right. It's
just I think that we should collectively as the league
just say that everyone's off in one weekend. Just everybody
has done. Everybody's just going to take the weekend off
and that it. I'm all about work life balance and
chill acts and when you can. I kind of dig that, right.
I think. I just think it makes sense because I
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do think that according to where your bye week falls
dictates how the games before and the games after kind
of work out. Because these are guys who are literally
putting their bodies on the lawn every single week. It's
I feel like people are like, oh, well they're paid
to do this. Well, yeah, they are paid to do this,
but they're also still humans. They're really big, strong, fast humans,
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but they're still humans, and they're gonna get tired and
they're gonna have some ups. They're gone, they're gonna have
some bumps and bruss So I'm very like, I don't
know if I would rather have a bye week early
like how it was last year, or bye week late
how it is this coming year, because both suck in
my opinion, like you know, like both both bye weeks
being so far on one side is tough. And I
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think about like the first few, like the first two
months of the season, those are like what Chris is saying,
those are some half games to have to play right
off the bat and until you think you have that
chunk of games in the first two months and then
you gotta go until December until you can just get
a break. That's tough. Yeah, I think that I think
our early bye week would probably I'd probably prefer because
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I think in terms of like rookies, and I think
simularly for rookies, it gives you a chance to take
a breath and you know, recalibrate and like, okay, it's
like you're ripping and running, but they're ripping and running
for thirteen weeks. So yeah, I think the universal bye
week we should send that to the commissioner. Yeah, I'm
gonna call him up man, because there is I think
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there is some advantage if I mean, you could also
say on the back end, like you could have momentum
from a win. But I think there's some advantage if
you have some wingering injuries, which everyone does in the league.
You can get taped up, you can get stuff right,
get your body right, and I feel rejuvenated, and you
could be coming off you could be playing a team
who's coming off having all those injuries. So there is
some advantage. So yeah, maybe Tory needs to do Maybe
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I'll I'll send in my application to be commissioner in
twenty twenty nine. Let's do it. You already here. First,
another thing, think of the amount of rookies that are
going to be playing for the Falcons. Just thinking how
many games they play in college and how many weeks
they have until the bye week, and then to tack
on four more games after that. That that's really a
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shock to the system for some of these rookies who
are going to be playing a lot. We know that
that's just how this roster is constructed at the current times.
That's a really interesting part and it's something that I
know Arthur Smith talked about last year two when he
was talking about the reps that Kyle Pitts was taking,
Jaylen Mayfield was taking. I think I remember talking at
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one point to Jaylen Mayfield and him towards the end
of the season and there was still like another two
months left of the season, and he was like, Yeah,
I've already played more this year than I did in
the last like two years of college, like, and that's
kind of the that's kind of how it was, especially
with the COVID year too, and some guys didn't play.
I mean that's I feel like that's a really interesting
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part of this too, that maybe not as many people
are talking about. Yeah, and not only that, but all
these first year guys that they've been doing the pre
deeft process for the whole time, so there hasn't been
any break and you talk about the big break between
years one and two, these guys don't get that. And
then I know that we're only talking about one week
for the buy, but when it's also a whole you know,
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four day stretch off and they have a quote unquote
mini buy. They play Carolina on a Thursday night on
Amazon Prime. That's the Falcons only primetime game. That's not
a shock, right that Normally primetime games you can have
a max of five. Those games generally go to the
more marquee teams, the teams that have been in the playoffs,
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especially recently. That's not the Falcons at this point. If
they want, if they want more primetime games, and I'm
sure fans want more primetime games at home. Those games
are fun, those games are live, but you need to
do a little bit better, and then you get that
at that privilege kind of in that following year when
you're looking at this and I was gonna say rough stretches,
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but just stretches where you think maybe they can make
Hay or maybe or maybe they're really gonna have to
be ready for a two or three or four game stretch. Here.
There are some kind of different options based upon where
you look. Does anything stand out? And just as you
guys are looking at it, I'll just go first, maybe
take the easiest one, because are you going the first
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week now on? Because that's I literally think the first
week all the way to like week six is a
tough stretch, and I know that's what Christmas talking about earlier, right, Yeah,
I mean I was going to start it when they
played at Tampa and then at home against San Francisco
and then at the Bengals. But it's funny because when
we talk about tough stretches, we're talking about like what
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a team did last year. So I'm looking at the
AFC champion right right, maybe not what they are this year.
That's why don't hold this against them as we move through.
But that one seems difficult. You know, although I'm gonna
argue against myself. You're San Francisco has probably a first
year starter in them, and you don't know how they
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how the how the Bengals are going to come back.
But to me, that looks tough. Yeah, you guys think
the start of the year could be a little difficult. Yeah,
I think kind of to go away from your question
because that's, yeah, like I gotta answers before I think that,
But to answer, I think, like the first stretch of
games are tough, like right until you get like Tory
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was saying, when you get to Caroline, I think it's up,
but I think kind of turn it around I think
the easiest stretched short I guess relatively easy is when
you look at ten to thirteen right before the bye week.
The if you look at that and we're looking at
last year's teams obviously and on paper, what what teams
look like? Those are the teams that you think, like
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the Falcons could get some wins there, and you know,
you look at the Steelers, you think, you know they
might be the lowest team of that division. Or you
know the Bears Washington, who knows they have Carson Wentz.
So I think that's the stretch where you look at
and you say they can get some wins there. But
also I just think in general, when you draw the
AFC North and the NFC West right now, like it's
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it's just tony hard. It's just tough. Like you when
you when you have the Ravens, the Cardinals, the Chargers, Steelers,
the Browns, Rams on your schedule, there's not a lot
of games where you can look at and no game
is a gimme, like Tori said, especially last season where
teams were beating each other. Weird things were happening last year,
so weird things can happen this year. But when you
draw those teams on paper, you don't look at that
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and say they're a lot of gimme. So I think
the entire schedule is really tough. And that week right
before the bye week, I think they have some games
there though, that look winnable on paper, not that others
don't look winnable. And I was looking at it, and
I was going to mention the fact that that they
had to play the entire NFC West because they have
to travel all the way to the West Coast twice,
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and they do that in weeks two and three, and
they play back to back on the West Coast. That
would seem likely if we were to follow a pattern
back from twenty nineteen they played Houston and then they
played the Cardinals and they just kept going west. That
could be, in theory, an opportunity for them to stay
on the West Coast maybe. I mean, I think that
works works for me in my schedule. I mean, if
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you want us to just hang out in Los Angeles
and Seattle for right, yeah, I've never been to Seattle,
so I'm cool with that. No, I think that makes sense.
It'll be interesting to see kind of how that does
shake out. I think that it makes I said that
it makes sense to just stay out there that way,
because you think about it, play on Sunday, come back
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on let's say Sunday night, Monday morning, whenever it is
that you come back and then immediately turn around and
have to go back and lose four hours and I
mean or gain four hours or whatever it is. Yeah,
just just stay out there, just make it just easier
that way. But having to I was going to focus
so much on playing the NFC West because they have
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the Super Bowl champs in the Rams, they have the
the the NFC runners up in the forty nine ers.
But playing the AFC North, what Chris just said kind
of sparks something that, Yeah, that's a pretty tough four
team division from top to bottom, but the way that
they play football, you know, I mean, not every team
is the same as they were five years ago, but
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that's known as a very physically taxing, demanding, hit you
under the chin strap type of division that that could
play an impact too. It's gonna be some physical football there,
and I think that division is better than a NFC
West from from top to bottom, defficently better. I think
the worst team and that if you who's the worst
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team at division the Steelers. Yeah, maybe Steelers and the Seahawks.
So I think I'd probably take the Steelers over the Seahawks.
So I think you that you have to. There's some
great quarterbacks in that division. They have Kenny Pickett, they'll
mister Risky over there. But most importantly, like you said,
it's physical, and they got some physical guys this year,
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so you know, and they're and it's not like the
Focas aren't a physical team, but in terms of the
wear and tear on your body that we talked about
in a week fourteen bye week. Yeah, the AFC North
is trouble. I think too. Like it's I go back
to kind of this is a little bit off the wall,
and this analogy may not even work, but when Terry
Fantino said, you know, we're gonna take it on the
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chin this year, when he was talking about the salary
cap and having the dead money of Matt Ryan Julio
and kind of just tacking all that dead money on,
He's like, we're gonna take it on the chin this year.
To a certain degree, I feel this way about the
the rookies and the second year guys. Kind of looking
at the schedule. It's like you're gonna take it on
the chin with some of these guys, like with some
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of these teams, because that's how they play and that's
kind of the pedigree of which they play with. I
don't know, I don't know exactly what I'm saying, but like,
you're gonna take it on the chin. And I would
like to think that because the Falcon are taking it
on the chin with the salary cap this year, taking
on the chin with the schedule, I do think it
sets you up for more prosperity down the road. I
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think it's good for these rookies. I think it's good
for even these second year guys to get this level
of physicality and so that it's like welcome to the NFL.
It's a moment, You're welcome to the NFL. Moment almost
turns into an entire season, and it's like get ready
because these two draft classes specifically are the direction of
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which this organization is going in. So the quicker that
they can get live reps, good live reps under their belt,
the better the Falcons are going to be in twenty
twenty four and twenty twenty five. Yeah. I also like
to say two I think, well not, I think, what
the fuckings first round pick, he'll be rested, so he
hasn't played since October. Drake hasn't place in October. So
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in terms of the long BYEWE, the Falcons looked up
with the first round pick because he's fresh, he did
ready to go, he did a pro day, did a
private workout. His family says the rest he needed, so
he'll be ready to go. And he's physically and he
lowers his shoulders, so yeah, if you turn on his highlights,
he's lowered his shoulders, so he'll be ready for all
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of that. I think they got a guy there who
will feed into that. Kyle too, Yeah. Yeah, And if
you want to get to where the Falcons are trying
to go, you gotta measure up physically. And Arthur Smith
talks so much about building that building that physical culture,
being able to yeah, like maybe take it on the chin,
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but also give it back. And I think that we're
gonna learn through this schedule a lot about who the
Falcons have and then who they need to go get right.
Who is a true foundational player of these last two drafts.
I don't think they're necessarily committed to anything. Except for
continuing to add good players and to keep trying to
add good players, knowing something. Times you're gonna swing, sometimes
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you're gonna miss. And I think that when you look
at this slate, it's going to be a great test
for them moving forward, no matter what their record ends
up being, just because they're going to be tested by
all these different things. While they aren't traveling as much
as you'd think by by dealing with the NFC West,
especially if they end up staying on the West Coast,
They're they're traveling fifteen thousand, six hundred and forty eight
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miles that would be cut down if they stayed on
the West Coast. That's not a lot by relative standards.
I think the Seattle Seahawks travel the most because they're
on the far stretch of the country. But I just
think I think I think it's a good test overall
for the Falcons to see where they are and where
they need to go and who is the type of
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player that they want to have around. I think you
look at a Drake London type, you know, Kyle Pitts
is one of those. He's going to go hard on
every play that they're trying to build an offensive and
defensive lines. That way, let's find these things out to
your point during this season, and then you can say,
all right, here's where we are, here's where we need
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to go. It's not that far, it's a great distance.
And who can we keep from all these prove it deals?
Arthur Smith was on ninety two nine earlier this week,
and he's saying, once this salary cap opens up, the
week can reward those guys who committed to us in
twenty twenty two. He was talking about Lorenzo Carter, right,
is that I if he goes out and balls out,
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the Falcons will be more excited to reward a guy
like that. And I think that that's what you're trying
to figure out. Now we know the order of which
they're going to go, the fact they have to play
a full college season before they can take a chill
pilla and a ball game. Um, you know, as they
kind of moved through this thing. But look, it's hard,
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But I don't think the Falcons signed up to do easy. Right. Yeah,
I'm tryna say. Also, I don't think I don't know,
I don't I don't think we should just write off
of this season like right, because it's like a it
looks difficult on paper. I think we've been around them,
it's want to say them, I mean Arthur and Terry
and enough to know that you know, they really believe.
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They don't believe in throwing in the towel like they're
not looking. They're not looking to twenty twenty three. I
think you know in saying that, they've talked about wanting
guys to come in because they know they have that
money and to reward guys and all that. But that
doesn't mean that they're not trying to win games. Like
they're trying to win these games. They're trying to make
the playoffs. They're not like Arthur has said many times,
and I think he said it enough and we've seen
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it enough. We saw it last year enough to know
that it's not just coach speak or lip service like
they're trying year. Yeah, they weren't expected to win something.
You think about it this way too. I mean, if
you don't want to be competitive now, you don't keep
Jay Matthews, you don't keep Grady Jarrett like those guys
want to win, like you don't want to waste Grady
Jarrett's years with a player of that caliber, the Falcons
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resigned him. They resigned him, and he stayed here because
he wants to win games here. And I think that
goes like to your point, it's like they're not going
to throw in the towel to all. Like even in
games that they lost last year, I do think they
were They showed signs of the physicality of which Arthur
Smith wants them to play with, the toughness that he
wants them to play with. And so I think, like
going back to I think what you said right off
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the top of the podcast, like taking no matter the outcome,
but taking building blocks from every single game and being like, Okay,
this is who we are, this is who we want
to be, like continue being that. So yeah, but to
your point, like, yeah, Grady Jared didn't want to lose games,
Like they wouldn't have resigned. They could have traded him,
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they could have packaged him and send him on his
way for draft picks. They didn't do that. They wanted
to keep him here. That to me is telling that
they want to be as competitive as they can be
while building this thing. Yeah, and if if they can
get in more situations like where they thrived in terms
of one score games, and then they can find that fire.
Now that fire is not I mean, yeah, it has
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to be found and earned and then manipulated and you know,
done over and over and over again, those type of
one score wins. But there are a lot of guys
who know that they can win this way. And if
you get into a tough fourth quarter fight, you might
end up on the right side of it. You might
start hot, you might look at yourself because nobody expected
the Falcons last year to be on December first, even
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saying the word postseason, right, but somehow they found their
way to be in it. So can they find their
way to be in it? That's going to be a
fascinating thing. And who's going to contribute to this effort
in a significant way. That's what we're going to be
looking for. Is we head towards the rookie mini camp,
which is at the end of this week, and on
towards training camp in the offseason program. And that's going
to be fun to watch. The difficult part about that
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is not being able to watch it with our good
pal Chris rim Damn, I'm gonna cry. But nonetheless, I'm
sure he hates me even bringing this up. But nonetheless
we you know it, at least wanted to remind everyone
that Chris Room is moving on to a little paper
called the called the New York Times. Did I get
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that right? Yeah? Yeah? And uh he's moving on to
a great opportunity. And uh, I know he was only
here for about twelve months, but I mean, just go
spend like a couple of days and read the profiles
on Kyle Pitts and Cordill Patterson and Drake London. There's
a fantastic one out there. How else can I embarrass him? Um,
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I'm gonna miss all the fruity drinks we consumed. If
anyone everybody should know that Chris, Chris and I became
friends initially because we bonded over neither of us liking
any like hard like drink that didn't taste good, you know,
if there wasn't a little fruit or a little sweetness
in it. We're like, yeah, lemonade, yeah yeah, yeah. So yeah,
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it's gonna be tough, And I'm not gonna cry on
the podcast. You're I'm not gonna crawl on the um.
But yeah, we've had a great, a great year, I think,
and I just think about like this collective group, and
I love how much we bounce off of each other
and how I think we compliment each other, and Chris
is a third of that. And I think it was cool.
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How how how quickly the Falcons fans really seemed to
engage with your stories and some of the things. And
it seems like that that you've gotten a chance to
interact with a lot of good fans over the course
of it. I think you you got recognized too when
you were out with with your like oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I got Yeah, that was good. That was good. I
mean it was yeah. Once time I was about to
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eat somewhere after the waiters watching if you're out there,
thank you. I mean, it was it was cool, but
I mean I wish we were I've been my girlfriend
for a while now, like four years, so it was
kind of like she was kind of like, oh, I
gotta deal with his ego. But basically I was out
to eat, and the way to recognize me I was
with my girlfriend was like, man, you do great stuff
for the Falcons, you know, And I was kind of like, ah,
it's like okay. Then my girlfriend was like, oh my god.
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So it's like gosh, his head just ballooned exactly. Yeah,
so it was cool. But yeah, it's been fun. Everyone's cool.
This is a cool market. My first time in the
South and Atlanta, it's been It's a great city. I
love not having a shovel and do all that and
meeting y'all. And oh yeah, Chris Samuels, our producer back
there in the cut. You know, all those people, the
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men and women who don't get to be on camera,
they're all great and talented and make us look good.
So there's a great team. And hopefully I built a
lot of friends here. Hopefully I did build a lot
of friends here, and hopefully we stay connected. So yeah,
and also, yeah, we with the preseason everything, like, yeah,
week two of the preseason. Yeah, everybody's sleeping on Chris's floor. Yeah,
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I already called the couch yea everybody. H my gosh,
I'm bringing my own sleeping back. All right. Well, we
could talk about this forever and embarrass the heck out
of him, but we're gonna go ahead and sign off
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What's up, everybody, and welcome to a special edition of
the Falcons Final Whistle Podcast presented by Windows eleven, and
we are here to talk schedule, which was just released
by the NFL. We know what we have long known,
who the Falcons were going to play and where, but
not the win. The win has now been unveiled for
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weeks one through eighteen. We have the preseason slate. We
know exactly how things are going to be laid out here.
So in the spirit of really good radio and podcasting,
I'm going to read from a list. Okay, just like
just to start out there, for those of you that
don't have a second screen, which you should, this video
on YouTube on like your eighty five inch plasma is
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still a thing. I don't know, I don't know something.
I don't think so Alie de or yeah something. Anyway,
put it up big and then have a second screen
on the schedule for reference after I read this thing off.
But basically, they have the preseason slate that starts at
the Lions at the Jets home against the Jaguars, and
then they have the regular season. They have nine home games,
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they have eight road games, including playing the entire NFC
West so here we go. They start Week one at
home against the Saints, then at the Rams at the
Seahawks home against the Browns, at the Bucks forty nine
Ers home Bengals away Panthers home, Chargers home at Carolina
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Panthers on a Thursday night. That one's going to be
a fun one, followed by home against the Bears in
week eleven. Week twelve is at Washington, Week thirteen home
against Pittsburgh, then the bye took me a long time
to say that word. And then in week fifteen at
New Orleans, Week sixteen at Baltimore home against Arizona home
against Tampa Bay. If you couldn't remember that again, just
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head on over the website check it out. And basically
we're here to kind of break this schedule down right
that now we know the exact order of how they're
going to play these teams, and I guess instant reaction here, guys, Tory,
what are your first thoughts on this schedule kind of
seeing it all play out right here in front of you. Yeah,
I mean, I think it's really interesting to look at.
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I think schedule release in general is a very interesting day,
and I know that people are really excited about it,
and as you should be. It's you should be excited
about it. But to me, schedule release is not really
as big as big of a deal as what I
think many think it is, because when you're looking at
schedule release, it's exciting to know when and where you're going,
who you're playing when, But it's not the time to
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count the ws and the l's and to really like
get into the nitty gritty of prediction. Because I have
an issue and I feel like I've said this on
the podcast for I have a problem with predictions, like
I think predicting things is so stupid and because it's
just like one of those things where it's like you
can try and predict all day long, but no one
knows what the heck's going on. I think I said
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that in the draft. It's like we can go and
make as many mock drafts is what we want to make,
but no one knows how it's actually going to shake
out on draft night. Same thing with season, same thing
with schedule A least, it's like we can look at
this all day long and be like, oh, yeah, you're
playing this person. Then you don't have a bye week
until here at the end of the day. It's how
prepared this team is to actually play their opponents. And
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with the NFL being how it is, especially in the
last couple of years, we have seen where anybody can
be anyone on any given Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, any
of it. Like anyone can be anybody at any time.
And so that's why I'm kind of anti predictions when
it comes to schedule last day, though I do know
it's exciting. Everyone should be excited. Yeah, And I mean
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when you look at this slate, I just think now
you can kind of see how the Falcons fall and
winter is going to play out, right, because they have
so much roster turnover heading into it that my natural
thought is how are they going to start? How are
they going to use that preseason to kind of get
going Chris, especially because they have a new quarterback Matt
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Ryan obviously in Indianapolis, not a part of this schedule
as an opponent or obviously as the home team's quarterback.
When you look at the first section there Saints at
Rams at Seahawks home against the Browns, obviously you have
the preseason. How key is that for the for the
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fort all these new contributors to kind of hit the
ground running. Do you think it's possible to start hot
even against that section of opposition with so many new guys. Yeah,
I think starting hot can also look different ways. I
don't think starting hot necessarily mean not saying that if
you start owing four, obviously that would be disappointing and
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could you know, hinder momentum going into later in the season.
But I think starting hot can mean This is gonna
sound weird, but I heard people say this phrase before,
but like, there's a way to lose a game versus
like losing and versus if you lose like forty to nothing,
or you lose twenty five to twenty four or twenty
eleven to twenty three, or you played really hard at
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the end of a game. Right, So there's a way
to build momentum within the first four games. I think
there's this team is brand new, there's a lot of
new faces all over, So to be through the first
four games, you'll see are these guys as bought in
as guys last season work? Because it seemed like last
season guys are bought in, Guys are playing till the
end of games and playing hard. They believed in what
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was happening. Now, you bring in a bunch of new faces,
you lost a staple at quarterback. Our guys still going
to be bought in, and you'll learn that through the
first four games, which I think could arguably be the
toughest part of their schedule. Yeah, and we're going to
get into tough stretches. We are going to get into
some tough teams that they play outside of the NFC South.
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We're gonna take a look at their bye week and
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Windows eleven at Windows dot com. So my first reaction,
and I said it as I was reading over the schedule,
is bye week Week fourteen so long? That seems so
late far away? That seems late now. Last year they
kind of had to have it early because they played London.
The new York Jets in London, they had a bye week,
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so that would have been week six, right. That seems
too early. Week fourteen seems too late, like a long
time away. Now. I'm sure right before we get there,
everybody will say that it's a great time to have
the buy because that's what they always say. But it
seems too late, right, It just seems I mean, there's
only four games left after that one. Yeah, I mean,
I think I'm all about the bye week being rot
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in the middle of the season, you know, right. It's
just I think that we should collectively as the league
just say that everyone's off in one weekend. Just everybody
has done. Everybody's just going to take the weekend off
and that it. I'm all about work life balance and
chill acts and when you can. I kind of dig that, right.
I think. I just think it makes sense because I
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do think that according to where your bye week falls
dictates how the games before and the games after kind
of work out. Because these are guys who are literally
putting their bodies on the lawn every single week. It's
I feel like people are like, oh, well they're paid
to do this. Well, yeah, they are paid to do this,
but they're also still humans. They're really big, strong, fast humans,
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but they're still humans, and they're gonna get tired and
they're gonna have some ups. They're gone, they're gonna have
some bumps and bruss So I'm very like, I don't
know if I would rather have a bye week early
like how it was last year, or bye week late
how it is this coming year, because both suck in
my opinion, like you know, like both both bye weeks
being so far on one side is tough. And I
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think about like the first few, like the first two
months of the season, those are like what Chris is saying,
those are some half games to have to play right
off the bat and until you think you have that
chunk of games in the first two months and then
you gotta go until December until you can just get
a break. That's tough. Yeah, I think that I think
our early bye week would probably I'd probably prefer because
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I think in terms of like rookies, and I think
simularly for rookies, it gives you a chance to take
a breath and you know, recalibrate and like, okay, it's
like you're ripping and running, but they're ripping and running
for thirteen weeks. So yeah, I think the universal bye
week we should send that to the commissioner. Yeah, I'm
gonna call him up man, because there is I think
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there is some advantage if I mean, you could also
say on the back end, like you could have momentum
from a win. But I think there's some advantage if
you have some wingering injuries, which everyone does in the league.
You can get taped up, you can get stuff right,
get your body right, and I feel rejuvenated, and you
could be coming off you could be playing a team
who's coming off having all those injuries. So there is
some advantage. So yeah, maybe Tory needs to do Maybe
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I'll I'll send in my application to be commissioner in
twenty twenty nine. Let's do it. You already here. First,
another thing, think of the amount of rookies that are
going to be playing for the Falcons. Just thinking how
many games they play in college and how many weeks
they have until the bye week, and then to tack
on four more games after that. That that's really a
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shock to the system for some of these rookies who
are going to be playing a lot. We know that
that's just how this roster is constructed at the current times.
That's a really interesting part and it's something that I
know Arthur Smith talked about last year two when he
was talking about the reps that Kyle Pitts was taking,
Jaylen Mayfield was taking. I think I remember talking at
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one point to Jaylen Mayfield and him towards the end
of the season and there was still like another two
months left of the season, and he was like, Yeah,
I've already played more this year than I did in
the last like two years of college, like, and that's
kind of the that's kind of how it was, especially
with the COVID year too, and some guys didn't play.
I mean that's I feel like that's a really interesting
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part of this too, that maybe not as many people
are talking about. Yeah, and not only that, but all
these first year guys that they've been doing the pre
deeft process for the whole time, so there hasn't been
any break and you talk about the big break between
years one and two, these guys don't get that. And
then I know that we're only talking about one week
for the buy, but when it's also a whole you know,
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four day stretch off and they have a quote unquote
mini buy. They play Carolina on a Thursday night on
Amazon Prime. That's the Falcons only primetime game. That's not
a shock, right that Normally primetime games you can have
a max of five. Those games generally go to the
more marquee teams, the teams that have been in the playoffs,
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especially recently. That's not the Falcons at this point. If
they want, if they want more primetime games, and I'm
sure fans want more primetime games at home. Those games
are fun, those games are live, but you need to
do a little bit better, and then you get that
at that privilege kind of in that following year when
you're looking at this and I was gonna say rough stretches,
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but just stretches where you think maybe they can make
Hay or maybe or maybe they're really gonna have to
be ready for a two or three or four game stretch. Here.
There are some kind of different options based upon where
you look. Does anything stand out? And just as you
guys are looking at it, I'll just go first, maybe
take the easiest one, because are you going the first
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week now on? Because that's I literally think the first
week all the way to like week six is a
tough stretch, and I know that's what Christmas talking about earlier, right, Yeah,
I mean I was going to start it when they
played at Tampa and then at home against San Francisco
and then at the Bengals. But it's funny because when
we talk about tough stretches, we're talking about like what
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a team did last year. So I'm looking at the
AFC champion right right, maybe not what they are this year.
That's why don't hold this against them as we move through.
But that one seems difficult. You know, although I'm gonna
argue against myself. You're San Francisco has probably a first
year starter in them, and you don't know how they
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how the how the Bengals are going to come back.
But to me, that looks tough. Yeah, you guys think
the start of the year could be a little difficult. Yeah,
I think kind of to go away from your question
because that's, yeah, like I gotta answers before I think that,
But to answer, I think, like the first stretch of
games are tough, like right until you get like Tory
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was saying, when you get to Caroline, I think it's up,
but I think kind of turn it around I think
the easiest stretched short I guess relatively easy is when
you look at ten to thirteen right before the bye week.
The if you look at that and we're looking at
last year's teams obviously and on paper, what what teams
look like? Those are the teams that you think, like
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the Falcons could get some wins there, and you know,
you look at the Steelers, you think, you know they
might be the lowest team of that division. Or you
know the Bears Washington, who knows they have Carson Wentz.
So I think that's the stretch where you look at
and you say they can get some wins there. But
also I just think in general, when you draw the
AFC North and the NFC West right now, like it's
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it's just tony hard. It's just tough. Like you when
you when you have the Ravens, the Cardinals, the Chargers, Steelers,
the Browns, Rams on your schedule, there's not a lot
of games where you can look at and no game
is a gimme, like Tori said, especially last season where
teams were beating each other. Weird things were happening last year,
so weird things can happen this year. But when you
draw those teams on paper, you don't look at that
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and say they're a lot of gimme. So I think
the entire schedule is really tough. And that week right
before the bye week, I think they have some games
there though, that look winnable on paper, not that others
don't look winnable. And I was looking at it, and
I was going to mention the fact that that they
had to play the entire NFC West because they have
to travel all the way to the West Coast twice,
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and they do that in weeks two and three, and
they play back to back on the West Coast. That
would seem likely if we were to follow a pattern
back from twenty nineteen they played Houston and then they
played the Cardinals and they just kept going west. That
could be, in theory, an opportunity for them to stay
on the West Coast maybe. I mean, I think that
works works for me in my schedule. I mean, if
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you want us to just hang out in Los Angeles
and Seattle for right, yeah, I've never been to Seattle,
so I'm cool with that. No, I think that makes sense.
It'll be interesting to see kind of how that does
shake out. I think that it makes I said that
it makes sense to just stay out there that way,
because you think about it, play on Sunday, come back
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on let's say Sunday night, Monday morning, whenever it is
that you come back and then immediately turn around and
have to go back and lose four hours and I
mean or gain four hours or whatever it is. Yeah,
just just stay out there, just make it just easier
that way. But having to I was going to focus
so much on playing the NFC West because they have
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the Super Bowl champs in the Rams, they have the
the the NFC runners up in the forty nine ers.
But playing the AFC North, what Chris just said kind
of sparks something that, Yeah, that's a pretty tough four
team division from top to bottom, but the way that
they play football, you know, I mean, not every team
is the same as they were five years ago, but
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that's known as a very physically taxing, demanding, hit you
under the chin strap type of division that that could
play an impact too. It's gonna be some physical football there,
and I think that division is better than a NFC
West from from top to bottom, defficently better. I think
the worst team and that if you who's the worst
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team at division the Steelers. Yeah, maybe Steelers and the Seahawks.
So I think I'd probably take the Steelers over the Seahawks.
So I think you that you have to. There's some
great quarterbacks in that division. They have Kenny Pickett, they'll
mister Risky over there. But most importantly, like you said,
it's physical, and they got some physical guys this year,
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so you know, and they're and it's not like the
Focas aren't a physical team, but in terms of the
wear and tear on your body that we talked about
in a week fourteen bye week. Yeah, the AFC North
is trouble. I think too. Like it's I go back
to kind of this is a little bit off the wall,
and this analogy may not even work, but when Terry
Fantino said, you know, we're gonna take it on the
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chin this year, when he was talking about the salary
cap and having the dead money of Matt Ryan Julio
and kind of just tacking all that dead money on,
He's like, we're gonna take it on the chin this year.
To a certain degree, I feel this way about the
the rookies and the second year guys. Kind of looking
at the schedule. It's like you're gonna take it on
the chin with some of these guys, like with some
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of these teams, because that's how they play and that's
kind of the pedigree of which they play with. I
don't know, I don't know exactly what I'm saying, but like,
you're gonna take it on the chin. And I would
like to think that because the Falcon are taking it
on the chin with the salary cap this year, taking
on the chin with the schedule, I do think it
sets you up for more prosperity down the road. I
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think it's good for these rookies. I think it's good
for even these second year guys to get this level
of physicality and so that it's like welcome to the NFL.
It's a moment, You're welcome to the NFL. Moment almost
turns into an entire season, and it's like get ready
because these two draft classes specifically are the direction of
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which this organization is going in. So the quicker that
they can get live reps, good live reps under their belt,
the better the Falcons are going to be in twenty
twenty four and twenty twenty five. Yeah. I also like
to say two I think, well not, I think, what
the fuckings first round pick, he'll be rested, so he
hasn't played since October. Drake hasn't place in October. So
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in terms of the long BYEWE, the Falcons looked up
with the first round pick because he's fresh, he did
ready to go, he did a pro day, did a
private workout. His family says the rest he needed, so
he'll be ready to go. And he's physically and he
lowers his shoulders, so yeah, if you turn on his highlights,
he's lowered his shoulders, so he'll be ready for all
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of that. I think they got a guy there who
will feed into that. Kyle too, Yeah. Yeah, And if
you want to get to where the Falcons are trying
to go, you gotta measure up physically. And Arthur Smith
talks so much about building that building that physical culture,
being able to yeah, like maybe take it on the chin,
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but also give it back. And I think that we're
gonna learn through this schedule a lot about who the
Falcons have and then who they need to go get right.
Who is a true foundational player of these last two drafts.
I don't think they're necessarily committed to anything. Except for
continuing to add good players and to keep trying to
add good players, knowing something. Times you're gonna swing, sometimes
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you're gonna miss. And I think that when you look
at this slate, it's going to be a great test
for them moving forward, no matter what their record ends
up being, just because they're going to be tested by
all these different things. While they aren't traveling as much
as you'd think by by dealing with the NFC West,
especially if they end up staying on the West Coast,
They're they're traveling fifteen thousand, six hundred and forty eight
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miles that would be cut down if they stayed on
the West Coast. That's not a lot by relative standards.
I think the Seattle Seahawks travel the most because they're
on the far stretch of the country. But I just
think I think I think it's a good test overall
for the Falcons to see where they are and where
they need to go and who is the type of
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player that they want to have around. I think you
look at a Drake London type, you know, Kyle Pitts
is one of those. He's going to go hard on
every play that they're trying to build an offensive and
defensive lines. That way, let's find these things out to
your point during this season, and then you can say,
all right, here's where we are, here's where we need
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to go. It's not that far, it's a great distance.
And who can we keep from all these prove it deals?
Arthur Smith was on ninety two nine earlier this week,
and he's saying, once this salary cap opens up, the
week can reward those guys who committed to us in
twenty twenty two. He was talking about Lorenzo Carter, right,
is that I if he goes out and balls out,
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the Falcons will be more excited to reward a guy
like that. And I think that that's what you're trying
to figure out. Now we know the order of which
they're going to go, the fact they have to play
a full college season before they can take a chill
pilla and a ball game. Um, you know, as they
kind of moved through this thing. But look, it's hard,
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But I don't think the Falcons signed up to do easy. Right. Yeah,
I'm tryna say. Also, I don't think I don't know,
I don't I don't think we should just write off
of this season like right, because it's like a it
looks difficult on paper. I think we've been around them,
it's want to say them, I mean Arthur and Terry
and enough to know that you know, they really believe.
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They don't believe in throwing in the towel like they're
not looking. They're not looking to twenty twenty three. I
think you know in saying that, they've talked about wanting
guys to come in because they know they have that
money and to reward guys and all that. But that
doesn't mean that they're not trying to win games. Like
they're trying to win these games. They're trying to make
the playoffs. They're not like Arthur has said many times,
and I think he said it enough and we've seen
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it enough. We saw it last year enough to know
that it's not just coach speak or lip service like
they're trying year. Yeah, they weren't expected to win something.
You think about it this way too. I mean, if
you don't want to be competitive now, you don't keep
Jay Matthews, you don't keep Grady Jarrett like those guys
want to win, like you don't want to waste Grady
Jarrett's years with a player of that caliber, the Falcons
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resigned him. They resigned him, and he stayed here because
he wants to win games here. And I think that
goes like to your point, it's like they're not going
to throw in the towel to all. Like even in
games that they lost last year, I do think they
were They showed signs of the physicality of which Arthur
Smith wants them to play with, the toughness that he
wants them to play with. And so I think, like
going back to I think what you said right off
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the top of the podcast, like taking no matter the outcome,
but taking building blocks from every single game and being like, Okay,
this is who we are, this is who we want
to be, like continue being that. So yeah, but to
your point, like, yeah, Grady Jared didn't want to lose games,
Like they wouldn't have resigned. They could have traded him,
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they could have packaged him and send him on his
way for draft picks. They didn't do that. They wanted
to keep him here. That to me is telling that
they want to be as competitive as they can be
while building this thing. Yeah, and if if they can
get in more situations like where they thrived in terms
of one score games, and then they can find that fire.
Now that fire is not I mean, yeah, it has
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to be found and earned and then manipulated and you know,
done over and over and over again, those type of
one score wins. But there are a lot of guys
who know that they can win this way. And if
you get into a tough fourth quarter fight, you might
end up on the right side of it. You might
start hot, you might look at yourself because nobody expected
the Falcons last year to be on December first, even
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saying the word postseason, right, but somehow they found their
way to be in it. So can they find their
way to be in it? That's going to be a
fascinating thing. And who's going to contribute to this effort
in a significant way. That's what we're going to be
looking for. Is we head towards the rookie mini camp,
which is at the end of this week, and on
towards training camp in the offseason program. And that's going
to be fun to watch. The difficult part about that
(23:44):
is not being able to watch it with our good
pal Chris rim Damn, I'm gonna cry. But nonetheless, I'm
sure he hates me even bringing this up. But nonetheless
we you know it, at least wanted to remind everyone
that Chris Room is moving on to a little paper
called the called the New York Times. Did I get
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that right? Yeah? Yeah? And uh he's moving on to
a great opportunity. And uh, I know he was only
here for about twelve months, but I mean, just go
spend like a couple of days and read the profiles
on Kyle Pitts and Cordill Patterson and Drake London. There's
a fantastic one out there. How else can I embarrass him? Um,
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I'm gonna miss all the fruity drinks we consumed. If
anyone everybody should know that Chris, Chris and I became
friends initially because we bonded over neither of us liking
any like hard like drink that didn't taste good, you know,
if there wasn't a little fruit or a little sweetness
in it. We're like, yeah, lemonade, yeah yeah, yeah. So yeah,
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it's gonna be tough, And I'm not gonna cry on
the podcast. You're I'm not gonna crawl on the um.
But yeah, we've had a great, a great year, I think,
and I just think about like this collective group, and
I love how much we bounce off of each other
and how I think we compliment each other, and Chris
is a third of that. And I think it was cool.
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How how how quickly the Falcons fans really seemed to
engage with your stories and some of the things. And
it seems like that that you've gotten a chance to
interact with a lot of good fans over the course
of it. I think you you got recognized too when
you were out with with your like oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I got Yeah, that was good. That was good. I
mean it was yeah. Once time I was about to
(25:33):
eat somewhere after the waiters watching if you're out there,
thank you. I mean, it was it was cool, but
I mean I wish we were I've been my girlfriend
for a while now, like four years, so it was
kind of like she was kind of like, oh, I
gotta deal with his ego. But basically I was out
to eat, and the way to recognize me I was
with my girlfriend was like, man, you do great stuff
for the Falcons, you know, And I was kind of like, ah,
it's like okay. Then my girlfriend was like, oh my god.
(25:56):
So it's like gosh, his head just ballooned exactly. Yeah,
so it was cool. But yeah, it's been fun. Everyone's cool.
This is a cool market. My first time in the
South and Atlanta, it's been It's a great city. I
love not having a shovel and do all that and
meeting y'all. And oh yeah, Chris Samuels, our producer back
there in the cut. You know, all those people, the
(26:18):
men and women who don't get to be on camera,
they're all great and talented and make us look good.
So there's a great team. And hopefully I built a
lot of friends here. Hopefully I did build a lot
of friends here, and hopefully we stay connected. So yeah,
and also, yeah, we with the preseason everything, like, yeah,
week two of the preseason. Yeah, everybody's sleeping on Chris's floor. Yeah,
(26:44):
I already called the couch yea everybody. H my gosh,
I'm bringing my own sleeping back. All right. Well, we
could talk about this forever and embarrass the heck out
of him, but we're gonna go ahead and sign off
right now. Guys, thank you so much for joining us,
and definitely hit us up on our social channels in
the YouTube comments about your thoughts on this schedule. Your
thoughts on our thoughts on this schedule. It's gonna be
(27:05):
a very interesting year for the Falcons as we move
forward to see how this whole thing plays out. Plenty
more to discuss on this podcast, and you know on
the website and everywhere else that you can find Atlanta
Falcons content, most notably on Atlanta falcons dot com, So
you know what to do right now, five star rating,
five star review. Oh and subscribe to Falcon's audible please
(27:26):
those guys rip. Make sure you check out all the
schedule released content Falcons are putting out. Heck yeah, lots
of it to do and there's gonna be some awesome
home opponents stealers, yeah, bears, tons of good stuff. Go
check out a game. It's super fun. So anyway, thank
you guys so much for joining us, and we'll talk
to you soon.
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