November 4, 2025 • 52 mins
Derek, Dave, and DJ revisit their 4 keys to success from last week before going over their main takeaways from the close 24-23 loss against the Patriots. They also discuss what preparation and travel will look like for the Falcons as they head to Berlin before breaking down what to expect from the Indianapolis Colts. Finally, the guys give their Keys to the Game, or Schlüssel zum Spiel, to return from Germany with a W.
0:00 - Intro
1:50 - Revisiting last week’s keys
8:28 - Mentality under pressure
18:03 - Takeaways from a close loss
26:26 - Getting the run game going
34:48 - Falcons head to GERMANY!
39:14 - Expectations for the cults
46:07 - Schlüssel zum Spiel!
50:26 - German beer & outro
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:39):
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
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Speaker 1 (01:11):
Unfortunately, Falcons come up short to the Patriots on the
Road twenty four, twenty three. A lot of things to
talk about here, fellas frustrating least, there's there's not too
many times, guys, as players, that we sat down in
meetings and we try to find the good out of
a loss. Right like you go when you watch the tape,
(01:31):
you're upset. These weeks are difficult in the building, doesn't
Nobody really wants to have long drawn out conversations. You
walk past coaches and front office people in the hallway
and the conversations are short. This is how things happen,
not only when you lose a game, when you've losed,
when you've lost a few of them in a row.
(01:51):
So let's kind of revisit the keys. You guys remember
last week that we kind of finished the show with
all of us giving a key, and I think we
threw another one in there. Okay, shock, did you have
secondary plays? Well, wasn't that yours?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
How would you assess that key from last Sunday?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Uh ah?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
We given a lot of grades? Are we just you know,
just however you want to grade it? Well, it could
just be a conversation. I think there were I think
there were I think there were times where, uh, the
secondary play well, then there's other times where you look
up and you got guys running open, you got guys
who are creating plays. Obviously Douglas made a bunch of
big plays in his ball game.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Never heard of him, never.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Heard of him. Made plays, but unbelievable, Yeah, we overt overroutes.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Unbelievable. This guy is the king over out.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Stefan Diggs obviously catches a little little stop route and
turns it into a touchdown. Obviously that's got to do
with tackling and all that kind of stuff. Uh, tight
ends played pretty good in that ball game. A guy
we know in Austin Hooper had a couple of catches
in the game.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Obviously.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
You know, overall, I think you look towards the second
half where you had a little bit more success. I
think first half was obviously not indicative of what you
wanted a ball game. And you know, Drake may was,
you know, having a good day throwing the football to
start the game. But to only give up three points
in the second half, give yourself an opportunity turn them
over twice. H. Jesse Base finally gets his ball, gets
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his hands on one. H. That's a positive. But you know, overall,
it wasn't enough to be honest, You played I thought
decent enough, but not well enough to say to be
a key to go win the ball.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
So if we were giving letter grades, if I'm reading
through the tea leaves, that sounds like a B minus
C plus, would that be fair?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I think that's a good G.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's about all right.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
They're good grade.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yeah, Okay, Sometimes you're right on a curve a little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So I'm with that. Cools on the curve.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Arch. You had value on offense, right value on offense.
No wasted plays, didn't get that, didn't get to get that.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
You were brutal in conversion situations. Atlanta now in the
last three games converting at about twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Percent time on third down.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
But what it does Rack, and we talked about this
last week, is that when you're inefficient on offense and
give credit when you got in the red zone, were
presented red zone opportunities. You know, a lot of that
was manifested by the defense. Certainly the play by Walker
and Pierce gets it to the five or whatever and
you punch it in. You did some good things in
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the red zone. You had three deep red zone penetration
he scored all three times. Now, God bless Drake London,
because you're throwing the ball to a guy that's the
fifty to fifty monster in this place. So he goes
and gets the ball. But twenty five plays in the
first half on offense, you only ran three plays on
offense in the third quarter. I don't know if anybody
realizes that. Then all of a sudden it flipped and
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the efficiency with which you need to operate offensively came
to life. Not that you converted on third down. You
were converting first downs on second down, and sometimes on
first down you stay away from third down. But you
ran twenty seven plays in the fourth quarter to eleven
plays for New England, and all of a sudden, you
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look up, what happened? You climb right back in the game,
You make an extra point, we're playing, we're probably playing
in overtime. Okay, So that's what I was talking about.
Efficiency on offense, no empty series, no empty plays. Didn't
get that for the better part of three quarters. Yet
in the fourth quarter we saw how dominant this team
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can be both thrown and running the football. He made
it happen in the fourth quarter. Climb back.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So if we're given a letter grade.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Letter grade is a C minus C minus.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And is that only C minus because the fourth quarter
bumped it up?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, if you haven't gotten the fourth quarter, yeah,
you know, we'd be looking maybe to repeat the course.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yea credit.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Mine was first downs, and it was just period first downs,
and you had mentioned some time getting first down on
second down. I was going through the game and I
was taking some notes, and I think I had the
first Now, granted we're talking about first downs, but the
first third down conversion came with a minute ten seconds
left in the third quarter. Okay, they were one for
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six at that point. At the end of the third
Patriots had twenty first downs. Atlanta had ten.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Okay, that was a third and one conversion correct on
a seven yard pass.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So ten first downs at the end of the third.
Then you said they turned it on in the fourth quarter.
They ended up finishing with seventeen first downs. So if
you just look at the number, you're gonna say, wasn't bad.
They got beat Patriots had twenty three first downs in
the game. However, ten first downs in the first three quarters.
Once again, Arch to your point, wasn't enough, right, You
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weren't able to be efficient enough to keep yourself on
the field. Obviously, that ended up manifesting itself on third
down in such a poor performance on third down, but
my key was first downs, and I'm gonna go with
a C minus because the fourth quarter kind of changed
it as well, So the grades are not looking so great.
And then we threw the last one in special teams
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more disciplined and I don't know, I guess if you
just look at a missed extra point, not necessarily not disciplined.
But that's not the job, right And that's one of
the biggest storylines coming out of the game. And Raheem
Morris was asked about it, whether or not that's going
to be up for competition again, and his answer was simple, like,
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we just got to make the kick, guys. And I
thought about it a lot because I'm the resident special
teams guy here and I was not a kicker, but
I was in a same position to where your success
is not necessarily about mechanics fundamentals, it's mental. It's your
ability to perform in the moment. And I heard a
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quote from Raheem Morris and his press conference he said,
excelling in that position and making those kicks is won
during games, is developed during games, not intice, right, because
you can go out and you can drill forty three yarders.
Coach can put the game on the line. You can
pring all the players up around the kicker in practice
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and you could say this is a pressure moment. You
got to make this kick to tie the game on
an extra point, or win the game, or it's in overtime,
whatever the scenario will be. You could do all that
stuff in practice, fellas, but the game is different. And
I would flip this to you. I was thinking about
this as I was driving here today. How is this?
I know it's two completely different positions, but how is
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making an extra point when you have to tie the game?
As far as the mental side of it, how is
it any different than a quarterback and your ability at
the end of the game to put a drive together
to go win it versus not winning it? Is there
an element of confidence moxie been there, done that? And
not mechanics not well, his throwing slot is not great,
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or he doesn't have the nest necessary, the right zip
on the ball, But it's has he been there? Does
he leaving himself? And is he gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Just before you go out, say something real quest. I
think even more than just the last drive for a quarterback.
I think it comes down to if you have to
take the answers of Okay, they have this one opportunity
to make this play. I correlated to a fourth down
and you gotta make a throw. Yeah, and we saw
it in the ball game, as opposed to okay, you
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got a whole drive where it's first Okay, I missed
the first down throw, I got a second down throw.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I can go it.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
That's different when you're a kicker. But I think it's
a fourth down play. That's when in your mind, am
I gonna rip it and he got man covered right there,
I'm gonna rip it when I don't know if he
gonna really come out to break it. And I think
that's kind of the same mindset is I believe it,
I trust it, and I'm gonna throw it, as opposed
to oh, I'm gonna wait and see, or I just
don't feel like maybe it's a little bit of win here,
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or maybe I need to hold it a little bit
on that left up right to bring it back. That's
too much thinking you gotta kick the ball and go.
It's same thing with throwing it on fourth down, similar
to I mean to throw that Michael Pennis makes to
Drake Lennon on fourth down. You can't make that throw
unless you trust it, Yes, And I mean that ball
was ripped to a spot where only his guy can
get it, and it was such a tight window that
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if he didn't have confidence to throw it, he probably
don't put it in that spot. Maybe it's a little
bit behind, Maybe he you know, kind of hold it
a little bit then lets it go. I think it
just comes down to if you have trust and confetence
in that one opportunity to make it, Yep, you don't
think about it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
You just let it go arch before you go.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
And I think it was a great point that you
made about trusting it. Okay, And what I the parallela,
what I want to want to draw here with the
kicker is I played with a couple guys that relished
in that opportunity. I was with Jay Peeley in Atlanta,
and I was with Josh Brown and Seattle, and both
of those guys could not wait for that moment like
get me in the situation and I'm gonna go win
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the game and they couldn't wait to run out on
the field, and they just had that dog in him
that like, I'm built for this. Fellas, like, just give
me the opportunity to kick the field, going, I'm gonna
win the game for us. And then after they kick it,
they've kind of just got that little that little you know,
cockiness if you will, or or confidence. But to me,
it's arch it's that dog that when you go out
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in the field, you're not thinking about, am I gonna
make it the last kick? It kind of veered to
the right a little bit. What do I need to
do to correct it? It's no, I'm going on the
field and I'm gonna drill this kick to win the game,
which to his point is like the fourth and one
that I'm gonna rip it for this first down into
this tight window because I got confidence in myself.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, all the things you guys are touching on from
a confidence standpoint, the mindset that you go into, I
think there's a lot of differences. The quarterback when you
get to a final drive of a game, is thrown
probably thirty five passes in the game, So you've you've
built up some idea of what guys are doing coming
out of breaks, how they covering things, Where do I
need to put the football? Your offensive coordinator has boiled
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it down to where this is the best play based
on what we've seen throughout the game. The kicker and
I'm not believing I'm not trying to defend the kickers.
You don't even have to watch their uniform. They don't
even get dirty, you know, in the game. But but
but there, it is a different a different situation. And
here's something that I would throw on top of that.
(12:16):
This is a guy that didn't go through training camp
with you, has no really any you know, anything embedded
with the teamery chemistry exactly. So you you're talking about
guys Jay Feely was here forever, you know. So those
guys are kind of even though they're not in the trenches,
they've gone through all the stuff with you in the
highs and lows, and they've probably made kicks that have
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won games for you. And so you try a guy
out here that's just trying to establish some kind of
credibility with the team. Had the good game against Minnesota,
the five for five game. Did that give him enough confidence?
It certainly looked like a lack of confidence. Kick, you know,
because it kind of bled off to the right and
he missed it. And I saw the guys come over
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and try to, you know, try to you know, dapt
him up or whatever and try to make him feel okay.
I just think there's a lot of differences to the
kicker because it might be the only chance you get
in a game, might be And now he got trotted
out there two or three times, so it wasn't his
only kick in the game. And if you look at
the kick prior to that, it just snuck in the
field goal just barely got in. So, as you said,
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he's coming out there with a mindset that a little bit,
Hey Bradley, can you tilt it a little bit more
to the inside because.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I need to move my foot to the left.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
And that's a question for you. You've been around those guys.
They're different. There's different breeds of guys. Some of them
are or like regular players. Other guys are kind of
off to themselves. You've probably seen all of the all kinds.
What is it then, from a kicker perspective, In let's
say Parker Romo's situation the way he is now, where
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he joined this team three or four games. There are
two games in the season, and he's trying to build
some credibility. Had an off day against Carolina, had a
really good day against against Minnesota. Kind of a mixed bag.
I know, you know he's hanging on because you got
a kicker on practice squad, just waiting for an opportunity potentially,
and I know that's part of the business. But as
a mental as it is, what is he going through
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mentally on it?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, I mean, this is That's what That's kind of
where I was going with this entire conversation is this
is not a mechanic, This is not a leg strength,
this is not an operation with the field goal unit
where he's not trusting people. It's none of that. It
is simply a mental thing in its confidence or lack
thereof that he's been in this moment before that he
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is going out there and he's going to drill the kick.
And that's kind of where I was trying to kind
of frame this conversation because even though you never really
think about a kicker being a dog, that's still kind
of the same mentality. Yeah, right, is the guy that's
been there before, that has so much confidence in himself
that the nerves are not going to get to him,
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puts the ball right through the middle of the uprights,
or it's not close. Maybe it's a little bit to
the right of the middle, but it's not sneaking in
right because they're so confident in everything their approach, their footwork,
their placement, their body angle, all of those things right,
and the really good ones when they have a miss
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earlier in the game, it's just like any other position.
It's just like the quarterback position. Is it short term memory?
Like that one's gone, the really good ones, but the
ones that still aren't trying to find their way. Because
I had a lot of these guys in preseason when
I was playing, like you always have the younger guy
that was coming in to kind of challenge your incumbent veteran,
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and you could just kind of see it. In those
pressure packed situations, they're thinking more about the ball faded
a little bit to the right last time, what do
I need to do to fix that? Whereas the guy
that's been there before is like, please right, like I'm
gonna go do my thing, and I'm drilling this one
right down the middle. And when you think like that,
the body just follows it. Right, like your body, your nerves,
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everything just follows right down the middle of the uprights.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
It's probably one of those only moments where as a
fan you can probably have some perspective on this. And
the way I say say that is a lot of
people play golf, right and you've blown You blow one
in the trees off the tea boxe. Okay, Now you're
trying to get back in the game. You make double bogue. Okay,
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loss on that hole. So here I go. I got
a stride to the next tee and hit them yep.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
So it's kind of one of those only moments where
the common fan can kind of if you play golf,
not everybody plays golf, that you can kind of get
a feeling for what that feels like, you know, and
you can't really feel what a quarterback feels when he
you know, it's fourth quarter and it's fourth down, when
that's that's hard.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
You got a lot on the lines, that money, you're
playing for all that money, But no, it's it's one
of those moments.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
So yeah, it's we've probably beaten a dead horse down
on that deal. But it's interesting. It is a very
different mindset, tough and to try to, and I know
what you're trying to do, is you're trying to Is
there some similarities I guess in the very moment, there's
some similarities for quarterback trying to make a throw on
fourth down or something like that. But again, you've thrown
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probably twenty five to thirty five, maybe forty passes in
the game that have kind of set the table for
you not to really be thinking about, oh, this is
fourth down, the games on the line, because you're not
even think you're going through reads. You're doing a lot.
He's standing there. Way, I got to kick this through
the uprights, Yeah, or we lose the game. You're not
even you're not even going there as a quarterback, right,
(17:46):
So you're right.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
So you're right. We did kind of have a long
drawn out conversation about it, and just as a disclaimer,
as we shoot this show on a Tuesday, we don't
know anything whether or not there's going to be any
changes at that position. We're just talking about as it
as it ends up unfolding. Fellas, Let's talk a little
bit about this game. I know you're not really trying
to the best way to analyze it is not to
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look at things positively and paint a picture when it's
another loss. However, there was some positives takeaways in the game.
DJ six sacks in the game, the defense showing up
in the backfield. Jalen Walker, I thought, played a really
good game with how he was able to make some plays.
What are some not to sit there and say, oh,
let's sugarcoat it here, but yeah, things that you can
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take away from the game that you're hoping continue week
after week.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
The one thing that sticks out at it, that comes
to mind instantly is how about the first and second
year guys, especially in that front seven for the falcom
You probably called Rook's name a bunch of times, probably
called during his name a couple of times. Obviously, we
talked about Pierce, and we talked about Jalen. I mean
he filled up the stat sheet. I mean it was
fun to watch those guys kind of Okay, things are
(18:59):
starting to click. So if you're looking at something to
be possible, you're thinking about, Okay, these guys finally turn
in the corner a little bit, You're like, okay, uh,
I heard Arch talk to my man Daules after the
game and he goes, oh, man, soon as La Kale
got a sack. Oh, I gotta go get me one now,
and that's I mean, you love that kind of mindset.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
It's like, oh, it's time to go eat.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
He eating, I need to go eat.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
You love that attitude, and I think you're starting to
get that. And you see these guys playing these different roles.
And if you look back at this game with those sacks,
I mean, it wasn't a lot of blitzing.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
It was maybe four or five man pressures. At times.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
It was here's an et stunt, here here was another
guy just went it off effort. I mean, it was
some of that going on up front, and you gotta
love that. So I when I look at defensively, the
thing that comes to mind is those first and second
year guys making their presence known, having an impact. We
talked about the beginning of the season of Okay, this
is a big time for Route, It's a big time
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for doallus no more? Grady, Jared, are you gonna be
those guys to step into that void and feel it
for him? And I thought, these guys are starting to
make their presence known, especially on the inside. And then
I think I was seeing somewhere, you know, Jalen and
Piers are you know, top five and pressure raised to season.
But you could just feel those guys coming off the
edge now and it was good to see Jalen may
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to come through, get the ball out and then how
about to wear a fall for peers, not just fall
on the rock.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
He trying to scoop and score.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
You love that you got two athletic dudes on the
outside who are eager to get to the quarterback. And
I thought those guys did a good job.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I guess you guys a question though. When Pierce is
running that ball toward the end zone, were you guys
yelling at the TV too, like, bro, you better tuck
that football away? Like the only thing I could think
about was he was gonna make this game changing play
and then somebody was gonna.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
He looked up at the board. He looked up at
the board. I'm sure you look up at the board.
You can see he's behind you.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Where's the confidence? You're thinking like a kicker?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I'm old school everybody that I was. He's going in.
I was thinking about the unless your name is Dion Sanders,
tuck the football away. That's okay, arch, let's do let's
Let's pivot here though, because I don't want this discussion
to just to be about, Hey, this is all the
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really good stuff that happened on the defensive side of
the ball. Let's talk about third down. Because third down
on both sides of the ball was a problem. All right, offensively,
you already talked about the struggles the last few weeks.
Now like this is building defensively eight of twelve, Like
you needed to get a stop to get them off
the field, to give the offense another opportunity to kind
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of get things going. What is the issues on third down?
Because that's what a lot of people that are listening
and watching is they're looking for us to say, how
can what what is their opinion on what needs to
change for it to.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Get bettle third loans?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, there were a couple, and those are the disappointing ones,
because that's that's where you've won to put yourself in
the position to get off the field, right or as
Raheem likes to say, off the grass.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yes, I love that.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
It was.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
It was essential lack of efficiency on first and second
down defensively, which creates these opportunities to be, you know,
in a manageable third down situation. That's what you're trying
to do, trying you hear all the analogies, trying to
stay on schedule, efficiency on offense, manageable third downs, all
these different little cliches that are thrown out about it.
But what what New England was able to do for
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the most part was stay in those situations. And when
you did win on first and second down and to
your point, shock you lost coverage. You had to you
had to check down to a tight end and the
left flat and he runs for a first down, or
you know, where's the underneath coverage? There was some You
got a little discombobulated in the back end. There wasn't
a guy at a flat defender there to come up
and make that tackle. You want him to throw the
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ball underneath, come up, make the tackle for six seven yards,
they have to punt the football. I think that's the key.
They were able to run the ball with some success
in this game. That continues to be a little bit
of an achilles heel for this defense, especially that interior run.
I thought it was better in this game, and I
thought it got better in the game because when they
tried to throw the ball on first and second down.
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You created some negative plays, and that's what has to
happen to create opportunities.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Get off the grasses.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Where he likes to say is you have to create
some negative plays on first and second down. When you
look at Atlanta early on on offense, third and twelve,
third and nine, third and ten, third and ten, you're
getting negative plays or stalemate plays on first and second
down that are creating those opportunities for defenses to get
off the field. We're not doing enough of that on
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first and second down to create those moments, and I
think that that'll be something that deff Olbrick and his
group look at. I think overall, they're number four in
the National Football League in total defense. You like where
that is six sacks you talked about that. You love
where that is two turnovers. You win the turnover battle.
How do you lose the football game? Well, you allow
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them to eat clock or your offense can't be on
the field and your offense can't get any kind of
rhythm because they're not on the field. So I would
say you go back to the efficiency on first and
second down, much like you do on offense. You got
to be efficient on defense too. You've got to create
some negative plays like we're that's happening. Do us to
create those opportunities to get off the field and give
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your offense the ball?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
L Right, So let me ask you this.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I'm watching the game, and obviously a big part of
this game is obviously third down and some execution there.
And one thing that just kept just just ringing from me,
and I went back and I looked it up, and
I counted twelve plays of ten yards or more in
this ball game. And we talk about execution, but then
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you also talk about limiting the explosive plays. When a
fan looks at that part of the game, what do
you point to is how you can remedy that because obviously,
as we know we talk about every week, teams are
gonna draw up stuff. Yeah, they're gonna win, they're gonna
they got good players too, But twelve plays of ten
yards or more is something you can't have in a game.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Well, again, you begin to look at some of them,
and I thought there was specifically a place they attacked
in our defense. Are they attacked the inside part of
our defense? The nickel situation is where they attacked. Douglas
got freeing on a couple of those big plays. This
was a team that came in and had sixty three
plays of fifteen.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yards or more.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
They were averaging eight plays or more per per game
of those explosives. So they matched that they got to
that number. That was the number you wanted, and that's
not a number Atlanta had. Atlanta done a pretty good
job thirty three plays coming in in seven games of
fifteen yards or more. They had not allowed that to happen.
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It's you know, it's not just one guy now, I said,
the Nickel situation, and that's a man demand. Sometimes situation.
Sometimes you're comboing there, but it also has to be
you have to get home with pressure. If I'm coming
to pressure and playing man coverage, my guy can't cover
an over route, which is what Alford was asked to do,
and some other guys were asked to do clear across
the field. So it becomes a team concept. But that
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that's an aberration, I hope, because Atlanta had not done
that defensively given up the explosives. New England had been
doing that. So when in a battle of wills a
little bit, New England won that shock.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Let's talk a little bit about Arch was alluding to
the fact that Atlanta was not able to have success
on early downs, which contributed to them being poor on
third downs. A lot of that had to do with
the fact that, and we talked about this last week.
Going into the matchup, New England had not allowed a
running back, a singular running back, to rush for over
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fifty yards in a game. And what happens with Jon
Robinson held to less than fifty yards in this game? Again,
this is now another week We're not only talking about
the run game getting stuff, but now we're talking about
some guards, offensive guards getting banged up. So what did
you see in the running game? Because to me, I
don't think, yes, you want to tip your cap to
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New England and say they've been a really tough run defense.
I don't feel like it's a valid excuse to just say, hey,
they're pretty good, they're gonna shut us down, right, Not
when you've got somebody like Bijon Robinson, Not when you've
got an offensive line that's played together as long as
they have. I feel like, to me, that's that's not
a great response. So what needs to happen with this
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offense to get him not only just him, but Tyler
Algier going so they can be more of that dominant
run offense.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
I think you mentioned part of it is obviously, you know,
having the mixed combinations up front of a couple guys
coming in and out of the lineup. Obviously that doesn't
help when you don't have your key guys in birds
goes out early. We know what a dog Burge is,
especially in the run game, his physicality, and that's part
of the two that we've talked about last couple weeks
is the other side of the ball has just been
more physical than we have and ultimately you're not gonna
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drop up new plays. The run game is what it is.
I mean, you got outside inside, you got ways to run,
you got ways to you know, get to a formation
of motion whatever it may be. But the end of
the ball game, it comes down to being able to
move that guy in front of you, and I think
between the last two weeks, we just haven't been able
to do that. Three weeks, to be honest, we haven't
been able to just move that guy in front of
you to be able to create the run lanes we like.
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And the other part for me is, I know it
was a little bit tougher in the Miami game because
you were down you know, twenty seven three or whatever
it was, and you had to get away from it.
But I think we have to have we have to
be more adamant about staying with the run game a
little bit longer. Obviously, there are times where it's advantageous
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for you to throw the football. Teams maybe loading up,
they're bringing that extra guy in the box, and obviously
they're having success doing that, but I think there's still
opportunities where you have two guys back there. I think,
regardless of how many guys they have down there, can
make a guy miss, can get you three, four or
five yards. And I think we have to stick to
it a little bit longer now when it comes to
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the execution part of it, you know, without going back
and knowing exactly what each guy is supposed to do
in the run game, that's tough to say. And you know,
we've been a part of long enough to know, okay,
we were outside zone. You know where God's supposed to go,
get up to that second level. That's a part of it.
But I think you have to have to have to
give it a little bit more just to show it
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because we want to be play action. We want to
better move a mic around a little bit more, and
that's part of it too. I think also is I
think now I can use his legs a little bit more.
And I think that's something we saw in his last
ball game. He took off for a fifteen yard run.
Everybody's like, whoa, whoa, what he can do that? And
the dude's athletic. URST talk to him after the game
about Hey, possibly use your legs a little bit more,
and he's like, yeah, that ain't my first thing, but
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if I have to, I will. I think that's part
of also forcing defenses to respect that, hey, that eleven
God can hurt you too. And I think if you
can do that, when you get him on the perimeter,
on the edge, or him just having the ability to
take off on you, maybe add something else to the
run game as well.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
And I know we've done.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
A good job of trying to create the quote unquote
run game, putting Bijon out, throwing it to him in space,
kind of a you know, a look over what the
run game would.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Be just giving him the football. But I think I
can actually have a big part of it.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Two the problem and I agree with you completely Shock
the ability to commit to the run game. You ran
twenty eight plays in the first three quarters. How much
can you commit to the run game when you're not
getting any movement in the run game. Let's say you
run half the time, you run fourteen plays, and you
look up and you've got thirty two yards rushing. Well,
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you're not on the field, and now your defense, much
like the Miami game, is on the field for thirty
eight minutes. That's why I thought that they came out
and I completely You don't want to hurts your pride
as a football player to say, oh, well they're good
against the run. We can't run it. No, no, no, no,
we can run it. But you have to be able
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to be efficient on first and second down throwing the
football in the perimeter or in your quick game to
give you a chance to get first downs, to give
you a chance to state of the run game. Because
if I run it, it's minus one. Now I run
it again, it's two. Now, Now my young quarter backs
third and eight, and I don't convert. I'm off the field.
Here comes my defense and they get a couple first downs,
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maybe they move down the score and you look up
and it's twenty one to seven. Well, I want to
keep Bjon involved. Maybe I need to throw it to him,
throw it to him, and then you're not efficient in
your screen game. The game, Yeah, your screen game is
not efficient. You miss him blocks on the perimeter. So
it's a it's a holistic approach to what we're doing,
as much as you want to stay with the run game,
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I feel, Zach Robinson. You look up and I've only
had the ball for twenty five plays in the first half.
I ran it nine times or ten times, and I
didn't get anything out of it. How do you stay
with that? You know, if you keep your sanity, how
do I continue to beat my head against a wall
and keep sending my defense out there after three and outs?
You can't do it.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
I can't do that on man, Yes, come on, hey, manage,
Hey Robinson, trying to keep it so let's not.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
But the key, though, real Rack you said it is,
is the what you can do is you begin to
use nine more, get panics more involved out of bootleg stuff.
If people are crashing down and you've got second level
guys that are running to the to the play side
A and B gap and are running through, how do
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I stop that because that's what's happening. You look at
Bijon touches the ball, Both linebackers are coming. You stick
the ball in Beajon's belly and get all that flow,
and then I naked bootleg out. Now, all of a sudden,
I got a problem in the set if my tide
end looks like he's blocking, and then Check releases and
goes across the formation. Those linebackers are flowing downfield. I've
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got Kyle Pitts on the move. You know, you start
incorporating some of that stuff. But the confidence level we
were talking about the Kicker conference, Love, I think Michael
has to have the confidence that he can take off.
You know, this is a he's got a history of
getting banged. I'm not sure that that's there's a ghost
or a skeleton in his head that says, oh, if
I take off, I'm gonna get hit. I'm gonna get hurt,
or something like it happened to him Irland his career Indiana.
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But I thought you made a great point, and then
I said it during the game. He got out and
he looked like the best athlete on the field. In fact,
I kind of blurred a little bit. I said, wait,
is that is that Vic running with the because that's
what he didn't. Yeah, he looked like the fastest guy
in the field. I'm hoping that that manifests itself into
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a confidence for him that he can skate out of
there and take advantage of his athletics.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Because guys, there's times when it might be second and
ten and they dial up a pass and if everything
vacates and he doesn't or he doesn't have anything downfield
because it's covered up like it's third and six, is cool.
Like third and six is much better than third and
ten if he just tucks it down and picks up four.
But i mean, we saw a few weeks ago Josh
Allen like that's what he does. Like Josh Allen, he like,
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you're gonna give me the run, Like I'm gonna take it.
Patrick Mahomes is he's one of the best passing quarterbacks
in the National Football League. He's gonna take the yards
if you give it to him, and he's gonna slide
right well.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Drake State came into this game two hundred and fifty
yards rushing. He skated out a couple times. I'm looking
at I'm looking at pinning. Now Pinnicks missed a game,
but Michael come into the game twenty four carries or
I'm sorry, seventeen carries forty three yards, forty three yards.
Used it much, Drake May, Drake May came into the
game with fifty one carries, obviously a couple of if
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you work, two hundred and fifty yards two touchdowns, and I.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Think the two fifty was second most on the team,
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Yeah, So that's a guy that's not more athletic than
Michael Pennix's. And I think everybody's got this misnomer about, oh,
he's a pocket passer, and I hear all these these
talking heads around the country, so oh, he just stands
in the pocket. Throw go look at this guy's history.
This guy he ran four or five at the combine,
all that kind of he can go.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Now, he just got to go take it, all right,
So let's kind of use this as we transition into
the next week, as the Falcons not only have a
big challenge of travel this week as they go to Berlin, Germany,
and we'll talk to Dave about that, but they're also
going to face arguably one of the hottest teams in
the National Football League. So let's start with a little
bit of the travel, because Arch you've done this europe
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trip a couple of times with the Falcons. So give
the people that are listening and watching a little bit
of flavor of just what that part of this trip
is about.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Yeah, it's well, it's it's not routine, right, guys, with
the players are so used to be in routine. So
the team's gonna leave Thursday afternoon. So it's essentially, if
you were in la and you're gonna fly back to Atlanta,
you jump on that eleven thirty flight, and you got
the red Eye back to Atlanta, get in about six
o'clock in the morning. That's what's gonna happen here. Only
the red Eye is gonna take nine hours to get there.
So you're gonna leave here at about four four point
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thirty in the afternoon and you're gonna arrive in in
Germany around what seven eight o'clock in the morning, Okay,
with a time change. I think it's a six hour
time change there. The team is immediately going to go
to practice. So what you're immediately trying to do, you
guys know this is you try to get on that clock.
That's the idea of going over a couple days early,
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is you got to you get on that clock. And
so we're not gonna hopefully you can get some slip
up on the plane. They're going to get a lot
more sleep than I am because they have those little
sleeper things and I've got a regular chair. Yeah, I
got to get in. Remember the old bus rides, you
had to get underneath the bus that's underneath the seats
to get rid. But anyway you get over there, they're
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going to practice and try to get on that on
that time clock. So what the coaches are going to
try to do is you guys have played international stuff too,
is they're going to try to get things back to
normal as quickly as possible. So practice here on Thursday,
load up, get on the plane, get over there. Practice
when you get over there, go back to the hotel.
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Try not to go to lay down at four o'clock
in the afternoon, you know. And then uh, and then Saturday,
you hope you settle into more of a normal Saturday,
come in, walk through, do whatever you want to do, meetings,
and then you just you disperse and go or do
whatever you do from a from a home game standp
but it kind of becomes a home game scenario, hope,
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and then you get up and play. Now it's gonna
come on what here at nine thirty in the morning, Nick,
that's over there? I think is kick time over there?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I mean, is it?
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Is it realistic? And I'll ask you you this rack
you you you did a number of these as well
as a player. Is it realistic to do the whole
get on the time clock thing or is it still
kind of feel weird to you?
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Yeah, it's still a little bit off. Let me just
say it that way, right, Like you're gonna try, but
like getting on that time to me doesn't take like
thirty six hours. It takes a little bit longer than that.
If you can get yourself a customer. And the biggest
thing for me because I I played in two international
games in Japan as a player, which was a preseason
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and that's even longer trip. Preseason was different. It's not
a game that like every that matters for your win
loss record, right, but it's so much of a longer trip.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
But then I've also probably called eight of these London
games on the radio for Westwood One, so I've done
this trip a number of times. Now, I don't have
the benefit of their physiologists, their sports science people, and
all of the different things that they do to try
to get these guys prepared, from a nutrition, from a sleep,
all that stuff. I just fly over there like a
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regular person, and I generally lift would leave at like eleven,
land over there at nine or ten in the morning,
and then I am exhausted, and everybody told me, fellas,
don't go to sleep the first day. I tried it
one time, and I made it to about seven thirty
or eight o'clock, and I was fighting it all day long.
Every other time I went over there, I had to
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fall asleep because I don't sleep well on those planes
going over there, because I'm in a regular seat, I'm tall,
I'm never able to get comfortable. It's different for these guys, right,
So hopefully they are able to get some sleep, they
are able to get on the clock, because they're gonna
get over there and move right away.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Right.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
But then once you get over there, guys, it's like,
guess what the colt's got play under the same conditions
as well, right they're traveling, they got to do it too,
So guess what excuses are gone because everybody's got to
do the same thing.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Now.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
It just gets back to doing what we talked about
all season long, and it's executing. So shock. I'm gonna
turn it over to you, and I'm going to have
you give the listeners and the viewers a little bit
of flavor of what the Falcons are going to see
in the Colts this year. Again, a team that coming
into the season, I don't think anybody expected to be
one of the right that to be one of the
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top teams in the National Football League.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
And to start the season, you thought, coming in the
Annapolis coach would be having a quarterback in Anthony Richardson who.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Would be their guy.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
And you said, oh, okay, yeah, he's coming into you know,
second third year trying to figure it out, and that
they're still a work in progress.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
And then they bring over.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Danny Dimes and you're like, oh, Daniel Jones. He was
all right in New York, but sometimes you just need
a new surrounding, sometimes you just need a new voice.
And he's playing some of his best football to date
and a lot of people say, hey, he could be
in the conversation for one of the top guys in
the league. And obviously last week they didn't have their
best game. He threw three interceptions in that ball game,
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and they held Jonathan Taylor to what forty six yards
rushing or some of that ball game. But this is
an offense that is you're talking about putting up points
eighth in rushing offense, one hundred and twenty five game,
third and pass offense, and two hundred and fifty seven
a game, and first International Football League in points.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
It's going thirty two a game.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Both him, Daniel Jones and Jonathan Taylor both lead their
respective categories and passing yards Daniel Jones and then rushing
yards and Jonathan Taylor. You're talking about a guy who
you look up the statute and you say, oh my god,
this dude is going for one hundred like it's nothing
every single week. He's a tough player. He can catch
it out of the backfield. And then you look up
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and say, oh man, they got some receivers on the outside.
I mean, you look up, you got Pittman Junior, who
he's got six touchdowns on the year. They got three
guys with over five hundred yards already in this season. Obviously,
the tight end Tyler Warren, who I think we all
saw the last couple of years that know, the Dame,
a do it all guy from We.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Saw this guy to play quarterback and to Penn State.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
Talking about the Penn State Ye, yeah, Penn State did
did a lot of great things for them. Alec Pierce
another guy who's averaging twenty yards of reception. I mean
you're talking about a receiver group that. And then you
got another little guy on the Insime from North Carolina
and Josh Downs who is also a threat on the
outside who is for so you talking about having playmakers
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at every freaking level.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
They got it.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
And then you got a quarterback who can describ the football.
They're playing at a high level offensively. Last week obviously
one of their best showing against Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh put it
on pretty good. But this is the offense that you
got expect to bring it because they're looking to put
some points.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
On the ball.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Shout out Gary Downs too, Gary Downs, former Falcon.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
I mean he is producing like absolute stunts hitting sun
It is going to be like the best defensive player
coming out in the draft.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
Well I think he's got a daughter. So they playing
volleyball Xander built or not, but like a duke, that's
an all American. So Garry, way to get it done, brother,
you and your wife getting it done.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Arch. Here's the interesting thing. The Falcons and what do
we call it? Four weeks now have faced Christian McCaffrey,
Devon ah Chan and now Jonathan Taylor. So they're getting
a steady dose of some really electric running backs. And
Taylor's built a little bit differently than the first two guys,
but Shock talked about his numbers and what he was
able to do. However, is it it's not as easy
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to just put on the Pittsburgh tape and say this
is what we need to do. However, you slow down
Jonathan Taylor to the tune of forty five yards and
then you forced Daniel Jones to throw the football fifty times, like,
that's when you're gonna have some opportunities. So it's so
at least Atlanta seeing some a recent recipe in how
you slow down this what we didn't know was going
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to be a potent Colts offense.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Yeah, get them off the field, get them off the
field on third down, try to win that down. This
is a team that's converting forty five percent on third down.
And that's the part that's even tougher is they've converted
fifteen of seventeen fourth downs, So which tells you they're
staying on schedule, comfortable enough to where they get to
fourth and two they're going to go for they're staying
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on the field. Yeah, so they're converting at a high,
high level. When it comes to staying on the field.
Pittsburgh took that away from them. Pittsburgh turned them over.
And those are the obviously that's the recipe. You want
to sack the quarterback and turn them over. What do
we do this last weekend? Sack the quarterback and turn
them over? So you got to be more efficient on
first and second down. But that's that's what you're looking
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for there. I don't think there's any special pill that
you take. You've got to stop the run. And what
are they going to look at, say, Okay, what are
teams that run the football that have an off day?
Which they did against against the Steelers lost twenty seven
to twenty of the Steelers turned it over, did some
things uncharacteristic that had been kind of existing in their
first seven games. They're gonna get back to what they
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do to They're gonna try to pound the run. They're
gonna say, o, hey, just what the Doctor ordered. The
team that can't stop the interior run game, We're gonna
come after the run game. So Oldbricks group's gonna have
to swell up there. This is a pretty good defensive
unit as well. They've got a linebacker that hits like
the most really good linebackers, Ira Franklin. Flies all over
the field. He's got three consecutive seasons one hundred and
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sixty five plus tackles. They've got an outstanding safety in
Nick Cross who is another tackling machine that flies around.
And Leatu Latu, who they drafted a couple of years ago,
leads them in sacks. They are I think eight or
ninth in the league in sacks as a team. So
they're doing some stuff defensively. The one thing they're not
doing they're not stopping the pass and they're not getting
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people off the field on third down. Teams are converting
forty five point six percent on third down. That's near
the bottom of the league. If there was anything the
Doctor ordered was a team struggling on third down defensively,
which is what we're struggle around on offense, right.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
And to be a week where they get things back
on track. I was looking at Daniel Jones's numbers, and Guys,
this is not really a surprise, but like pretty much
the whole season, he's thrown anywhere from twenty five to
thirty four passes in the game, and I think that's
where they want him to live. But the fact was
they got off schedule in the chains, they got shut
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down in the run game, and they forced him to throw.
Like there's certain guys like I don't know if you
want Patrick Mahomes throwing at fifty times or Jared Goff
throwing at fifty times, because those guys are probably gonna
end up making you pay at some point throughout the
course of the game. But generally when a quarterback's thrown
at fifty times is not a good thing, right. But
I think if Atlanta can get to the point to
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where Daniel Jones has to throw it a lot, where
you got a defense that's got some confidence of getting
after the quarterback, you've got a secondary that can take
the football away, maybe this uncorks Jesse Bates a little
bit more after you mentioned he got his first interception
of the season that this is a game where the
defense can can try to get back on track, slowing
(46:00):
down the run game again, but also trying to get
some takeaways. I'm reading our rundown and this is throwing
me off because I didn't see it. But it's time
for our get that right, say that, say that zoom spiel.
Do you want to try that here here, right here,
right here, try try this right here.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
Well, I think I don't know I can say anything
in the nib slum zim zeal a shock.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
Your turn, your turn. Let me see what your best
German is.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
It's your shoes sizem spin.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
Why did he sound like Why did he say like
an English guy?
Speaker 1 (46:39):
I sound like a little bit of Irish.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Yeah, you're not a native, alright, So for people that are.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
Like a native, that is supposedly probably a completely off pronunciation.
But keys in German zoom spiel. All right, So we're
gonna give our zoom spiel. I need one zoom spiel
from your keys to the game, key to the game
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for Atlanta to come away with a victory.
Speaker 4 (47:08):
Zoom some spill, I would say, dominate the line of scrimmage.
This will be a ball game. I think that if
you win the line of what.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
I'm not gonna let you. I'm not gonna let you
what game. Don't you want to dominate the line of scrimmage?
Speaker 2 (47:24):
It's my key, my key.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
You don't hide Jackson, you will.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
You know why.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
It's because he's a Georgia Bulldog. And what do they
do every game? They dominate the lin of Have we
not dominated? No?
Speaker 2 (47:39):
We have not? We have not not. That's a good call.
Speaker 3 (47:44):
That's a good I give it you saying.
Speaker 4 (47:46):
And it seems like duh, But I feel like with
the way they run the football, with our need to
be able to run the football, we got to own
the line of strimage.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
I mean every game you have to have that for sure.
Speaker 1 (47:59):
I'm okay with us room spiel, Okay, that one is?
Speaker 3 (48:02):
Is that really kind of a piece of it?
Speaker 2 (48:03):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (48:04):
Is that a piece of somebody's.
Speaker 3 (48:06):
Listening or watching that strudle with something sprinkled on top of.
Speaker 2 (48:14):
Just butchering this? All right?
Speaker 1 (48:17):
Arch give us a key to the game.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Wow, so we're gonna die.
Speaker 3 (48:20):
Like so, I can't go anywhere near dominate the line
of screamage or anything like that, because that takes run
game all that kind of converting on third down is
really boring. So how do you get there? I'm gonna say,
the the quarterback that has the most rushing yards in
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this game.
Speaker 1 (48:43):
The game, dang okay, feeding off of what we talked
about earlier. I can't I can't even get an I
don't know how good it is, but it's different.
Speaker 3 (48:54):
Yeah, yeah, I think if Michael can have an impact
on this game, just other than throwing the ball, because
you know, Daniel Jones has the ability to do that
same stuff. He can get out and run as well.
So the quarterback that has the most impact in the
run game or his ability to move, let's just say
his ability to move, the move out of the pocket,
extend things, I think he wins the football game.
Speaker 1 (49:15):
Okay, I like it all right, So you guys stayed
offense kind of yours is both like yours was the game.
Speaker 2 (49:23):
And it's not every part of the game.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
Though, what are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (49:26):
We're still going to throw we gotz I mean, come on,
we got a.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
Lot of different things. My key is going to be
defense causing chaos. Okay, and so what does that mean?
That means sacks? That could mean tips at the line
of scrimmage. That could mean hurries, which forces Daniel Jones
out on the perimeter. That means past deflections. When they
throw the ball down the field, that obviously means takeaways.
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I'm talking about up with that because I was trying
to give variety, you know, that's.
Speaker 3 (49:58):
Tried to He got control line of scrimmage so completely
completely screws us.
Speaker 1 (50:04):
You know, we don't have no chance to go because
it's like we can't do all three of the same thing.
And so so yours was offense. I went with defense.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
I like you.
Speaker 1 (50:14):
Yours yours was much on defense. I'll drink just by
the way, that was a backhanded slap to you that
he didn't like your Is that.
Speaker 2 (50:25):
Is that is he?
Speaker 3 (50:26):
Is that an American German beer? Or is that actually
a German beer? Or is it even a German beer? Heineken?
Speaker 1 (50:32):
Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (50:34):
Consume it. Oh no, I plan on it.
Speaker 1 (50:37):
But I mean, here's what I want to know. After
you go over there, is this one of those things
where like Americans say that we're drinking it because it's German,
but over there they don't drink it at all. Right,
So let us know, did you see local people drinking Heineken,
because I I know when you go to Ireland, like
they drink Ginnis like that's their job, that's water.
Speaker 3 (50:57):
Yeah right, but I sense it. I feel like that
that is a beer made from there that we brought
over here.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
Rch.
Speaker 2 (51:04):
We expect and we have I feel.
Speaker 3 (51:06):
Like maybe was made here and we try to push
it on them here.
Speaker 2 (51:10):
We expect a selfie. Okay with the Heinegen. Well, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (51:14):
I don't have a good answer for you, but I
take pride in that because if I had all of
the answers about beer and alcohol, you might start questioning
what my priorities are in life.
Speaker 3 (51:25):
No, no, no, I take a knee to So I
don't know the answer.
Speaker 1 (51:29):
Let us know, okay, if you got the history on Heineken,
let us know.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
All right.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
He got that. He's into it. I'm talking about he
is like lit because I want.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
To start break. Yeah. I can get chills a little
bit thinking about what these two guys can do.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Ladies and gentlemen. Gentlemen and ladies of.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
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Speaker 1 (00:43):
An AT and C just before we came on the air.
So everybody knows Shack is having phone issues. Right, You've
got a rehistoric iPhone six that is still in production.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
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try to hit the M and a return it. Adropted it.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
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Speaker 4 (01:01):
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Speaker 2 (01:08):
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Speaker 1 (01:11):
Unfortunately, Falcons come up short to the Patriots on the
Road twenty four, twenty three. A lot of things to
talk about here, fellas frustrating least, there's there's not too
many times, guys, as players, that we sat down in
meetings and we try to find the good out of
a loss. Right like you go when you watch the tape,
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you're upset. These weeks are difficult in the building, doesn't
Nobody really wants to have long drawn out conversations. You
walk past coaches and front office people in the hallway
and the conversations are short. This is how things happen,
not only when you lose a game, when you've losed,
when you've lost a few of them in a row.
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So let's kind of revisit the keys. You guys remember
last week that we kind of finished the show with
all of us giving a key, and I think we
threw another one in there. Okay, shock, did you have
secondary plays? Well, wasn't that yours?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
How would you assess that key from last Sunday?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Uh ah?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
We given a lot of grades? Are we just you know,
just however you want to grade it? Well, it could
just be a conversation. I think there were I think
there were I think there were times where, uh, the
secondary play well, then there's other times where you look
up and you got guys running open, you got guys
who are creating plays. Obviously Douglas made a bunch of
big plays in his ball game.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Never heard of him, never.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Heard of him. Made plays, but unbelievable, Yeah, we overt overroutes.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Unbelievable. This guy is the king over out.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Stefan Diggs obviously catches a little little stop route and
turns it into a touchdown. Obviously that's got to do
with tackling and all that kind of stuff. Uh, tight
ends played pretty good in that ball game. A guy
we know in Austin Hooper had a couple of catches
in the game.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Obviously.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
You know, overall, I think you look towards the second
half where you had a little bit more success. I
think first half was obviously not indicative of what you
wanted a ball game. And you know, Drake may was,
you know, having a good day throwing the football to
start the game. But to only give up three points
in the second half, give yourself an opportunity turn them
over twice. H. Jesse Base finally gets his ball, gets
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his hands on one. H. That's a positive. But you know, overall,
it wasn't enough to be honest, You played I thought
decent enough, but not well enough to say to be
a key to go win the ball.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
So if we were giving letter grades, if I'm reading
through the tea leaves, that sounds like a B minus
C plus, would that be fair?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I think that's a good G.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's about all right.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
They're good grade.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yeah, Okay, Sometimes you're right on a curve a little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So I'm with that. Cools on the curve.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Arch. You had value on offense, right value on offense.
No wasted plays, didn't get that, didn't get to get that.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
You were brutal in conversion situations. Atlanta now in the
last three games converting at about twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Percent time on third down.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
But what it does Rack, and we talked about this
last week, is that when you're inefficient on offense and
give credit when you got in the red zone, were
presented red zone opportunities. You know, a lot of that
was manifested by the defense. Certainly the play by Walker
and Pierce gets it to the five or whatever and
you punch it in. You did some good things in
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the red zone. You had three deep red zone penetration
he scored all three times. Now, God bless Drake London,
because you're throwing the ball to a guy that's the
fifty to fifty monster in this place. So he goes
and gets the ball. But twenty five plays in the
first half on offense, you only ran three plays on
offense in the third quarter. I don't know if anybody
realizes that. Then all of a sudden it flipped and
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the efficiency with which you need to operate offensively came
to life. Not that you converted on third down. You
were converting first downs on second down, and sometimes on
first down you stay away from third down. But you
ran twenty seven plays in the fourth quarter to eleven
plays for New England, and all of a sudden, you
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look up, what happened? You climb right back in the game,
You make an extra point, we're playing, we're probably playing
in overtime. Okay, So that's what I was talking about.
Efficiency on offense, no empty series, no empty plays. Didn't
get that for the better part of three quarters. Yet
in the fourth quarter we saw how dominant this team
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can be both thrown and running the football. He made
it happen in the fourth quarter. Climb back.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So if we're given a letter grade.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Letter grade is a C minus C minus.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And is that only C minus because the fourth quarter
bumped it up?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, if you haven't gotten the fourth quarter, yeah,
you know, we'd be looking maybe to repeat the course.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yea credit.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Mine was first downs, and it was just period first downs,
and you had mentioned some time getting first down on
second down. I was going through the game and I
was taking some notes, and I think I had the
first Now, granted we're talking about first downs, but the
first third down conversion came with a minute ten seconds
left in the third quarter. Okay, they were one for
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six at that point. At the end of the third
Patriots had twenty first downs. Atlanta had ten.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Okay, that was a third and one conversion correct on
a seven yard pass.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So ten first downs at the end of the third.
Then you said they turned it on in the fourth quarter.
They ended up finishing with seventeen first downs. So if
you just look at the number, you're gonna say, wasn't bad.
They got beat Patriots had twenty three first downs in
the game. However, ten first downs in the first three quarters.
Once again, Arch to your point, wasn't enough, right, You
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weren't able to be efficient enough to keep yourself on
the field. Obviously, that ended up manifesting itself on third
down in such a poor performance on third down, but
my key was first downs, and I'm gonna go with
a C minus because the fourth quarter kind of changed
it as well, So the grades are not looking so great.
And then we threw the last one in special teams
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more disciplined and I don't know, I guess if you
just look at a missed extra point, not necessarily not disciplined.
But that's not the job, right And that's one of
the biggest storylines coming out of the game. And Raheem
Morris was asked about it, whether or not that's going
to be up for competition again, and his answer was simple, like,
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we just got to make the kick, guys. And I
thought about it a lot because I'm the resident special
teams guy here and I was not a kicker, but
I was in a same position to where your success
is not necessarily about mechanics fundamentals, it's mental. It's your
ability to perform in the moment. And I heard a
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quote from Raheem Morris and his press conference he said,
excelling in that position and making those kicks is won
during games, is developed during games, not intice, right, because
you can go out and you can drill forty three yarders.
Coach can put the game on the line. You can
pring all the players up around the kicker in practice
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and you could say this is a pressure moment. You
got to make this kick to tie the game on
an extra point, or win the game, or it's in overtime,
whatever the scenario will be. You could do all that
stuff in practice, fellas, but the game is different. And
I would flip this to you. I was thinking about
this as I was driving here today. How is this?
I know it's two completely different positions, but how is
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making an extra point when you have to tie the game?
As far as the mental side of it, how is
it any different than a quarterback and your ability at
the end of the game to put a drive together
to go win it versus not winning it? Is there
an element of confidence moxie been there, done that? And
not mechanics not well, his throwing slot is not great,
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or he doesn't have the nest necessary, the right zip
on the ball, But it's has he been there? Does
he leaving himself? And is he gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Just before you go out, say something real quest. I
think even more than just the last drive for a quarterback.
I think it comes down to if you have to
take the answers of Okay, they have this one opportunity
to make this play. I correlated to a fourth down
and you gotta make a throw. Yeah, and we saw
it in the ball game, as opposed to okay, you
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got a whole drive where it's first Okay, I missed
the first down throw, I got a second down throw.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I can go it.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
That's different when you're a kicker. But I think it's
a fourth down play. That's when in your mind, am
I gonna rip it and he got man covered right there,
I'm gonna rip it when I don't know if he
gonna really come out to break it. And I think
that's kind of the same mindset is I believe it,
I trust it, and I'm gonna throw it, as opposed
to oh, I'm gonna wait and see, or I just
don't feel like maybe it's a little bit of win here,
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or maybe I need to hold it a little bit
on that left up right to bring it back. That's
too much thinking you gotta kick the ball and go.
It's same thing with throwing it on fourth down, similar
to I mean to throw that Michael Pennis makes to
Drake Lennon on fourth down. You can't make that throw
unless you trust it, Yes, And I mean that ball
was ripped to a spot where only his guy can
get it, and it was such a tight window that
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if he didn't have confidence to throw it, he probably
don't put it in that spot. Maybe it's a little
bit behind, Maybe he you know, kind of hold it
a little bit then lets it go. I think it
just comes down to if you have trust and confetence
in that one opportunity to make it, Yep, you don't
think about it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
You just let it go arch before you go.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
And I think it was a great point that you
made about trusting it. Okay, And what I the parallela,
what I want to want to draw here with the
kicker is I played with a couple guys that relished
in that opportunity. I was with Jay Peeley in Atlanta,
and I was with Josh Brown and Seattle, and both
of those guys could not wait for that moment like
get me in the situation and I'm gonna go win
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the game and they couldn't wait to run out on
the field, and they just had that dog in him
that like, I'm built for this. Fellas, like, just give
me the opportunity to kick the field, going, I'm gonna
win the game for us. And then after they kick it,
they've kind of just got that little that little you know,
cockiness if you will, or or confidence. But to me,
it's arch it's that dog that when you go out
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in the field, you're not thinking about, am I gonna
make it the last kick? It kind of veered to
the right a little bit. What do I need to
do to correct it? It's no, I'm going on the
field and I'm gonna drill this kick to win the game,
which to his point is like the fourth and one
that I'm gonna rip it for this first down into
this tight window because I got confidence in myself.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, all the things you guys are touching on from
a confidence standpoint, the mindset that you go into, I
think there's a lot of differences. The quarterback when you
get to a final drive of a game, is thrown
probably thirty five passes in the game, So you've you've
built up some idea of what guys are doing coming
out of breaks, how they covering things, Where do I
need to put the football? Your offensive coordinator has boiled
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it down to where this is the best play based
on what we've seen throughout the game. The kicker and
I'm not believing I'm not trying to defend the kickers.
You don't even have to watch their uniform. They don't
even get dirty, you know, in the game. But but
but there, it is a different a different situation. And
here's something that I would throw on top of that.
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This is a guy that didn't go through training camp
with you, has no really any you know, anything embedded
with the teamery chemistry exactly. So you you're talking about
guys Jay Feely was here forever, you know. So those
guys are kind of even though they're not in the trenches,
they've gone through all the stuff with you in the
highs and lows, and they've probably made kicks that have
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won games for you. And so you try a guy
out here that's just trying to establish some kind of
credibility with the team. Had the good game against Minnesota,
the five for five game. Did that give him enough confidence?
It certainly looked like a lack of confidence. Kick, you know,
because it kind of bled off to the right and
he missed it. And I saw the guys come over
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and try to, you know, try to you know, dapt
him up or whatever and try to make him feel okay.
I just think there's a lot of differences to the
kicker because it might be the only chance you get
in a game, might be And now he got trotted
out there two or three times, so it wasn't his
only kick in the game. And if you look at
the kick prior to that, it just snuck in the
field goal just barely got in. So, as you said,
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he's coming out there with a mindset that a little bit,
Hey Bradley, can you tilt it a little bit more
to the inside because.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I need to move my foot to the left.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
And that's a question for you. You've been around those guys.
They're different. There's different breeds of guys. Some of them
are or like regular players. Other guys are kind of
off to themselves. You've probably seen all of the all kinds.
What is it then, from a kicker perspective, In let's
say Parker Romo's situation the way he is now, where
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he joined this team three or four games. There are
two games in the season, and he's trying to build
some credibility. Had an off day against Carolina, had a
really good day against against Minnesota. Kind of a mixed bag.
I know, you know he's hanging on because you got
a kicker on practice squad, just waiting for an opportunity potentially,
and I know that's part of the business. But as
a mental as it is, what is he going through
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mentally on it?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, I mean, this is That's what That's kind of
where I was going with this entire conversation is this
is not a mechanic, This is not a leg strength,
this is not an operation with the field goal unit
where he's not trusting people. It's none of that. It
is simply a mental thing in its confidence or lack
thereof that he's been in this moment before that he
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is going out there and he's going to drill the kick.
And that's kind of where I was trying to kind
of frame this conversation because even though you never really
think about a kicker being a dog, that's still kind
of the same mentality. Yeah, right, is the guy that's
been there before, that has so much confidence in himself
that the nerves are not going to get to him,
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puts the ball right through the middle of the uprights,
or it's not close. Maybe it's a little bit to
the right of the middle, but it's not sneaking in
right because they're so confident in everything their approach, their footwork,
their placement, their body angle, all of those things right,
and the really good ones when they have a miss
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earlier in the game, it's just like any other position.
It's just like the quarterback position. Is it short term memory?
Like that one's gone, the really good ones, but the
ones that still aren't trying to find their way. Because
I had a lot of these guys in preseason when
I was playing, like you always have the younger guy
that was coming in to kind of challenge your incumbent veteran,
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and you could just kind of see it. In those
pressure packed situations, they're thinking more about the ball faded
a little bit to the right last time, what do
I need to do to fix that? Whereas the guy
that's been there before is like, please right, like I'm
gonna go do my thing, and I'm drilling this one
right down the middle. And when you think like that,
the body just follows it. Right, like your body, your nerves,
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everything just follows right down the middle of the uprights.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
It's probably one of those only moments where as a
fan you can probably have some perspective on this. And
the way I say say that is a lot of
people play golf, right and you've blown You blow one
in the trees off the tea boxe. Okay, Now you're
trying to get back in the game. You make double bogue. Okay,
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loss on that hole. So here I go. I got
a stride to the next tee and hit them yep.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
So it's kind of one of those only moments where
the common fan can kind of if you play golf,
not everybody plays golf, that you can kind of get
a feeling for what that feels like, you know, and
you can't really feel what a quarterback feels when he
you know, it's fourth quarter and it's fourth down, when
that's that's hard.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
You got a lot on the lines, that money, you're
playing for all that money, But no, it's it's one
of those moments.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
So yeah, it's we've probably beaten a dead horse down
on that deal. But it's interesting. It is a very
different mindset, tough and to try to, and I know
what you're trying to do, is you're trying to Is
there some similarities I guess in the very moment, there's
some similarities for quarterback trying to make a throw on
fourth down or something like that. But again, you've thrown
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probably twenty five to thirty five, maybe forty passes in
the game that have kind of set the table for
you not to really be thinking about, oh, this is
fourth down, the games on the line, because you're not
even think you're going through reads. You're doing a lot.
He's standing there. Way, I got to kick this through
the uprights, Yeah, or we lose the game. You're not
even you're not even going there as a quarterback, right,
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So you're right.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
So you're right. We did kind of have a long
drawn out conversation about it, and just as a disclaimer,
as we shoot this show on a Tuesday, we don't
know anything whether or not there's going to be any
changes at that position. We're just talking about as it
as it ends up unfolding. Fellas, Let's talk a little
bit about this game. I know you're not really trying
to the best way to analyze it is not to
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look at things positively and paint a picture when it's
another loss. However, there was some positives takeaways in the game.
DJ six sacks in the game, the defense showing up
in the backfield. Jalen Walker, I thought, played a really
good game with how he was able to make some plays.
What are some not to sit there and say, oh,
let's sugarcoat it here, but yeah, things that you can
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take away from the game that you're hoping continue week
after week.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
The one thing that sticks out at it, that comes
to mind instantly is how about the first and second
year guys, especially in that front seven for the falcom
You probably called Rook's name a bunch of times, probably
called during his name a couple of times. Obviously, we
talked about Pierce, and we talked about Jalen. I mean
he filled up the stat sheet. I mean it was
fun to watch those guys kind of Okay, things are
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starting to click. So if you're looking at something to
be possible, you're thinking about, Okay, these guys finally turn
in the corner a little bit, You're like, okay, uh,
I heard Arch talk to my man Daules after the
game and he goes, oh, man, soon as La Kale
got a sack. Oh, I gotta go get me one now,
and that's I mean, you love that kind of mindset.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
It's like, oh, it's time to go eat.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
He eating, I need to go eat.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
You love that attitude, and I think you're starting to
get that. And you see these guys playing these different roles.
And if you look back at this game with those sacks,
I mean, it wasn't a lot of blitzing.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
It was maybe four or five man pressures. At times.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
It was here's an et stunt, here here was another
guy just went it off effort. I mean, it was
some of that going on up front, and you gotta
love that. So I when I look at defensively, the
thing that comes to mind is those first and second
year guys making their presence known, having an impact. We
talked about the beginning of the season of Okay, this
is a big time for Route, It's a big time
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for doallus no more? Grady, Jared, are you gonna be
those guys to step into that void and feel it
for him? And I thought, these guys are starting to
make their presence known, especially on the inside. And then
I think I was seeing somewhere, you know, Jalen and
Piers are you know, top five and pressure raised to season.
But you could just feel those guys coming off the
edge now and it was good to see Jalen may
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to come through, get the ball out and then how
about to wear a fall for peers, not just fall
on the rock.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
He trying to scoop and score.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
You love that you got two athletic dudes on the
outside who are eager to get to the quarterback. And
I thought those guys did a good job.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I guess you guys a question though. When Pierce is
running that ball toward the end zone, were you guys
yelling at the TV too, like, bro, you better tuck
that football away? Like the only thing I could think
about was he was gonna make this game changing play
and then somebody was gonna.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
He looked up at the board. He looked up at
the board. I'm sure you look up at the board.
You can see he's behind you.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Where's the confidence? You're thinking like a kicker?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I'm old school everybody that I was. He's going in.
I was thinking about the unless your name is Dion Sanders,
tuck the football away. That's okay, arch, let's do let's
Let's pivot here though, because I don't want this discussion
to just to be about, Hey, this is all the
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really good stuff that happened on the defensive side of
the ball. Let's talk about third down. Because third down
on both sides of the ball was a problem. All right, offensively,
you already talked about the struggles the last few weeks.
Now like this is building defensively eight of twelve, Like
you needed to get a stop to get them off
the field, to give the offense another opportunity to kind
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of get things going. What is the issues on third down?
Because that's what a lot of people that are listening
and watching is they're looking for us to say, how
can what what is their opinion on what needs to
change for it to.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Get bettle third loans?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, there were a couple, and those are the disappointing ones,
because that's that's where you've won to put yourself in
the position to get off the field, right or as
Raheem likes to say, off the grass.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yes, I love that.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
It was.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
It was essential lack of efficiency on first and second
down defensively, which creates these opportunities to be, you know,
in a manageable third down situation. That's what you're trying
to do, trying you hear all the analogies, trying to
stay on schedule, efficiency on offense, manageable third downs, all
these different little cliches that are thrown out about it.
But what what New England was able to do for
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the most part was stay in those situations. And when
you did win on first and second down and to
your point, shock you lost coverage. You had to you
had to check down to a tight end and the
left flat and he runs for a first down, or
you know, where's the underneath coverage? There was some You
got a little discombobulated in the back end. There wasn't
a guy at a flat defender there to come up
and make that tackle. You want him to throw the
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ball underneath, come up, make the tackle for six seven yards,
they have to punt the football. I think that's the key.
They were able to run the ball with some success
in this game. That continues to be a little bit
of an achilles heel for this defense, especially that interior run.
I thought it was better in this game, and I
thought it got better in the game because when they
tried to throw the ball on first and second down.
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You created some negative plays, and that's what has to
happen to create opportunities.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Get off the grasses.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Where he likes to say is you have to create
some negative plays on first and second down. When you
look at Atlanta early on on offense, third and twelve,
third and nine, third and ten, third and ten, you're
getting negative plays or stalemate plays on first and second
down that are creating those opportunities for defenses to get
off the field. We're not doing enough of that on
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first and second down to create those moments, and I
think that that'll be something that deff Olbrick and his
group look at. I think overall, they're number four in
the National Football League in total defense. You like where
that is six sacks you talked about that. You love
where that is two turnovers. You win the turnover battle.
How do you lose the football game? Well, you allow
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them to eat clock or your offense can't be on
the field and your offense can't get any kind of
rhythm because they're not on the field. So I would
say you go back to the efficiency on first and
second down, much like you do on offense. You got
to be efficient on defense too. You've got to create
some negative plays like we're that's happening. Do us to
create those opportunities to get off the field and give
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your offense the ball?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
L Right, So let me ask you this.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I'm watching the game, and obviously a big part of
this game is obviously third down and some execution there.
And one thing that just kept just just ringing from me,
and I went back and I looked it up, and
I counted twelve plays of ten yards or more in
this ball game. And we talk about execution, but then
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you also talk about limiting the explosive plays. When a
fan looks at that part of the game, what do
you point to is how you can remedy that because obviously,
as we know we talk about every week, teams are
gonna draw up stuff. Yeah, they're gonna win, they're gonna
they got good players too, But twelve plays of ten
yards or more is something you can't have in a game.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Well, again, you begin to look at some of them,
and I thought there was specifically a place they attacked
in our defense. Are they attacked the inside part of
our defense? The nickel situation is where they attacked. Douglas
got freeing on a couple of those big plays. This
was a team that came in and had sixty three
plays of fifteen.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yards or more.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
They were averaging eight plays or more per per game
of those explosives. So they matched that they got to
that number. That was the number you wanted, and that's
not a number Atlanta had. Atlanta done a pretty good
job thirty three plays coming in in seven games of
fifteen yards or more. They had not allowed that to happen.
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It's you know, it's not just one guy now, I said,
the Nickel situation, and that's a man demand. Sometimes situation.
Sometimes you're comboing there, but it also has to be
you have to get home with pressure. If I'm coming
to pressure and playing man coverage, my guy can't cover
an over route, which is what Alford was asked to do,
and some other guys were asked to do clear across
the field. So it becomes a team concept. But that
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that's an aberration, I hope, because Atlanta had not done
that defensively given up the explosives. New England had been
doing that. So when in a battle of wills a
little bit, New England won that shock.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Let's talk a little bit about Arch was alluding to
the fact that Atlanta was not able to have success
on early downs, which contributed to them being poor on
third downs. A lot of that had to do with
the fact that, and we talked about this last week.
Going into the matchup, New England had not allowed a
running back, a singular running back, to rush for over
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fifty yards in a game. And what happens with Jon
Robinson held to less than fifty yards in this game? Again,
this is now another week We're not only talking about
the run game getting stuff, but now we're talking about
some guards, offensive guards getting banged up. So what did
you see in the running game? Because to me, I
don't think, yes, you want to tip your cap to
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New England and say they've been a really tough run defense.
I don't feel like it's a valid excuse to just say, hey,
they're pretty good, they're gonna shut us down, right, Not
when you've got somebody like Bijon Robinson, Not when you've
got an offensive line that's played together as long as
they have. I feel like, to me, that's that's not
a great response. So what needs to happen with this
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offense to get him not only just him, but Tyler
Algier going so they can be more of that dominant
run offense.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
I think you mentioned part of it is obviously, you know,
having the mixed combinations up front of a couple guys
coming in and out of the lineup. Obviously that doesn't
help when you don't have your key guys in birds
goes out early. We know what a dog Burge is,
especially in the run game, his physicality, and that's part
of the two that we've talked about last couple weeks
is the other side of the ball has just been
more physical than we have and ultimately you're not gonna
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drop up new plays. The run game is what it is.
I mean, you got outside inside, you got ways to run,
you got ways to you know, get to a formation
of motion whatever it may be. But the end of
the ball game, it comes down to being able to
move that guy in front of you, and I think
between the last two weeks, we just haven't been able
to do that. Three weeks, to be honest, we haven't
been able to just move that guy in front of
you to be able to create the run lanes we like.
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And the other part for me is, I know it
was a little bit tougher in the Miami game because
you were down you know, twenty seven three or whatever
it was, and you had to get away from it.
But I think we have to have we have to
be more adamant about staying with the run game a
little bit longer. Obviously, there are times where it's advantageous
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for you to throw the football. Teams maybe loading up,
they're bringing that extra guy in the box, and obviously
they're having success doing that, but I think there's still
opportunities where you have two guys back there. I think,
regardless of how many guys they have down there, can
make a guy miss, can get you three, four or
five yards. And I think we have to stick to
it a little bit longer now when it comes to
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the execution part of it, you know, without going back
and knowing exactly what each guy is supposed to do
in the run game, that's tough to say. And you know,
we've been a part of long enough to know, okay,
we were outside zone. You know where God's supposed to go,
get up to that second level. That's a part of it.
But I think you have to have to have to
give it a little bit more just to show it
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because we want to be play action. We want to
better move a mic around a little bit more, and
that's part of it too. I think also is I
think now I can use his legs a little bit more.
And I think that's something we saw in his last
ball game. He took off for a fifteen yard run.
Everybody's like, whoa, whoa, what he can do that? And
the dude's athletic. URST talk to him after the game
about Hey, possibly use your legs a little bit more,
and he's like, yeah, that ain't my first thing, but
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if I have to, I will. I think that's part
of also forcing defenses to respect that, hey, that eleven
God can hurt you too. And I think if you
can do that, when you get him on the perimeter,
on the edge, or him just having the ability to
take off on you, maybe add something else to the
run game as well.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
And I know we've done.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
A good job of trying to create the quote unquote
run game, putting Bijon out, throwing it to him in space,
kind of a you know, a look over what the
run game would.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Be just giving him the football. But I think I
can actually have a big part of it.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Two the problem and I agree with you completely Shock
the ability to commit to the run game. You ran
twenty eight plays in the first three quarters. How much
can you commit to the run game when you're not
getting any movement in the run game. Let's say you
run half the time, you run fourteen plays, and you
look up and you've got thirty two yards rushing. Well,
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you're not on the field, and now your defense, much
like the Miami game, is on the field for thirty
eight minutes. That's why I thought that they came out
and I completely You don't want to hurts your pride
as a football player to say, oh, well they're good
against the run. We can't run it. No, no, no, no,
we can run it. But you have to be able
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to be efficient on first and second down throwing the
football in the perimeter or in your quick game to
give you a chance to get first downs, to give
you a chance to state of the run game. Because
if I run it, it's minus one. Now I run
it again, it's two. Now, Now my young quarter backs
third and eight, and I don't convert. I'm off the field.
Here comes my defense and they get a couple first downs,
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maybe they move down the score and you look up
and it's twenty one to seven. Well, I want to
keep Bjon involved. Maybe I need to throw it to him,
throw it to him, and then you're not efficient in
your screen game. The game, Yeah, your screen game is
not efficient. You miss him blocks on the perimeter. So
it's a it's a holistic approach to what we're doing,
as much as you want to stay with the run game,
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I feel, Zach Robinson. You look up and I've only
had the ball for twenty five plays in the first half.
I ran it nine times or ten times, and I
didn't get anything out of it. How do you stay
with that? You know, if you keep your sanity, how
do I continue to beat my head against a wall
and keep sending my defense out there after three and outs?
You can't do it.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
I can't do that on man, Yes, come on, hey, manage,
Hey Robinson, trying to keep it so let's not.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
But the key, though, real Rack you said it is,
is the what you can do is you begin to
use nine more, get panics more involved out of bootleg stuff.
If people are crashing down and you've got second level
guys that are running to the to the play side
A and B gap and are running through, how do
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I stop that because that's what's happening. You look at
Bijon touches the ball, Both linebackers are coming. You stick
the ball in Beajon's belly and get all that flow,
and then I naked bootleg out. Now, all of a sudden,
I got a problem in the set if my tide
end looks like he's blocking, and then Check releases and
goes across the formation. Those linebackers are flowing downfield. I've
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got Kyle Pitts on the move. You know, you start
incorporating some of that stuff. But the confidence level we
were talking about the Kicker conference, Love, I think Michael
has to have the confidence that he can take off.
You know, this is a he's got a history of
getting banged. I'm not sure that that's there's a ghost
or a skeleton in his head that says, oh, if
I take off, I'm gonna get hit. I'm gonna get hurt,
or something like it happened to him Irland his career Indiana.
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But I thought you made a great point, and then
I said it during the game. He got out and
he looked like the best athlete on the field. In fact,
I kind of blurred a little bit. I said, wait,
is that is that Vic running with the because that's
what he didn't. Yeah, he looked like the fastest guy
in the field. I'm hoping that that manifests itself into
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a confidence for him that he can skate out of
there and take advantage of his athletics.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Because guys, there's times when it might be second and
ten and they dial up a pass and if everything
vacates and he doesn't or he doesn't have anything downfield
because it's covered up like it's third and six, is cool.
Like third and six is much better than third and
ten if he just tucks it down and picks up four.
But i mean, we saw a few weeks ago Josh
Allen like that's what he does. Like Josh Allen, he like,
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you're gonna give me the run, Like I'm gonna take it.
Patrick Mahomes is he's one of the best passing quarterbacks
in the National Football League. He's gonna take the yards
if you give it to him, and he's gonna slide
right well.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Drake State came into this game two hundred and fifty
yards rushing. He skated out a couple times. I'm looking
at I'm looking at pinning. Now Pinnicks missed a game,
but Michael come into the game twenty four carries or
I'm sorry, seventeen carries forty three yards, forty three yards.
Used it much, Drake May, Drake May came into the
game with fifty one carries, obviously a couple of if
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you work, two hundred and fifty yards two touchdowns, and I.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Think the two fifty was second most on the team,
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Yeah, So that's a guy that's not more athletic than
Michael Pennix's. And I think everybody's got this misnomer about, oh,
he's a pocket passer, and I hear all these these
talking heads around the country, so oh, he just stands
in the pocket. Throw go look at this guy's history.
This guy he ran four or five at the combine,
all that kind of he can go.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Now, he just got to go take it, all right,
So let's kind of use this as we transition into
the next week, as the Falcons not only have a
big challenge of travel this week as they go to Berlin, Germany,
and we'll talk to Dave about that, but they're also
going to face arguably one of the hottest teams in
the National Football League. So let's start with a little
bit of the travel, because Arch you've done this europe
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trip a couple of times with the Falcons. So give
the people that are listening and watching a little bit
of flavor of just what that part of this trip
is about.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Yeah, it's well, it's it's not routine, right, guys, with
the players are so used to be in routine. So
the team's gonna leave Thursday afternoon. So it's essentially, if
you were in la and you're gonna fly back to Atlanta,
you jump on that eleven thirty flight, and you got
the red Eye back to Atlanta, get in about six
o'clock in the morning. That's what's gonna happen here. Only
the red Eye is gonna take nine hours to get there.
So you're gonna leave here at about four four point
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thirty in the afternoon and you're gonna arrive in in
Germany around what seven eight o'clock in the morning, Okay,
with a time change. I think it's a six hour
time change there. The team is immediately going to go
to practice. So what you're immediately trying to do, you
guys know this is you try to get on that clock.
That's the idea of going over a couple days early,
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is you got to you get on that clock. And
so we're not gonna hopefully you can get some slip
up on the plane. They're going to get a lot
more sleep than I am because they have those little
sleeper things and I've got a regular chair. Yeah, I
got to get in. Remember the old bus rides, you
had to get underneath the bus that's underneath the seats
to get rid. But anyway you get over there, they're
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going to practice and try to get on that on
that time clock. So what the coaches are going to
try to do is you guys have played international stuff too,
is they're going to try to get things back to
normal as quickly as possible. So practice here on Thursday,
load up, get on the plane, get over there. Practice
when you get over there, go back to the hotel.
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Try not to go to lay down at four o'clock
in the afternoon, you know. And then uh, and then Saturday,
you hope you settle into more of a normal Saturday,
come in, walk through, do whatever you want to do, meetings,
and then you just you disperse and go or do
whatever you do from a from a home game standp
but it kind of becomes a home game scenario, hope,
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and then you get up and play. Now it's gonna
come on what here at nine thirty in the morning, Nick,
that's over there? I think is kick time over there?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I mean, is it?
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Is it realistic? And I'll ask you you this rack
you you you did a number of these as well
as a player. Is it realistic to do the whole
get on the time clock thing or is it still
kind of feel weird to you?
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Yeah, it's still a little bit off. Let me just
say it that way, right, Like you're gonna try, but
like getting on that time to me doesn't take like
thirty six hours. It takes a little bit longer than that.
If you can get yourself a customer. And the biggest
thing for me because I I played in two international
games in Japan as a player, which was a preseason
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and that's even longer trip. Preseason was different. It's not
a game that like every that matters for your win
loss record, right, but it's so much of a longer trip.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
But then I've also probably called eight of these London
games on the radio for Westwood One, so I've done
this trip a number of times. Now, I don't have
the benefit of their physiologists, their sports science people, and
all of the different things that they do to try
to get these guys prepared, from a nutrition, from a sleep,
all that stuff. I just fly over there like a
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regular person, and I generally lift would leave at like eleven,
land over there at nine or ten in the morning,
and then I am exhausted, and everybody told me, fellas,
don't go to sleep the first day. I tried it
one time, and I made it to about seven thirty
or eight o'clock, and I was fighting it all day long.
Every other time I went over there, I had to
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fall asleep because I don't sleep well on those planes
going over there, because I'm in a regular seat, I'm tall,
I'm never able to get comfortable. It's different for these guys, right,
So hopefully they are able to get some sleep, they
are able to get on the clock, because they're gonna
get over there and move right away.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Right.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
But then once you get over there, guys, it's like,
guess what the colt's got play under the same conditions
as well, right they're traveling, they got to do it too,
So guess what excuses are gone because everybody's got to
do the same thing.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Now.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
It just gets back to doing what we talked about
all season long, and it's executing. So shock. I'm gonna
turn it over to you, and I'm going to have
you give the listeners and the viewers a little bit
of flavor of what the Falcons are going to see
in the Colts this year. Again, a team that coming
into the season, I don't think anybody expected to be
one of the right that to be one of the
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top teams in the National Football League.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
And to start the season, you thought, coming in the
Annapolis coach would be having a quarterback in Anthony Richardson who.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Would be their guy.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
And you said, oh, okay, yeah, he's coming into you know,
second third year trying to figure it out, and that
they're still a work in progress.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
And then they bring over.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Danny Dimes and you're like, oh, Daniel Jones. He was
all right in New York, but sometimes you just need
a new surrounding, sometimes you just need a new voice.
And he's playing some of his best football to date
and a lot of people say, hey, he could be
in the conversation for one of the top guys in
the league. And obviously last week they didn't have their
best game. He threw three interceptions in that ball game,
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and they held Jonathan Taylor to what forty six yards
rushing or some of that ball game. But this is
an offense that is you're talking about putting up points
eighth in rushing offense, one hundred and twenty five game,
third and pass offense, and two hundred and fifty seven
a game, and first International Football League in points.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
It's going thirty two a game.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Both him, Daniel Jones and Jonathan Taylor both lead their
respective categories and passing yards Daniel Jones and then rushing
yards and Jonathan Taylor. You're talking about a guy who
you look up the statute and you say, oh my god,
this dude is going for one hundred like it's nothing
every single week. He's a tough player. He can catch
it out of the backfield. And then you look up
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and say, oh man, they got some receivers on the outside.
I mean, you look up, you got Pittman Junior, who
he's got six touchdowns on the year. They got three
guys with over five hundred yards already in this season. Obviously,
the tight end Tyler Warren, who I think we all
saw the last couple of years that know, the Dame,
a do it all guy from We.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Saw this guy to play quarterback and to Penn State.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
Talking about the Penn State Ye, yeah, Penn State did
did a lot of great things for them. Alec Pierce
another guy who's averaging twenty yards of reception. I mean
you're talking about a receiver group that. And then you
got another little guy on the Insime from North Carolina
and Josh Downs who is also a threat on the
outside who is for so you talking about having playmakers
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at every freaking level.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
They got it.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
And then you got a quarterback who can describ the football.
They're playing at a high level offensively. Last week obviously
one of their best showing against Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh put it
on pretty good. But this is the offense that you
got expect to bring it because they're looking to put
some points.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
On the ball.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Shout out Gary Downs too, Gary Downs, former Falcon.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
I mean he is producing like absolute stunts hitting sun
It is going to be like the best defensive player
coming out in the draft.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
Well I think he's got a daughter. So they playing
volleyball Xander built or not, but like a duke, that's
an all American. So Garry, way to get it done, brother,
you and your wife getting it done.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Arch. Here's the interesting thing. The Falcons and what do
we call it? Four weeks now have faced Christian McCaffrey,
Devon ah Chan and now Jonathan Taylor. So they're getting
a steady dose of some really electric running backs. And
Taylor's built a little bit differently than the first two guys,
but Shock talked about his numbers and what he was
able to do. However, is it it's not as easy
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to just put on the Pittsburgh tape and say this
is what we need to do. However, you slow down
Jonathan Taylor to the tune of forty five yards and
then you forced Daniel Jones to throw the football fifty times, like,
that's when you're gonna have some opportunities. So it's so
at least Atlanta seeing some a recent recipe in how
you slow down this what we didn't know was going
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to be a potent Colts offense.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Yeah, get them off the field, get them off the
field on third down, try to win that down. This
is a team that's converting forty five percent on third down.
And that's the part that's even tougher is they've converted
fifteen of seventeen fourth downs, So which tells you they're
staying on schedule, comfortable enough to where they get to
fourth and two they're going to go for they're staying
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on the field. Yeah, so they're converting at a high,
high level. When it comes to staying on the field.
Pittsburgh took that away from them. Pittsburgh turned them over.
And those are the obviously that's the recipe. You want
to sack the quarterback and turn them over. What do
we do this last weekend? Sack the quarterback and turn
them over? So you got to be more efficient on
first and second down. But that's that's what you're looking
(43:41):
for there. I don't think there's any special pill that
you take. You've got to stop the run. And what
are they going to look at, say, Okay, what are
teams that run the football that have an off day?
Which they did against against the Steelers lost twenty seven
to twenty of the Steelers turned it over, did some
things uncharacteristic that had been kind of existing in their
first seven games. They're gonna get back to what they
(44:02):
do to They're gonna try to pound the run. They're
gonna say, o, hey, just what the Doctor ordered. The
team that can't stop the interior run game, We're gonna
come after the run game. So Oldbricks group's gonna have
to swell up there. This is a pretty good defensive
unit as well. They've got a linebacker that hits like
the most really good linebackers, Ira Franklin. Flies all over
the field. He's got three consecutive seasons one hundred and
(44:22):
sixty five plus tackles. They've got an outstanding safety in
Nick Cross who is another tackling machine that flies around.
And Leatu Latu, who they drafted a couple of years ago,
leads them in sacks. They are I think eight or
ninth in the league in sacks as a team. So
they're doing some stuff defensively. The one thing they're not
doing they're not stopping the pass and they're not getting
(44:45):
people off the field on third down. Teams are converting
forty five point six percent on third down. That's near
the bottom of the league. If there was anything the
Doctor ordered was a team struggling on third down defensively,
which is what we're struggle around on offense, right.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
And to be a week where they get things back
on track. I was looking at Daniel Jones's numbers, and Guys,
this is not really a surprise, but like pretty much
the whole season, he's thrown anywhere from twenty five to
thirty four passes in the game, and I think that's
where they want him to live. But the fact was
they got off schedule in the chains, they got shut
(45:19):
down in the run game, and they forced him to throw.
Like there's certain guys like I don't know if you
want Patrick Mahomes throwing at fifty times or Jared Goff
throwing at fifty times, because those guys are probably gonna
end up making you pay at some point throughout the
course of the game. But generally when a quarterback's thrown
at fifty times is not a good thing, right. But
I think if Atlanta can get to the point to
(45:40):
where Daniel Jones has to throw it a lot, where
you got a defense that's got some confidence of getting
after the quarterback, you've got a secondary that can take
the football away, maybe this uncorks Jesse Bates a little
bit more after you mentioned he got his first interception
of the season that this is a game where the
defense can can try to get back on track, slowing
(46:00):
down the run game again, but also trying to get
some takeaways. I'm reading our rundown and this is throwing
me off because I didn't see it. But it's time
for our get that right, say that, say that zoom spiel.
Do you want to try that here here, right here,
right here, try try this right here.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
Well, I think I don't know I can say anything
in the nib slum zim zeal a shock.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
Your turn, your turn. Let me see what your best
German is.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
It's your shoes sizem spin.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
Why did he sound like Why did he say like
an English guy?
Speaker 1 (46:39):
I sound like a little bit of Irish.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Yeah, you're not a native, alright, So for people that are.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
Like a native, that is supposedly probably a completely off pronunciation.
But keys in German zoom spiel. All right, So we're
gonna give our zoom spiel. I need one zoom spiel
from your keys to the game, key to the game
(47:07):
for Atlanta to come away with a victory.
Speaker 4 (47:08):
Zoom some spill, I would say, dominate the line of scrimmage.
This will be a ball game. I think that if
you win the line of what.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
I'm not gonna let you. I'm not gonna let you
what game. Don't you want to dominate the line of scrimmage?
Speaker 2 (47:24):
It's my key, my key.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
You don't hide Jackson, you will.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
You know why.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
It's because he's a Georgia Bulldog. And what do they
do every game? They dominate the lin of Have we
not dominated? No?
Speaker 2 (47:39):
We have not? We have not not. That's a good call.
Speaker 3 (47:44):
That's a good I give it you saying.
Speaker 4 (47:46):
And it seems like duh, But I feel like with
the way they run the football, with our need to
be able to run the football, we got to own
the line of strimage.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
I mean every game you have to have that for sure.
Speaker 1 (47:59):
I'm okay with us room spiel, Okay, that one is?
Speaker 3 (48:02):
Is that really kind of a piece of it?
Speaker 2 (48:03):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (48:04):
Is that a piece of somebody's.
Speaker 3 (48:06):
Listening or watching that strudle with something sprinkled on top of.
Speaker 2 (48:14):
Just butchering this? All right?
Speaker 1 (48:17):
Arch give us a key to the game.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Wow, so we're gonna die.
Speaker 3 (48:20):
Like so, I can't go anywhere near dominate the line
of screamage or anything like that, because that takes run
game all that kind of converting on third down is
really boring. So how do you get there? I'm gonna say,
the the quarterback that has the most rushing yards in
(48:43):
this game.
Speaker 1 (48:43):
The game, dang okay, feeding off of what we talked
about earlier. I can't I can't even get an I
don't know how good it is, but it's different.
Speaker 3 (48:54):
Yeah, yeah, I think if Michael can have an impact
on this game, just other than throwing the ball, because
you know, Daniel Jones has the ability to do that
same stuff. He can get out and run as well.
So the quarterback that has the most impact in the
run game or his ability to move, let's just say
his ability to move, the move out of the pocket,
extend things, I think he wins the football game.
Speaker 1 (49:15):
Okay, I like it all right, So you guys stayed
offense kind of yours is both like yours was the game.
Speaker 2 (49:23):
And it's not every part of the game.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
Though, what are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (49:26):
We're still going to throw we gotz I mean, come on,
we got a.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
Lot of different things. My key is going to be
defense causing chaos. Okay, and so what does that mean?
That means sacks? That could mean tips at the line
of scrimmage. That could mean hurries, which forces Daniel Jones
out on the perimeter. That means past deflections. When they
throw the ball down the field, that obviously means takeaways.
(49:53):
I'm talking about up with that because I was trying
to give variety, you know, that's.
Speaker 3 (49:58):
Tried to He got control line of scrimmage so completely
completely screws us.
Speaker 1 (50:04):
You know, we don't have no chance to go because
it's like we can't do all three of the same thing.
And so so yours was offense. I went with defense.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
I like you.
Speaker 1 (50:14):
Yours yours was much on defense. I'll drink just by
the way, that was a backhanded slap to you that
he didn't like your Is that.
Speaker 2 (50:25):
Is that is he?
Speaker 3 (50:26):
Is that an American German beer? Or is that actually
a German beer? Or is it even a German beer? Heineken?
Speaker 1 (50:32):
Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (50:34):
Consume it. Oh no, I plan on it.
Speaker 1 (50:37):
But I mean, here's what I want to know. After
you go over there, is this one of those things
where like Americans say that we're drinking it because it's German,
but over there they don't drink it at all. Right,
So let us know, did you see local people drinking Heineken,
because I I know when you go to Ireland, like
they drink Ginnis like that's their job, that's water.
Speaker 3 (50:57):
Yeah right, but I sense it. I feel like that
that is a beer made from there that we brought
over here.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
Rch.
Speaker 2 (51:04):
We expect and we have I feel.
Speaker 3 (51:06):
Like maybe was made here and we try to push
it on them here.
Speaker 2 (51:10):
We expect a selfie. Okay with the Heinegen. Well, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (51:14):
I don't have a good answer for you, but I
take pride in that because if I had all of
the answers about beer and alcohol, you might start questioning
what my priorities are in life.
Speaker 3 (51:25):
No, no, no, I take a knee to So I
don't know the answer.
Speaker 1 (51:29):
Let us know, okay, if you got the history on Heineken,
let us know.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
All right.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
That's going to wrap it up for Falcons Audible presented
by AT and T Falcons. You better set your alarm
clock this weekend because they are on at nine thirty
a m. Eastern time, So get up and watch. And
here's the benefit. You get to watch the Falcons early
and then you get football all day long. So just
stay in your pajamas. You can take a week off
of church, or you can actually put on two screens.
(51:53):
Put church on the laptop right next to you, and
then keep your comfy clothes on your socks and pull
up the TV or the radio and listen to Dave
Archers and you're Atlanta Falcons this weekend, all right, So
thanks so much for joining us at DJ Shockley, Dave Archer,
I'm Derek Rack. We'll be back next week to wrap
up things from an international fashion and see how big
(52:14):
the bags are underneath Dave Archers next week as he
travels back from Berlin, Jeremy, thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (52:20):
Everybody choosual zum z zoom spiel spielm spied zim spied
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