Around The ATL NFL Draft Review

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Love to lady. UNIVERSTI UNIVERSTI universtcaring, unstringing, universt. Listen,

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listen, listen, listen. Goodevening, everyone, And this is Chris

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on IMTM Worldwide Radio. And thisis around the atl This is the NFL
Draft Review show where the Atlanta SouthHis six four six six five two four
four seven nine is the number.Don't forget you can call into this particular
show now. Tonight is going tobe very interesting. But before I get
into anything at all, let's kindof go through little housekeeping as per usual,

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and thanks for all who are goingto watch tonight live and after the
fact, which tonight's probably gonna beafter the fact, because I didn't even
get to really promote this show.And I'll get into that in a little
bit. But first and foremost,I do want to say my condolences to
those who lost loved ones and thoseaffected by the shootings in Atlanta recently.

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It's it's just some tragic thing.He's going on in the city of Atlanta,
all over the place where they'll be, Buckhead, Midtown, vacater,
just wherever it might be. There'sstuff going on a lot. So those
who have lost love the ones again, my condolences and just hope everybody can
just I don't know, it's justit's just sad right now. So I

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wanted to say that or off theback. Now that being said, I
am a little under the weather tonight. Didn't anticipate it and don't gonna get
through it though, I'm gonna getthrough it. Now. The twenty twenty
three NFL Draft is over. Howdid the Falcons do? Are you excited
for the new players the new season? Do you feel they got the best

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players? Did the Falcons feel theneeds that they had? How do you
feel about the undrafted players that theysigned after the fact? Are the Falcons
ready for a long term winning allright? And then any of our predictions
from the first draft show that wedid before the draft even come true?
All right? So tonight we're definitelygonna talk Falcons again. Thanks for watching

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Yes, we are so. Umlet's go ahead and bringing our co
host. Um. He's a longtime Atlanta Falcons fan and Atlanta Sports fan
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Let's go ahead and bringing our cohost sports Tonight, mister Jordan Jackson
Georgian, what's going on, sir. I'm glad to be on around it
nail tonight. Got a whole lotto talk about when in front of this
Atlanta Facons draft. As you cansee, UM just leaving work, so

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I still have a certain time,huh instead of being in more support gear.
But that's all right, because youknow this is UM a very serious
time when you're talking about, um, what we're drafting, as far as
building blocks for this team going forward. UM. And you know, I,
just like I said, just gota whole lot to chop it up

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about. UM in that regard.Shout out to Faucons, Twitter, UM,
and all those people who listen tous out there. UM. You
know we appreciate it. We certainlyappreciate it, and you know, UM
we made not all I certainly don'tagree with all of you guys. We've
been going back and forth on Twitterall weeks since the draft. But Carla

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Shaw, you know we we welove to hear you know, different of
opinions as long as you keep itclean because this is a family show,
um, and we'd be happy to, you know, just to beat these
draft picks and the whole teams fieldan aspect. We're that said, sir,
let's talk about these a lot ofpockets draft picks, all right,
Coming for me for a second becauseI'm actually hitting up a couple of people

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here. Hey, guess what.By the way, it's nothing wrong with
you being down for there now,Jordan, don't be showing me up now.
He made me have to change Turney'sclosed, and I'm like, damn,
I enjoying all right. It wasnot about by apologies, all right,
so that'd be anything. Yeah,that's the way I can get into
it. But let's do it properlyas usual. Here we go. You

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welcome to it at at home andthen duty Burgers. Anybody didn't get kicked
to the curve any other team.It's absurd wearing black white steel for betting
for the blood. No one caredto get any Jurney because we came from
the food and we humber other herid he ride. We ride together for
the first of a flock. We'relike birds of a pep up. No
one get a party until we getthe little party when we give enough to

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wrass it off your wit flit marketon your calendar. Eight cal blayers never
playing with no emad eighty thoun songand the fans off freeviow. We getting
knocked down and we're coming up andswinging and we're playing in work all ton
of brotherhood and we like flaning foryou at all. Right, So talents
are to do this a little bitdifferent than the last time we did a
draft review show. Um, sowe're gonna see if it works or not.

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I'm trying airing this on the flya little bit tonight, y'all.
So what we're gonna do is we'regoing to go through our the actual pick
that we have. Um We're gonnago through some details and then we're gonna
go from there. We're gonna giveyou an opportunity to call in six four
six six five two four four sevennine and or hit up on the chat
line. UM. So again,if you're a Falcon, fan, you're

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watching it. If you happen tobe watching this right now where if you
Facebook, you Tube, Twitter,or whatever, make sure you tweet it,
share it to a couple of people. We would appreciate that. But
like I said, I've been alittle ill, so I didn't get to
really like put it out like Iusually do. So if you can help
me out there, We're also goingto talk about a little bit of other
stuff too, the thoughts football willsprink it out in a little bit later

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a little bit as a surprise,but we'll get to that. So let's
see if we can get this newthing to work. Like I said,
I'm gonna try it out and seeif we can make it happen. Give
me a second here, they're withme. So the NFL Draft where the

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Atlanta Falcons did start in the firstround, we had the number eight pick
in the draft, actually, andin that particular case, we selected mister
John Robinson, running back from theUniversity of Texas. So let's let's go
ahead and you know, take alittle bit of a look of the young
man and see what we got.It'll be Robinson, and he finds a

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running lane, a sweet moon tothe second little nd bee line puts down
be John Robinson second and on rightside run had out into the open the

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line of life. That selling Robinson, stupid Robin Robert care to be m
h. So that so that wasmister Jean Robinson. And so with the

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number eight pick, we did pickhim. And so I did want to
kind of go through, you know, basically on the college side, and
then Jordan's gonna add to that rightafter me. So let's get started with
that part. So Robinson, Universityof Texas. I'm just gonna go through
a little bits and pieces here.Thirty four hundred yards total in his rushing

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career six point three yards average,had thirty three touchdowns. Um. He's
also a great receiver. Sixty receptionsfor eight hundred five yards thirteen yards per
cat chat, eight touchdowns total,over forty two hundred yards from scrimmage,
over seven yard per carry average fromyards from scrimmage. So that it was

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his college career. Um, Jordan, what did they stay in regards to
his draft profile overall? Well,one of the things I've heard, you
know, heard great reviews about fiveJean Robinson. Heard one scout say that
they believe that he's the best runningback to come out, says sat Quon
Barkley. I heard another scout sayingthat they believe that he's um even better

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than that, that he's the bestrunning back prospect to come out since Adrian
Peterson. Um. You know,great vision, able to change directions on
a dime, uh quick with hiscuts, has the power to run over
people as well. Um. Notnecessarily the best pass blocker, but as
a guy who's willing to stick hishead down and make pass blocks, a

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guy who they think could ushably bum one of the better pass blocking running
backs. Also, Um, asyou mentioned, great hands. Um also
even as well as great route runner, can catch not only from line up
in the backfield, but you canactually line him up in the slide,
you know, on the outside ofthe wide receiver position and throwing the football

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there. UM. So definitely aversatile weapon, a guy who can teach
you the variety of ways. Andyou know, it's just a matter of
you know, how do we wantto use him in conjunction with the other
tyler we have so exactly so nowpros and cons. Now, of course,

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this wasn't necessarily the pick I anticipatedin regards to the fact that you
know, just saying there were somepeople coming out of this particular draft,
and you know, the Falcons havelong term needs that have needed to be
filled for a long time to perpetuatelong time winning, especially on the defensive

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style of the ball. Now,one thing, one argument I want to
mention right off the bat, justbecause I don't want to forget it,
is the premise in regards to comparisonto Tyler Algeria, in regards to we
had him as a running back,as Jordan has pushed a long time now
over and over again, as aperson that has broken a forty plush year

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rookie rushing record for the allowt ofFalcons in his rookie season, and as
I mentioned, he did that inonly seven starts and being over one thousand
yard rusher, which we haven't hadin a long time. When I say
a long time, I meet itright. So when you're talking about that
part of it, I want tomention this right here now. I just
mentioned earlier the John Robinson's college careeras far as his touchdowns and yards and

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things of that nature, thirty fourhundred yards six point three yards per rush,
thirty three total touchdowns, right,he did that in five hundred and
thirty nine rushes. Okay, inthree seasons. How alger who was picked
I believe forty fifth a year ago, I believe somewhere in there, right,

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he twenty nine hundred yards, sobut John Robinson had more yards obviously
six point four yards per rush,so right there. Even he had thirty
six touchdowns, he did that infour hundred and thirty two rush and he
did that in two seasons. Justthrowing it out there. As far as

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that part, now, he wasn'treally used as a receiver there in college,
so he can't really compare that part. But just on the comparison side,
they both kind of match up asfar as Russia Russias go right there,
right, And so when you're talkingabout picking a running back, when
you just had a running back basicallylaunched his career as a falcon and it's

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really good in less games as astarter in the NFL. I think again,
when you're talking about feeling a need, I just feel and a lot
of people, a lot of peoplefeel this that going on the defensive line
side of the ball would have beenthe appropriate choice in this particular case.
So that's why we're gonna talk aboutpros and cons, just throwing out there

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if you want to chop chop itup as far as this goes six four
six six five two four four sevennine, as you see the number scrolling
across the street the screen out there. At the same time, of course,
we're not saying that he is nota great player. Were not saying
that at all. We've never saidthat. Is this a matter of was
that the appropriate pick? Heard thehistory of our team going forward and in

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the past, as far as fillingin blank. So that's what we're gonna
talk about tonight. So Jordan,going ahead and you move forward, sir.
Okay. One quote I have here, and it's by an anonymous personnel
executive for an NFC team. Hesays he has to eat. The more
carriage he gets, the more damagehe does. I know it's not popular,
but I was drafting in the firstround to get him the rocket as

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much as I possibly could. He'sa much tougher runner than sa Koon Bartley
was coming out. Just a hugehit on strengthening and we and weaknesses some
more, which kind of hit onsome of these already three dollars. This
is by land Serline of NFL dotCom three dollars back with aceptional talent in
all phases. Owns a variety offootwork tools to alter pace, direction and

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powers. Feet are fast and fullyconnected with this vision for able results.
Resents run track with sudden jump,cuts against penetration, runs low to the
ground that possesses rare contact balance,has the ability to stack moves as a
level of unpredictability to his carries.UH pinballs off of angle strikes and can

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roop through leg tackles pairs instant verstwith top end speed which have top end
speed is a four four six inthe forty yard dashed by the way UH
finishes runs with authority, soft hands, and a nightmare to deal with on
will Um. A few weaknesses heremight need to quicken his operation time against
feed the NFL defenses. In otherwords, sometimes he has a tendency too

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maybe miss around the back of alitle bit too long. Um trying to
look for the big you know,hole of the home run chance to open
up, which you know they mayit may not ever open up in the
NFL occasionally looks to beller Um occasionallylooks to bella deal run lanes which he
should be finishing. Um needs torun with a more decisive plant and gold

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mentality, needs more consistent burgacy andpass protection duties as I mentioned, you
know, kind of as I mentionedprior before. So that's just a little
bit more owners tress and weaknesses.Jard Robinson. Um, as you said,
I mean, I like the player. I think he's gonna be a
very good running back. But Ijust questioned why we would do this in

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the top eight. This makes thethird straight year in a road that week
drafted an offensive skilled position player inthe top eight. And as I was
just talking about on Twitter recently,of the top ten defenses in NFL history
scoring wise, zero of those topten offenses, I mean I meant to

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say, of the top ten offenses, zero have won won the Super Bowl
in that year they scored, youknow, that record setting amount of points.
Zero. Some of them went tothe Super Bowl and loss, but
not a one of them won.On the adverse, of the top ten
defenses in NFL history, five ofthose top ten defenses one the Super Bowl.

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Um, you know that year thatthey had that great defense. So
it just doesn't quite make sense tome to continue to build UM, an
offensive team. You just think youwant to, you know, build um
kind of towards what works, butinstead we seem to always go against the
grain, and unfortunately it hasn't quiteworked out for us yet. UM.

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It's not like I'm saying that,you know, you you don't need an
offensive man, because you certainly do. But I think, you know,
if you even got to have areally great offense and the defense is above
average, you know, in otherwords, um, the rankdom hiring sixteen
typically, or you need to balanceoffensive defense. You know, your offense

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where your offensive defensive bolt ranked likeeight or something like that. Um,
And I just think we have alot further to go in the defense side
of the ball, officers side ofthe ball. So I just didn't understand
it, as you mentioned. Youknow, Tyler Algier, he wrote a
rookie rushing record set by William Andrewsin nineteen seventy nine. It's forty three

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years ago, sir, and youyou know, my thing was, okay,
well, if he can do thathis rookie year by starting only seven
games, and I spect him tobe even better than that year and even
stronger. But now, I mean, I don't know how they're gonna split
these carries. And you know,basically a lot of the fans have already

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moved on from Tyla Algar. Nobody'stalking about him anymore. It's all about
mister b Jon Robinson. It's justkind of sad to see you, you
know, for Tyler's sake, withas well as he played and the way
he came on last year, sir. And one more point here, Okay,
the past fourteen Super Bowl participants,Chris, have averaged forty three sacks

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perceive. Okay, we had twentyone sacks last year. Okay, put
it after your Eagles, who lostthe Super Bowl last year had a league
US seventy sacks. If you combineour sack totals from the last three seasons
combined, that number is sixty seven. Chris and sodas the area I would

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have been trying to address guys thatcan win on front defensively before anything else.
Six four six, it car twofour four seven nine the number I
see a seven one six six number. Don't go anywhere. I'll be pulling
you into the show soon. Iwanted to mention the fact that one you
do build from the trenches. Allthe successful teams have done that over time.

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We've seen that number two, we'veseen in Super Bowls a lot more
of a defensive play being involved inthe reason as team has won the Super
Bowl much more than an offensive playtypical game, because one way or the
other, you either are getting astop to end the game or you're getting
a stop to give your office achance to score one more time. Usually

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right, And if you look atthe last few Super Bowls, look at
the actual rushing yards of running backsin those games, there's not too many
times where the running back is tostand out player of that game says that
tells you, point blank, here'sthe reason why you won that Super Bowl,
because otherwise the Buffalo Bills would havefour super Bowls in the row because
they had Thurman Thomas. Right,just to throw out an example just out

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there as far as that goes,So think about that just on that basis.
And at the end of the day, we don't We've not had a
good defense for ten fifteen years,and you know, our former defensive coordinator
has said it, we've been atthe bottom of the league. When it
comes to that, it has tobe fixed at a certain point and to

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be able to fix it. Yougot to have the players to do it,
which we haven't had. And youwant the guys that we were drafted
last year to be able to pullin, but you need to do that
multiple years. Just like Philly,Philly two years in the road pull from
the national championship team. You seewhat I'm saying, They're they're going to
be plushed for a long time becauseof that. Right, that's where the
Falcons needed to be. As faras that goes as well, that's just

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again an opinion. And again,having a better offense does give you a
little bit more leeway and things ofthat nature. But if you can't get
to the quarterback and you can't makeit easier for your quarterbacks to do their
job, you know, or youdon't get better quarterbacks to make it easier
for the line to do their job, does that really improve the team on

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the offense to start the ball longterm, Because if you can't get stopped,
if you know, the other teamstill gets third down conversions, it's
not going to really even out.So that being said, let's go ahead
and bring in our first caller ofthe night. Go ahead, calling tells
your name and where you're calling fromYeah, that's Moll calling out of the
table, but yeah, it's goinggreat, man. But I wanted to

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talk about our draftics and where wedid Fathist. I think with Jon coming,
I think people are sinning it's wrong. He's a running back listed.
But really the truth is the waythis team is set up. It's set
up to run twelve personnel, butour twelve personnel ain't gonna be a normal
twelve personnel And most of the timewe're gonna run twelve personnel, but we're

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not gonna run it like other peoplerun it. We're gonna run twelve personnel
with ideas of spread, so we'llbe running big tight ends and wide receivers
that actually everybody could either run inthe slot. Everybody can everybody can spread
out. You you know, youknow what you can do with um.

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You know what you can do withour tight end, our tight ends,
both of them that we got,they both can play on the outside.
So when you got options like that, you created mismatches all over the field.
And that's how we need to reallylook at this. This is not
set up like hey, we're gonnaput one back over here and we're gonna
give him twenty five touches straight uptouches. We might actually get bjun fifteen

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in the back backfield and ten tentargets on catches. You know, we
might do stuff absolutely different. Andthis gives a play caller like Author Smith
to leave the whole idea to makebad matchups for everybody all your own.

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And that's and that's been his callingcard anyway. You know, it's not
too much of four seat and targetsand just trying to make people into things
that they aren't on offense. Andthat's his mentality. And then two,
we've got to understand that most coaches, I don't care if we're talking about
the Kansas City Chiefs, we're talkingabout with every coach. If you've got

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an offensive head coach, you betterbelieve that you're gonna put your best players
on offense. If you got adefense of head coach, you supposed to.
That's the reason why I always thoughtDan Quinn was by polar because I'm
like, how in the world you'reputting all this offensive talents but your defensive
head coach. You can never everachieve what you want to achieve on defense.

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If you set up there and youbasically say I'm gonna get second rate,
but what I do, Bess,I never understood that that made no
sense to me at all. Andthat's what I liked about Auti smith current
direction. He's staying true to hisidentity and that that's really the main point
I really wanted to place. Well. I appreciate that now. One thing

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I will say now, of course, obviously, is that on the offensive
side of the ball one, itgives the ball control that we've never really
had in a long time. Alsowith having a player like that, as
far as the potential of the playcalling and things of that nature, like
you kind of mentioned, you're gonnahave a lot of mismatches out there if
you're in simple with our offensive linehaving a second year to be together,

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they should be even another at runblocking and opening up posing things of that
nature. Right, So it givesyou a lot more opportunities to what third
down conversions and what end red zoneright, so that that transition could play
out to where whatever deficiencies we mightstill have on the defensive side could be
indicated as far as that goes.But like I said, for myself,

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just being personal about it, Istill would rather have gone because well,
Jordan will probably mention it a littlebit later in regards to the contracts that
were signed in the off season asfar as the agency on the defensive side
of the ball, not many ofthem were on the long term side either,
And so this was a great draftto be able to start focusing on
that because well, you just hadanother national championship team in Georgia and all

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these other players and stuff that arereally high up already going to get the
same kind of quality coming out thenext couple of drafts to be able to
address the long term side of thedefense within the ball sort of sea.
So that's one thing that just kindof stood out as far as that goes
at Farm well outside of I mean, really the only person and I know
everybody chills a way about not gettingcaught up, but my big thing was

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I would have rather if I wantedanybody from that defense. I want to
know a smith And that was theone that hurts the the to me,
is I mean if we're talking pastrush because when I mean, I always
think it's funny when people talk aboutJayleen, but Jayleen is a He's a
push guy, like he takes onmultiple blocks. He can do those things.

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But to say that he's an edge, that's not really his position.
I don't think it was a matterof people saying he was an edge.
It's a matter of you can neverhave too much of that, you see
what I'm saying. And plus two, Grady eventually is not going to be
here, so you need somebody tobe able to potentially replace Grady at a

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certain point as well. And hedoes that very very very well. So
go ahead, I think he is. But at the same time the philosophy,
but because of front, because Ijust mean guys who can win up
front, and Daylan Carter is muchmore than just a push guy. He's
able to beat guys quickly at theline of scrimic to get it to the
backfield. I mean just one moveboom, quick quickly, you know,

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punch and then and then I'll moveto get by the lineman. Um.
And so that's my thing. Ijust think you can never have too many
guys that can win up front.And I like going too, but I
mean I must admit, you know, with him being injured last year,
lowing to me was a bit moreof a risk at number eight, you

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know what I mean, Um tome Jaalen Carter. The only risk for
him is these alleged character issues.It's out there, but to me,
there's no question about him as aplayer. UM. When everybody was all
the scouts were trying to not takethe look at Jordan Davis and tray Von
Walker, Jay and Carter was theguy they said they came away more impressed
with than even those two guys.And Trayvar Walker was drafted perch in the

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NFL Draft in twenty twenty two.UM, And I've heard multiple people calling
him the best defensive tackle across thatbecause he's more of a defensive tackles at
a four three or or he couldplay then in a three to four he
could play some d n and thefour three or even, but you don't
want him on that far edge again, you want him to be more than
five taken the shaded inside and theeven or odds defense and so, UM,

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I just think, you know,don't you don't pass all a guy,
but that kind of pedigree at aposition that's been a weakness for you
for basically the better part of thelast two decades. UM. And that's
nothing against Bijan. I think Beijanis gonna be a great player. Um.
The other thing I questioned though aboutgoing so offensive heaven, and I

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get it, you know offensive,then coaches gonna want his offensive guys.
But I think you see, youknow, And I also just questioned,
how explosive offense can you truly beprimarily based on running, end up passing
league Well, I mean if yougot mismatches, I think what we're about
to see is where we saw inTennessee. In Tennessee that that offense was

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pretty It was a ball control offense. You did see a lot of pushing
to the ends. All you didsee a lot of mismatches and you and
you just saw that offense move.They mean they did put up over like
thirty points a game. So Imean it can happen. It's just it's
not where we consider right now atrend. It goes against the trend.

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But I mean outside of that,I mean, I see what you're saying.
And to get back on this ondefense thing, I really believe the
fact that when the de Cosey attackin New Orleans, we got we got
you know, guy, Yeah,I can't say it names That's the reason

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why I want to hit and hewent the um and some of the other
guys that we have. I reallygot the feeling that they're looking at it
like we spent the money on thatpart in the off season because we already
made our decision about how we weregonna go about Jalen in a short term.
I don't think yeah, for thelong term purposes, I don't think

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it was the best idea to goahead and do the way we wanted to
on defense. But if you gotan offensive coach, I say still go
with the go with the strength ofyour coach, the coach, and do
not go against that, because onceyou start going against that, you start
running your identity and then next thingyou know, we'll have our personal feelings

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about however we've been feeling about thedefense for a million years, but the
coach will not be able to coachwith his skills. City is got you?
Got you? Um anything else beforeI let you go? Oh,
that's that's it. That's all,man. We appreciate you calling in.
Man. Make sure you let otherpeople know about the show, and UH

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definitely keeping in touch. We're gonnabe doing some other shows, probably within
the next week or so. UMas far as the rest of this year,
Uh, definitely. Hopefully we getto hear you again soon. All
right, man, take care forbrother Christen. One thing I want to
say about that, like what arehe's saying? You know what I mean?
It's I was good in theory,but I still have I haven't seen

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enough by the Office Smith to beconvinced that he can actually take advantage of
all of these guys you know,that have the ability to crazies, mis
matches, discourt one touchdown is rookieyear, you know what I mean.
I really haven't seen the the innovatedscheming to get him wide hope. You
just think the bet off his partthat had been a steam and I'm wide

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open for you know, four orfive touchdowns year alone. Um. And
so I haven't really seen that withKyle Fitz. So you know, for
give me guys out there from skepticalthat he could do the same thing.
Um with v Jon Robinson. Ifhe hasn't been able to fully take advantage
of Kyle fits with the mismatches nowbut maybe you know, running back is

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more of his deal. So maybe, but we're talking about the passing game
where you're talking about lining them upin all of these different areas I do
think we'll see a lot more bigperson there where where you see two tight
ends, two wide receivers, onerunning back, you know, or two
tight or one tight end and tworunning backs with two wide receivers. They

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have seen some sets with one widereceiver and two tight ends and two backs.
I think you may see some timesyou see out jar and Robinson out
there together, but that's not Itsgonna be something you can burn the majority
of plays because he's one of thoseguys as a blocking full back that you
won't putting their head in and goingup against you know, the biggest,
baddest linement and linebackers on a regularbasis blocking. So come listen to see

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how that shakes out. Um,you know, in terms of the right
that goes. But you know,I definitely question, you know, um,
if office slipper is gonna be ableto fully utilize all of these weapons
and okay, if you're using bothof these guys so much, out Jeer
and Robinson and use it. Andif you're giver Robinson ten targets in the
passing game as well, Like thecaller said, well are you is there

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gonna be enough passes even thrown toproperly utilize tracking London and Kyle Pitts.
And so that's all of the problemI had was to speak just when you
look at you know the fact thatokay, people are telling people, look,
you can have two good backs.You can actually feed them both enough
if you run the battle enough.When in that case, then can't you
don't. Can't you were under battleenough to feed them and throw the ball

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of them feed the other two guyswere driving at the time. Mat I
question that, And so the pigdoesn't quaint make sense to me when you
look at all three first round figuresconsecutively, um, you know, as
a whole together. Well, andthat that technically goes into the next pick.
Um that we had our second pickin the draft, which was in

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the second round, and that wasmister Matthew Burger on offensive tackle from Syracuse.
Jordan, what did the league sayin regards to mister Matthew Sir Matthew
bergeron Um bitch strong office a lineman, Um you know a second because my

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stuff is loading here. Um,oh boy, that's actually Jordan mod On.
Let me do this. Let meplay his highlights real quick, okay,

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m h shout out to the AtlantaFalcons website for that bohead Jordan Oh.

(37:45):
Yes, Sir Matthew bergeron uh bigoffensive tackle out of Syracuse, six
foot five, three hundred and eighteenpounds. Actually his hometown is Canada,
which I didn't realize. Victoria Villequarterback Canada. Um. And let's go
to some of his strength and weaknesseshere. One of the things I was

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looking at to see what he didat the bench press, but unfortunately he
did not do the bench press atthe combine. Has a lot of starting
experience both a left tackle and righttackle at Sarah Hughes Um was in twenty
twenty one. All mentioned um honorible, all mentioned in terms of the All

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ACC team there Um for Loom,his strengths show a strong desire to oppose
his will or the man across fromhim. His rub blocking technique is top
notch across the board. Is definitelyfitting into what we like to do.
Fitch into his target with his headsup and his hip on lock kinks or
caves his blocks. We reper firefootstop from a never's position. He improves

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his positioning through this the same placephase of the block party control and right
to make his blocks against second levellinebackers quick initial slide steps to range out
to a speed rush himps can openquickly and ride rusher up the art which
means basically take a pass. Thequarterback stays connected to rushers with quality hand

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latch us. His hand placement andpass protection can be a concerned It's inconsistent
quick work, get into his passsets, punch can swain wide, sometimes
open his chest too much, givesfar too much ground to bull rushers.
His punch lands high and wide withlimits natural pard anchor strips, and he

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needs to be careful about overshooting lateralmarch as a run blocker out of the
open field. One thing from theanonymous scout we always getting these coaches from
says the league has moved to passprotection as a top priority, and he
just really inconsistent in that area.I love his run blocking, but you

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have to be able to keep thequarter that cleanum, says an area scout
for an NFC team. So whenit comes to the needs analysis, parks
a lot of people. Again,this was the second consecutive pick on the
offensive side rather than the going backto the defensive side of the ball,

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so again a lot of people werekind of okay, well, all right,
but since it is offensive player isactually on the line, you know,
does that you know, kind ofcome in the middle of filling a
need as far as that goes,because we know we've had some issues on
that line. I don't want tosay his name out loud because you know,
the skies might open up and anasteroid might hit me. But you

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know, at the end of theday, does this put the Falcons in
a better position than they were ayear ago? So you mentioned some of
his attributes there and things of thatnature from myself, and we just played
some of his highlights as far ason the primarily of the past blocking the
past protection side of the things.Looks like he helds up pretty well.

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Now that of course, that's onthe college side. Can you do that
in the NFL. We're gonna findout real soon. But one, he's
not a small guy, that's whatsure's all gone. And he's not um
and he looks he looks pretty solidas far as that goes. Um,
he looks mean pancake. A coupleof people there we saw kind of man
handle a couple of people a littlebit there too, So you definitely like

(41:25):
that. You know, we've alwayssaid that we've needed more of an edge
from some of the players on thatside of the ball as well. So
that helps on the run blocking side. Um, obviously we were doing that
zone you know, blocking scheme andthings of that nature. Um, is
he gonna be able to handle thataspect of it? Um, with the
size and everything like that shouldn't bethat big of a problem though, I

(41:47):
would say, so that does thathelp the offensive side of the ball in
the running game? I would sayyes as far as that goes, Um,
But during that end of the day, do you believe that you know
best foot forward? You know,with this being the second pick, this
is pick number thirty eight, butour second pick of the draft, would

(42:08):
it still a matter of could wehave gone a little bit on the better
side of the defensive side of theball with players that might have been available
at that point rather than waiting untilour third pick picking you know who We
will get into that, don't mentionthem. But what do you just think
is as far as that goes,as far as using another offensive player on

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that side of the ball isn't goingto be an advantaged disadvantage? What do
you think? Well, what theFunds just picked goals. It was surprising
on one way because this is themost offensive we've gone early in the draft
since Terry Ponsono took over. Everyseason we have picked the offensive skill position

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player in the top eight. Butthen the first two years we turned around
and went defense with Richie Grant.In a round two Terry Ponsono's first year
twenty twenty one twenty twenty two,the pick was Arnold even Kepty. Um
was the very next pick, UMand in fact the next two picks with
defense in that scenario where we werewith Troy Anderson uh next last year,

(43:14):
UM, but as kid, wedecided to go offense with both picks back
to back. UM. With thatbeing said, I do understand it because
we certainly needed UM. That leftguard position was the only spot on the
office line that's in question. UM. We know I'm gonna say his name

(43:35):
this, Jalen Mayfield was probably oneof the worst NFL football players I've ever
seen the time he started. UM. I was playing left guard some of
the time last year before he gothurt, and when he got hurt,
that spot was kind of a rotatingspot we saw. UM. Matt Hennessey

(43:55):
played that spot, Sam. Wesaw Cody Gossip played spot some um and
so I certainly understand trying to goin and show up the offensive line.
The guy who I think we passedoff that I would have liked that scene.
Ideally that pick me is edg Rusheror b J O Givari at the
LSU. He's the brother of Az's O Gilardi from Georgia Bulldog, who

(44:17):
we also passed on in twenty twentyone in favor of getting safety Richard Grant.
Um. So that would have beenan idea of think for me.
But I do understand it, umand like I said, you know,
made to think about it. Uh. Perground is he is gonna play guard

(44:37):
in the NFL, and so thatthat's one of my concerns is that he
has zero starts at guard in college, and so you know, how quickly
can he learn that position? Movinginside everybody you know, just use Actually,
I gets so easy to move goodtackle inside the card. That's not
always the case, you know whatI mean. When the guy used to
playing one spot, you know,over a span of you years with zero

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snaps inside the other. Now,the positive thing I want to mention about
him though, is at several differentplaces. I saw instead that he plays
to the echo of the whistle andthe two a lot of factors that that
was said about the most in thepast, but through the nastiest lineman we
ever had, and that was thatright side a few years back with Harvey

(45:22):
Dog at right guard at Tyson clayBowl at right tackle. That I always
said about those guys, they playedto the echo of the whistle. So
that's certainly positives I like about misterMatthew Birthial. So in that particular case,
again, when we're talking about,you know, offense, defense and
everything like that, the more youdo give your offense a chance to Again,

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what was one of our issues overthe last couple of years converting a
third down, So whether it bekeeping the quarterback clean long enough for him
to complete that pass and or makingthat hole, it's a little bit bigger
for us to actually convert a thirdand three where we can rush the ball.
How much easier would our lives beif you could do that a few

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more times a game. A fewmore times a game could be the difference
between winning and losing the game.Sometimes, right, especially in a close
game. One of the things thatwe do talk about we've haven't mentioned us
should say is that last year?Actually, John Harris have mentioned it in
our draft show the other week priorto the draft. Was that shut John?

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John, hopefully he gets a callin, let me check to make
sure I haven't Okay, nobody.I was about to say, make sure
he wasn't holding that one. Um. The Falcons didn't give up a lot
of points last year, Okay,So, but at the same time,
we couldn't stop people on third down, and we couldn't stop the run,
so that continue their drives of alot of different people to where that give

(46:50):
that gave the other team more ofa chance to at the end of the
day win the game than we did. What we want to have happened this
year is not to allow that tohappen anymore. As far as giving that
quarterback on the other side of thechance to convert their third downs, right,
that's gonna be one of the biggestthings. Again, we only have
twenty one fact that tells you whathappened last year. You know what I'm
saying. A lot of times wehad teams stopped, We're right up to

(47:13):
the hill until that one play inthe quarterbacks out there making baking pancakes,
blueberry mustins and fresh orange juice freshlysqueezed, and then he throws the ball
right, Yeah, he's feeling thething. So if that can slow down,
that would be one thing. Sobut if we don't, if we're
not able to do that on ourside of the ball, on the offensive

(47:36):
side of the ball, yes,it's gonna be a very important that we
scheme to where we can we controlthe ball the whole game because if we
do that, and yes, ifyou can keep the other team's offense off
the to feel longer, that doesgive your defense a better chance to you
know, make stops or just dowhat they need to do job wise.
Because we do have aj still,we do have Grady Still, we do

(47:59):
have the young guys from last year, like Troy Anderson's gonna get his shot
AK forty seven. It's gonna begetting his shot. Things that nature.
So a second season of being coached, coached up, and things of that
nature that can bear out. LikeI said, I'm also looking at the
long term effects as far as whathappens when those one year contracts are gone.
We're going to be the replacements.Are we gonna be looking at free

(48:21):
agency again, or I keep talkingto the Jordan about this. Are we
gonna get Nick Boson, you know, can we do it? Can we
pull it off? Right? Orwe're looking at Manta Nontress Sweat as a
possible defensive lineman from the edge,who are both in their primes twenty six,
twenty seven years old, right,so that you have them for the
next five six years possibly to fillin that gap. Possibly, Maybe that's

(48:44):
what they're looking at for next yearbecause we're gonna have money. We got
money coming, you know. Still, So that's a little bit as far
as that goes. But as faras Matthew goes, definitely, just on
the football side, looks like avery silent pick is going to help us,
help us off, help us outlong term as well, because we
want to have other players on ourteam either not well, you do have
players on our team getting older.Oh my, guess his name. He's

(49:07):
on the end, Jordan Matthews,Matthews. Yeah. One thing I do
want to say here is um theNFL comparison, according to land Zerline of
benefl dot Com for mister Bergeron isJoel the Tonio the office of guard for
the Cleveland Browns and Patonio has madethe Pro Bowl four straight years. So

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he turns out to be Batonio.It's a darn good pick. I like
the pig. My only thing Iquestion, you know, as long I
say this, as long as he'snot a complete liability and past protection,
then it's gonna be a good teambecause I'm confident he's gonna be a good
run blocker at the NFL level.Just to back up real quick too,
as far as b Jon Robinson theNFL UM Parrison, the zir line game

(49:54):
for him is UM the Raiders runningback Johns Jacobs UM. And second,
I thank you. I think youmight have been the leading Russian of the
league the specially he was crdless.If he wasn't, I mean he has
a great year. So those arejust the two NFL comparisons for the piece
that we've covered so far, withfour more to go. All right,

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So that being stared, let's goahead and spelling continue our transition throughout tonight,
UM show. So when our UMthird pick of the draft, but
the actual UM seventy fifth pick overallin the draft, we're gonna have Zach

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Harrison Edge Russia from Ohio State,and we're gonna look at some of his
highlights now. Four Yeah, shoutout to the Atlanta Falcon's page for that

(51:38):
highlight. So when it comes frommister Harrison, UM, let's just throw
out a couple of things in regardsto his career. UM, overall for
his four seasons at Ohio State,he had fifty eight solo tackles UM,
twenty four tackles for loss. Hehad eleven stacks. Overall. He did
have one interception. UM he's ableto get some fumbles in there as well.

(52:05):
I can't find that for some reason. But overall one competition wise,
of course he's in the conference thatyou can't say that he didn't have competition.
Can't say that, right, Andso now it's a matter of her
what he can do in his skillset. Can he be coached up to
play for the NFL side of things? In regards to the blockers, he's

(52:28):
going to be facing schemes that aregoing to be put up against him to
be able to prevent him from gettingto the quarterback. Can he adjust that?
We do know because of our newdefensive coordinator, who's a specialist on
the defensive line, He's going tohave an advantage that he wouldn't have had
if we had stayed. You know, I guess where we were at as
far as that going. I thinkwe're going to be wide open when it

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comes to that a little bit.So I do feel good as far as
that goes. And he looked.I mean one, he's young, he's
ready to go, he's he looksgreat on film as far as that goes.
Um, since he's going he waspicked in the third round, of
course, there's gonna be people whosay, well, again, he could
have got some who were probably betterearlier in the draft. But he does

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address the defensive line specifically in thisparticular pick. So let's talk pros and
caring six four six six five twofour four seven nine. Um, Jordan,
what's his draft profile looking like?The one understant fact that side of
the barriers? Than it's certainly apositive. Zack Harrison at thirty six to
one fourth inches has the longest armsof any NFL defensive for many defensive linement

(53:38):
at the scouting comebys since two thyfourteen. Um. So that's a very
interesting thing and a very much apositive thing. Um A thinking with mister
Harrison, Um, he has goodsize two hundred and seventy four pounds at
the defensive end. He's so he'snot a small six foot five and a

(54:00):
half inches. Um. I wantto say his forty yard dash is around
the four four four four seven rangelike here. They don't have an official
time lucy for him because I thinkhe ran it at his pro day.
As opposed to the combine um aswe as mentioned the sessional harm length.

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He uses the inside jab step toopen up an outside angle as a pass
rusher lays out to attack throwing handsfor strip sacks. Yes, so he
is a very good strip safe guy. Makes well tied challenges to back down
which is which does reflecting the faith. He has nine career passes deflected uh

(54:43):
physical help him neutralize run blocks,able to jab, separate and sit down
to create a firm edge, goodbill ups feed when racing him pursuit the
weaknesses there is he rarely gets ontop of his blocker quickly. His past
rushed, his segmentes and gradual,but it's not really fluid. Basically seems

(55:06):
like he's thinking as he's doing thesefast first foods struggles with rush traditions and
counter quickness below average masks and strengthenhis lower body, lacks playmaking urgency,
and is a reaching grab tackler.One of the things about Harrison is he
did get a lot of pressure lastyear for Ohio State, but he only

(55:28):
got home for three and a halfsacks UM, which was four for the
Ohio States team. So I'm openthat there's something. You know, our
defensive coordinator, who was a defensiveline coached by trades Ryan Nielsen, I'm
open there's something him and our staffcan see that will help him. You
know, correct what was causing himto get close to sacks but not quite

(55:51):
been able to finish the deal,and he could turn and hopefully that will
help him turn into a great edgerusher. Um. You know, it's
a third round pick, especially whenyou talk about pass rushers. You know
he could be here to miss.So I'm not gonna sing antigue that I'm
expecting this guy to be a superstaredge rusher, but it'd be nice.

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There's certainly a position we need somebodyto pan out that. Um. And
by the way, before I forget, let me see if we got an
NFL You know, we actually don'thave a comparison for him here so I'm
gonna see if I can find oneon different site for him. But you
know, just all at all,I like the pick I just questioned,

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especially with the fact that he lacksthe Lord Brody strength, and I'm wondered
if he lacks that flexibility it takesreally you know, turn the corner and
get around those tackles on the edge, because that's an ups and key for
edge rushers. And that's why someof the bigger edge rushers struggle at times
getting sacked because the gifts don't havethat flexibility. And when you're not able

(56:55):
to flex and bend down and getaround that edge officive linement, you know,
will you push you pass? Thequarterback gonna put you down in the
ground, Um, the googles ifyou don't have your technique together. Yeah.
Um. That was something that wesaw with somebody that has the first
initial uh T and the last initialterrible, terrible. Anyway, I want

(57:17):
I want to Oh, okay,let me, let me, let me
throw this one. I forgot tolet me talk a lot. I think
you talk about talk a lot moretalking to plan. Yeah, let me
see if I can find I hadn'tI hadn't done this one in a while
too. There we go. Youknow, I was late, but I
had to throw that in there anyway. Now, one thing I will say

(57:39):
in regards to um this particular pickin regards to Zach is sometimes it could
be used on the positive side towhere maybe he doesn't get all the way
to the quarterback, but because healmost is getting there, somebody else might
be getting there too. So someof that could be, you know,

(58:00):
come into play as far as schemein regards to pressure. You know,
at a certain point that pressure issomething that we just haven't had. So
if he's almost getting there, youknow, and you have somebody else on
the other side that is almost gettingthere, and you got somebody coming up
the middle almost getting there, assomebody should get them right, grab him
and hold him as twenty A Bakeron Instagram always staying the comedian hold him

(58:23):
and grab him or whatever you'd besaying, right, So that could to
be a positive as far as thatgoes. But definitely technique wise will come
into bat and he has the wholeoff season to improve on strength and conditioning
and things of that nature. Mudbe awesome if we had smiths available to

(58:43):
be in there as a consultant orsomething or a coach, right, then
we don't. So we'll see whatmister Nielson can do. And as the
actual coordinator, And again Nielson hasto be respective for the fact that his
defensive line would do. Lareless,who are a long time was a force
in the NFCAT and it can't becontested as far as that goes, right,

(59:06):
doesn't hurt you to actually admit thatI haven't done not really, because
again, by any means necessary,we can't ever have a season where we
can't get over the thirty sack mark. You know it's it's it's when our
leading person on stacks is Grady Jarrettfor basically two seasons straight. That's an

(59:27):
issue. You see, I saythat is an issue issue? You know,
so again and think about all theplayers that have come through since then,
you know what I'm saying. Andso we can't have that no more.
Whatever happens this year, we haveto have a double digit stack guy
one way or the other. Somebodyhas to have ten sacks um or or

(59:47):
we need six people with seven sacksseats or something crazy. I don't know,
I don't care. We just can'tbe twenty one nineteen sacks anymore.
That's that's the whole thing. Andthat's again the inferences I've been saying from
the get go as far as thisparticular draft is, we have an opportunity
to really push on that premise,you know, and it didn't go that

(01:00:12):
route. So again, every movesince then has to kind of bear that
out as such, because again youhave seventeen games that we play now,
not sixteen, so you got thatextra game. The NFC is really influx
now with all the turnover and thingsof that nature right now. Philly has
put themselves on that pedestal is basicallyuntouchable now, right So they're basically saying

(01:00:34):
nobody in the NFC is really evena threat. So we need to make
sure that they know that the Falconscan be a threat. So that's one
thing to extend on the defensive sideand being a stopper team, we need
to be able to show that wecan do that. That's what I'm hoping
for. So this could be thefirst move in that as far as that
goes anything else, mister Zach,Yeah, real quick, I do have

(01:00:58):
some more on mister. I'm justwant to do because you know, the
fast for us just such an importantposition and it's you know, what I've
been wanting us to draft. Soanother scout that I really like to read
his stuff, and the website isthe Draft Network and a scout by the
name of Joe Marino, and justhad a few quick simple things. He
says the top reason to buy inon arison our lifting statue, our statue,

(01:01:23):
athletic profile, and flashes of dominance, reasons for concerned college underachiever,
inconsistent place feed and recognition which isvery important in tightness, which is what
I talked to in terms of havingthat flexibility to really then the corner and
get to the quarterback. But thenagain, you know, and obviously he's

(01:01:43):
a different count of a prospect comingout the same thing was saying about mister
Bontes sweat. You know that hedidn't quite have the flexibility needed to get
around the corner. And he's aconsistent, you know, seven to nine
SAT guy every year. Um andso um. You know, it's just
interesting. I did say I wasgonna get an NFL comparison as well.

(01:02:04):
Yea tur Grosmatos and the twenty twentyNFL draft is the guy who Joe Marino
compares him too, says ideal roledefensive end that can occasionally slide inside and
passing pounds scheme fit can see appealin a penetration style four gap control defense,
um sou And the grade he gavehim was a seventy nine point five

(01:02:30):
out of one hundred, which isa third round value for him. So
um and he and just to delet you know, he watched full game
tape one, two, three,four, five, six, seven games
in order to come up with youknow, his scouting reports. So that's
pretty nice emphasized, you know rightthere looking at seven games over two different

(01:02:52):
seasons there, So um, youknow, interesting, you know, prospect,
definitely have hope for him, butyou know, still a little skeep
of cup of we waited so lateto address pass rush. I had a
guy, you know, put hisstatus up against Nolan Smith's stats in college
on Twitter recently and basically was makingthe case that Caston was either better than

(01:03:15):
Nolan Smith or just as good.But when I did a little bit deeper,
the man played three hundred sixty somethingmore snaps than Nolan Smith did.
So that's a big reason for discrimency. And people say, well, you
know that's a nich Onna Noland becausehe he should play more. Well,
that was only about playing two moreyates. Um. You know, the

(01:03:36):
fact of the matter is ug Ain'tjust rotates their alignment a lot more than
most of the schools. Dude,their front guys close to fact that ug
Ain't blows a lot of people out. Yeah, those guys are sitting on
the bench quite a bit at theend of the games against some of these
lesser opponents, and so they're justnot gonna have the number. So you
know, that's one thing. Peopleshouldn't be scared out by the fact that
Georgia guys don't produce some of thebiggest numbers because they they've done their job

(01:04:01):
at the beginning of the game andthe other team doesn't have a chance to
win, and so they get therest because they did the job with the
Georgia pass pressures has after the situationof the of a meeting happening at the
quarterback, you know what I mean. And one you got the our jail
break like that only one guy canget credit for the seconds time. Well,
you know, sometimes you get anhalf for sax by two guys,

(01:04:23):
and so you know that's not beoff the one guy with a whole bother
sex, you know, in thatscenario. But you know, you know
you're getting a solid, well coachfootball player in that case. But I'm
excited about to pick I. Like, you know, there's some of his
traits. I'm just hoping you knowthat this is where Royan music can make
us money at because we certainly needa guy to develop his rush guys on

(01:04:43):
this team. Indeed, six foursix, six, five two four four
seven nine, we're going through thefirst three picks of the Falcons draft.
Let's go ahead and start on thesecond half of their draft right now.
With the one hundred and thirteenth overallpick in the NFL Draft, the amount

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of Falcons picked Clark Phillips, thethird cornerback out of the University of Utah.
Let's go ahead and check out someof his highlights from the past college
seasons. Again, shout out tothe Atlanta Falcons website for that highlight.

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So, Clark Phillips the third wasactually definitely someone that we talked about last
week in our draft shows where wehad chance to be able to give them,
we need to give them. Okay, let me talk about him a
little bit in regards to his overallcareer and then we'll get started. Um
so, oh, I'm on thewrong page. Here we go, So

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there we go Clark Phillips. Soin Utah he had a three solo tackles
in his three seasons. I'm sorry, I just went blank there, Um,
one hundred and ten tackles total.That's a solo and assisted passes where

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he ended up getting interceptions. Ofcourse, he had six interceptions last year.
He had two year before that,he had one year before that,
so incrementally he got better each year. Thirty six yards, fifty four yards,
one hundred and forty two yards inregards to defensive interception the yards returned.
He is a ball hawk, thatis not a safety, so that
that made some dangerous just on thatbasis that he's always looking for that ball

(01:07:20):
and he gets it and he actuallycatches it. Remember there was players that
we've had in the past to wherewe always were talking about that how come
they can't just catch the ball?They're around it, but they can't actually
intercept it. This is a youngman that actually can go all the way
through. Jordan does his draft profiles? Tell us about all right? Well,

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first of all, Mr Phillips thethird five foot nine, one hundred
eighty four pounds around up four orfive one in the forty yard dash.
UM student another game. It's oneof the things that said about him,
a guy who loves to watch them. UM as just a student of the
game of football, which is agood thing. He's definitely very physically chiseled,

(01:08:06):
UM well built for got his size. Plays a bold, aggressive band
of football. He reads the quarterbacksand route simmon simultaneously. He attacks throws
with playmaking angle, angles and determineddemeanor. M finish his career as you
mentioned, with nine of acessions forthose intercessors he retired for touchdowns. Twitchy

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plant and drive. Twitchy plant anddrive when reacting and responding to throws,
and it's very physical and tight quarterslike press coverage type of situations. A
weaknesses later of transitions to shadow theroute can be turbling, a choppy allowed
separations against shallow crossing routes. Couldstruggle stay connected to routes from the slot.

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We'll look to do too much sometimeshis own defense. His downfield physicality
could lead to flags at the NFLlevel, and his short arms and legs
could limit, jump ball challenges andtackling this space. The scout quote for
US says he's a big time selfstarter. He wants to be great.

(01:09:20):
This is a West Coast scout forANFC team who says that the NFL comparison
one of them is Mike Hilton,which is UH instant, and another the
other NFL comparison I have here,which is very interesting, is a former
Ohio State quarterback Denzel war who isthe first ride draft pick of a very

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good football player, real quick.Top reasons to buy in quick feet and
fluid imps. UH has ball skills, competitive toughness, and coverage instincts.
Top reasons for cern lack of size, lack of tackling consistency, and but

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it's not due to him being passiveat all. It's more through to the
size and playing off of contactum soum. You know it's the prospect behind
heard some people who are draft expertssay that this guy could potentially be the
still of the entire draft. Hecould be one of those later round picks,

(01:10:27):
you know, not first and secondround picks, not a you know
that is up excelling now, youknow, to go back into what we
talked about I probably would have adressed this whole thing differently. I would
have taken Jalen corner at number eight. Then I would have probably taken the
best corner available, you know,at that second round pick. Well,

(01:10:47):
you know, at least we dida dress, pass, rush and corner
with our third and fourth round draftpicks. Yeah, six four, six,
five, two four four seven nineis the number. And again,
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So on this particular young man Clarkphill So, we saw the game,

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we saw some of the highlights earlier. He's definitely going to be that person
who's a dog, right. Wealways use that verbiage when we talk about
certain players. George mentioned how hewants to be great. When you have
that in the player from the getgo without you having to tell them or
talk it or anything like that,that puts it puts you out an advantage
to where you're putting them on thefield. I believe as far as what

(01:11:54):
our team is not actually haven't gonethrough the depth chart yet, but we'll
do that a little bit later.I guess if we have time, Um,
he'll be the nickel corner. Iwould, I would propose, right.
So, when you're talking about ifyou have a J, right,
is that right? So if youhave a j oh, yeah, I
say, I think that's right.But I say it's gonna positively a battle

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between him, Mike Hughes and Alfordwho um, who's on the squad last
year. Yeah. So when you'retalking about that, and let's see,
let's let's go ahead and look atlet's see if I can find it real
quick, because I actually did pullup the death calfer um the alpha.
Yeah, so offered. So youhave aj on the left side on the

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rock. When we say the nameof Alfred, I just started getting flashbacks.
No problem, no problems, um, And right now you they do
have him at the Nickel as thenumber one um and then offered number two
after him. Right, So you'retalking about aj and a Couda and Phillips

(01:13:02):
being on the front side of that, and then Bates and Grant as your
safeties. You know that's some protectionright there that I don't I think if
coaching and the players and everything schemeis right, that also helps that defensive
line give them that one extra secondto possibly get to the quarterback. So
again, it was either going tobe half and half or all the way

(01:13:24):
one side or the other. Youcreate the defensive line side to where the
cornerbacks have an opportunity to play theirgame, or you get the cornerbacks to
give the defensive line a chance toplay their game, or you just get
really good on both sides. Sowe have a little bit of a mixture
of both. Possibly because as Ican said, we did have our players
that got drafted last year. They'regoing to have another season to get better

(01:13:47):
and prove themselves. But I cansaid I think we're getting stronger in that
area, and this is one ofthose picks like Jordan Instead, this could
be one of the steals of thedraft. Is straight up just because his
ability to get to the ball.He sees the ball, he knows where
the ball is. Now, Yeah, the jump ball apart, that's always
going to be a little bit ofan issue depending on who he got played.
But usually you don't have that heightadvantage in the in that slot position

(01:14:12):
usual typically, you know, Sothat may come up every now in the
blue moon, but maybe not enoughto really make a difference. And at
the end of the day, hisplay could negate it by the fact that
the quarterback is going to have tomake a perfect throw. If the quarterback
makes a perfect field, so beit. But if sieve he can do
it every single time, So thatI think kind of comes into play a
little bit with this pick as well. Um any other points they are interests

(01:14:36):
in Jordan, Well, I thinkthose are the most you know, um
interesting points so about him so far. Like I said, the fact that
he's just so strong and so aggressive, I think that could be a positive,
you know what I mean, Butit could also be negative if he
gets a little bit too handsy,um all those plays down the field.

(01:14:58):
But you know, I do agreewith you then time that you have a
guy that has exact for the football, he has a chance to do something.
I mean, we've seen in thepast, you know, for example,
a guy Demante caz who who wasa prime think up from I was
thinking I can remember correctly, andhe made a lot of players not injuries,
you know, shorten his time ofbeing an effective player. But hopefully
you know that's not the case,uh here, and you know he could

(01:15:23):
have a great career clark Um andbe the you know, the still as
a draft that many people think hecan be. So I think you know
he helps m greatly collection of talent. I do think he's is a ballance.
Interesting that he's listed at the numberone spot a Nickel right now,
but I still think it's gonna bea battle league. They probably have the
other two guys listed UM or aguy like Hughes at least he's probably listed

(01:15:45):
on as a backup on the outside. But I do think you know,
all of those guys that aren't startingUM and they may even be a battle
between the Coop and Hugheses with UM. But I think whoever doesn't start on
the outside opposite of a J.Terrell, we'll all bound for the Nicolas
Pott you know made this man winexactly Well, we're almost finished. Y'all,
we got two more picks to talkabout um in our NFL Draft review

(01:16:10):
show for twenty twenty three for theallot of falcons, and again thanks for
all who were going to watch Livestonight and after the fact when you found
out that we actually had the showtonight. Again my fault for not being
able to promote it, I said, I've been a little bit ill,
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(01:16:30):
Twitter. UM. So let's goahead and get into our next pick.
So, yeah, two seventh roundpicks. So our first one was picked
number two hundred and twenty four.His name is the Marco Hellman's hell Ms

(01:16:53):
from He's a safety out of theUniversity of Alabama. I really don't like
saying the world Alabama more than Isaid it twice already. So let's see
if we can avoid sure, Oh, Guinness, I'll tell you the sec
board. But anyway, we gothim. So let's see. Let's watch
a little bit of highlights of ournewest safety on the team. Yeah,

(01:17:27):
Daniel start knockdown immediately as Josh Williams, Mike de Marco hellas that good as
you through five Hells. So thatwas some paper on DeMarco DeMarco. Hello's

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Now, one thing before I getinto DeMarco a little bit, going back
to mister Phillips, is that youhave an extra person that could rush the
passer in these two young men aswell. I think that's gonna that could
come into play a little bit too. And both of them, both of
them tackle just a little bit,just a little bit, No, they
tackle, they can tackle, Sothat's another thing in DeMarco hits as well.

(01:18:32):
Now Doran might mentioned some of thosethings, but those are just some
things I just knowed from that particularfilm. But also with Phillips in regards
to rushing the pass or having somebodythat corner blitz that we never seem to
do a whole heck of a lotof in past seasons, maybe that will
start happening just a little bit.We'll find out. So in regards to

(01:18:54):
mister DeMarco, let's see you wellgo so tackles. Now, he played
four seasons, well really three seasons, because hen't really played his first season
as a freshman, but he hadtwo hundred I mean one hundred and fifty
five solo tackles two hundred and fiftyfive combined. At Alabama. He had

(01:19:15):
seven and a half tackles for aloss. He had two and a half
sacks, He had four interceptions.Okay, so he was active out there
in Alabama. Again, he lookslike he's not afraid to hit people.
That's always a good thing obviously,right. And again he stopping the run.
The safety primarily is one of thosepeople that helps with that run stoppage,

(01:19:38):
you know what I'm saying. Sothat's going to come into play,
I believe as well to where ifwe just had a few extra tackles last
year, how much better would wehave had a season if we had just
had that a little bit more tooso Bates plus this young man being in
the in the lineup is going tohelp. And again I'll probably go through
the depth chart hopefully we have time. But Georgian, what was the draft

(01:19:59):
pro I was saying about mister hellnsUm. Well, one thing about mister
Helens as you mentioned before, heis a physical tackler. Um you know,
played a lot of a lot ofball at Alabama. One interesting fact
that's about him, ums. Hewas actually a wide receiver at high school,
playing on both sides of the football. Then, um says boundary safety

(01:20:25):
with good size and adequate anticipation,but a lack of quality makeup. First
were beating over the top hellups cancover tight ends and it's comfortable and split
zone looks, but needs to doa much better job of staying deeper than
the deepest target. He's a fairlyconsistent tackler, but doesn't always take the
most efficient routes to the ball.He's physical and could play higher. Low

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has a chance to become a goodbackup and the plush special teams player because
he definitely the special team pace atAlabama. UM. So that's one thing
I think you know that if hemakes the team earlier, it's probably gonna
be for his special teams play strengths. Uh sends up his run defensive responsibilities
then and wrap tackler in the openfield just through combination routes from high sinking,

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anticipates and brings quickly on throws infront of him, strikes with force
over the middle, races in asa sticky tackler to limit run up in
the catch. We desist, takehim to require time to open and transition,
below average recovery, burst to chasedeep routs, lose his ground and
lateral transitions, pursue angles and runsupport, lack control and leverage his glue

(01:21:38):
for too long, to blockers inspace. So those are a few positive
negaties there. Let me sit back. Got an NFL comparison on him on
one of these sites here really quickly, um as my other site loads up.
Okay, let's see we got anNFL comparison right here. Um I

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guess we dude? Oh lord,just making not um okay, real quick
tap. Reasons to buy in Versustaldefensive back as a previously stated can play
both free safety and strong safety effectivetackler. Reason for concerns is man and
man courage, mid body tightness,ak his transitions, and overall speed.

(01:22:21):
Um that speed forty yard dash riseis a four or five seven in the
forty yard dads. She's six footone uh and he weighs two hundred and
three pounds um. So his idealrole, I mean, you know,
if he could, if he makesit to that point, they say,
would be a starting strong safety.His scheme fit is a defense that predominantly

(01:22:45):
plays song defense, so not quitethree. It about here that because I
just don't like us to play twofor us defense. But you know,
I guess it's okay if he's notas to cover if the other guys a
man that he's a guy who's inhis own kind of clean the stuff up.
But you know, as a previouslystated, he's gonna have to not
let guys get behind him in thatscenario. But you know, in time

(01:23:08):
to be taking a kind of theseventh round, he's a project. I
think, you know, I feelbetter about taking the project from his sec
school that I do, you know, from a lot of places. Um,
And like I said, let's seeif he can make the team with
his special teams played and then continuedto develop from there. Yeah six four
six six f two four four sevennine. As we're winding down the show

(01:23:30):
tonight, hopefully we have a littlebit of time to talk about our special
topic. Um. On the depthchart, they have him as the backup
for Jesse Um. Jesse Bates hasat free safety as of the moment um,
So that that's you know, asof now, that's that's how you
know, we haven't gotten a trainingcamp Mini camp and all that kind of
good stuff. Yetter that's where theygot him listed. Um yeah, like
you said, you know, we'retalking about he'd be he'd be best in

(01:23:54):
his own I'm like, I don'tever want to see his own defense play
ever again and history ever, Iswear to goodness, but you know,
so be that it may. Ilike what I saw on just that highlights.
Now again that's just highlights, butthat is with the University of Alabama
in the SEC highlights. So thatdoes, you know, tell you a

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lot right there as far as thatgoes, it does address another defensive position
on the team. So the otherthing I it was is that from one
year to another, you're talking aboutdepths. And that's why we were talking
about earlier in the draft. Weneed that long term depth, you know
what I'm saying, And we needthose players to be good, Like why
can't we have good players in differentpositions, in different phases over time like

(01:24:41):
all these other teams that continue towin over time. Again, it's at
a straint do you want to winor kind of win? You know,
if let's play do you like thisif all these moves that have been made
causes us to win the super Bowlthis year, Yes, go for it,
you know, but we want tohave a chance to win the super
Bowl this year and next year andthe year after that, and the year

(01:25:05):
after that and the year after that, because then you have other teams that
that's what they've been doing for along time. They're always in the mix,
they're always listed as a contender.They have a chance. They're not
listening as somebody, oh, theFunk's team or the Narthy Whales or whatever.
Because one person again and I sawit posted, you know, somebody

(01:25:29):
said, well, we want excitement, and I'm like, does excitement win
super Bowls? I'm just saying,you know, at a certain point,
you want to win the Super Bowland you or do you want this to
be you know, the flash anddash of it all. You know,
when you're talking about someone like TomBrady, is he exciting? I've never
seen him doing anything really exciting,right, but he complete passes though,
you know what I'm saying. Soyou look at it just from that standpoint.

(01:25:53):
You gotta be able to win thegame. That's the goal. And
whatever you can do put your teamin the best position to win each in
every game. That's the goal.That has to be the goal. And
so when you're talking about mister DeMarcohere, like I said, I think
he gives you a chance to,you know, play around a little bit
with blitzes again, you know,I feel that. I feel good about

(01:26:13):
that. And again his highlights youcan see he's done that a little bit
as well. But just like Isaid, he's not afraid to hit nobody,
you know, and when you're playingthat particular position, you can't be
you know. And we're talking aboutstopping the run, primarily breaking tackles.
We always have those issues for somereason. Now some of that is coaching,
but some of asist the players too, right, So hopefully this will

(01:26:34):
help as far as the depth andif he feels that need, you know,
we're going to look good as faras that goes. I mean,
I'd like to pick in this cage. I mean, it's a seventh round
pick, right, But he's aseventh round pick from Alabama. He's been
coached by one of the greatest ofall times. Right, So I hate
saying that too, but it iswhat it is. Whatever, you know,

(01:26:54):
I know, yeah, I know, you know. Wait, oh
hold on, let me pick thatreal quick. Let me let me help
out with that a little bit.If we didn't think anybody there, it
doesn't mean that I can't actually dothis, right, So I haven't played
in the wall, all right,everybody now about me? Man? So

(01:27:15):
any extra info and sorry's DeMarco.Sorry, it's what you feel in regards
to this upcoming season, regards tothe pick or any extra Like I said,
I think if he, if hedoes make the team, it would
be on special teams played early.Um, and then you know, we'll
just see if he gets his bondshis way onto the field. We all

(01:27:35):
know the football, this game hasa lot of injuries and safety makes The
running back is probably the second mostviolent position on the field with the way
they're always coming up full speed.It hidding people so problem you know,
like I agree with you. Youknow, if you're gonna take a chance
of somebody in the seventh round,why not let it be somebody from one

(01:27:56):
of the better SEC schools. Benice if it was from the best seas
its school, But you know he'snot, so um, we'll take it.
And so you know, looking forwardto see, you know, just
what he can do in preseason,because that's a good thing about these preseason
games and the starters not playing alot, we'll actually get to see these
guys in actually against their drafted peers. UM. And so you know,

(01:28:19):
like I said, when to getto seventh round pick, I'm not sitting
here gonna make a prediction either way, but you know, just be glad
to uh see what we're looking whatwe're working without these guys. Baly.
So, last, for not least, we have our last pick of the
draft for the a lont of Falcons, also a seventh round pick, actually

(01:28:41):
number two hundred and twenty five.So let's go ahead and then bring that
person in now. With the lastpick in the draft for the a lont
of Falcons, they picked von Gwynn, guard out of South Carolina. So
let's see if we can take alook at some of his highlights before we

(01:29:04):
go for So, that was Javonnegwen from South Carolina. Um, he

(01:30:03):
is a guard. And UM.One of the things if you saw,
if you're just paying attention to thehighlights there that like he finishes the whole
play like he's he's going all theway to the hill he put he's trying
to get you down on the groundtoo. He's gonna make sure you're not
involved in that play anymore. Um, Jordan, what was his draft profile
like? Um? Yes, Onething about about mister Gwenn He was a

(01:30:29):
second team all let's scum, whichis a good thing, you know,
to be second team and the bestcovers of America. Um, mister Gwen,
he is he is? I meanon a second team. Have a
little trouble with the internet, noworries. Is six foot two, two

(01:30:50):
hundred and ninety seven pounds. Aswe said a guard. Um did thirty
four ms on the bench press,which is certainly good strength from a Waight
Lierser perspective. A little bit moreon that here in a second quick scouts
note here. Gwen is a solidfootball player, but lacks the size,

(01:31:15):
which is a major hindrance to himstaying at guard. He would likely need
to prove he can snap the balland move to center, where he would
still be considered as a bit undersize. The tenacious run blocker who can
operate in multiple schemes, but notnot be able to shine at any of
them. He plays with a firebasis good by the control of protection,
but lacks the lengthen range to consistentlyprotect guts Smith will be a one position

(01:31:41):
player, but he has enough talentand technique to compete for a roster spot
at the center position, and soit's like he would be a center according
to what the scouts is saying here. Um strengths. Four year starter and
we'll respect the teammate was also acaptain his last year there in South Carolina.
Adequate first step quickness as a zoneblocker and a poor blocker. Plays

(01:32:04):
under his pads with good body control, hand strength and foot movement to stay
connected to blocks. Very firm withstanding up the power of rushers, Able
to hold his hips and slide torecovery in past sins. Weaknesses undersized with
short arms, unable to move bodingsaround as a drive blocker, with strugger

(01:32:26):
to keep big guys from crossing hisbase. Not enough rains to protect widening
rush camps, and short arms allowrushers to work around his past mirror.
Um my thoughts. So you know, I mean you go, you take
two seventh round guys by not takea couple of guys out of their sec

(01:32:47):
and just see what you got.And you know, be interesting to see
if the position changed the center helpshim and if he could make the team.
If I had to guess, Iwould say that I would expect was
starting the season on the practice squard, but just because we have two centers
and Drew Dahman and Matt Hennessy andmost teams don't keep more than two centers.

(01:33:10):
Even though we do know Heresy hasplayed some guards, so he has
some position of versatility there. Ifhe makes it after the mount of the
start the season, then maybe wehave something um you know in that sent
of mount Peak, But I wouldI would guess practice squard would probably be
how he starts. Scorer. Soas of right now, they have him
as the third left guard behind Hennesseyand Bergeron right now, because they have

(01:33:34):
Bergeron listed as a starter, Hennesseyas a backup in Gwyn as the third
left guard, they got Dahman asthe starting center, New zeal at the
second and I don't know who JonathanHarrison is as the third center. So
I'm pretty sure that's going to changeover the next couple of months. But
just interesting and just kind of seeingthat's how they have it, you know,

(01:33:57):
printed a printed as of right now, some of those strength statues that
you listed Jordan's um I feel definitelykind of give him a chance, but
probably at the center position just becauseof his stature. Um, he could
have all he could always you know, put on a little weight. I
guess it got down to it,um strength wise, I think, I

(01:34:17):
mean he already said he has Ithink he said thirty four rests. So
that puts him in a you know, pretty strength you know, high category
as far as holding his own.But the stature card is gonna hinder him
at any other position because of whata defensive lineman can you know, be
able to get leverage because you know, short arms even it's almost kind of

(01:34:40):
like in basketball too a little bit. You know, if you can't do
this, you're gonna get pushed arounda little bit just because of inertia basically.
Um, but he looks pretty tenacious. Not canay he finishes the block
on the run, blocking side passprotection wise, that's probably why he would
have to play center again though againhe's not gonna probably be able to hold
up on the strong side as hardas the line goes. Possibly, Um,

(01:35:03):
but again it's a seventh round pick, but you never know, you
know what I'm saying again, ifhe stands out, you know, he
beats some other people out. Wewould rather him beat people out than have
people who can't play playing at theend of the day. And it's up
to the coaches to be able tomake that decision as far as that goes.
Um. So that was the lastpick of the seventh round. Um.

(01:35:27):
Like I said, he is comingfrom an SEC team, so he
has a little grit just based offof that. Um. Any other extra
information on mister Wooden Um Jordan,Um, Well, you know according to
the grating scale, UM that thecommuters he grated up sixty, which would

(01:35:48):
be considered average backup for special teamer. Obviously, you don't keep a lot
of lining around this place special team, so UM, you know they're justiate.
You know, his career be abackup knows. You know he prized,
You've seen it happened before with thelatter round a linement. I do
think being able to get leverage isgonna be keep for him with his lack
of stature. Stature, Um,but you know he has the strength.

(01:36:12):
If he can line leverage, thenhe should have been to move people having
you know that stripp that he has. Yeah, six four six six five
two four four seven nine, gotabout twenty minutes left. So I do
want to briefly go through some ofthe undrafted free agents that the Atlanta Falcons
decided to sign. I'm gonna gothrough him and Jordan, if you have
any uh thoughts on him, wecan go through that UM they included and

(01:36:36):
they seem I can make sure Ipronounce some of these names correctly. On
the edge, we got kenna InChakoul from Rice University, wide receiver Kalon
Harris from Oklahoma Baptists, linebacker MikeJones Junior. We got another running back
Carlos Washington junior, a wide receiverJustin Marshall Buffalo, defensive back Orlando Jordan

(01:37:02):
Um from Southeastern UM. He's invitedto the Rookie Minicamp UM by the way,
and a kicker Mass Trickett from Minnesotaalso invited to the Rookie Minicamp invite.
So those are some undrafted free agentsUM. Every team draft UH after
the draft, those who didn't getdrafted picks a few players. Any of

(01:37:25):
these players stand out to you,Jordan, that you know of and for
any particular reason. Now this Ididn't get a chance to really work on
because I was sick. But Ijust wanted to make sure I mentioned it.
Yeah, I just just want mentioneda few other guys that was fined
for Rookie mini Caamp's invites Lafe asa judge, Us Jones of the Kentucky
UM harterback Chase Bryce of the AppalationState kind of them, Hunter out of

(01:37:53):
how to Talk that was another guyinvited. Um there's a rook Minicamp guy
and as Kevy Kivyan Bennett out ofArkansas State, Senator Jacob gall out of
Failure. Safety Javon Hicks um isanother Ricky Minicamp invite from Cincinnati. Um,

(01:38:13):
so that that's gonna gonna complete completethe list there. Um. Guys
that are interested in to me wouldbe of course. I mean anytime you
got an SEC player, even thoughthey're on the undrafted. So definitely,
you know, hasted to see whatMike Jones who Mike Jones um can do.
He also played at Clemson before transferredto LSU. So, I mean,

(01:38:38):
pennigree is it playing as a prettygood football programs there? Um,
I also want to see undrafted therunning back um the undrafted running back Carlos
Washington out of Southeast Louisiana Um,you know running back, is that one
of the few spots that you couldactually you know, he had a pretty

(01:39:00):
good player undrafted. I mean we'veseen some undrafted running backs sometimes UM ended
up being like actual players, Imean actual starters, UM, actual contributors.
So UM interested to see what theycould do there, trying to get
some numbers on them. There UMnot a lot of combined numbers out there

(01:39:24):
on him. He's five one,two hundred and seven pounds UM, so
he does have some weight on him. UM. Oh okay, I see
it now two hundred I mean fourteenbench reps of two hundred and twenty five
UM, which isn't the best fortyyard dash time of four point six oh
um, So you know, justto see what he can do. UM

(01:39:47):
definitely has a lot of a lotof UM Russian yards in his career.
Um they had some all purpose testoules, and I would says I found most
instant about him is UM he hasactually quite a bit of kickoff return experience

(01:40:08):
as well as well as averaging fivepoint nine yards per carry for an entire
season. So he's probably the namethat stands out the most of me just
for some fact that you know,you can actually have guys produced at that
position either, whether it be inthe obviousite. You know, he's probably
not gonna be able to find alot of room on the field for us

(01:40:30):
right now. Who us having toohigh level running back. We could always
use return guys, you know whatI mean, especially if he showed some
ability maybe take one to the houseof the preseason or something like that.
That's how he could possibly make theteam. It just has added some death
because I'm not sure you know whathe update status for Caleb Huntley is,
who had you know, a prettysignificant injury late in the season. I

(01:40:54):
gather that he's probably not gonna beready to kill UM. You know right
off hands. UM. You know, like I said when undrafted press,
I mean, you know, youdon't expect too much. UM. You
never know which one of these guyscould end up surprising to make the team,
UM or make the practice squad,and then we see I'm actually make

(01:41:14):
the team the final of the season, of the season after that, UM
talking about Washington, Carlos Washington,that you kind of took the words out
of my mouth in regards to possiblekickoff return. UM. As far as
Jack goes, because yeah, deathwise, you got the genre Robinson,
Tyler Algier, Cordelle Patterson, CalebHunterley which is a mystery, Avery Williams,

(01:41:35):
then Carlos Washington. This is thedeath chart I'm giving you. And
then we got b J Baylor.So we have a lot of running backs
there, so something somebody is notgoing to be playing obviously if he if
he ends up making the team.UM. As of right now, some
of those unsigned free agents are onthe depth chart as of the moment,

(01:41:55):
but again things will happen um overtime. I guess Mike Jones is on
the depth chart as the one,two three fourth week sidewinebacker. Washington we
just talked about. Xavier Malone ison there, justin Marshall as the fourth
wilde receiver. Harris is the thirdwide receiver on the depth chart as of

(01:42:20):
now. So you just never knowwhen training camp comes and goes, who
performs, who gives the coach asa reason to say, yeah, we
gotta make sure we get him somereps because he can do some things right.
Special teams of course, gives youthat initial opportunity to prove yourself that
you can do your job or whatnot. And then if something happens injury wise

(01:42:40):
or anything like that, you canstep up and you know, continue to
prove yourself. Again. Depth hasbeen an issue for us for a long
time. You gotta fix that.We're gonna win for a long period of
time. You gotta have players thatcan be able to step in and you
do not miss a feat, andwe have not had that for such a
long time. Maybe this is theselast three years, we'll get us to

(01:43:00):
that point to where now here weare. We got some some positions finalized,
and if worst case scenario happens,we're not gonna lose a lot of
juice when the next player steps intothat role, whether it be on offensive,
decnse. So we're going to seekas far as that though. But
undrafted free agents have helped a lotof teams that you got a lot of
drafted free agents have had great NFLcareers too, right, You just never

(01:43:24):
know sometimes so well we'll find outin their future. So guys, hopefully
everybody enjoyed just that person. I'llgo ahead. I'm just gonna say,
pointing other guys that I was lookingat with this undressed the fridging class is
ship. I can get his nameright, here. Uh, here's Russia.

(01:43:46):
Russia. Oh gosh, Um kimout and that you cool out of
Rice back to back seasons a fourand a half sacks in each season,
as well as UM over twenty tacklesfor a loss. Actually, UM twenty

(01:44:10):
three tackles for a loss. Andthere is that ten ten and a half
sacks over his college career and that'swhat only playing four games in twenty twenty
due to injury. UM. Youknow, so I'm always looking for,
you know, more edge Russia typeguys. Another guy, UM, you
know, kiv kiev Yan Bennett outof Arkansas State is another guy that's at

(01:44:33):
his guy UM. And like Isaid, you know, I'm always looking
for edge Russias on his team,just with some the fact that that's been
a weakness we talked about early inthe show. Um, hard to find
a lot of stats, uh,coming out of Arkansas State. UM.
Let's say, I think I mayhave some stuff here though. UM.
Okay, year ago, UM soa career in nineteen sacks, which is

(01:44:55):
pretty good. UM had five anda half last year. I haven't year
before. And I didn't realize this, but he actually thought that Tennessee.
So he actually has a Mississ experienceas well, at four and a half
saxes last year in Tennessee. Soum six point two ton, thirty six
pounds. He's an under size typeguy, more of a outside linebacker.

(01:45:17):
UM any time guy, but cookme a guy who can also play some
stand up linebacker in a four threestids because has that position of versatility.
So those are two of the otherguys I'm looking as far as undrafted guys.
I'll be watching for them the preseasonto see if they show, you
know, any flashes of partial tomake the roster. Appreciate that, Jordan
UM so guys. Like I said, I hope everybody enjoyed the show tonight.

(01:45:41):
In regards to just talking falcons,we appreciate a caller earlier. I
believe I heard Matthew or matt earlierfrom Atlanta call again, and those who
did get a chance to watch liveobviously, and those who will watch after
the fact. Again, I apologizefor not really being able to promote tonight
show. I was been sick allday, but I wanted to make sure
I got the show done. I'vebeen working and mister Jordan's been working obviously.

(01:46:03):
You can see the suit and tie. There. We tried. We're
trying to get back regular guys.We're coming soon. And by the way,
just to mention that, hopefully tomorrownight we're gonna do Atlanta Hawks End
the season show, um, totalk about the Hawks and them getting,
you know, finally finishing their season. Fortunately didn't go as far as we
wanted, but we're gonna talk aboutthat now. If you still haven't seen

(01:46:25):
the interviews we did with Bob Rappanand Steve Holman Um played by play guys
that are on Valley and ninety twonine the game, respectively, make sure
you go and watch that on theIMTM Worldwide Radio YouTube channel episodes one twenty
two and episodes one twenty three.Make sure you go check that out.
But while we have a few minutes, I wanted to gonna get into something
that Jordan really wanted to tap into. I'm a bohead and pop it up

(01:46:49):
here on the screen for everybody tosee. And uh, maybe you agree
or disagree, but I agree.So let's talk about that real quick.
So, um, if everybody knowsthe other night Acuna got deemed in the
shoulder contusion he played though he's he'sbeen playing get the home run I believe

(01:47:13):
tonight. Actually right, um,best player in the NL be'st the player
that the Braves have Over the lastfew years. He's been hit a lot,
and he's missed games because of it. And each time it's happened,
there's there's not the uproar or theor the or the aks that you would
expect from the manager, mister BryanSnicker for some reason. And we all

(01:47:38):
have seen and seen us some contentionthere and then. I don't know what
it is in particular, but theoldest rule in baseball is when you have
one of your main players get hit, or any of your players get hit,
the next inning, your picture hasto hit the first guy up.
It has to happen because otherwise,again the oldest ruling baseball, it's going

(01:48:01):
to keep happening again again and again. It's a respect thing at a certain
point. But the other part ofit is, is it a matter of
whenever I just have them all outbrawl to protect our players. You know
what I'm saying. Again, it'sa matter of you know, suspensions happened,
It's not like we have so again, I just want to talk about

(01:48:21):
that really briefly. We got aboutyou know, five seven minutes. We
can chat about it a little bit, um, if you're a baseball fan
and learn the Braves fan, Butwhen you're when your star player is getting
hit on a regular basis and it'sbeen happening for a couple of years,
now, when is enough enough?Because if the if, if major League
Baseball isn't going to address didn't doanything about it, right, and your

(01:48:45):
upper management is not going to comeout and say anything about it. The
actual manager is not going to actuallydo anything about it. You know what
happens next? You know, dopeople have to you know, put things
in their own hands, so tospeak. That's not going to be a
good thing. So let's talk aboutthat a little bit six four six six
five two four four seven nine ifyou want to try to call him before

(01:49:06):
the show ends and talk about itor the chat line, but during what's
your perspective on that? UM?My perspectives very similar to yours, sir.
For one, UM, everybody knowsthat the former Alana Braves manager Bobby
Cops is the most ejected manager inthe history of baseball. And I just

(01:49:30):
gotta believe. I gotta believe thatif Kunia would continue to be hit like
that and he was still a manager, that he would have gone ballistic,
that he'd have went out there hebecause a few humpviders out and he would
have been tossed from the ball game. Um yeah, So, like you

(01:49:51):
said, I don't understand my stickerton't do it. You mentioned a good
point that he's supposed to be anold school guy. Well that's the old
school baseball Retali, somebody hit yourgun while you're not on school about that
snip. With that being said,though, sir um, I agree with
you completely. If he's not gonnado anything, and measure League baseball is

(01:50:11):
not gonna do anything, what yougotta do because the next time can you
get hit if the team needs toall run out there in unison, guy's
coming out of the dugout, guy'scoming out of the bullpen, and you
want then you start sort hate becauseyou start short, you start thought up,
because you start knocking some guys outfrom the other teams. Whether that
be the matter, whether that bethe Marling, I don't care who it

(01:50:32):
is. You cannot continuously let somebodythrow out and hit your best player.
I don't care if you celebrate homerun, get over it. If you
don't want to celebrate the home runrun, it's very right to get it
out, but you have gotten toprotect your guy. If this guy gets
hitting the uphole and chips, thatgets a phone, chips or racing rist

(01:50:55):
of racer, and and it's gonefor a long time. You're not the
same baseball team. This is notthat team, the one of the worst
series of out of It's a differentball club. We need to conia.
He's the best player in the NationalLeague and outside. Maybe there's a couple
of guys to play for the Angels, the best player in all the game
of baseball. You got a knock. Some people lot Braids stop a lot

(01:51:16):
of these teams to inter you guy. Do not let these folk pump you.
Stand up strong, take the suspensions, do what you gotta do.
And if ownership was worth you know, working anything, they would cover some
finds of suspensions one if and whenthat does happen. Um, just a
couple of quick notes for you,eleborating that Chris I didn't see a breaking

(01:51:38):
news while we were on that KyleWright was placed on the ende of the
list with the shoulder injury. Also, the Braids beat the Martins today fourteen
to six were like a football scorerthere, Guess who had five Guess who
had five RBIs? Mate, Christian, Yeah, I heard the rumor,
I heard Marcelo zone and my finallybroken out of that small go ahead with

(01:52:01):
the details. Yeah, Um,five RBIs for marstellas soon as the night,
which is quite incredible. Two homeruns, um, if I if
I can recall correctly, I'm tryingto pull up a proper box score here
because they the box score I waslooking at did not show on runs.
But he was three out of five. Um, five RBIs and three runs

(01:52:28):
score. Um, so he mayhave three home runs if I if I'm
looking at this correctly, he's atwo. I know he had a Grand
Slam. Oh wow, grand thegrand crown for that. If he had
a Grand Slam, then head itwas two home runs Grand Slam and a
solo home run and he scored anotherrun on his other end. So I'm
you know, I don't know whatto make of that, but it's encouraging

(01:52:49):
that game to see him hitting theboat out of the ballpark and driving runs
and going four three strikeouts. Idon't know that. Hopefully, hopefully,
Hopefully he'll be able to sustain it, because I also think I saw Michael
Harris get hurt again. Um,he don't look like the injury I saw
don't look like he's gonna play forat least a month. Hopefully this will

(01:53:12):
be a good thing for Zona toreally out be out of that slump,
because we're we're gonna need something,you know, So this this is his
opportunity to stay. Um as weget other players you know, coming back,
because eventually you know, Travis willbe back, you know eventually and
others you know whatnot hate that callis going on the list, Um like
that. Um, but we'll see. But again, um, this is

(01:53:34):
all more even more important with akuna you know, we need again.
This is the year that he's gonnahave both a CUNA and IVY hopefully the
whole season. You can't keep havinghim potentially having a wrist or a hand
or a head or shoulder broken becausehe's getting hit by all these pitches for
no reason and there's and then there'sno retaliation or retaliation. Will make sure

(01:53:58):
that people know don't hit him becauseit's gonna be consequences and repercussions. As
as a great comic once said backin the day. UM, so that
being saying, I want to Iwant to say again thanks for all who
did get the chance to watch theshow tonight. Please please please subscribe to
the I AMT on Worldwide Radio YouTubechannel. Make sure you do that.

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Follow both of us on Twitter,UM Intellect at l for myself and Jordan
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UM, Jordan, can you tellpeople where they can follow you on the
internet. Um, this place isfound to be abaz on Twitter at Jordan

(01:54:45):
twenty three at l UM do alot of talking up about all of a
lot of sports teams, O man. One of my more recent posts and
I still meant me and they hada few more videos to it is.
Um just from of the highlights fromour final UM ain't with the Lavahaws,
which we will hopefully talk about tomorrow. We'll definitely talk about in our next
show. UM and so yeah,that'd be the best place to follow me.

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Man. We're starting to appreciate allyou guys listening, both the people
that listening lives as well as ourpodcast people, which I'm sure many will
be a b podcasting for this week. So we just didn't really have time
to pump and promote just staying aheadof time. Um, but we appreciate
you guys to listen after the factjust as much as we appreciate the live
listeners. UM. You know,just like I said, just just thank

(01:55:30):
you everybody follow support over time,We'll continue to bring shows and try it
our best to fit the end youknow, shows regardless of our business schedule.
But last but not list, Iwant to thank God for giving me
the spress that I breathe to talkabout these latter and these George sports that
I love. He's any time down. Thank you, Thank you sir,
and make sure y'all tune in tomorrow. There isna Hawks in the Season show

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