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Ep. 26: A Turning Point Game Ahead | Jags A.M. Podcast · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Jaguars are heading to London for two consecutive games. You guys,
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  Speaker 1: what are your concerns about this team going abroad right now?
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  Speaker 2: I have not. You know, this is a group that's
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  Speaker 2: been over there, you know, from a player's perspective, and
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  Speaker 2: the travel logistics team has done this for a couple
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  Speaker 2: of years together, so I think they've got this one nailed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I have no concerns about the trip. I have
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  Speaker 3: concerned it's about the game. I wanted to get a.
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  Speaker 1: Lad Welcome to JAG's am presented by Field's Auto Group.
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  Speaker 1: It's Thursday, It's travel Thursday. We're headed to London later
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  Speaker 1: on today, and I know they got everything in down
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  Speaker 1: pat but still gonna be a change of scenery. Some
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  Speaker 1: of the players talked about it. We're gonna get to
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  Speaker 1: that in big things. You guys, it's old hat for you.
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  Speaker 1: So are you excited to go for the week this
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  Speaker 1: time or you just kind of excited to see what
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  Speaker 1: the team comes up?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I am. I mean I enjoyed. We went
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  Speaker 2: over there in twenty fourteen and spent the week, and
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed it. Enjoyed being around our team right and
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  Speaker 2: spending time in London a little bit here and there.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed the changes Therey two. It's a nice perk.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I was for home but Mary out.
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  Speaker 3: But within the context of this, it is nice to
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  Speaker 3: get over there. For us. You get a couple of
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  Speaker 3: days we actually see it, and I think for the team,
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  Speaker 3: which is what people care about, I think it does
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  Speaker 3: help that second week. I think getting into a routine
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  Speaker 3: over there will feel more like a home game than
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  Speaker 3: maybe the home game, which is the first game, which
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  Speaker 3: is the second game, which.
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  Speaker 2: Is you know, one other thing you know over the
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  Speaker 2: ten years now, because the tenth game will be played
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  Speaker 2: while we're over there. They've built that Union Jack's Club
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  Speaker 2: up and you see familiar faces. You see them at
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  Speaker 2: the pub with the party, you see them out and about,
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  Speaker 2: you see them at the stadium. You know, kind of
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  Speaker 2: like when you come in here. It's nice. It feels
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  Speaker 2: like home away from home for the franchise.
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  Speaker 4: Some familiar faces in the UK.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to our big things this week as we
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  Speaker 1: head over to England. Our first thing is big picture
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  Speaker 1: things not looking great right now, especially the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: This team has not performed, but they're only three games
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  Speaker 1: into the season. There's still fourteen more games, and dun
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  Speaker 1: Peterson is focusing on figuring things out quickly before things
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  Speaker 1: get worse.
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  Speaker 5: It's not how we start, it's going to be how
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  Speaker 5: we finish, you know, the season. And you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: we we're making mistakes. It's not like you know, teams
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  Speaker 5: have really done much, you know, to us as far
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  Speaker 5: as beating us. Where we were beating ourselves, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and that's usually the case. And you know, once we
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  Speaker 5: figure out and a lot like last year, we were
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  Speaker 5: kind of beating ourselves. And once we figure out how
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  Speaker 5: to you know, kind of get out of our own way,
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  Speaker 5: take care of the football, tackle better, all those types
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  Speaker 5: of things, then things begin to go in your favor.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you need to focus on big picture, but Brian,
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  Speaker 1: they also need to get better right now, because if
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  Speaker 1: you dig yourself into a big of a hole, you're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna be able.
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  Speaker 4: To get out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, John said he wants to see them get a lead, right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean talking to these guys, none of them on
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  Speaker 2: camera want to admit that there's a confidence issue at
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  Speaker 2: this point that they're uh, oh, what's going to go
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  Speaker 2: wrong next? But you do get that sense talking to
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  Speaker 2: them that there is some of that going on, and
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  Speaker 2: so for them to get a lead and to feel
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  Speaker 2: like the team that they believe they are supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be coming into the season would be really important. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to be dug right now and having
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  Speaker 2: to try to come up with another thing to say
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  Speaker 2: or another psychological tact to get these guys to believe
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  Speaker 2: in themselves again.
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  Speaker 3: It's such a strange dynamic. This was a team last
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  Speaker 3: year that thrived on the comeback, I mean, and right
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  Speaker 3: now it feels like they're a team that you hate
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  Speaker 3: to say it, because they almost came back against Houston,
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  Speaker 3: then you have the weird play. So I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if they've lost their confidence, but they do feel like
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  Speaker 3: a team right now that I'm interested to see on
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  Speaker 3: Sunday how they respond to that first moment of adversity,
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  Speaker 3: because they have not necessarily responded great in the last
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  Speaker 3: two weeks to situations. You'd love to see them get
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  Speaker 3: back to that. How fast has it changed against the Colts?
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  Speaker 3: Didn't you feel the whole game they were gonna pull
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  Speaker 3: it out?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, in two weeks time.
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  Speaker 3: And in eight days from the five minutes for the
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  Speaker 3: Chiefs game, to five minutes after the Texans, all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden, that sort of goes away. Guess what, Bryan's
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  Speaker 3: a week to week league. It's true.
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  Speaker 2: It's remarkable, it really is, especially when you put in
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  Speaker 2: the perspective of a team that last year loved these situations.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to put your finger on exactly what what
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  Speaker 2: caused it, right, but right away you know what will
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  Speaker 2: fix it, and that is some success.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think it's press clippings. No, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think I think it and I don't understand they're not
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  Speaker 3: reading them, and that's a good way to get into
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  Speaker 3: the subject for Doug. But I think it's expectations. You know,
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  Speaker 3: last year they've played with house money except for the
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  Speaker 3: last game of the season where people expect them to
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  Speaker 3: beat the Titans, and what happened And I was lost
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  Speaker 3: the Tiger like it was tight.
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  Speaker 2: Joshua Dobbs Titans not Tanne Hills.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So at some point this team needs to get
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  Speaker 3: a good w as the team that people expect them
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  Speaker 3: to and then they say, okay, we can play this way.
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  Speaker 3: Fascinating game and they Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: On those fronts, it's certainly going to be interesting, big
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  Speaker 1: thing number two London isn't calling. We've heard a lot
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  Speaker 1: about the change of scenery what that can do for
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  Speaker 1: a team, but Doug Peterson addressed the fact that, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: change of scenery is fine, but it depends on the
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  Speaker 1: focus of the team.
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  Speaker 5: I've got to trust the players, you know, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: they've got to do the right thing. They've got to
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  Speaker 5: be in the right frame of mind, and and I
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  Speaker 5: have to put it back on them, you know, to
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  Speaker 5: make the right right decisions and right choices.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, by.
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  Speaker 5: By keeping by keeping the schedule and the routine the same,
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  Speaker 5: they can give them the same sort of.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the same habits they have here.
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  Speaker 1: They love Doug Peterson powering through the fire alarm going
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  Speaker 1: off and building yesterday. But what he says is true. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: change of scenery is nice and lovely, but this is
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  Speaker 1: about them playing.
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  Speaker 4: Football and doing it in the.
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  Speaker 1: Game as well, because at practice at this point, we
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  Speaker 1: don't even know if you can take much from it.
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  Speaker 1: It's more about what they're actually going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to execute. John, do you feel like that's true at
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  Speaker 1: this point? Can you hear much or see much at
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  Speaker 1: practice at this point?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure you can see much in practice. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not sure you can see during the press conferences. It's
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  Speaker 3: become a very hard game to analyze this Sunday's game
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  Speaker 3: because we've talked through the issues so much. We know
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  Speaker 3: that their issue has been not scoring in the red zone.
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  Speaker 3: We know it's been they can move the ball and
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  Speaker 3: then right when those moments hit. So I don't know
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  Speaker 3: how you know anything about this team until you get
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  Speaker 3: to third and six on Sunday at the twenty five
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  Speaker 3: yard line and see if they can punch it in
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  Speaker 3: until they get behind. This team was great in those
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  Speaker 3: situations for the last eight games last year. Clicking you
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  Speaker 3: get the idea that if it could click once, it
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  Speaker 3: would keep click and all of a sudden, oh, you know, but.
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  Speaker 2: Firing a little cylinders.
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  Speaker 3: That hasn't happened yet. And again I keep saying, it's
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  Speaker 3: a fascinating game, one of the more interesting games since
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  Speaker 3: I've been covering the Jag Because you feel like they're good,
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  Speaker 3: you feel like they have a chance to be good.
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  Speaker 3: There's gonna be some moments on Sunday where you feel like,
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  Speaker 3: if they don't get this, if this goes the other way,
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  Speaker 3: you wonder if you wonder what it's going to do.
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  Speaker 3: Their confidence. It's a turning point game. It's not must win,
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  Speaker 3: but boy, it's, as I said, winning, woinden't stink.
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  Speaker 2: I spent some time yesterday in the locker room talking Andrancisco,
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  Speaker 2: and he said, they're talking to each other right, not
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  Speaker 2: in a negative way. They are talking in a realistic
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  Speaker 2: way about how to approach this. They're being honest with
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  Speaker 2: each other. He used the word transparent. They're all talking
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  Speaker 2: about where they are and what they're thinking so that
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  Speaker 2: together they can get through this. I get this this
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  Speaker 2: week when things go bad, at least on the defensive
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  Speaker 2: side of the ball, because that's where I spent a
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  Speaker 2: lot of my attention yesterday in the locker room. They're
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  Speaker 2: ready for it. They are ready to put their hand
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  Speaker 2: in the ground or to leap his eyes as they
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  Speaker 2: can and knock a pass away. They're not gonna let
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  Speaker 2: a bad player, adversity get them off track.
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  Speaker 3: And one piece of hoke, I'm gonna give you some hope.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds well, you're gonna give it means more coming
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  Speaker 2: from you, obviously, but not a hopeful guy.
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  Speaker 3: They when Doug kind of put a foot in their
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  Speaker 3: butt on Sunday. They came out and they played really
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  Speaker 3: well with a lot of energy in the first part
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  Speaker 3: of that third quarter and looked like the team you
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  Speaker 3: expected it to be. And then you had a weird
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  Speaker 3: play go against him. So maybe that's what it took
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  Speaker 3: and maybe what we saw early in that third quarter,
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  Speaker 3: because my guess is the foot span and the butt
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  Speaker 3: all week. So I I gotta believe they come out
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  Speaker 3: with their hair on fire on Sunday, and maybe that's
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  Speaker 3: what we'll see. They had dug such a hole on
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  Speaker 3: Sunday that one little bad thing went against him, as like, okay, here.
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  Speaker 2: We go again. So maybe that's the ray of your
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  Speaker 2: hope was good coming from you. It's a little brighter
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  Speaker 2: because well, you know, things are never bright exactly. That's
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  Speaker 2: why I say hope comes for him. It means a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more. I will say this. I've been talking
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  Speaker 2: about Doug at press conference. I've been watching body language.
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  Speaker 2: I thought yesterday he was himself for the first time
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  Speaker 2: since before the Colts game. I thought, that's Doug Peterson.
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  Speaker 2: You know, his energy level was where it needed to be.
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  Speaker 2: He was, you know, witty and popped up. You know,
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  Speaker 2: at the end of that side about dum about bedcheck
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  Speaker 2: and all of that kind of stuff, because don't forget
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  Speaker 2: there's been some incidents in London through the years with
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  Speaker 2: some of the fellas getting out and about Doug's not
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  Speaker 2: gonna have any of that.
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  Speaker 4: Of course not.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna go to our third big thing quickly. Third
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  Speaker 1: things first, this team has struggled mightily on third down
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  Speaker 1: so far this season. They're ranked I think twenty ninth
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  Speaker 1: in the league. Trevor Lawrence talked about that issue yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: Just keep playing free, played like it's a normal down,
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  Speaker 6: like nothing's different. You know it's third down, but this
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  Speaker 6: shouldn't change anything. And I think that's kind of emphasis too,
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  Speaker 6: and for all of us to just go play.
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  Speaker 1: You can play like it's any other down. But I
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  Speaker 1: would like to see them convert a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: And you have to get those percentages up, Brian. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to be among the best of the best.
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  Speaker 2: You got to stay on the field. You know. It
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  Speaker 2: made me last week when they failed on first down,
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  Speaker 2: right when there was new completion on first Down'm like,
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  Speaker 2: oh boy, now you got second to ten. You better
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  Speaker 2: get something done here. The failures on third down have
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  Speaker 2: bled back to first down, and if you don't get
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  Speaker 2: six yards on first down, you're thinking, man, are we
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  Speaker 2: gonna be able to convert and stay on the field
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  Speaker 2: right third down? Just it's got to be near forty
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  Speaker 2: five to fifty percent if you want to go offensively
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  Speaker 2: where you think you can.
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  Speaker 3: That dynamic you talked about, it sort of feels like
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  Speaker 3: that's where they are. Every little failure. Okay, we got
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  Speaker 3: two yards on first down. Now we're in trouble. Right now.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like that's what the team's going through. And
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  Speaker 3: I even asked Trevor, how do you He said it
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  Speaker 3: was a good question, by the way, to hear that.
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  Speaker 2: I did hear that, yea.
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  Speaker 3: I said, thank you, Trevor. You hope that they can
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  Speaker 3: find that balance, because that's what I was asking, was,
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  Speaker 3: you know you're talking about urgency all week and then
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  Speaker 3: you want to go out and play relaxed. I thought
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  Speaker 3: he gave a great answer of you feel the urgency
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  Speaker 3: and you feel the focus all week so that you
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  Speaker 3: can not have to think on Sunday. They stuff to
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  Speaker 3: think on Sunday at some point though, So again a
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  Speaker 3: fascinating balance of how you find that calmness, that zen,
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  Speaker 3: whatever it is, and I kind of tailed off the
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  Speaker 3: question when I asked him, but I guess that's what
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  Speaker 3: they always go through. Yeah, that's what professional athletics is,
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  Speaker 3: is knowing that your job's on the line and still
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  Speaker 3: being able to relax and have fun. It just feels
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  Speaker 3: like particularly focused on that concept this week, and again
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait to watch it on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Done gets through this and gets this team firing. He's
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  Speaker 2: got a careers, some motivational speaking.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, he's already got book deals. He's already
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  Speaker 4: got one book. He can get ten more.
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  Speaker 1: All right, stay with us. We're gonna hear from our
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  Speaker 1: Falcons insiders. We look ahead to this weekend's game against Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: Come welcome back into jags am. On this Thursday, we
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  Speaker 1: get ready to go to the UK, So we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: check in with our Falcons insider. Tory mclhaney is joining
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  Speaker 1: us today because we're gonna talk a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons and the opponent that we're going up against,
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  Speaker 1: because this is gonna be a good one. Tory, did
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: you pack already? Are you a late last second packer?
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  Speaker 7: I just finished packing and we leave this afternoon, so
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  Speaker 7: I'm proud of you.
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  Speaker 3: You have her take.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I already realized I forgot my toothbrush,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm gonna have to make a run really quickly.
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  Speaker 1: But we make this trip pretty frequently. What's the preparation
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  Speaker 1: been like for the Falcons this week getting ready to go?
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  Speaker 7: Well, we don't go to London as much as you
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  Speaker 7: guys do, but we have been in the last two years.
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  Speaker 7: We went in twenty twenty one, and so I think
• 12:50
  Speaker 7: it's just kind of following a lot of the similar
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  Speaker 7: processes that I set up at that point. Now with
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  Speaker 7: a new team, with a bunch of new guys who
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  Speaker 7: weren't on this team, who were kind of making this
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  Speaker 7: trip forever, either the first or second time. So there's
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  Speaker 7: a little bit of everything going on.
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  Speaker 1: You guys were often a really hot start, kind of
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  Speaker 1: ran into the Lions dead on last week. Where's the
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  Speaker 1: team at? Where's the mentality at?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, So I actually think it's pretty similar to probably
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  Speaker 7: where y'all are. They're coming off of a loss that
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  Speaker 7: they wanted to be better, They wanted to play better
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  Speaker 7: against Detroit and they didn't, and they were shut out offensively,
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  Speaker 7: and so there's almost a sense of redemption I think
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  Speaker 7: on the line in London for this Atlanta Falcons team,
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  Speaker 7: where they want to go out and show that the
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  Speaker 7: first two games and what they were able to do
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  Speaker 7: there wasn't a fluke and that the Detroit game was tory.
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  Speaker 2: So much of the attention when it comes to the
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: Falcons is on Kyle Pitch, Bjeon Robertson, Drake London. Right,
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  Speaker 2: not enough people know outside of Atlanta and maybe the
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: NFC South that much about Desmond Ritter. So give us
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: a sense of where he is in year number two
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  Speaker 2: and you know where his confidence level is as a
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  Speaker 2: starting quarterback of this team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: So I think with Desney Rider, he is as comfortable
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  Speaker 7: and confident in the scheme as we've seen him. And
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  Speaker 7: I think even after the loss, I think it was
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  Speaker 7: still on some plays you see that he is really
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  Speaker 7: understanding what Arthur Smith is asking of him. And I
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  Speaker 7: think that that's what's gonna take time, is all of
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  Speaker 7: these pieces working together. You talk about Kyle Pitch, Drake
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  Speaker 7: Blend and John Robinson, Tyler, algebr Husband Ritter. These are
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  Speaker 7: all guys playing together for the very first time, and
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  Speaker 7: so there are some kings to work out, as we
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  Speaker 7: saw against Detroit, But this is an offense that has
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  Speaker 7: a lot of potential. It's just about finding ways to
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  Speaker 7: get into a rhythm early.
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  Speaker 3: Tory appreciate you doing this. What the concept of Arthur
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  Speaker 3: Smith as a coordinator and as a play caller always
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  Speaker 3: fascinates me because he's willing to run his way back
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: into games if he's down. There's that heavy commitment to
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: the run that he had in Tennessee and I sense
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  Speaker 3: that with the Falcons. Do teams have a tough time
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  Speaker 3: defending them because of that because his philosophy is so
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  Speaker 3: much different in some situations?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 7: I think what Detroit did well though, is that they
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  Speaker 7: completely took away the run very early, and the Falcons
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  Speaker 7: were in a lot of long first and second or
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  Speaker 7: second and third downs, and so they're kind of working
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  Speaker 7: behind the chains, and when you do that, you're in
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  Speaker 7: obvious passing down situations, and I think that's where the
• 15:21
  Speaker 7: Falcons kind of got off kilter. But when the run
• 15:24
  Speaker 7: game is going, as we've seen even last year and
• 15:27
  Speaker 7: bleeding into this year, the Falcons can do some really
• 15:30
  Speaker 7: dangerous things. With Jean Robinson, Tyler Algier and potentially Corderrell Patterson,
• 15:35
  Speaker 7: who may or may not have his twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 7: debut in London. We're still kind of waiting on that tory.
• 15:41
  Speaker 7: One more question before we get you out of here.
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  Speaker 7: At the defense, you guys have so many new starters
• 15:45
  Speaker 7: this year, a familiar face to us, Kalays Campbell of
• 15:47
  Speaker 7: course joining you guys, and you guys have really committed
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: to that and played probably a lot better than maybe expectations.
• 15:54
  Speaker 7: Have you been impressed what you've seen on the defensive
• 15:55
  Speaker 7: side of the ball so far.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: I really have been.
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  Speaker 7: You can really feel the money that was pumped into
• 16:01
  Speaker 7: this defense with guys like Jesse Bates and Kalayis Campbell,
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: but Dupre, David An Yamada, Cayden Ellis. I mean that
• 16:08
  Speaker 7: could go on and on, Jeff Akuda, who is working
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: his way back into this starting lineup. So for this defense,
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: they are kind of firing on all cylinders right now,
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  Speaker 7: even though they have some moments where you know, there's
• 16:22
  Speaker 7: some explosives giving up. But for the most part, this
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: is a defense that really turns it on, I think
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  Speaker 7: when it matters most, and that's something that over the
• 16:30
  Speaker 7: first three games of the season that has been very
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: evident to me that they get better as the game
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: goes on.
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  Speaker 4: Very good.
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  Speaker 1: Should be a good one, Tory. We'll see you at
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Wembley on Sunday. Thanks for joining us.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: Awesome, Thanks you guys. All right, stay with us.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: We'll preview our matchup coming up this week against the Falcons.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: Will do he will? He won't? He might seefter the break.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know all the characters necessarily and all that,
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: but I definitely I've watched all of them. Character it'll
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: be cool, it'll be interested, it'll be cool for the kids.
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: I think, you know, if I was a kid and
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: they did that for a football game, it'd be definitely
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: entertaining something i'd want to watch. But yeah, I don't know.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: Do you guys know what.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Character I'm supposed to be? Are they have?
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: They said that it's just me. Okay, just in Andy's room, tryer.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Lawren's talking about that toy story broadcast that they're going
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: to do between the Falcons and the Jaguars. We talked
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: a little bit about. I'm not just entirely sure how
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: it works. I'd imagine if I have no idea how
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: it was, I'm very intrigued to see what it looks like.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I'm a fan of it. Anybody you can get more involved,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: kids involved, whatever you have to do. I like the
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Nickelodeon games. I think that's kind of silly. My nephews
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: really like that, so more power to them. Have fun
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: with it.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to capture the young audience. And it's
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: not like you're going to keep watching the NFL on
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: that right medium to get older. But if it gets
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: kids fried up about it and they get interested, you know, hey, hey,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: maybe Taylor Swift will do the same thing.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Oh gosh, we can't do that. We don't have time.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Swifty all the way.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: I think I canve Nahim one song. The interesting part
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: is is that you know, with phones and with the
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Internet and everything, the kids can be distracted away from
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: the NFL, especially if their team isn't any good, right,
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: if the team that their parents follow isn't a good team.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: So this is an interesting it's an innovative way to
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: capture that young audience and get them on football.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Let's do it, all right, he will, he won't, he might.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: This Week for Us presented by Sabeth Brian.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Who you Got This Week?
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: I'll go Chad Muma. He will obviously start in place
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: of Devin Lloyd, and he'll be just fine. I talked
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: to him a bit in the locker room yesterday. He's smart,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: he's tough. He understands, kind of like Poulpa's Lesning, how
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: to overcome whatever weakness he may have. He knows how
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: to take his strength, which is his intellect, and apply
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: it to be in the right place at the right time.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: So I think he will be just fine. Now, look,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: he is not Devin Lloyd. He won't be your first
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: option to cover Kyle Pitts, as Lloyd has the height
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: and the length and the athleticism to be able to
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: do that. He won't be that guy. He may be
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: asked you at times, but he's not gonna be your
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: number one guy in coverage. That's going to be the
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: guy like Andre Cisco. But he might be your leading
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: tackler on Sunday. And I know that's normally Foye a
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Lucan spot, and foy is going up against his former
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: team and so he's probably gonna be very motivated. But
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I just think Muma is going to be that guy.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: He's rangy and he's going somebody's got a spy on
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Jean Robinson. Somebody's got to find him, and I just think,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: you know, they're gonna ask him to do what he
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: does and not to be Devin Lloyd. He runs and
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: he tackles that. I think he might have a really
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: big day in terms of a number of tackles.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: I think Mom is really good. I don't worry about
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: him at all, not being able to do it. The
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: one element he doesn't bring that Lloyd brings is just
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Lloyd's sort of magnetinetic feel for the ball. So I
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: don't know that Mom is gonna give you like the pick,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: but he's not gonna hurt you. No, And he's he's
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: faster than you think. Yeah. I went with Travis etn
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: and the second time gone with him in this. He's
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: been the MVP so far practice. Yeah, and he will
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: be good. He's he's been good every week, which leads
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: my quick he won't like quick transition there. You know,
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: this is probably more of a me thing. I keep
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: forgetting to sort of think about him going into the game,
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: and because I think I spent so much time worrying
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: and a lot of people have about the passing game,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera. Uh, but he might be the
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: best player on the team right now, the most productive player,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: and moreover, he might be the key to getting this
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: thing going. Everybody in the pre game when you look
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: at the analysis gonna be talking about John Robinson about
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: the Falcons running game, you kind of get the feeling
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: they got it going a little bit early last week
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: to Jag if they hadn't gotten behind. I think that
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: was a huge game for Travis. This might be where
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: people watching this game come in wanting to watch John
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Robinson and he's he's a wonderful player, but they might
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: finish the game thinking about Travis ETM.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: All Right, I'm going with Evan Ingram this week because
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: we're dealing with the drops. We're dealing with the drop sis.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: He will not disappoint because he is going to be
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: the leading pass catcher I think in this game against Atlanta,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: and I'll crew the won't disappointed because I combine them
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: together because I forgot what we were doing. But if
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: you need someone that's gonna catch the ball, he's sure handed.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Evan Ingram had drop problems early on in his career.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: He has worked past that he's now one with the
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: drug machine, so I think he's going to be someone
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: that you can focus on when you're trying to get
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: this offense going, and he might very well be what
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: you need to get this offense going, because then it
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: opens things up for everybody else.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: And that's what it's all about. Throw to the open guy,
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: and is it just as simple as that, guys, just
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: as simple as that. Let's hope.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's hope.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll be right back, we'll preview the rest
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: of the week. Stay with us.
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: I think that's the biggest thing, is when you're thinking
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: more than you're just reacting, it's hard to play. Actually,
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: at this level, it's hard to play that way. So
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: I think that's for all of us, you know, myself included,
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: is just to continue to challenge yourself to do that
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: and to prepare that way so when Sunday comes, you
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: can let it go and not think. So I think
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: that's kind of the challenge for us this week, and
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: I'm excited to see how we all respond.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, don't think, just play. What do you guys
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: think we'll get out of London?
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Won Yeah, I had a great feel for the first
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: game of the season. I don't have a feel for they.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I look last week, I said I thought it would
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: be a comfortable win over the Texans. I didn't think
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: that the Texans offensive line or defensive line would be
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: able to handle the Jaguars fronts, and they did. So
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: I can't legitimately sit here and say I know exactly
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: what we're gonna get. I do think they'll be able
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: to handle the adversity, and I think that we will
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: come out of London saying Okay, here they're back.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: I hope.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: So I'll do a reverse drinks and maybe that will work.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Or I'll wear mypposite outfit. We'll see what. We'll see
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: what works. I'm all about superstitions, whatever I have to
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: do to.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Pull my weight. Here, you guys, we're going to London.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: We'll see We'll give it to you.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: We're going to London, you guys, we'll see you later on.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: All the shows will be there next week, and of
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: course we'll have a recap where you after the game
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: on Sunday.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Enjoy it. M