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Mac & Bone Show - D Orlando Ledbetter Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We want to know our enemy a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to talk to D'Orlando Ledbetter, longtime media member
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  Speaker 2: in Atlanta. You've got to check out his bowtiesports.com and
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  Speaker 2: see what he's got going on as he still covers
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  Speaker 2: the Falcons. And D'Orlando Ledbetter joins us here on the
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  Speaker 2: Mac and Bone Show. Orlando, how you been, man?
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  Speaker 1: What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Mack and Bud, I've been doing pretty good, man.
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  Speaker 3: Everything's going well, just getting back in the flow here,
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  Speaker 3: getting ready for another season of Atlanta Falcons football.
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  Speaker 1: I love it, man.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, congrats on the sight, man. We love bow tie sports.
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  Speaker 4: You're looking good, man. You got the hat going on.
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  Speaker 4: You got the bow tie. You're pulling off the looks
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  Speaker 4: that Mack and I can't pull off.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I really appreciate that. Yeah. I'm trying to keep
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  Speaker 3: it classy on both sports.com.
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  Speaker 1: I glad to hear one of us is doing that.
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  Speaker 1: That's good to know.
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  Speaker 2: I have to start with the quarterbacks, Orlando. I, as
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  Speaker 2: ugly as it is, I got to start there. Who's
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  Speaker 2: your feeling? Like, do you think it's Cooper rush? Do
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  Speaker 2: you think it's Pennix this week? What's what's your gut feeling?
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  Speaker 2: And does it matter? Like, is there a reason to
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  Speaker 2: have confidence in either one of these guys? Well, I
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  Speaker 2: guess the Panthers giving up 59 might give y'all some confidence.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm thinking it's Cooper Rush based on talking to
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  Speaker 3: Michael on Wednesday. And he was talking about how good
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  Speaker 3: he was and how he felt and how he was close.
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  Speaker 3: And I said, hey, was that mean you could play
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday? And he's like, no, no, I didn't say that.
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  Speaker 3: So I think they are. Both of them are practices.
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  Speaker 3: But I think, you know, we might get an announcement
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  Speaker 3: today that they're going to go with Cooper and let
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  Speaker 3: Michael continue his rehab. as they get him back from
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  Speaker 3: his lower body and knee surgery.
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  Speaker 4: Orlando, what can Cooper Rush do to have success against
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  Speaker 4: this Panthers defense?
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's got to deploy all of the weapons. You know,
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  Speaker 3: last week, Bajon was able to get 29 touches for
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  Speaker 3: 173 in a touchdown. But Drake London, only two passes,
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  Speaker 3: one run, and Kyle Pitts was zeroed, one target. So
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  Speaker 3: he's got to move the ball around and, you know,
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  Speaker 3: deploy all of the weapons. It can't be just a
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  Speaker 3: one-person attack like it was last week up in Pittsburgh. D.
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  Speaker 2: Orlando Ledbetter, longtime Atlanta media member. Long time on the
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  Speaker 2: Falcons beat. Check out his website, BowtieSports.com. Orlando, we can't run.
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  Speaker 1: From it here.
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  Speaker 2: I can't, like, laugh at y'all's quarterback situation and not
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  Speaker 2: acknowledge that giving up Luke Keekly's jersey number last week
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  Speaker 2: to the Bears is not embarrassing. All right?
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  Speaker 1: It's pathetic. It's sad. Are y'all looking at it in
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta and feeling.
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  Speaker 2: Like, oh, that defense is– we might be able to
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  Speaker 2: get some confidence on offense or– Are y'all so down
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  Speaker 2: in the dumps about the offense right now that no
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  Speaker 2: one's really believing that?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think maybe the Panthers did a tribute to
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  Speaker 3: Luke since he went in the hall this summer.
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  Speaker 1: That's very nice of them.
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  Speaker 3: Very nice of them, no doubt. But no, the Falcons
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  Speaker 3: are in no place to make any fun of anybody
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  Speaker 3: that kicked them in the face twice last year. They're like, no,
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  Speaker 3: we're not putting any stock in that. We went up
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  Speaker 3: there last year. They body slammed us 30 to nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Then came down here and put it in our face 30-27. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they're not taking any stock in that. They were writing
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  Speaker 3: that as a one-off. They know the Panthers are going
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  Speaker 3: to come in here tough and ready to play. Derrick
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  Speaker 3: Brown's already mad. So, yeah, they're not. They're, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just putting that as one of those early season games that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, stuff just didn't work out because nobody practices anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Then you go play these real games and Now they're
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  Speaker 3: going to be firing on all cylinders, so nobody's putting
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  Speaker 3: too much stock in that outing by the Panther defense.
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  Speaker 4: Of the Falcons' defense that we'll see Sunday, what is
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  Speaker 4: the strength of that unit, and where can the Panthers
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  Speaker 4: take the most advantage of that group?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the strength is up the middle with
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  Speaker 3: the big guys they've got now, Mason Smith and Javon Dixon,
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  Speaker 3: linebackers Devon Diablo, Kendall Daniels, and then the safeties. So
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  Speaker 3: where are you going to have to attack them is
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  Speaker 3: outside on the edges. You know, James Pierce is out,
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Walker is out. And, you know, the quarterbacks are A.J.
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  Speaker 3: Terrell and Michael Hughes. So you got to try to
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  Speaker 3: go after those guys outside and work the edges in
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  Speaker 3: the run game. That's the way I would attack this defense.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like, I did not see the game against
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  Speaker 2: the Steelers, but just kind of looking at all the
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  Speaker 2: numbers on PFF and reading about it, it feels like
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  Speaker 2: the defense, even without those edge rushers, was pretty darn
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  Speaker 2: good last week.
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  Speaker 1: Were they good last week?
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  Speaker 2: Was it Pittsburgh being bad on offense?
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  Speaker 1: What happened for that side of the ball, do you think?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they did a pretty good job against the run.
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  Speaker 3: They ran to the ball was what Coach Olbrich said
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  Speaker 3: they did particularly well in game tackles, holding the running
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  Speaker 3: game at 21-58. And then just the timing in the
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  Speaker 3: passing game was off for the Steelers. They had a
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  Speaker 3: couple shots down the field. D.K. Metcalf dropped four balls.
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  Speaker 3: You know, A.J. had a pass interference, 35-yarder that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when he got beaten on, he tripped the guy up.
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  Speaker 3: So the Steelers had opportunities to attack in the passing game,
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  Speaker 3: but wasn't able to run it at all. So, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that was a big concern coming into the season was
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  Speaker 3: whether the Falcons could stop the run. So if they
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  Speaker 3: could continue to stop the run, that'll help them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they did get some people. We're open last week, but
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  Speaker 3: the time was off with Rodgers and this new guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw he was 0 for 6 on deep passes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hoping Bryce can take advantage of those opportunities where
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  Speaker 2: the old man could not. All right, well, hey, it's
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  Speaker 2: always good catching up with you, man. It seems like
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  Speaker 2: you are keeping your energy and your fire and your
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  Speaker 2: good vibes, despite the quarterback situation in Atlanta today.
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  Speaker 1: Keep it going, baby.
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  Speaker 2: And everybody, if you want to know intel on the enemy,
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  Speaker 2: the Atlanta Falcons, bowtiesports.com.
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  Speaker 1: Check it out. Orlando, thanks so much for coming on, man.
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  Speaker 1: Always appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, guys. Thanks for having me. Have a great day. Thanks, Orlando.