 ahead on early birds a slow start and a fast rising challenge for the Falcons and your mindset's got to be Yeah, we didn't like what happened a whole one. We got 71 just like those guys come out of the first round of those major It's a physical mental grind and that's what the NFL is as Atlanta prepares for the champs We get you ready for week two AJ Terrell talks Tom Brady and being a high school football fan Plus shock at the big board and Joe Hamilton on the QB Dilemma in dogtown that more ahead on early birds All right, good morning and welcome into early birds the Falcons stumbled in week one But hey glass half full says they've got a great opportunity to write the ship tomorrow Let's get things started with the opening drive. So DJ that was glass half full doing so will be difficult against Tom Brady and the Defending Super Bowl champions. No doubt about it. I mean we all know the accolades of Tom Brady What he's done over the years that he continues to play at a high level. We got to find a way to get to him We got to find a way to distract him. We got to find a way to get him off his spot We have to flush the time Brady as tough as that sounds We have to find a way to do it because if not people continue the same trend All right, Arthur Smith the head coach no surprise tons of respect for the Buccaneers and their future Hall of Fame QB That's a very good veteran team. They've won, you know, they won I believe nine in a row including last year ahead on early birds a slow start and a fast rising challenge for the Falcons and your mindset's got to be Yeah, we didn't like what happened a whole one. We got 71 just like those guys come out of the first round of those major It's a physical mental grind and that's what the NFL is as Atlanta prepares for the champs We get you ready for week two. AJ Terrell talks Tom Brady and being a high school football fan Plus shock at the big board and Joe Hamilton on the QB Dilemma in Dogtown that more ahead on early birds Your favorite Joe and the silk Falcons football on early birds presented by Mercedes Benz All right. Good morning and welcome into early birds the Falcons stumbled in week one But glass half full says they've got a great opportunity to write the ship tomorrow Let's get things started with the opening drive-in shock Doing so is gonna be not so easy against Tom Brady and the defending Super Bowl champion buccaneers Yeah, I've just no doubt about that. He has been one of the more dynamic players in our entire league because of his longevity He has tons of accolades. He's seen everything. So it's gonna be tough to get to Brady But we had to find a way to get off the spot We got to find a way to fluster them confuse them as hard as that Maybe you have to find a way to do that because if not it may be the same old task All right other than that piece of cake, right? Are there Smith? No surprise from the coach tons of respect for the buccaneers and their future Hall of Fame QB That's a very good veteran team. They won You know, they won. I believe nine in a row including last year. That's a team You know, it's it's all about tail of two seasons I mean you look at them last year and they drew a line in the sand and they continued to improve and everybody saw what they did and And it's everybody but the one thing I do know about Tom Brady is he's gonna say he's probably the Best or one of the best I've ever seen with situational football. You make mistakes. He's gonna expose you You make errors All right continuing the opening drive now It's week one shock and we're doing this already Questioning the protection of Matt Ryan, especially the interior Oh line the Eagles got to the Falcons quarterback a whole bunch way too much than you like Tampa base tough front up front tough Outfront Vita Vaya inside. So so what do they do? Yeah, that's tough I mean you're talking about it. Domica Sue as well period Paul if he plays I mean there are a bunch of guys who can really get after the court of it But I think you have to get rid of it fast You can't hold on to it You can't have opportunities where Matt's sitting back there in a seven-step drop and you have an opportunity to get to Get rid of the football moving do some play action get them on the edges all those things I help will help a young offensive line get going. I think that's a bigger part of alright Matt Ryan says his young Offensive line have handled the weak like pros For some of these young guys, it's their first real opportunity, you know to have a full game evaluation and learn from that and and make the adjustments and You know, I think it's gonna be good for them. I think you can learn a lot early in the season You know, I remember myself just from week to week as a young player making huge strides And as we wrap up the opening drive DJ Tom Brady, I mean we mentioned him once or twice already He doesn't eat bread and he doesn't lose to the Falcons so shock How do they hand the Golden Boy career loss number one against Atlanta? We got to turn him over I think that's the only way take possessions away from them Don't allow them to have those longest in the drives and don't give them the deep ball like we see here They live on these deep plays. They live on these big momentum plays Don't give them those turn the football over and force Brady to look average as hard as that will be if you do that We can get a W on Brady. We'll see if they can do that Falcons and Buccaneers tomorrow here on Fox 5 Welcome into early birds alongside former Falcons and UGA quarterback DJ Shockley. I'm Justin Felder and Atlanta Well, they projected confidence in flowery branch all week long. So DJ Brady aside, that's a big part of it Of course, how do they make all that confidence pay off? Well, I think you first off you can't do what you did last week You can't have the foolish penalties. You can't have the false starts You can't be behind the change you have to find ways that you're doing things the right way as far as on both sides of the Ball getting lined up getting in position But you can't hurt yourself in game that puts you behind a change or give them reasons where you're just giving stuff away So play smart football, but don't do what you did last week. That's for sure Won't be easy Falcons taking on the Buccaneers shock time to get your jack sparrow on because we know you are the captain Go warm up the Telestrator. We will see you in a few But first Falcons cornerback AJ Terrell has a favorite word when we talked earlier this week Just about every one of his answers included the word Compete that he does every Sunday and that he did during training camp often in very entertaining tangles with Calvin Ridley I asked Terrell about that and what he gains from squaring off so often with the Falcons top receiver at practice and in camp You know, I gained a lot each day we came out of competed You know like I've been said before you know, I'm gonna give my best He gave me his best and we just compete every day just get ready for games on Sunday Is that something that's agreed upon is it kind of unspoken that you two would go head-to-head so often It's really just no expected between Me and him like when we line up we just know to just go all out and just you know compete against each other No, just get ready. So you're kind of a quiet guy when we talk to you now with a year and the game in the books How much do you talk on the field when you're lined up across from wide receiver? You know, I you know, I play my game. I don't let you know too much get up and get me out my comfort zone And if any chirping or whatever happens, you know Glad to you know be with it talk, you know, go back and forth all we want You were two years old when Tom Brady made his debut, but he was dominating when you were kind of getting into football Do you remember watching him on those Patriots teams growing up? Yeah, definitely remember him all around the lead just make a place and you know Going to championship Super Bowls and they still doing it today. So, you know, it's definitely Blessing is you know be here today playing against you guys went against him twice last year and he had a lot of success He threw for a 390 both times six touchdowns What was he able to do last year against you guys that you have to stop him from doing this time? You know just he just made more plays We just got to stop that going into this week and just continue to look at our keys on film and just being able to defend it So when we heard from coach Smith earlier, he told us he told you guys this was like a golf tournament, right? You guys had a bad first hole, but you got a whole bunch left How do you guys take what happened in week one shove it aside and turn things around for a tough week, too? All right, you know, it should be you know simple just got put things to rest Continue, you know, we got 16 games left so being able to look for have short-term memory And just be able to come back this following week So we do and you know, we're a big high school football station now being back second year in town What's it like being a high school football fan senior brother at Westlake? It's definitely a blessing just going back and just you know being able to show face often in You know just give back a little bit, you know just being in the presence of my high school It's definitely a blessing for myself and my little brother Well, if you remember last week we talked about people who can affect a game and defensively it was a defensive lineman Where this week we're talking offense and tomorrow There's gonna be a guy on the offensive side that can affect the game Just as much as any defensive guy and his name is Rob Grinkowski and look at on this particular play here Here's Rob Grinkowski here. He's gonna start in this typical tight end position But this particular play here you have to get your hands on he's gonna get a free release And he's gonna run right down the scene when he runs down the scene you have to get your hands on You got to reroll them you got to get it get him off his track But if you don't do that, he's gonna have free access to run right down the middle of the field And as the play starts you can see here nobody gets their hands on them now He's got free access. Look at this nobody touches it So now he's going to get into this linebacker because of his size because of the speed he can run now You'll reroll him he gets to stay on this particular plane And as you see he finished it and watch him go up and get this football This is a physical receiver from the tight end spot. I said receiver. Yes because he plays like a receiver You have to be able to fight through the hands there of Rob Grinkowski and get that ball Now here's another particular play that they use a mess. You see he's in the same tight end spot here He's in that tight end spot, but also they use them in multiple ways. He's the guy that can catch screens He can go down the field vertical, but on this play He's going to be used in the screen game and you see here. They're gonna dump it off to him It's like three linemen out front. This is an excellent job of the 10-babe Buccaneers using Rob Grinkowski We got to find out where he is at all times and make sure that we got a body on them And we reroll them because he can make you pay Great breakdown shot. Thanks so much more to come on early birds quarterbacks a plenty in the sec each Joe Hamilton's here to explain How the dog should be handling things plus? There's varying amounts of responsibility Depending on how they scheme things He is at the center of the action, but he might be doing a lot more than you or I realized We're going deep with the Falcon Center next on early birds Falcons fans score a touchdown with low tire prices at Mavis tires and brakes the official tire retailer of the Atlanta Falcons Visit Mavis tire calm the finder store near you And bought to you by George a lot of today could be the day But she was committed to a better future by truest BNT and Sun trust are now truest here again. It's Fox fives Justin Felton All right, we welcome in our college football expert Joe Hamilton former Georgia Tech QB Let's start off in Athens where Georgia getting ready to kick off SEC play against South Carolina So Joe the dogs don't have a quarterback controversy because it's JT Daniels job when he's healthy But there's a little bit of QB drama in Athens. How do you think it's playing out? Well first and foremost I don't know when coach Kirby smart is gonna play JT Daniels and what he thinks a hundred percent healthy is for him going forward Can you play my 92? Can you play my 95%? But you are absolutely right. It's JT Daniels job to lose But the backup Stetson Bennett costing back what I would want if I'm a player is that a coach Kirby smart Todd Malkin and then those guys are very honest with saying this is how we're gonna evaluate you through the week And if we in the media don't know who to start in quarterback, I think that's fine But if Carson back or Stetson Bennett don't know until the end of the week You're not communicating well that might be a problem brewing that after it's going forward the second the second team quarterback What what a good problem to have who's gonna be your backup because your starter is so set Let's stay in the SEC another team with some quarterback questions The Florida Gators taken on Alabama big SEC showdown today. Joe any chance the Gators can run with the tide? Oh, absolutely. They can definitely run. You didn't say B You said run with the tide And they're gonna be very very comfortable and confident they can get it done But you can't not get it done with without a mobile elite playmaking quarterback Johnny Menzel the dude threat quarterback to show them why I said keep an eye on Richardson because you might let you know Surprise you in practice with the reason the decision-making, but on Saturdays when I like to the lights are bright He's a gamer. He's a ball player. So you got to have a Script ready for him to take over this game as well. Yeah, and you got emory Jones former high-five sports guy out I heard when disappointing we'll see he'll have a chance on a big stage to turn that around Another big stage for your yellow Jacks this week. They got win number one last week against Kennesaw State Tough one against Clemson today I'm not gonna ask you to pick this game unless you want to pick the Jack Let's go for it, but nobody likes moral victories But what would a win look like for Georgia Tech even if they don't have more points at the end of the day? My goodness good quick move to change No pre-staff errors Clemson is good enough to whether they can beat you on their own They don't need your help make sure that if you have some trick-ums of the after reverses Maybe some flea flickers or what I have you in the game playing onside kick Surprised me you utilize that when the big players present themselves you take advantage of it and at the end of the day Me personally could you ask my direct question? I want to come out of half-time with at least Clemson start is playing in the game is not in hand already I want to win. I believe we can win. That's the message in the locker room. Yeah I believe says that you're not good enough yet. Tell wise So I have to take some morality out of it And I want to come out of the second half being at least in the game And if Georgia Tech scores that upset we will certainly talk about it next week All right Joe enjoy the games today. We appreciate it shock. We'll send it over to you All right appreciate it fellows a lot of focus will be on the Falcons office of line this week The man in the middle is Matt Hennessey and there's much more to his job than just making sure Matt Ryan gets the ball Exactly where he likes it. I can tell you from experience. Trust me The center's job is a crucial part of the office success now. It's time to go deep with the Falcons center Matt Hennessey There's varying amounts of responsibility Depending on how they scheme things but as a center, there is there's a good bit on your plate So as far as getting up to the line of scrimmage, there's obviously a winding plate clock Matt obviously has a cadence He goes through so we'll go up there There's multiple moving pieces schematically on our end as well as their end I think that more of a puzzle than anything But you're also on the clock. So there's that stress put into it You know, there's vocal things I do to get us all aligned. There is a stress You know having the winding plate clock and getting everything coordinated I mean you realize that when you go and you sit in the cold meeting room and your feet are up And you kind of see everything it looks pretty easy. Then you get out there and being out there is definitely a different thing But it's um, it's a great challenge, but I love I love being able to command it So is that something that you can practice like Matt could sit at home and practice calm play calls all night long? Can you you know pop in film and say okay? Here's what I would be doing as I'm getting to the line like kind of get those mental reps Yeah, yeah, and I think that's what as far as becoming a better professional I think that's something that I'll really try to improve on really trying to put yourself within the film See how the alignments will be against you know opponent scout and then what we're doing Put yourself on the clock and try to work through things It'll always be different when you're out there and you got like a 330 pound nose breath on your neck But um, but there's there's definitely some some grounds to be gained there Welcome back in to early birds Well the Falcons of course do everything they can to head into week two with as short as possible injury report But so often during a season injury decisions will go right up until game time If it makes you sweat your fantasy football team think about how the actual medical professionals feel Here's falcons team physician kyle hammond in this week's emory road to recovery That discussion is kind of On the hour kind of you know through friday through saturday if they're at the team hotel It's still getting treatment. We're still talking about it and then come to the game three or four hours in advance We're doing treatment then we're getting ready We'll go out to the field usually a couple hours in advance and that athlete or that player will test whatever he's dealing with right We'll position specific things that he needs to do to perform And then he's got to feel safe right and I've got to feel safe for him that it's okay to play And that's how we make those decisions. We usually try to make those at least a couple hours in advance of the game though Just to give the coaches some some heads up But like I said, they they don't love it that way and I watch them and our training staff watches them too We look for asymmetries. We look for them favoring something. We look for just subtleties in the way that they're running or cutting Where we may Not only be worried about them injuring that same spot that they're dealing with but possibly injuring something else because they're favoring Some injury. So we're very careful with that You know and we like I said first and foremost listen to the athlete Oh Very interesting. I mean dj last time I was a game time decision was when the coffee maker was broke in the morning Were you ever a game time decision? Yeah, I was a lot of times in in college And sometimes it was because the coach wanted to have a little competitive advantage But then there were times where I didn't know how I felt until I got onto the field that actual day Or that actual morning to get out there at play So sometimes you are a real game time decision But then sometimes there is times where the coaches are trying to play a little mind games with these guys All right more to come on early birds despite the falcons getting off to a slow start It's got Tampa Bay's respect. You'll hear why next on early birds This has been presented to you by Mercedes Benz the best or nothing Falcons fans score a touchdown with low tire prices at mavis tires and brakes The official tire retailer of the Atlanta falcons visit mavis tire.com to find a store near you All right, falcons and bucks tomorrow here on fox five There will certainly be a lot of experience on the field against one another tom brady The model of that has been a quarterback in three different decades in the nfl matt ryan No slouch himself with over a decade of nfl experience brought to the table But it of course doesn't just end with the players buccaneers head coach bruce arians has been in the nfl as far back As 1989 one man that he's had coaching experience against Is none other of course than falcons defensive coordinator Dean peas peas faced off with arians in the a of c matchups while he was with the ravens And arians was the offensive guru for the stealers both men bring over 30 years of pro coaching experience to the table tomorrow And besides that arian says he's been impressed with what he's seen from falcons new head coach arthur smith I've known arthur for a while. Yeah, well, he was a g at memphis way back and He's worked his way up and he's a hell of a football coach totally different defensively, you know Dean peas is very multiple every front known to man every blitz known to man and I think they're all still filling each other out what they can do what they can't do so We've got to be ready for everything offensively Arthur's going to run the ball And it's going to be the wide zone wide zone wide zone bootleg bootleg And but they when they drop back to pass matty matty can put it out there And he still throws the deep seven rounds as goes anybody Well, we'll see if the falcons can bounce back from that week one loss Buckoneers and falcons tomorrow afternoon here on fox five highlights interviews and so much more on the dirty bird report tomorrow night at 11 30 p.m Make sure to tune in and as we wrap things up shock one more matchup to watch tomorrow afternoon I want to see aj terrell take away mike avis take away Antonio brown take away godwin take away one of those guys be effective have a great game And find a way to slow those bucks down a lot of different weapons there for tom brady on offense Aj terrell can do his part We saw him earlier in the one-on-one and we will see if he helps the falcons to their first win Well, that is it for us here on early birds. Make sure to join us right back here every saturday at 8 30 for our quarterback DJ Shockley i'm justin felder make it a great weekend