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And we're going to, I mean, there's lots to talk about about this game about what the Falcons are looking at, what the Cardinals have added under center. We'll talk about him a little bit later, but lots of talk about obviously not the best game that the Falcons had last week against the Vikings. And we don't have to really recap that. But when you look at the game, what needed to change moving into this Cardinals game today? Well, I think you got a lot of the common themes. Some struggles in the red zone, which need to get fixed out, fixed, right? You got too many times we're kicking field goals and we need to score touchdowns. Anytime you get first in goal from the one yard line, it almost has to be like an automatic touchdown, right? There's no better field position that you could get from your defense than first in goal at the one yard line and Atlanta had to settle for a field goal. That just can't happen if you want to win games in the national football league. And then like I've been harping on week after week and I'll give you a little bit of a clue for later, it's not going to be one of my keys, but the turnover issue has to get fixed. It's starting to get a little bit better, but it's not so much that you want to wash. It's not so much you want a one-one game. It needs to be a win. Like you need to win the turnover margin three to zero, which means you're not turning it over. You're taking the ball away from their offense and you're creating a huge advantage. So if you're not able to fix some of those issues, that's why you're going to kick field goals and you're going to find yourself really with the game on the line at the end of the game because you're not scoring enough points. You just got to punch it in for touchdowns. Yeah, and speaking of touchdowns though, one of the most electric touchdowns from last week was from Janus Smith. It was a 60 yard touchdown, which is actually his second longest touchdown with in his time in the NFL. His longest touchdown is 61 yards though, just one yard short of making a new record for himself, but he actually sat down with me earlier in the week to kind of talk about what that touchdown was like, so go ahead and take a look. I haven't seen John to move like that since I was with him in Tennessee. I mean, he was rolling. First at 15, quick throw to the perimeter and cutting free is Smith. John Doos set sail and Atlanta scores. It was like I said, man, those guys got out there. They got an open space, Drew and Caleb, Mike Cole, you know, the whole line, man. And Chris, you know, those guys, you know, you know, sprung it open for me. You know, those guys made it easy. And, you know, I saw a little bit of daylight and, you know, took it upon myself to make sure nobody catch me. In the tunnel, Janus Smith goes snow angel. As soon as you hit it, you just fouled. Well, no, actually, I mean, I was, you know, I didn't. I was kind of, you know, excited. And I think right when I fell through my hands up, like, ta-da, you know what I mean? So that was kind of like, look what I can do. And then I started making some snow angel. So I tried to play it off. The fall didn't hurt as bad as everybody thinks, but it was definitely a cool moment. That was real. You could feel that on the sideline. I hadn't seen that. And I've been with him a couple of years, but even watching the film, that's exciting. It's a lot of trust, you know, between me and Art and, you know, my ability. So, you know, just me going out and trying to make plays and being explosive and, you know, trying to, you know, make sure that the first guys bring me down, you know what I mean? And that's kind of, you know, kind of been my, kind of what I've been hanging my head on, you know, with the ball in my hand. So just making sure that I, you know, I'm doing everything I can do to put our team in the best situation in one game. And I mean, it's been fun to watch Chinook go to work lately, hasn't it? Yeah, it is. It's been so fun. But I did ask him, because I mean, I don't know if y'all saw all the celebration. I'm sure, I mean, we showed it in that feature. When, as soon as he hit that, like landing, that tunnel, like the feet just come right, I mean, it's like a banana in a Mario Kart. You just like slip. And I asked him, I was like, did you see your life flash before your eyes? And he was like, no, I really didn't like have the time for my life to flash before my eyes. So I'm glad I didn't break like a risk going down, like breaking the fall or anything. Nah, he played it off really well. Very well. He mentioned that it didn't even hurt when he fell and then he started to break off the snow angels a little bit. I mean, in all seriousness though, I think he's been the absolute best addition that they thought that they could be getting when they signed him. Okay. And what I mean by that is a compliment to Kyle Pitts. They wanted that second receiving option from the tight end position that they could count on to make some big time plays. You got a chance to see that in that touchdown last week. Think about this. Here's a little bit of perspective. So far, he's got 34 receptions, 422 yards. We're through nine games. That's already the third best performance of a season in his seven year career. We still have eight games left to go this year. So there's still a lot of production. So think about what he's doing so far this season. Both of those numbers, by the way, tied for second on the team. He's tied for first in touchdowns with the two that he's got this year. So he's been that offensive spark that they've needed. And you got a chance to hear from him just going out there trying to make plays for his team when he needed to. By the way, coach Arthur Smith said, hadn't seen that from him since Tennessee. 21.15 miles per hour. So you might be asking yourself, well, what is that? Let's just put it into perspective. You walk on a treadmill at what, about three and a half miles per hour. If you're running, who depends on how fast you are. Six to seven miles are if you're doing distance, right? Six to seven miles an hour? 21 miles an hour. So fast. That's a little bit of comparison. That's like driving through your neighborhood. Yes. Like the speed that you should be driving throughout your neighborhood. Insane. And I asked him about that, about Arthur Smith saying, this is the best I've seen Genuse since back in my Tennessee days. And I said, how does that make you feel? And he said, I feel great. My body feels good. My body's responding to me like, this is, I can feel me like continuing to progress throughout the season, which is exactly what you want. And something else I noticed in that feature, Arthur Smith's mustache. Yeah. Gone. Gone. He did say he regretted it though. It's been a very important conversation throughout this week. Yeah. A lot of people have been asking about it. I mean, it's been like the like side mess, like side conversation of the Falcons all season long. And he, he said he shaved it off like three in the morning and he regretted it almost instantly. It's coming back. It's coming back. And maybe it'll be back in a little bit more of that Arthur Smith fashion today as they take on the Cardinals, excuse me. And let's just go ahead and talk about this Cardinals team that Arthur Smith and the Falcons will be going after today in Arizona. When you look at this Cardinals team, I mean, obviously Kyler Murray is back in Undercenter, obviously. Throughout the week, it kind of came to fruition of, if he's not back off of the pup, off of the pup, excuse me, by Wednesday, he will be out for the remainder of the season. Obviously they activated him on Wednesday and he will be the starter today for this Cardinals offense. So what kind of player is Kyler Murray? Haven't seen him all year. What can we expect from him today? Yeah, so you got to obviously go back to December 12th last year, which was his last game, to ended up having the knee injury, have not seen him since. So a lot of things have changed since then, right? New head coach, new offense, and we haven't seen Kyler Murray in this new offense. But what we do know about Kyler Murray is he was an electric player. He's a former number one overall pick and he has got athleticism upon athleticism upon athleticism. A lot of people would sit there and say, okay, well what kind of Kyler Murray are we gonna see today in his first game back from a knee injury? And I go back to a quote that he was talking about earlier in the week and he said, I basically know one way to play. I'm gonna go out there and I'm gonna play my game because Jonathan Gannon was saying, well yeah, it might be a good idea if we kind of just let him get his feet underneath himself and maybe be a little bit more cautious and everything. Here's one thing I could tell you, don't be cautious with any player because that's how you end up getting hurt is playing slow. Kyler Murray came out and said that I'm gonna play my style of game, which means he's gonna look down field, he's gonna try to find his receivers, but if he's got the ability to get outside the pocket, he's gonna do it because he's got that kind of athleticism. You got a guy here that was a 2019 AP offensive player of the year. When he had just a phenomenal season, he ended up having 11 rushing touchdowns that year, 26 passing touchdowns. That's what you can get out of Kyler Murray. What are we gonna get today? I don't know, there's no Deandre Hopkins there. We do know that he's getting back James Connor. So that's gonna help the run game a little bit, but it's still so much of an unknown, especially for this defense, you don't really know how to prepare for Kyler Murray in this offense. You can look at what they've done previously, but the other quarterbacks have not been what Kyler Murray brings to the table. Exactly, and you talk about playing style and then like not having a Deandre Hopkins and having a new offensive coordinator and new head coach as well. It's a lot of new scheme for Kyler and yeah, when you get into practice, you can find your rhythm pretty simply when you get into practice and you're doing those routes and you're trying and doing it over and over and over again. But the question is, will he be able to do that today under an NFL pocket in real game time action? And the question I'm interested to see is how quickly he and the rest of this Cardinals offense will be able to find that rhythm under Kyler today. Yeah, kind of snap back into what he used to do, right? Like how quickly can they get back there or does it end up being one, two, three drives? Does it end up being the third quarter? And for the Falcons sake, hopefully is the third quarter when maybe he tries to find some rhythm because then maybe you've developed a 14 to three lead at some point throughout the game if that happens. But he has got the ability, he's got the confidence. Trust me, if he's healthy enough to play, he's gonna go out there and he's gonna try to make people miss. So there's a lot of things that go into it. I don't wanna just sit here and say that he is a running quarterback, but he does have over 2200 career rushing yards from the quarterback position in somewhat of a short career, right? He hasn't played throughout the entire 2023 season. So this was the stats that he had last year before he ended up going down 2368 passing yards, 14 touchdowns. I will say if you go back and look at his career, Taylor, he does have the propensity to throw interceptions. He'll give you some opportunities to pick the ball off. So are you there defensively to make those plays? And if the ball hits your hands, do you secure the catch? Like so many times you see the ball comes right to a defensive back, hits the hands and drops on the turf. When you get those opportunities, you've gotta make those plays. If the defensive line tips the ball at the line of scrimmage, you've gotta make those plays. So there will be some opportunities if you look at the history of Kyler Murray to get some interceptions, but you gotta be there and ready to make those plays. Right, big day for Kyler Murray and the Cardinals offense, but also a big day under center for the Falcons as well, Taylor Heineke making his second start today. Arthur Smith gave that distinction earlier in the weekend. He also said after the buy, whoever the starter is for the Saints game will be the starter for the remainder of the season. So Taylor Heineke spoke to media earlier in the week and said that this is kind of a super bowl like feel for this team. How important is this win to like get a win and then go into the buy? How important is this win for the Falcons Tuesday? It's big for a number of reasons. It's big and I don't want to get cliche here, but like every NFL player, every NFL coach will tell you that the next game is the biggest one on your schedule. Like it's so important because you get limited opportunities in the national football league. It's big because you mentioned to start the show, Taylor, that Atlanta has been struggling the last few weeks of missed opportunity against the Vikings last week, a game that they felt like they should have won. And then we're talking about going on the road this week against a one in eight Arizona Cardinals team. I know we just talked about the conversation with Kyler Murray, but this is a one in eight football team that lost six straight football games. They're coming off a 27 to nothing drubbing last week at Cleveland. And if you think things are bad for Atlanta and how they've been playing recently, think about the last week game for Arizona, okay? They lost three turnovers. They had seven total first downs in the game and they were one for 12 on third down. Okay, so just start thinking about where is Arizona in their head coming into this game at one in eight with the performance that they just put on the field last week at Cleveland? You think about, okay, where is Atlanta at? Is this their Super Bowl? Taylor Heinecki hyping this match up, talking about the importance of it. Arizona, they're not in the greatest place either, okay? So Atlanta maybe comes into this game with a little bit more confidence even though they're struggling because of the opponent, but that still means you gotta go out and execute. Taylor Heinecki has gotta execute on offense. Make sure he doesn't turn the ball over, get the ball in the hands of the playmakers, stay on schedule with the chains. And like we talked about at the top of the show, score touchdowns, not kick field goals. Let me say this about Arizona's head coach, Jonathan Gannon. He spoke after the shutout loss last week to media and he said, we couldn't run it, we couldn't protect it and we couldn't throw it. And you're gonna lose the ball game like that. Every single week, if you can't do those three things and the big question is will the Falcons be able to capitalize and force the Cardinals to not be able to do those three things again today. It's gonna be a really interesting matchup honestly. Yeah, I mean they get a couple guys back and we'll get into the inactives a little bit later but they're also gonna be missing one of their starting offensive linemen too which that plays into the favor of the pass rush, right? If you've got an opportunity to get after the quarterback, you don't have an important piece of the puzzle on the offensive line, you try to exploit it, right? So you find ways to get one-on-one matchups with a backup and see if you can find your way to get in the backfield but you gotta make sure the rush lane, the integrity of the rush lanes against this quarterback are so important. This is a copycat league which is what it means is if something hurt a team the previously, the other teams, they're watching it on tape and they're gonna see last week Josh Dobbs running the football against Atlanta and eventually getting a victory because of his ability to run the football and they're gonna say how can we recreate those situations to maybe get Kyler out on the edge or get him through the hole because he's got the same if not more athleticism as Josh Dobbs, oddly enough, who just came from Arizona. Exactly, so both teams looking for a win after a loss last week, obviously Arizona got shut out and what am I trying to say? Yes, to Cleveland, my goodness. And then obviously Falcons lost last week to the Vikings but someone who has been scoring so much recently, actually responsible for 43.3% of the Falcons points this year as Young Way Koo and actually he sat down with Bud Dupri, the linebacker for the Falcons on his show, Bud brought a buddy about how he became a kicker and how he kinda became one of the best kickers in the national football league so go ahead and take a look. And what did you find a little bit kicking? Like what made you, when was the first time you realized, damn, I can kick? So I grew up playing soccer but I was born in Korea. So in Korea they don't play football, you know what I mean? Like football is not really a main sport. It's soccer, baseball, honestly, when I moved to New Jersey in middle school, that's when I first saw football and what football looked like. I didn't even know the game of football existed until I moved to America. So that's when I first picked it up and you know, I think I told the story before but it was a lunch time. They're playing two-in-touch football. They gave me a football. I was like, hey, kick it off because they knew I play soccer. And I booted that thing and they're like, hey, you gotta come out and play football with it. So that's how I signed up for football. That's how I got into it. And then I just fell in love with the game, man. Like kicking was something that came naturally to me and I was good at. But I loved like playing football, like I played defense, offense, just like the physicality of it. That's like how I fell in love with that. You was here. I mean, I tried to. I feel you. I feel you. Man, Georgia Southern, Eagles. How was it? How was Statesboro? Different, you know, like going from Korea to New Jersey was a culture shock, obviously. Like the language barrier out to learning English. But then now going to South Georgia from Jersey itself was another culture shock. And everybody's shining like me. Right. Yeah, so like on my official visit, I had like grits for the first time, you know, like, yeah, you know, it was a mix it up. We got to put everything in it. So it's just everything. Yeah, it was different, you know, like, but I fell in love with it, man. Like I chose that school for a reason. When I went there, you know, they made me feel welcome, loved. And, you know, how football is the locker room's tight. And I loved it. And, you know, I left there after four years saying, yes, ma'am, no, ma'am holding doors, you know, all kinds of things. So it was good. That's dope, man. That's dope. I thought of you saying, cool, I first thought it was booing. Yeah. So your first time hearing that, what did you, did you think it was booing you? So that didn't happen for me in high school. Nobody did that. But when I got to Georgia Southern, that was the first time experiencing it. And it was my first field goal ever at Georgia Southern. I'm running out. And we were all like, hey, what are they booing? I haven't kicked the ball yet. But then we realized that we're cooing. I was like, okay. So that's when it became a thing, I guess. And then when I came over here, I was like, and it just like kept growing. And I was like, man, I mean, it's awesome to hear that. But that also means like, I gotta keep going. You know, I gotta keep making kicks. And cause I always think to myself, like that cooing can turn to booing quick. So, I just keep making them. Yeah, I love it. Real quick, he says, cooing can turn into booing. It's just the difference of one letter. Yeah. Real fast. You start missing some field goals. So that's going to happen. But that's not something that young Wayku has been doing throughout his career. I thought it was really impressive when I started looking into his career. He has not missed a field goal, Taylor, between 20 and 29 yards in his career. He is 41 for 41. Now granted, that's a short field goal, but you look at most kickers, every once in a while they're going to get one blocked or they're going to have a slight shank that's going to get pulled or something like that. He's not missed a kick between 20 and 29 yards. He's got 20 field goals this year, which is tied for the most in the NFL with Dustin Hopkins. So he has been one of those consistent weapons that we have. And you love to have a kicker like him on your team. You just hope that you can mix a few more touchdowns in with the Young Wayku field goal. Yeah, exactly. And it's been so fun to watch Ku. I thought it was so funny last week when the Vikings actually took that penalty after the Tylerology or touchdown. They're like, yeah, move them back, move them back. Like hopefully he won't make it. And I don't think anyone in the press box was like, sweating it. Like everyone was like, okay, time for another drink. He might miss the longer extra point. Yeah, no way. Ku, if anyone could do it, Ku is your guy. But speaking of some of the players today, obviously Bud Dupri will be back off of the inactives list this week. And let's just go ahead and get to those Falcons inactives. Obviously, Mack Hollins, D. Alford, and David Onymata are all three will be inactive today. I actually saw Mack Hollins here. He didn't even travel to the Cardinal. I saw him here this morning at Ticketmaster Studios. So they're all dealing with ankle injuries. David was questionable on Friday, but he will be inactive today. Yeah, so you got Contavia Street. Likely gonna have to fill in some shoes. We saw that they just traded for him last week before the Vikings game, made a couple of big plays in that game. So he'll have to step up again as well. And good news though, that they get a couple of guys back, Drake London and DeMarco Hellams, who had been out the previous week. Those guys will be back in the lineup. So maybe you get Drake London back in. You don't have Mack Hollins. They kind of replace each other's production. The one thing that we've known is that there's plenty of playmakers on the offense. We just talked about Janu Smith earlier in the show and what he's brought to this offense. And we haven't, I don't even think we've talked once this show about some guy named Bijan Robinson. He's pretty good too. And there's been a lot of talk around finding ways to get him the football more. So without having Mack Hollins, you don't have that big body to kind of post people up on some third down situations, but you still have plenty of other playmakers that you can get the ball to to move it up and down the field. Exactly, you talk about playmakers. And I think it's been really impressive in the last showings of Taylor Heineke how he's been able to get to the ball to a lot of the different playmakers. He doesn't have that like one receiver, one Titan that he really loves to throw to. He kind of throws it out to anyone that's available and anyone that's open. So it should be interesting to see how they bring back Drake Lennon today and utilize him throughout the field. Spreading the wealth around the field. Spread it around. I would love to see some touchdowns in that red zone as well, but let's go ahead and get to the Cardinals and actives as well as we know James Connor will be back for the Cardinals today, which is a big win for them. Having a newer quarterback, I guess you could say. Kyler is newer to this offense, helping him out in the back field. But who, I mean, who sticks out to you here on this inactive list? Yeah, so I talked a little bit earlier. DJ Humphrey is the starting tackle for Arizona. He's battling an injury as well that happened last week at Cleveland. So he's not going to be in the lineup. So that's maybe a matchup that Atlanta can try to take advantage of when you get a backup tackle in the game. You got to find a way to create some one-on-one matchups. Maybe Kaleis Campbell. Again, you can get real creative with how you do alignments to see if you can get those one-on-one matchups for a backup tackle. And Emari DiMarcato, who is the running back that you see inactive. He was actually the guy that had been filling in for James Connor, but he's got an injury. He's out. Connor's been the guy for them. He has been the running back that they wanted to be their number one all season long. Been battling an injury the last few weeks, but he gets back in the lineup. So both him and Kyler Murray, how close are they to 100%? How effective they are in this game? We'll say a lot about the progress of the Arizona Cardinals. Yeah, and you asked about, like, how good does Kyler feel? And he did speak to me at the end, said, if I didn't feel 100%, I would still be on that public. I feel good. I trust my knee. I'm gonna play. Like you said earlier, I'm gonna play to my fullest extent that I can possibly play. So that's gonna be a big challenge for Atlanta. Now the question is, how can the Falcons beat the Cardinals going into their bye week? This is the key to the game presented by Wells Fargo. So go ahead, Rack, what is the first key of the game today? Well, let's start with the first quarter. Let's win the first quarter if you're Atlanta. And it's kind of another way to camouflage, saying let's start fast in this game. But if you look at the course of the season for Atlanta through nine games, they've been outscored 33 to 30 in the first quarter. How has that happened? They've scored three touchdowns in the first quarter throughout this season. The other six games, they've either had field goals or they've been shut out. So what does that tell me? That they've generally been trailing or you've had tie games going into the second quarter, i.e. not starting fast. So find a way to start fast and win the first quarter. Get that touchdown on the board. Maybe it's an opening drive that you mentioned, Taylor, that Taylor Haneke just ends up spreading the wealth going down the field. You get Bijan Robinson involved in the game. You get Tyler Algier involved in the game. And you get a touchdown on the board. You play some stingy defense. Maybe Kyler Murray gets off to a slow start. Finish the first quarter 7-0, 10-0. That would be great start because now you get the other team a little bit more one-dimensional. Now maybe Kyler Murray's gotta drop back and throw it a little bit more. Remember that discussion that we had about giving you some opportunities with some interceptions? Then maybe you have an opportunity there to steal a possession away. Yeah, you mentioned that six of the nine games have either, they finished the first quarter with either three points or no points. And those three points obviously came from Koo and I asked Janue earlier in the week, how do you change field goals to touchdowns? How do you make that change? And he kind of laughed and was like, do you know the answer? I mean, we're trying. We are figuring it out. And he did make the distinction that they were really practicing that and they were focusing on that and practice this week of how to get in the red zone and to lock it in to punch those numbers in to get six points instead of three. So as the past player, how do you, I mean it's easier something than done obviously. But how do you change a field goal to touchdowns more and more throughout the season? A lot of times it's about play calling. It's not making mistakes. We saw that last week in the second quarter with the false start when you get first and one and all of a sudden first and goal at the one turns into first and goal from the six and then you get a negative yardage play and all the things start to snowball out of control. So how do you end up punching the ball in the end zone? Some of it's play calling, some of it's execution but a lot of it is just the basics. Don't take negative yardage plays whether it's a pre-snap penalty or it's any time you decide to run the football you gotta find a way to at least get back to the line of scrimmage or get something, get something positive because negative yardage plays in the red zone or close to the goal line are gonna end up killing you. Why is this so difficult? Because the field shrinks when you get down in the end zone. So you don't have the opportunity for your receivers to run the defense off. Your defensive backs, they sit, right? They just sit with their heels in the ground because there's nowhere else to go. And so they always got their eyes in the backfield on the quarterback, on the receivers and they never get a chance to turn their head away from the play. So that's why it becomes more difficult. You gotta find spacing, you gotta recognize zone versus man. There's all kinds of little things that happen in here but you can't hurt yourself. That's number one goal when you get down deep in the opponent territory in the red zone you can't have sacks, you can't have negative yardage runs and you surely can't have the penalties. Can not have penalties. So hoping to get that snowball effect going for that Falcons offense today what's the second key to the game for you? Well, we talked a lot about Kyler Murray and I think it's containing Kyler Murray because there's gonna be a number of opportunities in this game where Kyler Murray is going to take off whether that's some kind of design quarterback run or it's just him looking down the field and realizing that he doesn't have any options, good pass coverage by Atlanta and he's gonna find a lane, okay? And once he does find a lane, you've gotta find a way to get him down on the ground. If he does decide to break through, get him down behind the backfield, get him down at the line of scrimmage. Maybe give up one, two or three yards but you cannot afford to give him the big ones. We saw last week Josh Dobbs 66 yards rushing in that game against the Falcons and that proved to be one of the biggest difference makers for the Vikings driving down on that final drive to punch the ball into the end zone. We saw Baker Mayfield a few weeks ago had a 31 yard run. So again, Copycat League, they're gonna look and see there's some opportunities for the quarterback to get some runs. So maybe, Kyler, they start to play with a little bit of what we call robber or having some eyes in the backfield, right? You have a linebacker, you have a safety. Somebody has got their eyes on the quarterback instead of being in pass coverage, they're just mirroring what Kyler Murray does if he breaks out of the pocket that makes sure that you've got somebody in his back pocket basically an entire game. So he's not, you don't have everybody turning their back on a quarterback. It's one thing that it's really hard to do against a mobile quarterback is playing man coverage and you get people turning their back away from them then all of a sudden you got these huge holes that open up and you see a guy like Kyler Murray take advantage of it. Yeah, I mean it's gonna be exciting to see what he's able to do within the pocket and outside of the pocket if he's allowed outside of the pocket at all today because they've changed their offensive scheme obviously from last year to this year. They're obviously running the ball a little bit more. They're kind of spreading the wealth like a little bit more than they did last year but obviously last year they had Kyler Murray. So it's gonna be interesting to see how that scheme tweaks a little bit because you have a new quarterback under the center today. Yeah, absolutely. So all right, anyway, third and final key to today's game against the Cardinals. Got to play discipline for four quarters not just one or two or into the third quarter but for four quarters. What does playing discipline mean? Again, going back to the penalties, pre-snap penalties. If they can find a way to eliminate those completely from this game, they're gonna have a better chance of staying on schedule on offense. But not only that, but also just anytime you get near the sidelines, like you gotta have great decisions on defense. If Kyler Murray does end up running he gives himself going out of bounds. You don't wanna hit him outside of bounds and then all of a sudden you attack another 15 yards on top of the play. Conversely on offense, you're right. You don't wanna end up making those penalties holding or the personal fouls that end up backing you up to where you got second and 20, third and 25. Like situations as a play caller you don't wanna be in. And then I'll also throw turnovers into this mix as well because that has been an issue for the Atlanta Falcons. They gotta find a way to get the turnover battle in their favor. This kind of shows you the breakdown of how the two teams have been doing. You've got obviously the Cardinals at one and eight. They're minus two in the turnover margin. Atlanta is minus seven. You see that's number 31 in the National Football League. Tough to win football games when that's where you stand in a turnover margin. So find a way, you could put that into the big discipline category. When we run the football does everybody lock it down? Do they not have the ability to come from behind and rip the ball out? Taylor Heineck, he's gotta be great with it when he's in the pocket. If things get covered up sometimes taking the sack is better than giving over the turnover and somebody knocks the ball out of your hand. So it's just, it's decision making but it's disciplined for four quarters. We'll give them a really good chance to win this game. And playing like a professional, professional way. Playing buttoned up. You know, I think I said it last week, I think a little bit that the Falcons kind of underestimated Tennessee a little bit with will love us Anderson. And I think honestly a little bit too with the Vikings just a little underestimation for those two teams. So not playing the best in the most buttoned up football seeing a lot of penalties happen throughout the game. And as the game goes on those penalties got more and more and more egregious. So it's gonna be interesting. I hope that the Falcons can kind of button it up a little bit and play very professional football. I mean, it's the national football. He gets professional football. So hopefully they can play a little bit more professional. Yeah, I mean, it's even though it's Kyler Murray's first game in 2023. Everybody knows Kyler Murray and you know what he's capable of. So there's no way to overlook the talent that you're gonna see. Maybe you could do that with a Josh Dobbs coming off the sideline, trying to get his cadence and getting the phone, the play call from his, his offensive coordinator and head coach basically every single time. Here's what you're looking for. But they don't have to worry about that with Kyler Murray. They know this is a guy that can make plays. Yeah, he's gonna come in, gonna lock in and it's gonna be an interesting four quarters for these two teams. So I honestly, when you look at this, at the schedule from the top of the year starting with Carolina, right? And all 17 matchups, I don't think you would have looked at this team and have been like, this is gonna be a really humongous game for the Falcons. It's gonna be a really hard fought battle and this is going to define their season. This has the possibility of defining the rest of their season. So it's just really interesting and obviously the Falcons will hit thereby and then go into four more divisional matchups. Obviously when you come back from the buy, the Falcons will take on the New Orleans Saints. It's gonna be awesome. If you don't have your tickets yet, get the tickets because it's gonna be so fun. We'll probably have a couple of special guests on our pregame show. So really interesting season, but gotta lock in this one, right? Before the buy. It is, I mean, it's a one in eight team on the road but this is a big game. A big game to get back to 500 on the season. Give yourself some momentum, some confidence going into the buy week. And then just like we've been talking about all week, all the goals still in front of this team through the rest of the season with four divisional games and you'll have one team, those New Orleans Saints, that are above 500 right now. The schedule is very manageable. Very manageable and not an FC South Race. It's gonna get tight and it might even come down to the very last game which is Falcons and Saints in New Orleans. So lots to look forward to beyond this game and beyond the buy week. But I mean, we have a football game to get to before we can get to the buy, before we can get to the Saints and Tampa and all the other divisional matches we have. Let's worry about this one right now. So let's worry about this one. Let's keep our nose to the grindstone and just get this win before the buy. But I mean, any buy plans? Any plans for the buy week for you? No, because I got college football. That's guys, big week. Saturdays and Sundays. Just a workhorse over here. Stay working. Work in nine to five all the time. Love it. But thank you so much. This has been a fun one. Hopefully the Falcons can lock in the win on the road today and start their buy week on the right. But thank you guys for joining us for the Falcons pregame show presented by Ticketmaster. Enjoy the game.