 We are back with the Falcons audible presented by AT&T and look who is in the house I am not one what to direct attention to myself But I've been talking to these guys through a computer computer monitor excuse me for probably I don't know a year and a half Sam zoom in on his guys. I had to do this last year But this year it just took a little while for me to get in studio with the guys, but look I'm here. Yeah, I'm no longer a hologram. He's intelligent, but he's not artificial Oh gosh, so we are back here with the Falcons audible. Thanks again for joining us Let me give you a quick rundown of what we're gonna be covering today in this podcast We're gonna take out our magic wand and you know what? I forgot to actually get my prop our magic Something that we are gonna change from the Falcons game last weekend's against Washington We're gonna rate our concern level on the Falcons finishing games Obviously, they were in the driver's seat. They were not able to finish the game We are gonna talk a little bit about Cordero score Daryl Patterson Last weekend we'll get into a little bit of a debate about the Sunday night football matchup Were you more impressed with Tom Brady or Bill Belichick? And then we will take a look ahead at the Falcons matchup against the Jets as they travel as they say across the pond to play And so let's go ahead and get right into it We will talk about this matchup against the Washington football team last weekend guys I want to do this magic wand. Okay, so let's get into the fourth quarter. Okay, the Falcons are up by eight points They get the ball back. I believe there was somewhere around 1245 1248 left in the game. Yeah, here's kind of the rule Okay, maybe you end up bending the rules a little bit. We will arch. We will I'll start with you here. No, I'm bending the rules If you could make your magic wand or maybe your magic eraser and change something that happened in the game Yeah, because maybe it was the wrong decision or you think something could have happened differently To change the outcome. What would it be? Yeah, and he just stole my magic Well, you got a good cheat right off the start. Okay. All right. Go ahead be very transparent bend the rules I'm a bended. I'm wearing it waving my magic wand And I'm gonna take myself all the way back to the first quarter the opening drive of the game Atlanta puts a number of plays You get an eight-minute drive and you get down there third and seven from the seven yard line third and goal from the Seven Ryan tries to shove the ball down the field the pits releasing vertically if you remember it was a three by one set He releases vertically up the field had another player run into the corner and a lot of zekias is running the shallow drag route If I could re-rack it the ad really good protection Take a look at pits take the coverage there and find zekias who's wide open coming inside on the drag route It's a walk-in touchdown guys and that eight-minute drive finishes with a demoralizing Touchdown as opposed to who we got off the field and only gave up three and then you get the touchdown in the next drive Now it's 14 nothing and the game looks completely different Dave Let me throw this back at you as a quarterback now Matt Ryan has had a Phenomenal career right so you don't want to think that he's locking into a target But you get Kyle Pitts the prize tight end the match-up nightmare down in the red zone That's where tight ends become a bit Do you think maybe he locked too much into Kyle Pitts saying there's no way that he loses this match-up and doesn't actually Read the play like he needed to because it sounds like he just didn't read it and see zekias coming across the formation I think you're bang on. I think I think it's the safest throw, right? I got a six foot six tight in that's got a seven two wingspan I can throw the ball cross ball cross ball high height or higher He's gonna catch it or the first guy in the section of the steering section is gonna catch It's my safest throw and I get out of here with three as opposed to hanging on to it and finding zekias Who he did it at the end of the game last time? Yeah At the end of the first half last time found zekias after looking at pits left Found zekias against the Giants for the touchdown very similar play here just wasn't patient enough I'd love to be able to and re-rackly that Just to add to that There are plays you work on every single week in practice and I'm sure I guarantee you That was the number one play they wanted in the red zone there And they probably worked on it a hundred times that week and said this is what we're gonna get and if you thought at that Highs point and the crazy thing is he's made that play We've all seen him make that play in practice in the game and he probably more than likely said I want to see if I can get my big man a shot at and just for the people that are watching One of the things you got to remember when you're watching a football game when you get deep in the red zone And you see quarterbacks throw the football high. There's a reason for that They're coached to throw the football face mask or higher Yeah, especially when you get a target like Kyle Pitts because it's the hardest throw to defend Defensively so don't think when you get down in the red zone in a quarterback throws the ball high It was a bad throw nine times maybe nine point nine times out of ten. He is trying to throw the football up there Okay, DJ pass it off. That's your arm, baby your magic wand time. What are you changing from last weekend's game? All right, I'm actually going to because you guys always say I'm the guy who always breaks the rules It goes a little bit longer or you know, we want to quick it some say quick But ours broke the rule. So I'm gonna stay within the rules. Okay. I'm gonna stay in the fourth quarter I'm gonna go to that next to last drive where we go three and out and I'm gonna go to that first play where we get a negative three-yard run and You watch the film in ours just talking about there are a lot of things that happen within that play that Probably was the reason why it didn't work or why, you know, it should have went the Falcons way but for me my mind goes to In that instance, everybody knows you want to run the football Washington loaded up the box They got 70 guys in the box and I'm thinking throughout that ball game You were very successful when you went that little short play action You hit maybe a little skinny post behind or a little slant behind it You get really on the outside or you could even put a cow pitch big body on the outside And let's go a little play action here increase it and give you a chance to throw a little ball there I know I perfectly understand the call. I understand why you run the football. You're trying to run the clock out Absolutely, I guarantee you but since we got the magic one and yeah, hey, we got a little hindsight here I say let's throw the rock there give I got chance to make a play and now maybe you pick up a first down Maybe you pick up seven eight yards on that particular play But it's something out of the norm of what was expected from the defense who were selling out on that play for the run And I just think you might have a better chance at trying to find a completion there as opposed to Trying to run it to the tee so it's so interesting You say that it's a great point because guys this is this is the interesting spot when you get in the fourth quarter And you've got a lead, but there's still plenty of time on the clock as a playcaller How do you approach play calling right and it's kind of like you can never win Of course if you end up losing the game because if you run the football and you get stopped They people will say why didn't you throw the ball and you throw it and you should have thrown the ball And then if you throw the ball you go three and out they're saying why don't you run the football and just run the clock out So obviously when you come up on the short side, that's when everybody's second guess is you but as a playcaller It's not always that easy arch like you can't just sit there and say Oh, we should have thrown the football because sometimes the logical decision is run it and run the clock out right Yeah, and in the measurement there is you were right on is 352 left Where is the the line of debarcation here as to when you begin thinking clock and eating their timeouts Or when you think okay, I've got to get it first down regardless of what means I throw it or not So they were right on the edge. I remember four minute offense is when you're trying to grind the clock down and win it To me, I think that that's just outside the range when I begin to think about trying to eat clock My number one priority there was to get a first down and I would agree with shock Now there was some illegalities that went on That's the right word They got away with a defensive holding called it that really fronted. You haven't really thwarted to play But yeah, when you think about a little rpo there or something like that or you get in behind How much let me ask you guys as a debate How much does atlanta's inability to catch the ball consistently in the game ridley had three drops in the game I think we probably had six balls dropped in the game If I'm a play caller and I want to run clock as well as get a first down Am I thinking and you can't hedge your bet and say oh my guy's got to drop it But right how much does that put some hesitancy hesitancy in your mind? I don't want to throw it Yeah, exactly. I mean it could be the same thing if if you have a running back That's coughed the football up a couple times in the game You might have a stud running back that this is his job to grind the clock out But maybe in the first half he put the ball in the turf two times the same thing could be said Dave you're not going to sit there and think he's going to fumble again But you're thinking about it, right? Like we can't afford the ball to come out. DJ do you agree? Oh, absolutely. And I'll kind of Add to that to the point of I've heard people say why not have 84 in the game there because he had the hot hand Well, the big part of you bringing mike davis here is to be able to close games out in that fashion And then people say oh, yeah cordell had a good game but also My man mike davis catches a ball in the flat and runs through 94 people and gets into the end zone like He shows you he could be physical with the ball in his hand. So I'm not going on to the point of uh, where one guy had a hot hand another mike davis is a bruiser type of back. So Uh, you're absolutely right It can go both ways with how you think about calling those plays going into the latter part of the ball game depending on What they've been doing well guys Look, I had a play too But I don't want to belabor the point on the magic wand because I feel like there's some other Topics that we want to discuss because you mentioned they brought in mike davis to close out the game to close out games to the falcons, right? So switching gears here What's our concern level on finishing games because I think it's a great segway talking about like mike davis Needing that dominating running back to break a couple of tackles to pick up a first down to keep the clock going To force the opposing team to burn a couple of time outs You thought maybe the falcons turned a corner a week ago against the giants But chock, let me come right back to you. Where is your concern level here? And i'm not going to sit here and give you a meter You got to give me a five to a 10, but just where are you at because If you talk about the best football teams and this is any level guys. Yeah, it's you got to execute situations Yeah, right third down Four minute short yardage goal line closing out games. You know what I already I say this I think I'm going off a two game span of We're still too early to tell and I'll say that because the first game versus Philly We really was out of the ballgame where at the end you really didn't have a chance versus Tampa Yeah, you came back at the end, but you had some deflections and before you know it You're down, you know 14 17 whatever it is. You're not able to do it You mentioned last week versus the giants where you go when you finished that ballgame and this week You don't finish it. I still think because we have a new staff You have a bunch of new guys in a bunch of different new spots that are learning how to play with each other You're still trying to figure out how to close game So I think it's still too early to say this team is like the 2020 team that didn't finish ballgames at the end I think you still need to to have more on tape to see. Okay This is a trend or this is something that we're starting to see because we seem to do it last week And then you didn't do it this week. So you have a mixture of both So I think you still need more to say if this is a team that is in that realm of not being able to finish Or they can't finish This episode in part brought to you by the home depot There are officially no more excuses about why you can't get your bathroom fixed or why you can't build a deck in the backyard Not sure where to start no problem Everything you need for your next home improvement project is just a tap away on the home depot app Their digital toolbox gives you access to how-to guides project calculators image search So you'll always know exactly what you need to pick up Don't have the tools you need rent items from drills blowers carpet cleaners generators and more Big or small indoor or out the home depot has the equipment You need with the tap of a finger you can reserve equipment ahead of time swing by and pick it up and get started Ready to invest in your own tools browse through millions of items from top brands. You can have delivered right to your door Whatever your project find exactly what you need with the home depot app download the home depot app today So you guys mentioned cordial paterson where he's getting a nickname of scordial paterson So i want to ask you guys and arch i'm going to start with you Is there anything that you see like like why is cordial paterson coming into his own with atlanta? When he's kind of been a little bit of a journeyman I mean if you had 11 touches in a game last week and he scores three touchdowns If you look at the numbers not necessarily great, but this guy It's almost like an exciting play is waiting to happen Is this as simple as some guys need a change of scenery and maybe this is the place for him Maybe it's the play calling. What do you see in from cordial paterson that's making him have so much success Yeah, because this is what his third stop right it started started in minnesota then went to chicago so I think first of all it is shows you some of what the brilliance can look like on the offensive side of the ball Because as you mentioned this is a guy that had not exploded this way as an offensive offensive weapon So it gives you an idea of what's going on with david ragone and arthur smith to be able to design The ways they're getting this guy the ball his versatility Is off the charts he can line up out wide as a receiver outside the numbers he can line up in the slot He could motion him you could hand him the ball in the backfield The variety with which they're using him I mean shock designs and shows a play on on the land of falcons.com You'll be able to see where he's got a he he releases out of the backfield But it releases on the far side of the formation to get where he needs to get to runs through three defenders and scores He's physical I think what it is is as a guy as you suggested He's in a different place. He's comfortable and he realizes his value to the team But it's also the defensive people don't know what to declare What is he he's lined up in the slot He runs right over the top everybody like a receiver in a slot for a touchdown The next time it's the play you describe where he comes out of the back He goes and running back and you just drop him the football scores He caught the he caught the back shoulder fade as a outside receiver outside the numbers three different ways for him to score I'm excited about it But I think it also shows you if you're a fan and you're looking what is this coaching staff giving me Look at what they're doing with cordero paterson And what could they do if they get more guys like him where you just don't know where the ball's gonna go. Yeah I want to add to that real quick. Right. He talked about the fact of Defense is not knowing what to declare him. Exactly. There are times he come in the ball game And you have him and mike davis in the game and you're saying, oh, is this 22 personnel is it two backs? I mean, is it is it 20 personnel? What is this or it can be 11 because we can see him line up at receiver At the 11 minute point in the ball game going into the third quarter He had lined up seven times in the slot three times a receiver seven times They're running back and was four plays on special teams. Yeah I mean the dude is everywhere and that's what makes it so fun Is the guy can line up all over the field and have that kind of advantage and you mentioned david rome I remember david rome talking about before the season started He had been trying to get cordel paterson for the last two three years in his offense Yeah, so that tells you in his mind He already knew how he wanted to use him and now he's got one off of smith and they said, all right This is the way we could use this guy We can put this guy in a lot of different ways and you can tell he feels as though He is a big factor because because every time he touches the football we talk about it He wants to go score. He's running through guys and he's having fun with it And I think ultimately other guys will see it and it'll definitely Kind of weighing off those guys as well It's like he's getting the ball and he feels like he's going to make a play Like he's untouchable arch Can you can you remember a time in your career where like you played with a guy where it was like every time he put his football His hands on the football Something magical was going to happen. Yeah, so it's the it's the michael jordan shruggy game Hey, everything I throw up is going in against the trailblazers That's certainly what it felt like for cordel paterson this weekend We're over he got the football shock just described it. He was going to score or make some good happen I go back to college I had a kid named tracy hinderson's an all-american wide receiver for me and he had a game where he caught 16 balls We're playing at cans of state and he caught 16 passes for somewhere around 200 yards and a couple scores But I felt like I could throw the ball anywhere around his body. He's snagging at one handed down on the ground I mean, I wasn't that accurate. He's making grabs all over the place I just felt like I'm watching a guy that's in the zone that's brilliant at doing what he does And that's the thing that came to mind for me when I watch cordero I said, wow, this looks like that performance where you just kind of get chills and watch this guy get it done Let me just get him the ball somewhere and go to work and tracy had a monster day That that immediately came back in my mind aren't you probably thinking um coach Can you get me two or three more tracies because this guy looks great right if you can find more guys like that That's why you need calvin ridley to step up and be that guy that makes every catch It comes now. Listen, how much more difficult are you to defend? But that's a great point Now you mentioned chills Dave and there was a game this weekend that if you were a patriots fan If you were a tampa bay fan or if you were just a football fan Maybe this game on sunday night football gave you some chills and dj. I want to start with you This is going to be our little debate segment. Maybe we end up with a debate. Maybe we end with an agreement I'm not quite sure Close game in foxborough Obviously tom brady comes out on top But it was like the goat against a rookie or tom brady against his former mentor and bill bellichick So the debate discussion is going to be Who did a better job? Do you give the edge to bill bellichick and how he was able to slow down tom brady and the buccaneer's Offense or do you give the edge to tom brady? Well rekt knowing that I know where this guy is going to go I'm gonna jump on the other side. I'm gonna stop talking before i'm gonna say it's tom brady But it gives it so we don't have to agree But i'm gonna say tom brady in this instance because you look at what he was walking into This is a place where he played 20 years the emotion of the game And then you think on the other side the guy who he's playing against I heard him talking to his post game say i've seen this guy every single day I know exactly what this guy will do I know exactly what he's thinking and to go on this game and to have to battle with not just the fans Not just with the emotion of coming back Not with having to make a cool video as he's you know coming back into the stadium and talking about how cool it is To be back But to actually have to play the game in those circumstances and then on the other side He's looking across and he's looking at the protege that they brought in To kind of take over and be him and to outplay him think about if he loses that ball game what people are saying about tom brady and Other god mac jones actually outplayed it But i'm gonna say tom brady because of all the things that he had to overcome and fight to be in that ball game And to fight and to play i know he's a veteran, but it's at the end of the day We're all still human We all still get emotional about it. Yeah, and you can see him after the ball game. How much it still meant to him Him hugging robert krav, you know before the game You know bella check coming talking to him at the game and sitting there talking in the locker room Like this was emotionally a lot and it's hard to kind of separate those two even when you've played 20 plus years In the national football league so I think you got to give brady a lot of credit for Having his team ready But also having the ability to go in and play at a standard where he still was able to help his team get a win In such a hostile and crazy environment that he spent pretty much his whole entire life and his kids were born there Arch do you give brady the edge or the architect as he talked about Bill bella check in the game plan that he was able to put together against hamper Yeah rack without a doubt bill bella check was the winner in this game Think about where he had to go with his team mentally on wednesday when they came in here comes the super bowl champs Here comes the goat. Here comes the guy. It's got seven trophies on his on his table They're gonna be cheering him when he gets here He had to get his young quarterback ready to go because he was facing the guy that had been the man there His young quarterback came in and played great in the game the former alabama mac jones And he also had to get a defense convinced that they could beat him So he had to build them all the week long with all the talk about brady and brady's this and brady's that Look at the trophies. In fact, when you come to the facility, you've got to walk by the trophies You've got to walk by his picture No, bella check had his guys dialed in it didn't hurt that it was pouring down Horrible conditions I would say bella check had something to do with that In the bad weather as well So you got to figure that bella check got his team ready to go got his young quarterback ready to go And he brought in bad weather this new with brady. So I'd give bella check the w Oh, that's the arch thinking that bella check is just sitting here writing game plans And then by the way, he's like mother nature Bring the rain. That's right. Bring it down. All right. So I'll just uh, go ahead and break the tie here DJ who won the game? The bucks, baby. Tom brady gets the edge in the NFL. It's all about who wins games Yes, there are there was so much on the shoulders of mac jones so much on the shoulders of the patriots But there was so much on the shoulders of tom brady. This wasn't really the buccaneers going back to fox burrow This was tom brady going back to fox burrow and yes, his statistics did not look great But in the end sometimes it might be ugly, but your job in the nfl's to do what? Win yeah, but he had mommy and daddy So bella check dials up the the weather top brady just brings in mom and dad. That's right. That's all it takes All right guys good stuff there. Okay, so let's go ahead and take a quick look this week And of course the falcons are going across the pond They're going to face the new york jets another team with a first year head coach I want you guys to give us kind of your thoughts going into this matchup Where do you think the headspace is for atlanta and how you see this game end up unfolding? Well much like here when you when you emerged from last week You had really good feeling about yourself got a win on the road did a good job of of closing the game out We talked about that really did a nice job of that So you came back with some energy and I thought that you saw that energy early in the football game I thought you saw the energy throughout this didn't play one off to get the w this weekend That's what the jets bring to the table jets have struggled their quarterback struggled two weeks ago through a couple intercept Really bad intercepts a couple weeks ago came back. He made himself better that week getting ready for the game They get a w and they got after people on defense I think what they have seven sacks in the game their defense played at extremely high level He was able to get some of his receivers back. Jamerson Crowder was back Denzel Mims was back. So he had some of his weapons around They feel pretty good about themselves. So I would say from a mental standpoint the jets go into this game Maybe at a better spot mentally than atlanta goes into this game So atlanta gonna have to much like this game this last weekend where we saw so many ebbs and flows of momentum Atlanta's gonna have to go build their own momentum in this game because I think the jets bring it with them Yeah, and and dj obviously in this game It's not like one team has the advantage over the other when it comes to travel because they both have to travel It's difficult. It's hard to navigate a lot of times. I think in these games It shows your leadership and how well do your leaders not just your players But your coaches as well keep everybody together keep them focused because guys are going to go over there They're going to be tired. They're going to want to go to sleep and it's like, okay No, we got it. We got to get adjusted to the schedule But how do you see this one unfolding where atlanta is and where the jets are right now? I love what you mentioned both you guys mentioned makes some great points about how this team has to go out and play this ballgame and from My standpoint, I think of it as the leaders say it. Okay, we had the first quarter of the season as we all know You play the first four games that first quarter is done If you have the real leaders in this locker room, they're gonna say let's flush that that's gone We can't do anything about one or three But we do we're starting the second quarter here the second quarter starts now and we got an opportunity to go On the road and go win a ballgame versus a team that's feeling really confident Everybody expects the falcons. That's like last week to go in and win this ballgame But as we know you have to play the ballgame jets come in with huge confidence They got a young quarterback that started to feel better about himself But here's an opportunity for the veterans of this team to say this is still a business trip This is still a long season and it starts right now in the second quarter Of finishing what we started which is going on in winning ballgames and it starts right here and right now We go out we get a win and we come back and it makes that flight from london a lot better when you get a w So, you know, hopefully the veterans of this team Emphasize how big and how important it is to start this second quarter the right way and do some of the things That maybe you didn't do well in those first four games like finished ball games Like make the plays that are there when they present it And get a w so you feel better going into the start of this second quarter of the season As we know it starts to get a little bit harder when you start playing teams that are you know, have a much better record I'm shocked should I show so I got to cancel the tour of bucking in palace I can't go get my picture taken with ben big ben. I can't stand with parliament in the background That's the kind of stuff. He's talking about is okay. That's you may have never been there before There's a bunch of young players on this football team. Hey, this is england I've never been to maybe you never even do a different country sip got to flush that out of your mind He's exactly right. I got to lock in and go play football Yeah, and guys you made a great point point dj We've been on some flights after losses and they've been what an hour and a half two hours Maybe three and a half hours But you come back on a loss on a nine hour flight Yeah, and you go to one and four and the coaches ain't too happy and the players are upset that makes for a long Flight back home Guys, look, I was so happy to be back in the studio. We see you man. Do this Do this. 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