 And we are back on the Falcons audible presented by AT&T. We're back in the house We got smiles on our face because this is our job, right? This is what we do We talk about the game and then we do what we move forward the next week, right? I'm on the Carolina. I'm Derek Rackley is Dave Archer DJ Shockley We're gonna break down everything that happened last week here is what we are covering today the good and the bad We will talk about some good and we got to talk about the bad too because sometimes that's just how it goes Yeah, we have to Then we will talk about we will talk about the Carolina Panthers and and how that matchup has become a little bit more intriguing And then maybe if we have time Halloween story time. Oh boy, that could be interesting. Okay. Anyway Let's get to it the good and the bad arch Let's talk about it Let's go one positive and negative takeaway from the game kind of more 30,000 foot level if you will 30,000 30 30 yeah, this is like 30 not deep X's and O's. This is like a good and a bad The game positive without a question is the the mentality of the way the team plays Yeah, I mean you're down 21 nothing and I think people were saying okay I can still get the target or wherever they want to do, you know, and and all of a sudden you look up and it's 2817 so okay that kind of deal is what now there are some real issues with the ability to throw it with some Effectiveness when you have to yep, and I think that's an area. They're gonna have to attack Yep, I agree with that DJ. What do you got good and the bad? That's the first thing similar came to my mind as well as just the effort when you watch the game Regardless of the score you can't you just don't know what the score is because these guys play so hard I think the effort is there think to fight that ours talks about definitely stands out because Like you mentioned, I mean these guys could have easily 21 nothing on the road You had a big one last well we played good last week is just you know, they just better than this week It wasn't that scenario and you could tell that these guys continue to fight and these guys continue to you know Try to you know get this game a little bit closer and actually I think the bad too many explosive Yeah, too many big plays in this ballgame too many, you know, 15 plus yard is plays. I mean The number is is read is ridiculous. I I looked him up and then I heard arch talking about it. I was like, oh, I miss So they're definitely too many explosive. We don't even need the numbers. Let's just say they were too many. Yeah Yeah, we don't need to go into the actual number. There was too many. Yeah Yeah, the good I would say was the the kind of the the turn of events right before half time Right made the game exciting the fact that they get an explosive play They come back with a special teams play and then all sudden you're like, oh wait a minute This this may not be a blowout as it kind of was turning into early on But and then I would say the bad is this team cannot play catch up Like you can't afford to get yourself down with the style of the play that they are they know that they need to run the rock We're unable to run the rock like we've been doing throughout the course of the season And this team right now is just not built to put the ball through the air and play catch up when you get behind Because you you can sit there and say this is our identity and we like to run the football But you can only do that for so long when you're trailing by two and three scores That right now this team just not built to put the ball in the air and score two quick touchdowns to get back in the game So let's go into it a little bit more Arthur Smith said after the game, you know guys I thought about this right as players and over in the building as coaches They don't make excuses right you come into the game You don't have two of two of corners in the lineup and then AJ Terrell comes out on the very first defensive possession He's not coming back in the game. So now you don't have your two starting corners Against arguably one of the better passing offenses in the NFL, right? But at the end of the day, like you don't make excuses in the NFL arch Like they don't get paid to make excuses like nobody wants to hear that are the other out of Arthur Smith's mouth that Oh, well, we didn't have our starting two corners So if we did we would have played a little you never hear that from somebody But the fact of the matter is you have those two guys in the game It may be that the competition is a little bit different, but it's not you just next man up philosophy, right? Well, let's put a Halloween twist. Okay, let's do it because when Joe Burrow took his helmet off after the touchdown throw To Tyler Boyd the fourth play of the game He his hair was sticking in the air and it looked till he looked a little pale I was thinking Mike Myers because Michael Myers. He stabbed us repeatedly Repeatedly stabbed us to the tune of too many explosive plays But no, I think that going into this game. You knew it was gonna be a tall order to defend I think this is the best receiver core in the league I think each one of those guys you could make an argue if they were somewhere else They'd be a one on somebody else's roster Yeah, you sprinkle in Hayden Hurst who's a solid pass catching tight in and mixing the P Rhine who can catch it out of the backfield kind of changed up in the run game They're about as good as it gets from it from a skill position standpoint Yes, their bugaboo and their problems had been up front and I thought they did a nice job of sorting through some of that We'll talk some of that they sorted through some of the Falcon pressures so What was the quandary with the question? I was just It's hard to think that you're gonna be able to match up against somebody with that when you don't have two starting corners Well, and I think that that's it. Let's be real now You've got guys that are one on the depth chart You got guys that are two on the depth and they're there for a reason, right? That's not let's not fool ourselves There's guys that are starters and then there's the next guy now There may not be much of a drop down to the next guy and you hope there's not. Yeah, that's what depth is all about But yeah, you and then you throw in the fact that you're going against the best receiver core potentially in the league That magnifies that gap even worse, right? I thought Cornell Armstrong. I thought Isaiah Oliver I thought Darren Hall. I thought all of them played really hard and competed But I'm not sure that it might not have been the similar situation if they hadn't been in there Yeah, this group was firing on all cylinders We weren't able to get to the quarterback Which is what you had to do is you had to disrupt him weren't able to disrupt his timing or where he was looking Yeah, his first look ball coming out and let me let me ask you this. This is completely was on topic Is there a better guy in the league and a back shoulder throw this dude? It's it's exactly what I was going to say is even with the right coverage. We saw at least four or five Back shoulder throws. I mean the touchdown were you know chasing is up going in and you know That's a back shoulder throw that you know, it's hard to go against. I mean there were a couple in the game Armstrong got hit with one on the sideline. He was in perfect coverage. He was in phase Isaiah Oliver Say you could not stop. Yeah, and it's like you come off the sideline on those and it's like you want to tell I'm like dude, you can't cover that any better Yeah, like you can't be in better position and it's one of those routes that I feel like Even when we were playing together DJ, I don't feel like we threw back shoulder like they throw it now Like it's become one of the biggest weapons in not only in the NFL But you see it in the college game the good college quarterbacks that know how to drop the back shoulder in there is a huge weapon And you're right like the fact that they've got not only the timing the chemistry, but just the dudes, right? They've got the dudes that can go and do it The shoulder was born the back shoulder was born in the run and shoot You know, that's where it came from and you'd see and we'll have a guy this weekend That's gonna visit with us or not visit with us, but we'll be at the game this weekend. Hope you're down at Mercedes Benz Stadium Andre Ryzen's gonna be here at the game be a guest and be down there Ryzen was one of the best the back shoulder throws Think about Warren moon and that crew that he threw to you know those guys So that was where it was born, but you're right nowadays It's kind of if you don't have it in your offense, then you're antiquated And the other part about it is it when you have the chemistry like you mentioned The back shoulder throw becomes more of a high percentage throw It's one of those kind of throws there where it's easier to catch it because obviously it evens the back got his back turn But then the receiver understand even if he's on top there were times where the receiver was on top And they still threw the back shoulder throw because you got a better chance to come down Well talk about how hard that let's let's real quickly dive into that because we've we've thrown some here I mean Marcus is throwing a couple back shoulders if you go back to the Seattle game You did a great job of back shoulder and Kyle Pitts who got on a wheel route back shoulder Kyle Pitts with a throw in the Seattle game How hard to throw is that everybody think well? It's just an easy throw you're just under throwing it But you've got a guy on a dead run right that you talk about that and the interesting thing is the way You throw it is different than any go route because obviously you want to hug the ceiling But you're not throwing it at the guy you're throwing it probably five six yards to where he's going But you're also throwing it on the rope where he can also find it So it's a tough throw because the timing of it is really hard Yeah, and I don't think people understand how tough it is to throw it and then complete it It looks really simple when you're watching it But you got to have that chemistry like you talked about exactly your receiver has to understand Your quarterback has to know where to put this football because there's some times you see back shoulder throws that don't even make it like Far inside. It's an intersection exactly. Yeah, if you throw it too far inside, so it's a really tough throw Yeah throwing it back behind It's got to get up and down But you're right the timing of it like when the receiver is going to take the look back when he's going to put the brakes on and When it is executed it looks like it's artwork. You know what I mean? It just looks like it's just beautiful. It was Sunday Yeah, it was Sunday Let's talk about this in the defense because arch you made a good point And and I think and when you when you go back and look at a game like this the average fan might say well You can't just let this team do it. You got to bring pressure They brought pressure it wasn't like Dean peas was drop was rushing three and dropping eight like he tried to bring people To get the ball out of hands of burrow But it got picked up and when you get your offensive line and everybody that's involved in pass protection On the same page you get a running back picking up somebody off the slot and all that stuff gets picked up You can only just sit back and be like oh gosh here. We go because you're making a gamble, right Dave like you're making a gamble I've got to get there before this man-to-man coverage ends up kind of exposing us which that ended up happening Well, you put yourself in Dean Pease's position. I can't show burrow the same thing every time Because we know in this league we're gonna figure out how to block that and now I've got those guys We've already talked about running against your guys that might be in man coverage or maybe a man or two down in zone You don't have enough people, right? So now I've got to mix it up So now here comes four, but they're four different guys It looks like two linemen and two backers are coming Oh the other side you come again and now it's three down linemen and the nickels coming off the slot So you're trying to mix up what the look looks like just to kind of try to keep them off balance Yeah, I give Cincinnati a ton of credit. They did a really job of picking stuff up But you're mixing it up because the guys in the back end you don't have your full complement of players Yeah, and remember Mike Ford got hurt on a special teams play He's your backup nickel, you know, you mean you didn't have D. Allford. He was your starting nickel So there were a lot of things going on and I know everybody's got injuries But it how it plays out with your team and how you can call plays it comes into play And so but no question about it Dean threw everything he could Adam and still say stound behind and still try to make some plays And and give Cincinnati credit. They just executed for the fans Just listening to what you're saying right now the important part to Kind of take in is the fact that you're trying to force the quarterback to think an extra half a second Or make him hold a football just a half a beat more so that on the back end you can get in the spot You need to or you confuse him enough where he holds on to it has to throw it away Or he throws it in the coverage and if you can do that then you got a chance And I think that's what D&P's was trying to do was to show him a lot of different looks bring guys from different You know areas and force them to hold I mean the there was a one-play you can you can hear on the TV copy He's yelling Ricky Ricky, which is slide the line right and this is where the other along gets his sack And they obviously slide the wrong way thinking the Blitz was coming from that side But ends up, you know, they don't pick it up right and this was you know, one to three sacks in the second half But those were instances where it's not like he's sitting back a lot of people thought all they played a lot of zone No, he played a lot of a lot of coverage, but you also brought the house at him a lot too in his ballgame So it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting to see what else the MPs can dial up going forward in the future Because you're gonna have to well guys there there there you're not gonna face teams like this every weekend This would team you're gonna play this weekend completely different than what you just faced Yeah This team was is all they're gonna do is line the good quarterback up in the gun and they're gonna throw it the lot The run game was a change up. Yeah, okay So now there's different ways to combat that I can slow play it where the way we played Tampa How many times did Brady throw the ball underneath against Tampa? Yeah, but the game shortened and they only had 21 points on the board They kept throwing the ball underneath now they made some plays and move the chains But you look up and it's only 21 points on the board I've still got a chance to win that game This game you gave up We gave up the explosives and this receiver core is the depth at finding the hole in the zone If I bring one guy out and I'm gonna play zone behind it They had a guy in that hole. Yeah, they replaced our guy every time and you saw those stick routes in the slot Boom boom boom. He just went right down the field and then when you decided to commit and play man I'm gonna take shot went over the top. Yeah, so we talked about the explosives 537 yards of total offense 481 through the air obviously that's gonna make for a long day guys Let's flip it over though Let's talk about the other side of the ball because the offense didn't quite help out the occasion a whole lot either 214 yards of offense and I think the biggest difference. I kind of talked about it at the top It was not the dominant run game that we've been able to put out on the field throughout the course of the season So far that's really kept things slowed the game down a little bit kept possession on the field Not quite the same Where did the Falcons offense go wrong offensively arch? Well early in the game? You're operating in I say early in the game. It was the first two drives of the game I think you went three and out and four and out in the first two drives You didn't the efficiency level was gonna have to be through the chart against this team Yeah, because you needed to possess the ball because I would argue. Yeah, you knew you're gonna give up plays You didn't know you're gonna give up that many plays defensively And certainly it wasn't a performance that those guys will look back on it with a lot of pride But you knew it was gonna be a long day for that group So I need to shorten the day for them by playing offense. Yeah, I need to possess the football They didn't do that three and out you get you get third and five Don't convert. Yeah, you get third and three. Those are the first those are the first two drives You don't convert. Yeah, and you look up and they've had they've had the ball three times 21 to nothing Yeah, you didn't do anything. You had the ball for seven plays Yeah, so that onus and you took we talked about all the time and these guys emphasized Complementary football and we got to it got to it a little later. Yeah, and I know you're gonna get there But we got to it some But that can't happen. You can't be that efficient You got where you wanted to this team is gonna have to live in third and medium. Yeah this year That's where they're gonna have to live. Yep It's great to get a first down on on on first down or get a first down on second down By the way, that that team that we just played Cincinnati face their first third down on the last play of the second drive It was a third in one goal line dive for a touchdown. Yeah, that was the first third down. They'd face. Yeah We got two first third downs in our first two drives. You have to convert them. That's where we have to live We got to own those DJ I mentioned 214 yards 75 came for one play, right? So The and it was a great play, right? It was kind of a good little run of momentum that that I talked about to kind of cut things make it a little interesting Right before halftime, but was there anything from the running game or that stuck out to you? That was different that that wasn't present the last few weeks when they were able to run the football So effectively that really contributed to the the lack of production on offense, you know At first let's give Arthur Smith and in that offense for that particular call that went for 75 yards Obviously, you could have sat on the ball. You could have been thinking. Hey, let's get into halftime You know, we get the ball back, you know after half and you know, we'll go down and you know we'll try to make this a ball game and You get quarters coverage and you go scissors concept and you got a you got a corner out Safety bites on it goes forward. You got one of the fastest guys in the league in the mirror bird going, you know down in the middle on the post and Give Marcus Mario a lot of credit. That's a big time throw. Yeah, that's a monster throw and put it in there When you look at the scope of this game Obviously when you talk about those third down situations not being able to pick up more yards or positive yards on first and second I was a big deal because when you when you get in the third long like our dimensions It makes it a lot tougher on any offense, let alone an offense that you know Wants to live like I mentioned in third and medium But you average just a little bit over three yards in the rush game And when you're not targeting guys a lot is ballgame that also hurts you as well I think pits at five targets Drake had one targeting the ball game and you were four ten on third down the execution up front wasn't there the execution throwing a football obviously wasn't there and quite frankly, I don't think Cincinnati was I I'll say I don't think they were Afraid of you taking a deep shot They weren't afraid of you pushing the football down the field because let's be honest for you know first few ball games everything has been kind of intermediate and you have some shot plays here and there but Nothing about the offense right now scares you going downfield. So they were able to load the box They were able to change the line of scrimmage. They would do some things up front that kind of stymied you where you want able to get the run game going So Dave the words are we're on to Carolina This episode in part brought to you by the home depot everything you need for your next home improvement project is just a tap Away on the home depot app the home depot app digital toolbox gives you access to how-to guides Project calculators and image search so you'll know exactly what you need to pick up with the tap of the finger You can rent and reserve the right tools for the job Also browse through millions of items from top brands that 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 let's move on. Let's talk about Carolina because I know that that was probably when you have a game like that again Cincinnati you want to talk about it. You want to learn from it and you're ready to go to the next one, right? Let's not let's not continue to live that one down. So Carolina as you mentioned arch Let's talk about a much different team right much different team than Cincinnati Bengals They coming off a victory against Tampa Bay But they also were in the news last week because they traded away arguably one of the most athletic players International football league Christian McCaffrey out to San Francisco So let's talk about the difference that Atlanta is going to see this week facing Carolina than what that monster was They saw last week. Yeah, you're not going to see one of the better two-way backs in football McCaffrey is as good a receiver as he is a runner now some of that is added up and that's why he hasn't been available, right? He's not the biggest dude in the world So he gets an opportunity out on the West Coast where he played college ball and good for him But now you get more of a pound or back You're gonna adiant a foreman who's a bigger back was here. There's a bigger back that has the ability That's gonna run similar. I don't think he has quite as much juice as Algier does But he's gonna run that way they're gonna play the game similar to the way we play it on offense They want to run the football their quarterback can move PJ Walker is a guy that has some ability to move around Baker Mayfield don't know about him. I guess he's still out. We don't even know they really talk about Baker Mayfield But after you get a W I would suggest keeping that game So PJ Walker will be in DJ Moore is a small receiver that has some says some juice to him It can run move around Chuba Hubbard's the change-up back He's a guy at Oklahoma State that a great career in Oklahoma State really hasn't really shown much up here in the league He's a guy that's gonna get more carries, but they're gonna look a lot like we do on offense With the want to run the football play action shots and a quarterback that can move around Well, I think it's interesting to note that Carolina minus Christian McCaffrey is able to beat Tampa 21 3 But not only that I mean stymie the runny game, right? Their defense just shut down Leonard for net Rashad white Leonard for net eight carries 19 yards in that game and he's he's been a difference maker for him Not only is he such a physical presence going downhill running the football But now he's catching the ball out of the backfield, but they kind of shut him down So so arch kind of talked about the offense But the defense is gonna be playing with a lot of juice a lot of momentum because they basically just shut down Tom Brady and company last week and two guys who was in the talks similar as Christian McCaffrey Everybody thinking you know Carolina was trying to have a fire sale and the two other guys that they were talking about on that Defensive side Brian burns and Derrick Brown in the middle are two guys that are really good players guys and Brian burns Who can get around the edge and make it miserable on your quarterback Derrick Brown's a guy who lives in the middle And that's come on on the last few I mean Shaq Thompson is one of those athletic linebackers that can go sideline This is a defense that's athletic enough on the outside and in Up through the middle that can concern you guys Obviously what they did last week was was was really good Obviously only allowing three points, but they're gonna get after you one of the things that I think people were excited about coming To this season with Carolina was their defense and obviously you were looking for a quarterback to fill that void on the offensive side But defensively you thought they would be stout and would be good and obviously last week they showed Yeah, this was a defense. It was I think two in the league last year So this they've got all those guys back your tour gross Madhouse comes off the other side to get out of Penn State Yeah opposite Brian burns So they got two edge guys young edge guys that are long that could get after you you mentioned Walker or the big guy Brown in the middle Their linebacker course active can go get it in their secondary They've invested in some free agency in there in their secondary especially at the at the safety spot That they're they're solid back there Xavier Woods back there get some guys back to play So that'll be that's gonna be a really really tough test to go against that defense I talked a little bit about the running game 16 carries 46 yards for Tampa Tom Brady 32 of 49 290 yards, but zero touchdowns. So like that defense is gonna look at it and say that's fine You threw for 290. You didn't punch the ball into the end zone Well in Evans drops a touchdown Evans is wide open on a post route He hits him right in the hands. He drops the football. So, you know, in all in all divulging everything there He screwed that up, but we we held, you know, that was similar numbers against the Atlanta's defense You go back he threw for a few more yards against Atlanta's defense But if you go back and look at four Nets numbers against Atlanta He didn't do anything against Atlanta either. So they're they're like Cincinnati They want to the running game is a change up for them Yeah, so I wouldn't get too caught up in what they did all they stoned the road We did we stoned the run game against Tampa. So that what I think you got to be concerned about is Their edge rushers and can you get some kind of pass game out of it and and make no mistake It's not just Marcus Mario to when you start talking about throwing the football We always want to point the quarterback and I know I've kind of been on on the Mario to bandwagon And I still am I think Marcus is doing a lot of good things he's not getting a lot of opportunities to do them and Just like a running back that runs it you get better the more carriage Quarterback kind of gets in a rhythm. So the more opportunities you get but you have to be able to protect Yeah, and you got to be able to so you got to be able to do some things And so let's not don't just focus on the quarterback if you're an Atlanta fan Look at the whole thing what opportunities is is he getting what is he doing those opportunities? I think how many attempts that he had this last weekend I don't even know how many 13 attempts so 13 times limited number of plays, but if you go back and look you're probably talking about maybe Seven full pattern plays full full pattern throws and that's that that makes a difference, you know And so I think I would be careful about you know laying all listed Marcus Mario this fall right in his feet DJ we talked a lot about Atlanta's defense against Cincinnati and we talked a little bit about Carolina so my question to you is Falcons offense what needs to be the focal point? What do they need to get back to to find success in this game against Carolina? I think it goes back to early down success And I think that's where if you live in a positive light on early down success where there's even throwing the ball on first I mean there's easier ways than maybe pushing the ball down the field to have success on first night Archmage then few minutes ago. It's okay to get another first down on first down It's okay to to you know make it you know get seven eight yards on first down throwing a hit drive You got off coverage on the outside and you see it just flinging out there give drink a catch Well, whatever it may be, but I think early down success in this game Whether you're running it or throwing it is beneficial for this offense and it opens up so much more and actually You can see the creativity in this office. There were a couple Pre-snap motions and things that were going on. I mean there was a play in the game Cincinnati just made a good play there their safety I mean we we got Drake coming in motion and he goes behind him And then we fake it right and we flick it back left to out here and you know the safety just ends up making a good play I mean there's so much good things that are going on for this offense You just got to find a way to be more efficient with it But early down success for me is where I think this offense has to live if they're gonna be successful Dave is there anything? Defensively that you you would like to see more of like we talked about the shot to Demir Byrd Does do you feel like they need to take more of those? Do they need to take more? Throws out to the perimeter to stretch the defense from side to side maybe open up holes down the middle Is there anything we're just kind of spitball sure, right? Anytime as you play quarterback you take some shots, right? Yeah, I think if you look big picture You got to think about the balls that Arthur Smith juggling. Yes, okay? So I'm beat up on defense and maybe I don't know what's gonna look like this weekend. Yeah secondary wise So I've got to put a premium on playing high quality efficient offense I got to keep the football ball possession So if I take a shot on first down for my own 20 yard line miss now. It's second and 10. Yeah, okay I've got to go get a first down on two downs now becomes Canadian league football I got two downs to get a first down and we got it We got a punnett yeah, and now my mouth now my defense is back out on the field So you're trying to protect it not to the point where you can't play defense not saying that but you want to protect each other to a certain extent So that's got to be something he's keeping in mind But you always want to take you always want to take some shot I think you have to shock talked about how Cincinnati was not Necessarily respecting and that may be why they got a question. Yeah, okay So that's gonna give you right shock. That's gonna give you the opportunity to go wait Oh, wait a minute, and they'll see this on tape. They'll see that on tape They'll see bird, you know, they'll say, okay. Well, we can't get too nosy. Yeah, or they're gonna take a shot at us And so a couple of those again, you know mix up who it is bird You got guys that can get deep pits can get deep, you know those kind of that's what I mean Is it a happy medium you think? To say, okay, we want to be efficient. We want to be effective But is there a happy medium? I know a lot of fans go say Do we just do it not say just to do it just to be doing it But do you do it to say, hey, you need to back up a little bit? We need to create the Illusion that we will throw the football deep. We will push the football down the field Do you go about it that way? Because I know a lot of people look at it like, all right Let's just throw a shot here just because we can or is it to the fact that you just talking about We got to be efficient in the game. Where where does the the happy medium lie for Arthur Smith? Like you say it's a lot of you know, he's juggling a lot But do you do that steel just to say all right? We're not just going to allow you to put eight in the box I think he has to I think and I think he understands that I think that we we talk he and I talked on his coach's show On monday about the self scout thing. Yeah, okay, and that's a real deal And I know a lot of people you know people that are outside the game throw it around as a cliche Oh, they're so no they dive deep into what they're looking at from a tendency standpoint. What are we doing? Well, the tendencies are that we're going to throw a bootleg and throw it in the flat Or we got a little over routes we're going to throw it to and we're not taking any shots down the field So it could be as much as a tendency breaker to say wait a minute They are going to take some shots now you have a shot on tape of that And oh by the way makes it fun for the guys on offense If I need if I know I'm going to take a shot down the field. I'm going to make a big play I get kind of excited about that and I think that there's probably Some excitement that needs to be fused into something drake london. I mean drake's Not really had much to do with anything the last few weeks, right and he sees bird go to the top Hey, I want one of those myself and pits want one of those himself just to inject some fun into it And I think that I think there's something to that as well Yeah, and the onus then goes back on to arthur smith is When to call that play, right? It's it's one thing to just say hey, we need to do it But there it's got to be in the right time because every down is so precious as we talked about for them Staying on the field staying in manageable situations. Yeah, no, by the way, it's okay. If you're throwing in completion What you don't want is it second and 18 now, right and I get a sack Yep So we got to know that we can protect and do it when we get a shot second and 18 or that shot turns into a pick Right because those are all working against you Um, you mentioned you want to get the defense to back up and and I've watched this video this week guys You guys have seen the backup tarry, you know the the the guy the fireworks and all that stuff Um, if you haven't seen it just go on youtube and just type in backup tarry Okay, and you will thank me later for laughing and the reason why I use that to set it up Is let's just have a little bit of fun before we finish up Any halloween pranks that you guys remember playing football or anything? Um, like it was a certain player. Did you go to a halloween party when you were playing? I remember mat shop used to always have a halloween party and I mean They would get like dressed up. I'm talking about professional makeup artists and all that other stuff And I'm like looking for something in my closet that I can just throw in real quick But is there anything stick out from a halloween perspective? I know it's NFL It's always about business, but sometimes it's about having fun. Yeah, absolutely best costume for for me and my wife We were in san diego at the time with the chargers. Yeah, we had a huge Party with a team and my wife and I went as the blues brothers And I still remember laughing shoving stuffing into her to make her look like john blusher She was like this why I love it. We also had it my best costume for me personally Was indiana jones Look just like oh, it's great indiana. I love it. We need i love it. I see it. I see it in the face I do. Yeah, you had your satchel and everything. I had it all. I don't whip gun ready What you got dj anything? No, but I don't remember much It's come from halloween. I don't man to be honest to be to be honest, uh, I remember How about just a week ago going back to a week ago and you it's funny you bring up michael myers We watched the halloween's movie, right? And i'm intrigued i'm like, oh I want to do this. So I ordered the mask. I got the whole outfit And i'm at home, right? My wife my kids are sitting on the sofa and when you walk into the living room Your back is to me I walk in with it. I mean, I got the little hair. I got the mask. I'll show i'm gonna bring it next week So you guys see it. Oh the mask is great. Oh, so I walk in behind them and it's pitch black dark in uh our kitchen and they're in the living room And all of a sudden I make a little noise And all of them turn around and i'm literally just standing there with the mask I got the I got the machete right here And they go to scream it and the look on my son's face And then after he said I didn't know what to do. I was so scared This is literally just a week ago and I'm gonna break it out. So after that. So after that. Yeah, now I've ordered the freddy kruger They don't even know it yet. So I'm gonna bring this mask. I'm gonna show it to you All right, um, and it's it's it's so spot on It's pretty good. I scared so like my follow-up would be how much trouble did you get in with the wife? She was mad. She was mad, but I was laughing. So I didn't care. It was good for me I enjoyed it. So you see how this dynamic works because not only did say he loved it He ordered another one. Yeah, right. Yeah, so he's doing it again. Oh, yeah That's it one of the one of the best pranks ever played though, halloween We were in sandia goes well and we rigged it up to where There was a line that came from an upstairs window down to it was tied off to a bush That would go right over the top of the walkway that came up to get candy And so I had I had a ghost rigged up We had like a ball in there with a sheet around it and at night You let it go and it rolled down through there and it almost like a ghost would come in No Well, so I had to try it out. So I called one of my neighbors this dude that I knew next door Just did a guy. Hey, can you come over and I need some help with this deal? And so I did it and let it go Yeah, I played the music No, my dude went into the bushes Man, this is for the kid Dude dove in the bushes. He thought something. He said he was done. He thought he had so yeah So it worked. I said, well, it rashes on his arms. Maybe I shouldn't do this to the kid Maybe just do just react it that way, right? So yeah, uh, what arch failed to mention is his neighbor will never help him with anything else from this point Don't even call me to come over. No, that's right. What you got? What you got? Oh, I was living with you guys I don't have nothing. I don't have anything. I mean, I've gone to some really good halloween parties. Um, that's costume Um, so I you guys know my daughter's play softball one year I dressed up as my daughter is softball and she dressed up as me the old football player We swapped right so I wore her softball uniform. She wore my old football stuff Obviously my jerseys like go all the way down to their ankles So it was like a like a sport swap if you will Fun to do with the kids and stuff last question. Do you guys do horror movies? Absolutely. I just told you I watch halloween Yeah, I do them. Uh, I think that they've they're struggling to do them right now You know used to be the just the subtle subtle stuff like shocks talking about We're all of a sudden a light shows up and there's there's michael mire standard with that white Yeah, it's almost like everything's more extreme the subtle humor. Yeah, they're the subtle scary, right? Um, me zero No horror movies won't do it. Well, watch them really Nightmares for weeks won't he I like I see the commercials for the new halloween movies and I almost want to turn the commercial Like ain't have to not do it No, come on. I mean I saw a scream back in the day and stuff and this is like that was that was probably the last one ever Scream for the crew. No, I mean, I saw all those as a kid, but like you're now young now new Yes, you could say I got a little soft, but there'll be a guy dressed up this weekend Stadium and he'll look like Todd McClure. Oh, it will be Todd. Oh, okay Todd gonna go into the mud Make sure you join us at mud. Make sure you join us at uh Mercedes Benz All right, so join us join arch at Mercedes Benz stadium Atlanta Falcons against Carolina Panthers Hope them to get a rebound get back to 500 and get back to the winning ways of what they do best Shall not pass Dude like stop nightmares That's gonna do it for the falcons audible presented by AT&T I gotta get out of here because dj is gonna creep me out. We'll see you next week right here. Thanks. Appreciate everyone