 And welcome back to another edition of the Falcons audible presented by AT&T and I guess it's only fair I guess it's only fair that I actually am end up in the screen this time DJ has been in there once arch has been in there once no doubt fellas, how we do We good man. I mean you're out in London living your best life and you know, we're in the studio I guess we all have had our turn like you said, but uh, you know, all is good Archway not be good is is Alma Mater is not playing well. So oh, okay. A little salty. Yeah, this after you you guys drilled, Missouri You did you did win in Minnesota law, so you're right I'm the only one with a dub. That's great. Okay. There you go. There's our college Our pre-show conversations. I can tell you that arch is in a very good That's what happens when the Falcons get a big Uh, yes, no, uh, I am in London this week fortunate to be covering a couple of games here for westward one national radio, of course had Uh, Minnesota in the saints this past weekend Of course that game was somewhat boring in the first three quarters got exciting in the last quarter A couple of long field goals deciding that game and then I'm staying out here all week Got the giants in the Packers this sunday and then I'll be making my mated voyage home So I went out for a walk today guys. I went down to Buckingham palace. I went down to big ben I stopped at a a really cute coffee shop Actually does that kind of take my man card away to say absolutely as soon as you say cute coffee shop I was like, whoa rack whoa But I had to stop there I had to stop there because it was such a London place to go to all right without further ado Let's get into what we're talking about today. I'm gonna talk about a falcons victory Let's talk about first reactions. Well, I'm gonna have the guys give us their mvp from the game this past weekend What it took from the falcons defense and the offense and then of course we will switch gears And we will fast forward ahead of that as the falcons travel down a Tampa to face the buccaneers And arch is so favorite game the buccaneers coming off a loss. They're gonna play really upset Yeah, like that seems to matter a whole lot. So all right, let's let's start it off Dave, I want you to tell us who is your mvp from the game. There's a number of options. Maybe it's uh, maybe it's somewhat easy Who's your mvp from the game last sunday mvp from the game? Wow, I think it's very difficult to to pick a guy You know, and I kind of was thinking mvp so far for the first quarter of the season realizing we're playing 17 games We still can say for a quarter of the season, right? So cp would be the guy that came to mind For me and the way he's played But I would have to say you've got two wins And I would have to point to the veteran on the defense. I'm going to go grady jarrett You shall not I love it. I love when I pass You guys don't hear arch do that. It is awesome Grady, uh, so grady gets the two key sacks obviously in the last two games late in the football game when you needed him the most I don't know if you guys noticed but they kicked grady outside In and played some five technique this week and coming off and kind of playing that edge defender They're moving him around some but he got one on one against bentonio this this weekend One of the only times they singled him and he got home and got the key sack So you got two wins under your belt grady's played well all year long and I'm gonna I'm gonna call grady You know, maybe my mvp number two for the year I think he's been pretty good from a leadership standpoint But last weekend needed a key moment. You needed one of your players to step up and grady did that DJ I'm gonna throw this question to you But it can be the same thing that arch did it could either be from the game or the first Quarter of the season, you know when we used to have 16 games and it was a season It was really easy to do first quarter halfway third quarter end of season A little bit DJ who you got You know what I'm gonna jump and I'm gonna do a little bit differently And I'm gonna jump into the third phase and I'm gonna go with my man young way How about young way cool and how consistent he's been through these first four games And even in the last ball game dude had 11 points in the game versus browns He's got 39 points on the season and he's averaging 9.8 points a game So you go into a game knowing all right, we already got 10 points on the board That puts you in a good feeling so I like the consistency of young way cool I think we look around the league and you see a lot of kicker struggle You see when you get inside the 40 yard line, some teams are not really Overly excited to put their field field go kicker on the on the field And I think we have no reservations about putting young way cool on the field And knocking down some big points when we need them And coming through with a big one in this ball game to to put us up 23 20. So it was big Yeah, I think I agree and you know always puts a big smile on my face when you give somebody the nod I know It's really I was really waiting for you to look long snapper dj, but I understand you got to go with the guy that ends up I'll give you two quick ones arch I'm going to agree with you on cp cordial Patterson for the first quarter of the season I think he's been a man child, of course We'll talk about a little bit later being placed on ir so some other players are going to have to step up And speaking of other players stepping up my mvp for the game is going to be Caleb Huntley Guys a game was kind of just like Kind of like a boulder just slowly moving along right and I believe midway through the quarter and third quarter The Falcons had about 45 to 50 yards rushing and then all of a sudden they brought Huntley on the field gave him the rock A couple of times and the complexion of the game completely changed So I know i'm going to go a little off script here. Let's talk about offense and arch Um, did you see the same thing? It was like the offense couldn't really get things going and then all of a sudden Arthur smith decided to you know what we're going to turn around run the football and boy did that ever pay off They just ended up pounding and give some credit to the offense of line for the holes They were opening up up front. Absolutely rack. It's a good point Also throw parker hessie and key smith and some of those guys that are those edge blockers in it as well But and give mario to some credit mario to creates a problem in the run game because of his ability to get out the back side So some of those creases increase right But the ferocity with which Caleb Huntley came in and ran the football I can tell you exactly when it was 306 third quarter 306 left in the third quarter Huntley checked in at the running back spot We know cp got a little bit nicked in the in the first half wasn't able to go Algier carry the bulk of the load through that time and then all of a sudden here comes Huntley in at 306 And they run the ball 10 consecutive times in the drive And Huntley finishes it off with that five yard touchdown run But I thought there was some resolve up front too. You saw and I noticed on the sidelines I don't know if you guys picked it up as well There was a conversation going on and somebody got really heated from a coaching standpoint Yelling and screaming at the big guys and the big guys seemed to respond to that and they started playing Not just on cleveland side of the line of scrimmage deep in cleveland side of the line of scrimmage That second level defense was getting ripped off or knocked off the ball They had had they had a defensive idea that anytime it looked like we were going to go zone read or rpo They would blitz kamara mora the linebacker He would come to try to get in and mariotta's face Some of it had to do and disrupted some of the some of the really the pulls and throws because We didn't have we weren't accounting for core mora mora come in the linebacker So give them some credit for their game plan Nice adjustment They went to a blocking scheme that took care of him in the run game and he came off the ball I grew with your rack they came off the ball and changed the complexion of the game from a physicality standpoint You just continue to pound the rock and I think that's a great point David this is not one of those situations where the ball carriers were just doing a great job of making people miss It was there were gashes dj in the running game created by everybody that's blocking And I think it's a great point from dave's not just the offensive line the tight ends the wide receivers That get involved in the run game and of course mariotta's ability to sometimes hold that backside edge defender Because of his threat to come and run the run the football out of the backside What else did you see offensively dj? That was a difference maker in the game It's funny we bring this up because it was the subject of my falcons film review today was the offensive line And how they were so physical and just the effort that they played with and we talked about the receivers tight ends I did four plays and all four plays you got a lot of days of kids on one play cutting off the backside You got drake london 15 yards down the field getting the most dangerous at one time Which is the safe you got cowpins getting to the second level blocking a linebacker It was so many scenarios like that where And even one one there was one calip huntley run that I remember Vively and elijah wilkerson. They're running outside zone to the right wilkerson is the backside guard He runs 15 yards up the field trying to get the safety He gets his second level defender and he turns and he's looking for another guy This is the effort that was showed in the run game and it was four five six seven eight plays like this We talked about the 10 plays of running the football It was basically 907 The browns knew we were running the football and could do nothing about it the physicality in which you run Uh with those guys I thought was tremendous I thought all those guys really just put their foot in the ground didn't dance too much got vertical Got north and south and they punish guys on the other side So it was fun to watch those guys, you know kind of work in conjunction together And there was a play where aren't you remember this avie william? Oh, I was hoping you did you just sign this play? This is a great call to run run like a counter. Yeah, you get dalman Dalman pulls around from the center spot and he has and he has the the the seal block on the backside in But the great thing about it was at the point of attack He was square and I stopped around the video and he was square and now you give avie williams a two-way go He can go inside outside and this is another play with drake He goes down and he gets the safety and it's now avie williams in the corner 25 yards down the field. It was unbelievable play unbelievable job of avie Of dalman getting around there and sealing that block and it was tremendous Everybody was going right and they come up with a counter just a tremendous. I'm glad you brought that up shock I knew you were gonna get to that play So that's so cool because it was such a counter and really it was a counter to what we were doing We were running outside zone zone zone and all of a sudden dalman everybody's going right dalman pulls back and Shock described it perfectly gets head up on that defender that left that defender that's there to take care of mario to the boot Right. That's why he's back there now. Here comes the center this big center coming at him fronts him up and avie's out the gate I'm going to ask you guys this have people Slept on tyler algear's acceleration. Oh, man I You know what I say right when he when he says that I think about the third down in 12 play Falcons are in the bunch set you got you got drinking you got pits there And it was a quick read by mario to get the ball out of his hands And he dumped it to him behind the line of scrimmage and he picks up maybe what 15 yards I mean he really just cuts through two people to get to first down But I think you're right I think coming in everybody looked at him as just a pure bruiser bruiser back downhill physical But he's showing some ability to to turn on the wheels and you know kind of run away from people at times too. Yeah, that's exciting Yeah, I uh, I actually wrote that play down I always like try to write the up down the key plays in the game ones that I feel like as I'm watching it live Are going to make a difference in the result and that's one of the one I write third and 12 conversion to algear for 20 yards on a screen Has scored a lot of times maybe maybe it's just trying to turn a field goal Not try to make a a disastrous mistake or something all of a sudden instead It's first down for a land to continue the drive one thing I want to know We have two quarterbacks on this show and I don't think I've seen you guys ever so excited Right you guys are talking about airing it out. So it's just it's just miraculous Right at the end of the day at the end of the day, we understand that the run game is going We're gonna better throw the rock. 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We mentioned it earlier Cordell Patterson is going to go on ir so we'll not have his services for a few weeks We already talked about the guys that we're likely going to see And granted it comes at a good time because there's a really good fresh memory about the running game without cp And a lot of yes He's probably been one of the mvps to start the season But arch how do you feel the falcons run game is going to be in the hands of algea and huntley moving forward for Let's call it the next four weeks I think the run game is going to be in good shape the thing that And I think both those we saw the violence with which they ran with we saw the agility which was a What they ran with shock talked about sprinkling avry williams in as well as a complementary guy that can and I think those three guys will be able to handle the load You obviously lose cps Just the way he runs the ball downhill and hopefully and I think we saw kaleb huntley Run very similar to the way cp runs when he came in you mentioned it rack He came in with kind of a there was a different feel to him coming downhill There wasn't this he found one cut which is the zone style of running and he pounded it down the field He said after the game I had a chance to talk to him on the radio post game And I asked him about getting an opportunity being called up He found out on friday There was a chance he was going to play and they confirmed it on saturday that he was going to be on the roster And so cp and he talked and he says cp says hey man, you got to pick up the slack He says I got you man Now he said it a little bit more colorfully than that on the radio But he said I got you and he did He did those two guys and how about the distribution guys for me? 10 carries algae here 10 10 carries for huntley nine carries for cp 29 carries spread out over three backs and you ran for 200 yards That's pretty good. It's a pretty good distribution and I asked arthur in his show on the radio I said would that be ideal? He says be perfect. We could do that every week and sprinkle it out keep everybody fresh And certainly they're going to have to do that this week and avry will be that third back that'll be a part of that DJ anything else stick out of your mind is without having the services of patterson I mean, obviously he's a two-way threat I mean up three way if you want to put him in the kicking game as well It's I think it would be the wrong thing to say that they're not going to miss them because he's that impactful of a player But they've got to have some confidence coming off of the way that this running game produced without him in the lineup last We got I think both you guys said everything that needs to be said to be honest. I mean Those two backs came in and showed why They felt good about okay. Let's go ahead and clean this up for cp Let's go on ahead and make sure he's good for the latter part of the season because we saw three guys get it done We saw two guys like you mentioned have 10 carries a piece And rush the football in a way that gives him confidence So I don't think there's anything else to say about it. Those guys will be ready to go and Archer heard you talking to him. He was excited to get his opportunity. He's from here He's you know been he says he practice like he's going to play and I love the mindset that kid has going into a ball game And knowing that you're gonna play the national football league on a friday Or you end up playing on a saturday and to go out and have that kind of performance tells you this guy is a pro's pro So you have it rack we've got uh, there's a narrative starting to build a little bit And I'm gonna get on my soap box here a little bit. Here we go. Let's go. I'm tired of hearing about The quarterback situation. Hey, should we play this guy or that guy? Let me tell you about marcus mariota and what he's doing one of the reasons we talked about it in the run game You're having some of these problems Defending the run if you're the opposition is because of him His ability to get out of the pocket his stuff off the rpo his ability to get the ball out quickly Yeah, I know seven completions. I get it yet seven. It's not good enough got to have better completions He's not the only reason why there's only seven completions. Does he miss some throws? Absolutely, there's no question about has has there been some snaps that he's got to hang on to He's been there's been some things he has to clean up. He made two throws We both played the position. He made two throws in the game They're probably about three guys or four guys playing in the league right now could have made The scramble to his left when he finds hessie And that's an impromptu play. That's not a rollout. He's forced out of the pocket and he throws the ball He's got two guys bearing down and getting ready to tear him in half He lets it go to hessie along the sideline that continues the drive And then the play he makes in the final drive to set up the field go Going left with oz going the other direction If you go back and look at the tape neither one of his feet are on the ground when he lets the ball go He's sideways flipping it and gets it to oz. Now I get I get it oz. He's oh you got to get him the rock No, no, he gets him the rock. He gets up field face mask. Now you're in field goal range So let's let's pump the brakes a little bit on the mario to bashing or whatever is going on This guy's been incredible. Not only what he's doing in the locker room from a leadership standpoint There's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. He changed a bunch of stuff in this game guys You guys know it He changed a bunch of things in the game from a protection standpoint run game standpoint A lot of times when you come up the run game, there's a check with me You know that shock kill at one side flip at the other side opposite opposite whatever you're going to do He's doing that at the line of scrimmage He's a veteran player that understands the looks So I get it you obviously need to clean up some stuff got to play better But you're two and two and he's one of the reasons you're two and two no question Well, and I will say this another reason that they're two and two is there's a whole another side of the football That probably deserves a little love. So let's talk about doing defense Michael Walker saying after the game that this is a bend But never break defense and once again talked about some of the plays that I ended up writing down Richie Grant his solo tackle on chubb when they tried to go hurry up on the first drive He gets that tackle then they go for it and the coverage sacks ends up getting a stop right there That's a huge stop when a team tries to go hurry up if you find yourself out of position There's no way you end up making those plays. Of course the hawkins force fumble that gets turned over Uh and cordial Patterson ends up scoring like all these little plays stack up throughout the course of the game Dave was just two for five in the red zone What are some of the other big moments in that game that you felt like the defense made outside of the Grady Jarrett sack at the end Well, and let me point out one other little thing that not on the defensive side Tyler Algear on the final run that puts you in field goal range or gives you the chance to kick Tyler Algear stays in bounds. How many rookies know to gear down and get on the ground right there Just a little thing and you were pointing out some little things defensively Cleveland is one of the best three-count screen teams in the national football league They tried to screen I think seven or eight times in the game and we blew every one of them up They're trying yeah incomplete and the one they completed To ninjoku hawkins came in and banged the ball out and you got the ball in a short field opportunity They were incredible the extension of their run game with those two guys run it and hunt and chubb Is their screen game to those two guys and the tight end Completely took that away from the game on that one too. Yeah Completely took away the screen game, which I thought stuck out that was and I'll give you one One series real rack and I'll get out of here so shock and talk We had a drive we think about the final drive where where Grady gets a sack and D gets the pick right Go back to the series prior to that I mentioned the Algear getting down in bounds. Arthur Smith mentioned this me on his coach's show Algear gets on the ground. They have to burn a time out Their last time out. Yeah, okay They get the ball back no timeouts left on the board and they're trying to move it They get out to the Falcon 48 yard line first down They throw it they they run a path run run the ball. I believe they had to get on the ball right away Because they had no timeouts They didn't any timeouts Algera made sure they didn't have any timeouts And so you get you get them off the field three straight downs at the 48 yard line They don't get into field goal range to put you under the gun on your drive that you're down Now you get the football back tied I thought that that series of downs there right before the final drive was a huge and nobody'll talk about it But you've got to stop at midfield to get the ball back DJ who stuck out to you because I go back and I think about watching the game and And listening to the broadcast and it's almost like Every player on the defense at some point made a play to get his name mentioned The the michael walkers the lorenzo carter's obviously grating jared hawkins in the secondary alford It seems like this was a total team effort. Maybe not dominant Yes, they did end up shutting down the screen game, which was huge But what stuck out to you is some of the biggest plays defensively that helped secure the win I think lorenzo had a big play on a bad at screen again Uh in the ball game and he bought a lot of pressure in the game as well I thought he's been you know very active in his play over the first four games Which is you know big what you want outside of getting sacks. Uh, I think the number one thing is You knew chubb was going to get here. You knew they were going to force feed him He got his numbers, but you didn't allow everybody else to beat you think about it early in the ball game They were feeding joker. He was getting all kind of receptions all over the play second half He may have had one catch I might believe and you force him into that fumble, you know Obviously in the ball game, but I thought the red zone defense I thought your ability to take away all their other guys Your new chubb is going to get it, but you didn't allow kareem hunt to go out here and rush for 100 yards Or catch another 75 yards in the pass game, but I thought biggest things was hey We talked about it forcing that forcing that turnover on downs Then they had another time inside the red zone and I mean within the five and you forced a field goal Ben but not break was absolutely what just deep was about and gave the falcons a chance To to really stay in this ball game and put the pressure on them late in the game But I thought not allowing your other guys on their side to win in this game because you always say hey They always gotta have a star they're gonna make plays they're an NFL team But you don't allow Two three four of the guys that have a big game to contribute to the one that's already going by the way a jay charell Put a guy named amaria cooper and witness protection. I think I think he had what do you have one grab in the game I didn't even I don't think I ever mentioned his name On the radio now is the superlatives are throwing out rightly so guys But there are things to fix we talked a little bit about the offense defensively you got to tackle better Oh, yeah, they they did not tackle overly well in this game. There were a number of plays They were in position To make plays and it ended up being five or six more yards which allowed Cleveland to convert no question about that So I think and then that the pin and pull you're gonna see that now You're gonna see counter-trayer pin and pull rack where they're gonna pin down and they're gonna pull those two guys around Cleveland had tremendous amount of success now It's a bread and butter play for them a lot of teams can't run that I don't know if Tampa can duplicate that but we know it's a copycat league You're gonna see it unless you can stop it. So there are some things to fix. It's not perfect But they're playing four quarters and they're finding a way to win games All right, well, let's talk a little bit about that dave because you mentioned We faced a team in cleveland last weekend that wanted to pound the rock and arguably one of the top running backs in the league And nick chubb and things are gonna change this week. All right You got lender for net who is basically taking the line share of the snaps in the backfield for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers But now they're gonna go up against the goat arguably one of the best passers in the history of the national football league With a guy named Mike Evans that knows how to go up and catch the ball now You look at Tampa Bay guys and it's almost like the tale of two seasons I call it um before sunday night football against canza city and then the game against canza city because the chiefs Just dominated them by running the football and basically doing whatever they wanted Forcing tom brady to basically throw the entire game through the air So dave what are the falcons gonna face this weekend and some of the things that need to get cleaned up that could get exposed Against the buccaneers. Yeah, number one is going to be the tackling You're gonna have to tackle in space because they're going to get foreign at the football in a lot of different ways They're throwing it to him. They're handing it to him They saw what chubb had some success and that you're going to probably get an opportunity To stop the pin and pull and try to get to get him on the ground there The short passing attack is a big deal brady gets the ball out pretty quickly Unless he's going to hold it to throw the ball down the field to evans. That's a tough match up for a j torrell on the other side They got run on you mentioned at rack Kansas city doesn't necessarily come in thinking. Okay. We're going to run the rock They did in the game against against the team that has a reputation for being one of the best run defenses in the league You can bet the devon white and levante david all their hearing is how they got the run ball run on them And here comes the team that just ran for 200 yards. What do you think they're going to try to stop? They're going to gang up on the run. So to me that really gives you an opportunity They're willing to play some man coverage in the secondary and frankly, I don't think they're good enough to do that So I think you're going to get some opportunities Got to be willing to take those shots with pits and london and some of oz I get one on one against some of those guys down the field And dj falcons will get a chance to face a couple of former falcons Of course julio jones russel russel gauge both down in tampa both guys have been a little bit dinged up and Haven't necessarily had great seasons yet But what sticks out to you about this tampa matchup for atlanta to be able to continue some of this momentum that they developed last weekend You bring up two guys who Who are former players to gauge right now is the most targeted guy Fortom Brady right now. I know they have a couple guys outs and you know gauge been in and out But he's the most targeted guy for him. So, you know, he has a familiarity already with russel gauge So you got to make sure that you know where gauges But I think the number one thing coming to this game versus tampa on the road Is kind of similar to what you've already done. It's not a A different sauce you got to come into this ballgame with because you've done all the things to keep you in these ballgames And win the last two But one thing that sticks out to me is you had one penalty versus browns one penalty That one penalty came versus drake london when he was, you know trying to fight a guy off and got the face mask off You have to be disciplined versus a team like this and then defensively I think it's what you've done, which is you've gotten the football all the way in four consecutive games You've forced them to turn the football over and if you can do that take some possessions away from them And then turn it over to your offense where your offense Versed in all four games that moved the football without a problem. I don't expect it to be a problem this week as well So, uh, I think continue to be disciplined on the road is always a big factor and win that turnover margin Is always huge and you can say that probably in every ballgame Yeah, I'm glad that you mentioned the penalty dj because that was one of the I'll show you guys real quick Here's my sheet of notes that I wrote down with all the stuff from the falcons game I have on the right just one penalty for 15 yards and you're right I mean, I feel like there's some areas that they're gonna have to make sure that they end up performing really well And no penalties convert in the red zone no turnovers keep stealing the football away on defense and special teams And they'll definitely have a chance in this game. So arch dj How are we feeling guys? Like I love the energy today. I love the excitement the enthusiasm that you guys brought When's a break windows will bring that to you. It's a fun. Hey, you're on top of the division guys Give me someone out there. That's a supposed quote unquote expert that had Atlanta tied with Tampa for the division lead after four weeks Zero nobody So go back home. Stay back. Okay. Don't go now, baby By the way rivalry weekend this weekend for shock and I farmageddon K-state coming to iowa state big one Big one the oldest deep south rivalry alburn georgia Is minnesota playing for like a sows ear or a cow's bell or something this week? Who's minnesota playing? Some animal most likely will be on the line for whoever minnesota plays this week And honestly, I don't know. I'm in london. I checked it out Hey guys That's gonna wrap it up for us this week. I appreciate you guys bearing with me here in london I am not going to go get fish and chips. I might go find some tea and crumpets or something like that Go back to the cute coffee place. 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