 And outstanding second half effort comes up just short. Welcome back to the Falcons Audible. I'm Derek Rackley. This is presented by AT&T. We got DJ Shockley as always. And we've got Dave Archer in a different locale today. Oh, Arch. We've got Arch joining us from the West Coast. Dave, how are you doing? Dave is out in Seattle with the Falcons team as they practice all week out on the West Coast. Getting up early. Yeah. We, our thing is a no joke, right? I mean, we used to the East Coast time. So three hours earlier is a little bit different. But we're here in Seattle, where University of Washington is, where the team will practice this week, spend some time at UW, and get ready to play. Maybe some of that Washington Husky stuff will rub off on us because it's been pretty good this year. Well, hopefully we'll get a little bit of Dave's flavor of how things are going on the West Coast. And we'll talk a little bit more about how West Coast trips are for NFL teams, for players, for personnel that have to spend the entire week out there, and how they rebound from a difficult loss. And we will talk about that before we get into it real quick. Here is what we were going to be discussing today. First reactions. DJ, we're going to talk about what impressed us, because there were some things that were not so good, but there were also some things that were impressive. And we want to talk about the positives as well. First half versus second half, what changed for Atlanta, how they were able to get back into the ball game late as it rolled on. We will also talk about what they need to do to turn the page on that game moving forward to this game against Seattle. Of course, that's where they're practicing this week. And then, as I just mentioned, story time. We'll talk a little bit about our experiences having to play a West Coast trip, and what it's like having to go across the country and get adjusted and practice in different locations when you don't have all the things that you're used to. So we'll get into a little bit of that. So, Dave, I want to start with you, since you woke up early, you told Alexa to set your alarm to wake you up much earlier than what you anticipated. There was plenty of mistakes that went on in the game last weekend. But we want to start by talking about some of the positives, because there was a lot of good things that came out of the performance. Again, you were there. Talk about some of the great, the positive things that you saw that they can potentially lean on moving forward. Well, I think that this team is a pretty intelligent team. And by that, I mean their ability to absorb game plans. This is a really young football team. One of the youngest in the National Football League. And you guys know this and try to tell our fans out there about how difficult it is to shift gears from week to week when game plans change. If you're a young team, that might be a little bit different, because you're a little bit more difficult, because you've got guys so ingrained in the game plan that week. But then a lot of times, you guys know the game plan shifts dramatically the next week. And this is a team that's been able to handle a good bit of that. And the reason I say that is because of what they did to Aaron Donnell. Aaron Donnell is a game record, we know. Arguably the best player in the National Football League. I mentioned his name one time in the game. And that's saying something, because they had a plan for Donnell to get him blocked. And I got a chance to spend some time with Arthur Smith, their head coach. And he showed me some of the intricacies of what they were trying to do. And whether it was the extra offensive linemen, whether it was the running back, or really good job of absorbing that part of it. And I think that bodes well. Why do I mention that? Hey, we lost the game. Yeah, Donnell wasn't a factor, but we still lost. What it tells me is that you've got a team that can adapt from week to week. Because remember, week one, it was Cam Jordan, right? We needed to get Cam Jordan blocked. We need to make sure that we take care of DeMario Davis and the interior. They were able to do that for the better part of three and a half quarters. So I like that part of it. I think it's a team that can adapt, shows flexibility. And I think you're seeing some of the young players now starting to merge. Drake London, we've seen Tyler Alger now. I think some of these guys are going to start emerging as some of the depth and the core of what this team is going to be. Yeah, I'm glad that you mentioned that, Dave. Because as soon as you said, Donald, I mentioned his name one time, I went back to our podcast last week because he said the same thing when he was talking about the game against the Saints. He said, I mentioned Cam Hayward's name one time. So that is a positive, DJ. Because if you can game plan and find a way to take away one of the most explosive weapons, whether that's offensively or defensively, and basically neutralize them, maybe they make one or two tackles, but they don't take over a game, which is what some NFL players can do. That's a positive. What other positives did you see out of the performance? I think there are two that kind of stand out for me. And Archie don't want them. It's the amount of the production that we had with our rookies. And you talk about, we know Drake had a big game and targeted 19 times in the first two ball games. You mentioned Troy Anderson with the big block. I mean, how big was that? Tyler Algergan, 10 carries in the ball game, wasn't up for the first game, now he's up. And give a lot of credit to the staff of Arthur Smith and Terry Fontenau and the Scalemstab that you got rookies coming in here and they're playing early. Usually it takes eight, nine games to get a guy acclimated to NFL ball, but you got guys that are actually producing early in the first two ball games. So that's one thing that was impressive to me that we got rookies that are showing up early for us and that's going to pay huge dividends down the road. The other thing that was impressive to me was when you put all three phases together, this team can actually, you know, it had signs of what you expect it to look like. We saw times when the offense was moving the football up and down the field, Archie talked about being able to block a guy who a lot of teams are quite frankly scared of and find a way to lose a ball game with him there. But they said, hey, we're gonna go right at him. We're gonna find a way to block him. You did that defensively. How many times you got the ball out? I mean, turnovers, you did a good job of that. We just talked about the block pun. So I thought all three phases show what this falcon team could absolutely look like when each and every guy is doing their one 11th. And that's one thing that I know. Arch, Rack, I know we all heard that do your one 11, not that all three phases had their opportunities to show that. And you can do that for four quarters. You got a chance to be a really good football team. There are so many positions. Maybe the quarterback is the one that probably actually can do more than one 11th because he controls so much on the field. But you're right, the fact that I'll do my job, you do your job, we're gonna count on each other to take care of things. And so you're starting to see some of that. You talked about the special teams play. I had to write this down. 509 games since the Falcons, they said this during the broadcast. Last had a block punt return for a touchdown. You mentioned Troy Anderson with the block, Lorenzo Carter scoops it up and scores. Then they end up with a two point conversion to Drake London. You mentioned one of the things that I was gonna talk about the positive was the takeaways. Continuing to find a way to take the football away. Now we also have giveaways on the other hand that's kind of plaguing us. But there was so much criticism, so much pressure on this defense to take the next step forward. The win-loss record not necessarily showing it. But we're starting to see some pieces. You talked about the rookies, even on the defensive side of the ball chipping in. But the takeaways are gonna help them win games down the road. It's not so great right now. We can't sit there and talk about victories right now. But there are pieces to the puzzle that are there that we have to continue to start building on. And that's what's gonna end up resulting in W's down the road. Rack, I want you to kinda break down this for the fans because obviously the big play by Troy Anderson, the block, you've been in that spot before you're that guy right in the middle. And fans are like, how does it come right through the middle? I would love for you to break down how hard it is first to be able to get that block, but what went through and that sequence of those guys being able to get that block? You know, it's so interesting because when I see the blocks that come up the middle, I always go back and oddly enough that my special teams coordinator was Joe DiCamilla still on the sidelines with the Rams. And I go back to the protections that we used to run. And I say, okay, here was the look. Why did it get blocked? And then you look at it and it's generally either an alignment, somebody gets too wide, right? So it's somebody right next to the long snapper gets too wide, he gets stretched out, which opens up a seam. Or there was a lack of communication between who the long snapper and who the personal protector is going to block. And you're right, it's difficult because in the NFL, the long snapper on a block look is generally responsible for a rusher. Whereas in college, they just kinda try to muddle it up or let the three big guys that are standing 10 yards back just try to pick somebody up. But in the NFL, you're responsible for a guy. And you not only have to make a perfect snap going back, but you've got to get back off the line of scrimmage and get into your blocking responsibility, which is either just to your right or just to your left, not to mention get your head up because you guy might start on the right and end up on the left by the time you pick your head up. So there's a lot of stuff that goes through it through the head of a long snapper, not only just executing that snap. And the reason I ask that is because arts understands this as much as anybody. As a quarterback, when you get a blitz up the middle, we're always talk, the offensive line has to take the most dangerous. You gotta take the guy that's closest to the quarterback and get that blocked up first. Let the guy come off the edge because he got the further way to come to get to the quarterback. And for me, I'm thinking about it as how intricate was the design for the Falcons to be able to get that mismatch and it just shows the creativity from the special teams coach, Marcus Williams, to draw something up where you can go get a block. So I just thought it was interesting that we're talking a lot about offense, defense and scheme-wise, but here's a play that directly correlates to the special team that's drawing up to go get a big play. And one thing I would tell is I had a chance to talk to Troy yesterday guys about the play and it's a complete blow by Seattle. They, you know, there's no, there was nothing, I think they, obviously they had an overload to one side of the formation. The personal protector peeled to the right to block just outside the punter, the center block back and left Troy Anderson straight through the middle. Nobody touched him. But I thought what was important and something that Arthur Smith brought up in his presser was the poise Troy showed because he showed the great quickness and the speed to why you drafted him. The guy ran, what, four-four to combine and he got through that quickly. But you guys know as well as I do in rack, you've been in these, in the meetings before you got young guys that'll overrun the play that will actually run past the punter and the punter will still get the ball off. And so he had a decision to make. He got there so quickly. Do I tackle the punter? Do I play the ball off of his foot? And obviously he played it perfectly. He put his hands right on top of the ball as the ball hadn't even hit the kicker's foot yet. So it may look like it's an easy deal. And Rick, you've been talking about and explaining it. You might go into a little bit more in depth and that's something they work on in taking the ball off the foot, go to where the ball's gonna be, not where the ball is at that time. There's some intricacies there that I thought Troy Anderson did a great job of executing. No, you're absolutely right. And I could sit here and it was like, how long do we have to go through all the different intricacies of special teams play? But you're right. There's always a block point that's actually studied by the special teams coach the minute you come into the meeting. He says the way that this punter approaches the line of scrimmage after he catches the ball, his block point is nine, nine and a half, 10 yards, something like that. And then you're right, Arch, once you get there, once you get your opportunity and the eyes get wide open, you start slobbering all over yourself, you can't just jump in the air and fly through and say, oh my gosh, you could just run right over the ball. That's why you have to have the poise. You have to understand that you take your hands right to the block point and try to literally catch the ball off the punter's foot. Every once in a while, a guy will jump in the air and he'll get lucky and he'll block one. But how many times do we see guys jump in the air and they completely whiff on a block punt when they should have took it right off the foot? So it's great that you mentioned that. That's all up in my element. Like I said, our producer, Sam would get very upset because I would take the entire 30 minutes and talk about special teams play. But we wanna get into a little bit of the differences between the first half and the second half because it was a loss for the Falcons. And yes, they made a great comeback in the second half, but Arch, you were there. So kind of walk us through the differences in the first half and the second half. We know that they made a great comeback in the second half, but why did they have to do that? What set that up with their play or lack thereof in the first half? Well, I think that if you're gonna point to the offensive side of the football, it's just your inability and inefficiency in the red zone. You've gotta be able to finish drives and you're not finishing drives. The opening drive very much like the game against the Saints. You drove the link to the field and then you have you short circuit. You have an offside penalty, you got moves, the snap didn't come back. I think it got blamed on Lindstrom, but everybody moved. Dalman didn't snap the ball. So you've got an illegal procedure penalty and then you move it back and now you've got a blown assignment up front and they slide the line to Donald. Nobody picks Wagner coming through the A gap and Wagner gets a sack and bang, bang, you're kicking a field goal. Then coup magnifies it by missing the field goal. So just inefficiencies when you get down in the red zone, I think they now have what? Shock four or five red zone penalties that have changed the complexion of the play call and it kind of puts you up against it to try to execute down there. To me, that's where it all boils down. Your ability when you get down, you're getting down there. They're moving the football. They're doing some good stuff from 20 to 20. It's when they get in the red zone that they don't take care of their business. They don't emphasize, they're emphasizing it. There's not a sense of urgency shock to get the job done when you've done all that work to get it down there. So now get the ball in the end zone. To me, that was what was glaring in the first half. The Rams were a problem on an offense. We knew there were gonna be a problem. They do a really good job of the short passing attack. I thought Atlanta did a decent job in the second. I'm adjusting to matching when they wanted to come with zone pressure. They play a kind of a man concept within their zone pressures where they match up. It almost becomes almost a man in your zone. Didn't think they did a very good job of matching in the first half. And they did in the second half. They did a better job of making Stafford maybe come off of his first read and they turned him over. So that changed in the second half as well. Chuck, I wanna go back to what Arch was talking about with the red zone because I think there's probably a lot of people watching or listening right now that may not understand why it can be a struggle not only for Atlanta, but for any team when they get down into the red zone, right? So we always talked about different red zone keys because the field shrinks when you get down into the end zone or into the red zone. You talk about no penalties. Arch just talked about that. You talk about no sacks. Arch just talked about that, right? These are all red zone goals that teams set out as far as they set that out in training camp and you have to execute these things as you get throughout the season. Face mask are higher when you're throwing to your teammates, right? But I want you to explain as a quarterback and first people that are listening and watching what it's like when you feel the field shrinking when you get down in the red zone. It's, you almost have an extra defender. You actually do once you get down in there. I mean, you got 11 guys on the field and you got that back in line. As for DBs, they know they have that back in line. So they use that, especially in the red zone as, okay, I don't have to back up as much because nobody's gonna get behind me because I got that end zone. So that ultimately makes the field shrink. And a lot of times once you get inside the red zone, regardless sometimes it depends on situation or down a distance, defense are looking at the quarterback. They play what we call the four cross and everybody's sitting on the, maybe if you're inside the team, they're sitting on the goal line and they're looking at the quarterback. So they see everything in front of them and they see the quarterback. So it makes the windows a lot smaller and it makes it a lot harder to throw the football down there. And that's why teams always emphasize if we can run the football in the red zone, that opens things up for us really, really big. And then like you guys just mentioned, penalties, getting you off schedule, those things hurt you when you get down there because now you're playing into the hands of the defense because now you're trying to force the football into the end zone or you're trying to pick up those yards you just lost. And that's when mistakes start to happen. And I think that's part of the red zone issues that the Falcons were having, especially early in that ball game is you're having some issues once you got down there that ultimately snowballed into bigger things. And I think, going back into the first half and thinking about the second half, another big thing was third down. You were in a lot of situations where you were third and seven plus. And then there were a couple of instances where you had third and one or two and you tried to run the football and couldn't pick it up. So those are things that can stall a drive or can stall the momentum when you're not picking up those third. I think the Falcons were three of 10 on third down in this ball game. That gives the defense a lot of credit where you can get them off the field in those situations. But I go back to the second half and I think about, I remember Casey Hager was talking after the game and he talked about to Archie's point of them playing match coverage. He said in this post game press that there was a time when he got his interception, Stafford thought he was going to fall off on another route, but because this particular route was in his zone, he just stayed with him and Stafford threw it anyway, expecting him to do something else. So this is a guy who's a veteran who's done his business, he's played against Stafford a number of times and he knows how he thinks a little bit. But the fact that each guy did their job and it goes back to that 111. I go back to an example, Michael Walker's interception. Michael Walker, they get play action. He actually steps up into the line of scrimmage, but then once he sees this not play action, guess what he does? He turns his head, looks up the route behind him and then finds the quarterback and looks it up and makes an interception. That's what's called doing your 111. You do your job. Yeah, I saw play action, I stepped up, but then it wasn't what I thought it was. I got into my particular hook zone area and found the football. That's a big time play. The London touchdown, it's in the red zone, but this is all by Kyle Pitts. He does such a great job of going vertical at the guy who's covering Drake London and it's a one-step slant, but because he goes vertical at him and then gets vertical, the guy has to pump his brakes a little bit as a pump his feet and now he's behind Drake on that one-step slant. So these are the one things, these are some of the small things inside the game where people ask, where's Kyle Pitts? Well, he's affecting the game, trust me. He's got dudes open. He's made a couple of big catches for Drake London because of his presence, but those are small things, details that I talk about. You say you're doing your 111 that you don't really see, but it happens in a ballgame. And I'll piggyback on that shock, the fact that Kyle Pitts made it look like a route. How many times, especially younger players, when they know that their responsibility is to rub off the defender covering a receiver, they basically just go up there and run into the guy, right? And it's an easy call for offensive pass interference, but the fact that Pitts got vertical and then he made it look like a route, it wasn't like he boxed out the defense, but if you can get them to trail for just a half a step or one step, it's over. That's all that the quarterback is looking for. So Arch, I wanna come back to you, not only expand a little bit more on the second half, but maybe talk since you were there, how the atmosphere inside that building changed once the Rams thought this insurmountable lead was starting to slip away and Atlanta was getting back in the game. Well, first of all, guys, it's just an indication of how hard it is to win this league. I think that everybody points when we're Falcon fans. We point to maybe some of our failures late in games to close games out over the last several seasons, but if you looked around the league this weekend, it happened everywhere. I mean, there were, what, three or four games where teams were down double digits and came back to win. Other team came back to win. It's just the way it is. It's, you get in some kind of rhythm and, but from a building standpoint, it was a good building for the Rams. They had a good crowd. Obviously got off to a great start. Got the big lead. The interception was huge. I thought that was a big moment in the game for the Rams. Falcons get the ball back down 14-3. They're moving the ball. They get out near midfield and Marcus tries to shoot the ball on the left flat to CP and it gets on him a little bit quick and he kind of tips it in the air and it's picked off. They run it down to about the nine yard line or seven yard line and they punch it in. It's 21-3 at the half. And everybody's going to the concession stand and thinking, wow, this is in the bag. This, this Atlanta team can't come back on this Ram team. We got too much. There was a big moment in the game guys in the second half. I don't know if you guys took notice of it, but the Rams went on a long drive. After Atlanta, the score was 28-3. Atlanta went down, scored, made it 28-10. And it's late third quarter and the Rams are driving, actually it's early fourth quarter. Rams are driving and they're putting together a nice drive and they get down to the Falcon seven yard line first in goal. They go four, they go three downs, can't get it in and are forced to kick a field goal. I thought there was a defensive stand right there that kind of changed the momentum and I know that we're going to point to the turnovers that changed them. I thought that was a moment people are going to forget about but you held them at the seven and made them kick a field goal. And that was kind of the first time they'd gotten down there where you kind of put up some kind of resistance. Next thing you know, Atlanta gets the ball, most of those, the link, the field scores, the touchdown. Then all of a sudden things start happening, right? You get the block punt for a touchdown. You get, you know, the ball's dropped out. Now all of a sudden you got a chance to win the football game. But that was a moment right there that I thought was pretty key that'll be overlooked. And I think it'll be something Dean Pines points to is okay, this is about playing for four quarters and this is what we're talking about. Because this team exemplified that this weekend. You were out. I'm sure there was a lot of Falcon fans that might have turned the TV off and left. Next thing you know, they get in the car and they turn us on on the radio find out the score is 31-25 and what the hell happened, you know? It's a four quarter game and it was a four quarter game across the league. And I thought Atlanta showed that guts that they're going to show every weekend as they're going to play 60 minutes. 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. And so Dave, let's kind of talk about some of the things that we just talked about with the red zone issues, third down, turnovers. So the easy thing is, yeah, don't turn the ball over, convert on third down, right? It's a lot more difficult than that arch. So let's talk about what can Atlanta move forward and what can they improve on this week to make it a successful trip and win on the back half of this West Coast trip to get a victory over Seattle? Yeah, you guys made a good point on Kyle's route against with London when London scores. I talked to Kyle specifically yesterday about what he's doing. I mean, people would look at him and say, wow, you just had one of the, maybe the second greatest or greatest rookie year of a tight end of all time. I mean, you put it up against Mike Ditkes, right? All-time great rookie tight end performance. He's good, his bed's been made, right? No, he talked about some of the routes that he needed to improve on, some of the opportunities that Arthur's trying to dial up for him to get him one-on-one. And some of those opportunities have gone away simply because his routes haven't been very good. He's still trying to work on running past, he's such a physically dominating dude that he just kind of runs through people sometimes to get himself open or just use his body size when the precision of his route, as you guys just described on the London touchdown, will help him get more opportunities, get the ball come his way, create more separation for Mario to get him the football. I think that's number one. It's attention to details, guys. We talk about it all the time. We talked about little things last week. You know, in a screenplay, if you get the ball outside, there's a one particular screenplay where Drake catches the ball outside wide. It's blocked perfectly, but Drake hesitates a little bit and doesn't quite get up the field and it only nets about an eight-yard play. When he hit the seam, you had two kick-out blocks. Good job by Wilkinson to peel it back and pin the guy inside. There's a lane there. There's a big play. So those are the kind of things that I think young players like Pitts and London, all these guys are gonna learn from, that it bodes well. They're making some plays, but there's bigger plays to be made and I think they understand it. And that's why I went and go back to what I said in the beginning. This is smart football team. These are young guys that are intelligent, that are listening to the coaching, that I think it's gonna translate. Now we want it as Falcons fans to translate right now. And hopefully this weekend against Seattle, you can get that done. DJ, he talked a little bit about the Falcons, X's and O's, switch gears a little bit and tell us a little bit about Seattle. What you see from the Seattle Seahawks this year, strengths, weaknesses, obviously no more Russell Wilson. He's now in Denver, but what type of challenges does Seattle pose that Atlanta needs to be prepared for? Well, I think it's similar to what you just came from. It starts with the environment you're in. When you're playing environment in Seattle, I don't know if fans has been there now, but it's a loud environment. They get going. Everybody knows, it's all about the 12s and all that kind of stuff. And that's a big part of the ball game. You allow those guys to have an effect on the game. It could hurt you. And I think one thing that we've stressed the last two weeks are things that stall out drives or things that hurt you within a drive like fall starts or jumping off sides. Things like that can get that crowd into it, but also can affect the ball game. So I think going into it, you have to know the environment and absolutely understand that your focus has to be a little bit different in a place like this. Seattle is a team, obviously, you just mentioned no Russell Wilson. Everything is running through Geno Smith right now. Geno Smith had a really good first game. All the hype with him and Russell coming back in Denver end up winning that ball game. He actually made a bunch of big plays in that game. He was accurate, he was efficient. He pushed the ball down the field, uses legs at times. So Geno has been around for a while. This guy is a guy who's a veteran of this league and will understand what it takes to win ball games. They didn't have the game they wanted this past week. San Francisco kind of took it to him, but this is a team that still has a bunch of playmakers on it. Rashad Penney is a tough runner. Kenneth Walker, I'm sure you guys know him pretty well from Michigan State, really tough runner out the backfield. Tyler Lockett been around for a while, done it for a long time. The big physical guy on the outside, big DK Metcalf. He's gonna pose a big issue for our secondary, understanding where he's at. He's a take the top off, he's a screen guy. He's a physical specimen as well. So this offense is gonna be one that you have to make sure you know where these guys are on the count form because they can hurt you if you give them the opportunity. So this is gonna be a fun environment to be in, but it's similar to every other ball game. You gotta take care of you first. And if you don't do that, and obviously they'll hurt you as any team will in national football league, but this will be a game that Seattle will come in with. They same amount of confidence. I mean, yeah, they took one on the chin last week, but they're gonna build off what they did in that first game and say, hey, we got a chance to be a good football team as well. And we know Pete Carroll is a guy who doesn't lack any confidence as well. He has his team ready to go. Yeah, DJ, you talked a little bit about it. You guys know I spent the last two years in my career in Seattle, and it is one of the special places as far as fan experiences go. I mean, the Seattle Seahawks fan love their Seahawks. They love their team. They come packed, they come loud, no matter what time of day it is, they're gonna show up and they're gonna be ready to support their team. And Dave, I wanna kinda go back to you and I'll start this conversation out because the last thing we'll cover here is the fact that this is a West Coast trip. Atlanta's not making the trip back home. As Dave talked about it, they're gonna be working out at the University of Washington. This week I did the same type of deal. I believe it was my second year in the league, but we played it back to back against the San Francisco 49ers and of course the then Oakland Raiders. We trained at Stanford through the week and I think a lot of people would say, well, how do you do that? When you don't have your locker room, you don't have your normal training room, you don't have your comforts of training at home. And I would always just go back and say, guys are professionals now. Like this is their job. So you can't go out there and make an excuse, I don't have my regular training table. I don't have my locker stool to sit on so I don't feel comfortable. This is your job now. Your job is to go on the practice field and get prepared and be able to go out on the field and push your best foot forward and help this team win a football game. Arch, talk a little bit about the experiences cause you're not coming home either. You're gonna spend the week in a hotel room and things will get kicked off for sure next week tomorrow as Atlanta gets on the practice field. But some of the differences that they're gonna have to go through this week training out on the West Coast. And you look quite comfortable there too, Arch. I mean, you're sweet. Yeah, I brought my chair with me. So yeah. And as good as Rack described that scenario, there are guys on their team that I don't care how professional they are because they don't have their stool or a pain in the butt. I'll tell you that right now. Oh, what are you talking about? Do I got to walk that far to get the colts up? Give me a break. Go get the colts up. So as much as Rack is trying to paint this professional scenario, there are a couple of pains in the ass that they're gonna have to deal with. No question about that. But it does galvanize a team to a certain extent because you're on the same area all the time. There's not any family on the trip. It's just the guys. And the guys are together. When you've got a young football team, I think it goes a long way to helping those guys grow together. Some of these guys haven't known each other very long and that helps in that regard. But in the aspect of what Rack was talking about as a professional, yeah. You've got a facility workout in. You respect the facility. You're working over at Washington. Their facility is as good as college facilities you can have in the country. They've got all the bells and whistles. You're not gonna go wanting, right? They're gonna have a nice field of practice on. They're gonna have training rooms. They're gonna have all that stuff at their disposal. So they're gonna be able to have some things that are like home, albeit it's not exactly yours. Just to reiterate this building that they're gonna play in. I played in the old kingdom, okay? And it was one of the hardest places to play anywhere. Much like the Superdome in New Orleans, the sound would reverberate off and come back down. I remember my first pass in the game, Kenny easily picked me off. I was trying to throw a little sail route to Billy White Shoes Johnson. He picked off my first pass and that place went berserk, okay? They'd berserk the entire game. So the 12s is relatively a new thing. They've been the 12s since they put the team here back in the mid-70s, okay? It's a good and very difficult environment to play in. It'll be a fun game to talk about Seattle real quickly for my two cents where they wanna run the football. They have not been able to run the ball. They ran the ball for 75 against Denver. They ran for, I think, 35 yards this last weekend. I think they'll get back to trying to run the football a bit. I think that bodes well. Atlanta, I think, will swell up against the run. But I'm not worried about traveling and being on the road. I've done it before like you have racked, stayed in LA and then went up to play San Francisco. Things went good in game one and didn't go good in game two and vice versa. So there's no real remedy to it. A lot of coaches lose different velocities but I think the core idea is that you stay out here, you get acclimated to the time zone and then you kind of grow a little bit as a team. And I think if there's any team in the league that's young enough, this is a benefit, this is a trip that will benefit the Falcons. DJ, did you see when we first started this, how he was a little cranky? It's like he had that night of sleep where the pillow was too flat. He couldn't get the shower temperature right in the shower. What now? You gotta use all four for one, don't you, Arc? He's sitting on that hotel desk chair right now and it's getting really flat. You can see that he's not very comfortable. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We see the move a couple times. Yeah, so Dave, we'll go ahead and let you sign off and you can go get something more comfortable, go get a coffee, a sandwich, whatever it is. Actually, it's still fairly breakfast time over there. So go get you a breakfast sandwich or something and hopefully you'll be in better shape. Appreciate you guys. Good to be with you all. All right, that's gonna wrap it up here on the Falcons Audible presented by AT&T. Thanks so much for joining us as we kind of recap the Rams game, get ready for the Seattle Seahawks this next weekend as Arch will stay out on the West Coast. We'll welcome him back home next week and hopefully be recapping a victory in how they are able to move forward from some of the things that plagued them in weeks past. Let's go get a dump, man. Let's go get a victory. I'm Derek Rackley. This is Dave Archer right here on the screen. That's DJ Shockley. Thanks so much for joining us. As always, make sure you like, subscribe, review on Spotify, iTunes, AtlantaFalcons.com and YouTube. This is the Falcons Audible presented by AT&T. Thanks so much for joining us, everyone.