 We are back on the Falcons audible presented by AT&T and for those that are kind of looking left and looking right They're saying wait a minute. How come the guys aren't on video. Mm-hmm. Well, we're only audio this week because Me and the guys Dave Archer DJ Shockley. Hello fellows We are gonna be moving into Some fancy new studios here very soon. Let's be real. We don't have us got haircuts Yeah, I mean we forgot The shirts aren't tucked in so our artists are artists looking at me like So anyway, we will be back on you in full video display very soon And you will probably see some new digs surrounding us, which we are very excited for in the near future So without further ado, let's get into what we are talking about today Of course, we're gonna revisit the Falcons Saints game down in New Orleans. What happened in that one We obviously got a lot of talk about Desmond Ritter. We will fast-forward talk about this weekend another road game against the Baltimore Ravens And then maybe some story time some cold weather games that the guys have played in throughout their careers holiday games because One thing you know in the NFL the NFL doesn't stop for holidays if Thanksgiving Christmas falls on days Where they play games they play games. Okay, so we will talk a little bit about those three So let's get into it guys. We talked about this last week Obviously the big storyline going into the Saints game was the Falcons with a brand new rookie quarterback Making his debut in Desmond Ritter Atlanta Falcons fall to the Saints 21 18 Dave I want to start with you. You are there. You are breaking it down every moment of the way Let's start with this because I felt like this was kind of a I don't know if you want to call it a turning point because it's beginning of the game If you could script out a lot of things for a rookie quarterback making his first start You generally wouldn't script out a 14 nothing deficit midway through the first quarter And I felt like that was where this team not just Desmond Ritter The entire team got themselves into a pickle You got a rookie quarterback making his first start and before he even blinks. He's down 14 points You know by the way you're probably in the worst place You could possibly as a falcon player to be playing in the Superdome in New Orleans against your arch rival I Thought that it gave you an opportunity And I know a lot of people wanted to see what this guy was made of or what he would do and he didn't flinch He just you know we came out with three and out offensively was not a good series And they of course they got the touchdown pass from take some hill and it's 14 nothing in a blink of an eye You've had the ball for three plays He did a really good job of staying in the moment staying in the game And I thought those are the kind of things obviously wanted the numbers and the numbers weren't there And I think numbers will come and I'll give you some numbers of other guys that have played in their first starts But what you wanted to see was how he handled the situation one the adverse Situation with the stadium and who you're playing against to whatever Situations presented themselves 14 nothing down obviously the worst of the worst scenarios there But he didn't allow that to affect him. He stayed even keel throughout the game And I thought he got better as the game went along I thought he was antsy shock early on I thought you could see it in the first couple throws He didn't want a negative play meaning you didn't want to sack and we as quarterbacks always know We want to make the guys around us feel good about themselves Especially early in the game was a receiver running back Certainly your offensive line you don't want them to see you laying on the ground behind them because you've held the ball too long I thought he got antsy and tried to pull it down too early. Yeah, that's steadied and settled as well So that part of it I really like now the numbers were not there and and we'll talk about that But the numbers will calm I think yeah, but I just like the way you handle his business Yeah, Arch, it's great to have you guys both here talking about this because we got two quarterbacks, right? And DJ you guys can speak to like Yeah, we could sit here and we could we could dive into X's and O's and oh We missed this pass or didn't manage to play clock this way But DJ just talk about like the things that were probably going through his mind Early on in that game that he was having to fight through that you talked about Arch and then what you saw as the game Kind of war on I think the operation part of it is where you look at a young quarterback Especially in an environment like that. How do you operate within the pocket? How you operate in the huddle how you operate just getting the play call because I see this is totally different now You've had a week you've had all you know kind of all season to kind of get yourself ready to go as far as you know Preparing as a starter, but it's something different about when you get in the game And you're actually the guy and you have to run the show There's no coach behind you like it is in practice yelling. Hey, we got to get this guy lined up or whatever It is you have to be in total command and control while you're out there So I thought operational he did a really good job of doing it Arch mentioned it in the environment like that Just getting lined up and this office has a lot of checks has a lot of you know Different things that a quarterback has to do motion that the line of scrimmage get everybody lined up and then get the ball snap We didn't see a lot of you know false starts. We didn't see a lot of that kind of stuff happening in the ball game And I thought he did a good job operationally of just getting the play out and then here comes execution late Like I said the numbers they're going to come and I think you look at early in the ball game We didn't help ourselves as much as on first and second down being in good situations And you think about you know first play the game you're taking a shot to CP and hey It's an incomplete pass and you are your second and ten or you try to run the football and then you know a couple You know series later and you get nothing or you get a negative yard is play So you're already putting this guy behind the eight ball and our mission as a quarterback when you already in second 10 second 11 or whatever it is You don't want to contribute to The negative yard is play so you don't want to get a sack You don't want to turn the ball over and I think early in the game You can see him just trying to get the ball out of his hands And like you mentioned Arch He was a little antsy with at times maybe an overthrow here or maybe you know Just trying to get rid of it and all that kind of stuff I think he did a good job operational as far as you know playing the game through But I think also we could have helped ourselves better on early downs that could have helped him Especially once you get to second and third down. Yeah, you know, we talked about this a little bit last week And I don't want to take anything away from the Saints But I know Arch you talked about like it's a good defensive front going up against Atlanta and Cam Jordan has made a career Unfortunately against the Atlanta Falcon so wasn't like his his work was going to be easy trying to navigate the opposing color jerseys That were coming against him. So Arch you talked a little bit about numbers. He was just 50% passing 13 to 26 97 yards no touchdowns no picks. I know you wanted to talk a little bit about numbers The one thing I would add that I think is positive again You're trying to extrapolate positives moving down the road or even in the future for a really talented young quarterback is Still no Kyle Pitts in the game But he definitely made a concerted effort to get the ball in the hands of Drake London seven catches 70 yards, but he had 11 targets So he went the direction of the first round pick 11 times in the game I think that bodes well for trying to get the ball into the hands of playmakers And now we just got to hope Arch that the accuracy that he gets a little bit more lasered in Yeah, and I think that those guys can help him some too, right? You'd mention the first play out of the box you take the shot to CP horrible route by Patterson Patterson's got bump and run coverage. He saves him no room along the sideline. There's no place to throw the ball I love the idea taking the shot But you're the veteran player take a little time plan to scrimmage run by the guy But give me some room to throw the football didn't help him at all there Drake London had a couple of routes where he didn't run to the proper depth He didn't get to the proper depth which changes where the ball enters you if you're at the proper depth And the ball comes out now. Maybe it's on the front front number But because you get short now it's on the back hit Yeah, and those are little things that happen So he needed the guys around him to help him out And I think that that that will come because some of those guys will settle in and do something now Drake did really a couple really cool things you mentioned the numbers or in what his numbers were There's one in particular out I know the one you know what I'm talking about where Drake's got a little pop pass to the inside and there's two windows there's one outside the backer or inside the backer and When Ritter lets the ball go the ball looks like it's going right at DeMario Davis Well Drake attacks the football undercut seem takes the ball away and pushes it up the field for another 10 10 yards or so so there you kind of start to see that marriage kind of coming together those two guys Numbers wise real quickly John L. Way and again, I'm don't make mistake. I'm not trying to compare Ritter to the guys. I'm gonna mention here But just give you perspective now some guys have lit it up there Let me start Matt Ryan threw a 65-yard touchdown pass on his first pass. That's the guy everybody wanted to run out of town Let's not forget that so but John L. Way won for eight an interception 14 yards his first start The guy that we consider the goat who we're gonna see at the end of the season He had 13 completions did Tom Brady in his first game as a New England Patriots starter for 160 yards The next week he had 12 completions for 90 yards Didn't throw a touchdown a pass and either one of his first not quite light it up is a day No, but it just in that's where perspective has to fall in we tried to talk about the patient's level And I think I even tweeted something out about you know I give the kids some time because this isn't we're not talking about going to play Madden Yeah, you know like you said there was a guy There's there's a guy that's made a living playing against the Falcons and Cam Jordan Yeah, who's standing on the other side waiting to come get you now So those things got to keep in perspective, you know, I'll add something for the fans to kind of think about there There are three plays I broke down this week on Atlanta Falcons calm of some of the things that he did well in this ball game And one was aren't you remember this they go five wide they go empty set and Drake's in the slot He's got Tyron Matthew covering him in the slot Pro Bowl veteran guy What he does pre snap the post snap is they go spread and you got to figure out where's the leverage who I know can win What's happening? He goes away from rotation throws the inside slant Tyron Matthews playing outside left on the other side You got oz run the same kind of slant But on the other side the guy has inside leverage from pre snap to post snap He knew exactly which way to go with the football first off and then deliver the strike This was on third and six completion move the chains. There's another play they go play action left and Drake's gonna run in like a little little semi-over route and he's got a nickel coming off the edge Stands in there. No, he's gonna get hit toughness stands in there takes a shot delivers the ball to Drake nice easy completion There's and his last one was he's throwing you got you got Drake coming on the big over out You got Michael Pruitt coming on a override as well play action away and the linebackers They were full at first, but they got back under it He does a good job of holding Michael Pruitt up in the hole instead of leading him across the field where their linebackers were going This is just all stuff that you know never comes up in a statute as far and what he's seeing They never see the field I just throw it into a area or okay He's supposed to go and and throw it across the field. He throws it to to a guy It makes him open pretty much so there were a lot of things he did in the ballgame that when you turn on the tape You say, okay, those are things that are absolutely Teachable things that you can learn from and say hey, these are good things Obviously there's things you can work on but there are always things that you turn on the tape that people may not see and say, okay That's something that you can absolutely build on one forward Yeah, and shock and I are gonna sit here and try to convince you as a Falcon fan that this guy is the next guy This is gonna be the D guy What we're trying to give you an idea of is some of the growth we saw in the game Right because this guy hasn't played since back in August Okay, so they get a chance to get in and play in real live action is a different scenario And then and then to try to compare it to what's what's going on with with other guys that have been in similar situations He made some bad throws in the game. He had three ball throws that could have been picked off Yeah, that's what happens with the young quarterback to miss read something the speed of the game catches up with you because a different speed And I felt that it is it's Cincinnati where he was playing in college and you got to learn learn that deal But you take that for what it's worth a couple of throws that probably were ill advised But also don't forget you took over the ball on your own ten yard line with the game in doubt It the games on the line He took it from the ten yard line They drove all the way down the field and on fourth down and eight He throws a completion to Drake London that puts you in field goal range You're gonna have a chance to tie the football game. Oh, by the way, there's enough time in the game You may go win the game So this is the same dude that struggled maybe early and maybe throw a couple balls you say well wait That should have been picked off. Yeah, okay But it didn't and so you play out the circumstances you're handed in a game He was handed a long field a 90 yard field to try to go win the football game and he gave it He gave you a chance to win it I don't want this to be the apologies for this that or the other well, you know There's two scenarios there had made some mistakes, but he also did some really good stuff Let the kid grow because he's got some seeds got there's a knack about him I wanted to bring one last thing up and then we'll move on I know you guys saw this, but you talked about making some mistakes not necessarily seeing it or learning from it right before halftime they're driving down and They had I want to believe it was like a second and seven. Okay, again I don't know what his progression is. I don't know what his read is But Zacchaeus ran like a like a comeback or a deep speed out to the sideline And I thought he had it if if you are in the groove and you throw that ball on anticipation Right like it has to happen in the NFL You got to throw that ball before he comes out of his break that way when he turns around the balls right there instead He hesitated a little bit and the DB came in and knocked it away. That was you potentially that's first down right there They were already on the New Orleans 47 yard line. Okay, let's just say they drive down. It's 14-3 at that time Let's say they drive down and they punch it in right before half What happened right after half? Yeah, they drove down the score again. So those are those times when we talk about like as broadcasters Can you get that two for one? Can you get the score right before halftime and then you get the ball coming back in the third quarter? You got a chance to double dip right to me that could have changed the complexion of the game And it's probably a throw they're gonna watch on tape and he's gonna say thought a cut at least I probably had it Right and those are the things that come with experience when he's just got to know that he's gonna throw him open Right with anticipation. All right, so let's transition away from Desmond Ritter a little bit because you talk about positives on offense guys It was a coming out party for Algier Okay, like he's been a force all season, but it was almost to me guys like I watched that game And I was like this guy might truly be the running back of the future the way that he played the Physicality the vision that he played with how many third down running plays did he get to connect? I think it was six at the last count third down plays that they ran it and he converted for a first down It's almost like the maturation that we're wanting to see from Desmond Ritter We're already starting to see it DJ from Algier and you can when you watch him run You know he runs with an angry intent and there were a couple times in the game where It looked like he probably should have gained no yards Yeah, one yard and he ends up with four five six yards and The physicality like you mentioned he runs with it's fun to watch it You can tell he he kind of feeds on it as the game goes on and he continues to run and pound and run I do the one thing that I think you know watching him that I've kind of kind of been more impressed with this is vision and The touchdown run was supposed to be an outside zone You can see everybody's reaching and even if you watch it on film His eyes are outside his eyes are going outside zone And he comes and cuts it all the way backs and hits that hole and Punches it in and runs through a couple of arm tackles Those are the things that that are hard to teach some guys just have some guys don't yeah And you can see he has that physicality and you talk about We talked about Algier. I thought this was another really good game by the rookies You talk about the edge of the Malone had a tackle for loss And the Katie had the the fumble that caused fumble there on like third and one in the ball game We talked about London talk about Ritter Troy Anderson got his first start. I mean these rookies are making Major production here as the season goes on and I know we're talking about Algier I mean first first game over a hundred yards, you know Second touchdown of the year. I mean all that kind of stuff is great But he brings a different intensity for this offense and he gives you exactly what you want in the run game 17 carries 139 yards. He actually eclipsed a hundred yards early on in the third quarter So that was already knocked off of his list, but again the physicality that he played with I thought was quite impressive and it's another one of those positives that Atlanta has moving forward 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 Speaking of moving forward Atlanta Falcons goes on the road this week again to play the Baltimore Ravens Dave I want to ask you about the Ravens because as I did a little bit of recon Obviously Lamar Jackson has been out for a few weeks Word on the street is that he might come back this weekend for the game again Don't know if that's true yet Don't know what his true percentage of health will be in that game But all the stuff going around Baltimore fellas is that offense has been anemic ever since Lamar Jackson left that Hunley's not able to move the ball down the field. They have not been scoring very many points JK Dobbins has come back from an injury But he doesn't seem to have that same kind of burst that he's had early on in the season or in his career What do you see from Baltimore? What type of animal is Atlanta gonna face this week if you will yeah, it's a very uncertain Certainly on the offensive side of the ball because they're a different they're a different flavor if Lamar plays right now All of a sudden you've got a dynamic Run entity that can take it to the house from anywhere on the field So that changes who you're going to be and that will be the real challenge This week get ready defensively because shatley the young kid He can move around the kid out of Utah that the backup quarterback But they've been they haven't been very good with three points this weekend and their loss. Yeah so the Brown so So you that might be a problem in trying to prepare I guess you try to prepare for Lamar and then you kind of settle into whatever you're gonna get because their past games Not gonna change with Lamar in the game Maybe a little bit more RPO potentially or a little bit zone a little more zone read But so you prepare for that. I guess you prepare for Lamar and see if he plays a lot going on with him Obviously he's got a he's a contract scenario going on does he come back the injury? That's all him That's a problem. They've got up there defensively. They're always salty. Yeah. Now. That's the team. It gets after you defensively They've got guys all over the field can play whether it's a corner spot the linebacker spot along the defensive front. They're big They're physical So that will be a real challenge But as soon as I say that every time we line up against one of these kind of teams We shoved the ball right down our mouth throw. Yeah, we ran for 200 yards against the Saints this weekend And I don't There is good a front seven as you're gonna have tomorrow you mentioned the run that that you get down the goal line biology Or he runs through to Mario Davis. Yeah, and I'm not talking about just through an arm out He ran through him. That's one thicker physical linebackers. He's one of the best tackle tackle linebackers You're gonna see in the league guys an outstanding tackler. So the physicality in the run games there Can we be better? Protection wise and can does make some plays in the past game against this really good Baltimore defense Remember Baltimore lost that game. They now fall a game behind Cincinnati So if you look big picture, it's a huge game for them because they get an opportunity to potentially pull themselves close Cincinnati's playing at New England. So what's going on there? So they're in New England's in a race There's a lot going on here late in the season for them as far as their seeding and where they might be in the playoffs And for Atlanta as well because because of the way the NFC South is stacked up Yeah, first time this season DJ the Ravens have not been on top of their division due to their loss last week offense has been Mentioned it's been a struggle for them without having Lamar Jackson in the game Dave mentioned it right you get him back in the game and you hear this all the time, right? Is Lamar Jackson at 85% better than most quarterbacks, especially of his style, right? He wants to run the football he wants to get around the perimeter and he can make a defense pay What do you see as some of the keys in this game for Atlanta to kind of get off the snide here? They've kind of racked up a few losses. I think similar to ours is talking about the efficiency in the past game has to be there We've seen the run game go all year I mean, I think you got 12 games over a hundred yards this year four games over 200 So you'd know the run games gonna travel wherever you go and that's kind of been the ammo of this team If you can find a way to be more efficient in the past game and number two take care of the football I went like you said they a little recon looked up some stuff and the Ravens have 23 takeaways on the season, which is Third most in the league. So that tells you they're gonna break the ball now. They're gonna try to go forward They're gonna get after you that's kind of thing that they've kind of leaned on and obviously that's a big part of what they do And you know, we've both seen these Baltimore defense over the years how you know exotic and how crazy they can be You got a short week coming in here one less day to get ready and prepare for this They have to be on their peas and queues when it comes to the things you see on defense So I think you got to take care of the football in the offense has to be a little bit more efficient And we can always, you know, give our offense a couple more possessions to that are always helping a ball game When you got a chance to play on the road in this atmosphere and like you guys both mentioned This is a big time game for Baltimore. It's a big time game for Atlanta. So we both Will come in this game. I think, you know, ready to go because it means so much as we got three games ago Just I would like to mention about the just reflecting back on this game. And I know we haven't touched on it With but the kind of the scary moment that happened with Dean peas early on in the game And Dean got knocked down for those that didn't see got knocked down by the punt returner during warm-ups Kind of got blindsided kind of whiplashed And Dean went down they took him off the field on a stretcher. He went to a local hospital was later discharged fine Just a concussion Came back to actually came back to the stadium there late third quarter early fourth quarter and watched the remainder of the game From the locker room and he flew back with us after the game. So Dean's fine And I know everybody's kind of been wondering about that It'd like to give Frank Bush and the staff Ted Montequino all those guys that kind of came together That's a that's a jar. That's a jarring situation now Frank had called defenses before it been an interim Defensive coordinator with the Jets. He'd been the defensive coordinator at Houston So it's not his first rodeo and calling a defense But when you're 20 minutes before kickoff they said oh by the way, you're calling the defense You know, yeah, you've got some mindsets in and you got some ideas that you're going to contribute to Dean Who's calling the defense, but you're you're not calling the defense in your mind 20 minutes before now All of a sudden you are so I give the defense a lot of credit They got off to a slow start and I didn't think it was because the defensive plays called I thought it was because of play on the field that Richie Grant made a mistake on the on the post route She'd never have undercut the play. It was just a poor play by him not because of the defensive call But when you got the turnover late deep in your own territory down 14 to 3 the game changed You got a turnover. They made some adjustments to the what what? New Orleans was doing and all of a sudden and he don't wasn't quite as comfortable as he'd been early in the game Just sitting back. They started come with some pressures. You got zoe come off the edge hits him in the in the back Give credit where the defensive staff they've done it all year long They've made adjustments not just dean peas, but that staff and I just wanted to throw some kudos towards frank bush and that staff Yeah For coming together in an adverse situation knowing that their hearts are going with the defensive coordinator because you don't know What's going on with right and you think about the defensive players that he that love him too You don't know what's going on with your guy and yet I got to go play a game I just thought that that was that was an impactful moment And I showed the guys a lot of maturity and a lot of galvanizing gem 112 yards And seven points in a second half. I mean that's that's pretty good. Yep Settled in So you're right, Dave. I mean frank he's got experience calling plays But it's in that situation without that he has not been the voice of the defense, right? So he's thinking to himself How do I get our our defense in the right situation? But make it feel like dean right because at that moment you're trying to make it feel As normal as possible to the players on the field, right? Can I can I call in the same type of things that they're they're normally used to seeing in these situation down a distance Where we're at in the field what the score of the game is So a lot of things going through his mind just trying to keep the ship moving the right direction But you're right. I'm glad you pointed that out and one last thing I mean arts mentioned it just you know not call any guys out or you talked about richie grand and you know That's a play that richie, you know, probably will tell you himself that you know, he took the wrong angle and you know Whatever it is you think about the touchdown of johnson. We lose him coming across on a shallow cross. That's execution That's not the play call. It's not You're not you're not knowing where you're supposed to be. That's just execution on your behalf So that's you know 14 points right there that if you're just in the right position Plays probably don't happen. So That's a good call by ours talking about coach bush and ding peas and that defense coming together because there were a A lot of moments in that game that just execution wise if you're just in the right spot, you make the play All right, guys before we go, let's let's kind of turn the tone a little bit have a little bit of a fun Maybe a little story time here. We are in december Okay, and we are playing football which generally happens outdoors Which if anybody watched the monday night game You saw all kinds of frost and steam coming out of the mouths of the players up in green bay There is um, what do they call it an arctic bomb or something like that going around the country right now Where, uh, there's some really cold temperatures That was just uh on the weather app a little earlier today The blizzard conditions will be um entering the atmosphere at 74 degrees But let me ask you guys this can you think back in your career? Not only are we in december with very cold temperatures and the falcons are traveling north But we are also around holiday time So arch can you remember a time when you played in a really cold or snowy game or you played on a holiday? Which either you were happy about you were upset about you played really well You didn't play really well because of the day or the holiday Well, I don't know why a lot of my stories eventually go back to me having to play as 85 bear defense We played we played in chicago on a really crisp late november day Uh, and it was cold. I think kickoff it was right around 23 degrees 24 degrees But it was a bright sunshiny day anybody that knows where That stadium is is right near lake michigan, right? So but there was no wind. It was just a clear crisp day Now the 85 bear defense was staring across me. They're not clear and chris and they were They were clear and chris about putting me on the ground when they were they probably made about 10 degrees But it was it was cold and they're hitting you and you don't really want to be hit period But certainly not that things are breaking your body off your body when it's that cold We went in at halftime and we were down. I don't know 17 nothing at halftime or something like that We came back out a lot of guys didn't want to come back We came we came back out and all of a sudden things had changed Something's falling from the sky Okay, and it's like pieces of ice and it was the old turf And it was sticking in the turf and it was like razor blades And so when you went down just ripped your arms and your hands up So not only am I being destroyed by these humans that are Super humans that are on the other side of the ball. Now i'm falling on. What is this? First you're getting broken and then you're getting sliced open I'm this was the most miserable experience. We couldn't wait you talk about wanting to get on the bus after the third quarter Yeah, we wanted to get out of there And I think I've told the story about that playing against that team And I think that was that was a stretch where they had four consecutive shutouts during the season And we happened to be one of them and that was just a miserable experience You just can court it alive, huh? But the one the one that sticks out of my mind more than anything else is we go up there And i'm a broadcaster now we're playing in chicago What 05 06. Okay. Yeah, it was like a sunday night. It was in december. Yes, we go up there And I had a pretty good idea that mike wasn't interested in playing in that game vic It was cold cold cold But I knew we were in trouble when I walked out on the field pregame And they said, well, how do you know that brian earlacher is standing in the middle of field all six foot five 255 pounds He's got a cutoff t-shirt on Bald head and steam is coming off his head. Yeah, I looked over at west germ. I said we got no chance We ain't winning this game, baby and they thumped us. I don't care I remember that game and I'll never forget that i'm standing on the sidelines right going out to to punt And i'm trying to get my hands warm. So when I get out there, I've got good feeling in my hands Two things happened from the time I left the heater on the sideline until I got In between the hashes to snap the ball number one my hands that were warm were now frozen again In the matter of seven seconds. It took me to get out to the middle of the field And number two when I touched the football It was like they just pulled it out of a freezer. Yeah, I was gonna be like Somebody just had this in a bag or something like how is this so cold? And it was like you want to talk about one of the worst like that one And fc championship up in philadelphia was pretty rough when they were trying to shovel the snow out of the stands Before we played that game dj. I know you're a southern boy. You played at georgia Any other ones that you can remember that one rings bells for me because I remember before that game and usually Garrest's soul coach nap would always come and we all sit down me him shopping We'd be going over the plan and what we're gonna do in this situation and all I remember is mike Nap get away from me. I need to find gloves. I need to find other shirts He wasn't trying to hear everybody was so worried about the clothing that we were going to wear going out And socks and how are you gonna manage it because I've been without the warm-ups and we were back in no lie It had to be within Four minutes of going outside. There was no chance Anybody want to be out there any longer than they had to I remember A game in college we were playing georgia tech and it was in Atlanta and it was cold It was raining. It was probably about Probably about 30 some degrees and this is you know pretty cool late november were playing georgia tech david green gets hurt. I come in the game You're talking about the worst game I ever played in my life and I was cold and I was wet and I'm coming off the bench so I'm like And this was the last game that fans remembered before going into my last year So it was like This is the guy that's taking over for the next year. I'm talking about I couldn't complete a pass. I couldn't grip the ball Those games are the worst. So I give a lot of credit to those dudes that play Out there in green bay and do this four or five times a year Oh, it's um, well, you're so right about the ball though And I know the fans and maybe you've gone outside and thrown some catch played some catch outside But when you're in those games and those balls are stuck in the bags and they're getting new balls and bringing fresh balls out A lot of the kicking balls come out. They've been sitting over there Um, if you remember the movie the christmas story, if you haven't seen it, it's an old christmas story It's an old movie, but remember when the kid sticks his tongue on the post That's what the ball feels like That's what the ball feels. Don't put your tongue on the ball So Van Notes snaps me the ball and now my hand is stuck to the football and I've got I've got Richard Ditt coming this direction I've got Singleton I can't get rid of it because it's stuck to my tongue I can't get it out It's brooding so oh my goodness Nobody wants to play in it folks. Everybody says oh, they're used to it. No, they're not They don't want to play in it either. They just get used to going out and starting their parks I heard stories of Brady wearing scuba suits out of new england because it's so cold like that's the kind of stuff You got to deal with yeah, um, by the way There are uh falcons fans that live in minnesota and in boston that just heard you complain about the weather in Georgia In november and they checked out. They didn't even hear the rest of the story They're like is he complaining about cold in November in georgia? Yes. Yes, it's supposed to be cold in baltimore this weekend I think they're predicting seven degrees in baltimore on We're gonna take shock up That bald head it's steven up that bald head By the way, I'm just getting quick quick revision bomb cyclone is what their potential bomb cyclone Happening across some parts of the country You get the jacket with all that you get the the the weather channel You get the jacket too. It's just a heat press. It's not the embroidered one. So it's almost like you're not official Right, you don't wash it. It comes up. Yeah, I just gotta make sure our our fame producer sam larson We got michael and they're all going to baltimore as well. So You got to give them some some some weather gear get the parka boys You could bet that these guys when they show up the stadium they look like the mitchellin So much They're gonna see you before the game marches. They're gonna be like, um, can we go up to the press box as I heard? It's nice and warm. Oh, they'll be Is it open or is it closed in the press? Oh, we'll keep our door. You know, we keep our window Yeah, you gotta be able to feel it. You gotta be able to feel it. You gotta be a part of it. You gotta be a part of it I'll be like christmas hat on too, by the way My falcon christmas. Yeah, make sure we get a picture of that arch All right folks that's gonna do it here falcons audible presented by at and t we hope to be back on screen Because I know you're looking at you want to see these for shows for show We're hoping to be back on screen next week, but I can't make any promises if we are back on screen You're gonna see us blame sam larson. Yeah. Yeah, you can send out your mail to him Please at the line of falcons the addresses never mind. I won't go there Thanks so much for joining us folks. We'll be back. Hopefully talking about a falcons victory over the ravens next week Have a great day. Everybody sleigh bills Merry christmas