 Ahead on Early Birds, the f*****g terrible towel waivers back to the Steel City. They could all down. Plus, Grady Jarrett shows you why too is it always better to go in deep and speaking of two, there's a pair of high f*****g come into town with the Steelers. That and what it'll take for George to lock up the number one seat in the playoffs. Ahead on Early Birds. Up in your favorite Joe and let's talk Falcons football on Early Birds. Oh, good morning. Welcome into Early Birds. He's DJ. I'm just gonna be some terrible towels walking around downtown this weekend. One too many if I say so myself. They love waving those things around. We'll see if they can send them back in the luggage after this weekend. Got the Falcons and Steelers tomorrow at the Benz and topping Atlantis to do the shock. Plug up the holes in the game. Three straight weeks. Atlantis giving up at least 160 on the ground. Now the Steelers so far this year. They've got some injuries, but it's got to be a point of emphasis, especially when you run the ball in the way that these teams have done it. And you got one of the other because you don't want a team to be two dimensional. You got to make a one dimensional because of a guess what? That means you got to add more gas to the box. Now you have more of a Tuesday on the out. You cannot allow a team to have both ways to go. So stop one of the other preferably sealed up for Lorenzo Carter for the Falcon says they've been keying in on pushing attack. They got they got a few good running backs back with Najee and Snell and even other guys. So I mean we've got to be ready. Stop the run and try to make them pass the ball and stop the past. Well, speaking of the past, as we continue on the opening drive, let's talk a little bit about Drake London last six games, 16 for 132 yards. Now to be fair, London does have touchdowns in two of the last three games, but DJ, are you surprised at London's involvement lately? Just I'll say this because about how defense are tend to play. You think about yes, because God a lot of guys paying attention to who he is because there's no cow pits on the field. But then on the other defense has changed. So sometimes that dictates where the ball goes. So I think there is a little how you go about trying to get him the football, but teams know it as well when he is the cow. Cow pitch and other Smiths says they're working to get the rookie more involved. The numbers are what they are. He's at a big impact. He will continue to find whether he's the primary or not. The ball's not going to him. Why is it not going to him? So what can you do differently? He's like most rookies. There's some things he's got to figure out, but we're very pleased where he's at. We need to find ways to get him the football. And as we wrap up, defense may need blood pressure medicine after the season's over. 12 games, 10 of them have come down to the final few possessions. So if history is going to happen again, Atlanta has some close late wins. Give them credit, but they're going to need more. So shock. How do they shore things up in the final minutes? Justin, I think it comes down to just execution in the deep game. We've seen in a lot of the ball games, there's been a turnover. There's been a false start. There's still a lot of change. It doesn't allow you to move forward. You have to make sure you late in the ball. And there's always four or five plays in the game that dictates the outcome. Well, especially late in the playoffs and execution, our teams are going to win or lose. Or you know what? Just build a big lead. Fans could breathe easy. We'll see about that. Welcome on into early birds alongside DJ Shockley. I'm Justin Felder. Got the Steelers coming into town for. They got a rookie quarterback. Also a rookie wide receiver folks around here know well after play. Yeah, I'm still trying to get Pickett and Pickett's together. I know, right? That's a unique duo, but they've grown over the past few weeks. Expect them to continue to find. Yeah, George Pickett's fun guy to watch on the Pittsburgh offense. Well, Shock, you know what? The thing you do, you do it big. Oh, I can yell. Oh, that one. Like that one. Now it's going to be stuck in your head all day. I like it. It's cool. All right, go warm up the television and take the credit where I can get it. We'll see you in a few. But first, Mike Ford. Will you share your story with us? You can share your story with us on your favorite edition to the Falcons defense and special teams this year. But like every player league there's so much more to his story than his play on the field. In this holiday season, we're everybody's thinking family Ford sat down with our Kelly Price and shared a personal story. You've got to hear about family history. Take a listen. When I was a kid, my mom. With me when she was 17. So. I had I was a surprise. I was a surprise you know my dad he was with a couple of friends they were going to and he was driving and story like it was a wavy up car went over the ledge as he was turning rolled over a couple times and he was the only one it was four people in the car he's the only one in the past and yeah I lost my dad that way and to get deeper into it I have my dad passed me and my mom tried to go to my dad's funeral and we got kicked out of there because when my grandma and them they didn't my dad's kid so then 10 years later down the road my brother's dad which is who I lost this year yeah it was Halloween we were finishing up our trick-or-treating and he like stopped this car in front of his house and he looks like hey Mike you want to meet your grandma and I was like you know like me being a yeah I only know my grandma Luanda like I already met my grandma like I know my grandma he's like no you got another grandma I want you to meet her so I'm like okay he's like when you go up to this door knock on this and gonna give you a candy like normal I asked him if this is the Ford's resident say yes just say your whole name and come back to the car so football player I walk up there with my helmet I knock on the door my grandma comes to treat she goes oh you're such a cute little football player I'm like thank you dad and I'm like is this the Ford's residence she's like yes this is I was like why Michael Kelly Ford Junior it's like a movie she freaking drops the bucket of candy in front of me runs to the back of the room crying as the little couple of them I walk off to the car and I walk to the car my dad I was like ladies just dropped the candy and ran away he was like all right today we get a call they're calling me to go get a DNA test and all of that and I show up to their house and my grandpa's DNA test like this is my son's twin just that's how it went and that's how I met that's how I met my dad side of the family and that's that's pretty much my little story sometimes we always talk about the run good the run game is but let's break down what happens in between a particular run successful there are a lot of times we say each guy must do their own individual job well I'm gonna show you how each guy indicates and makes it work to work now this particular place nothing but an inside zone here but on the outside everybody has this guy he's gonna go out here this makes this guy expand outside and it comes this way when you have this motion comes this way now you have left to block this defensive end and then you're gonna get a nice double team here you're gonna get actually a triple team up to this linebacker and the double team comes off and you're gonna get a nice block here let's watch it to see what's happening here so here's exactly what you like you got leverage here here's your this triple team right here on this one deep as the back but Jake is gonna this guy and then you're gonna have your center get up on this guy and then you can see the huge already created because you're blocking on the edge good seal block on the outside created exactly what you want to run game and now you get up to the next here's the center get up on him here's every guy is accounted for look at the hole that you have created to run through and nobody's back here but the safety this is an excellent job about the offensive line a nice job of creating these lanes and this is exactly what you game Justin and it continues to improve every week this is why their top and running the rocks shock Falcons looking for more running room tomorrow Georgia looking for this day at the Ben's more to come on early birds it's SEC championship Saturday take down the dogs in LSU plus you can't beat to be one if you're getting double team take things one play that's what Brady Jarrett says he tells us how to take care of two defenders that one Falcons fans score touchdown with low tire prices at Mavis tires and breaks the official tire retailer of the Atlanta Falcons visit Mavis tire store near you and if I'm a Sadie's Ben's the best or not I George a lot of today could be the day by truce committed to my home depot how do is get more done promise which gives it's all brought to you by truce BB&T and Sun trust and now Justin Felder welcome back into early bird former Falcons wide receiver Michael Jenkins talking a little college ball and only one place to start today of championship just down the street at the Ben's I'm sorry yeah cement their spot as the number one team in the country should be a good one taken on in what can only be our Zaxby's indescribably good game of the week that one at the Ben's and maybe some of the shine gent comes off this game after LSU trying to stay perfect but we know this at their best LSU can play with you've seen it so what does Georgia need to do well what do they need to try and avoid having happened against LSU I think the last few weeks they've been coming out a little slow in the first half so they get out to a quick you can just get after LSU in their offense it's gonna be a long day for LSU to get to a fast start get the win and move on and see who they'll play in the possible playoff can't let LSU hang around in this one build confidence and Kirby smart says he knows that Brian Kelly gonna have LSU ready to play we do a great job in all areas he's very organized he has a process he knows how to run a program days he's been tremendous and about us the state when I stayed in it I think playing Grand Valley State for some D2 national championships and I'd left at the time they played them but have always had respect for the that he does and leader of of being LSU you think the dogs get done today they will moving on that would mean they lock up that number one spot in the playoffs if they can do it that one today at four switching gears to Georgia Tech now they're not playing today but they're feeling good after the news they got this week they've got their head coach and it's Brent Key and well deserving I think he's taking over this program and they've gone for it for it with him at the helm you know one and three four so you know big wins over ranked North Carolina so now he kind of gets to get his in there recoup some of his players and see what happens and week after week we sit here and you've had a lot of compliments what have you liked about him you just like that the players bought in oh right from from day one they bought in the faces bought in and it's well deserved what he's getting right now and you said the players bought in take a look at the players gave when they got the news I want you to know we can all over this country talk to a ton of people and at the end of the day there was a bunch of people that had interest of being the head coach of your football team I think we found the right person to lead you so it's been great pleasure to introduce you to your new head football coach that was a pretty cool scene right there Brent Key and George Tech right now it gets to the topic I know you're not excited to talk about big 10 we won't talk about last week we got the bit I'm sorry we got the big 10 title game five it's Michigan and Purdue here's my question I know you're in Ohio State got it is how serious should we take Michigan as a national title contender I think very seriously obviously this hurts obviously I'm a big but yes but I mean they well deserve came into the shoot and whooped us and now they have an opportunity to win the big 10 getting to the college football playoff they'll be unfortunately they're out play forms out in the year surgery so but they still have a really good football team I took a big man to say that we appreciate it all right big 10 title game tonight at eight here on five five shot you on a car pull over the bends after that what do you think I'm down with that I'm all into the world cup right now and jinx sorry I know that was good job but all right man where we're as good as Grady Jared no offensive line issue 101 that's why a lot of the time Grady has to deal with two guys at once here's Grady Jared on dealing with double teams and this week's going deep can't be two until you be one so when you focus on being your you know you got to be that before you do the other one because if you go fighting two people at one time they got a kind of advantage on you but if you can focus all your energy and take a look so why you focus on one you beat him then you go to the other one it's like in life like you get hit with all these problems just in some way and if you look at it as a whole it's like dang I've got all the stuff coming from different directions but if I focus on deal at a time that's dealt with deal with this one at a time and that's dealt with so it's buddy's got more work to come to you got to give that much more work and effort back to it so and expect you got to expect it you know I'm saying now if you're going against one thing and not expecting some of us to come against you now you just take yourself a failure because I'm going against one person and then something come out but if I'm going working on something and then expecting someone now I'm ready you know so just stay prepared and dealing with the problem in front of you before facing double teams just like life Grady is not the only high five alum we're gonna see on Sunday in fact watch the Steelers you might be seeing double we'll tell you about the Hayward on early birds you're watching early birds presented by Mercedes Benz on your official home for Falcons football Fox five everybody knows that feeling right you step wrong and you're gonna be feeling the consequences for a few days or even weeks but in the NFL kind of injuries and then there's the dreaded high ankle sprain which most of us never have to deal with we get to the bottom of the difference in this week's emory road to recovery talk about ankle sprains we typically talk about high ankle sprain versus low ankle okay low ankle sprains are your kind of your more common ankle sprains that are going to the outside part of the ankle this is the lateral side of the ankle this is the foot and you're usually gonna have some kind of a rolling mechanism where you say you rolled your ankle where the ankles turning in what happens in an ankle sprain is the ligaments that are on the side of the foot bone that attached down to your foot bones stretch oh ankle sprains and our grade one are very very common are typically safe to be able to play through and there's not a lot of downtime from them we can easily treat them we can use a lot of taping techniques ankle braces and other things like that where guys are pretty successful at playing with better fairly quickly when they're grade two or grade three there's a little more disrupt and the lower ankle ligaments and that can sometimes take a little longer to heal but this is a very safe injury that does have a great healing potential and yourself back to normal and get you know the athlete kind of full strength and recovery usually no more than four weeks at the most higher ankle sprains though or different sprains involve the ligaments up here between the tibia or the shin bone in the fibula oh I feel it on high myself my family reunion for the Pittsburgh Steelers would tell you about the brothers on both on early burns this has been presented to you by Mercedes Benz the best or nothing go a touchdown with low tire prices at Mavis tires and brakes hail of the Atlanta Falcons visit MavisTire.com to find a store near you all right shock time for our play of the day presented by Lucra the only competition app here's the question will Steelers wide receiver and your bulldog George Pickens score a touchdown against the Falcons oh that's a good one I want to say no wait no I don't think he scores I don't think he's only got two on a year so I don't think he does he just makes these spectacular catches but maybe they don't happen in the end zone we shall see if you want to compete head to head with your friends just code on your screen well there are high five just about every week this one is interesting two brothers who both played together for the Steelers that's cool unbelievable that's pretty cool we don't have it too often yeah we're talking about the Hayward brothers here separated in age different positions that was Connor Hayward you saw a moment ago and then of course you got Cam Hayward right he's the three-time all-pro heartbeat of the Pittsburgh defense for so long doing push-ups in this year he was joined on the team by little brother Connor who's an H fullback they both went to Peachtree Ridge high school their dad Ironhead Hayward he was a long-time NFL fullback now they are reunited in Pittsburgh me as Connor Cam's a great leader great player everybody knows that but I'm my own man and they've treated me like I'm my own I thank them for that obviously I know the Hayward name has a lot of pressure here but the more pressure the better and I'm used to that but I think it's really cool to play with my brother and learn a lot of things and I played with my brother Corey before but never Cameron because the age or the gap difference in our age several years apart joined up with the Steelers Peachtree Ridge alums all right shock Steelers give us one more matchup to watch don't let Minka fix Patrick get you really good on that back in make sure he doesn't take the ball away from us playmaking safety will see what Marcus Mario to end the offense have in store for him and Pittsburgh well that's it for us here on early birds for DJ Shockley I'm Justin Felder thank you have a good morning and a great rest your weekend