 appreciate y'all being here. It's good to see everybody in person outside of virtual. I know usually we have a few technical difficulties when we go virtual, so it's good to see you guys in person. Hope everybody's doing well. We want to start out by acknowledging and thanking some people in the building as we prepare for this process. We start off the offseason and we had a goal to add competition to the roster to add quality men and players into the building. And we believe our pro staff working along with the coaches and football administration have done a really good job working to do that. We're obviously not finished. The roster building process is 24 7365, so we're continuing to work through that. We'll turn over every stone yet. We appreciate the work that's gone into it up to this point as Thursday approaches. There's a lot of people that have worked hard to get us prepared for the draft. We feel very confident, excited and prepared and we're excited about what we're going to be able to do day one, two and three. And that's because of a lot of people that have had their hands in it, starting with the college scouting department who they've grinded through this process for a long time. The coaches as soon as the season ends, they turn into scouts. We have a very inclusive process and so they're very involved. They're on the road. They're they're writing up a lot of players and they do a lot of work and so and also opening their door to scouts and spending time with scouts is so we can have a cohesive staff. So we appreciate the coaches, um, it analytics, the video department, the training room, the doctors. A lot of people have put their put a lot of work into this. So I would say we're very thankful and excited as we approach the draft and just to follow up on what Terry spoke about. I'm very thankful. We have a very collaborative staff and a tremendous job. We're excited to be a couple days away from the draft. We feel like we've had a really productive spring. So that will open up questions. Well, I would say one of the main differences is not being under the covert restrictions that we had last year. So all the different exposures that we get with the players having unlimited access at the pro days, been able to go out and do personal workouts, being able to bring players in for the 30 visits, being able to be in person at the combine, being able to look the local pro day is something we didn't have last year. And there's obviously a lot of homegrown talent here that we're able to see. And so that was exciting. So I would say one of the big parts is just not having all those restrictions that we had last year. And the other part is, Hey, we have been together this entire staff for over a calendar year. And so the cohesiveness and building those relationships. That's important. And so us being together, living together really helps in the process as well. Um, I don't think it's that simple as a look. We evaluate. We spend a lot of time with this quarterback draft class this year. We spent a lot of time with the draft class last year. Did a lot of work and we could obviously we're not going to give away what we're going to do at eight or any other pick, but we could come out of this draft for the quarterback. Um, we want to add to that room and we'll see what happens, but we do a lot of work on this class. We did a lot of work on this class just like we did last year. Well, we have until until next week. And so we're working through that, but we'll communicate directly with the players and their agents once we make those decisions. And we'll just keep that internal and private for right now. What is that like? We'll start. Sure. There's a lot of holes that happens. Why guys are successful while they're not a lot of it's fit. You know, when you're taking a player, especially taking a quarterback, it really any any portion of the draft to make sure you have a plan. And so I'm surprised you only you only went to 88. Thought you go earlier. There's some pretty good early 80s classes too, but I'm a little disappointed you didn't go back that far. Could be Jimmy Hay. Jimmy Hay is the story. So Jimmy would know. Yeah, it certainly helps. Yeah, you look at why why certain players were successful. Why they weren't what you could possibly controlled. Yeah, I mean, you take it. I don't think you ever dismiss a class year after year. I think you need to understand quarterback talent that's coming into the league. If you don't take one who you potentially would have to see you have to face off against. So that goes into it. But you certainly study history and why guys are successful. Why guys on it? That your mind drifts more toward what's this war or what's this Yeah, I think sometimes it probably more the floor. You know, I think anything else you get you're certainly trying to enhance and develop. But that's certainly where mine goes doesn't say it's right or wrong. But that's just how my mind operates. It depends what you're looking for the certain position. Like what's the job description? What's your vision for the player? How do you think he fits? You know, you're all you trying to evaluate all that. So when you when you put a pick in, you've got a plan for the guy and you can follow through with it like here's here's what I know he can do. Here's what you're trying to enhance. Certainly, it's all kind of different skill players, right? There are a lot of guys that have different abilities that can be successful and depends what you're looking for and who's available when you pick. And when you take that player, do you have the vision? You're gonna try to enhance that and play them in the right spot. So certainly you look at all that stuff. No, I'd say it's the same. And I would say usually we want to bring in players that have a high floor because we're focusing on the makeup and bringing in the right human beings. And so usually if you have players that have the right makeup, they're wired the right way, and they're gonna work and and and they're gonna they're gonna get obviously the coaching here and they're gonna get all the resources here. So they're gonna they're gonna have that high floor because of their makeup and because of their intangibles. And yet obviously we want players with high ceilings, but you'd rather like this, you don't want it to be like this, you know? So I think when we focus on the makeup, then we usually get players that that'll have high floors. What it definitely helps, we always want that's the first part of the process in the offseason. And we want to bring in as as much as you can in every phase at every position. And when you add, we always want to take the best players off the board in the draft. But when you're adding to those positions, you're adding competition, I think that helps going into the draft. So that's that's really important. That's something we prioritize. So yeah, that helps a lot. Yeah, well, you know, last year, everyone was playing under the same rules. And so we had to and we got everything accomplished that we needed to. But I think it is different when you actually get people in the building and you're getting up, you're able to be around them a lot more as opposed to being on a zoom. I think there is a difference being in person and spending more time with them. I don't know if I could put one specific thing on it and why it's important. But I think being being in person and getting that time up close. I think that's valuable. Charles, the widespread reception is that there's more uncertainty from folks trying to project the first few picks in the draft. Would you agree with that? And if you do, how does that impact your maneuvering? You're, you're trying to get a graph on your board and what you expect to see in number eight? I agree. I agree. When's the last time we sat here and everyone doesn't know who the first and second pick are. It's unique, especially last year. We were sitting here. We were like the first pick of the draft last year, because especially once San Francisco traded up, we basically knew the first three players that were going to come off the board. And now this year, that's not the case. And we're sitting at eight. And so we try our best to anticipate what's going to go in front of us. But we have to be prepared for a lot of different variables and a lot of different scenarios, whether we have to stack the players and be prepared to take them off how we see them. But we also have to be prepared to have those conversations about moving up, about moving down. And so I would say yes, there's so many more variables. But we just have to be prepared for every scenario. In fact, public lemonade talks you may have to keep doors open on what calls you may want to receive from folks who might be interested in talking to you before your day. I would say we still go through the same process. We're always going to talk to the teams ahead of us and the teams behind us. And we're going to talk to the other 31 teams and communicate. And so we're going to have those conversations anyway, regardless. And same way, we're going to stack the board. So I think it doesn't it doesn't affect your process. We just have to make sure we're intentional and we know exactly we go through every every single scenario and to determine what we're going to do. Yeah. So what he wants me to do is repeat his question and say, you know, that's what you're talking about. Savvy, right? I got to watch him too. It's not just D lead. I got Jeff. No, I'm not going to give you a chance back. Look, I'll say this. We were always we're trying to add competition at every position and constantly and trying to bring in players that are going to compete. And this is week two of the all season program. And obviously players choose if they want to come or not. And that's their prerogative. But I'll say we have a lot of guys out there competing and working to get better. And we appreciate that we're excited about that. So we saw improvement in areas throughout the year. We'll see improvement throughout the soft season. We're going to keep bringing in competition. That's our charge. That's our goal at every single position and bringing competition and continuing to improve. We we're always looking we always have a yeah, we always have an after action report. We're going to always look at with a critical eye, look at everything we do, whether we're talking about last year's draft or or the way we approach every single decision, every single transaction we make, we're going to look at it with a critical eye and we're going to always evolve and improve the process. We're focusing more on the process, Jeff, as opposed to focusing on exactly what the result is. We're looking at the process and we're going to always constantly improve and evolve in every single area. So so yes, we look back at last year. We're going to look at every single the detail of everything we did every decision we made and look at ways that we could have improved. I think that's where you have to have humility in these roles and and we both have that and we both do that. Like your story is already written on some of the players. Is that what you're asking? We got all the way to go. We got a lot of guys that are take take on bigger roles and be a fool to look back at history after one year and say, I know exactly what this guy's career is going to look like. We got a lot of guys that we feel good about that played different roles and roles will expand this year. That's part of our job as coaches develop and still feel pretty good. I think I don't know if there's a specific player or position you're talking about. No, no, no, you're just talking about just a general catch on. Yeah, I think you could continue to evaluate, develop. I think the, you know, over time made a mistake. You got to be realistic about it if you need to move on. And but we feel pretty good about where our guys are at. A lot of guys that were drafted last year and they're expected to have bigger roles for us this year. For you guys, when you evaluate the draft class, some teams do it differently, but do you guys have like a tier aim or a lot of lead prospects that you say, hey, there's four, five, six hours in a period. How does that impact you guys at eight? Yeah, good question. We do. We'll evaluate the class and we'll we have certain categories that would put players historically in the first round. So and we're not going to grade on the curve, so we're not going to have 32 first round picks every year. We might have 21st round picks, 18 first round picks. And so and so when you're making those decisions, you do look at, okay, this is this is an impact. We can get an impact player up to this point. So if we discuss the trade back, then we don't want to go below this area or you're weighing out the pros and the cons of it. So we do. We evaluate the players, put them in certain categories, and and that's how we can make decisions to know where you can still get impact players or what area you are in the draft. Well, we're gonna live in the moment right now. Obviously, we we know that we have such a good scouting department. So they know, they know players that are in high school that are already coming out and they know the freshman and sophomores. And so when we're watching crossover tape, you see the players and you know what's coming up next. But that being said, I think you always have to live in the moment and do its best for your team. We're thinking big picture. But we're not going to say, Hey, we might get this player next year. So we don't want to get this player this year because there's so much that comes between and you think about the time and it's funny when you'll see a mock draft right after this draft for next year, take one of those and then put it up next to the real draft and it's comical, you know. So we again, we have an excellent scouting staff that makes us aware of everything that's coming in the future. But we had to live in the moment and do its best for our team right now. He's worse than a man right here. Yeah, again, without giving giving anything away, it's a it's a good class. I think throughout there are players at the top in that elite level. There are players throughout the draft and even down at the bottom. So in that such a unique position in that it doesn't have to be one flavor. If you're a pressure player, you know, you can come different ways. And so but I would say it's a it's a strong class. Yeah, well, it's kind of like the question that was posed earlier that at eight right now where last year we had a at this time as we're sitting here, we had a pretty good feeling about a renew who we're drafting in less. Obviously something would happen trade wiser. But now it's completely different. We have our board set. But to know who's going to be there at eight, or if we're going to stay at eight, move up or move down. There are so many variables. I would say right now our board is set. But the hay is never in the barn. We're continuing to work through things all the way up until and throughout the draft, we're constantly working on it. So our board is set. We got the players up where we have them stacked, but we're always gathering information and always working through it. I think there's starters at every single position. And that's a great question in the way you proposed it. And you could I love it, man, some savvy, these experience, right? But there's starters at every position. And and to look at to right now we evaluate the players. And of course, there's going to be starters that come out of this class. We won't know that until three, four years from now with some of the players. But but at every position, there's starters, there's backups at every position. There's some guys that aren't going to make it at every position. No, we could we could draft a quarterback in any of the rounds or there's multiple ways to acquire a quarterback. We want to add to our room and we will. But so it could be in the draft. It could be after the draft. It could be via trade. We're not going to limit ourselves to any possibility. We're going to turn over every stone. So whether it's in the draft or not, we'll add to that room. Thank you. Where do you stand on that? And is there ever any push and pull between the I don't know what that was microphone. So I thought I was on the question. Push and pull between the guy who's sitting at the top of the board and someone else who might be at a position of what you guys view as a more immediate need. I think when you get yourself in trouble, I mean, if things are even, I think contingencies to go, you want to say need, but the way you got to trust the process and the way your board says so, if it's even, yeah, there's certainly a tendency to go more of a need, but you don't want to sit there and you got to trust your evaluation process, your scouts and everything you always weren't put in because the pressure of the clock is to overdraft some money and bring them up. I think you get yourself in trouble. So that's why I think you get best player available. There's always exceptions, but that you try to stay consistent that way. Yeah, there's not a there's not one room that we don't want to add to. And so and that's why we have needs in every area of the roster and even places we might feel better about. We're thinking big pictures so there could be players that won't be under contract in a couple years or something. So we're always there's not one position that we don't need to add competition to, which makes this process very easy for us because we can we want to add quality players and human beings into this this team and into this locker room. And and so we're going to be able to do that. So I wouldn't say there's one position where we'd say, hey, we're all set. We don't need to add a player there. Not a not a great strategy. So I think the more we can continue to add at every position creates a competition, improve the roster. I mean, that's what we'll do. I mean, you saw how many transactions we made last year. No different. I think what you're seeing now, there's a lot more avenues and people more willing to make those trades or however, however your process goes. But I think that's what you're seeing around the league as well. Mm hmm. Well, I think you do what's best for the team. And if you can consider that, I think you'll be in good shape. I'm also the heck. I'm the head coach first. And I think you know that. And I spent a couple years on defense, sad enough, special teams, you understand that you need to improve your team in all three phases. And and we you can look at it and I'm sure we got needs everywhere. You're going to have needs everywhere every year. I mean, you want to continue to improve and enhance and evolve. So I feel good about where we're at where our process is at right now. And we're excited about this draft coming up. Josh. So so when we talk about the players, the the categories that puts a player in the first round, it's going to be an impact player, right? So so he's going to be a major impact. And as we go through the draft, OK, there's the solid starters and contributors and developmental. So there are categories in each area. Now, what is an impact player? Is is there we don't have it's not like we have a certain he has to right, these statistics six, we evaluate the players. And so as you grade the draft classes three years down the road, then you evaluate the players regardless of their statistics or their specific play time, you'll just evaluate the players and what they were. But as we set the board, we have the if you fit in this impact category, you fit in the first round and and like I said, we're never going to grade on the curve. Yeah, it's an impact, Josh, the winning coming in the impact of winning what the role is. I mean, you have to vision, you know, just using games played metric. Yeah, if you overdraft somebody, I've seen this happen for you may say, OK, he's a step around big, started 50 games, but he also went to three positions before realizing I couldn't play. So I've seen that too. So it's hard. I mean, that's what makes this sport hard. I mean, so many variables you can make an argument for or against in a day to have an impact and help this team win. And comes to making the pick, whatever the pick may be down the road this year or next. And you're looking at the quarterback position. Is your influence or input whatever the word is, any different with that position of positions? Sure. I mean, that's, you know, that's the one thing most important position. Yes, we get you're going to be judged on the decisions we make. Yeah, but I mean, if you sit there and there's 30 people saying no and you're they won't say him. Hey, yes, yes, it's good to have conviction. But Friday night, Saturday, off season, the trade 23, you know, I'm so you hope to have a long career here. But it won't just be like, Hey, this is my guy. I got picked on them. There's a lot of things that that always that always makes me laugh a little bit too is like you draft a player instead. I found them. What about the thousands guys the Scouts went through team from the training staff to the weight staff to make sure that you're all on the same page. You have a role for that player, a lot to go into for just sit there and say Pat my son back say I'm that transaction for the quarterback. It'll be a collaborative effort. And it's it's it's it is funny when you see I don't know how some other they're I didn't want and that that's just false. And if anyone has been around us at all, they understand the way our process works. We're going through it together. We're on the same page. Are we always going to agree in every moment? Of course not. But we both have humility and have mutual respect that we're going to talk through things, communicate through things. Obviously, the coaches, Scouts, we're going to take all the information and find the right player for the Falcons in every process or hadn't been a decision that we haven't made like that and there won't be one. So in our process, it is truly an inclusive process and we're going to be on the same page with every decision we make. How does that affect what you want or where we end up picking? Yeah, it's a weighing process. We actually had our second medical meeting yesterday afternoon and we went through every prospect and where they are in the rehab and there's different ones or some players that you're not going to see work out. Some players are able to see work out and we really lean on our doctors and our training staff to tell us, OK, this is where the player is now. This is the expectation based off where they are in their rehab and we expect the full recovery at this point. And so we lean on them a lot in that process and it's basically weighing. OK, this player might be a red shirt or this player is PUP or and we weigh the player's talent compared to what we're going to get on the back end and how long he's going to be out for. So it's really leaning on. We're not doctors. We're not experts in that area, but we lean on. The doc, I guess you might and you read a book about me and you think. So but we really lean on them in that process and we wait out the player, the talent level of the player and the medical what we expect on the other end of it. So I like to suede you for taking no not at all. You mentioned before. I won't give you the exact number. He's looking for the headline. It's not. Yeah, he's looking for. It's not necessary. Thirty three. OK, I'll go. First one was one of us to say something. He can put on PFT. One of the, you know, I'm Michael Rostin's. But they're going to give you the, you know, so. But I won't tell you the first round, but usually there's rarely thirty two first round picks. So you always know at what point are you not going to get what you deem a first time first round pick talent. But but there's never usually not thirty two. Well, we'll keep that private. All those communications between us and and Todd and Grady. And we'll keep those private and direct with them and keep that in house. But we've been clear with how we feel about Grady and the person, the player, all those things. Love Grady, but we'll keep that in house. It's a good question. It's a really good question because when you're looking at with different positions and when you stack the value of positions and you look at how much they cost, all those things, they all mean something. And that being said, I would say for us when we're valuing when we want to know what positions are important, it's more so what's important to author and offensive staff and and in that way what's important for our team in the way you value it. But you always have to think about those things, those numbers at all the what people get paid and all those things are important. But I would say we lean more towards what's important us in this building. I think there's a lot of different variables. And the one thing I think you can't be too critical on them and people play offense a lot of different ways, right? That's the town pool coming through. And and so, you know, certainly you want to evaluate the decision making. And I was accuracy is a big part. And then you evaluate the arm strength and how he fits and what you could do with them. So obviously, decision making accuracy is a big part of it. You know, those are hard things to to fix. And the rest of it, you know, you see what's what's the best fit. What he's doing and is all what's he's being asked to do. I think that's one thing that gets overlooked. I think it's it's easy just to criticize a guy. Well, I don't see him throw these routes. Well, they may never ask him to do that. But can he does he have a pocket feel? Is he a good decision maker? And is he accurate? I think you go from there. Then you evaluate the arm strength and there's a lot of other factors. But that's kind of where you start. Yeah, is there any way to point the roster of the franchise to be at a certain point by the end of the day? Yeah. The simplest way I could figure out how to get a question and how to be judge. Oh, come on. You're supposed to be here to judge me. I'm not supposed to judge you, right? You want to start? Explain a little more. Yeah, I mean, you're asking if we're like... Well, I think... Sure. So, obviously, it's really important. So, once we get through this period here and you had a free agency next to you, is there any way to, again, sort of... So, we really need to be at this point this upcoming season? I'm not even going to talk about terms of wins and losses, I'm talking about terms of roster and having pieces to build on. There's no way to bring your mind. Because obviously, you can't... You're not going to go on next summer and buy seven players. Right. Yeah, and I would say we have a plan and we're working to execute that plan. And regardless of the dead money this year and all those things, we're excited about the players are in this building right now and we need to go in this draft and add some... add pieces and add... Again, we have five picks over Thursday and Friday and then nine total picks. And so, we got to hit on those players even after the draft. There's a bigger pool with COVID and the way everything happens so there's a bigger pool here. So there's going to be some players that we signed after the draft that could have would have been drafted in another year and I have confidence in our scouting staff and our coaches in developing those players that we're going to be able to bring in a lot of impact players, a lot of good players this year. Even the players that we sign, regardless of whether... regardless of how much we spend on players, we have confidence in our scouts and our coaches. So we see that even despite the challenges we had this year, Jeff, we're going to like where we are as a team as we step into the year and we're going to continue to improve and there's never going to be a time that we have a lot of money and we're going to go out and be reckless and we're still going to have a process and have discipline and do things the right way. So it's tough to... I feel like we want to have a smart, tough, competitive team and we want to continue to improve every day and that's how... I think that's how I would judge it with the way we're competing and what we have in the building. Sounds good. Terry just answered it. And one more question. What surprised you given how... Man, it's... this draft is... I'm having trouble predicting it, Jeff. It really is tough to anticipate the draft. Right now, what's going to happen in the first 10 picks or the first 15 picks. So it's tough, man. If you know, you tell me. And it's funny, my phone is... I got a million calls because everyone wants to talk through the draft and wants to gather information. But I don't have the answers right now. That's why we got to be so prepared for a lot of different variables. So it's tough. It really is difficult to predict. This is a very unique draft. We are. You can tell us the story, by the way. No. Is that what I'm looking at? It's a... Terry got a sponsorship. You can't say that. Maybe they sent an extra one. Maybe. We'll show it to you afterwards to see if we can get Terry to send us more watches. There you go. Again, that's what keeps those in-house. Keep those in-house. Keep it in-house. Well, keep it... Well, no, we're just... Keep that private. Yeah, keep it private. We don't want to offend anybody. And Terry didn't... You're already throughout this time. Terry didn't... That's not good. The watches that were sent to everybody. Tim Z is going to give you a call about the sponsorship. Well, I didn't say who it was. So I'm not getting myself in trouble. But there was a select few that Terry handed him out to. Oh, goodness. Here we go. There we go. I didn't get one, so you wrap it up. I actually liked it. It's funny because a couple years ago when you had the COVID draft and it was really efficient. And I remember sitting in my living room and I had the little ones tugging on me. And it was very efficient and it worked. Last year, we had a smaller, not as many people in the draft room. And it was outstanding. I think there's too many chairs and tables in our ward, a draft room right now. I would say that. So I liked it when it was not as many people. Well, I think, you know, the easiest thing, we've got a lot of we've got a lot of draft picks this year. And you liked it. Hit on the majority of those. I mean, you got younger players that are probably on more team-friendly deals, especially with the current cap situation. So in the short term, and I think every year you don't want to dismiss it. I know that's kind of a dependent where teams are at. They're just living through for agency. I think you get the point where you can definitely supplement for agency. But you've got enough. You've hit on enough draft picks that you keep replenishing. And you've got guys you're developing. So if you do lose a guy that, you know, it makes a lot of money as for agency. You've got another guy. And so I think you could have a good balance. But what we're at currently is from last year to this year and where a cap issue is like draft picks, whether some of them are ready or not, they're going to have to play. So that last year was some of them. We had a plan and injuries come up and you got to play a guy earlier or you're able to be disciplined in certain spots, maybe on the back end. But so what we're at current for 22 of them, those drafts obviously big for us. Sure. Yeah, but I think you have a good balance. And again, there's always a great unknown for agency when you go out there and you obviously got to fill your, the cap space, but you'd like to be able to resign some of your own players and then supplement it where you're not just relying on one big for agency dump. That helped. Cool. Can I ask a quick follow-up to the follow-up? Sure. Is that why it's my favorite sort of judge? I think so. I mean, I've seen it both ways. Guys, if that's success year one and maybe they get comfortable and their habits change or they get content. And I think that's the hardest thing is for guys that are rare ones that stay motivated and they continue to do it year after year after year. And then I've seen it the other way. Guys may struggle, come from a completely foreign system. You believe in the player, hey, we're bringing you along and then they really take off year two, year three. But some of them when we had a plan, maybe not to play them as early as we had to, well, somebody had to play, right? So that's why you just, it's hard to say, hey, we're exactly, this is what we're gonna be in a year, Jeff, so you can use Terry's words against them. We're not gonna give you that satisfaction, but there's a lot of variables that happen. And that's why not being evasive, but it's not fair to somebody's player after year one to say that they're, oh, this guy's riding off and already getting his bus ready and can't, or this guy can't play. That fair? Absolutely. And especially about the last year, but you anticipate in that place to the dual role this year? D-Led's got him at wide receiver, so. Is that where he's got him in his depth chart? D-Led's got him at wide receiver, so I didn't know that's news to me. We just hopefully to expand on it and we'll have to see. I mean, again, if you, we feel good and we have a running back that's a rookie that's gonna be, we feel good about going into the season, his role may evolve back on the perimeter. It just depends. You know, you may have weeks where we got a plan and give him more carries. We obviously like the football player. We appreciate what CP did for us last year and what he's gonna do for us in the future. But that's what's fun about coaching the guy like CP because you can move him around a lot of different spots. You still got him at wide receiver? Are you gonna? Is that what you're gonna go with? Yeah, I'm gonna stay with him. All right. Interesting. It's gonna be Sunday night. We'll see. We'll see you there. You still got the safety's wrong. Not to say I'm auditing you or anything, but to ahead your bet. All right, anything else? Good. All right. All right. Thank you guys. Thanks guys.