 The Atlanta Falcons improved to three and three on the season with a 28 to 14 victory over San Francisco at home last weekend. Welcome to the Falcons Ottawa presented by AT&T. I'm Derek Rackley back, all three of us in the studio. Although as an Atlanta fan and resident, I think we're a little bit bummed that you're in the studio DJ because that means the Braves are out of the playoffs because they should still be playing and you should be off chasing them around the country. But you know what they say, it is what it is. It is what it is, man. I just knew we were going to be out traveling. We'll see you guys to be on Zoom again. I know how much you guys love and enjoy that. Look at this face. He hates it. But yeah, man, it's tough for the Braves, man. Not a good year. Well, it was a good year, but it didn't finish it well. Didn't play well in the postseason. Anyway, but we got DJ Shockley. We got Dave Archer again. I'm Derek Rackley. We're going to talk about Falcons stuff here. How about we do that? Because at the end of the day, this is a Falcons podcast, not a Braves podcast. What are we going to talk about today? We're going to talk about Marcus Mario to showing out. We're going to talk about the Falcons playing three-phase football, offense, defense, and special teams. And then we'll look ahead a little bit on what it's going to take to beat the Cincinnati Bengals, who also come in at three and three this season. So without further ado, guys, let's get a headline reaction. How would you, Dave, describe the matchup against San Francisco, the win against the 49ers at home in a headline style? So you give me one line. Is it one word? Is it one word? It just depends on what kind of writer you are, because if you're a good writer, it's one line, it's succinct, it's to the point, and it's like, bam, get their attention. If you saw me play with the relationship I had with the writers, yeah, no, no, no. So no writing for me, but what I would say is my word would be impressive. I would go with impressive, and the reason I would say impressive real quickly, not to steal any headlines from shock. Yeah, yeah, chance of that. 14-nothing you jump out. They close the gap to 14-14. How many times have we seen everybody go, oh, start running for the aisles. They've reeled us in, and then boom, you go back down to get another touchdown before half, and go ahead and take control of the second half. Impressive. Like it, impressive. DJ, what you got? Can I say one thing before I give my headline? I know you guys may have- What if I said no? I'm probably gonna say it anyway. But I wasn't here last week, so I'm sure you guys covered it, but I wanted to make sure that I give my guy Arch's flowers from last week. Oh yeah, calling them all solo. Calling them freaking games solo. That was awesome, man. Appreciate it, man. I mean, I thought about that spot, I was like, man, that'd be different, but Arch crushed it, so I just wanted to make sure. I gave my dude his flowers, right? Nicely done, nicely done. Hopefully we didn't turn too many listeners away. What? My mind would be Falcons continue to prove physicality in win. Okay. All right, so I thought- Long headline. It's, I got a long paper. I like that, you know. Yeah, he got that like, 11 by 17 style. No, not, no, not. The old paper, the old one. Everybody got their own style, so that's what it is. All right, guys. Good, and I'll give you mine real quick, and I'm gonna say Falcons have an identity and they stick to it. That don't fit either, right? That don't fit either. That one too long, took my identity. There's just one comma and stick to it. Like, I thought it was actually pretty good. It's good. Why you come back? First of all, you give him a compliment, then you rain on my parade. Cause you was with Arch on my title. Like, you got all your shooting cannons at us, Arch. I just wanted to know. You was on Arch's side, that's why. Both y'all's stuff is getting shortened down by the editor, that's what you know though. The editor ain't letting them headlights pass. Dave was like, you gotta learn from me. It's just called impressive. All right, so Dave, talk about it. Let's talk about impressive. Let's talk about Marcus Mariota because it's inside of 11 minutes left in the fourth quarter when he throws his first and only in completion of the game, right? And what I think, and I'm talking about my headline, is have an identity and stick to it. What does Arthur Smith and his team decided that they're gonna do? They're gonna run the football and they're gonna throw the ball enough to keep it honest, but not put Marcus Mariota in this offense in a situation where he tries to do too much and makes the critical mistake. So what was so impressive that you saw in this matchup last weekend? Well, I've been talking about this guy for several weeks now. Anybody that's been watching the podcast here, and we appreciate you by the way, I've been talking about how this guy is a good player and that he's doing a lot of stuff. A lot of stuff at the line of scrimmage to change things at the line of scrimmage. He has reads on zone read. He ran for a touchdown on a zone read. His RPO reads to pull and throw. And then when he does get an opportunity to get a full pattern route, and he's not getting a lot of these now, guys. A lot of people are kinda compare him to Patrick Mahomes and all these guys that are just dropping and throwing it all over the yard. He's probably getting somewhere, he had 14 throws in this game, he pulled it down probably two or three other times. So let's say you got 20 opportunities to throw the football, pulled it down five or six. He's probably getting somewhere in at eight or nine, maybe seven full pattern routes. And by that I mean, he's dropping and he's got five guys in the pattern. Most of these are two-man routes. A lot of times they're one-man routes, Jack, you know. So to that end, to go 13 or 14, and I would argue the one miss is he threw it away. It was third and short, third about five, tight coverage threw it away, tried to preserve the field position there. So I think he's playing at the highest level. Play the game for me, can I say that now or do we got something later? Absolutely, bring it. I didn't read the script, so my bad. Before the half, before the half. No question about it, the run by, where he pulls it down, only DJ Shockley and maybe one other guy could have made that run, but to knife through and get 16 on a third and 12 when he was dead in the water. I mean, you had pressure all around him. He had a guy free in the pocket. He made a guy miss in the pocket, made a guy miss at the second level and split two safeties to get the first down. That was a ballsy play, no question about it. Heck of a run, he had what, 50 yards rushing and sprinkling with his passing. That's pretty good. He mentioned that DJ and maybe one other guy, but we had another guy here on the show a few weeks back, Michael Vick, that I'm pretty sure could make a run. Yeah, that was the other guy. I couldn't think of the other guy's name. Okay, that was the other guy. I've seen him convert a couple of third and 12s on his own before as well. DJ, what stuck out to you is some of the key plays or maybe momentum shifters or impressive as Arch talked about from the game on Sunday. It's interesting, Arch bring that up because that's one of the plays because today, before we do our pockets, always do a breakdown that people can watch on linefalcon.com or YouTube. And that play on third down was one of the plays that I pointed out is they want a stunt. They had a stunt from the defensive income loops all the way around and they do a good job of kind of sorting it out but there's pressure in there and he has to make a move like Arch said and move over and picks up the big run. There's so many things that I think people don't really understand that he does in a ballgame that helped his team win. Arch talks about changing plays. I go back to the Tampa game where, you know, he goes can, can, changes the play, gives it off to Williams, he go runs for a touchdown. I think the other part that people feel to realize and it would never come up in a stat sheet is toughness and his ability to stand in there and make throws. There was a throw in the Tampa game where he throws an out route to Drake London. He's got Devon White coming screaming right down at him on a free run. He stands there and delivers it. Drake London catches for a first down. There's a play in this ballgame. I'm not sure what down it was, but he hits OZ across the middle and it comes from a stunt. He has a guy beaming right down on him again but he stands in there and delivers a strike to OZ across the middle for about a 15 yard game. Those are some of the plays that you never see on the stat sheet that never really comes up when, you know, you're looking at ESPN or you're looking at highlights but that's something that his teammates can see on tape every single week and say, we know a guy that's tough enough to stand in there and make the throws. And then there's another part that I think is interesting that goals kind of, people don't even really think about it is, they about how much stuff they do pre-snap and then how much stuff they do post-snap with motion shifts. And he has to be the guy to get everybody lined up, make sure everybody's set, make sure everything happens. And then when the ball snap from all the pre-snap movement, he has to make sure and see what's going on on the outside because the defense has to change as well and the ability to make quick decisions off that I think is really, really important. Arch talked about some of the RPO stuff he does, seeing it and then just being a better athlete. I mean, San Fran on that touchdown, they had it played. They had the dive covered. They had the DB sitting outside waiting on Mario to, he just outruns the guy. That's kind of stuff that, you know, it's hard to teach, you just got to have it and he's playing some of the best football. And I think, you know, Arthur Smith said it a few weeks back, this dude's coming off not playing for two years. And he was five games in coming to this one. Dude's still trying to get his mojo going. He's still trying to figure out, all right, what's going to make me successful? And I think he's doing that. And he's kind of found his rhythm. We all got a chance to watch the game, but sometimes it's like you look back at it and you see, okay, starting quarterback through for 129 passing yards and two touchdowns and they win this game by two touchdowns. So it's like, how do they do it, right? So some of the things you guys talked about individual plays, sometimes I like to take a step back and just think about like the most important parts, okay? Why did they win? They ran for 168 yards and they held San Francisco to 50, okay? Couple that with winning the turnover margin three to zero. Like you can sit here and talk all about this new age of NFL football, throwing it all across the yard. If that's how you run the football and that's how you are in a turnover margin, you're going to win a lot of football games, right? And I would bet you that if Arthur Smith cannot kind of draw it up, he would say, yeah, this is what I want. I want us to be able to win the running game and to protect the football, take it away on defense, right? Not only that, guys, let's flip it over to the other side of the ball. Because what I was impressed about was we go into the fourth quarter arch, right? Get a couple guys banged up, okay? In the secondary, right? And they know, and they're going to start taking some shots down field. So then what happens in the fourth quarter? You get Darren Hall with a next level pass deflection on IUQ when they try to take a shot down the field, right? And then the very next play, what do we get? Deflection, interception, right? So there's always this talk about next man up mentality, but you just never know what's going to happen. Tyrell goes down, Oliver gets banged up for a little bit, right? Hey, word. So these guys are not only getting a chance to perform, Dave, but they're coming in and they're making big plays that are becoming, that are really pivotal in the outcome of the game. Absolutely, I'm glad you brought it up, Rack. I mean, you had to wear, if you were a fan, you had to look at your program. Okay, who's at corner? D. Alford. Well, D. Alford had been playing nickel since the middle part of training camp. He hadn't played any corner. All of a sudden he's at a corner, because case he's out. You mentioned D. Hall. Darren Hall comes in for AJ Tyrell. Now Mike Ford slides into the nickel because you see Isaiah Oliver leave the game and you're going, wait a minute, okay, I got a Chehu's 28, you know? You're trying to figure out. The thing that was impressive about it was not so much that different guys were on the field. You mentioned the play on Euk's deep post route. Hall goes up with the right hand, bats it away in a perfectly played one-on-one setup. But go back to the play where he creates the interception. They're running post-deep over, okay? And he's playing outside technique on the post route, looking back to the inside. Okay, how many reps has he gotten in a week to get ready for that? Okay, probably not many because that's been AJ out there playing that spot. They sprinkle in a few reps for some of these other guys, but not nearly as many as the first team gets. And here comes Debo Samuel on an over route. He passes off the post route to his safety and he sits on the over route and collisions Debo Samuel, the balls pop in the air and Jalen picks it off. That to me is well-coached and then from a player well-absorbed understanding your responsibilities because he could have come in at either corner. He could have been on the other corner. He's the next corner in. De offered's not the next corner. So if Kasey'd been in, he'd be on the other side of it. So he wouldn't even have seen that. That would have been going away from him for him to be in the game for AJ and to play it that way, phenomenal by just the coaching and then having the guys being able to absorb it. I mean guys, it's like, DJ, how many times do we see when you end up having to go that deep in the depth chart, especially at the corner position. It's like quarterback starts licking their lips, right? Like we're gonna go take a shot and it ends up happening and the offense makes a play. But he steps in there and then not only that makes two excellent plays that could have really turned the momentum around in the game, right? So you've got that. And then the other thing I wanted to mention and it didn't really result anything in the score book but was their four minute offense at the end of the game, forcing San Francisco to burn timeouts. They actually don't get the first down. They have to pun it away. But it was like they did their job. They made San Francisco eat their timeouts, took some time off the clock and made it difficult when they did get an opportunity to come back. What else stuck out to you defensively? Cause this is not all of just an offensive game. Yeah, I mean, it's unbelievable. You're looking at the fact that those guys did not blink. They got in the ball game and in those moments, you're talking about corners who, you know, you're standing over for a long time and you haven't really had the opportunity to get your adrenaline going like that. Maybe you've been on special teams, you've been doing some other kind of stuff. But to be in a position where you got a youth who's had a really good ball game and you have him on that deep post, how many guys in that spot have we seen panic and get a PI? Yep. Or how many guys we see in the moment, Arsh talks about with passing things off that you're actually so locked in that you can see that and then be able to break on the ball and make a play and not have a PI or being in a position that's supposed to be, those are things that gives you a lot of things to be excited about when it comes to this defense because regardless of who's in there, guys are doing their job. And the other big thing I saw on both sides of the ball, nine to 14 on third down for the offense, three of eight on defense for San Francisco. That means for one, you're staying on the field, you're doing a good job of getting them off the field. And early in the ball game, the Falcons were in a lot of third and two or three. And late in the ball game though, they had some seven and eight, nine that they had to convert and did a good job. But the third and 13 Arsh talked about, that's one. And then on the other side, you know what Debo Semi is about. You know, Jimmy Robbler doesn't really throw the football to a lot of people. And for you to force those turnovers, there were a lot of different looks that DMP's put into this ball game that I thought Jimmy Garoppolo was holding it. He was looking, he was searching and it was hard for him to find open guys. So give this defense a lot of credit for playing the way they did. This is a team that's tied for fourth in the league right now in takeaways, one off the lead. I mean, that tells you a lot about what this team is doing right now and being able to get after opposing offenses. Let's talk about a couple of the young guys on that side of the ball too. Troy Anderson gets the start at linebacker. He had 13 tackles in the game. In fact, he had a huge tackle on special teams where he ran the returner down to prevent a score there. And then how about Arnold Ebecati? He continues to come. He got a sack taken off of the board because of a holding penalty on Lorenzo Carter who was beating the daylights out of Kittle trying to get off the ball, which was another story in itself. Just the physicality, they put some of those guys that are kind of finesse players through. Kittle being one of them. They beat him up pretty good. But give Ebecati some credit too for getting around the quarterback. I felt like Garoppolo. I talked to Arthur Smith on Monday in our coach's show and I said, was it just me or did I kind of had a feeling as a quarterback? You kind of sense it through the guy that's playing. He felt uncomfortable the whole game. It just sensed that he just wasn't settled. And I think it's because of that rush and it's not getting home yet. I know the fans, I know you want sacks. I think it's coming, but this is a group that makes a guy feel uncomfortable. I thought Brady was uncomfortable a few times a week ago. So just to throw a couple of guys in there, Ebecati and Troy Anderson, a couple second round picks that are getting it done. Yeah, and you mentioned Anderson on special teams making the tackle, DJ, I think it's another area. Like generally, when we've been talking about special teams, it's Yong Wei Ku, right? Like he ends up making the kicks that the Falcons need to either get in a game, win a game or something like that. But it's not, it's Avery Williams. Like Avery Williams stepping up and making some big returns. This close. It's looks like it's gonna pop. Exactly, right? Like his value to this team, right? Guy that used to be a defensive back. Now he's getting snaps at running back, but he's still a legit return and he's doing his job in that role. Not turning it over, number one. Number two, getting some returns that are helping give them favorable field position. And that's the number one thing is giving your offense maybe one or two extra first outs. He's averaging 17.8 yards on punt returns. He's averaging 24 yards on kickoff returns. And you're talking about just changing the field position. Sometimes we always talk about that with punters, you know? You pin them back to the one with pinion there with an outstanding job. He kicking them high. He's doing a great job of that. But also on the other side of it, giving your offense a couple more first downs. Starting them out instead of, hey, your fair catch is on the 10 yard line. He's making a couple guys miss. And for you know, you up here on the 28, 30 yard line. That's great starting field position for your offense. It gives your office a coordinated ability to say, okay, we're not backed up. I can call my regular offense so we can get this thing going. So that is a hidden, hidden gem for the Falcons having a guy who's aggressive for one. Cause we've seen the last few years where we've had some guys who just want a fair catch it, which is okay. But now we got a guy who is not afraid to catch it and make some guys miss and get a feel and start their offense in prime territory. Shock talking, hidden yardage. Right? There we go. Head coach him. I don't know, man. There may be a future for you. Look out. Real quickly, let's just stay on special team. I know you love this, Rack. You might have the two best gunners in football. I mean, Mike Ford, every time the returner looks up, Mike Ford's standing right there. He's unbelievable. And how about Kaderra Hodges? You mentioned pinning at the one yard line, played it perfectly. He's another guy that's outstanding on the edge. You got two guys with pinion, banging it the way he is from the point. That's a weapon. And the hidden yardage shocks talking about those two gunners getting down there. It's fun to watch. Yeah, they're gonna find a lot of those balls dropping inside the five yard line. It was nice to see him just kind of look back, make sure I'm not in the end zone. Here you go, guys. You can start with this on the one yard line. So yeah, we talked about the three phase performance. And again, some of the players that we talked about, some of the stats that we talked about, you're gonna win games in the NFL when that's how things end up shaking out. This episode in part, brought to you by the Home Depot. 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So they're gonna face the Cincinnati Bengals this week. They're coming off a win against the Saints when Joe Burrow went 28 of 37 for 300 yards. So Arch, let's just talk to me a little bit. Talk to us. Talk to them about the Bengals, what Atlanta's gonna see, and what some of the areas that are gonna be the key areas that they gotta win in order to get another victory. Well, this is a multiple offense. Burrow throws it all over the yard. He's got three guys. T Higgins, Tyler Boyd and Jamar Chase are phenomenal outside receivers. Chase had the 60 yard touchdown late in the football game that won the game in New Orleans for him. By the way, Joe Burrow shows up with the national championship, Jamar Chase in New Jersey. I don't know if that was a nice touch on his part. Last time they were in that building, they won a national title. So that was pretty cool. So when you start thinking about their attack, Joe Mixon, good running back. P Rhin's a good running back that comes off the bench. This is a talented offensive skill position group. Therein lies some of the issues that Cincinnati has problems with is the offensive line's been a little bit leaky. And I think that they've been leaky some this year. They were a sieve a year ago even though that team made it to the playoffs. I think he had what, he was sacked like 10 times in the playoff game, in one playoff game. Still won the football game. That tells you how talented they are. But this is gonna be an all day fight for the back seven of this. You're gonna have to try to find some pressures which Dean P's will with a multitude of different guys coming. But that lies, the problem is if I come, I've got guys man to man and you could probably point to all three of these receivers is no worse than a two receiver on most every other team. And they may all be ones. They can all play. And my worry, and I'm just gonna go ahead and throw it out there. My worry is, okay, if you get in a game that's a track meet, can you play that kind of game? We have not had to do that. Our run game and our defense has kind of kept us in games, kept them somewhat low scoring, 20s. If it gets into a track meet, can you do that? Here's one thing I'll say. Just let's just review some of the Bengals games this year, opening the season 23-20 overtime loss, right? So they didn't light up the scoreboard there, arch 17-20 loss at the Cowboys three point game again and then 1917 loss at the Ravens. Okay, so three of those games all decided on a field goal or less and they did not light up the scoreboard in those. However, some of the games that they did win 27-27 and 30. So they do have the potential there. Atlanta saw a team in Tampa that has three really good receivers. So it's not like this is the first time the defense is gonna see it, DJ, but you figure if they're gonna win, they gotta stick to their same game plan. They've gotta have success running the football and Marcus has gotta go out there and play a clean game. Doesn't have to necessarily be 13 or 14, but he needs to not turn it over and if he has to throw it away because it's tight coverage on certain occasions, throw it away, live for another down, live for a punt. I think both of you guys bring up some awesome and great points to this ball game because when I went back and looked at it, I was looking at those numbers and the three losses by a combined eight points. That tells you, guess what? You're gonna be in a dog fight. You're gonna be in a ball game. These guys are not gonna go away. It's gonna be one of those type of ball games. And then you think about some of the guys in this ball game and you mentioned those receivers. You think about how Joe Burr wants to throw the football around. Looked up some numbers. He's targeted T Higgins and Jamar Chase 101 times in six games. So we're talking about those guys on the back end. We have to be ready. Well, guess what? You know they're gonna throw it. You know they're gonna target those guys. I mean, Tyler Boyd's got 300 yards himself. So it's gonna be interesting to see how we go about attacking Joe Burr. Because guess what? You mentioned you've been sacked a lot. 21 times this year, fourth in the league. So this offensive line is susceptible to it. And we just talked about we want more sacks. We want to be able to get out of the quarterback. So maybe a game where you can do it because they've done it in, you know, all their ball games. So it's gonna be one of those type of games where how do you go about attacking this Cincinnati offense and defense, but you have to make sure you do similar thing that you've been doing. And I think running football has been key for us. You talk about getting into a track meet. Well, the number one thing to keep a team like that off the field is you're running rock. You keep the ball. You possess the football. I think we've done a good job of time possession the last few ball games making sure that we, you know keep the ball away from whoever we're playing. But that's just the end more of this team. I think this is a team that's, that's designed to be able to get in your face, mall guys get downhill and then after the game go have a few beers with the fans. So, you know, you rush for a hundred yards you win the ball game. You know, you have some fun with it. I wonder if they'll let them in the suite in Cincinnati. Could they go in the suite in Cincinnati? Have a beer with those guys? No, it's such a, such a great thought about the way they've run the ball. And guys, you thought about, okay, Tampa really pretty good against the run. Okay. And two of the better linebackers in the league and Levante, David and, and Devin. Yep, see two more next week. Then you went the next week and you went, okay, pretty good D line leads the league against the run couple of pretty good linebackers Greenlaw and Warner pretty good players. And you found a way to get those guys blocked. And they were playing a ton of eight man box. They play single high safety shock. You saw it whenever they went too high. They had no, they had no answer. So they rocked the safety down and they still didn't necessarily have the answer. The one thing I would like to say about the O line, let's give the O line props. You talked about that. What I like about the two young backs is it's almost, they run the ball almost to pay homage to the offensive line because they run violent. They run like the O line blocks. And I don't know that I've seen that in a long time where you got guys that kind of mirror their offensive line. Hey, we're coming off. We're fighting, we got doubled. And then all of a sudden here comes the back and he's running the same way they're blocking. How crazy is it that there were times in this game where there was not, maybe there wasn't anything there. It could have been a negative yardage run and these dudes find a way to get two, three, four yards or fall forward. That happened a bunch of times in that game. You guys know this from our old time days when Alex Gibbs was there, right? Alex Gibbs always used to say, find me one, two or three yards. Like I will never forget him fussing Warwick done up and down. You better stop dancing. If you don't get North and South and pick up two or three yards, right? And I think sometimes DJ to your point, that's a lost art. Like a lot of running backs wanna try to do something fancy. They wanna do something spectacular, heroic and make somebody miss. The linebackers and DBs in the NFL are too good, right? Nine times out of 10, they're gonna make you pay. But if you can grind it up in there for two or three yards, keep on schedule with the change. Stay out of second 12, second and 14. You've got some chances. I saw Warner step in the hole this week outside. He's as good a linebacker as there's in the league, right? Probably he's a pro bowl, multi-pro bowl linebacker. Steps in the hole and Tyler Algier, they're one on one. And he tries to drop the hammer. Algier runs right through him. And Warner laid on the field for a while. Warner slayed like, what the hell was that? It was BYU on BYU crime, by the way. But I mean, unbelievable the way the two backs run with that ferocity. And again, it mirrors their guys up front. You know, we talked previously about AJ Terrell coming out of the game. Arthur Smith said that he didn't expect anything major. I didn't know if there's been any developments but he was saying that they need him back on the field for Cincinnati. No doubt. And hopefully that ends up being he's gotta has a good week because he's gonna have his hands full because they're gonna take some shots down the field. And we got one that's really good in AJ Terrell. Real quick, let's talk about the division, of course. Falcons three and three, guess what? Tampa Bay is three and three as well, right? New Orleans with that loss to Cincinnati last weekend. They're two and four. And of course the Panthers, they're in a rough spot right now at one and five. They're kind of reel in, go in the wrong direction, fired a coach and everything. So again, it's like, if you're a Falcons fan, if you're following this team, like we're talking through six games. They're tied at the top of the division right now. It's not a bad place to be. A lot of football left to go. A lot of football left. But at this point, there was, if you talked about some of the national pundits out there, the outlook was not good for this season for the Atlanta Falcons. And so far, they're taking care of their business. And you're talking about being in a spot right now where you're at the top of the NFC South and you're playing the way you're playing. You're starting to get the ire of a lot of people around the league like, oh, this Falcons team is a little bit different than everybody else. They're kind of fun to watch, you know? They're in every ball game. And they play a style that's different than a lot of teams. And teams that you thought coming in, oh, San Francisco is known to be physical. They always bring it to everybody. They got the number one ranked defense. And you go out and rush the ball 40 times on them. That's a statement. So I think this team is in a very good spot. I remember we all talked about it before the year started. This team was gonna be a lot better than everybody on the outside said. Now, true enough, we had a chance to be out here a lot and watch this team. But this team believes in each other and listening to the guys talk to Arch after the game, there is something inside that locker room that they believe in so much. And you can see it definitely transfers over when they play in the ball game. And I'm still waiting on Arch to put on the shades like they're at home at all. CP had them on a couple of weeks back. They had them on, didn't he? There we go, man. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. That's it. There we go. Well, let's talk about it. The thing that I thought stuck out about this week was there was so much conversation about Grady Jarrett and the play that was taken away or whatever it was or wasn't. This team didn't miss a beat. They just stayed with the task at hand. Let's move on. Let's move on. What'd they do? They moved on. They moved on and dominated the football game in three phases as you talked about. Tall order this week, but hey, we're in first place right now. Shiny, baby. Shiny, baby. We talked about physicality running the football, too. I think the fact that it's still happening in Cordero Patterson is the same way, guys. Like he's a former wide receiver, but he's bulked up and he will run through some people. So hopefully they get him back in two or three weeks and he can add to another phase of this game, as obviously he was a big part of this offense. So that's going to do it. We had a lot of fun. These episodes tend to be a little bit more fun when you've got a lot of good stuff on the field to talk about. So, hey, boys in the building over there, that direction. Keep it going. Let's keep it going. That's going to do it here for the Falcons Audible presented by AT&T. Thanks so much for joining us. However you get your podcast material, iTunes, AtlantaFalcons.com, YouTube, you name it. Continue to like, subscribe, review, and if you got a great question or a great comment for it, bring it. 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