 excited he's here kind of assessing where he's at and then blessed Austin out of Rutgers wrapped it out of the Jets been with the Seahawks he was out we've worked him out but he's here and then Matthew Trickett it was a it was a kicker rookie that we had a rookie minicam so those are the seven guys along with the 90 that are on our roster that'll be out there yeah we I'm constantly in communication with Eddie so you know again Mike you know everybody is at different points in the career and the one thing we're gonna be you know criticizes being too conservative but a guy hasn't played till the last three years as he's working himself back in the in the shape where we're trying to be smart so I know that could be subjective but that's what we feel comfortable with with Eddie and look forward to training camp and get him out there and let him compete same same thing you know and we'll see you know obviously we'll make those like with Caleb you know those will be assessed right before we start camp but we feel pretty good about where everybody's at you know obviously Avery's the one that I talked about last week that there would be nothing here in the short term with Avery sure we're just gonna you know can everybody's body is different I mean I know you took a long time to come back from me but and so with Caleb again we'll just assess but you know I'm optimistic and I don't want I hate to put that out there so I'm not gonna give you a date but certainly trending in a positive direction the next week individually means different things for different guys but for the team what do you hope to get accomplished these next few days exactly the same thing we've been you know we look at this as a build-up phase and guys are at different points you know some guys have different workout programs but that's what it is I mean contrary to you know it was asked last week we put the pads on we can't you know that was asked by a legacy writer so this is just it's non-contact it's a passing camp it's a build-up it's a basically a sense of OTAs you know you can do a little bit more through the meetings you get the physicals and you know assess certain areas but that's what it'll be it's just another phase we'll throw some other situational stuff in there and then obviously they're gonna be there's a break and so that's been our intent the whole time that's what we call this time of year it's a build-up it's a passing camp non-contact and then as we in the training camp obviously we'll be in the training phase there building up for the season where it's been said in his build-up to camp who you say it's or Kyle Kyle Kyle feel good I mean the same thing with those guys feel good about where is that we were talking to Grady last week and he made the comment that having Cleis Campbell around is is really special to him especially considering that Cleis chose to come here when you kind of think about the decision for for a guy like Cleis to come here what is that I guess mean in the context of having that guy choose to be in Atlanta well I think it speaks you know a lot to what we've been building here it's a place that people want to come to work and that excites you you know obviously when you get in the free agency you know think with things being equal we've got a we've got a lot to sell and you also want people want to be here same thing with bud Dupri you know but but it could have gone other places and you know we're excited to have bud but with all these guys you know when things are pretty even with David a lot of people if you're cynical you know I don't think anybody's ever gonna turn down two million dollars less I don't know if I've ever seen that but when things were you know equal Tory we feel good about what we have to offer and it would be like it's said a couple months ago it's gonna be a lot of good competition this camp and we feel good about where we're at I know everybody's optimistic this time of year but it's been a productive spring for us and looking forward you know we'll get away for a little bit but I'm excited about training camp yeah what have just been your early impressions of Scotty Miller and how valuable is that speed that he brings yeah everybody's you know everybody's different so obviously Scotty as an instinctive player you know he's you know I'm pretty well it better our division he does he's fast it's legit you can feel it even this time of year when it is a passing camp I mean you his speed is real but you know I think over the years I think he's an instinctive player I'm seeing a lot of that so can he's excited we got a group of guys in here those guys are doing good job in the receiver room I'm excited about training camp as well hey coach I want to ask about your running back room with Cordero Patterson you think about how valuable he's been in different roles over the past couple years and now you draft a running back how does that affect your approach with Cordero moving forward he's a big part of our offense so can whatever room we put them in I've said this many times whether they're in the tight end room receiver room I mean we've got a really versatile group I think you're seeing a lot of that come out of high school football and how skilled these players are CPS I mean he's done a lot of jobs his role on 21 was very different the start of 22 and you know I'm not gonna get too specific and it'll play itself out but I'm excited CPS still here looks good and that's a good problem to have when you got guys that are versatile I mean the way to go back and look how he was using a 21 very different and they're just about it some of those out of necessity and where we're at last year you know he was more traditionally as a running back so those are good problems to have you know you get into certain personnel packages whether you know whether it's him it's Bijan certainly Tyler I mean Al John John who can go back there and run the football if we have to so it gives us a lot of flexibility and a lot of different formations and whatever you want to call the personnel groups we can play an empty you can play what looks like 10 personnel it looks like 22 21 12 so that's fun and he's certainly a valuable person to this program and we're excited CP still here thanks thank you kind of following on that a little bit is the amount of versatility you have offensively is this kind of when you started dreaming up offense what you thought you were aiming toward yes good question I certainly I think it helps I mean the way we play I mean we're not as we don't stay stationary we're not you know there's a lot of stuff you see pre snap and you've got to have smart instinctive players to do that and I think it makes it hard and some of those is certain things in my past experiences help and then just kind of as we've evolved and you know that may change in two years or whatever you know you hope as you say sustained success like we're gonna keep our core values but we're always looking to adapt and evolve and even in our short time here we have done that I think there's a lot of commensual wisdom that says oh you're running the football go back and look how we ran the football in Tennessee and out around the football last year completely different we didn't we didn't do all the pistol and the zone read and some of the stuff we've evolved to personally it's fun and we'll continue to try to stay ahead and evolve and it will look different this year and how we deploy our personnel groups and how we want to attack and there's always trends going on how people try to defend you so those are those are the games within the games and we got a lot of smart football players on this team so and you know the biggest thing too is about staying healthy and you look at a lot of times this year as it's you know ranking season list season whatever you want to call it get to the summer people are bored you got to fill airtime so you get a lot of lists the thing you've got to be aware in the NFL is it is it you need your need depth you need to have contingency plans because he's unfortunate but you know every team's a key injury or two away from being you know top five of the draft so that's why depth is important and being able to problem solve and adapt and we feel good about our depth certainly going into training camp right now I know you're on social media all the time trying to I'm on right my crossing getting rid of the bots out there I know it's important to you you're running back CP I don't know if there's a free agent out there that he does not want to bring to this team master many media manipulator he's playing chess and you know people are following playing checkers and he's got a future GM in this in this league well I don't know I would argue that you know you got a maybe it'd be a Premier League GM right that they have budgets so maybe it's a hot button but depending on who's back in your team in certain leagues maybe they'll let you spend more than others so certainly NFL is a salad cab so I don't know that's a good subjective that'd be a good question for social media you know you on tiktok are you on Twitter what's your form of choice Twitter I thought you were a tiktok guy you never know nobody's judging we get rolling with CP is a man United's a new German manager there with which I've done on the I know it's been a lot of talk about some of the offensive moves and some of the talent y'all brought in over the last couple which I've done defensively this past all season with finally having some what were you looking to do with that what's I know it's early in the process but what are you seeing from that and and how confident of you that that's been obviously a weakness of this team for a number of years now and to kind of step that up yeah I mean absolutely that's we've invested heavily on that side of the football you know it's where you invest to you know you look at it and we invested some early capital and some offensive players and then you know obviously some of those mid veterans or you know we've got some guys like Kaleas but different parts in their career it's important you know as you're trying to have a complete team and where we're at and we've got some good guys that are young guys and it will continue to push take another step with TQ Graham Harnell Abercady you know D'Angelo Malone you know Zo you know he's been in the league but those you know still he's 27 years old Lorenzo Carter is still prime agent so we've got a good mix then you've got Grady you've got David a lot of guys in there so we've got depth up front and then linebacker versatility you know where the games played you know we do have we feel good I mean you actually look at us if you're looking from like that coach's view I mean it does I mean we look pretty heavy up front but we've got guys that can run I mean Troy's as fast as any running back in this league give or take a couple guys that speeds real at that size and then Caden and Mike Walker's got length and so it gives you some unique matchups as other teams are trying to deploy right they got backs they want to put out in space and run option routes on you and you have to be able to match that and then we've got some corners with length you know we're trying to defend and so we do we feel good about our depth and the key is trying to stay healthy and keep developing guys but we've got a good mix of young guys guys have played a lot of significant snaps for us and you hope that experience cares over we get guys in the middle part of their career guys we signed in for agency obviously Jesse to go along with a lot of those other guys on the back end so that's the name of the game you know when you're playing 17 games and you're every time it's trying to prepare you've got to prepare it up for the long haul that depth's gonna come up you may have a week where you're your shorter corner to it if you don't have depth and you're in a matchup with a team that's got three really good wide outs that'll be hard to problem solve so that's what we're trying to build I know it's a ramp up period but when you talk about these offseason veteran additions that you brought in how do you feel their presence felt this time of year well I mean I give a guy like David on Yamada I mean David's a guy that you really feel the connection him and greater make you know there's so much that goes on there's so much pre snap stuff so even if you had a guy that was a traditional three or traditional nose depending on what you want to do your front people people move the tight in so much to try to change the strengths on you so you really got to be able to your inside from tackle tackle got to play so there's a lot of communication goes on so you you feel that chemistry and I always think that leadership needs to be authentic and a guy like David I mean you know where he's at in his career it's those habits that you respect even Jesse you know everything that you know depending you talk to him and Jesse was obviously a big free agent target but those habits are real and so you feel their presence guys kind of gravitate towards them they're trying to learn how we operate and their role but there's a lot of ways you feel them on a day to day just watching the consistency I'm curious with bud to pray what did you identify in for agency that you thought it could bring and kind of what was your pitch to him as far as how he could fit in but we're just careful here but the buzz of physical football player kind of like that he'll set an edge was a guy who wants to be here he fits our culture going going on the other side you know when I've coached against bud and watching some of the things he brings to the table it's another guy value his experience but buds a tone center let's put it nicely so coach this is kind of drilling down because we talk a lot about the rookies and kind of what you're looking to see out of them or even some of the veterans especially during this bridge time but what about maybe the second-year players I know Desmond Ritter was talking about how the game is slowed down for him and he's starting to see what that looks like in voluntary OTAs of any camp AK talked about you know one skill set that he's kind of brought to the table for year two what are you looking to see in them in this we'll call it this bridge time from voluntary to training camp yeah I think guys that you know they stay in that right mindset to continue to improve whether they're going under year 16 and certainly there's a there's a lot of gains have been made I mean you could see it with Richie Grant even TQ last year from year one or year two they made significant jumps certainly looking for those guys in that last year's class to do that too and you know I think that experience taking that next step certainly will help those experiences as a lot of a lot of starts that's the hardest thing to replicate at the hardest position to me and all pro sports is that quarterback I mean everybody's you've seen a lot of vaporware sold come and go from virtual reality everybody's trying to solve that problem how you develop quarterbacks that you got to play and so you know maybe I'm the odd person out but I think a developmental league is important I think those reps matter I don't want to get off on tangent but it does he's got a lot of starts and then and then obviously they adapt into the NFL it does you know you only get comfortable in a scheme but those reps matter and so same thing with AK you know there's this it's such a long year for these rookies and we're we try to aim the program to understand how long it is it's the longest year of the career talked about it's gonna go from the All-Star game the track circuit you know with the pre-jaff workouts combine all that stuff so hopefully really short answer significant gains I don't know how much time you spent with David but clearly he made an impression with that you mentioned the habits what did you see in him that stood out that had your attention in positive manner he was a paying the ass to game plan against when I was in Tennessee and you had to bleep that out but that's a that's a huge compliment and so you know a lot of times if you'd study the history you know there's a lot of a lot of mistakes have been made in phrases sometimes and you're trying to gather a lot of information you'll never be perfect but you feel like you got a pretty good understanding especially in your division and I'd argue too that over the years I think if you go back and someone in New England runs they had pretty good success on some of those guys that they signed from their division you know was Walker those guys certainly helps but David you know I've been trying to scheme against them four times 19 in Tennessee you hear just listen to your players who the guys they they hate blocking so if you get those guys and hopefully David continues to take another step but glad he's glad he's on a Falcons logo not a Saints logo just to confirm really quickly will TQ be out there today he will he will so the four guys on the on the actor roster you won't see out there will be Kyle Caleb Eddie and then Avery okay I was just making sure when it comes to to TQ kind of revving back up a little bit what do you kind of want to see from him during during this time to get back out there yeah I mean I think a lot of times people focus on the physical thing I know Michael you asked about Kyle you know physically a lot of times too I think people forget is the mental part I mean you're away you know there's a lot of things there's a lot of time that I don't think it's talked about enough is the the mental rehab to get back out there and a lot of it's you know barriers and mental hurdles and everybody's different but with TQ it's good to get you know we got him out there a little bit last week and give him an individual same thing so hopefully he feels a little more confident as he ramps up going into training camp I know obviously the the injury and him not being able to finish out the year I know there are a lot of guys who talked about how unfortunate that was for him because of the way he was playing when you kind of look back to what he did those first few months last year what stood out to you about what TQ was doing yeah I mean he'd play a lot of snaps I mean Grady I mean that's one thing we hope to have a lot of depth that keep you fresh as a game and really for the long haul of the season but did a lot of the grunt work you know taking on a lot of those hard blocks the hard getting those combination blocks it's not for everybody in there and I thought TQ did a nice job does a good job playing with power could pad level you know those are things to he's got to get back as he continues to make a leap in your year three but you know just mentally physically the confidence but he had a very productive season for us just a couple other clerical things Jalen Mayfield you only see him as a tackle at this point and with Ogendayji is he gonna be more with the defensive line now or does that work the cross training stuff you've done in the past trying to be a smart out here Mike I appreciate that but anybody if you're gonna be if you're not gonna start you need to have versatility you know because you know how do you problem solve on game day if you're in the top eight so you're gonna have to have versatility up front if you're a one-position guy you better start so obviously Jalen can just add a necessity played left card but kind of where we're at where we feel good and these are conversations to I mean the players have to say you know these are conversations we have but Jalen's been working the right tackle in the versatility so we'll see don't do well so it looks like in camp and I day you know if you really study that's what so much gets made out of it and whether you're three four four three you're gonna play five down what are you doing really in the back end and how do you how do you want to play the run that's are you a two-gap do you cap in half your single-gap defense you know where do you want to fit it's just a math game upside so whether you're a Jack linebacker Sam linebacker some defensive column Leo closed in open in an edge player and so how do you want to break it up and you know we spent a lot of time cross-training guys and certain things or certain job descriptions they may have to do you know some three-floor that Sam linebacker drops more than others some teams are three four they bring five all the time he's an all he's on the line player and has been that so that's not unfamiliar and guys like him and AK and D'Angelo you know they take on different different roles so even last year in a different scheme you know depending on what the call was in motion you have some looks I don't like 4-3 I'm gonna take the four guys down three guys behind them one of those guys may be on the ball backer putting on formation the call so you're gonna see that I mean out a he's been more the edge guy anyways so that that really hasn't changed that does that specifically specific I know that's a clerical question but gave you a longer answer Josh you got nothing kind of quiet you're doing all right great thank you oh sorry