 London this morning. We are going across the pond as Jacksonville Jaguars host the Atlanta Falcons in historic Wimbly Stadium. It is week four of the NFL regular season and both teams are looking for another win in the win column today after losses last week. So we're back in Ticketmaster Studios. Thank you guys for joining us for the Atlanta Falcons pregame show presented by Ticketmaster. Of course Taylor Bismarck, Derek Crackley, big game today in London. Yes, and an early one. The alarm clocks were set this morning, you know, kind of get to get crust out of your eyes early on this morning, but that's for everybody in the national football league because when the London games are here, it's set your alarm clock early and you get NFL action all day long, but it starts with the Falcons and the Jaguars. That's right. If you didn't get enough college football action on Saturday, you get the entire day of the NFL on Sunday too. But let's before we talk about the London games and what this game could mean for the Falcons, let's go back to last week and talk about Detroit just very quickly. Off the off the cuff, what did you notice about this Falcons team last week? Yeah, I mean it was obviously a different performance. It was not the one the Atlanta Falcons are looking for. Their offense struggled as far as running the football, which has been the strength of theirs for the first two games of the season and it's really the element of their game that they have to rely on, right? It sets up everything else in their offense. That wasn't there. Some of the positives that you could take away defensively. I thought they played much better in the second half. They did pretty good on third down. You saw a couple of guys excel. Kaden Ellis made a couple of flashes in this game. Of course, Jesse Bates with his third interception of the season taking the football away. They did get some pressure on Jared Goff, which I think affected him in the second half. But I think if you look at a game like this, even though it's a loss, you go back, you watch it on tape. There's a lot of things that you can learn from, even in a loss. What mistakes did we make? How do we quickly correct those mistakes and make it a positive for the next game? That's right. I agree with you, too. When you look at the positives, obviously, you have a positive point at the Falcons defense as a whole, as all 11. I think everyone there is really pulling their weight. I know all of the entire defense uses that one of 11. I'm one of 11. It's not just me. It's the entire team that goes together in this. If everyone can do their part, we'll be unstoppable and essentially, excuse me. I think when you look at the three games they played against Carolina, they took advantage of Bryce Young being a rookie, not having a ton of experience in an NFL pocket. Then you go to Green Bay and they allow a lot of stops for the defense. Then, of course, they allow the offense to have room to make a comeback and ultimately win that game. Even though with Detroit, they had the loss for the Falcons, they still pulled their weight. They still had a lot of great things. Honestly, if you close your eyes and you point to anyone in that defense, I think you can make a statement of saying, this guy pulls his weight. There's not just one guy that's lagging, that's kind of shrugging along like everyone else, but in the back of everyone else essentially. Everyone's pulling their own weight and there's someone, even though he's not a starter quite yet, that is learning a lot. He's taking a lot in and he's pulling his weight when he goes into that game. That's the rookie Zach Harrison out of the Ohio State University and he will correct you if you do not put the in front of his university name. If you don't know him yet, take a minute right now to take a look at who Zach Harrison is off the field. Hold this quote from the Cleveland paper says, I haven't played my best ball yet. Mm-hmm. Why do you think that's for you? The Atlanta Falcons select from the Ohio State University. Mom took us to the Hall of Fame in fifth grade and I was walking around those hallways and I was like, man, like one day, like I want to play in the NFL, like I want to be able to, you know, have people watch me on TV. Zach Harrison invading the backfield. Drop behind the line. The dream come true. You know, it comes to a lot of pressure, of course, you know, being, you know, highly recruited guy going to Ohio State, you know, just kind of that constant pressure of the blessing, you know, expecting to, you know, be amazing. Here's a guy that was highly recruited, right? Five stars. Friends and family growing up and watching you on TV, you know, they're excited you're a butt guy. That's not just making a play. You're down the street from home and go home and get a home cooked meal, you know, mom can help out with laundry and things like that. I feel like going to Ohio State was the best decision I've ever made so far. I was at home from the parents' house in Columbus. The first day I watched the whole day and I was like, I can't do that again. So my friends got together. We were playing UNO actually and my phone rang and everybody was like, looking at the phone stopped playing UNO and I got the call. Yo, what's up? It's Terry Fonda with the Falcons. What's going on? You ready to be a falcon, man? Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Ready? I'm here to go to work. Okay, you want to be a part of something special? Man, I can't wait. My head is like, oh my gosh, like this happened. This happened. This happened. I was standing in front of my TV and they announced the pick and everybody kind of went crazy. 23 NFL Draft. The Atlanta Falcons select from the Ohio State University. Zach Harris. You watch him on tape. He was in the backfield constantly. 33 pressures left the team. We're talking about a great person. We're talking about somebody that loves football and is passionate for it. Once I got to that next Monday, I was like, all right, I'm doing this for my job and now I got to go out there and produce. There's nothing to do for hard work. So hard work's got me here and I feel like that's going to keep me, you know, keep me here, putting your head down and going to work. That's kind of how I've done everything to this point. First impressions of Zach was hard, was tough, but the motor is what stood out the most. I'm excited about, you know, obviously my first time going out on the field is going to be kind of cool. Obviously my first sec, that's going to be fun. You know, my first win, you know. Right here, the man of the hour, Zach Harrison from Ohio State University. How are you feeling right now? You are officially a I really lost the words. I feel like I thought I had, you know, what is going to feel like we just feel so much better than I could even imagine. So you saw a kid mentally who didn't go in the tank when it didn't go the way he wanted it to initially, who kept grinding, kept working, kept doing those things that we value so much as an organization. And all I can say is I didn't get everything I got. You know, once I got that call, I love being a Falcon. It took a chance to me. They believed in me. I owe them, you know, everything because without them, I wouldn't be sitting here right now. Now it's time to go to work. Zach Harrison already making waves to this line of Falcons defense has 10 tackles in three games alone as a rookie. Pretty incredible. And something I really appreciate about Zach is every time he's, you see him, he's around Calais Campbell or Greta Jaret or one of those guys that has been around the league for a long time and they know how to stay in the league for a long time and be good in the league for a long time as well. Yeah, I mean, I think the things that stick out to me about Zach Harrison or this, I mean, he's got the intangibles. You look at him, he's six, five, six, six, somewhere around there, 275 pounds. He's got the length that you're looking for for a defensive lineman and a premier pass rusher, right? So all the things that you can't teach are already there for Zach Harrison. He was a five-star recruit when he came out of high school into college, played at Ohio State, hold on, the Ohio State University, I got to make sure we say that, right? But he played at a high level in some really stressful, some very competitive games. So all those things assist in his development in the national football league. So where does he have to go from here? Now is where he has to develop his arsenal of pass rush skills because when you could beat people with athleticism in the college level, you could beat them because you're a five-star player, you're bigger, faster, stronger. It's not the case in the national football league anymore. So the fact tail that you mentioned, that he's hanging with Calais Campbell, he's hanging with Grady Jarrett, he's hanging with David Anyamata. These are the guys that he not only needs to talk to, he needs to hang out with, he needs to speak the same language, but he needs to look at what they do on the field and start to emulate it. Yes, he's got to put his own little twist on it, but he's got to develop an arsenal of pass rush moves that are going to get him free in the national football league and get him after the quarterback. Yeah, I'm sitting here talking about pass rush and it's not always about pass rush, but if you're a defensive end in the NFL, you make your money on rushing the pastor and getting after that. So yes, he's got 10 tackles still waiting for that first sack, but he's got to learn all of the different little details and mechanics that go into becoming a premier defensive end in the NFL. Exactly, and when you become a premier defender in the NFL, you normally are starting and obviously hasn't got that first start yet, but I'm not worried about it. I think he won't have a hard time at all in a starting position, but let's talk about the starters, the all 22, if you will, that we saw in Detroit. What else did you see from that Detroit game before we move on to Jacksonville? I think with your quarterback Desmond Ritter, he's got a lot of things. I mean, he is such a professional young man and he's already taking this business like approach to everything. As far as learning from his mistakes, sometimes probably taking too much of the onus on his shoulders saying there wasn't the offensive line. This is all me. I gotta get I gotta be better. I gotta get the ball out quicker. I gotta read the defense is faster, but sometimes in the NFL, it's baptism by fire, right? And you're going to have some bad games, but his ability to go back and look at the tape and commit those mistakes to memory and say, okay, if I get presented this situation again, I'm not going to make the same mistake again, or if I get this coverage, I got to make sure that I look at this safety or this linebacker dropping into this zone, because those are all the little things again that maybe he could get away with at the college level, but in the NFL, guys play with such great technique. They read your eyes. They know how plays develop and they're going to sink underneath. And there was a couple of plays that probably should have been intercepted from Desmond Ritter that weren't. And in the future, they probably will if he doesn't learn from those mistakes. So there's a lot of stress and pressure placed on the shoulders of a quarterback. That's why they get paid the most money in the national football. For Desmond Ritter, maybe not yet, but that's what he's hoping for is that big payday. Even though you come away loss and you come away stressed out and you come away upset and frustrated, you have to learn from it and see how you can change some of those things. And so it doesn't happen again in a game today, like against Jacksonville Jaguars. That's right. And something that I really appreciate about Arthur Smith is his ability to be open and to be honest. And he always mentions about what in the NFL, the best teams are the best because they evolve throughout the season. Every loss is different. It's inevitable. You're going to lose in the NFL. I don't I mean thinking about an undefeated team is just like beyond my greatest belief. But every loss is different. Every loss means something more, means something different for the team that played and lost, obviously. And so for Arthur Smith now, he has to figure out how to evolve this offense, how to evolve this team, how to evolve evolve this running back group. Really, Dan Campbell spoke last week and he was honest. He was forthright. He said, we're going to try to stop the run. We're not even focusing on how we're going to score. We're focusing on how to stop the run and they did so effectively. And you saw what happened to Atlanta when Bajon and when Tyler Algier both could not run could not get those first down. So I think now today against Jacksonville, it's what are we doing to evolve this team to evolve this offense to be the very best that it can be each and every week. Yeah, you find the plays that work and then you have to find the plays that OK, maybe we need to take this to the next level. We need to take this concept from a play that we used and we need to expand the playbook. We need to say, OK, how do we get our playmakers in space, get the football in their hands? And maybe it was 34 zone. Well, now it's got to be 34 zone X motion. So I'm just talking about football lingo, but it's got to be taken to the next level because you're right. They have to evolve. There might be some things that they thought was going to work or maybe it worked in practice. But when they got against an opponent, it didn't end up unfolding how they anticipating. So how can you evolve as an offense? I think it's a great point. It's going to be Desmond Ritter evolving these running backs evolving and the entire offense as a whole evolving. That's right. So I think that's enough to talk about the story. Let's turn the page a little bit because the Falcons do that on Wednesdays normally turning the page on the next game. And that's today against Jacksonville and Desmond Ritter had a little bit to say about his preparation and the difference of preparation that goes into going to an international game than just a regular away game. Take a look. A little bit of a peek inside your schedule and obviously you're regimented during the season. So throw in the London element. It's something you've never dealt with. What's the advice that you've been given in trying to navigate? You know, the very long play for you to talk about and then the time change all that, you know, we kind of was just thinking about it on, you know, literally an hour ago. But, you know, one thing that we talked about is obviously trying to change your sleep schedule. So, you know, going to bed a little earlier and then waking up a little earlier. So that way when we get on the flight tomorrow, you know, we're a little tired. But then, you know, we were talking and like I said, Thursday nights, I would usually go back in, you know, we'd get our red zone install and then you go back and watch red zone. Well, tomorrow night we're going to be on a plane. So it's like, okay, we're going to have to and then you get on the plane, you go to sleep, you wake up and then you practice. So you don't have that time at home where you're studying red zone. So, you know, that's going to have to be done on the plane for the first couple hours because then we're supposed to sleep. And then obviously get up and go. So we're going to have to know, obviously, basically the full game plan, you know, within the hour of the flight that we get on the plane tomorrow. So we can get our rest and recovery and be able to go on Friday. So that'll obviously be, you know, one of the bigger changes when you talk about preparation mentally that we'll have to deal with. A lot of different preparations go into going international alone. I mean, obviously different preparations for going away. But when it's international, it's a little bit bigger. I think that flight is eight hours long, a long time to be sitting in a plane. But let's talk about Jacksonville. When you look at the big picture, they obviously have lost their last two against Kansas City and then last week against the Texans. What are you seeing in this Jacksonville team? Well, yeah, I think it's a great point. You highlight the fact that they lost their last two games or so many people that when they saw Atlanta lose up in Detroit, they're just kind of like, what's going on? Like, it's like you feel like the world is ending. When you look at a team like the Jacksonville Jaguars, yes, they ended up losing to Kansas City Chiefs. But then they get a home game against the Houston Texans in a game that I'm sure everybody in that organization, everybody inside that stadium, thought that Jacksonville was going to win that game handedly the way that Houston has been playing to start this season. But that's why we play the game in the National Football League because guess what? Houston Texans, they have professional football players as well. The game was kind of close in the first half, but then Houston ends up pulling away in the second half. So if you think you're kind of down and out with Atlanta and how they played in Detroit, think about how Jacksonville is feeling right now. So let's take a look at Jacksonville. Who are they? Obviously, we know they have Trevor Lawrence playing in the quarterback position, likes to push the ball down field, got great arm talent, got a running back behind him in Travis E.T.N. who is special. Guy can do everything. He can shake, he can run over the top of you. And when he gets around the corner, he's got top end speed to beat you down the field. They've got a couple of wide receivers. Obviously, we are well aware of one of them in Calvin Ridley. Spent plenty of years here with Atlanta Falcons and he's kind of trying to revitalize his career, if you will, with the Jacksonville Jaguars. And then they have a Titan and Evan Ingram who is actually one of the leading receivers on this team as well, who you see a lot in the NFL. Titan's getting action on the defensive side of the ball. They've invested first round draft picks on defensive players. So they've got guys that can attack the quarterback. And obviously, that's going to be focused, number one, running the football, protecting the quarterback because they've got talented pass rushers that will get after Desmond Ritter, if some of the things from Detroit don't get cleaned up. Yeah, and I want to mention we'll get to inactive a little bit later today. But Devon Lloyd will not be traveling to London. Will not make that trip. He got surgery on his thumb earlier in the week and so will not be traveling. They're hoping to have him back before the Colts game later in the season. But you mentioned Ingram and I want to talk about him for a little bit. The progression of his game throughout these three weeks, each week, he's gotten more yards, more touches on the ball. And he's really been a little bit of a unit for a little bit of a security blanket. There you go. Thank you. Security blanket for Trevor Lawrence. You're not having to play long ball. I mean, he's there. He can he's tall and he can defend the ball and defend the pass. But he can also catch and make a first down as well. So he's a huge power house for this Jacksonville. Yeah, I mean, it's it's the element that so many teams like to use. I mean, you look at the Atlanta Falcons themselves and they've got a couple of tight ends. I would say three tight ends that they like to throw at. Opposing defense is just because of how they can create mismatches because their body frame, you get them up against the safety and they can be able to basically just play basketball. I'm going to use my big frame. I'm going to post you up and I'm going to show my numbers back to the quarterback and they end up being easier completions down the field. And then obviously if they do catch the ball, they've got a little bit more strength, a little bit more girth to them. They have the ability to break tackles down the field. So yes, they end up being a security blanket for the quarterback. A lot of times they end up being over the middle of the field, too. So when things end up breaking down, you look for your tight end. It's an easy little dump off. The guy can turn up field and it looks like what could be a loss turns into a five, six, seven yard game keeps you on schedule with the change. So yes, Atlanta is going to have their hands full because Evan Ingram has become a frequent target for Trevor Lawrence in the passing game. And he has shown that he can make a defense pay if he gets his hands on the ball. Yeah, and I know that obviously we talked a little bit about how they lost their last two games. Obviously against the Chiefs and the Texans, but don't count Jacksonville out because last season alone and their last seven games, they won six of them and ultimately got a wild card game. They came back in that wild card game. Doug Pearson's Jacksonville Jaguars are never truly out down for the count until they are down, down for the count until they really lose that game. Don't ever count them out just yet. Yeah, it's a great point that you make. I got a buddy that actually works in the Jacksonville Jaguars conversation and I was asking him after the loss to the Chiefs. I said, what's the coach feeling like? He's like, oh, Coach Peterson, he's like, he's cool. Like he takes all this stuff in stride. This is not his first road to you. He understands that sometimes there are going to be times when you stub your toe a little bit in a game and you lose one that you're not anticipating that you lose. So yes, the head coach, he's got a great control over that team. He is not panicking. The team is not panicking. Yes, they lost a couple of straight games but they're looking to rebound. So Atlanta's got to come with all of their weapons ready to go. That's right. And a lot of weapons are going over there but someone that's not, that has been placed on IR is Troy Anderson. And I want to talk about that really fast. It was placed on IR earlier this week because of a pictorial injury. Obviously, Arthur Smith did not get into the semantics of what that injury actually looked like. But when you look, obviously, he missed a green bay because of concussion protocol. And Nate Landman stepped in and really held his own throughout that. He was the one of 11 as the defense likes to say. But as you go forward into this season without Troy Anderson weekend and week out, what needs to happen for that linebacker and really that defense, of course. Yeah, I mean, it is a big loss because that was somebody that they were, depending on what's going to be a difference maker and going to hold his one 11th at that position throughout the course of the season. But unfortunately, that's how injuries happen in the NFL. You never know who it's going to be and you never know how it's going to affect your team. But that's why you build depth in the off season, which is what Terry Fontenot and what Arthur Smith have been able to do. So yes, it's next man up. So it's Nate Landman's turn and he's got to step into that role and he's got to be able to provide the same type of playmaking ability that we saw from Troy Anderson. Is it going to be the same player? No, he's going to have his own little spin on it, but he's got other players around him. He's got Kaden Ellis next to him. He's got an experienced defensive line up in front of him. Those are all the guys that are going to have to step up. You don't necessarily want some guy coming in and doing more than he needs to do. He needs to do his one 11th. He needs to make plays. He needs to be in the right position. And if he can do that, this defense will still find success. So yes, he's not going to be in a lineup. We will see a new linebacker. But let's send it over to Taylor and Victor and talk about the inactives for today and who else we may not see on the field in London. All right, so I switched it up a little bit. I'm no longer at the table. I'm at the Piero with my friend, Victor Prieto. Thank you for joining me today for the inactives. Thank you, Taylor. Something that we have just get right into is someone that's not on the board today and that's Cordero Patterson has been on inactives for the last three weeks. No longer on inactives will dress today. I know them past. The three of them have been him, Tyler Algier and Bajon Robinson have been doded as the three-headed monster. So what are we getting today with all three of them on the field? Yeah, Tyler, they're finally freeing Cordero Patterson. He's been limited to practice the last couple of weeks. We've been trying to see him. We're finally hopefully going to see him today in London, like you said, not on that inactive roster. And I mean, we're finally going to see a guy that we've seen the last two years make an impact for the Falcons, right? 19 total touchdowns. He has 600 yards rushing each of those, more in receiving yards. And we're going to see what he can do with that Arthur Smith offense. You said it, Bajon Robinson, Tyler Algier and Cordero Patterson. It's a lot of backs, a lot of talent that Arthur Smith can kind of mix around, have some fun with rushing-wise and it's going to be really interesting to see what he does. We'll see if he's limited or not because Cordero Patterson, it's taken him a while to get there and be officially healthy. So we'll see how much he plays tonight in London, but it's going to be, it's nice to have him back. I'm excited to have him back. And like you said, they might be ramping him up a little bit, like they are Jeff Acuda as well. But let's go ahead and take a look at the Jaguars and Actives roster as well. Zay Jones, Elijah Cookson, Jamal Agnew are the three that I kind of want to speak about, all of which are wide receivers. And as we mentioned earlier, the Jags have a really great wide receiver core. Three of them out today. What does that mean for Trevor Lawrence and the rest of these wide receivers? Yeah, like you said, a lot of receivers missing. Actually, if you counted Zay Jones and Agnew. So Zay Jones was expected. He didn't really practice that much this week. Agnew's the surprise scratch this week. Kind of showed up on the practice injury list. They weren't really expecting. They didn't know what to do. We tweaked, you got hurt earlier this week and he's going to be gone. So the Jaguars without their receivers, if you take out Christian Kirk and Calvin Ridley on the Jaguars receivers, only six catches from the rest of the receivers on the roster in their career. So we're going to see a lot of Calvin Ridley, who the Falcons are very familiar with, Christian Kirk and of course, Evan Ingram, who you guys spoke about earlier, tight end for the Jaguars, who tight ends have kind of had some success against the Falcons this last two weeks so we can see Ingram could have a good day. Yeah, so look out for Evan Ingram and maybe even Travis Etienne as well, behind Trevor Lawrence, excuse me, throughout the day. But someone else that is not making this list or is making this list today is Devyn Lloyd, as we know, as I mentioned earlier, had surgery on his thumb, did not make the trip to London. But that trip, like I said, was eight hours long. It's a long flight over there across the pond. And we went into the locker room earlier this week to ask the players which player they would not want to sit with the most on this eight hour flight. Take a look. Who do you not want to sit by on this eight hour flight to London? Myself, I snore loud, real loud. Zachary Harrison. Vijon's just talking, Vijon loves me. He talks to me all the time, follows me around, sits with me at lunch everywhere I go. So he's just trying to make a statement for the media. He's lying, Vijon loves me. If you had to choose. He ain't trying to throw none of the homies under the bus. Gritty Jirard. I love the big guys, man, love the big guys, but we're just too big, big bodies. It's all right, it's all right. Just, it would take up too much room. I think so. Yeah, that would for sure probably be. No, not one specific, but. I'm like a regular, see, I don't know who's the biggest on the team. Kalaeus. Kalaeus, he's the biggest. Okay, so now the question for you. Who would you not want to sit with on an eight hour flight to London? Vijon. Cause he won't leave me alone. Just follow me everywhere I go. I need some time away from Vijon. I know who I want to sit with. Hey, sit my dog right there. Deelo. Right here, man. Yeah, I ain't gonna lie, everybody's pretty straight. All the homies, I'm gonna sit by all the homies. But who I do want to sit by? Probably Matthew, Matthew Bergeron. It's my dog. We're gonna watch that tail ass together. Just have fun, smile. I mean, I love that. I love how a lot of the guys did not want to throw anyone under the bus. I don't like that. And then to, no, to Kwan Green was like, I have a whole list of who I don't want to sit with on the plane. I mean, it is a long flight. So let me ask you this, hypothetically, if you, DJ Shockley and Dave Archer, all of which they all do a podcast together, check it out, cause it's great. Who would you not want to sit with? Oh, not want to sit with? Yeah. Oh yeah, Dave Archer. No question. So like the Falcons, they didn't want to throw anybody under the bus. Like that's not fun. Like they served you up a ball to just hit out the park, right? This is your opportunity to have a blast. So Dave Archer, you want to know why? Let me tell you why. Because if Atlanta played bad or they lost or somebody commented on his Twitter about something that they didn't like in the game, like Dave gets real cranky, like real mad and like doesn't want to talk to you. He doesn't want to smile. He doesn't want to share any of his Biskoff cookies on the plane with you or anything like that. So definitely Arch. Yeah. Will this get back to him next week? Maybe a little bit. Maybe I'll hear from it later from him while I'm at the office. But I mean, once a falcon, always a falcon I guess. That's right. The anger from him throughout the week. But let's go ahead and get to the keys of the game for this game against Jacksonville. What's your first key to the game presented by Wells Fargo? Yeah, I think we got to have a bounce back game in the run game. I think there's no getting around the fact that this team is built to be a run first football. It's a football team. And that's the way they've been constructed. You've drafted running back in the first round. That's electric and you end up coming out of a game and you have 20 carries for 44 yards. So that's just not going to get it done. At least where we are in this phase of Desmond Ritter's development because I don't think he's the guy that they want stepping back behind the line of scrimmage 44 times a game, trying to throw the ball down the field. This is an offense that needs to function off of balance. So you got to get Tyler Algier, you got to get Bijan Robinson going early. I think that's going to be the key too. Pop a couple of runs early on in this game, Taylor, and let the offensive line see those guys run down the field. Because you know what happens? They get excited. They calm down a little bit. They forget about what happened last week and they look over to the sideline and they say, keep calling them. Bring us another running play because they feed off the energy that they see from the running backs. But if the first three or four runs they end up getting stuffed at the line of scrimmage, things change a little bit. Now you got to end up getting off schedule. You got to start putting the ball in the air a little bit more. I think they got to get back to the run game. A team that averaged 170 yards of game on the ground through the first two games, they got to get back to that. It's pretty remarkable stuff what the run game is able to do for the Falcons and obviously they're known for their smash mouth kind of offense that they have going. But like we mentioned earlier, they've got to evolve this team. They've got to evolve this running backcourt and how they're going to get those first downs. And like you said, I think getting those first downs early and getting them quickly is essential for this team to really get that ball rolling. Obviously any team does well with the snowball effect but especially the Solana Falcons team. Yeah, that'd be interesting. What is the evolution of this offense? Will we start to see some more wide receivers, maybe even tight ends come across the formation to get the ball into their hands a little bit. So maybe there will be a new wrinkle up their sleeve in the run game to kind of help spring things for Atlanta. Maybe it's going to be some design quarterback run reads going out on the outside of the perimeter. Get Desmond Ritter out on space, kind of an RPO type look. Maybe he ends up throwing the ball down the field or if they leave it vacated, he tucks it down, picks up five or six yards with his legs. In the NFL, you don't want to make a living running your quarterback, but when you have an athletic guy like Desmond Ritter, maybe that's the next evolution for this offense is maybe he runs the ball a couple more times. And you can see him getting a little bit more comfortable with coming out of the pocket and making runs, trying to get those first downs and ultimately he'll slide or go out of bounds. Obviously you want to protect that quarterback, especially if he's running. But speaking of the quarterback, that's the second key to the game is you got to protect this quarterback. You got to keep him healthy. So talking about that. Yeah, it's got to be a big bounce back game when it comes to pass protection because when Atlanta does decide to throw the football down the field, we got to give Desmond Ritter a clean pocket. He's got to be able to sort through his reads, find the open man and get the ball out of his hands. If he's under duress the entire game, it's going to be difficult to win not only today against Jacksonville, but the entire season long. People are going to try to figure out the game plan. Stop them on the run game, force them to beat us downfield, force them to string together four or five first downs, make sure we don't give up the cheap one over the top of our heads, but force this offense to put together four or five first downs to beat us. That's what a lot of defenses are going to try to do. So what do you have to do? You got to protect the quarterback better than 12 sacks through the first three games and seven of those last week against the Detroit Lions. It's everybody involved, right? It's not just your offensive line. Yes, it starts up front. And the offensive linemen will tell you that. It starts up front with us. We have to do a better job, but it's also the tight ends. It's also the running backs being on the right responsibility when they have to pick up a blitzer. Maybe even it's a tight end motioning in that needs to chip before he gets out into his route. So it's a collective effort, but the past protection is going to have to be better. Yeah, and I think the more time, like I think we've mentioned it last week too, the more time that you can give Desmond Ritter that you can give the wide receivers to get downfield obviously protecting him. It's going to go a long way, but if he continues to be sacked as many times as he has in the first three games, I don't know that Desmond can really make it out of this one unscathed, out of this season unscathed. And if you want to protect your quarterback, you got to give him as much time as possible and get a clean and healthy pocket going for him. Yeah, and he will take some of that responsibility in his shoulders. He's got to learn the situations that he's got to take the quick flat route coming out of the backfield. He's got to check it down to his running back or his tight end. If they're going to give you four or five yards on the quick one before you have to get to your second and third in progression, before you have to wait for the skinny post down the middle of the field or the deep dig route coming across the middle that requires longer pass protection. If they're going to give you the quick out, the screen, the dump off, go ahead and take that. Sometimes that's a decision on the quarterback shoulder that he's got to be better and not hold on to the football. Exactly, so let's move on to our third and final key to the game presented by Wells Fargo. What is it today? I think there's a great match up on third down when the Falcons are on defense because it's an area that Jacksonville has struggled with throughout the early part of the season is converting on third down. They're sitting right now at about 30, just under 30% on third down offensively, which is 29th in the NFL. It's actually been a strength for the Atlanta Falcons defensively. They're 10th in the NFL holding their opponents to 32, just a little over 32% on third down. How do you get the ball back to your offense, get off the field on third down? Whether that's just a stop, that's a deflection, that's a quarterback hurry, that's a sack, that's another interception from the secondary. Maybe Jesse Bates gets number four today. Just saying a little bit of foreshadowing. But get off the field on third down. You get Trevor Lawrence and those weapons that he has on the outside. You get them frustrated, you get them off the field, give Desmond Ritter and his offense a chance to get back out there and operate. I think it's a really good match up that Atlanta probably has the edge on is third down defense. I agree, I think obviously those first two games, the crowd and the fans had a lot to do with those third down conversions not going right for the opposing teams and they were so loud and Mercedes-Benz will be back next week, so make sure to come out for that game against Houston. But you saw last week against Detroit as well. They had, Detroit was four for 14 on third down conversions. That's a 28.6% conversion rate. That is very low and for the defense to be able to do that weekend, week out and then away in a very loud forward field is really impressive. So hopefully they can do that today against London. That's definitely winning football on the defensive side of the ball. You hold offenses to that percentage on third down. You're gonna have a great chance to win a lot of football games, but as you know, you gotta string a lot of things together. It's interesting that you mentioned crowd noise because Taylor, I've been to this game many a times. I've been to London six or seven times calling them on radio and what's really interesting about the dynamic is that all the fans that go in there, they're just interested to see NFL football. So you generally, we see all 32 NFL team jerseys, right? They're gonna go over there for the Falcons in the Jaguars and they're gonna see an Aaron Rodgers Green Bay Packers jersey. They're gonna see a Tom Brady Patriots jersey, okay? In the stadium, but the funny part is, is they don't really know when to cheer. Like they don't know when to get loud or when they're supposed to be quiet because they just are there to see American football. So getting back to your point about crowd noise, neither team is really gonna have to deal with it, especially on third down because it's kind of a neutral environment, even though this is a home game for the Jacksonville Jaguars, it's a neutral environment because this crowd is just there to see American football. Exactly, I know it's in London but the Falcons have a little bit of a home stand in Germany right now. So I have a few people taking a train ride up to London, a little bit more of the red and black feel in the stands today, obviously. But also, yeah, that's part of the, part of the London games I love the most is like how many different colors and different teams that are in the, that are being represented within the stands. It's just fun to go to go internationally and play American football. I always like to talk to the fans when I'm leaving because usually when you leave, you go take a train to go back to your hotel, right? It's just because that's what mass transportation is the way to go when you're in London. So I always ask the people, what's your team? And they're always like, well, we're here because we're watching X or Y, but I'm a Ravens fan and she's a Packers fan and so we're gonna be back here in two weeks when those teams are playing over there. This is a great experience for the people over there because they get a chance to see this such high level competitive, professional football on their soil. They love it, it's a different atmosphere but it's very cool. Yes, something I loved about Arthur Smith's presser earlier this week was how in love with the game of football he really is and if you have a chance, make sure to go watch that presser, it's great. He talks about how the nuances of American football and how there's really no other sport like it. Look at all of the people and everyone up, that's in a 53-man roster. They all look completely different but they serve really big purposes within the team and they're all 22 of course and so I think in London, in these different games and these different international games, it's fun for those people, for people of London and within England to see all of these different guys coming together and play a game. Yeah, I mean they've probably seen many of the highlights from the college game or watching these guys run around and now they're playing on an NFL team and now they're like, oh, I actually get to see Bijan Robinson today, I watched him on highlights, playing for Texas, so it's an exciting time for them. It's a historic stadium at Wembley Stadium, I've been there before, I'll be in Tottenham Hotspur Stadium later on this NFL season but it is really cool experience, especially for a lot of the younger guys for Atlanta Falcons that have never traveled internationally, never played in a game like this, never been in a stadium, a soccer stadium, they call it a pitch. A pitch, a pitch, come on, Ted Lasso, if you've never seen it, come on. A football guy, American football, I'll admit it. There you go, yes, but obviously big game here or there, excuse me, in London and Wembley Stadium against Jacksonville Jaguars today. Again, both teams looking to get a win and come home to America with a win in their column. So thank you guys for joining us for the Atlanta Falcons pre-game show presented by Ticketmaster, it should be a good one but next week we'll be back in Mercedes-Benz Stadium as the Falcons take on the Houston Texans. Thank you guys for watching and have a good day.