00:00I'm excited for tomorrow because we get to watch our team on Thursday night national television and football.
00:08Well, we've had some really great national televised games over the last few years.
00:12Last year, we really don't—I mean, listen, we had that four-game winning streak of Kirk Cousins,
00:16and don't even get me started on him, who's got three touchdowns the other night,
00:18and they're 2-0 and everything else.
00:20But I think we beat Stafford and the Rams late last year.
00:26Remember, they were the hottest team in one of the NFL?
00:28Yes.
00:28Also, earlier in the year, we beat Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills, and that was an 8-9 team.
00:34So we beat Tampa Bay with Baker Mayfield in that overtime game when Kadera Hodge had the catch-and-run
00:41for a touchdown.
00:41We had the other game in Tampa.
00:43I think that was a night game where Kirk Cousins goes absolutely off and beats the Bucs.
00:49I mean, we had a lot of moments on national TV, which is, okay, that's cool.
00:53Maybe we have one coming.
00:54Michael Penix talked yesterday at length.
00:57If we can talk to a blue in the face about why he couldn't go Sunday and Thursday, I'm more
01:03annoyed at Tua.
01:03Tua came here for one reason.
01:05You came here to play if the guy with the ACL, his third ACL, if that guy can't go, you're
01:11here for that.
01:12That's the only reason you're here.
01:14That's the only reason you're here to be our future.
01:17You're not here to take us to the playoffs.
01:22You're not here for it.
01:23You are here that if Michael Penix is still recovering from a legitimate massive injury, a torn-up knee for
01:30the third time,
01:32your job description is very clear.
01:34You're playing for him when he can't play or until he can play.
01:38That's why you're here.
01:41And you're ready to go this Thursday, full, you know, workout, what'd you say?
01:46What do they describe?
01:47Fully participant.
01:50Yeah, full participant.
01:51So you couldn't go Sunday?
01:54You couldn't go Sunday?
01:55So we didn't have to play Cooper Rush or Jack Strand?
01:58You couldn't go?
01:59Guys played seven years as a starter in the NFL.
02:01You couldn't go on Sunday?
02:02We had to forfeit that game, right?
02:05I know when I go down to, you know, the Gwinnett Soccer Park, if we're outmanned,
02:11there's a point they do a mercy rule, right?
02:13There's a forfeits in little kid little league games.
02:16You're not supposed to forfeit NFL games, and that's what we did with Cooper Rush and Jack Strand.
02:20But you couldn't go, Tua.
02:21You couldn't go, huh?
02:23That's just like, you're good for Thursday as a backup, but you couldn't even be a backup the other day?
02:30I mean, we couldn't yank Cooper Rush after the first few plays and put Tua in and said,
02:34at least you've played NFL quarterback.
02:36At least you've won games in the NFL.
02:39404-726-0929.
02:41Michael Penix, how frustrated has this been for you as a fan?
02:46And do you really think we have a shot to beat Green Bay?
02:49Like, really have a shot?
02:51And I say yes, but then I say, I'm just talking like a fan.
02:54404-726-0929.
02:56But we'll take those calls.
02:57We'll put you on the air.
02:58But let's talk about Deion Sanders.
03:00If you hadn't heard, he has had a, it's been a dramatic year so far.
03:03We all know what he did opening night on that Friday night against Georgia Tech,
03:08and things have not gone as well since.
03:10You're not kidding.
03:11They lost 41-7 at Northwestern.
03:13And I'm sure all of you guys saw the video of them coming in,
03:16and they were playing.
03:17Northwestern doesn't start their, I think, next week.
03:19There's a stadium that opens next week, so they're playing.
03:21Overlooking the water.
03:21It's beautiful.
03:23Yeah.
03:23Yeah.
03:23But not, this wasn't.
03:24This was like a high school, this is like a mediocre high school stadium in Georgia,
03:30probably, right?
03:31Right.
03:31So that was pregame.
03:32And then after the game, they get blown.
03:33So pregame, they were talking smack, the players,
03:37and we'll talk about who that was on the way in,
03:39just like, look at these high school rinky-dink stadium.
03:41We're about to, you know, teach them about big-time football.
03:44And then they got absolutely blown out of the building.
03:4741-7 was the final score.
03:49Okay.
03:49So that was one of the things that happened.
03:51Then they lost the game.
03:5241-7.
03:54Yeah.
03:54And then Deion afterward, there's a whole thing,
03:57but afterward, he caught some of his guys laughing, joking, whatever.
04:03Or whatever it was, they were close enough to their head coach
04:06that he saw them smiling.
04:08Here's what he thought about something.
04:09Well, I saw some guys fight and fighting through it,
04:12offensively and defensively.
04:13Now, you did see a couple guys that I just got on
04:16because I don't understand how much, how you can have joy in a loss,
04:20especially when I'm upset and I'm walking right behind you.
04:23I don't understand that.
04:25I can't never understand that because I want to win every darn thing.
04:30And I can't understand how in the world do you find joy
04:34or you could find a laughing matter when I'm right behind you walking in.
04:39I don't understand that.
04:40And I addressed it.
04:41And I'm going to put my foot in it, not on it.
04:45Well, if you're 10 years old.
04:46I'm going to put my foot in it.
04:49That's a good line.
04:50Yeah.
04:51If you're 10 years old, when I was 10 years old,
04:54when I coached 10-year-olds and I've done both,
04:57you're not dumb enough to know.
05:00You're smart enough to know if you lose and you really don't care,
05:04at least wait until you're in the car with your parents
05:07or at least do it outside.
05:09Because you know your coach is going to be on you at almost any age
05:13if you don't look like you cared about losing.
05:15So then Deion supposedly has thrown some guys off the team.
05:21Three, detrimental to the team.
05:23And they're not specific about it,
05:25but it does following a locker room incident
05:29where the players were laughing and joking about the blowoff.
05:31Yeah, so he threw them off the team.
05:32Dude, he threw them off the team, man.
05:34He ain't playing.
05:35And then he is addressing the team, which is always on video.
05:37Here he is yesterday addressing the team and one guy in particular.
05:41And we want to correct our wrongs and make it right right now.
05:45Hold on.
05:46Pause that.
05:46Pause that.
05:47Sorry.
05:48That's the cut of the apology.
05:50You want to do the other cup?
05:51Oh, or just the other cup?
05:52Yeah.
05:52So he's got – he's in front of the whole team,
05:54and he's got like, you know, there's overhead projectors,
05:56and he's got the word discipline and actually the definition of it,
06:00and he's like pointing to it,
06:01and he's calling out one player in particular.
06:03The ability to control one's own behavior.
06:08Right, Boone?
06:08You've got to control your behavior.
06:10Right, Boone?
06:10You've got to control your behavior no matter what's going on to reach a goal.
06:16Where's your goal?
06:17Where's your goal?
06:20Boo Carter is a defensive back.
06:22Yeah, bad – I dubbed that video bad day to be Boo.
06:25Bad day to be Boo.
06:27He's screaming at him in that.
06:28And then he comes out and talks about throwing kids off the team,
06:34and Ben Finiseth, who is one of the kids that was chirping the loudest,
06:40very embarrassing video for Colorado, very embarrassing.
06:44Ben Finiseth is getting everybody fired up about what a rinky-dink program
06:47Northwestern is, and then Deion Sanders handles it the way only Deion can.
06:53And we want to correct our wrongs and make it right right now.
06:56Come on, big fella.
06:56I just want to apologize to, first of all, to you guys, to everyone that's tied in
07:02with the university, to everyone at Northwestern.
07:04It was childish.
07:06It was a stupid thing that I said.
07:07It will not happen again, and it will be much more mature moving forward.
07:11So I apologize.
07:13That's what I love you.
07:13I love you.
07:14Appreciate you.
07:14Wow.
07:16When have you ever seen that?
07:18That's good.
07:18I mean, I root for Deion Sanders for so many reasons.
07:23I don't know if they'll ever have the money or the opportunity or, you know,
07:27to really compete at Colorado in terms of in this era.
07:32You know, it's one thing to get Shador and, you know,
07:35be able to get some of his buddies to come.
07:37Yeah.
07:39But it's going to be hard for him to win there.
07:41But, I mean, listen, he is not playing.
07:43Like, the definition of all that is he ain't playing.
07:46Yeah.
07:46I'm a Hall of Famer.
07:48I'm one of the greatest players of all time.
07:50I'm more famous than every one of you by 10,000.
07:53I don't need this job.
07:55I could be on TV in two seconds doing a million things,
07:58but I love being a coach, and we're going to do it a certain way.
08:02And, damn, I give Deion a lot of credit.
08:05I know he has some haters.
08:06I ain't one of them.
08:08404-726-0929.
08:10We will let Falcon fans talk a little bit.
08:13You know, it is a moving target, our emotions, right?
08:17You know, I get myself all worked up, and then, you know,
08:21it's like let's just root for your team.
08:23Let's just root for your team.
08:24But, I mean, the odds of us coming here on a Friday
08:26and our season being in good shape is not very good.
08:29Like, when I talk about the schedule, I go, you got four games,
08:33and one of them looks not very winnable,
08:35and that's the Thursday night game out of your first four.
08:37Right?
08:38You got a chance in Pittsburgh because they're not going to be very good,
08:40and that's obvious.
08:41They're not.
08:42Aaron Rodgers.
08:43I mean, they're not going to win anything with Aaron Rodgers.
08:45I mean, nothing with him at quarterback.
08:48Carolina is just much better than you, but you're still playing them at home.
08:52Well, those two games went up in flames.
08:54We forfeited the last one.
08:57And you got New Orleans on the road.
08:59You didn't think New Orleans would be that great, but New Orleans is solid.
09:01But, I mean, you know, Saints beat them twice last year.
09:05No, but that night's going to be insurmountable.
09:06I know.
09:07It's going to be wild.
09:08Stranger things have happened.
09:09But, yeah, no, you lose this one, which is what you're supposed to do.
09:12So, 404-726-0929.
09:15You did look at the odds, though, and we weren't the biggest favorite.
09:17No, there's a bunch of big underdogs this week in the NFL.
09:21So, we're six and a half.
09:22Actually, the number's gone down that I see because, I guess,
09:26the two-a thing being official.
09:29And they do have some injuries.
09:30So, we're not the biggest underdog on the board.
09:32We're like five and a half.
09:34I mean, Miami's the worst team in the league right now,
09:36and they play the Chiefs, who had the best two weeks so far.
09:39So, they're like a nine-and-a-half-point underdog in their own building.
09:44The Lions are six and a half over the Jets.
09:47It's Dolphins, 11, and San Francisco, eight and a half over the Arizona Cardinals.
09:52So, those are the biggest spreads.
09:54And then, our spread is at five.
09:56So, it has moved.
09:57Michael Penix, it has moved that thing.
10:02And there's no question that as angry as people are,
10:05and some people are angry at Carl and Mike
10:07because they think they've been too tough on Michael Penix,
10:09and they're questioning that guy's, you know, leadership and toughness.
10:14Okay.
10:15And then, there's other folks who are just like,
10:17I'm done with Michael Penix.
10:19I'm disgusted by how this thing has played out.
10:22There's that.
10:24But everybody is going to be rooting for three hours
10:27for this team to turn their season around
10:29because it's going to be –
10:30we got four months, right?
10:33I think folks don't realize we went eight and nine last year,
10:37but we were pretty much eliminated six weeks,
10:40like way before everybody else in the NFL.
10:42You know, when you're four and nine,
10:44like we literally were just coming in here like,
10:46we'll do six weeks of sports talk on the NFL,
10:48but our season's over.
10:50Like, it doesn't matter that we tied for the division.
10:52We – okay, we tied for the division.
10:55The thing was over.
10:56They were wasted wins, and they hurt us in the draft.
10:58Well, we didn't have a first run anyway.
11:00Yeah, let's do it.
11:01God, it's bad and worse, isn't it?
11:03Well, listen, we're all pulling –
11:07because it'll be night and day.
11:11Night and day.
11:13If they win in Green Bay,
11:14and we have 10 days to get ready for New Orleans,
11:17the Katrina game on Monday night,
11:19and go to two and two,
11:20the Bucs are skittish.
11:24Carolina, a little bitty favorite this weekend
11:26against the Cleveland Browns,
11:27but we lose this.
11:30It's more likely we lose 26-13,
11:33and we look a little bit better.
11:35We actually get in the red zone,
11:36but it's more likely that happens.
11:38Yeah.
11:38If it doesn't,
11:40we're going to have a great Friday show,
11:44and we'll probably have a fun week next week, right?
11:46Well, they're not going to ruin our Sunday,
11:48which is the best part, the Falcons.
11:50Right.
11:50We can get peace on earth.
11:52I'm planning all kinds of fun things for Sunday.
11:54Wait till you hear what I have planned.
