00:00Here's, and you tell me, Falcon fans, if you're listening.
00:03Now, I felt this way after watching the other night.
00:07I kind of felt this way.
00:09It's like until we see Michael Penix, we don't even know.
00:11I said, but if you want to look at the division,
00:14you know, we just paid three guys to be the future of our franchise.
00:19We paid Bajon Robb.
00:21Actually, we played more than that.
00:21We paid Bergeron and Lindstrom.
00:23Then we paid Bajon Drake and Kyle Pitts.
00:27And then you got Jake Matthews and, you know, a group on offense
00:33that are very capable, in some cases, spectacular players.
00:38Which is what you can afford to do when you're not paying your quarterback
00:4230% of your salary cap.
00:43Right.
00:44So it would make sense.
00:46Now, I didn't think the defense would be this good.
00:48And when I say this good, like, they don't have any players there.
00:51They're literally grabbing one-year guys, veteran guys.
00:55It's a motley crew.
00:55Journeymen guys.
00:57Journeymen.
00:57Yeah, they literally – but they have one advantage, just Jeff Ulbrich.
01:00He's going to find a way.
01:01He's the guy that came to Atlanta.
01:02We didn't have sacks for, like, 20 years.
01:05And last year's group was second in the NFL.
01:07Yeah.
01:08Second in the NFL.
01:09The Atlanta Falcons should win this division and host a home playoff game
01:13because we have better players.
01:15And I didn't think that would happen.
01:17Now, Carolina has some nice players too.
01:19Tampa's – you could see that cycle is going in the wrong direction.
01:22They'd lose Mike Evans.
01:24They get out of the playoffs last year.
01:28They were vulnerable in that division.
01:31New Orleans looks real good.
01:33But I'm sorry.
01:35Those group of guys offensively –
01:38B. John Robinson might be the best player in the National Football League.
01:41You just have to give him something decent around him.
01:44Yeah.
01:44Just decent.
01:46And Barry Sanders, I don't know, did he even ever win a playoff game?
01:50I don't think so.
01:51So he went to the playoffs.
01:52So you don't want him to be Barry Sanders and go,
01:55that's the most exciting player in the league,
01:57but he's playing on a god-awful team.
01:59And he wasn't surrounded by much ever.
02:02Like, there are tools around Bajon Robinson.
02:06You have a really good defensive coordinator.
02:08You have a lot of players on offense.
02:10The dismantling of Green Bay was not an aberration.
02:13That's what that group is capable of because you're paying them that.
02:18Like, Mike Johnson was so good talking about our guards.
02:21He's like, what are Matthew Bergeron and Chris Lindstrom doing
02:24to earn that money?
02:26Two of the top five highest-paid guards in the NFL.
02:30We have every ability to go to New Orleans and play with poise
02:35and win there and just keep moving forward.
02:38I know the Ravens are after that on a Sunday night,
02:41and the Bears where Caleb may very well not play in that game either.
02:45But my point is, as a Falcon fan, like,
02:49are we the way we're going to look in three years?
02:52Absolutely not.
02:53Is Michael Pennix our quarterback in three years?
02:55I have no idea.
02:57Two weeks ago, it's like we're picking top ten.
02:59This week, it's like Michael Pennix could be the future.
03:02But I would say there is reason for optimism.
03:05Every goal you have is attainable.
03:08The league is not built on, what was the Philadelphia?
03:12Trust the process.
03:14Yeah.
03:14Yeah, the 76ers.
03:15You know what Clint Kubiak said about trust the process?
03:19We're 3-0.
03:20I am the process.
03:22That's what he said.
03:23Barry Sanders did win a playoff game.
03:25Shocking.
03:26The Detroit Lions beat the Dallas Cowboys 38-6 in the divisional round in 91,
03:31and they lost to the Washington Redskins in the NFC Championship game.
03:35Eric Kramer, their quarterback?
03:37I'm curious who their quarterback is.
03:38But my point about Atlanta, and you tell me what you think,
03:43404-726-0929, 404-726-0929,
03:47you know, we're not trying to win a division with juggernauts, right?
03:55We're not trying to unseat the 49ers or the Bills, right?
04:00We're trying to say of a soft division,
04:03we have all the talent that can win that thing
04:06because we have a couple of special guys.
04:09You know, is the Detroit Lion offense better than our offense?
04:12I mean, Jared Goff's better than Michael Penix Jr.,
04:14but if you go up and down, right, and they score 35 every weekend,
04:18and we play too much run game, although Jameer Gibbs, I mean, dude.
04:22It's Jameer and Bijan 1A, 1B.
04:24Those guys are sick.
04:25They're unbelievable.
04:26And when you talk about the beauty of the National Football League,
04:30it's this, in a nutshell.
04:33Last week, booing in the home opener, fans irate,
04:39walking out of the stadium, Mike Bell at home at 415 in Noonan.
04:42If they win on Monday night, you welcome in the Baltimore Ravens
04:46on Sunday night football.
04:48You know there'll be a ton of activations inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
04:52That place will be lit.
04:54You're 2-2.
04:55You're probably still tied for first place in the division.
04:58Yeah, and you have the star power.
04:59Like, Bijan's Michael Vick.
05:01A hundred percent.
05:01And that's what he is.
05:02Bijan has captivated the nation with that game the other night.
05:06And I'm not, that's not an over.
05:07Like, they're really good running backs, but they don't look like Bijan.
05:11Like, Bijan is just kind of a freak, right?
05:14Not kind of a freak.
05:15He is a freak.
05:16Yeah, I have a buddy who is very close to Bijan and the team.
05:20He's like, he's, he's the nicest guy in the world.
05:24Yeah, the most humble, nicest guy.
05:25I've only ever heard great things about Bijan.
05:27So, did you see what he looked like on the Thursday night postgame?
05:31He's in a t-shirt and he just, he looks like a middle linebacker.
05:34You know?
05:35He looks like, I don't even know, who was it, who was the white linebacker on the Bears
05:43all those years?
05:44Brian Urlacher.
05:45Yeah, Brian.
05:45He looks like Brian, like in terms of his chest and arm.
05:48Like, dude, that guy's a running back who has those kind of cut athleticism abilities.
05:53I mean, like Bijan Robinson is going, if you have a balanced attack, how are you going
06:00to, you cannot stack seven, eight guys and just tell Michael Penix, beat me man to man.
06:06Drake London, you can't guard man to man.
06:08No.
06:09No.
06:09I mean, Drake London is too big.
06:12He's like a basketball player out there.
06:13Yeah.
06:13Which is what he was great at.
06:14So I, I believe that you're just going to keep getting better.
06:20Somehow you, I think you're the one who said it.
06:22Ian Cunningham or Johnson say Ian Cunningham.
06:24Yeah.
06:25You, you got some guys on defense that was like, okay, these guys can play a little bit.
06:29I mean, heck you got 52 sacks last year out of that.
06:32James Pierce Jr.
06:33Help.
06:33And by the way, guys, James Pierce Jr.
06:35Is five games away from coming back.
06:37So I asked one of my buddies, he played for eight years in the national football league.
06:42He was a lineman.
06:44And I said, how on earth did Penix not play against the Panthers?
06:47He said, the only thing I could think of is potentially this was the plan.
06:53They did not want Michael Penix to start on Sunday and then play on Thursday.
06:57Okay.
06:57Yeah.
06:57I'll give him that.
06:58I guess.
06:58I'll give him that.
06:59Because he looked damn good on Thursday.
07:01Why was Tua Tungvaloa active Thursday?
07:04Why was he active?
07:05You had one job.
07:07Come to Atlanta.
07:08When Penix can't play, you have to be there for him and for your teammates.
07:12Give us two, maybe four.
07:13That's all we need.
07:14We'll pay you a million dollars.
07:15Give us that start.
07:16You can be a savior.
07:17And that dude can play Thursday, but he couldn't go Sunday.
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07:23Things I learned over the weekend.
07:26I was in coming Georgia over the weekend.
07:28I grabbed my phone and I made a big statement.
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07:32I'll be honest about why I said it.
07:34And I'll give you the reaction.
07:35It's a reaction.
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