00:00Just kind of, look, just kind of wading through our feelings here.
00:02We're just trying to figure out what direction to go with this.
00:05You guys that listen to us every morning, big Falcons fans,
00:08and we try to be on the positive end, but it's been tough today.
00:12I'm just going to throw that out there, man.
00:13I was, here's the thing, I don't have all the answers offensively
00:17for what you need to do.
00:18That's not my job.
00:19Here's what I can say, and I say it with my chest.
00:22No game plan that the Falcons have at any time over the next few years
00:27should ever involve John Robinson getting the ball nine times.
00:30It just can't happen, man.
00:32You can talk about the two screens they attempted.
00:35You talked about him not being able to block well yesterday.
00:37You know, I did notice early in the game, I believe this was first quarter.
00:41Might have been early second.
00:44They actually took him off the field on third down.
00:47I don't, I don't know that I've seen that much, man.
00:51And I know that there's been times that you've had, you know,
00:54last year Charlie Warner lined up in the backfield.
00:56This time it was Brian Robinson that's in blitz pickup.
00:59You don't usually see Bajon step off the field on a big third down.
01:02And I'm pretty sure the one I'm talking about was in the red zone.
01:05I have to go back and look at it.
01:06It was.
01:07I actually think you scored on it and Charlie Warner was in,
01:11you just scored on it or got a first down.
01:13He was in the, he was in there instead.
01:16I think, I know Brian was at, Brian was at running back.
01:19Brian Robinson was at running back.
01:21Well, I know that at one point in the red area,
01:23Charlie Warner was in there too.
01:24It's just the blocking back.
01:26Yeah.
01:26I have to go back and look at it.
01:27I don't want to get off on a tangent, but we're not,
01:32and I've noticed this, we're not the only team in,
01:34because Chicago did a lot of yesterday that has decided,
01:37that has become completely predictable with their tight ends.
01:40as far as who's on the field and what you're doing when they're on the field
01:44in certain places.
01:46Because Chicago used Cole Comet multiple times yesterday as a fullback.
01:49They used Colston Loveland as well as a fullback.
01:51Like all these teams have basically done away with the fullback position
01:55and they just carry an extra tight end or two.
01:58Let's go with the H-back.
01:59Yeah.
01:59It gives you flexibility.
02:01The fullback is going by way of the white Buffalo a little bit.
02:05Although a little bit of rebound, a little bit of coming back there.
02:08All right, let's go try to get some callers
02:10and Xavier from Gwinnett.
02:12Xavier, appreciate you hanging on, man.
02:14What's going on, Scott?
02:15Hey, what's going on, fellas?
02:17You know, of course, the frustration has set it in.
02:21But this right here to me was the example of complimentary football
02:24or how to lose.
02:26I think no specific group takes all the blame.
02:29I feel like they all take equal blame.
02:31Even when it comes to the defense.
02:33It's like, look, this is one of the reasons why I've always been against
02:36trying to build your team through, you know, skill players.
02:38Because as a defense, your job is to make sure the other team gets off the field
02:44as well until your offense figures it out.
02:48Yeah.
02:4814 points is too much to give up at the beginning of the game.
02:5221 points is still too much to give up as a whole.
02:55I don't care what the offense got going on.
02:57You get them on the field, you get their offense off the field as well.
03:01Get your offense some more opportunity.
03:03Michael, I need you to figure something else out about scrambling and making plays.
03:08Like, you look like a hurt deer out there.
03:11Make some plays.
03:12Just send a play.
03:13Make a play.
03:14Our offensive line is not looking as good as everybody trying to say they were.
03:18We look bad at the home.
03:20And I just hope we get better.
03:21Yeah, appreciate the phone call.
03:22I don't necessarily disagree wholeheartedly with anything he just said.
03:26The problem I had yesterday was that you never accounted for them bringing the pressure
03:31that you know he's going to bring and that he, like, at what point do you not?
03:37Kyler Gordon was back elevated to the active roster, whether it was from injury or whatever,
03:46literally, like, Saturday, and he had three sacks and four tackles and multiple quarterback
03:52hits and two forced fumbles.
03:54Yeah.
03:55Speaking of that, Kevin Spansky talked about that game from Kyler Gordon yesterday.
03:59Yeah, he's an excellent blitzer.
04:00We knew that going into this game.
04:02Dennis Allen does a very good job with his blitz looks.
04:06We have to look at everything and say, you know, are we giving our guys the best plan
04:09to block those type of guys and have answers and those things.
04:12So you've got to tip your cap to them, and then we'll look at what we can do better.
04:16Kevin, what do you think appeared to lead to some of their success in the screen game?
04:19It seems like they had a lot of guys in space when they were getting to the left and right
04:22side of the lines.
04:23Yeah, it's a difficult scheme to defend.
04:28They challenge you in a bunch of different ways, the way they run it and the way they
04:32throw it, and the screens are a huge part of what they do, and they do them from all
04:35personnel groupings on all down distances.
04:37So, obviously, that's something that we worked on this week, and a lot of it is
04:42simply running to the football.
04:44And, again, if they made plays, we've got to just look at ways that we can defend them
04:49better, but it's definitely a big part of what they do.
04:51The answer to that is when you have a penetrating style of defense and they're up the field
04:55and you want to test the quarterback's legs, you're going to rush the passer.
04:59And when you do that, it's going to create space behind you.
05:01And that's, look, and I agreed with Xavier's phone call.
05:05The one thing I'll say, and you know, I don't want to sound like the offensive line guy
05:09in the room.
05:10There's five offensive linemen.
05:12I mean, right now in front of me in the All-22, I'm looking at eight guys walked up the
05:15line of scrimmage.
05:16You know what I mean?
05:17Like, at some point, there has to be an accountability for the other three.
05:22And I don't know what the scheme was with Juwan Taylor on the right side of a collar.
05:26I don't know.
05:27I'm not going to sit your neck like I do.
05:29But either Penix or Bajon or somebody has got to pick up an extra guy and account for
05:34the extra player walked up the line of scrimmage and diagnosed things.
05:37I just watched a play with exactly that, eight guys.
05:39And you know what happens is they drop one, they bring seven, and then I believe it was
05:44Hardy.
05:45No, excuse me.
05:45Austin Booker basically does a stunt, and he comes untouched because Ryan Neusel couldn't
05:53get his head around.
05:55And Ryan Neusel was trying to help because of the way they had it set up, right?
06:00Yep.
06:00And I think they had DeMarco Jackson up on the line, and that's where Neusel initially
06:05went.
06:06Yeah.
06:06It's frustrating to watch.
06:08Let's go back to the phone lines real quick.
06:10Let's talk to James.
06:11He's in Decatur.
06:12James, what's going on, buddy?
06:14Hey, man.
06:14What I'm trying to figure out is yesterday, the guy that got the three sacks for Chicago.
06:19I mean, isn't that the offensive coordinator's job is to check that down when that's happening
06:26to keep the quarterbacks from getting hit like that?
06:31And how come they didn't use those short plays, man?
06:35Because, I mean, they would have worked.
06:37I mean, you know, some is better than nothing.
06:40All right, man.
06:41And look at Cleveland.
06:43Cleveland, they got rid of all the coaches game to us in Cleveland and start doing what
06:48they need to do.
06:49All right, man.
06:50Yeah, appreciate the phone call.
06:52I genuinely don't even know what plays he's talking about with the short plays.
06:56I tend to agree with him, though.
06:57Like, we didn't have any short throws.
06:59There wasn't any short throws.
07:00Well, yeah.
07:01It was early, and they were brutal.
07:03And then there weren't any.
07:04Yeah, I think it's the OC's job to help come up with some things to adjust to.
07:11I also think it's a recognition job, right?
07:14Like, there's a job of the quarterback, the offensive line, the receivers to use.
07:20They have option routes built in.
07:22If there's a zero blitz, all out pressure, something like that.
07:26You know, so again, I think it's a complete failure offensively.
07:32I don't necessarily think you can say, well, that's definitely that guy's fault.
07:35Definitely the line's fault.
07:37It's definitely the quarterback's fault.
07:39It's all their faults.
07:40Here's the bottom line.
07:41They were walking up eight guys in line of scrimmage.
07:43It's what Dennis Allen does.
07:44And you didn't know which ones were dropping and which ones were coming and which ones were
07:49in coverage and which ones were blitzing.
07:51And you never did diagnose it.
07:52And you didn't have an answer for it.
07:54And that really can encapsulate the entire offensive game plan yesterday.
08:00You didn't have an answer for what they were trying to do.
08:02You didn't dictate the game on your terms.
08:04When you can't run the ball and there's blood in the water, that's what's going to happen
08:09against a Dennis Allen defense.
08:10It's just point blank.
08:11That's the way it's going to go.
