Falcons vs Panthers Preview: How Atlanta can stop Bryce Young | Falcons Audible Podcast

Model it for him. Shock. Get it for him. Can we get the music? If you haven't joined us, where have you been? He's shortening guys necks that are coming on blitzes. Next, we going to have Arch do the dance to my tell us about the touchdown. One touchdown. We talked about edge rushers this offse. >> The trio is back everybody. Falcons Audible presented by AT&T. That's DJ Shockley, Dave Archer. I'm Derek Rackley. And here is what we've got on the slate today. We will of course recap the Falcons loss to the Steelers. I'll get the guys opinion on what they think went down and how those things need to be fixed as we turn the page and we talk a little bit about the home opener at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta Falcons, against the Carolina Panthers. We'll do all that right after this. >> At The Home Depot, we make it easy to turn your to-do list into [music] a done list with our speedy delivery options. Need something in a hurry? 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And I think when you're dealing with having the adjustments at the quarterback position as well, when you have that many self-inflicted wounds, it's going to be able to hard going to be hard to overcome those. >> Yeah. And why did he say on the road? Because obviously, as you just said, Rack, it can happen in any game that you create those problems. It's going to magnify or increase your opportunity to lose the football game, no matter whether you're in your building or somebody else's. The other piece of this, and this goes to our fans out there, what happens on in road games is you have to manufacture your own energy. And if your own energy is kind of negative, we're turning the ball over. We got too many penalties. We got self-inflicted wounds as Rack just talked about, >> that saps your energy. And so, you better find a play or someone to pick you up. What happens at home >> is the crowd picks you up. The crowd senses a nervousness. There's a nervous energy in the crowd. So they rise up like we do it at our place in Mercedes-Benz. And that's and and that's why that's why home games are so important to have your home crowd behind you. And I think that >> even though Pittsburgh didn't do anything extraordinary and give our defense a ton of credit. >> Um that was the problem is you got to manufacture your own energy. Somebody needs to make a play and just couldn't quite get over the hump. Albeit your defense fought their rear ends off to keep you keep you in the game. >> Shock, we had uh nine penalties for 96 yards, missed two field goals. >> Mhm. >> And we talked about a couple of guys named Watt and Heismith >> and we said that they cannot affect the game. >> True. >> They ended up with four sacks in the game. Cam Hayward just seemed to find his hand on the football seemingly every time. Deflected three passes in the game. It's like this guy's done it before, which by the way, he has done that before. >> Um, we knew that they were going up against a challenging defensive front and saying neutralize those guys is much easier said than done. True. And unfortunately throughout the course of 60 minutes, it wasn't able to be accomplished. >> Yeah. And that's part of the game is, and if you look at the first part of this game, you tried to do things to slow those guys down. You had some chips early. You tried to do some stuff where you ran the football at them. I mean, you did some things early in the ball game to try to [sighs] uh levy some of that uh what what possibly could be. And as a game goes on, you have to kind of open up a little bit. You have to try to do some things to kind of get your offense going. And sometimes you leave those good playmakers on the island. And in the National Football League, sometimes you have to just bow up and say, you know what, let's go play and let's go see if we can handle this oneonone. And sometimes you don't and sometimes you do. But in this situation, those are veteran guys who understand what it takes to win in this league. And those guys you talking about, you know, hey, they they they they have a an unusual style of way they rush. As you can see, Watton, the guys in Heisman, they come off the edge, they're up field, they're going, but you watch, you know, the interior guys, they're kind of kind of pushing from the middle and not really going all the way up field and then they wait for you to get ready to throw and then boom, put your hands up and now we got to, you know, we're knocking the ball down. So, I think that's part of, >> you know, their style of rushing and, you know, you can see the frustration on Cooper Rush's face every time, you know, Hayward got his hand on it. >> U, but yeah, like Archers mentioned, like you just mentioned, the holding calls, they set you back. That those are the the stuff we talked about, staying on schedule, those things hurt you. The holding calls, >> uh the penalties, the pre- snap stuff. Uh I think you know maybe four out of five guys up front had some sort of penalty uh that that kind of hurt you going backwards and it's hard to overcome that on the road like you guys mentioned as well. So yeah, those guys are veteran guys who understand if you can't get to the quarterback, you find a way to get your hands up and they were really successful in doing that and then now you look up, it's second and 10 or you have a negative yardage play and it's second and 12, second and 15 and now Tar Reese is trying to find a play to get you back into manageable third down situations and that happened a lot in the ball game and that makes it harder to find success or find value when you continue to put yourself behind the sticks >> when you are playing with a essentially third string quarterback. It's hard enough to manufacture offense and it's even harder when you're trying to convert on second and 20, third and 17. Like that's difficult for a starter in the National Football League. Arch, I'm going to throw out a couple different performances and I'm going to let you take it wherever you want. It's the the good side of things or Robinson 29 touches over 170 yards of offense and a touchdown. Zidarius Smith, who was just signed a few weeks ago, comes away with two sacks in this game. But then you also had Drake London has two catches. Kyle Pittz has zero catches. Two guys that were resigned this off season that we felt like were going to be impact players offensively to compliment Bjan Robinson really were kind of taken out of the game. >> Yeah. And I think that the the presiding sentiment is to blame the quarterback because those two guys didn't touch the football. And certainly Cooper will take his piece of of not getting them the ball. But throwing the football, Kevin's talked about throwing the football is a an army making it happen. Shock, you and I know that we've got to have protection. Things need not necessarily need to be clean, but give you an opportunity. Routes have to understand what coverage is. There's adjustments virtually to every route. Whether they play man, whether they play zone match, whether they're playing a blitz look, there's route adjustments. Remember, Cooper Rush doesn't have a lot of snaps with these guys either as far as practice time. So, there's a lot of reasons and and I'm going to try to make excuses for him, but you there there are reasons why some of this thing and you've got to take ownus as a receiver, running back, lineman. I've got a guy that hasn't played as much. Okay? And so, I need to heighten my ability what I'm doing. My job has to be taken to another level. crispness over my routes be declare what I'm trying to do so he has a clear vision of what I need. I've got to fight that extra count. I can't let a guy get clean because he's he's probably not looking and he probably can't get out of there the same way. And then from Cooper's perspective is when I do escape and the one play he makes where he gets out of the pocket, albeit he probably had something coming open if he'd stayed home. He got out of the pocket. Okay. Now, my job as a quarterback, minimize damage. Yeah. >> Okay. Run with the ball, throw it. >> Shock and I were taught as quarterbacks when you dropped a throw, three things can happen, and two of them are bad. [laughter] >> And he chose one of the bad ones and overthrew a receiver in the middle, it gets picked off and leads to points. So, um, there's a lot of this stuff that can be fixed >> just by taking care of your business, your techniques, and those kind of things. So, I I'm I look, you went on the road and you just played a team that won their division and lost by seven and had a chance to win the football game. >> Not trying to, you know, but I have a lot of optimism about what we can be in week two against Carolina. >> Yeah, there are a lot of things that I think we would all agree are correctable, but it's just it's a >> it's a timing thing, right? You don't want it to be week four when things get corrected and all of a sudden you look up and you're one and three and you're already fighting the win loss calling >> and shock. We're not here to talk about positives when you lose a game because that's not how players and coaches are wired. You're taught to learn from the tape and then get better and put it behind you, right? However, Arch did talk about it. The defense was pretty good, right? Like the defense played their faces off. They ended up uh limiting Pittsburgh to three out of 15 on money downs, third and fourth down complet uh together. They shut down the run game. They got a couple of sacks as we talked about. So, there were good things that happened there, but it's you can only take so much out of it when you come away with a loss. >> Yeah. And that's and that's part of it. And I think we've been ingrained for so long about Yeah. the posits are good, but there's always things you can work on. I mean, I just I think a lot of people know I covered Georgia. they just won 70 to 20 and after the ball game coach smart act like they lost 70 to 20. Like [laughter] that's part of how a coach and players mindset has to be because if you get complacent, guess what? >> Uh that's where you fall by the wayside. So yeah, there's always good things. There's always things that you can work on. I thought the defense did a good job of changing the line of scrimmage. I think they forced Rogers off his spot a bunch of times. Forced him to probably run and move more than he probably wanted to at that that tender 40 plus age. Uh but you you think about it, Roger Stewart 40 times and he had less than 200 yards passing before that last drive I think coming to the ball game. You would take that from a guy who's been around the league playing in his 22nd season and also give this defense a lot of credit. How many times did you see Rogers up at the line of scrimmage literally taking it down to the last second trying to adjust things, trying to get a new look, trying to find out what the Falcons were in because they did such a good job of disguising uh and not holding their water until late moments. And even when he did change it, there were moments where he still had just throw the football away or didn't have it cuz they did a good job on the back end. Now, you can look up and say, "Hey, there were a couple penalties on the back end that hurt you at times." >> Um, but they also, you know, had some moments, too, where, you know, because of the contested plays on the back end, they didn't make the catches. >> Yeah. >> Um, but you're talking about being really good in the run game. We talked about that before the season started. Last year you were 24th in the league against a run, giving up 58 yards rushing, 2.8 average in a ball game. That's starting the season on the right track. That's doing some good things up front. That's changing the line of scrimmage. Talk about Zarya Smith who had I think he had between 10 and 15 snaps in the ball game and it affected the ball game uh in a positive way. Um we saw Mason Smith being a an agitator on the inside as well. didn't show up really on the stat sheet, but it was a guy who constantly forced the issue on the inside. U you saw the young rooks running around, you know, being athletic and showing their their prowess. Kendall Daniels had another play where, you know, he, you know, takes off and runs a play down just showing the speed that he has. And and you just love the way so many guys are flying to the football. I think about that first quarter fumble >> and Cam Thomas comes from getting cut on the on on the play. He gets cut, hands go to the ground, gets up, runs, and still is able to punch the football out while Mike Hughes is fighting off a block. Then here comes Devon Diablo to come in and get it. But if you watch the totality of the play, there's probably seven, eight black hats around that football when it finally comes to the the end of the play. And those are the things that you look at and say, "Okay, these are positive building moments that you can look at." And then there's, like we said, there's always stuff you can work on, but those are moments in the game you say, you know what, this defense, yeah, week one, we're already starting to look the way we want to look. And I'm sure Brick has has forced that issue already. >> Yeah, I thought they played with the violence that you want to play with, especially in the front seven. Brandon Doris being able to slide from the three technique inside defensive tackle, which he can still play in pass rush situations, bounced him outside. So the size that we talked about in some of our pregame pod preseason podcast about a 295 lb guy coming off the edge and creating problems of trying to block it. Remember sometimes he's going to be isolated on a tight end. Tight end's got no chance and most of the time a tackle didn't have a chance because of how twitchy he is. I thought that came to life like Shock talking about one guy I'll add to making the play in the screen play. Cydney Brown's the guy that makes the initial play. Sydney blows up the initial blocker and then Hughes comes in and he's the next guy there and then Diablo's the next guy there. You mentioned, you know, tacking with ferocity. Lot of hats to the football. That was very encouraging defensively. >> Well, we talked about a lot of the matchups leading into the game last weekend against Pittsburgh. I know one of them that we discussed last week on the podcast was DK Metaf going up against the secondary. How about 10 targets, four catches, 40 yards, no touchdowns, right? Of of one of the more physically imposing wide receivers in the game. Now, maybe some of those were offtarget throws by Rogers, but I thought there was also a lot of really tough competitiveness going on outside and people rising up to the challenge and going up against Metaf and he did not affect the game positively for Pittsburgh. They matched up well against him. A lot of it was because of their competitiveness and physicality. Well, speaking of defense, playing well, needing to play well as we roll forward to week two because the Carolina Panthers folks are coming off the highest scoring game in week one of NFL history. All right, if you are following scores, if you happen to watch it, um the Panthers were in an absolute shootout this past weekend. [clears throat] Arch, you have had the uh I guess we call it the gift of the curse of calling many Falcons Panthers games. Uh unfortunately, Atlanta came up short on two of them last year. After what you saw from the Panthers last week, after what you saw from Atlanta last week, what are some of the things, the discussion topics that are coming top of your mind that Atlanta's going to have to do against Carolina? Not a key yet. We'll get to that later. >> Discussion points key. Exactly. [laughter] It's uh they're playing with a lot of freedom on the offensive side of the football. I think uh what what coach Canales has been able to do there from in freeing their quarterback up and and they went out and got some players to help him uh along that offensive side both on the offensive line and playmakers around him. Um so I think that I guess the first thing that comes to mind for me is I think they're playing with a lot of freedom. There's not um if you went back two years ago and looked at Bryce Young playing, you would say, "Wow, almost feels like he's playing in a box." Now, it doesn't feel that way at all. >> And I don't need to remind anybody that he feels extremely comfortable in Mercedes-Benz Stadium because it's like a second home to him the way he's played. >> Last time he was in there, he lit us up. So immediately what comes to mind to me is they've been kind of defenseoriented with some of the guys they went and got over the last couple seasons and been one of the better defenses, but the offense has been kind of in flux. They look like they're much freer offensively. Shock. Um Arch talked about it last year. Bryce Young sets a franchise record and passing of like 400 almost 450 yards last year in a game against the Falcons. He's coming off 361 last week against the Bears. and Jaylen Coker was the beneficiary of many of those. He ended up with eight for 138 and two touchdowns in that game. So, we talked a little bit about how Atlanta fared well competitively against Pittsburgh in the passing game. That's going to need to carry over. We always know, fellas, that you got to be able to stop the run. I know we'll get there. That's number one goal. But the confidence in the freess that Arch talked about, the Falcons pass coverage is going to be tested next weekend. >> Yeah, it will. And you talking about on the outside, you got two receivers who are big physical guys who you look around this league. That's what look like majority of this league is going to is these type of guys. Uh McMillan's another guy on the outside. You mentioned Coker uh who has that physicality as well. Um you know coming into another year in this system with Bryce Young, you feel like Art, those guys are trying to make sure they they find out who they are. And I think that first game, the freedom that Arch talks about gives those guys that confidence, especially heading in and with what Bryce Young has done over his last few appearances, you know, against the Falcons, he probably feels like, hey, this is a chance for us to get back into the win column with how they played. And, you know, going against a Bears team that that did that. And also, you got to combine that with Chuba Hubard in this ball game. Two tough, he had two touchdowns in this ball game. We've seen Chuba over the years, a tough, hard, physical runner. Um, and the other thing were they were really good in the red zone, four for four in the red zone in this ball game against the Bears. And you come in saying we have to be good in those moments, but we also have to be good in those situations of the game. And I think that matters just as much as trying to diagnose who they are, uh, personnel-wise, but in those situations on third down, how good the Falcons were last week, uh, being good in the red zone, being able to take the ball away. Those are all things that can help you. And then, oh yeah, you're going to be at home. So, you got to have that energy to feed if you have those big time plays in those moments that help you. >> And when we talk about playing free, you know, obviously it speeds the game up. You play faster when you're free, but what does that, you know, what does that mean as a fan at home? They're playing for Well, Dave Canales has put these guys in a position from a confidence standpoint on offense that he can call anything at any down and distance and he feels like that they're going to be able to execute. And if they don't, they don't make the play, he's confidence that they have an an answer on second down or an answer on third down. That's what's playing free. And if when you free up your offensive coordinator because he doesn't have any reservations about putting somebody up to bat, >> man, that really really relaxes you to be able to call a game that that uh is conducive to what you guys do. >> We talked a little bit about Bryce Young and what they did offensively last week. Just let's also remember this came in a losing effort as they gave up a 59 burger to the Bears. Okay. >> 59. All right. The Bears had 552 yards of offense. They were 10 out of 14 on third down. >> How'd they do running the ball? Rack. >> Uh the six rushing touchdowns. >> Yeah. Yeah. They did pretty good. >> Six rushing touchdowns. >> 291 yards under Grizz. Okay. So if you're the Falcons offense, if you're Tommy Reese, Bjan Robinson, Drake London, Kyle Pittz, all of those guys, and you're looking at the tape, >> everything else, >> shock, there's you're going to look at the tape, be like, "Oh, that'll work. That'll work. That'll work." It's all fine and dandy, but it gets back to execution. They're going to see a lot of opportunities from the game last week that I'm sure they're going to try to attack, but now it's up to Atlanta to execute on offense to make that happen on the field. >> And that's the biggest part of the game is execution part of it. And I think you they probably came into this Pittsburgh game feeling really good about certain things that they felt like they could get to and would be winning moments for them uh throughout this ball game, but end the day there are a lot of pieces that Archers mentioned when we first came on about that have to be together. You have to get the protection together. You got to make sure the back's picking up the right guy. You got to make sure the timing of all this stuff is right. Just think about how many, you know, times you run a screen. Think about the the screen of Bjon. If they don't sort out who they're blocking, no Jaylen Ramsey coming from the inside, and if they don't sort out a hat on a hat, do a good job of keeping their hands inside and then be hitting it, it doesn't work. So, I think the the biggest thing is, yeah, you got to have the timing, everything, but you also have to be really succinct in how you go about attacking it. And then every guy has to execute. And for so long as players, we are always taught you got to win your 111. And when you win your 111, you can't worry about the other guys. But you got to make sure you're doing your job so that the play could work. And I think that's the biggest thing going into this ball game is you're going to look back on that tape and say, "Yeah, we had nine penalties. We had, you know, seven on offense." All those things are things that we can go back and say, "You know what? If we do this one little thing right, if our hands are this way, if our feet is this way or the small details of the game are exactly where they should be, that outcome could be totally different." So you look back at the tape and sometimes it's not as bad as you think. you look at the game and say, "Man, that was a tough outing." And you go back look at the tape and say, "You know what? We were this this close to making this thing go where we needed to be." And I think that's where the positives and optimism comes from from a team. When you go back and watch the tape, then you go back and say, you know what, if we do these things in week two, we'll have the success we want. >> Yeah. You got to trust one another. You got to trust the techniques. And I think whenever you get a holding call, it's where, okay, maybe your technique got a little sideways and you reach and grab because you don't trust that the guy behind you, the quarterback, >> he'll make that guy miss or throw the ball away. I need to be able to trust as an offensive lineman, you know, whether and we got five holding calls. And by the way, >> um the holding thing, uh maddening to me, okay, they hold on every play. Every play is a holding. You can call holding on every play. This is an offensive line last year that had 21 holding calls that was ninth best in the National Football League and you had five in one game. Come on. You know, I mean I mean it's it's very subjective. But all that being said, trust your techniques up front. If a guy beats you, don't pull him down. No, I got to trust that the dude behind me is enough of an athlete to where he's going to get it out of there. Now, if he doesn't, then that's on him. He needs to be able. But I've got to be able to, as Shock has said, do your 111th on defense and do it to the best of your ability, but also trust the guy next to you and the guy behind you. The guy's running routes. I thought there was some of the some of the holding calls or you get a little nervous and you grab thinking you might be able to get a waiver because you're not sure if the guy behind you is going to be able to make it. Got to trust that he's going to do his job and minimize the damage if somebody comes clean. I think I think that's one of the things when you start minimizing mistakes that's one of the things they need to get to. >> So you take say you say the the one on special teams with Joshua wish then did he get the blood pressure going a little bit? >> Yeah. A lot. [laughter] >> Yeah. I mean it's [clears throat] you know I don't want to harp on that but there is holding on every play folks. It happens on every play. >> That is true. That is 100% true. All right. I'm going to ask you this. >> How many times you hold in your career? Huh? >> Um es on punts too. Especially Yeah. Like you get anybody on the edge. We're coached to you hold you take that penalty. You do not give up a block punt. Okay. >> Uh All right. I'm going to ask you guys this question. Again, this is not your key yet. All right. There's >> really stressing us on this. >> It's not your key yet. I'm ready for my key. I'm making you guys to continue to think here. All right. I want a player, a position group, um a side of the ball. You could say offense, defense, or special teams after what you saw last week and then what they're facing this week that needs to take a leadership role. Okay. So, this is kind of a little bit off the cuff. So, I'm going to answer first. So, I give you guys I give you guys a little bit of extra time. I give you guys a little bit extra time. >> I'm actually going to piggyback on you and I'm going to say the offensive line because I think you have to win the trenches if you're going to win in the National Football. >> Trench, let's go. >> You have a backup. You have a third string quarterback as it stands playing that position right now. So, you got to kind of strain a little bit more, right? >> You've got one of the most electric running backs in the National Football League. >> True. >> Any moment he could make a gamechanging play, but as we talked about, the penalties and the inconsistencies just were not right last week. Just wasn't good enough last weekend. And I think that group is made up of enough veterans in the coach that's leading the offensive line. I have a sneaking suspicion they're gonna play a whole lot better this week. They're gonna accept the challenge. They're gonna rise up inside the stadium and they're gonna play a whole lot better. I think this could be a game where collectively we run for 150 to 175 yards and they say what we did last week was out of the ordinary and we're going to fix it. So mine is the offensive line, but you guys can pick a player, a position group, a side of the ball. Arch, let's go to you next. Well, and and I'll just kind of double down and say the offense because when you got a team that's playing as free as Carolina did in the first week, and it doesn't necessarily mean that that's how free they're going to play this week. They're going to this is probably a tougher matchup for them um this defense as opposed to Chicago's defense, but they are coming in with a great deal of confidence. So, um minimize their opportunities. That means we execute on the offensive side of the football. Now, it's offensive line, but I think that's wide receivers being able to separate. Again, I've got a quarterback that doesn't have as many reps. So, I need to be uh I got to declare myself as a wide receiver. I need to get to my proper depth. I need to show him a with a sense of urgency where the openings are. I need to stretch this the coverages, whether I beat man coverage or I stretch zone coverage and declare it for him because my route is at the proper depth. I'm layered properly. All those kind of things need to happen from an offensive standpoint. One, to give you an opportunity to be more successful on the offensive side of the football, but number two, let's keep Bryce Young and those guys over there. So, let them watch the game, you know, and and to a certain extent, you what? You had 31 minutes, I think 32 minutes of possession in this game. Um, you just didn't finish things. You had a couple of third and shorts. you didn't get get to convert those, stay on the field, you know, and then and then then obviously we stay away from some of the penalties. >> Yeah. And so Shock, I'm seeing I'm seeing offensive line execution, offensive execution. Are you going to make it the trifecta or where are you going? >> Negative. I am not. [laughter] >> I will. >> He's just trying to He's just trying to do something. >> I will take my talent to the other side of the ball. >> Okay, let's take them there. >> Uh for me, I think it's all about the front seven. I think you couple with what you saw in Pittsburgh with their ability to stop the run early and being really stingy in the run game uh versus the Steelers and obviously well whatever side you think about the Steelers run game whatever I thought the defense did a really good job in the run game. For me it couples with being able to affect Bryce Young and I think we've all mentioned his success that he's had over the last few times that he's faced the Falcons. I look back last three ball games, 109 passer rating, 987 yards, six TDs, zero interception in the last three times that he's faced the Falcons. We got to find a way to affect him. You got to find a way to to move. You got to find a way to to make him uncomfortable and not allow him to have that freedom that we've talked about, but then also stop uh be be really good in that run game if you're forced cuz I I feel really good about how we match up on the backside. Uh I thought Mike Hughes played a a really good ball game on the backside. I thought AJ had his moments as well. We know who Jesse Bates is. We We've seen those guys play well. Sydney Brown was all over the field. >> Yeah, love the rotation at the spot, right? >> Avon came and you you saw the mix of talent we have in second. So, I feel good about how we match up on the back end. I want us to affect Bryce Young in a way that he does not have the time just to sit back there and pat it and find his guys and go play winning football like he's done the last couple times. So, yeah, front seven for me, you have to show it again. And again, I want to see you come back and do it for a second week in a row, but this time find a way to get him on the ground. Yeah. >> And we talked about affecting him. Yeah, that's big having havoc, but we've seen this guy, hey, create havoc, then move and get outside the pocket and find guys down the field. I want to get this guy on the ground and force him into some uncomfortable situations where he may end up throwing us the football a couple times. >> All right, so that's our groups that need to take a leadership role in this game. It's offensive line. It's offense collectively and then it's the front seven on defense. All right, now we are going to get to the keys. I've been pushing the guys off for a while. You know, [laughter] chomping at key. >> THEY WANT IT. >> YEAH, THAT SOUNDED LIKE A KEY, but it ain't [laughter] >> it. It's just camouflages something ain't no. >> But now we're going to go ahead and get into the keys. All right, Avery, each guy here is going to give us one key to victory at home this weekend. Make sure you let us know what your key is going to be. Remember, band was going to start playing after you said like that. One monkey to victory. [laughter] >> Is that like Georgia jingle? >> N >> Minnesota got ran out of the road. >> Really? We got [laughter] to go there. >> They did. You know, over here talking about like the Golden Gophers. They were too golden this week. Key to the game and you just Omaha on me here [laughter] >> and just started talking about my >> right. What happened with the golfers, man? >> I mean, goodness gracious. >> What happened? >> Can I get back to the key to the game? >> Yeah, let's get keys. >> Shock. Good job. >> Oh no. Here we go. >> Come on. Your turn up. Key to the game. >> Why you say old guy? [laughter] Why you say okay? Here we go. >> Oh yeah. Here we go. >> All right. Uh for me, my key to the game is we have to hit our explosives when presented. And I think we've talked about >> the mo we talked about the momentum it creates, the morale that it creates, the confidence that it creates when you hit these explosives. And then couple that with the first game in the bins where all the fans are going to be there. They're going to be excited. You hit a couple big plays to Drake or Kyle or Bejon, whoever it is going down the sideline and here comes the energy. Here comes the old feel of the bins, old feel of when you're making plays. And then now we talk about, hey, you got a quarterback who >> needs that confidence. He hits a couple big time plays. Guess what? Oo, the red beard starts to feel real nice. Then you know what I'm saying? We start calling stuff up. Tommy Reese is like, "Let's dial them up." Coach Defans say, "Whatever you want, baby. It's wide open." I say hit some of these big plays when they're presented to you and it creates so much more in the run game, pass game. Here comes everything underneath. Now this playbook in the field starts to wide and open up when you hit these big plays. You have to force the issue and make these plays. Turn 5050 plays in the 7030. Let's go do that. >> Explosion plays. >> Killed it. >> Explosion plays. >> Wow. >> Shock is feeling it. He's a LITTLE LITTLE ZESTY. AH, A LITTLE LUBE. Let's go. >> All right, let's go. [laughter] Art, your turn. >> I don't think I got much energy. Got to follow that. >> Well, he he kind of he kind of jumped on me anyway on >> Do not do not let Bryce Young extend plays. >> That's a good >> Now, he talked about how affect him. Obviously, affecting him means you're going to move him off his spot, but don't let him extend the play. I thought he did that a great deal against Chicago this weekend. He ran with the football. He extended plays. You go back and look at the game here in Atlanta last year and and even the last couple times, his ability to get out of the pocket, wait, wait, buy time, throw it. He's not a dynamic runner, but for whatever reason, the dude can buy some time. So, he's really good at it. It'll be interesting to see what Brick's uh assignments are up front because you don't want to mosh rush him, you know, but you al because you want to put pressure on him, turn guys loose, but there's also that element that if I win to the inside, if I'm, you know, Zidius Smith and I win inside and I get him outside, now all of a sudden he's got that run pass option. He's got Tedaro McMullen going down the field, he's got Coker going down the field. >> Create opportunities to get him on the ground. Certainly like shock tuck. Do not let him extend the play. I like that. I like that. All right. And then my key third one from this group. >> I like that. >> Come on rack. Bring us home, baby. >> We talked about it earlier cannot have the self-inflicted wounds this week. You can call it be disciplined. Whatever it is, but I when I say that I think that is penalties have to be minimized and you got to win the turnover margin. To me self-inflicted wounds is turning the football over and putting yourself in the hole. To me, penalties putting yourself behind the chains are self-inflicted wounds and it's going to make it difficult to be successful on offense. If we look up at the end of this game and Atlanta has four penalties for 30 yards and the turnover margin is 3-0 or 3-1 in favor of Atlanta, that should signal a win. Let's go. >> Right. So, no self-inflicted wounds. You got to play much more discipline this week. Yes, Arch, you already talked about it. Holding happens on every play. You just got to be slick with it. Right. Hands got to be inside. If the guy gets you on the edge, you can't hold on. You can't put your arm out and wrap him around. A lot of times that's an easy call for the officials. Whether Dave Archer likes it or not, it can be an easy call for the officials. So, we got to play a whole lot more disciplined. All right. Explosive. >> I got a hot take. I got a hot take for you, too. Hot take. And this is going to be right in your area. >> Oh, snap. >> After what I saw this weekend. >> Yeah. >> Zachariah Branch is going is going to the house >> twice at least this year. >> There was a couple close. It's coming. Get ready for it. He may do it this weekend against Carolina. Watch out for the dog. We've been talking about it all off season. He just brings a different element to this team. And that's the reason why he was drafted. Okay. >> All right. There's our three keys. What are your What's one of your keys? You got an You got a group that needs to play a leadership role. You got a key. >> Which one? Give it to us, Shock. What's that? Down there. >> Down. That's how he types. >> Comment your key below. Right there. [laughter] >> Are you a finger finger pecking typer? Oh, you quick. You stay quick. >> I do a lot of typing, so I got, you know, I use all my 10 fingers. >> All right, y'all. Uh, all three of us will be in the house at Mercedes-Benz this weekend. We need that energy for everybody that's coming. We need you to cheer on the Falcons and we need that place loud and livid to help us bring home a divisional victory, even up this win loss record at one of those, too. Yeah, you need that division game. Let's go. >> All right, that's going to wrap it up for the Falcons presented by AT&T. On behalf of DJ Shockley, Dave Archer, I'm Derek [music] Rackley. We will see you next week as we wrap up this game. But not only that, quick turnaround Thursday Night Football [music] Packers next week. We'll see you everybody. Come on Atlanta, bring the noise.