00:00I think we know what the big story of the day is.
00:02Yeah, man.
00:03It seems like because he said he was going to give us our answer today
00:06talking about Kevin Stefanski.
00:07Tua will start the game.
00:09Said he hopes to get the starters about 10 plays.
00:12Everything, playing time is in pencil, not pen.
00:16So, I mean, you go out there and you have a five-play drive score test on.
00:19You're done.
00:20But, yeah, he's going to play.
00:23All right.
00:24There you go.
00:24There we go.
00:25That's another example of it being a little bit different with this regime
00:30than the last handful.
00:32And, again, we still don't know who the starter will be for week one.
00:35They're not announcing who has won the quarterback competition.
00:39They're not there yet.
00:39They're not there yet.
00:40They'll get there, but they're not there yet.
00:42But Kevin Stefanski meeting with the media right now in Flowery Branch
00:45just announcing that Tua Tungvailoa will start preseason game number one on Friday.
00:50And, like you said, too, Randy, a bunch of the other starters will play, obviously,
00:52if you're going to put your likely starting quarterback out there,
00:56you're going to want him to be protected by other starters.
00:59Yes.
00:59And have other starters to throw to as well.
01:01I mean, you know, as much as we kind of were joking earlier about who's going to win
01:08the wide receiver competition, we know Drake's going to be the one there.
01:12And we know Kyle Pitts is the go-to tight end.
01:14We know B. John Robinson is running back one.
01:17There's guys down the depth chart at wide receiver that you still want to get some
01:21looks at.
01:21And it'll be nice to have Tua out there throwing the ball to him,
01:25depending on how many times they throw.
01:27I don't know if they run 10 plays or so.
01:30That's good opportunities for those guys to show.
01:32And, you know, this is something that they've talked about.
01:34They want to give a look at who's actually going to be playing in game situations
01:41to figure out who's the best.
01:43Yeah.
01:43Now, this is a huge advantage for Tua to be able to play in it.
01:46Because Michael can't do it.
01:46Because Michael can't play in it.
01:47Because Michael, he won't even be in, like, warm-ups tomorrow.
01:51No.
01:51I mean, he won't even be in uniform, I would assume, as he's not cleared to play.
01:56Tua will go for that first series.
01:57If they go three and out, maybe they'll go for a second series.
02:01And then you'll see a bunch of Cooper Rush, and you'll see a bunch of Jack Strand,
02:04and that's what it is.
02:05That's fine.
02:06But, you know, look, man.
02:07At the very least, they kind of – I don't know if they made good on their word.
02:12They said they were going to do it, and they've done it.
02:14But Falcons fans have been begging to see starters play in preseason games for years.
02:20You're going to get it.
02:20You're going to get it on Friday.
02:22And, you know, like we talked about yesterday,
02:24hopefully it, you know, has some impact down the line on success in the season.
02:31But at the very least, the hopes of Falcons fans that wanted to see these guys
02:34play in preseason, you're going to get to finally see it.
02:36Yeah.
02:37And it's at home, too.
02:37And it's at home.
02:38Yeah, it's at home.
02:39So, I mean, I think I heard Duke's been able to talk about it,
02:42and Mike made a great point.
02:43It's like you don't want to go down there because you've already been told
02:46that some of the guys you know are not going to play.
02:48Now, Bajon's not going to play.
02:49I doubt Bajon plays.
02:50And if he does play, I doubt he gets any carries.
02:52Yeah, I doubt it.
02:55But I think, you know, just to get out there, and like even Tua said it.
02:58And, you know, I've never been against preseason.
03:00I hated it, but I've never been against it.
03:03Because it's like one of them things where once you're out there, it's ball.
03:05And no matter if you're out there for eight plays or however,
03:09you go out there and you take it serious because you can get hurt.
03:13And think about it also.
03:14This dude, he don't know you ain't playing serious.
03:18They don't want to have to kick your ass.
03:19You got a different uniform on.
03:20I've been the same damn dude for two weeks.
03:22You better be serious.
03:23You better have your blanks strapped tight.
03:28Yeah.
03:28And let it go.
03:29You know, but, yeah, it'll be good to see them out there for the first half a quarter
03:34or whatever, however it goes.
03:36It's always weird how these games go when you have – when you talk a play limit.
03:42You know what I mean?
03:43Because that was one of the things where – I've been on teams where we were going
03:47out there for one drive-in.
03:48No, it was a 10 play.
03:49I got 10, that's done.
03:51We scored in like six plays.
03:53Okay, you done.
03:53Yeah, you did a job.
03:55Or we ran a 10, didn't really get anything to, hey, one more series or something like
03:59that.
03:59So that's why he said it's in pencil.
04:01Yeah, that makes sense.
04:02Yeah.
04:02That makes sense.
04:02But once Tua's out, everybody else is out.
04:04Oh, absolutely.
04:05And once the starting offensive line is out, Tua's out.
04:08Yes.
04:08So those things go hand in hand.
04:10Interesting, but who's going to start at right tackle?
04:11Me too.
04:12Yes.
04:12That's a big deal.
04:14Yes.
04:14I think, you know, at this point, by and large, we're all on the same page that Tua is most
04:19likely going to be the starting quarterback when the season begins.
04:21Um, you know, barring something extreme, but, uh, we don't know who the starting right
04:26tackle is going to be.
04:27No, I don't think they do either.
04:29Um, you know, Juwan Taylor hadn't been able to do anything yet.
04:32Maybe he'll be able to practice this afternoon.
04:34Maybe.
04:34I do not know, but he has not been able to practice thus far.
04:37Um, you know, Michael Jarrell has been at right tackle some, the seventh round rookie
04:43out of Ohio State.
04:43What about who but out there?
04:44They have not been good.
04:45Yeah.
04:46Well, and they're also just not who they anticipated being out there, right?
04:49Like they thought Juwan Taylor was going to be the starting right tackle and physically
04:53he hasn't been able to do it.
04:54So, um, now he is, he is literally off of the physically unable to perform list that
04:59happened earlier this week, but he is still physically unable to do what they needed to
05:03do, at least thus far in practice.
05:04So let's, let's get to the big story of the day.
05:06We'll hear Tua talk about playing in the preseason and then we'll get more into, uh, exactly
05:10what Friday may look like.
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05:19Whatever, whatever is asked of me, whatever is asked of the guys, I think that's, that's
05:24what, what we're going to go with, with whatever Stefanski, uh, has.
05:27What guy calls Stefanski?
05:30Yeah.
05:31Coach?
05:32Coach, uh, Stefanski said.
05:34Anyway, uh, yeah, that is what Stefanski has announced.
05:36That, uh, that they'll be out there and look, I think we've, you know, I think we've
05:41been on the same page and I think a lot of people are on this page about preseason of
05:47like, the reason the Falcons have been seven and 10 or eight and nine for five years is
05:51not because they're not playing.
05:54And the fact that they are playing in the preseason, I don't think is going to make
05:59the, the, you know, the, the big picture difference when the season comes around too.
06:03I mean, hopefully a little extra work helps a little bit.
06:06I think every little thing could, could be valuable.
06:08My thought was just always like, especially with this team, the last five years, there
06:12was so much you didn't know, so much new, so much you didn't know.
06:16You would have to think that it'd be like a little bit beneficial to go through some
06:19of it before the first week.
06:20And then we'd also see them play the first week and just look totally discombobulated.
06:23Yes.
06:24So it's like, you know, if it didn't look like that, then it would be a lot easier to
06:28say that preseason didn't matter, but it did look like that.
06:31So it's hard to say that.
06:33The other thing is that, you know, a lot of teams treat it like that.
06:40And some teams play their guys and have really good seasons.
06:44Some teams play their guys and have really bad seasons.
06:47So there's really no, you know, there's no way of, there's no, there's no proof that
06:52it has a huge impact throughout the course of the year.
06:56I just think in terms of what training camp is now, how short it is, how little time you
07:00get in pads, it's only going to help a little to get out there and play.
07:04Dude, you know what's so crazy?
07:05Get out there and play.
07:06I was listening to Harry, Harry and Lou, they were talking today on the show and they're
07:12making a great point.
07:13It's like, you know, it's hard as hell nowadays to prepare yourself for football because you
07:17don't football enough.
07:18Yeah, you just don't, you don't hit, you don't tackle.
07:19You don't hit, you don't tackle.
07:21And I mean, just like them, I want to see the statistics because you don't hit, you don't
07:25tackle, but yet you hurt more.
07:26It seems.
07:27It seems like you hurt more because of something that you said on Monday that you heard from
07:31one of the tackle.
07:32You're not calloused.
07:33Right.
07:33You're not, you know, and that's what, that's what training camp, training camp is for calluses.
07:38It's for you to get beat up.
07:39It's not for you to not to, it's training camp is not for you to be rested.
07:44It's for you to be dog ass tired, overworked them.
07:48That's what training camp is supposed to be.
07:50Now it's been substituted out for a lot lighter and all those different things.
07:53Bless their heart, all those different things.
07:54I just want to know how it's making the product better.
07:58Now, obviously it's football, so it don't matter how you practice, people are going to damn watch
08:01it.
08:01We know that.
08:02We watch that.
08:03We noticed that from their preseason game on Thursday that had 7 million viewers.
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