00:00and we have a whole lot to talk about oh boy yeah man i don't know how much sleep you
00:08got
00:08last night because i didn't get much at all because i could not wait until it was my turn
00:15to get on this microphone today from 12 to 3 and i'm with you for the next three hours
00:22i'm actually with you for the next six and a half but i'm doing double duty today i'm gonna
00:26give you three hours of a host assignment timeout with eric slaughter i'm here at three o'clock and
00:32then i'm gonna slide over to the producer's chair and i'm gonna sit in and take care of my guy
00:37chris
00:37turtle thomas but i tell you this is just what a day what a day what a day and it's
00:44a day because
00:45of what a night what a night what a night football's back preseason football all around the league and
00:55it was definitely here in atlanta last night at the bins if you had not heard
01:03falcons go down 27 to 7 yes i know preseason i know we cannot get all of our
01:12panties in a ruffle however they want to call it what is that saying get your panties in a bunch
01:16i
01:16know pick pick your analogy we're supposed to take it with a grain of salt but with all the time
01:24we've
01:24waited all the time that we've anticipated waited and anticipated for that disappointment last night
01:33i do not have a great feeling today i really hope over the next three weeks four weeks whatever it
01:42is
01:42before we get to the official regular season opener i get more of a substance more better feeling
01:51something something to work with because what i got last night leaves me a lot of desire
02:00404-726-0929 we will open up these phone lines in a little bit but before i get started i
02:06gotta
02:06say hello to my producer for this afternoon the big wolverine josh is in the building josh how you
02:12doing man slaughterhouse what's up brother i'm doing just fine you know boss man reached out to me last
02:18week he said hey eric we need to make some changes i'm gonna put you on the schedule to host
02:23on
02:23saturday and produce first he wanted to make sure that i'm cool with that and i said you ain't never
02:27gonna ask me that question i'm always ready to go for that and of course i knew it would be
02:32saturday
02:33after preseason game one and it's one of those things where you put together your preliminary rundown
02:38say well i know for the first hour i gotta do falcon's reaction i just don't know what kind of
02:46reaction it will be eric i could tell you just from today and you know being at work this morning
02:54participating in my you know alternate uh reality that i live in uh people were talking
03:00oh i'm sure they were and you call that an alternate reality that's what you call that
03:05i mean you know i've yeah two two worlds that i live in the one here and then the nine
03:10to five
03:10that i deal with on a daily basis but um no that people people were talking and it was not
03:17uh there
03:18was not very hopeful that this was not the first impression that anybody wanted for
03:29a new regime from top to bottom now i'm not going to bury the falcons this was it's a preseason
03:36game
03:36one yes we all know and i i've used this example more times than i can remember and josh you
03:44you'll
03:44you'll understand this when i give it to you the year before the detroit lions your team drafted
03:50matthew stafford number one overall do you remember what their regular season record was
03:55i believe we were 0 and 16 you were 0 and 16 that is absolutely correct 0 for oh for
04:00okay oh for
04:01yeah we all know that they were 0 and 16 do you remember what their preseason record was that year
04:054 and 0 4 and 0 that is correct 4 and 0 the 20 lines went 4 on the preseason
04:11preseason champs
04:12went 0 and 16 the regular season that's how much the preseason really means we all understand that
04:18but with a new regime new head coach new president of football new gm new everything you just wanted
04:28something you wanted something that you could sit back and put your mind around grasp your thoughts
04:34and was like yes it's a new day we got optimism we got a possibility of this train heading in
04:43a new
04:43direction and so far the train's not even on the tracks okay but we have time now now this is
04:52the
04:52deal i mean i'm gonna talk about this for an hour i'm gonna talk some braves i got a brand
04:56new
04:57braves expert joining me for the first time today i'm really excited about that of course the braves
05:02lose last night game one to the diamondbacks but braves are still playing well uh jesus cano
05:08brand new beat reporter from the athletic covering the braves gonna join me at two o'clock
05:13but right now it is falcons falcons and more falcons we'll open up the phone lines in the next segment
05:23i just got to i gotta take a minute i gotta d i gotta i just josh i'm just like
05:30man i want so many
05:31things i want to say okay you know and i and i you know second that that that uh your
05:37sentiment about
05:38it's first game of the preseason yeah you can't really put too much emphasis on this no but obviously
05:44with the the fan base the way it is and the anticipation for this season um obviously there's
05:51been some hurdles that the team has had to deal with with losing two significant uh players on defense
05:58but you at least wanted the offense to come out and show some sort of cohesiveness and you know
06:06the the the majority of a line but it just if for one series i mean you know we knew
06:12he was going to
06:13play learn so we're talking about to a tongue of aloa who is battling for the starting job and you
06:19know
06:19i was listening to sam greg as i was driving to him from actually went to a um jamboree scrimmage
06:24this
06:25morning up in roswell got on the field for a little bit shots out to the roswell youth athletic
06:30association creekview grizzlies as they held their jamboree this morning um shout out to you know you
06:36know before let me let me uh let me let me woo side for a minute first off let's give
06:40a shout out to
06:40all of the high school students who started their football seasons this week at the corky kale congrats
06:45shout out to all my blues and my my my zebras out there on the field today it's hot it's
06:53only like
06:5310 30 11 o'clock in the morning it already felt like it was a gazillion degrees so you know
06:59all
07:00my players all my athletes all my officials make sure you're hydrating and doing what you got to do
07:05because the summer heat has returned with an attitude we got a little spoiled for about a week
07:14week and a half we had all that rain and it cooled off and i was reading a report yesterday
07:20that said that
07:21this weekend will be the hottest weekend of the summer so there are a lot of people out there
07:26today playing softball high school softball double headers um youth football middle school football
07:33practices and things like that take care of yourselves okay it's really hot out there today
07:38take care of yourselves do what you got to do if you feel any dizziness anything like that sit down
07:43it's not worth it this is really really really really hot out there so let me throw that out there
07:49really quick and now back to the regular schedule programming the best thing or or or the one thing
07:55that we all could hope for is that man to a play two series two good drives maybe one of
08:02them ended in
08:02some kind of school i would have took a field goal anything not a three and out a fumble a
08:09a turnover
08:10everything that did not we did not look cohesive did not look sharp you name it that's how we looked
08:17no what we hope for we beg for what we all want to say hey now i see what they've
08:24said in practice
08:25he's looked sharp he's looked he's looked on time he's looked accurate now did he have all of his
08:31weapons no no did he was he out there with drake and bajon no he wasn't okay so he he
08:37was not driving
08:38the the true ferrari that this offense could be on a test drive no he wasn't he was he was
08:45driving
08:45you know the the the floor model that was five years old okay we understand that but still it just
08:51did not look very good did not look very sharp it did not look very cohesive and it did not
08:57give
08:59falcons fans falcons nation a whole lot of positivity to respond on okay the the most positive thing we can
09:08say still right now is hey it was preseason game one hey we didn't see all of our starters hey
09:15we got
09:15a month still to work this out but wow what did you think at 404-726-0929 what we're gonna
09:23do is we're
09:24gonna take a little break we'll take a little time out i want to actually look at the stats okay
09:28i want
09:29to look at the the passing numbers from the whole team i want to look at some defensive stats uh
09:34i want
09:34to look at some some situational stats how do we do on third downs how do we do on fourth
09:40downs you
09:40know some things that maybe you can read in between and say hey the score was the score but what
09:47coaches
09:47were looking for maybe we actually have some positive things i'm gonna see if i can put some kind of
09:55spin
09:56on it but from what i saw what i heard i listened to the pre-game show i listened to
10:02the post-game show
10:04there's not a whole lot of positive you can put on it but i'm gonna try my best i'm gonna
10:08try my
10:08best because it's saturday and i want to be in a good mood i really do i do i come
10:14in here every
10:14weekend and i say i'm usually talking about the brains but i say i'm not gonna let what i've seen
10:19on the field ruin my day i'm not gonna do it either for the falcons preseason game one come september
10:26we will forget all about it but right now it's fresh it's fresh in our minds and it's what we've
10:34got to deal with so we're going to deal with it at 404-726-0929 this is time out with
10:40eric slaughter
10:40i'm here to three i'm gonna break down the numbers when i come back
10:43you
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