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The NFL's cut day caused some hysteria in Atlanta, as players such as Cash Jones and Cobee Bryant were left off the 53-man roster.
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00:00The biggest one yesterday, and I was really laughing in the end.
00:03I tried to explain this to my wife.
00:04She's like, why am I laughing?
00:05I'm just like, you know, depth, peace, role players that get released
00:15and there's an uproar about it, again, I must be missing something.
00:20And I just didn't get that yesterday.
00:24So I come to you because we talked about this yesterday out there,
00:28about the cut down of 58 through 53 players on the NFL roster
00:33and the thought process behind, oh, I can't believe it.
00:40Oh, we got to keep them.
00:41I can't believe it.
00:42What is that from?
00:44Passion.
00:46Passion?
00:47Yeah.
00:48Passion.
00:4948 to 53.
00:51Fanhood.
00:51Everybody who puts the Falcons uniform on is a member of the Atlanta Falcons
00:55football team.
00:55Okay.
00:56Okay.
00:56And then why did once.
00:58I think you're reading the tweets in a voice that maybe the tweets aren't tweeted in.
01:02Why also does somebody else have to catch strays for said person being gone?
01:07Yeah, that's true.
01:08That's passion leaking over into fanaticism.
01:11Okay.
01:11Okay.
01:11I think that's what I was more looking for.
01:13But again, these things are all.
01:13I think that's more of the answer I was looking for.
01:16It's fanatic, yeah.
01:17It's what it is.
01:18I mean, it's a level of interest in the game of football, professional football
01:22specifically, and college football.
01:24And I love this game.
01:25This game gave me everything I have right now.
01:27God-given ability and all this.
01:29So, I mean, the passion of the game, I understand that part.
01:32But the 58 through 53 is the part that I'm just like, really?
01:38Right.
01:38So then, but what's the flip side, though?
01:40I don't know.
01:41That's what I'm asking.
01:41Okay.
01:42Well, the flip side is people don't care.
01:44Right?
01:44But I don't think that's the flip side of people not caring.
01:47I don't.
01:48I don't think that.
01:49I don't look at it as the flip side of not caring.
01:51Because I don't believe that people don't care.
01:53I understand.
01:54But I'm understanding that right there.
01:57Because if like 48 through 53 are playing, you got trouble from the 1 through the 42.
02:03But I think it's also, all right.
02:05So, yeah, yeah.
02:05I think it's a lot of stuff.
02:07I think there's a lot of different things.
02:08I mean, the biggest thing, I think, is that football, in this case, NFL football, is just
02:15so popular.
02:16And people care so much about it, specifically their team.
02:18Right.
02:19Obviously, here in Atlanta, the people we're talking to are Falcons fans.
02:21Right.
02:22That whatever the team does, that they have an opinion on it.
02:25And there's nothing wrong with it.
02:26I'm not disagreeing.
02:26I don't disagree.
02:27It's not as serious I'm disagreeing with your opinion.
02:28But the difference, I think, now, maybe more than ever, I think there's a few, again,
02:32there's always multiple stuff going on.
02:34Right.
02:35I think more than ever, people have a platform to voice their opinion about it.
02:39So, maybe people have always felt this way about 48 to 53.
02:42Maybe not.
02:42Maybe not.
02:43But it's also the only guys you see this time of year.
02:47Right.
02:47You haven't seen, you know, these are the guys that have been playing good.
02:50Right.
02:50You know what I mean?
02:51You watch the preseason games, which you do, because you're a diehard Falcons fan, and
02:54those are the guys that are in the game in the third quarter making a nice tackle or having
02:58a nice catch over the middle or whatever.
02:59And you're like, that was a good catch.
03:01Okay.
03:01I think that guy's pretty good.
03:02Uh-huh.
03:02I've seen him now.
03:03If, you know, they would play people, then maybe we would have debates about Jahan Dotson
03:09and these guys, you know, that are actually going to be part of the team and have a role
03:13on the team this year.
03:14I think, yeah, I mean, it's this weird, like, double-sided sword of football being more popular
03:21than it's ever been, while also teams doing less than they've ever done this time of year.
03:26Right.
03:26And people sometimes maybe not being able to differentiate, like, what they're seeing
03:32right now versus what it's actually going to be when the season starts.
03:34Okay.
03:35Could be.
03:35I mean, I like that explanation.
03:37That seems reasonable.
03:37I don't know.
03:38That's just very reasonable, because I just came up with that.
03:40It was awesome.
03:42Awesome.
03:42That's why I was just sitting there like, really?
03:45Is it like that?
03:46And I don't want to, and one thing I don't want everyone to do is-
03:48Well, can you give me an example?
03:49I don't want, the one thing I don't want to do, I don't want to tell nobody how they
03:51should fan.
03:52Of course not.
03:53I refuse to do that.
03:54I refuse to be the, that, that, I played the game person, because that's just a lame-ass
03:59excuse, because you feel like you're losing an argument.
04:01So, I would never, ever do that.
04:03But I didn't, I didn't understand the fact of the whole, you know, the Zach Harrison thing
04:09yesterday.
04:10And I was like, when did he make an all-pro, or something like that?
04:14And I always say this, and I've always learned this in life, and this is just something I
04:18learned in life.
04:18If you ever have, by your name, a depth, because I'm like, he's a good depth piece, or a rotational
04:24player, and then you always put in there, when he's healthy, those people are expendable.
04:29They're not, you know what I mean?
04:30They're not, if there's a better option, you're going to fill that void.
04:33And that's how I view that part.
04:35And the better option may very well simply be healthy.
04:38Yes, exactly.
04:38Like this guy that you're bringing in, or that you trust more is healthy, this guy hasn't
04:42been healthy.
04:42I think the other part of it, too, that magnifies what we're talking about with this team, and
04:47that example, is compared to what else has been on that side of the ball for this team
04:53for the last five years, he's been pretty damn good.
04:56Zach Harris has been...
04:57When?
04:58In the seven games he was healthy last year.
05:00When he plays.
05:01And like the 10 the year before that.
05:02Yeah, right.
05:03Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
05:04But again, like compared to the other stuff...
05:08But my thing is like this, like, okay, I understand the game.
05:13But it wasn't good.
05:14They were 20th in total defense last year, or 19th, whatever.
05:17I understand the sacks and all that and everything like that, but it wasn't like it was a lights-out
05:20defense.
05:21Like, this defense isn't going to regress because he's not here.
05:24Well, you got to remember, though, like this is the same, you know, this is the same
05:27conversation we were having when they changed coaching staffs and they needed to desperately
05:33keep...
05:34Was it Ryan Nielsen or something like that, who was a defensive coordinator?
05:37And it was like, well, that's just not how it worked.
05:39I was like, well, they were this defensively.
05:40It's like, well, they were okay defensively.
05:42They were like a little bit better than they were...
05:43Well, they were better than they were offensively, but the offense was terrible.
05:46Like, it was the same thing with Oldbrook.
05:48Now, they were able to keep Oldbrook, which, cool, great.
05:50But again, had they not, I still think there's other people that can also coordinate defense
05:53that are good at their job.
05:54But I don't know, man.
05:55I mean, it's like, this fan base is so starved for anything.
05:59And I want them to have it so bad.
06:01That anyone that's done anything here seems maybe even better than they actually are.
06:06And also, you never know.
06:07Like, somebody might be with that, maybe they're a big Ohio State fan.
06:10You know what I mean?
06:11So they saw him play in college or what?
06:12I don't know.
06:13Maybe they bumped into him at Publix and he was nice to them.
06:15You know what I mean?
06:15I don't know.
06:16We are still dealing with humans that have some sort of human connection with these guys.
06:20And the guys that are being cut are also humans as well.
06:22So it's also nice when people are, whether they're happy that they made it or feel bad
06:28for them that they didn't or whatever it is.
06:30But yeah, I mean, I think that there's a lot that goes into it.
06:33And the bottom line is just this.
06:35Like, Falcons fans are so passionate for this football team and so desperate for this football
06:39team to finally be good that, you know, I think we probably put a little bit more belief
06:45in guys that are only okay or stocking guys that are only okay.
06:48I want this team to play.
06:49I want, I, damn the football team is, I want this fan base to feel good, man.
06:54Me too.
06:54I do.
06:55And that's why I was just curious.
06:56I was like, and I, and it, and for whatever reason, Andy, it's, it, I guess it's the longer,
07:02the lack of playoff and season success, it gets like this more and more, you know, and
07:07cause I know, cause I didn't, I didn't like last year when it could, I was like, oh, you
07:11didn't hear, but then now as I'd say three years ago and now the closer, the further away
07:15you get from the success that you have, it's like, it's like, like if he has to, if we're
07:21counting on that, if you, if, if you're telling me that that can't be replaced, then you're
07:26stuck in the same way where you are, you know?
07:28And, and the thing with it is like Ian Cunningham, he's trying to up, if you haven't noticed
07:32what he's done, he's revamped the entirety of the line.
07:34He's brought two new damn defensive line starters in there and also a pass rusher in there
07:39because of the, first of all, what you lost and what you, in my opinion, didn't have.
07:43And so I've always, I mean, that's why I was just curious.
07:46I was like, let me ask Andy.
07:48When you look at, I'm looking at the depth chart on our lab right now and they, they highlight
07:52the new players, either the draft picks are in purple, the new players, the free agent
07:56pickups are in yellow, the guys that have been here in blue, five of the front seven
08:01guys that they project as starters are new players.
08:04Z'Darrius Smith, he's going to be a starter.
08:06And that's, again, that's, that to me gets back to what we're talking about too, is like
08:10the team just is so devoid of serious high level talent.
08:16And it has been for, for quite a while.
08:18There's obviously some guys on offense right now that we feel like high level talent.
08:21They just got paid as such, but this just been such a long time since the defense,
08:26it's been populated by like multiple legitimate ass kickers that we convince ourselves.
08:33If the two they had are not going to be here.
08:34Right.
08:34The two guys that are probably going to turn into that aren't going to be here.
08:37Like we convince ourselves that, you know, I don't know who it is.
08:40Obviously in this case, it's Zach Harrison and other, it's been other guys in years past.
08:44It's like, oh, what are we going to do?
08:45It's like, well, they're going to replace him with another guy who's an average player,
08:49just like he is.
08:50And that's, they're probably going to be all right.
08:52Like, you know, the fall off is not going to be great.
08:55And hopefully the guy they replace him with is going to be able to give you 15 games instead
08:59of seven, 17 games instead of 12, you know, and that's, that's what it is.
09:03But you know, you fall in love with guys who'd been here for three years.
09:06So people got to know his name a little bit, had some moments, you know, but yeah, no,
09:11you look at the front seven.
09:12The only two guys that are going to be back from a starting standpoint are Brandon Dorlas
09:15and divine Diablo.
09:16Yeah.
09:17That's it.
09:17Yeah.
09:17That's what I'm saying.
09:18You got a GM that's good.
09:19New eyes coming in here like, okay, all right, all right, fine.
09:22I understand that.
09:23But you know what?
09:23This is what I think this team needs and let's get it.
09:26Well, the other thing too about this turnover, the Falcons have just turned over so much.
09:29This is their third coach in, you know, in four seasons.
09:34Three years as a Falcon right now is a long time.
09:37Yeah.
09:37That's what I'm saying.
09:38Like, people probably had Zach Harrison jerseys.
09:41No.
09:42Maybe.
09:42Somebody.
09:43Maybe.
09:43I don't know.
09:44Maybe.
09:44Maybe.
09:44I'm not sure.
09:45Maybe.
09:45I don't know.
09:46Maybe.
09:47But all these other guys, I mean, none of them have been here.
09:50Yeah.
09:50And now they're in a situation where, well, don't get too comfortable because a lot of
09:54them are on one-year deals.
09:55Oh, yeah.
09:55Exactly.
09:55That's what I'm saying.
09:56Yeah.
09:56Don't.
09:57Yeah, exactly.
09:57Don't go out.
09:58Buy offensive guys jerseys.
09:59Don't go out and buy the.
10:00Skilled jerseys.
10:01Buy offensive skilled guys jerseys.
10:02No offense to Samson Ebicom, but like, you know, don't get that one.
10:08You know?
10:09You can get an A.J.
10:11Terrell or just get a Terrell jersey.
10:12Yes.
10:12Because his brother's here too.
10:13Because there's a couple Terrells.
10:14Although they have different numbers, obviously.
10:15He's like he's going to be ready.
10:17Yeah.
10:18I think so.
10:18I think so.