Most important matchups in the Falcons’ upcoming Monday Night Football matchup vs the Buffalo Bills

Most important matchups in the Falcons’ upcoming Monday Night Football matchup vs the Buffalo Bills

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You were saying that this this this timing is not necessarily ideal for the buy, but guess what? You got to play with the the the cards that you are dealt. Um so when the NFL tells you your by-week, you just deal with it and you move on. Uh, so not only is it gonna be 13 weeks, it’s going to be uh we got some short weeks in there. We got some prime time. We got an international game that you’re gonna have to come back and saddle back up right afterwards. Uh, but you know what they say about excuses in the NFL. At least what I say. Everybody got one. Yeah, everybody got one. And are you going to win or you going to create excuses as to why you didn’t? Yeah. So, we here to talk about how the Falcons get another dub and it’s going to be in prime time. Not only do they have by week, not only is it red helmet week, but it’s prime time week as Arch has got he’s got the best you can do with red helmet right now without looking like a weirdo. Okay. Like if I come in with my helmet on like that guy sitting in the 300 like what is this what is this guy? Nah, I think you’d be jacked up ready to go. I’d be all for the people. Yeah, absolutely. You know what though? That might be kind of fire. Like if we did a whole podcast with the helmet helmet on that be crazy. I don’t think we can get Shock in a helmet anymore. I think you have a big one. He grow my head too big. What you trying to say? I say my head on it. I don’t know. I think I think he’d still slide on. I’ll get it on there. I get on. I bet he can’t get his his actual helmet on. Hey, I done seen some dudes out here fly with some melon. So, I know my head can fit. We’ll find something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right, fellas. Uh, so without a game to recap from last week, all we get to do here is talk about the game on the slate for this week, which of course is the Buffalo Bills coming to town. All right, so Buffalo Bills. Um, you know what? Before I just go ahead and get on it and tell you guys, why don’t you, DJ, start us off by telling the folks a little bit about the 2025 Buffalo Bills and where they’re at right now and kind of what Atlanta is going to see with them. Well, recently they were the only undefeated team left in the national football. They obviously just lost their last ball game in prime time against the New England Patriots. Uh, obviously the the biggest topic of conversation is the guy that plays quarterback in number 17 and Josh Allen MVP does it all for their offense. Mr. Everything when you think about top players in his league, he is one of those guys that’s in that’s mentioned in the top five. Uh, obviously a team that is uh used to winning, a team that’s used to uh playing some really good football. They got a lot of really good players, especially on the offensive side of the ball. Uh, one of them is uh my fellow Georgia Bulldog in James Cook who obviously um can do it and hurt you in multiple ways out the back field. I mean, he’s he’s got five touchdowns on the year. Um, he set a Bill’s record for consecutive games of touchdowns, but I think it all boils down to the guy that’s uh obviously playing quarterback in Josh Allen. You got some guys on the outside, Kian Coleman, Josh Palmer, who really good receivers on the outside, Dalton Kay, the tight end. uh you got some really good complimentary weapons now. Uh don’t don’t don’t be uh surprised when you just say, “All right, sure Josh Allen.” It’s a lot of other pieces that adds to it um on the on on this football team. Defensively, I’ll let Arch go defensive, but offensively, I just think this is a team that obviously leads the league in uh points per game. Uh they can move the football with the best of them. And for me, it comes down to containing the second play of Josh Allen. We know how good he is inside the pocket. he throws it, but I think it’s that extra play that he’s hurt a lot of teams with and he’s done it throughout his entire career regardless of who he’s playing and he’s not afraid to take those chances. So, it’s going to be all hands on deck this ball game trying to contain 17. Fellas, isn’t that what’s kind of interesting about I guess you could probably say this was the same back when we were playing Shock. Maybe it was back in the same when you were playing Arch, but it was it seems like now the focus is um or when you feel really stretched is the guys that have been really good at extending plays, right? The Josh Allens, the Patrick Mahomes saw that last night. Baker Mayfield has done this, right? Um Jaden Daniels has done this, right? The guys that are slippery and they do just a good enough job to keep the play alive, but then they’re disciplined enough to keep their eyes downfield. Does the Trevor Lawrence uh touchdown last night consider extending plays, falling down, getting up, falling down again? Gymnastics before he got in. Yeah. So, uh you laid it out right DJ. I mean, Josh Allen is one of the um most difficult challenges to face right now in the National Football League, reigning MVP. And I think you nailed it too, Arch. Would you agree that this skill position group around Josh Allen I think is solid, but it’s not to the point to where it’s like I don’t think they have a Justin Jefferson. I don’t think they have a Mike Evans. They’ve just got like five guys that are all just really good and they all just play their part. Right. You mentioned Keon Coleman and Dalton Concaid and Khalil Shakir and Dawson Knox and and Cook coming out of the back field. It just seems like everybody kind of gets into this. It’s not like one guy you have to look at and he’s like, “Well, this guy’s going to go for 10130 if you’re not careful.” It’s like everybody’s kind of like five catches, 65 yards, but you never know who it’s going to be. Yeah. It’s a It’s a blueco collar group, right? It’s a It’s a group that kind of throw their hat in the ring and say, “Hey, I’m here to do my part of it.” Uh conc did have over 100 yards receiving against New England, the tight end, which tells you I mean, how often do you see tight ends go for over 100 yards, you know, but uh so he has the capabilities of doing that. We know Shakir’s a big play guy. Coleman’s a 50/50 monster that they drafted out of Florida State. Um I think that it centers around what they want to do in the running game. I think they would like to have a presence in the running game. Cook has been that guy. He was held to just 49 yards rushing this uh this last weekend by New England. Uh he had previously had three consecutive 100 yard games for Buffalo. So they had centered kind of their time of possession. They’re the number one team in the National Football League in time of possession. The number two team in the National Football League in time of possession, the Atlanta Falcons. So now you’re talking about two pulls pulling against one another. I think that’s the key for me and I know we’ll get into some keys and stuff like that, but initially um how do you keep them from possessing the football? Atlanta’s possessing the football at about 33 minutes a game. Buffalo’s at like 34 minutes a game. So both teams can hold on to the football, convert on third down, kind of grind you down as you get into the fourth quarter. I think that’s part of what they do. their quarterback is a big part of that grind mill if you will at 6’5 340 pounds or 240 pounds but the uh I’m not talking about Jerry Lorenz almost with battleship Lorenzo I um but when you begin to think about what they do from a run game standpoint just staying with their offensive side of the ball here for a few minutes he is looking it’s it’s a different kind of run game and I agree with you in his ability to buy time we saw it against New England where he’d float behind in the pocket he’s looking to take off. He’s looking for those deep crossing routes and hit guys on. But when you rush four at him, um he is looking to run out of that look. If you drop into zone or man, doesn’t matter. And you just rush four, that’s a run opportunity for him that he’s he’s not he’s thinking of it as part of their run game. Yeah. So Cook is the runner and they’ll mix in some other guys, but Cook’s our main runner, but he’s that secondary guy that if you just rush four and you drop off, he’s going to take off. And and it’s and it’s actually almost like a called run for him, even though it’s not. You’re not saying, “Hey, QB run here or QB draw, but he’s looking for that matchup up front where if you just bring four, he’s going to take off and go get him five or six.” And if you miss a tackle, which at 65 240, you’re going to miss some on him. All of a sudden, now it’s 10 or 12. and then you look up and they’ve had the ball for eight minutes and and that’s that’s the battle you’re fighting with them is is their ability to possess the football and he’s a big part of that just grabbing that five or six yards that he can grab if it’s a if it’s one of those fourman pass rushes. That’s something that I’ll be looking at pretty heavily is how do you keep him from doing that secondary piece that Shock’s talking about even though it’s almost kind of a primary piece to what they want to do in the passing game. Yeah. And I think one thing you could look at Buffalo and say and give them a lot of credit for how they’ve constructed this roster. There’s a reason why they continue to go deep in the postseason is they’ve invested assets in front of Josh Allen. You look at their offensive line and they’ve got some dudes up front that are playing at a really high level, some big boys up there, and they’ve realized that keeping Josh Allen clean and upright is going to give them one of their their best avenues to success when you have got somebody that’s as talented as him. So, we’ve talked a lot about the offense, guys. Let’s flip it over and talk a little bit about the Buffalo defense because statistically really good against the pass, not so great against the run. Well, what does Atlanta do really well? They run the football, right? So, so immediately shock you think about, okay, does this have to be a game plan where Atlanta runs the football? Well, guess what? I’d probably say that every single game, the Atlanta Falcons, right? But trying to find ways to exploit that. Now, England, New England didn’t necessarily run the football great the other night. They did have a couple of rushing touchdowns, but that’s an area that Atlanta’s still gonna have to attack and try to have some big success. Yeah, no doubt about it. Because I think this offense, similar to what Archer talked about with Buffalo, is predicated on being able to run the football, especially run the football in times where you need to because this offense has a lot of play action to it. Uh, love to move Michael around a little bit, you know, use the play action, stretch zone. So, you have to be able to run the football to keep that defense honest in those situations when you’re thinking about going play action. So running the football is a big part of what the Falcons going to do. Yeah, they’re going to go. They’re going to be a part of it. Greg Russo on the outside is a problem. He is a guy that can uh do a lot of different things on the outside when it comes to rushing the passer. He’s really good in the run game as well. It’s going to be interesting how you know, you talk about how you strategize versus certain guys. He is one guy that, you know, you got to make sure you know where he’s at because he can wreak havoc. Uh Shaq Thompson, we’ve seen him all his time at Carolina. Bernard’s another linebacker that that are downhill. They’re athletic. They get they get after you. Uh this is a defense that’s got 13 sacks, eight forced fumbles, and 26 tackles for loss coming into this ball game. So it tells you they play on the other side of the line of scrimmage and they’re about getting the football out. And it’s going to be imperative like we mentioned that we’re able to run the football, but they will sustain those drives and be really good. They held they held the Patriots to three of nine on third down. That’s winning football for them to get off the field and more possessions for their offense to put more pressure on you. So, yeah, this defense is one that’s uh, you know, haven’t been uh, up to par when it comes to stopping the run, but this still is a really good defense that wants to get after you and and get the ball back to their offense. Arch, he talked about the defense like taking the football away. And that was one thing that kind of stuck out to me in the game the other night with Buffalo is uncharacteristically cough the football up a couple of times. And I think if you watch the game, I think you saw that kind of gave them New England. But if you look at all the stats from the game, you’re going to see that Buffalo basically won every stat category except the turnover margin. And we talk about it all the time, how important turnovers are in the National Football League. But it was like Buffalo threw for more, they ran for more, they had better third down conversions, but they ended up losing the game, right? So, it’s like it’s sometimes it goes back to some of the most elementary things, Arch, is can Atlanta end up winning the turnover margin? Can they limit it? Can they protect it on offense? And can they find way to steal possessions away like the Patriots did? Yeah, Buffalo had come into went into the game against New England to turn the ball over one time. They turned it over three times in in the New England game. Lost that battle 3-1. Now, Buffalo hasn’t taken the ball away a great deal either. They only have five takeaways on the year. That’s something they’ve kind of prided themselves on is stealing the ball from you. Shock was talking about um their time of possession was up in that 34minute range. So it kind of reflects what you’re talking about. They controlled the football game, just didn’t take care of those little things like securing the football and then cashing in their opportunities in the red zone. Um, when you look at Buffalo from a defensive side standpoint, some of the things that have hampered them and whenever you see a team that’s really good against the pass, usually they’re not very good against the run because people um people aren’t throwing the ball on them. They’re running. And that’s what’s happened to New England since the weekend or happened to uh the Buffalo since the opening weekend. Ed Oliver, one of their main guys in the interior who had such a good game against Baltimore in that opening day game, had an ankle injury and he has not played. There’s a chance that Oliver will play in the game Monday night. He was questionable to play last weekend. They held him out. So, he will be a guy that probably is back in the lineup. Um, they’ve got some name brand guys. Matt Milano at say at the linebacker spot is banged up. Looks like he’s got a pec injury. May not go. So, they’ve got some question marks uh about their defense from a personnel standpoint that I think has affected some of the numbers a little bit. This is normally a pretty stout and pretty good defense. So, it’ll be interesting to see what they do there. They’re kind of down to their third corner on the outside as well with some guys banged up. So, that’s what happens in this league. Hey, you got to play with who you got. Um, but I do think it’s going to come back to um, can you be efficient in even though the numbers were skewed towards Buffalo, if you look at uh, Drake May’s game, he was very efficient throwing the football. I think that that’s something that excuse me, Pennix is going to have to do in this game is get some first downs on second down. You know, you talked about three for nine on third down. Um find yourselves in more manageable situations where maybe fourth down is an option. You know, that’ll lend itself to more time of possession and that’s something both these teams have done well is keep themselves in manageable situations where the coach can say, “Yeah, let’s go for that on fourth down.” Or, “Hey, we’re close enough to where we have a mix of run and pass on third down.” really going to be interesting to see that kind of the the chess game that the two coaching staffs play because I think these teams are similar in the way they want to play. Yeah. Arch uh give a little context to Drake May 22 of 30. Uh that’s 73% 273 yards. They had no touchdowns but they also had no interceptions. Right. So that’s important when you’re playing against Buffalo and playing in prime time is how well can your quarterback protect the football? Do you not give it away? And that’s what Drake May did. And I think that’s part of the reason why people are saying that things are kind of shaping up a little bit for the Patriots because of the way that their quarterback is playing, much like for the Atlanta Falcons. Now, I’m going to give you guys a scenario here, and I’m going to go first to give you guys a little bit of time to think about it because I think I went a little bit off script here, but I’m talking about a matchup, okay? So, a player against a player or a position group against a position group or position group against a player or whatever you guys want to do it that you think is going to be really important in this game. All right. And I’m going to start because I threw this out and give you guys a little bit more time to think, but I’m going to go with Devon Diablo and Kaden Ellis and how they’re able to defend Josh Allen if he’s extending plays or to your point, Arch, if he decides to tuck it down and run with it. You’ve got two linebackers for the Atlanta Falcons. I I know I’m still going to call Kate Ellis a linebacker because we know that he’s kind of a hybrid player. who’s going to rush the passer, but that run extremely well and that are tackling machines and they’re going to have to bring their lunch pail as you me mentioned because Josh Allen as a quarterback, he breaks a lot of tackles, right? He if you come at him with an arm, he’s going to run through it. He’s not necessarily the guy that’s looking to slide down or dive down. He realizes that he’s got an advantage sometimes. But those two guys, I think, are going to be important. So Josh Allen doesn’t control the pace of the game offensively. Much like I think Atlanta needs to control the pace of the game on offense. Josh Allen can do that with the decisions that he makes. But if Devon Diablo, Kaden Ellis, can those guys can whether or not Jeff Orich decides to do any spying or, you know, putting a linebacker and kind of keeping their eye on Josh Allen all the time, I don’t know. But I think those two guys could have a really big impact on whether or not they kind of keep him caged up. Rack, let me throw this back at you. When you thought when you think about Josh All in this ball game and you think about trying to contain him, does Jeff Albrech change the way he calls the game or does they go about strategizing how they’ve rushed a passer? You see what I’m saying? Cuz okay, you rush four and there’s times where, okay, we want to rush, but we want to see. So, does that take away from the aggressiveness if okay, I’m rushing to make sure he doesn’t get outside the pocket or am I still being my same aggressive self to get up the field and try to put pressure on him? I think to answer your question, I think when you say change what you do is to me that’s like you’re getting completely outside of your element and that’s not the right thing. But as we know each and every week you game plan, right? You strategize and find what’s the best way for us to create an advantage. Whether it’s a one-on-one matchup, whether it’s a, you know, we used to run this defense against this personnel, but that’s not going to work against Buffalo the way that they try to attack. Right? To me, that’s how the National Football League is. It’s every week you look at a new call sheet and you find out, okay, what how do we attack Buffalo? How do we attack the run game? How do we attack Josh Allen and all these different pieces that he gets involved in the game plan? And how do we do that to our strengths from a personnel perspective? So, I do think they change it a little bit, but I think it’s just a scheme and how Jeff Orich thinks he’s got the best advantage to slow them down offensively. It just brings to mind Arch, you talked about it earlier when you get a four down rush and he automatically thinks, “Okay, I can take off.” And in my mind, I’m like, “Okay, if that’s the the the process he goes through, do you change how you rush him as opposed to just get off field? It don’t take but one guy to get out of his rush lane and then boom, he picks up seven, eight yards on first down and you’re behind the chase.” Yeah, I think we’re still trying to figure that out though. Yeah. as a group, I don’t think that we’ve we’ve solved that puzzle regardless of who the quarterback is. And now all of a sudden, you got a guy that is, yes, can move around, but now he’s difficult to get on the ground. Yeah. It’s one thing, you know, he’s as big as a defensive end. The two the two young guys that we drafted, they’re the same size as Josh. In fact, he might even be bigger than Jaylen Walker is. So, so when they come in, they better be able to bring all their pads and everything they’ve got to put him on the ground because he’s going to shrug guys off and then all of a sudden it’s a problem. So, that that’s an issue. I think that um is going to I think he has to switch it up. I think you’re exactly right. I think there’s there’s going to be some fourman rush. I think Atlanta has kind of settled into where they want to play a little bit of man coverage and come with more than you can block sometime. Maybe the fiveman rush, man everybody up front where you jump down into kind of a bear look in the middle and you flip Kaden Ellis to the outside and now five are coming. Um, and now it is paramount that Divine Diablo you talked about is patrol in the middle from a matchup standpoint for me. I’ll flip it over then that that’s obviously maybe one of the main ones. I think you’re right on rack. What does Shawn McDermott do with the Bjon Robinson factor, the Matrix factor factor? How do you play him? Because of what Zack has done from a design standpoint to put Algier in the backfield and now all of a sudden he’s not the featured runner. He’s now one of your featured receivers. How are you handling that? Are you manning him up? Terrell Bernard is not going to be able to man I love the linebacker out of Baylor, great player. He’s not going to be able to run with with Bajan Robinson. So, how are you going to do that? And then do you concentrate so much on trying to take number seven away? Oh, by the way, number five is a problem. Number eight’s a problem. Y So, they’ve got some real work to do, Buffalo up there this week in trying to what are we going to do with stack looks? Because when I look at them on tape, they used to kind of be an umbrella coverage. They’re playing a lot of single high stuff. Well, we just saw a single high group and you shredded them. Yeah. Okay. So, what are we going to do with that? You know, as far as how do we take care of these matchups? How do we switch things off? Because Washington tried to do that and it didn’t work. So, are you going to go back to the if you go back to the umbrella now all of a sudden here comes the bowling ball of razor blades in the Matrix at you. So, what what are you going to do there? So, I think there’s a real problem. Yes, we got a problem with trying to figure out what we’re going to do with Josh Allen and James Cook. I think those are the two featured guys. They’ve got a problem in Buffalo this week trying to get ready for this group. Yeah. I mean, Shock, you got to know that they’re going to put on the tape and they’re going to watch Bon making people miss in every which way and and form, right? Whether it’s in the passing game, whether it’s in the run game, whether it’s an open field, whether it’s between the tackles and it looks like they’ve got him and he slips out, right? So, it’s it’s one of those deals where not only is was it good for Atlanta to get a win against Washington, but there was a lot of tape out there from that game to where they’re like, “All right, we’re going to have our hands full.” Uh, I want to make sure you have your chance to give what your matchup is. What What are you looking at that’s going to be kind of really interesting to pay attention to? I love both of you guys uh matchups and I think it’s going to be huge in the ball game and ultimately when we come back next week probably be talking about both of those scenarios we talking about. Uh the other part is what we you know kind of similar already discussed about uh you know the Bills and their tight ends Billy Bowman. We we know how good he has been for us over the first few weeks. Now you got another premier tight end and concveraging you know 14 yards of reception. And as quarterbacks we know that tight end is usually somewhere in your eyesight. You start to move or he’s probably going to be in your first or second in your progression. Can Billy have a day against their tight end that takes away one of those things that we talked about? Okay, you got James Cook out here, you got Josh. Can you not have him have three things that can go? And if he can do that, I think we got a good chance. But it’s going to be fun to see Billy have another opportunity to go against another, you know, big- time player like a a concaid in this ball game who is obviously one of Josh Allen’s, you know, kind of safety vows if you want to say for for him. Would you say that this is a step up shock? I mean, he saw Hawinson in week two, but Hawinson maybe not necessarily athletically what Concaid is. Concincade seems to have a little bit more shake to him a little bit to a certain extent didn’t really he didn’t see in week one. So maybe the most difficult matchup he’s seen so far. Maybe I think it’s probably the most difficult because of the guy who can give him the football. You think about JJ McCarthy in that game. Obviously, he was coming off a big game previously, but he was still trying to find his way within that offense. And we put enough pressure on him that, you know, under forced him to, you know, have some issues. So, I think absolutely because of who he is, for one, and you talk about his ability, but also how creative that guy is, number 17, to try to get him the football and put him in positions to go win. And I think they will draw some things out where they want to match that up and try to go get him the football. Tell me how many times you guys see Allen throw the ball on time. That’s He’s a very off schedule quarterback. Well, it’s it’s what you were talking about his ability and you were talking about that second piece of the play. It almost feels like that if you can keep him in that mode where it’s a second, you know, he’s got to hold it. Then I maybe it is one of those kind of deals like you got in in Minnesota where you can get after him a little bit more. Now you got to get him on the ground. We talked about how difficult he is to get on the ground, but he does seem to be like that secondary throw guy where he moves in the pocket. Now I got that shot at that over over route. I don’t It seems like the speed out. Boom. The ball comes out. You just don’t see that as much. I mean, it seems like he holds the football. I saw that a lot too when I was watching Mahomes the other night, dude. It’s like it’s like most of his biggest completions come out when he starts scrambling and it it either it’s just an extension or his turn his receivers turn into scramble drill and somebody’s wide open. I mean, he ended up making that one throw the other night, jumping up in the air, and I was just like, what was that? But that’s vintage Mahomes, right? It’s it’s a great example of, like Arch mentioned earlier, when you rush four and you have a guy like that, you could literally watch him in the pocket and he bounce, bounce, bounce, and he’s looking for that small little avenue to escape. And then it’s like, okay, now the play begins. Now I’m looking for to throw the football down the field. And to be honest, they can use their legs to run, but they want that shot downfield. They want to throw it. So, it’s going to be interesting to see how we go about trying to play these guys, especially within the pocket and when a guy doesn’t want to be on schedule. Well, to your point, too, about the the workmanlike kind of put your hard hat on, just do your job. It seems like they understand that piece. So, I think there’s a synergy among Shakir and Kin Kate. Hey, my guy’s gonna buy time, so I’m gonna get to a dead spot somewhere and give him something somewhere to throw at. Absolutely. All right, I’m throwing up the threes here. Okay, you know what the threes are? Is not for a field goal, right? We’re not talking about having field goals. This is our our game that we we need to get some music like, All right, so here’s our three words. Okay, what do the Atlanta Falcons need to do to beat the Buffalo Bills in three words? Okay, I made one up the other night, but But the emphasis is on three words and they were telling me regular uh English vernacular words. Okay, back to the What do the Atlanta Falcons need to do to beat the Buffalo Bills in three words, Chuck? Oo, I’m going to use the same word you’re using. Six, not three. Okay. This is a game where you got to score. You like that? Oh, I I got six. I had to think about it for a second. Yeah. Yeah, that’ be a one right there. I I don’t even know if I need to explain that. But, uh, yeah, I I think it’s a game where obviously we know their ability to score points. We can’t be in a they score touchdown, we go down and get a field goal. It has to be touchdowns in the red zone to even more put pressure on their offense to come back and respond, but even for us to just to have that confidence. So, I like 693. I love that. That’s awesome. That is way to go. That might be your best one ever. Like it. He loves it. He loves it. That might be That might be your best one. Go ahead, man. Sit down. You You You don’t even need You can relax now. You You nailed it. Aren’t you on a hot seat now? Okay. You got to follow that. All right. So, yeah, that that one that one’s tough to top. I’m going to go limit Allen effect. Oo. Okay. And and there’s multiple ways to do that. I like that one, too. Limiting limiting the Allen effect would be Okay, I can do that with my offense. Yeah, we talked about what we need to do defensively. Got to tackle well. Got to get him on the ground. Make sure he can’t find those little creases to go get eight, 15, whatever he does from a rush game standpoint. But we can do that with the offense, too. If we limit how much he’s on the field, remember, I don’t know if you remember the interview that McDermott does coming off the field against New England. He talked about we got to get in a rhythm. We’re not in a rhythm on offense. How do you affect the rhythm offensively? Don’t let them be on the field. Yep. And can can Michael and his group on the offensive side either make big plays and stress them by scoring points and maybe change how they want to attack our defense or can you just simply simply stay on the field and all of a sudden he looks up and wow only got four possessions in the first half only got three possessions in the first half. That’s a way of of limiting the Allen effect. Man, you got a got a double double meaning on that one. Hey, it’s pretty which which which kind of like it kind of like I’m hurt. My hurt feelings are hurt a little bit, but it’s also it’s also like it was a good segue because my three words were possess the rock. Okay. And I’m thinking on the same wavelength as you. So, I’m a little sad cuz you kind of took it but but we’re thinking along the same wavelength is that when I was thinking about this game and I even wrote it down in my notes for one of my keys. were kind of like going through keys if you will was how do you limit Allen and what he can do is you stay on the field offensively. This cannot be a game with a bunch of three and outs when you get three plays you punt it and then now we get to watch Josh Allen what he gets what he’s done in prime time throughout the course of his career. This is get first downs, possess the football, put together long drives, and this could just be like we could just do all of this. Possess the rock, limit the Allen effect, and then six not three. Okay. Well, we do all those things, we get a W, right? We we in pretty good shape. We in pretty good shape right there. Yeah. All right. Um I think that’s pretty good, guys. Uh pretty good little uh summary of the Buffalo Bills, the matchup coming up this week. We could go into Keys and all that stuff, but here’s the problem. If we go into Keys, this show is going to end up being another 15 minutes. I can just tell you right now, okay? Um so, we’re going to go ahead and leave it there. Falcons coming off of a by-week. very important week for them to not only get this the rest of this season kicked off on the right note, but you got a talented opponent coming into your own house in prime time. Can I ask you guys, this is something that’s driving me crazy that I keep hearing. Uh, and it’s more of a sports talk kind of fodder, if you will. Boy, Buffalo winning losing last week is really going to be a problem for the Falcons because they’re going to be coming come in mad. I mean, I don’t have I’ve ever heard something that’s more fan oriented myself. But we got guys that are talking about, oh boy, I wish they’d won this weekend because they’re really going to come in mad this weekend. Cuz I think that Atlanta would much rather have a 5-0 hitting on all cylinders, feeling the rhythm, scoring 40 points a game. Buffalo Bills. Yeah, that’s right. Did you ever consider in fact nailed it? They’re questioning a whole bunch of stuff up there that they did and trying to No, no, no, don’t worry about there’s a lot of things they’re concentrating now. Not to mention the fact that they got to get ready for this football team that’s coming off. So maybe us coming off a really good win is a bad thing for them. I mean, it just it’s a scenario or a narrative that drives me crazy that oh, they’re going to be more focused this week. We only get 17 of these and each one of them count to whether you make the playoffs or not. They’re all extremely important. They’re not going to come in here less motivated on Monday Night Football in front of the entire country. Thank you. It’s not going to happen. Listen, this was kind of I I pulled this stat out. I’m going to leave you guys with this before we go cuz and we don’t have to talk about it because in the NFL in the NFL they say that you are what your record says you are, right? And the Buffalo Bills just lost their first game and they’re 4- one. Okay. However, did you guys know? Did you know Oh, that their four wins, the teams that they played are a collective three and 17. Oo, did you know that? Good. Good number. Good number. Ravens. What’s going on with the Ravens? They can’t play defense. They’re 1 and4. The Jets are 0 and5. They’re in a rebuild. The Dolphins are 1 and4 struggling. And the Saints 1 and4 rebuild. That’s who they have beaten so far this year. Collective. Yeah, but they’re coming in three and 17. Yeah, we forgot about that. Coming in. Forgot about that. Okay. Um, I’m not telling you I’m not telling you that means anything. I’m just telling you they’ve beat up on teams that are not all that great, but in the NFL they always say you are what your record says you are. Okay? And most people would take 4 in one at this point in the season. So Atlanta Falcons got their work cut out for them on Monday night. But guess what? We could say that every single week. Hey, uh, people, you got to make sure you’re tuned in. Both these guys are going to be on the call on Monday night. That’s right. So make sure you tune in. I’ll be on the Westwood one national radio call. Arch obviously on the Falcons radio network and Shock will be inside the stadium as well. Being there I’ll be in the list. You know what I’m saying? All right. Well represented. All right. That’s Falcons Audible presented by AT&T. Thanks so much for joining us everybody. Wherever you get your podcast material. Don’t forget to like and subscribe to us here at Atlanta Falcons. Red Helmet week coming on this week and we’ll be back next week to wrap everything up on what happened in Monday Night Football in prime time. Thanks so much for joining us everybody. DJ Shockley, Dave Archer. I’m Dererick Rackley. See you next week out.

Derek, Dave, and DJ are back after an early bye week to breakdown a MASSIVE matchup with the Buffalo Bills on Monday night football. From how to slow down Josh Allen and Buffalo’s high powered offense to what the Falcons can do offensively to take advantage of the Bills’ struggling run defense, the guys break it all down from the players’ and coach’s point of view. They finish off with their favorite game describing how the Falcons can beat the Bills in only 3 words.

0:00 – Intro
1:40 – Who are the Buffalo Bills?
5:25 – Buffalo’s explosive offense
9:42 – Bills’ defense & the turnover battle
15:30 – Most important matchup
25:40 – 3 words to beat the bills
29:25 – Arch’s bone to pick & Outro

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