So, hi everyone. My name is Axel Erickson and today my co-founder, Zach Lawrence and I are going to be talking about what we're building over at One Protocol. So, quick who we are. We were both studying at Stanford University, Computer Science and Mathematics respectively, and chose to do Ethereum Protocol Development full-time in the beginning of this year, and that is not a decision that I regret. So, for those of you who haven't heard about One Protocol or haven't heard about the concepts of virtual workers, the short version of this speech is essentially that, instead of signing machines up directly as validators in CASPER, or as solvers in Trubit, or more generally as workers in staking protocols, we can actually sign up smart contracts as these workers in these staking protocols. And in doing so, we can actually solve some fundamental problems inherent in all staking protocols, and we can also introduce some new exciting properties. So, to get to that, we're going to start by introducing a useful model that we can use to think about protocols like Ethereum, Trubit and Filecoin. And then we're going to explore different ways that we can ensure correctness in these protocols. And what we're going to find is that using staking, in the general sense, is a very cheap way of ensuring correctness. However, there is a fundamental problem with slapping staking onto a market protocol, so we're going to introduce that. And then Zach is going to introduce our solution, which are of course virtual workers. We're going to give you a sneak peek for what virtual workers may look like on protocols like CASPER, Trubit, and even Raiden. And then we're going to finish off by introducing you to the idea of the One Protocol, which is of course what we're working towards. So, to begin, we think that a nice and easy way to think about protocols like Ethereum and Trubit is simply that they are marketplaces for some digital service. And in marketplaces, of course, you have a set of sellers and you have a set of buyers. And what the buyers do is that they form jobs along with payments and they send them to the sellers. And what the sellers are expected to do is to return some service. And perhaps the protocol that fits this model best is Trubit, where of course you have a set of task givers, which are either Ethereum accounts or smart contracts themselves that want to do some off-chain computation. What they do is that they create what are called tasks in the Trubit system along with payments and they send those to the solvers on the other side that of course execute the programs. So we can imagine that the service being mediated across Trubit, the market protocol, is quite literally off-chain computation like we would expect. But this model extends to Ethereum itself. So in Ethereum, we can imagine that the buyers of the service or all the people that hold private keys and sign transactions, tasks that they send to the sellers are literally the signed Ethereum transactions that they broadcast across the network. And then the miners are of course the machines to plug in on the selling side to provide the service. But what is the service in the market protocol Ethereum? Well, it's quite literally having your transaction included in the Ethereum state. Okay, simple enough. There is however a fundamental difference between, you know, these market protocols and how we imagine a normal market to work and this is of course that they're both open and anonymous. And what we mean by this is that anyone should be able to plug in as the seller in one of these protocols and when they do, we don't know who they are. Simultaneously, the users expect the protocol to reliably deliver the service and the users really don't want to have to care about who they actually get matched up with on the other side. And if we think about it, this is of course the expected behavior in Ethereum. One, anyone can join as a miner. And two, when you as a user sign your Ethereum transactions and send them away, you never actually want to have to worry about which miner actually picks it up. So the question is, how can we achieve this? Well, in the general case, the short answer is that we use financial incentives. So we can imagine that for any worker that plugs in as a seller to provide some service, there's essentially two categories of strategies that they can employ. And the first category is the first strategy is the correct strategy, which is when the seller simply delivers what the user expects them to. He performs according to the protocol. This would be analogous to running the standard implementation of some mining software. And then the second strategy is the incorrect strategy, which is any other one. So this could be either that the miner accidentally faults, meaning that the software breaks down mid execution, or that he deliberately does something that he shouldn't do. Think selfish mining attacks. And there are of course expected returns to both these strategies. And using this notation, we can ask, well, what's the cost of incorrectness to the miner that chooses to cheat? Well, the cost of incorrectness is of course going to be the opportunity cost of correctness, which is the payment that he doesn't get because he doesn't perform correctly. And from the cost of incorrectness, we're going to subtract what he actually does make when he chooses an incorrect strategy. So in order to ensure correctness, all that we're really trying to do is just trying to maximize this difference. So how can we do that? Well, there's really only two options. So we can start with trying to maximize the opportunity cost of correctness. The problem with this is that we're effectively saying that the price in the correct case should be higher, right, which means everybody pays. This is analogous to block rewards in consensus protocols. And it might seem fine because it achieves what we're trying to do. But in a system like Ethereum, for example, these costs can go crazy after after a while. So with three new ethers being issued in every new block and one new block every 13 seconds, all Ethereum users are actually cumulatively paying about $5.5 million today to increase the opportunity cost of correctness on Ethereum. So a fun calculation to do is to simply take the number of ether that you have and divide it by 18, and then you'll find out how much you're paying every day to increase this opportunity cost in dollars. But there is, of course, a second thing that we can do. And we can try to minimize the payout of being incorrect. And if we're able to implement this correctly, what we achieve is that we increase costs only for the actors that choose that strategy. And this is, of course, what Staking tries to achieve. We make it a part of the requirement to be a selling machine to put up a massive security deposit when you join that you'll always lose if you cheat according to the rules of the protocol. So when implemented correctly, we can actually make this expected returns of incorrectness negative, which, of course, is going to maximize the cost of incorrectness. And the idea there is that for any incorrect strategy that a malicious miner can can find either accidentally or deliberately is always going to lose money if he chooses that path. So so what we found essentially is that Staking and the general sense is a very cheap way of of ensuring correctness. And this is, of course, why so many protocols have have you stake in different ways to ensure correctness. And we have, you know, often computation protocols, decentralized file storage, marketplaces, consensus protocols, etc. There is, however, a fundamental problem that's not talked about that much that is inherent to all Staking protocols. If you think about it, what we've done is that we've essentially taken a worker and we've changed what it needs to do. So instead of just performing a task and delivering some useful service, we've also said that this worker needs to put up a massive or a stake. So what we've effectively done is that we've limited the supply of viable workers, which in the short term means higher prices for the same security or lower security for the same price. And this in the long term creates a big, big macro inefficiency in any protocol that chooses the strategy. And I think this is all very, you know, up there and theoretical, but I think the pragmatic way to think about it is simply that which of the people that we would ideally want to run CASP or validators also have $100 million in ether to stake. And the answer is not that many. So this is the problem. And to present the solution is Zach. Thank you. So the solution is actually to divide the labor using smart contracts. So more specifically, you can imagine using smart contracts, which we term virtual workers to allow two parties. One, a capitalist who's providing some tokens. Another party, the operator who's providing the computational resources to work collaboratively for these different staking protocols that Axel is talking about. And then use the virtual worker contract to share in the returns. So let's take a quick look at the actual logic that we imagine to be contained in these smart contracts. So the first role of the smart contract would be in restricting how this operator can use the borrowed capital. So you can imagine in a virtual worker for CASP or the logic would ensure that the operator can only use the capital to sign up as a validator in CASP or and validate blocks. Now second also important point in logic is to ensure that the operator doesn't destroy any of the capital that is actually borrowing. So you can imagine in the case of CASP or you wouldn't want the operator to destroy the capital. And to protect against that, you would use the virtual worker logic to incentivize machines to be moderating this operator and reporting before he destroys any of the capital. And then finally, you would just use the virtual worker to handle division of the rewards. So you can imagine the virtual worker would allow the operator and capitalist to negotiate some sort of rate which they would use to split the rewards. So now we'd like to present a few of the virtual workers that we've been designing at one protocol. So starting with CASP. So as most of you probably already know, Ethereum is planning transition from its current proof of work based consensus mechanism to a proof of stake based consensus mechanism in one of the upcoming hard forks. And essentially all that means is that miners are going to have to supply a stake in order to perform work for the consensus. In other words, Ethereum is becoming a stake in protocol. So we have two ideas for how to create a virtual worker for CASP. In the first one, operator produces blocks and also supplies a small stake, which is lost if he loses any of the capitalist money. And then you have the capitalist as before just supplies tokens, in this case ether. So the other model we have, which actually applies to many different staking protocols, not only CASP is the producer signer model. So in this case, we actually further divide the role of operator into producer, which produces the blocks and proposes blocks to be signed. And signer, which actually decides which of these proposed blocks to sign and then broadcast to the network. So this makes a lot of sense in protocols where the computation being performed is very expensive. And it would make sense in CASP if the cost of running a full miner becomes prohibitively expensive, so a lot of players can't participate. So the second virtual worker we wanted to present is our virtual worker for Trubit. So for those that don't know, Trubit is a protocol on Ethereum, which allows users to hire a solver to solve a computational task. Notably, these solvers have to supply a security deposit, which is slashed if the task is performed incorrectly. And also, these solvers are chosen to solve tasks based on the size of their security deposits. So in the case of our virtual worker, again, the operator supplies a small stake, which is slashed if he performs incorrectly. And then this operator leverages the tokens it borrows from the token holder in order to increase his chances of being selected for tasks and also to be able to take on many different jobs. And now in this virtual worker, there's also logic, which incentivizes different workers to monitor the operator and replace him if he fails to perform a task correctly. So the final virtual worker we wanted to present was one for Raiden. So for those that don't know, Raiden is a implementation of state channels on top of Ethereum. Essentially, if Alice wants to send capital to Bob, or ether to Bob, they can create a payment channel and send an unlimited number of transactions amongst each other off chain and then close the channel only actually needing to interact with the Ethereum blockchain to open and close the channel. For many use cases that's good, but for some it's actually too much to have to communicate with Ethereum twice. So you can imagine if Axel is communicating with BBC and BBC is charging Axel for every web page he visits. Axel is not going to want to have to wait several blocks to begin visiting websites and BBC is not going to want to have to wait several blocks in order to receive confirmation of the payment. So Raiden does have a solution to this. It's in the form of mediated transfers. So you can imagine if Axel already has a payment channel open with a mediator who's also connected to BBC, then Axel can pay the mediator to forward a payment to BBC for Axel. The caveat here is that the mediator has to have enough tokens already in the channel with BBC in order to handle the request from Axel. So you can imagine some ideal mediator could be connected to all the major recipients like live peer BBC, New York Times, etc. and then users Axel Bob and Zach, etc. wouldn't even need to ever connect to these vendors directly. Instead, they would connect to the mediator and send all of their payments directly through the mediator. Now the caveat with this is the mediator is going to have to have a lot of tokens to be able to handle that. You can imagine potentially millions of dollars worth of tokens flowing through this mediator means it has to have millions of dollars of tokens in all of these channels. So we think that's a perfect opportunity for a virtual worker. And so as before we use the operator token holder model. The token holders put tokens into this virtual contract and the operator handles the job of being this ideal mediator and they split the rewards. Yeah so this is just a preview of a couple of the protocols we're building virtual workers for and we're playing design virtual workers for many more upcoming staking protocols. But the ultimate aim of what we're doing is actually to create a marketplace for capitalists and operators to match up be placed into virtual workers and then start working for arbitrary staking protocols. So we want to create this shared platform for a couple of reasons. The first one being that there's a huge benefit for virtual workers to be all in the same platform in that many of these virtual workers rely on a deep liquid pool of workers which can come in and replace their operator if he acts maliciously. And also some of these virtual workers rely on operators which are monitoring their operators ensuring that they don't lose any of the capital. And then additionally we just want to make it as seamless as possible for any capitalists or operator to find the protocol which can give them the highest returns and as soon as it stops giving the highest returns switch to some new protocol. So at this point in the explanation people usually start asking me okay so you know how high are my returns going to be on tokens if I put them into the system and my response to that is that potential returns are always a function of risk and you know there's risk associated right now with owning crypto tokens. It's also risk associated with interacting with one of these virtual workers and so the returns are going to be positively correlated with that and so it's hard to say exactly. So moving forward you can imagine rather than having individual users plugging in as a capitalist or an operator instead having smart contracts plugging in you know in the case of multiple capitalists plugging in via smart contract we term that a fun pool and you could further imagine these fun pools tokenizing participation. In other words issuing shares which then the participants can go to exchanges on making it even easier for people to start interacting with the system. And finally with what we're building with the one protocol we see that right now there's a lot of idle capital out there tons of people have you know millions if not billions of dollars in cold storage and ether and whether or not it's you know your ether and coal storage or your old smartphone and you know your drawer that you haven't seen in years we think that if there's an easy seamless way for people to start getting returns on that capital by plugging into the digital ecosystem that could make the whole digital economy a lot faster. So thank you guys so much for your attention so we're currently hiring so feel free to reach out and if you guys have any questions you know feel free to reach out to us via our website. Thank you.


Who will be the 2018 Big Three champions? Trilogy won it last season. Will it be Three's company? Will it be Power? And this is what Three's company did to the three-headed monsters last week. They jumped on them very early. Here's McGetty inside. Big Baby. Hesitate. Double-climbs lays it in. But again, because the defense had to step out of Cory McGetty. That soft pass opened up inside. Here's McGetty. Fade away. Nothing but neck. And he's going to talk to Dante Jones now. All the crowd loves this. They're in the center of it. You can tell these guys are playing for a championship. And the Julian's Irving championship trophy. He's yet to get cooking for Three's company. He must have heard me. He's got six. Lead is three now. Can attack. He's going to give him a little bit of space. I like to see DeMarc swear at Cory up a little bit more and not give him an angle. He's going to shoot that shot. Here's Big Baby. Powers his way to the bucket. Boy, that's a grown man. That's a couple-grown man. Here's DeMarc Johnson open for Three. That's a shot you've got to make him do. DeMarce, you're wide open. To the half. Go to the half. Up 12. Thanks to Coutinho Modri with that three. Here's Big Getty.  Getty left that way short. Just follow. That's a tough key hill to climb right here with this power team. Down 16. And this guy. This guy. Hit that 19. To rotate over once Big Baby got open to receive the pass. Hit it. He'll just lay it in. Then go back and run the same play. Your power. Put that middle pick and roll right back in the action. The best is shot instead of trying to take it to the basket. Again, you're giving this three's company team some life. Here's Emmett. That's a down. Andre Emmett. 16-4 run by three's company to make this thing close. Here's Coutinho Modri. For the check in the win. He's finished the season.


So, let's talk about packing. Hey everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and we are going to talk about the loadout for Citizen Pistol One. Citizen Pistol One is our flagship handgun course that we offer a couple times a year, and I hope that you're considering to come down and join us. In which case, you're going to need to know what to bring. Now, we do have a packing list on our website that you can download. I will link it in the description below, and you will, of course, more than welcome again to download that and print it off and come make sure you got everything you need and then come shoot with us. So, we're just going to go through that list, and we're going to go through the loadout here, and we hope to see you at class. So, the very first thing you will need, of course, is a handgun. The course is called Citizen Pistol One, so it will be smart to bring a pistol. If you can, I would recommend to bring a second pistol in case that your first one goes down. There is nothing more frustrating than being at a course and having equipment fail on you. I have been there, that has happened to me, and it is extremely frustrating when you're trying to learn and your equipment gets in your way. So bring a handgun, if you have one, bring a second one. If you don't, don't sweat it, it's not that big of a deal. It's more of a just-in-case kind of thing. That being said, I would highly, highly recommend you bring a pistol that is at least a G19 size or larger. Remember we're going to be shooting about 500 rounds at this course, and shooting on a smaller framed gun that often, that frequently, is going to start to be less than pleasurable at about the midway point through the day. So I would highly recommend to you to bring a larger framed pistol. Again, I don't think a G19 is that large of a frame, but larger or relative to all the pocket size 9mm out there nowadays. Bring at least a G19 size or larger, you'll definitely be thanking me later. The next thing, of course, is any kind of weapon care equipment, right? So this is just a cleaning kit, this is actually an AR-15 cleaning kit, but there's lube in here and there's a rod to punch out any stuck casings. Between lube and some basic tools and a toothbrush and a rag, you're really going to have all your bases covered. That even if your gun needs a quick cleaning, you're going to be able to make that happen. Similarly, if you lube your gun up well at the beginning of the day, you're probably not going to have a problem, assuming you have a halfway decent firearm. The next thing you will need obviously are bullets, because those are important. So bring your magazines loaded, always bring your magazines loaded to any course you go to. Don't show up with empty magazines, that's just silly. Load those magazines. For this course, you're going to need at least four magazines and 500 rounds total.  By the way, you should be storing your ammo in a container, not in the boxes. The boxes can absorb moisture over the long haul, which is bad, and it just creates more trash once you get to the range. So dump all of your bullets into an ammo crate. Thank me later. One other thing I want to make sure to note on the pistols is that you bring a hard-sided holster. That is a class requirement that you have a hard-sided holster.  You will of course need a good gun belt. This is just my EBC belt. This is the Magpul El Tejas belt. I like this belt. I've worn it for, I don't know, four or five years, a long time, and I really, really like this belt. The original one that I've been wearing the whole time. But you'll need some kind of belt that's built to support the weight of the gun. Again, that's going to change your life.  Thank me later. You will also need some kind of magazine pouch. Now, I carry a dedicated magazine pouch on my person every day anyway, so that's just what this is.  Now, again, if you don't have that, I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it. Just go ahead and throw a magazine in your pocket for the day. But this is going to make your life a lot easier, a lot smoother for learning. And honestly, you should be carrying at least one of these every day anyway. If you have one, I would highly recommend bringing your handheld tactical light, right? You should have one because it gets dark every day. But if you don't, again, don't sweat it. It's not a low-light course. We are not going to be shooting at night or anything like that. We will get to practice some techniques. But if you don't have this, it's really not that big of a deal. Bring a pen and a notebook. This is my fancy notebook cover. Bring a pen and a notebook.  I'm always amazed how many people don't take notes at courses. You are taking time out of your day. You are paying money to show up to learn. So take a lot of notes. And even if that's just in between drills and stuff, writing down what the drill was, writing down what you did, writing down any finer points to work on or something you learned, take tons of notes. Food. So we will be out there for all day. And you will need a lunch. So bring a sack with lunch in it and then water. I usually recommend to bring about a gallon of water. This is just representative, right?  Last but not least, you'll need your PPE gear. So knee pads, if you want them, not required by any stretch, but we will be doing some kneeling and stuff. So if you want knee pads or if you have injuries, please bring your knee pads. Eyes and ears, right? That's important. You got to have your eye and ear protection. That's obviously super important. And then stuff like sunblock and insect repellent. These you're always going to need, right? Cause we're going to be outside, it's going to be the summer. It's going to be hot, so you're going to need sunblock. Bring a hat or sunglasses, if that's your style. And then insect repellents, almost always required. So at the end of the day, like we've covered here, you really do not need that much stuff. If you just have your pistol, remember the second pistol is just a backup, just in case. So if you don't even have that, you just have a pistol and some basic supporting gear. You're able to show up to class and have a very successful day training and learning. So I hope this was helpful. I hope this gives you a real basic understanding of what you're going to need. You can, of course, feel free to add to this list. You can show up with as much stuff as you want. But this is really just kind of a good understanding of the minimum requirements in order for you to have a successful, fun day training. So we hope to see you soon at Citizen Pistol One. Do brave deeds and endure.


70s and we had said we need a means of communication. So I thought well why do we just need a means of communication why don't we just create a newsletter. So what year was this? 1973. I typed news from the natives. And there's actually is that notes for is that the same one is that it? That's an evolution. Okay. So we started with news from the natives and we called it that because we had all been treated as natives that someone else those legitimate white anthropologists they were supposed to study us. We weren't supposed to study ourselves. And our statement was you know we've been treated as natives. We're going to claim the terminology and we are going to speak for ourselves. We are going to give you our news. And so I was the editor for a while. I don't know why it ceased to be the editor and then I became the editor again and I don't know why that happened. But we went from my little typed version with the artwork done by the husband I had at the time. And one of our rubrics that we all thought we is Jerome Wright, Carol Henderson, Tyson, Beverly Bruce. I contacted the three of them and said let's get together come over to my little graduate student place and we need to do a newsletter. And we did. And our favorite rubric all of us was what we call with respect to our elders. So about finding out that we had an intellectual tradition that we had intellectual elders as anthropologists.  So that's what we started. So in some ways the site black women or the citation of black anthropologists actually began there is the recognition. You know so this is not a new thing. No. It sort of is part of the origins of transforming. Okay. Oh yeah. And so in the first issue we promised that we would do that. And in the second issue we began to do it. So we began by profiling W. Montague Cobb physical anthropologist. And our issue was we need to identify our elders so we'll know we have an intellectual tradition. And yesterday at the session yesterday afternoon there were still young African American anthropologists saying I didn't know that we had an intellectual tradition. Fifty years later they're saying the same thing that we said 50 years ago. Wow. Amazing. And I was thinking of one of the things I was proud of having accomplished four African American anthropologists. And what that that act was I mean in addition to stimulating the creation of the newsletter that then evolved to notes from the ABA that then further evolved into the referee journal Transforming Anthropology. One of the things I got done was I got St. Clair Drake wonderful elder to write. I mean he talked a lot. He had so much experience in so many places. And I got him to write three articles. So to put down some of you know some of what he some of the oral tradition to put it into the written tradition. And some of it is in transforming anthropology. Those are the notes that where he wrote about black anthropology black studies. He was okay. Yeah. And there are three. Yes. The first one was an issue a special issue of the anthropology and education quarterly that I edited. And the second was in an issue of the black scholar that genetic Cole and I co edited. And the third issue was an occasional paper I believe by the ABA prior transforming as transforming. So I guess it was part of the transformation. I was just thinking I went to lunch with Drake one day. I went to lunch at noon. I got home at 9 p.m. because every time I would think it was the end of the conversation. He'd say and by the way well we were off for another hour or two. But I couldn't say I have to go because it was so fascinating. And he was every place you know when I was in Ghana. Well that was you know. Wow. It was such a privilege to spend that time with him. Oh yeah.


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What's good, George? We're Ross back again with another video. So I'm going to check out heels in the two thousands were built different. This is very, very true heels back in the two thousands, man. They were getting away with some very dastardly things, man. They were the true definition of heels and rogueness. Now, granted, there are some good heels in today's wrestling, but back then you could say a lot more on television, do a lot more on television and push the envelope. So they were able to get away with damn near murder on a week to week basis. But it made for some compelling, interesting television, man. And it made you hate them. And that's the purpose of a good heel to say something borderline, super offensive or do something borderline, super offensive and to get you to hate them. So we're going to go down memory lane. Shout out to wrestling premier. This is the video we're going to be checking out from his channel. I'm going to link down original video down below. So make sure you guys go support him, man. But this should be a good one. I'm looking forward to it, man. Let's get right into this, man. Two thousand and two thousand six. Triple H's reputation as the game had already go back to Triple H. Two thousand and two thousand six. Triple H's reputation as the game had already made him one of the most notorious characters in WWE or WWF history. What made Triple H such a good heel was his attention to detail. Yes, at the end of the day, some people were fed up with this constant title reigns. But as a character, very few had the heel character down as well as the game. It was almost unfair. He already did a great job. Being the perpetrator of Austin getting run over and fighting to deliver ways to steal the title. But two thousands, Triple H had more in him. And this had to do with his positioning on the card. It was essentially the number one guy in WWE at some points. And Triple H had a cool element to him. Not to sledge him, man. They come more apparent after the reign of terror era. Triple H is one of the main reasons I made this video. This man was absolutely diabolical. Plotted a return with his friend before stabbing him in the back. He also became his good buddy after he was attacked in the parking lot. He showed emotion and worry over his friend, but that quickly changed when he was... Bro, he was dog. Just imagine. We don't know what happened to HBK. He just returns. He's bloodied up in the parking lot. And he's over here giving a great eight Academy Award performance. Get some help out here. Get some help. Only to find out...   Revealed to be the perfect trainer. Triple H already established himself as a heel, but they went the extra mile to make him even more detestable. Then he loses his match with HBK and takes him out with a sludge hammer. He's all bloodied up and zero lessons learned. Okay, he hates HBK. Surely he doesn't continue this, right? Nope. This man played with a dead body at the funeral home. A strange saying and let alone thinking of how WWE came up with this. Like, I'm kind of confused as to how did they come to terms that this is the story. It just sounds bizarre. I don't know, but Triple H continued. He turned racist for a month because he asked him for a towel to ride him in his limousine as a chauffeur. And it's almost a strange turn that his heel character took because the game wasn't known to be much of a racist beforehand. Yeah. Afterwards, with evolution by his side, Triple H's behavior continued to develop. He put a bounty on Goldberg's head, which resulted in attempted murder, many attacks, Bro, I forgot he did put a bounty on this nigga, bro.  He just was doing whatever he wanted to one Monday night raw. Just detestable, bro. Shattered by Batista. I gave Triple H a different depth to the other heels in the sense of, hey, I'm not gonna try killing him myself. I have money for that. Other heels would do it themselves. So he was shown to have a much more calculated view of how to reach his goals. Eugene was hated by most of the heels on the roster. They didn't like him. They didn't want anything to do with him, even evolution. But Triple H found a way to use him and it was all about the coveted worth heavyweight challenge. Since Eugene was a big fan of Triple H, even stunning the rock in this revelation, the game became his friend. It's for ulterior motives, of course. In 2004, Triple H was more selfish than prime Kobe Bryant on the court. The amount of effort put into this charade was ridiculous. He could have won the title himself, jumping in fun houses, making Eugene a honorary member of evolution and when this month-long plan didn't come together, he obliterated and left him a bloody heap.  The game took out William Regal in his hotel room and had this huge sense of pride after committing these actions. Like that image of Triple H standing in front of the mirror.  Look at this. Look at that face. Blood all on it. Just smirking in the... Anytime you smirk or laugh at yourself in the mirror, you're not all there. It's... there's something going on up there. It's... there's something going on up there. It's... there's something going on up there. With a smile on his face, it's the perfect image to his heel run.  And this wasn't even the end of it. After Randy Orton did the one thing that Triple H could do was beat Chris Benoit to become the World Heavyweight Champion.  Even then he had expectations of Orton only for Orton to spin in his face and lose the belt afterwards. The game continued on as a regular heel. He finally did something huge by manipulating Batista and to think JBL was out to get him. This was a tactic to avoid the animal choosing his world title for a match at WrestleMania. It didn't work though. He lost the title. So Triple H resorted to making Batista think there was friction between himself and Ric Flair. So Batista could associate himself with an ancient boy again. But this was an elaborate setup to annihilate Batista and challenge him to a Hell in a Cell match. He lost and disappeared for a bit. Upon his return the very first night he almost killed Ric Flair out of pity. Triple H destroyed him with a sludge hammer opened up his already fragile forehead and threw him into the limo all because he felt sad over what Flair had turned into. This version of Triple H was much more wiser than the other version had ever been. I feel bad for what you've become. So I'm gonna try to murder you. Wait, what? She didn't often feel vulnerable without him despite his ability to story-lad. Most importantly, Triple H was much more cooler here. He stopped wearing the suits off and leaned towards the sunglasses and jeans and because he was less often in the main event scene fans started cheering him. And after WrestleMania 22 plans were in place for a DX return. Now as a kid my memories of Triple H as a heel are towards his late heel run. I didn't like him for basic reasons but there was a coolness about him that very few had on Raw at the time. There was other heels I hated more. Kane's already been the most diabolical wrestler for about two years. His mask to run had run its course in management as in there was only one way to go unmasking him. And this resulted in Kane being his most dominant and most dangerous. We've just checked out a video how diabolical Kane was. So yeah, man. He was doing he was doing the devil's work for sure around this time. It really gives off shades of his run towards WrestleMania 14 in the sense of you didn't know what he would do on a weekly basis and that's a very hard thing to do. Because number one the fans have to be interested in the talent and two they have to have a certain legitness about them. Kane within his first month trying to burn RBD, burnt JR, tombstones, Linda McMahon, coke slammed Eric Bischoff on the stage. This guy was going all out and felt like a movie villain with the way they were booking him.  This dude was very back and forth with this home brother alive because he became one of the people. So he lost his edge. Kane's activities were mostly toned down until there was that story with Lita where he stalked her and she ended up pregnant. And ironically this story was used as a catalyst to turn Kane's face. WWE is smoking on the finest crack with this one. You turn on they pissed into a good guy in three months. But yeah, Kane's heel run was like a bright star that quickly runs out. He reverted to being a face again from here right up until 2008. His heel run wasn't much other than of course him stalking Rey Mysterio and Kelly Kelly. It did kidnap Rungin's scene but this was nothing compared to 2304 Kane. Kurt Angle's wrestling ability had made him into a legend of the game already four years into his WWE run. We don't say that often. Once Angle reverted to being a heel in early 2004, his motives were deceiving as Angle had proclaimed himself to be an American hero and a role model for the kids to strive for. His actions contradicted every single claim he made. Why? First of all, Angle took up the role of SmackDown General Manager. His roles to be unbiased and provide opportunities but instead, he turned the show upside down made Eddie Guerrero's life a living hell screwed John Cena out of the United States Championship over an exit and of course his deep hatred for him. Angle was a fraud that posed as a noble man and to top it all off he cost Eddie Guerrero the title and in turn exposed himself as healthy. But this was nothing. Angle from here on made demons look like angels. He used a big show with the tranquilizer dart and shaved his head. Threat and joy and eventually used her to get under Big Show's skin while Michael's just to challenge him to a match at WrestleMania 21. And the victory at the show should have mellowed him out but no, this man turned into a predator to fulfill his fantasy and this ramp said he wanted to have beastiality sex with Booker. I'm still one of the wildest things you can say to a man involving his wife, I want to have beastiality sex with your wife bro he gotta go if you know what I mean it's not about the wrestling, it's not about the championships, it's not about none of that you gotta this man lost the plot long ago but it was a weird time it was a weird time for Kurt Angle and this was all done just so the fans couldn't cheer him because somebody with Kurt Angle's abilities healer face is gonna be left. He goes to raw, curses out the troops and in an effort to show that he could get cheered said he's not a fan of the black people. It was crazy what they were doing with him because if they let go just a little he was gonna get cheered Kurt Angle is one of the most insane heals from this air of WWE and that's saying something this guy was a predator he was at the test double human being everything, they did all of this just to get him booed, it was so tough for Kurt Angle Bradshaw's career trajectory is very strange when a single wrestler doing nothing ends up being paired with Ron Simmons to become one of the most entertaining tag teams of the attitude era his time runs out and it seems like he's heading towards retirement but a huge opportunity opens with the departure of Brock Lesnar and the injuries to the likes of the big show Enter JBL JBL was an extension of Bradshaw's real life he was an investor, a successful one at that and WWE constructed a new character for him relating to that John Bradshaw Leifield was his new name a successful businessman who left Texas for New York City and in turn to him the very thing that his old character the APA would despise a suit wearing eagle maniac who loved hearing the sound of his voice and compared to other heals JBL wasn't as diabolical or flat out evil it was more grounded in his immoral actions had this cleanness to them compared to the likes of Triple H and Kurt Angle it was a standout character trait and showed that even his actions in the squared circle were white color yes he attacked his opponents but he never usually left them bloody he went to the US Mexico border and went after some immigrants hopping the border it's almost a crazy segment now you wanna see this on national tv it's just so wild bro his healed turn in a sense it worked because it was grounded in some type of realism like he said he wasn't out here per se trying to murder people he was just more out here saying how some people of his demographic felt about just the state of the world in general he would kinda bring that into the wrestling world it worked though he was saying some detestable and doing some detestable things but it wasn't too crazy like Triple H or Kane trying to mutilate somebody if that makes any sense but WWE in 2004 was wild the Undertaker was a tough opponent so he enlisted the help of gang rel and Vistra and his cabinet cleaned up any problems that came his way the real standout to JBL is that he wore his promos he had this unusual contempt for the crowd and guys like John Cena and Rey Mysterio that you almost believe it's real this man didn't have a single t-shirt I don't think anyone would have bought a JBL shirt anyways but it was a show that he was dedicated to simply being hated no flash of hey he's pretty cool he's in this impure hatred I hated JBL this man was so unlikable he would always pop up when you least expect he had a big problem with the country of Mexico and that would show in his huge with Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio this man told Rey straight to his face you're not a dog you're a Mexican brought out Kane on May 19th of all days to face Rey Mysterio and once he quit he went to commentary where he'd endlessly bully other wrestlers upon his return to the squared circle he was still the same guy forced Shawn Michaels to become his assistant JBL was committed to the job he had an old school vibe to him in the sense of do whatever it takes to be hated and he went the extra mile every single time because that was his job nobody ever said JBL was cool yeah he was cool in 2001 but as his cowboy had suit wearing almost politician figure nobody said that Edge's injury in 2003 changed the trajectory of his career entirely without that injury a lot would be different not only in Edge's career but the entire complexion of WWE he came back significantly different and didn't have much support from the crowd in 2002 not to mention he was much slower in ring so something had to give and right when he turned heel there was the whole lead on Matt Hardy's situation he took him a lot of heat and hatred from the fans and in turn he used this fire to build momentum to become the Rated R Superstar as the Rated R Superstar Edge saw no boundary he'd pass if it would give him the WWE championship he didn't care what others thought he handed it to anybody if they could help him as a mere tag team parter even Vince it was crazy what's even crazier is that this was the early parts of Edge this character would develop more and turn into the most intelligent wrestler in the entire WWE Edge was banging lead in the middle of the ring destroying his opponents with a concerto there was this pinfall yeah and he bend the rules like no other person in this video DQ's to save the title Brass Knuckles even claimed that he didn't want to wrestle in Arizona because they were the last state to recognize Mara Luther King day this man was world classic Man Edge Hall of Fame career for sure in WWE man he was he was despicable but it just worked he was just a piece of trash human being but it worked it worked so well this is fantastic excuse me Mr. Kennedy to put his money in a bank briefcase on the line that no one wants to come which was a cheap shot a cheap attack and he's the holder of the briefcase and he needed to become the champion on SmackDown Edge found a lot of comfort as the champion on SmackDown as he managed to get with Vicky Guerrero all for his own interest this guy would pull out some bizarre thing and always end up on top he returned to get the title shot during the title match and it works in his favor, why? because he's Edge the ultimate opportunist my most hated, this man ruined John Cena's life cashed in on the Undertaker and continuously screwed Batista out of the title once he saw this Vicky Guerrero thing growing thin he divorced her and said he never liked her ironically this was the most cheered he had been in about 5 years there's very few that matched Edge as a heel he was probably the coolest out of all these guys because of his style and vibe which should work against him of course because he had plenty of inspiration from the likes of Roddy Piper, that Matt Hardy incident and a booking he was always a coward that relied on unethical means to win the title hell this man found two lookalikes that helped distract the Undertaker and Batista just to win the title this guy was reaching towards the stars just to find any single way to win the title, it was crazy Oren had the perfect base life for him he was a second generation wrestler who felt entitled due to his father's success and of course his inclusion in the evolution faction Oren had the heel look down a young talent who thought the world was his and Oren did plenty he disrespected legends such as Fully, Harley-Rays and even R.K.O. The Fabulous Mula he had a hidden type of craziness that would unravel as the years would go by he was utterly reverted into did his craziness unravel he became psychotic once he cut that hair good god 2005 that things would change for one he archived Stacey Kebler in order to focus on his match with the Undertaker of WrestleMania and his feud with the Deadman forced him to reveal his true nature that of a pure psychopath he burned a casket with the Deadman in it and upon his return proceeded to drive a low rider in reverse and cause an explosion that didn't work and after the humbling inside Hell in SL Oren moved on to business like nothing happened he tried to smear Eddie Guerrero's legacy saying he's in hell wrote his low rider and screwed Ray out of his tunnel shot at WrestleMania but all of this was nothing compared to the next couple of years Ray at RKO as a tag team had some diabolical moments they basically killed Ric Flair here and took him out with a container I remember watching that bro I remember watching them murder Ric Flair bro I was like oh this is whole business is picked up that DX rated RKO feud oh my god that was so good they murdered this nigga Ric Flair bro this was all business has picked up as JR would say man they were rootless Hereto did it to DX but once they went their separate ways Randy Orton became even more cold and calculating he brought out the punt used to take out plenty of wrestlers even John Cena's dad needed this edge to finally get his hands on a WWE championship but keeping it required him to be persistent with this new found attitude and he learned the hard way upon his return from injury a big emphasis was made on Oren's unstable side Mr. McMahon after hearing an argument with Stephanie and from there unhinged Randy Orton was here he always showed remorse over his actions initially but that would change he did things with intent so just demeaning Stephanie and kissing her in front of Triple H taking him and Batista out with the punt and then of course he had the bald look which fit him well he was having problems mentally hearing once that hair went away fully he was this is maximum savage Randy right here 100% savagery no hair just here to kick people's skulls off their bodies bruh crazy he says that he'd lash out on the likes of John Cena this man was tortured and insane attempted murder with a power hell this man would go after his own guys every once in a while the Viper Randy Orton was the most cold and frightening character of this time period because of how unpredictable he was in order to be able to work he had the talent to make this character a success and whoop thing to know as they had such great acting skills at this point he just knew how to do the things he was doing and when to do him it was crazy it's kind of funny how Mr. McMahon was lucky the most talented he on the entire WWF the reason why I think Obi-Wan is because he was hitting it in plain sight McMahon added a lot to the shows with this character and throughout the 2000s he showed why at one point this man was cheered on raw and hated on SmackDown like he was the antichrist he was constantly provoking Hulk Hogan and fired him all because of his personal animosity towards him started having problems with his daughter Stephanie over the show wanted to see Zach Gowan fill and use his prosthetic leg and made a mockery out of it Brock Lesnar and HBK his daughter and to top it all off he had a match with her and no mercy knew that his soul's destined for hell and started telling tales of his demise ahead of his buried alive match with the Undertaker that didn't happen though when McMahon disappeared he wasn't really involved with storylines until the end of 2005 when he targeted Shawn Michaels all for telling him to move on from Montreal and this man was pressing him like why don't you go back to the old days at days of drugs and sex yup this is HBK Shawn Michaels real life demons he was dealing with before he left WWE the first time because he was going through a lot of stuff physically emotionally he was dealing with he was doing the drugs he was on all types of stuff and obviously Vitz knew this but the dude was doing some of the best work for WWE at that time he retired the first time or whatnot so when he came back HBK was clean trying to get right with God and focus on his career and trying to move forward from his past but they turned that real life situation into an angle where Vitz was like nah I want you to be the old you let's bring out the drugs let's bring out the liquor God what is that the worst worst possible oh well you'll enter the wrong rumble but only if you beat in certain name tried to force him to retire drugged his drink and made him take a drug test which flipped on his head went to church and tried to find his own religion made a match with God as Shawn Michaels his tag team partner one man started an only triple H who didn't want anything to do with him and this led to the return of DX who's drove McMahon crazy three months of hell sure he had the upper hand at some point but by the end of it it wasn't worth dealing with DX after his embarrassment wrestling in 23 this led to a change of appearance from McMahon he sported a few reggae stars annoying Bobby Lashley and it was more comedy rather than some big A he'll type a storyline it slowly led to the end of the Mr. McMahon character not to mention it was as insane as he used to be seeing punk signing with WWE cost some people off guard in detail and being scooped up by the biggest company around and it's not like they didn't do this it's just punk's circumstances were significantly different than others like Paul London and Brian Kendrick punk's initial days in the WWE were as a face it wasn't until 2009 that he took the role of a heel punk was the direct opposite of what Jeff Hardy was all about and it wasn't even hard for him to get booed it's Jeff Hardy in the year 2009 2009 Jeff Hardy is like 2009 Lil Wayne this guy was number one but despite this the second city saint went off the deep end with this new heel character and was so desperate to not only be hated but to be considered the devil of WWE because of how much love Jeff Hardy had at the time in his own touch it stood out he was snarky he held himself to a higher esteem than the fans and the difference to punk with other heels was that he wouldn't be like you guys are nothing he would go on about personal life choices such as being sober and these rants got him even more best of all he got rid of Jeff Hardy and dropped him with a belt after his goodbye speech this man was absolute wow this is so good punk's status on the card fell a bit but it allowed him to create what was known as the straight edge society members had to completely devote themselves to punk and abstain from drugs and alcohol punk had some heat but the whole thing never developed to a story that would rival his feud with Jeff Hardy I always thought there was a potential world title story there but it is what it is Luke Gallo, Serena shaved their heads and punk was all enjoying himself growing this big beard he felt like he was almost a messiah-like figure the straight edge society helped see punk become one of the most hated men on SmackDown but once he caught momentum with it it was quickly taken out and disbanded punk didn't really have a long heel run in the 2000s but in the small time he was given a stout of it so that's why I decided to include him here because this man, for literally three months pissed off every Jeff Hardy fan on Earth he just hated it because Jericho's heel character in WWE had never been fleshed out properly early on he was one of those mid-card heels but because he was pretty popular they turned him into a face King of My World Jericho was a regular heel he didn't do something that was too heinous basic heel stuff 2005 had some moments where he was brutal with John Cena but his real standout was 2008 Jericho transformed himself into a very compo- this was good this heel run ground this time y'all know me man y'all know this is one of my favorite heel runs from Jericho he stood out easily because for one he shed any mention of his Y2J persona and re-established himself despite not needing to he needed to though because it was the only way he touched the main event scene Chris Jericho was the deepest heel out there in WWE news he wasn't the most violent or cruel but he stood out because technically everything he was saying was true he was just the wrong messenger Jericho compared to the rest here looks pretty clean I added him here because he was the most unique and had a big interest in remaining in character outside of the arena you ask most people the best character of WWE in 2008 or the best heel they're gonna say Chris Jericho he just did some amazing work that year in 2009 he was great as well 2010 and onwards he was right most of the time but just because he was a heel that made him wrong now these guys weren't mentioned outright but he came to him that whole Michael Cole incident which was crazy Sean O'Hara was very different to others because instead of doing these actions he led others to that direction Big Show swung a stretcher Bound Rain Mysterio and there's plenty of examples out there I didn't want to talk about comedy heels here as well because I just didn't think it was their place King Booker he was very entertaining but he didn't fit the video much Sean Michaels' return in 2002 as a proud babyface made things seem unlikely for a potential heel turn he came in as a heel with the NWL but it was nothing compared to his old days 2005 though opened things up Michaels took up the role of a villain for his feud with Hulk Hogan this man was still as amazing as he once was one month he was a heel for only one month yet people are still talking about it because HBK was making jokes about Hulk Hogan mocking him and even trolled the Montreal crowd into thinking Bret Hart was coming back this guy had no chill and it's crazy one month but he made the most out of it it's kind of unfortunate that HBK never continued being a heel from here on because he clearly showed that he still had the ability for it but regardless at the end of the day this was a very memorable run it certainly stands out especially for a short run alright these are the heels of the 2000s a lot of these guys were absolutely insane the way they booked them was crazy this was all just to prevent some cheering they wanted these guys to be booed 99% of the time the best heel eye of all these guys I'd say is Triple H I think Triple H was the best booked as a character not the stories or whatever I'm talking about his character as heel persona he was booked was almost a TV show character he had the most background as well he was a part of a clique DX and what not and he managed to make something out of himself but other than that all these guys did their job well they were amazing some of these guys would be doing some stuff you would not see today at all for sure alright what you guys think of the heels of the 2000s please comment down below this was a great one gonna go ahead and like this video as y'all should too I'm gonna link down the original video down below man this was great this was fantastic brought me down memory lane I want to know who was your favorite heel during the 2000 era like I wouldn't say favorite as in you was probably a fan of them back then but when you look back on it now you can appreciate the type of heel work they were doing man not gonna lie to you from this video alone it had to be it's Triple H for sure cause boy he was just you just wanted to make sure he never came back to Monday Night Rock cause he was doing some dastardly things Triple H for sure if I had to choose someone else a close second would be Randy Orton his transformation into the bald Randy Orton was menacing very menacing for sure so but y'all let me know your favorite heel from the 2000 eras in WWE but I appreciate all love and support guys are showing on channel road to 150k and I'm still y'all in this beauty youtube wrestling champion where I appreciate y'all kicking with me see y'all next one peace


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What's up everybody and welcome to another edition of the Falcons Final Whistle podcast I'm Scott Bear alongside Tori McElhaney and drum roll please It was just like a pause for dramatic Yeah, and and that and that voice that you just heard that you don't recognize is the one of Ashton Edmonds And bring a new member of the Falcons digital slash editorial team Yeah, he's gonna be writing tons of big features for us lots of great be coverage. Yes Yeah, and is graduating from North freaking Western. Yes a lot So so we have a couple big announcements on this podcast and now and the first one is the fact that Ashton's joining us full-time. We're so stoked tell Falcons fans kind of where you come from and how you ended up here Yeah, man, I'm from so I'm from Florida Pensacola, Florida born and raised Move to Pittsburgh for a few years and then moved back to Florida to Tallahassee and they're my undergrad years at Clark Atlanta So I'm very familiar with the Atlanta area literally walking distance from Mercedes Ben So this is truly a full circle moment for me and just to be back here in Atlanta You know, I grew up watching Michael Vick Roddy white You know Matt Ryan all of them guys and and just to be back here in this space is truly a blessing So I'm happy to be here man. Yeah. Whoa, and now you're getting ready to tell stories about Marcus Marriota Yes, Torrell and what are your first initial impressions of how this Falcons team kind of looks? Yeah, now that you've got a chance to meet Terry fontano and Arthur Smith. Yes those guys No, I think this team is really great I think the new pieces that they added on this roster is gonna be amazing. Um, it's a it's a relatively young team Yeah, so they have a lot of potential to grow to build around these guys And you know, I think the defense is probably like one of the biggest stands out to me Especially the secondary one with you know, Casey Hayward and AJ Torrell and Richie Grant and all them guys I think the defense is gonna do really good this season. So and Terry, he's he's amazing. He's amazing all of Arthur Just the whole just the whole team and I'm you know, they're really great. Please Find the man on Twitter and Instagram at AE 11. Yes couple underscores to underscores Yep, that's key. Follow the man. Gosh, you've already got 300 plus followers Man, every day is every day is like five new followers on the rise. Shout out to Falcons fans Yeah, man, keep it coming and something else that's super exciting that's coming down the pike Tori McElaney is going to be co-hosting. Yeah, I didn't know where you were going with this I was like, there's nothing. Yeah, I like to keep you in the dark I'm good to say on our toes But nonetheless Fridays at midnight throughout the course of the season Tori McElaney Kelly Price are going to be hosting rise up tonight There's tons of exclusive Falcons content. I'm staring at Tori McElaney right now You can't see her but she's like seriously giddy with excitement. We're all so stoked for her Big announcement came on good day Atlanta. Yeah this morning. Tell us some more about it. Yeah, I'm really excited. We are the first I think and only Female led sports show love it in the Atlanta market and that is something that is very very It's something that I never really thought that I would do TV was never something that I really wanted to thought that I wanted to venture into it all But Kelly has always been someone who's very much been in my corner And she presented this opportunity to me and she's like I think it would be great and she's like we're kind of breaking ground a little bit here And that was something that was very very near and dear to my heart. So I think I'm really excited I'm like 60% or 60% excited 40% nervous. I feel like that's a good ratio. It's a great ratio It keeps you on your toes a little bit like you know, but I am really excited and yes Friday nights at midnight Kelly and I are gonna be we're gonna be doing some hot takes Which is something that Arthur Smith hates and that's kind of while we're doing it Right like and then we're gonna be going over some Falcons fits, which if y'all follow me on Instagram y'all know y'all know How much I love a good fit session? Fit check should I say and yeah, we're also gonna get into like some scheme stuff, too I mean shoot. It's a football show. So definitely gonna I think it's gonna be fun and I'm really excited about it So she's gonna be we're all gonna be busy over the course of this football season Right in the big long-form features that you like this Falcons final whistle is gonna keep rolling throughout the course of the season And the offseason you're gonna be hearing and reading and seeing us quite a bit in this market I think it's fair to say and with lots of kind of hot takes Instant reaction and now that we're into training camp. We're into our second week of training camp Wow lies when you're having fun and I don't know what day it is Yeah, that's a yeah, that's a thing with training camp that I don't think many people like realize is like We actually have no idea like what day of the week it is. We have no concept of it, right? It's only because there's a literal calendar Yes, got cheating don't let him play That I do know that it's Tuesday because it says the word podcast on top of it So that's my clue. So over the course the next 25 or so minutes We're gonna break down our early impressions of the Falcons in what is a very intriguing Training camp because there's so many position battles and so many new faces around here We're gonna take a look at some early camp standouts. We're obviously gonna have to look at the line of scrimmage Most notably the offensive line We're also going to talk about a word that Arthur Smith uses a lot that sounds like coach peak But in this case is really really real and that's competition I mean, it's the cut the competition is fierce and is heavy and of course, we're gonna end it talking about quarterbacks because you know We got it. Go to it does seem essential. So so let's just hop right into it here. Let's talk a little football and go with Early impressions who's really stood out to you Tori over the course of this Early portion of training camp I was going to be like really off the wall and say somebody that like no one's really hard of But then that would be wrong of me because no one has caught my eye like Kyle Pitts has yeah And I really truly think that we are watching a We're watching a player that I think is we always talk about Arthur Smith saying that he's always scratching the surface of what he Can be in this league and I really do think like just watching him out there right now I'm just kind of tearing some DB's up left and right on occasion some linebackers up I think that we are seeing something really special in Kyle Pitts It's something that I think we saw in year one that now I honestly feel like we know Kyle Pitts a lot better In year two I I just feel like just looking at the guy that we talked to like a couple weeks into camp last year Versus the guy that we talked to now It is night and day with this guy And I think he understands that he is one of the primary faces of this franchise in a year That is very very transitional in a lot of different ways and just seeing him out on the field and kind of being a Leader and seeing the physical attributes of which he has it was funny My dad came to practice on Monday. It was the first day of pads and the coach Mack Yeah, and so the in the first one of the first things he says Kyle Kyle Pitts was working with Justin Peel Who's the tight ends coach and he said he's like man. He's like he's a specimen He's like he just look he's like he just looks different and it's true I think a lot of people like We talk about Kyle Pitts a lot being such an important part of this offense But to just see him go out there and do some of the physical things that he can do on the field It's really it's really stands out in my mind Yeah, I think the way he carries himself to that there's an air of confidence that definitely isn't cocky No, he just has a real belief in in himself and his last press conference, which I thought was really good He talked about finding his voice as a leader Maybe not as a raw raw guy, but just as a way to encourage Those under him and I think he understands and accepts the responsibility that's coming to him He knows he's gonna see double teams He knows he's gonna have to produce and score more than one touchdown. Maybe you might be a good thing Yeah, and maybe do it on US soil. That's just I'm just throwing it out there, right? Maybe Pro Bowl doesn't count. No, I know it does not and I will I will throw hands with anybody who says differently No, I won't I'm scared But I do think though that all these things that we're talking about with Kyle This it's it's fine to bring him up as a standout here because he looks Thank you. Thank you. It's comfortable. Yeah. Yeah, and that's really the key thing and the most fun matchup Which leads to Ashton standout is when Kyle Pitts goes up against a cornerback that Ashton Just being here for the last two weeks. You're starting to see AJ Terrell Yes, what are your thoughts kind of seeing this guy work in practice every day? Yeah, nah He this is his third year. He looks very much confident very much comfortable in this defense You can tell he's always in a right place at the right time And you could tell he's starting to step up into that leadership role And I think you know DPs is looking towards him to be a leader on this defense and especially in the secondary And just playing alongside Casey Hayward That's going to develop his game tremendously You know Casey is a veteran in the NFL and you know just playing alongside him. It's gonna be amazing So AJ Terrell has really been doing good. And you know in training camp and I'm super excited for him this season Yeah, he just doesn't he just doesn't make mistakes. Here's the thing about AJ is I think it's you talk about him being in The right place at the right time. That was something that I thought was very evident on Tuesday's practice It was like this there there was a play where Marcus Mario to launches the ball I don't even know who it was who it was to tell me your bird. Yes, and it should have been a touchdown It should have been you it should have been a touchdown and AJ just comes out of the air and just barely Last I can look barely tips it and it may it looked like this It looked like the easiest play that ever was but to be able to do that like in that moment and to Recognize where he is and to have like the body control to do what he did to make that play I was just like dang. Yeah, like the He's he's gonna get his recognition. Yes. I really and his size is is amazing like he's a perfect size cornerback I think he can match up against smaller receivers He can match up against really tall receivers and I think that's the edge that the AJ Terrell has over a lot of people Yeah, and he just he's so consistent. Yeah, I'm never too high too low always a tough test for Kyle Pitts Somebody that I want to bring up despite the fact that Arthur Smith does not like Complementing rookies who haven't done anything in the NFL at all. I generally Follow that same right. Oh, yeah I'm gonna go ahead and break my own rule here and talk about Drake London because over the over the course of this early training Camp period one he looks physically bigger in person just standing next to him.  Yes He'll do a small hesitation or his footwork is precise enough where it will it will Get a defensive back to bite just enough to create space for him to make the catch and him being consistent I think him being dynamic in that way is something that is really intriguing to me First year wide receivers They don't all produce at the level that they will eventually not everybody's Justin Jefferson, right? Who's gonna come into the league and just Do amazing, but I really think that there's a good foundation here. I don't know if he's gonna have a thousand yards I don't know if he's gonna be get votes for offensive rookie of the year, but I like what I'm seeing now I think he's an impressive player and you and we we talk about Pitts, right? He needs somebody to take pressure off of him and you talk about AJ and Drake needs to go up against AJ AJ's still winning most of those battles. Yes, right But you need him to be tested in that way. I think AJ's being tested I think that's a good thing I think Drake London is showing up early and it it's at least a positive sign that maybe he can show up in September and October and be a force for this team and really fit in with the scheme as well as The Falcons think he can be he was the first receiver off the board. How many draft nicks were like, well, they should have taken X Y or Z Garrett Wilson or Chris a lot of a or whomever literally anyone else There are a lot of people that are like what in the world like this doesn't make any sense And it's like but it makes sense for what the Falcons want and need right now. Thank you You're welcome point for toy right there But the only way that these guys can operate is if the line of scrimmage does its thing. Hey, oh, right? How about that for a transition? I loved it honestly That was nice But there are position battles Across the offensive line. We talk a lot about Right tackle center left guard Right tackle. We've seen Caleb McGarry be with the first team all the time Jermaine to Fetty be with the second team all the time The other two have not been that way now. We've seen drew Dalman and Matt Hennessy rotate They and I will say this they are rotating daily Like Arthur Smith made the comment on the very very first day of practice That they wanted to get a fair assessment of those two and that they were going to be getting as equal reps as they possibly could And sometimes I'm like, yeah, sure. Okay, but no They are tracking this and they I don't I really believe that they are looking at it. Like this is drew Dalman's day This is Matt Hennessy's day and they are legit going back and forth every day Then let's let's let's talk more about that because you asked Arthur Smith during his Tuesday press conference Kind of what differentiates them. What was his answer there? Yeah, I asked him, you know At some point you're gonna have to make a decision as to who you want to be the starting center And I was like, so what do you need to see Over the course of the next three four weeks from both of these guys in order to make that decision come week one Of the season and he said he was like, you know, the physical stuff Obviously goes without saying he was like, but I really want to see Their command and I thought that was really important. Like can they command this offensive line Can they help out Marcus mariota or Desmond Ritter when they need to and that was something that I asked both Drew Dalman and Matt Hennessy about after practice. I was like, what does that look like for you and both of them said Something similar in that like they want to be the people that Others come to when they have a question about the offense and they want to be able to command In the meeting rooms as much as they want to be able to command on the field And I thought that was a really interesting point That Arthur Smith made about really wanting to see that command happen And how Drew Dalman and Matt Hennessy are kind of enacting that in and of themselves day in and day out Like think about how spoiled this franchise has been at that center spot. Yes. Have you gone from Todd? McClure Essentially to Alex Mack. I'm not saying, you know, but there were some missteps along the way But but the but they've had two Generational type centers and they're looking for that next player and I think intellectually center. You just have to have it You do Elijah Wilkinson. He's got some starting experience. He's played lots of right tackle, right? Um He's kind of like asserting himself in that spot as they try to find The front five that they can run with all season. Yeah, I mean, I think it's really interesting because when it comes to Elijah Wilkinson and Jalen Mayfield because that's what we essentially believe the competition to be I think that it was interesting That we have seen so much of Elijah Wilkinson I'm not saying that I'm willing to call the left guard position now and that it's, you know, Elijah Wilkinson's spot Can I foresee him being the starter? Absolutely at that spot But am I willing to call it yet? Not necessarily because I just I need to see more and right now I think a big misconception of training camp is that we can see so much and we Learned so much and while we do learn a lot You I really don't think you learn as much as you do Until you get to those like live preseason games Especially for the line of scrimmage, and I'm talking offensive line and I'm talking defensive line, too And so I'm really interested to see how Elijah Wilkinson works with that collective Five whatever five that is Um, that's something that I'm very interested to see in the preseason games because I think right now It's a little bit like oh, okay. Like we're seeing them, you know, bump pads every now and again But there's a live tackling right now. No guys are not going a hundred percent right now. So to get to that point I'll be very very interested to watch The offensive line but particularly that left guard spot and and there's going to be plenty of good opportunities for it not only Over the course of the three game preseason slate, but they have joint practices against the Jets and the Jaguars So we're going to see some guys differentiate themselves I still think Jermaine if Eddie's going to have an impact on this line somewhere Do you think that we'll see him at all over the course of the next couple weeks rotate in there with the first team? He hasn't at all. Not yet at right tackle. I talked to Caleb Um earlier Tuesday, he seems very confident in where he is physically where where he is mentally and the fact that he's grown Each and every year I think he looks at this as a big year and he doesn't look at them not Picking up his fifth year option as like a mortal insult He seems to take it as like yes, it's a piece of motivation But he's not going to let that cloud his judgment or his emotions or get in the way of his work And I think that's a really good outlook to have as he tries to really establish himself there He's going to compete like heck that's just in his nature And I think it's going to be interesting to see how that shakes out the reason why I brought up Jermaine is that he's played inside too. So I think that at some point he could factor in but we We do need to see more You know the the the one thing we talked about this offensive line Ashen it has to get the running game going.  That's true. That's very true, man This offense, you know matt ryan was set 40 times last year This offense the line has to improve, you know, not only in the past passing game, but in the rushing game Um, cordial Patterson, he's a he's a veteran, you know, and you have some young guys back there But you know, I think that's going to be a focal point going into this season Is the running game. I think that needs to improve drastically And um, you know, I think that right tackle spot and the left tackle spot is is going to be something that Arthur Smith is going to focus on for this offensive line Yeah, and when you look at it across the board, right, we're talking about position battles up front There's uh, some sorting to be done in the running back room and everywhere else Competition competition competition, right? We we keep hearing it. It's often coach speak But it's kind of real, right at this point And we've definitely seen it play out and it's pretty intense practices for it being this early point in in camp Yeah, the practice on saturday. So oh, so great It was without question one of the most fun practices that I feel like I have gotten a chance to watch in a long time Now granted I add a little asterisk to the side because kovat protocols makes things Made things so difficult over the course of the last two years to like, I don't know but it was So I'm trying to like accurately explain like that practice and how competitive I felt like it was Because there were so many moments that really stuck out to me. I know everybody's gonna Everybody already knows about there were two fights and someone got kicked out. Blah blah blah I know I know that but outside of that. It was a very competitive Practice and there was one moment in particular where they were running some db's versus receivers and It was drake london versus d alford and D got drake just went up over him in the end zone and it was it was a fantastic play It's one of those that you're like, oh, that's why they got drake london. Well, then D alford goes over to john hoke who's a secondary's coach and they're talking they're talking and then two plays later Same play not with drake london, but same exact play same ball placement same route and d alford goes out there and Knocks the ball down. It was it was back and forth the whole practice But it was it was a super clean practice like it was intense But like you can tell all all of the players were in the right positions Everybody knew what they were doing and I think you know if this that falcons team or this falcons team can go Into the season with that mindset with that intensity and aggressiveness. I think they can really be good Yeah, you see marcus, uh mariota who isn't a super emotional guy He runs the ball in which they're allowing him to run in practice because they want the defense to get used to it and he Chucks the ball about 60 yards onto the hill into a crowd of 2,500 people If the the the person who dove for the ball then missed it and then didn't end up getting it back If there were some there were some people rolling down the hill. Yeah, there were some squabbles. Yeah The ball back, but you know what someone got it. Yeah, but I love seeing that Marcus there was another touchdown pass that he threw to drakelyn and where he gave like an uppercut Like he was really into it. I think that it feeds into that level of intensity that that you need and not only Is it competition between this team? But we're also hearing a lot about low expectations, right? And those low expectations I mean when you have this much turnover and this much dead money the low expectations come with it But the coaching staff and this team want to give a giant middle finger to those expectations And I think are using it as motivation But they also Are kind of sick of hearing about it and I think that's the that's a fine attitude to have right? They know it exists. You can act like they don't hear it They know that it exists. They're they're getting after they're getting asked about it all the time And they don't have any in they don't have any interest in it. I think that there's everybody talks about prove it Prove it prove it competition. They want to go out there and compete improve people wrong They're better than what they think whether that turns out to be the truth or not I I think it's definitely fueling them and they got that big chip on their shoulder for sure Yeah, I mean I think it's something that we talked about when Even when we were talking about this draft class and how a theme of the draft class was that they all have Something to prove and they all have a chip on their shoulder and they all have a chance to go out and play Which I think is something that doesn't always happen but I think You set me up perfectly to talk about what dean peas was talking about and I know everybody's like no tori Don't but I'm going there. I thought his if you haven't listened to his speech from over the weekend about wanting to change the mindset and the culture of defenses in Atlanta and the way that you think about defenses in Atlanta go listen to it I don't want to like put words in his mouth or anything like that But just go listen to it and I think like his sentiment about how He knows that this defense is perceived from the outside looking in And how he wants to change that I thought was very it was a very riveting conversation I think overall and it's one that it's like, okay. Yeah, like we all can say They all can say this and everything and I still believe that this is something that's going to be a two three year transition Not just like one year, but they no one on the field wants to hear that No, Casey Hayward doesn't didn't come to Atlanta to lose games and to be like, oh, like you're on you're on Atlanta's defense Like that's not what Casey Hayward came to do And I think like that's the point that this coaching staff is trying to make it's like you keep telling them like Oh, they're bad. They're bad. Like they'll start to believe it.  So I think That is kind of where The conversation is right now. Yeah, and I think marlin davison he talked a lot about that He said he sees the headlines. He sees things on social media But his coaches tell him, you know, don't pay attention to those things because they could really mess up their mind So I think everybody on defense has that mindset of you know Just blocking out the noise and focusing on what they can control and improving upon that and You know, I think what d&p said in the press conference, you know You could tell he really wanted to get that out and he really wanted to address that for a long time. So Man, I'm excited for this defense. Like it's so many great pieces Um, and you know, I really have a good feeling about what they're going to do this season Yeah, I think Dean's done it a couple times now or you're right He's clearly been thinking about something beforehand has an opportunity to talk about it and really takes advantage of the fact on the just Why why would you accept mediocrity? Why would you accept anything less? And I think that that's a good attitude to have is they continue to build this thing and change the culture and all that kind of stuff So much of their competitive success is going to depend upon the guys Undercenter throwing the football Going back to the first day Charles london and kind of mentioned that marcus mariota was the quote-unquote starter I think he sort of meant was the starter maybe dot dot dot Right now or if you were to go into the season right now Um, I think it is marcus mariota. It's kind of the clear and obvious qb1 here Tori and I have been saying that for months. Yep. No that that was the expectation and I think it still is the expectation but I guess I'll just open it up in impressions of marcus mariota and desmond ridder And it's really just two quarterbacks throwing a lot of passes kind of what are what are everybody's thoughts about How these guys are doing um as we progress through the summer. Yeah, I I think Again, it goes back to I just want to see more. I think I I think that From watching them. I think they have a we talk about the command of this center position And arthur smith has talked a lot about the command of the quarterbacks And that was something that charles london when we were talking to him He was like I want to he was like I want to be able to see That the install is there and they just go out and do it in that there is no and if or buts They do it they perform and we can see them perform And I think like in that regard I feel pretty confident in saying that they're at a good spot that marcus mariota and desmond ridder are Understanding the playbook understanding why they're running certain things. I feel good about saying that now I still need to see so much more from these guys because again, we're not seeing a lot of like 100 11 on 11 Series I think today was the first day. We're talking on tuesday today was the first day that we actually got to see A hurry up session right like a two minute drill Today was the first day that we got to actually see that and so I think the more that i'll be able to see that the more I'll be able to give a better answer as to Where I think they are and how I think they're doing but for for right now I do think they have a good understanding of the scheme and what arthur smith wants them to do I think there are still times when A watch a play and i'll think was that a bad throw or was that a bad break or are they not Are they working on yeah, or are they working on something that they're not quite in sync with They're working on new things that that's why it's tough to judge over the course of a couple of practices They've only had two in paths to say exactly where everybody is I will say that I think marcus mariota looks very comfortable In what he's being asked to do And I think that's a good thing For this point being in command Hearing some of the offensive line talk about the fact he's taken him out to denner He's playing golf with with with cow pits. He's getting to know this team He's being a good leader and all these other types of things. Um, I think all those things are important as he Tries to reestablish himself as an as an nfl starter So I feel comfortable at least saying that that he seems comfortable He seems like um a good not a raw raw guy, but somebody who is capable of leading this offense You know, so, um, you know how it all turns out, you know, we don't know but tbd. Yeah tbd But what are your initial impressions of ridder or uh mariota? I want to go back to what you said earlier about when he threw the ball in the crowd I think you could tell that marcus mariota is starting to feel confident really confident and getting to and get into his element Um, and I think you know if he continues to carry that same passion that same confidence Um, you know, he can be really great this season, you know, like there were there are some low expectations For this offense, but um, I think marcus mariota is it's truly tunnel vision going into this season And you know in these couple of weeks of training camp and um, I think the more he continues to learn this offense The more he continues to learn this scheme and um, just to put the pieces that are around him He's I think he can be really great. Yeah And he was talking in his monday press conference that he doesn't take this opportunity lightly That he understands what's at stake here I think he knows that times running out to reestablish yourself as A starting quarterback in this league. Yeah, there's definitely that that hourglass because he was he was a He was a strictly a number two in vegas and that's two years Yeah, if you don't take advantage of the next opportunity, will you get the next one? Yeah, will you get another one? He seems to understand the gravity of all that. I think he ended up in a pretty good position To be able to take advantage of this chance. So it's all going to be interesting to see And watch as we continue to march through this training camp We have a bunch more time to go and a bunch more podcasts to discuss everything that's going on Welcome again ashton joining the crew. 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