Hey, hello, buddies. Thanks for watching. Okay, so this is a late night video. It is like midnight and I was researching bolos for my Facebook group and I came across a seller who starts all of their auctions at one cent. So they've got lots of bolos, lots of great information. I'm going to share it with you guys right now. I'm also going to link their store down in the description because I really think there's potential for the possibility to snag a deal and I'll show you what I'm talking about at the end. But first, let's learn about some Bolo items and if you guys are interested in this category, I do have this video right here. Vintage panties get educated, major eBay Bolo if you know what to look for. Okay, you guys, there are certain panties that can go for big money, but you have to know what to look for and you have to know how to photograph the item. So in that video, I share information that I learned to help you guys know what to look for when you're searching for vintage panties. Okay, the next video that I did, and then we're going to get into these bolos, hang tight, is big money bolos people shy away from. And this includes like socks and underwear and lingerie and you guys will be shocked. It is an older video, but most of it is still very relevant. So definitely check out that video as well. Just shocking. And I know some people like shy away from those things because they're too embarrassed to like take them to the checkout or buy them at a garage sale. But they do sell. So just think about if you had your favorite pair of socks and now they're discontinued and you want those socks. Where are you going to look? You're going to look on eBay. All right, you guys. Let's get started with the first item they started as a penny. Add a penny and let's see where it's at. These are active auctions at the time of this video. By the time I share this, they will probably Well, I don't know when I'm going to post this. They might be ended. They might not. So again, the link will be in the description. All right. So the first item, sorry, hang tight here. Okay, I wanted to make sure my screen was up. All right. So this is the item that I found When I was searching for a below for my Facebook group and you will see this one in my Facebook group. If you're there, if you're not there, definitely go down to the description and join my Facebook group. Now this brand is not a brand I've ever heard of. It's Spengler Mod or Mode. I don't know what that is. Mode, I think. But they don't even show the tag. They don't even put the brand in the title because what's selling this are the colors, the pattern and probably this Dolman style sleeve. So just a super cool vintage zigzag print sweater. Now remember that vintage items do run small. So always put Measurements in the description to help you not get a return if you're going to sell vintage items. So currently this has one day left in 22 hours. It has 42 bids and it's at $102.50. All right, let's look at another item. So whoops, I thought I had that zoomed in. Makes it easier for you guys to see if I already have them zoomed in. Okay, so this one is a hand knit vintage mohair cottage England fuzzy landscape sweater. So again, this person does a lot of vintage items. They have a lot of keywords so you could even go to their store and just study their listings. Again, no title or no brand was in the title. It's looks like is that Selena knits knitwear. So what's selling this is the print. Maybe that it's mohair. I'm not sure. I don't do a whole lot of vintage clothing. I thought you guys would enjoy this that mannequin needs some pants. All right, the next item, another brand I've never heard of. I don't know if this one is vintage or not. Let's see, made in Japan doesn't look to be A vintage tag, but I don't know pleats, please for Izzy. My cat my yak my yak black pencil dress made in Japan. So amazing dress has two days left. It's at $97 with 28 bids. Next item is this Wolford thong blackstretched turtleneck bodysuit. Again, I've never heard of the brand Wolford. This one is actually new with tags, but maybe bodysuits are trending right now. I have no idea. So if you are a clothing reseller, please let me know in the comments are bodysuits trending. And that one's currently at $76 with 21 hours to go. The next item we all know about Gunny sacks. Definitely a Bolo. I'm actually shocked that this is not Higher, but it still has seven days left. So if you don't know the tag. This is what it looks like. And this dress is amazing. I'm guessing it's going to go pretty high again currently at $61 with seven days left. The next item are these satin stretch. These are actually made in form. Okay, and they're high cut and shiny. So shiny would be a good keyword satin is what sells you guys people will pay up for satin panties. This one is currently at $62 with 57 bids. And it has 21 hours left. So if you see this material, consider picking it up. Definitely look up comps. I will tell you that vintage underwear cannot be sold in like the new panties section. It has to be under specialty vintage women's vintage clothing lingerie panties. So there are a market for these panties because they are retired. You can no longer get them. I personally prefer to sell things new with tags, but this is very, very common and These items just go for a ton of money. This tag looks new to me. So this could be a situation where maybe it was never used or washed.  Usually on on the tag area. You can usually tell if something's been washed. So anyway, this is currently at $57 and the buyer pay shipping 21 hours to go. Now, Victoria's Secret second skin satin is a Bolo. It has been a Bolo since, gosh, since I can remember, it's just a Bolo. People love the second skin satin line. I'm surprised that Victoria's Secret has been a Bolo since Victoria's Secret doesn't bring it back because it is retired vintage hard to find and goes for big money almost always on eBay. Go ahead and do a search on Victoria's Secret second skin satin search solds high to low and check it out. You'll be amazed. The next. Okay, so here we are in their store. So you can see they start everything at one cent. Okay, so stay tuned. I'm going to show you some solds, some Bolo items to give you guys more information on what to look for. But all of these items are currently still at one cent. So the shipping is a little bit high. But But If you can get it for one cent, there still be maybe some money for you to make if you put it on a buy it now. But again, I feel like this person has kind of built up their store so that they have regular customers that know that they start their items at one cent and more than likely a lot of these items are going to get a bid. So we'll talk more about that at the end. Alright, so here is an item that they sold it as a vanity fair vintage mushroom granny silky nylon pillow tab panties. Okay, you guys, if you go and watch my video. I'm going to talk to you about pillow tab and how to get great photos or I don't take the great photos, but I look at other listings that show you guys great photos. So definitely check out that video. These sold for $550 you guys with 20 bits and it doesn't surprise me vanity fair if you can find these mushroom granny with the pillow tab. They are almost always big money so Definitely be on the lookout. Now here's another one victory secret. Again, it's a satin stretch. I don't know if these are the second skin satin but Again, the tag looks to be almost brand new. Doesn't appear to ever be worn. I don't know where they got a mannequin that wears underwear like that. That's crazy. Anyway, $300 with 41 bids on those And I'm going to show you more than just underwear you guys. So here's that brand again. It's Izzy my hockey. I don't know. Showstopper jacket and that jacket is amazing. It's a pleated and it's made in Japan again. And it sells, they sold it for $285. I'd really like to know what this brand retails for. But there you go. That's what it looks like. Pretty cool, right. And I really think they did a good job of showing the pleating because sometimes that's really hard to capture with A dark navy or a black top or jacket. You just it's hard to see the detail. So I think they did a good job. The next item is this Gunny Sacks boho skirt. I didn't even know that Gunny Sacks made skirts. So apparently those are also a Bolo item. This is It's sold for $255 plus shipping The next item is this Rakshya Rakshah R. A. K. S. H. A. of Hinden. Oh my goodness. It's from London. It's a maxi dress. And there is the tag. It looks like it was sold at Neiman Marcus. I'm going to say Maybe that's vintage, but I'm not 100% sure they didn't put vintage in the title. They basically just added the information from the tag and this sold for $248. Again, check out how they're putting multiple views in one photo. That's probably so they can show you more angles of the item When eBay only gives us 12 photos. So they're, you know, using up those, but they didn't even use all the photos. I don't know. That's what my first thought was is they didn't have enough room to get all 12 photos, but They didn't use all the photos, but this is a great way to show Different views. And there's apps that do that. I forget what they're called, but I have a couple on my phone. The next item is this 70s dress. It says Indian vintage Gauze cotton hippie ionic wedding boho poet See what I mean The key words are amazing so Just a cool vintage dress and it went for $227.50 plus shipping The next item is this vintage Gucci authentic mushroom floral hand rolled silk scarf Okay, so hand rolled guys if you ever find scarves that are hand rolled you definitely want to look them up You can see right here. This is what it means for an item to be hand rolled So It's I believe it's been hand stitched, you know what I mean? So it's not by a machine and this brings the value of the item up now This is Gucci. That's helping this also This one sold for $224.50 and the buyer paid shipping The next item is this Christian your body suit. It is vintage and Again, do you see how they're holding it up to the window so the light shows through and you can actually see the pattern That is definitely something that you should do There's the tags so this seller really knows how to present their items 180 to 50 on that one and the buyer paid shipping This one is Olga. It's another brand some of the vintage items do well. Some of them are bread and butter so Not all of them go for a hundred and sixty nine dollars and fifty cents. You definitely have to find The right stuff now this one is a size 42, so I'm guessing that's a plus size item which probably Maybe made this go for more not really sure Second skin satin guys, but this one is not Victory secret it is a vanity fair So it's satin. Do you guys see the trend here? These satin panties just are big money 160 to 50 on that one The next item this one really surprised me it's vintage victory secret liquid sat or yeah liquid satin String thong bikini. Okay. I didn't see the satin so I'm less surprised now that I see that it's satin, but even the V strings or the thongs again the tag looks brand new 140 750 on this Okay, so I have went into their feedback and I put in the word liquid and You're gonna see Right here Vintage Victoria secret liquid satin string thong hundred forty seven fifty so this buyer paid for this item Received it and left positive feedback now. I will tell you guys that with vintage Clothing Specifically panties and stuff like that a lot of times they will not leave feedback Just for privacy So let's keep going here. Here's another victory a secret satin stretch This is a different style and this one sold for a hundred and twenty two fifty Again the tag looks brand new I want to know where this seller gets all of this victory secret Because wow lots of money Here's a grateful dead t-shirt kind of out of this seller's Norm of things they pick up, but definitely a Bolo sold for a hundred and twenty two fifty plus shipping The next item is this lady Duff another brand. I've never heard of so I wanted to share it with you guys I do wish that they would have put a picture of the tag which they did in most of their photos Not sure why they didn't in this one, but this one sold for a hundred dollars and one cent another victory a secret Second skin satin or actually this one is called satin stretch So maybe there are different styles that one has a little fraying on the tag But still looks to be in decent condition 105 50 on that one The next item is another one and this is a bikini panty you guys so it's got the full back But it's got the strings on the side. It's a string bikini again tag looks great sold for $93 plus shipping This one is beautiful. It's from the 60s and it's amazing vintage pastel lingerie nightgown dress by Radcliffe and That is just really really pretty you can see the tag there is really old It's got that pretty belt and it looks to be an excellent condition I'm actually surprised this didn't go for more it's sold for seventy six dollars and fifty one cents now had the Seller done a buy it now or best offer and price this high. They may have gotten more for this maybe not I'm not an expert in vintage clothing. I just think it's really cool So there are some downfalls to doing one set auctions But you get a lot of interest the next one is this vintage panty girdle shaper It's a 4x and it sold for sixty seven dollars now People collect this stuff and I guess maybe you somebody wants to wear it. I don't know Doesn't look very comfortable 67 dollars on that one plus shipping Okay, you guys so now I am in their store and I am under their sold listings and I'm gonna show you everything that sold for one cent plus shipping and Do I recommend? Being a seller that starts auctions at one cent. No, there's no way in the world. I would do it. I know that If you start it and you expect to in the beginning Kind of get hit because you you don't have that brand yet But if you market yourself as I do one cent auctions I'm sure that you will get a big following and it could pay off But I'm gonna show you right here a lot of items that went for one cent So I don't know that seems like a lot of work to list something for one cent and have it sell for one cent But you saw they have a lot of items that sell for big money and I didn't show you all of them I just picked I Don't know what 15 or 20. All right. So here this scarf went for one cent. These are the items that sold for I I've got it from lowest to highest so you can see Where these are at Now the shipping is kind of high I'm wondering if They just do a flat rate of eight dollars and seventy five cents and then they ship it first class So that way they're not taking a total loss. I'm betting that's what they do But I'd have to go in and look. Oh my goodness. They even offer free returns Wow So if somebody buys this for one cent They ship it to them and they're like, oh, I don't really like it Or it doesn't fit right They get to return it and the seller is gonna pay the return shipping Wow and on undergarments. Wow, that's amazing. I don't know. I would not do that That's personally me but obviously this seller has a plan and It it seems to work sometimes and right here. I don't know. It's not working great in other cases So they may be in the process of still building their brand, which is great for you guys If you want to watch their store I'm not a big Vintage seller for clothing. I'm trying to get out of clothing. So this really isn't something that I'm gonna watch but If you do your homework and search the items and you can snag them for like look at this dress. It went for a dollar Snag them cheap it might be a way to get some inventory So all of these items Wow, I mean, that's a Ralph Lauren silk scarf I could see you know that going it's hand rolled. I Mean you could definitely list that kind of high especially like on Poshmark I feel like some of these fancier items do better on Poshmark So again, I will link in the description this eBay Sellers store and you guys can go check it out and if you want to look at their solds, you can definitely do that I Did not show everything Here's another hand rolled So I don't know I mean it works for some people and others It doesn't so I I've seen other sellers do this. I in fact I have a playlist on my channel and It is called sellers that start their auctions low It's on my Bola buddies main channel. That's where I'm gonna put this video But if you go to the playlist, it says sellers that start their auctions low and you can go in some of them start them at 99 cents I think there's one where they start their auctions at $9.99 So lots of good people to follow over there. I believe I have them all linked in the description If not, I should show their store at some point in the video and you guys can look them up All right, you guys, thank you for being here Thank you for watching if you like this type of video, please give it a thumbs up and let me know in the comments if you'd like to see more like this and I'm having trouble keeping my eyes open. I am ready for bed So I am gonna end this video and as always, thank you for watching and have a great night


Great to have you still with us here on the Breakfast on Plants TV Africa. Our next conversation is going to be talking about the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines. The federal government of course has announced vaccinations will resume this month and Nigerians of course are still, you know, having different reactions, varying reactions with regards to COVID-19 in general. We've spoken, you know, at length here about, you know, the lack of attention to it, the lack of, you know, it seems like a lot of Nigerians don't seem to bother about, you know, being in the pandemic. The federal government of course, through the NCDC, is doing what it possibly can to safeguard Nigerians and ensure that as many Nigerians are possible or vaccinated against every single variant of COVID-19. This morning we're speaking with Dr. Blossom Madua Fokwa, who's a medical doctor. Thank you so much for joining us. So much for having me. All right. The numbers in Nigeria are rising. The Delta variant, which they have said is more, you know, aggressive, seems to have gotten into Nigeria and of course the numbers seem to be even rising faster than they did last year during the same period. Do you think we should be worried seeing the way things are going? So thank you so much for having me this morning. To answer your question, yes, we should just be worried, but on the one hand, on the other hand, we should also not be that worried. And I'm going to explain myself. We should be worried because the Delta variant is more transmissible. It's also able to put people in hospitals more than the original variant that we had. But the reason I say we don't worry is in pandemics, pandemics come in waves. We know the 1980 pandemic came in up to four waves. So we're in the third wave. So this is what usually happens with these pandemics. People become very cautious, start to adopt North Hamas school interventions. After a while, we can get exhausted. And that is exactly what we're seeing, right? People are tired. People are saying, you know what, we're done with this pandemic. And as soon as people become blacks, the virus begins to transmit itself. Another thing that is happening, another reason why we should worry is the longer this virus stays with us, the more it mutates. So the variant that we have now is not the variant we started with. It's in the very nature of RNA viruses to mutate. So that is exactly what is happening with this virus. It's basically playing out the way we knew that we would. That's why we continue to ask people to adopt North Hamas school interventions where your face coming gets stay away from crowds. And then when the vaccine comes, take the vaccine, that way we're able to build up a new defense against the virus to stop it in its tracks. Yeah. And we've not done very well with regards to vaccinations. I know we're meant to resume second wave of vaccinations this month, but we still have a very, very long way to go. Other countries have spoken about herd immunity. Nigeria, it might take a long time before we even get close to herd immunity here. But share your thoughts on how far we've come with vaccination and how do you think that may have or is in any way helping our cause here in Nigeria? So with vaccinations, we were not able to anywhere our targets yet. Our target, our initial target was to vaccinate 111.8 million Nigerians. But right now we were just at 1%. So we haven't even basically haven't even started. So that's why we need to provide an extra layer for ourselves. People in the developing world that don't have access to these vaccines, we need to continue to maintain those non-pharmaceutical interventions are face covering. We need, we can't get tired of doing these things. They sound so simple. That's why people actually don't think they work, but these things actually work. So before we can get our population vaccinated, we need to protect ourselves by being responsible, avoiding crowds, wearing our face coverings, washing our hands regularly. The government of course will continue to do what's necessary in order to get vaccines into the country. The COVAX vaccines, I think we heard about Modena, I think that might be arriving in Nigeria also. But you know, I want you to share your thoughts on some of the fears that people have that as the vaccine or the virus continues to mutate, the efficacy of the vaccine reduces. And are those serious concerns? Yes, a lot of people have asked me this question and people have valid concerns with vaccine efficacy with the new variants. But a beautiful study came out, I believe it was last month that actually showed that the vaccines are efficacious even against the new variants. One thing we need to be looking at is effectiveness of the vaccine in keeping people out of hospital. So that's really the key thing with these vaccines. An individual may get the infection, but the individual ordinarily maybe would have been hospitalized, would have needed to be ventilated. But with the protection of the vaccine, the person is kept out of the hospital and the person is able to be kept alive. And that's what we've seen at the study that came out last month, that even with against the new variants, the vaccines are still efficacious. Is that research carried out here in Nigeria or outside Nigeria? It was research carried out outside Nigeria. Because remember the Delta variant was just detected in Nigeria just a few weeks ago. So do you think it's sad maybe that we don't have enough research being carried out on a day-to-day basis here in Nigeria to give us better clarity of what our situation is? You're absolutely correct. I mean it's an indictment on the education system in Nigeria, I'm sad to say. But we're not doing enough research in country to aid us in decision making. We tend to rely on research from outside the country. And it's really sad because even testing for example, testing for COVID-19 in Nigeria is way below the level that should be. So if we're not even testing enough, then how then you wouldn't start to do the research? Because we're not picking up all the cases that we have. So we have a lot of layers, a lot of issues that we need to solve before we can get to the point where do you boost research in country? So shouldn't that be a problem? Because from three things that you've mentioned now, we're not testing enough. We're not doing enough research to understand the peculiarities of our COVID-19 situation here in Nigeria. And at the same time we're not vaccinating anywhere close to enough. So are these three factors signs of a complete explosion of COVID-19 here in Nigeria? Because we should also add that people are also not following these non-medical rules. To wear face masks is a struggle here in Nigeria. People aren't washing their hands, people aren't keeping away from crowded places. You've completely preached my message. That is exactly what I'm saying. We're not doing everything that we need to do. We're not vaccinating enough. We're not being personally responsible. We're not doing the things that we ought to do. The only, I'm not going to call it a protective factor, the only factor that we have in our favor is that we have a relatively young population. Only 3% of this country is above the age of 65. And that's why we haven't seen the kinds of numbers that people in places like the US, Italy, in places like Brazil, those places that see it. But that really is our only saving grace. If not, the situation will be completely different. So you have raised four value points that basically I was trying to raise. Fantastic. We also haven't carried out proper research and back to the research conversation to tell us if that truly is why we have so little debt. These are just insinuations, I believe. Exactly. We haven't done enough research. I mean, I'm part of a few research projects and sometimes fund constraints just make it difficult for you to actually go as far as you want to go. So we don't have a supportive environment for research. We don't have enough funding. The brain drain is taking a lot of our good people outside the country. So all these factors really have come together to just put us in a position where we're basically just struggling to meet up with the rest of the world. Yeah. Talk a little bit more also about vaccine hesitancy and those factors here in Nigeria that might be limiting the number of people who actually go take these vaccines. Yes, absolutely. So when we started vaccinating people in March, the vaccine hesitancy was, I mean, we couldn't believe how hesitant they were. I mean, on social media, videos were going viral, all sorts of conspiracies about these vaccines. But then people influential individuals began to publicize their vaccination, began to push the message out, and people actually began to get more receptive. I remember actually walking on the streets with a megaphone inviting people to get vaccinated and listening to their concerns. People were saying, oh, the pandemic is over. People were saying, oh, COVID-19 is for the rich. It's for people in Victoria Island and Lekit Baseball. And when you really sat down to talk to them, you realized we needed to do a lot more community mobilization. We needed to actually get down to the brushrooms and speak to the people where they were. And we found that people now began to get more receptive to getting vaccinated. So now the vaccine hesitancy has reduced to a very large extent based on the risk communication activities that we carried out. Okay. So we don't move too far away from our topic. It's the efficacy of the vaccine. And we're speaking this morning with Dr. Blossom Madua Fokwa. And of course, it's mostly about the Delta variant, Nigeria's COVID-19 situation and what must be done. So let's now move into the what must be done aspects. Now that we're not getting enough of these vaccines, how do you think Nigerians can be encouraged to ensure that they wear their face masks and wash their hands and stay away from crowded places? We don't have enough public information. The Nigerian government doesn't seem to do so much with regards information from the National Orientation Agency using every platform possible to inform more Nigerians about the vaccine. Yes, very, very, very valid point. And it also goes back to what I had said earlier about people getting exhausted with this pandemic. It's almost as if the government has gotten tired of telling people repeatedly to wear your face masks. I remember at the early part of the pandemic where they're always on TV, on radio, on the streets, everywhere, billboards. But now it's almost as if everyone has gotten exhausted with it.  Non-pharmaceutical interventions are key. And like I said, we need to go to the grassroots. I mean, there's a kind of audience that is listening to me right now on TV. But there's also a kind of audience. The majority of Nigerians will not be watching TV. So we need to get to their leaders. We need to get to the key entry points. I remember going to a particular location. And really, we have to speak to the head of the agorals to let us speak to their people. And he actually helped us to mobilize their people. So that's how we get to the Nigerians, wearing our face masks, regular hand washing, avoiding crowds. These are things that we have to keep doing because this pandemic is not going to let off till we're completely, it's completely dawn ravaging the world. So we need to keep doing these things if we can't get tired. Alright, two final questions. So if you can quickly just respond to them as briefly as possible. The first one is, you know, is it true to say that everybody will get infected with COVID-19 at some point, just like the regular flu? Or is there more likely that the virus will be defeated and will eventually fade away? And some people would never get to experience it. And then second, I saw a report on vaccines not being able to fix erectile dysfunction after COVID-19. Is that enough motivation to get vaccinated? Okay. I'm going to take the first question. I'm going to take us back to the 1918 pandemic. The 1918 pandemic got everyone actually got the Spanish influenza. Not everyone got it. So there are things that you can do to protect yourself. I mean, aside from getting vaccinated, if you wear your face covering and avoid crowds, you're less likely to get the infection than someone that is going around and not having a care in the world. To answer your second question, I do not know there's a connection between this vaccine and erectile dysfunction, but I'm pleased to leave it at that. Thank you. All right. Dr. Blossom, thank you so much for your time. Thanks for speaking with us. So we look forward to another conversation. Hopefully when the vaccines arrive, and there's more and more questions to be asked about efficacy again, we'll speak with you. Thanks once again. Thank you so much for having me. Absolutely. All right. Stay with us here on the breakfast. Our next conversation is going to the Southeast, the IPOB's sit at home order. How successful was it? And of course, what are the little details here and there that must be spoken about moving forward? We'll be getting into that after this break. Stay with us.


Alrighty, so we have a really cool update along with a construction update all in one today thanks to wildgravitytravels.com. Go check them out wildgravitytravels.com online as they have HD photos of the ones we're going to show you. I zoomed in these photos to get a better look at them so they are a little bit more blurry in this video than that to the ones on his website. Definitely go check him out wildgravitytravels.com one last time. Anyways, he happened to pop on by the plants yesterday or today. I forget which one yesterday today and grab some shots and yes, we have some dive coaster track for Wonderland on site, which is awesome. It looks like the pullout of the station and the lift hill are ready to go and we should be seeing those arrive sometime soon as well. So again, he popped on by the Clearmount Steel Fabrications in Ohio and grabbed us some shots. So these are the pieces that we've been waiting for and it makes the project that much more interesting and it's going to get even more interesting with these pictures. So here you can see off to the right. That weird looking piece off to the right is the lift hill for our coaster. There's the turn of the station, the piece closest to us and then right off in the distance there in the back is our pre-lift section, the part where it goes from the pre-lift up to the lift and it looks exactly the same to Valraven. There's going to be a comparison photo after all these photos before I go into the construction update and show you our supports. So stay tuned for that. But this project is getting really confusing. It looks like a mirror image to Valraven. In every aspect, the color, the pre-lift angle, the turn of the station, the bolts, everything about it is the same, everything is in the same location, the only difference I can notice and correct me down below if I'm wrong, it looks like our chain dog starts a little earlier than that to Valraven. But yeah, everything about it's the same, the bolts are the same for the turn of the station. I've compared every little bit of aspect. The only weird thing is our track and this photo doesn't do it justice. When it's on a flatbed, it looks really wide. It's about eight feet wide is what we're estimating it when we looked up the flatbed truck that it came on and its dimensions. It comes out to like 8.5 feet and Valraven's track is 6.5. So we don't know if there's a little bit of air there, but it looks like our track might be a little wider, which then brings back this whole theory. Is it going to be 10 across or is it going to be eight across with over the shoulder restraints and not vest? What is it going to be? It's definitely getting interesting. So again, the turn of the station track pieces are done. We have the pre-lift there and the lift hill. A couple of the pieces are there and they'll probably be ready for shipment soon. So there's definitely some primed pieces of track too that they look like they're probably going to be doing soon. Those are primed. Not yet painted. Again, our support beams might not be painted yet either, but it's hard to tell because they do have the codes on them like the other piece of track. But as you can tell, they don't always paint the attachment pieces that could be Y2. So we don't know for sure what color our support beams are fully yet, but there is also some other weird track here. There is some what looks like sit-down coaster, hyper coaster track here. So we have the lift hill for a hyper coaster and some other pieces as well forming for what looks like a hyper coaster and other track. While Gravity Travels told me that this literally was littered with track pieces all around the building. It looks like they're literally producing track left, right and center and it doesn't look like it belongs to one or two coasters. It looks like they're potentially three or four coasters from what we're seeing, which is insane. We know B&M is on high demand lately. People are ordering these coasters left, right and center. It's just getting interesting. Everyone seems to want a B&M coaster. So again, let's get back into it. So you're about to see some shots of some other weird coaster track design. So this is definitely the hyper coaster in my opinion right here. This is probably going to be painted yellow soon and because that track code doesn't match ours and ours is definitely 10 across at all aspects of the ride, but it changes in height up and down. So it ranges from six bolts up and down to eight bolts up and down to 10 bolts up and down. Now this is where you can see different. So you can see some of our dive coaster track off to the left there. You can tell by the spine and you can see some of the hyper coaster track off to the right there. Now all the ones in the left aren't ours either. Just a couple of them and it gets very interesting. So that's hyper coaster track there zero nine or 90 and 102 and none of these actually in this shot are our coaster from what I can tell. None of them have the 10 across bolts that all of our track pieces will have. Now we're about to show you a comparison of Val Ravens lift hill pre lift to our pre lift and they look identical and comment down below if you notice any differences, but it's a weird angle that ours is at. It's backwards. So if you actually look the part there, the gray part of it is actually the bottom of the pre lift. So you can see the flat kind of support beam that you see in the left side there, the flat one that goes into the angled support beam that's in the ground. So that is backwards. You got to imagine it tilted slightly up. It looks like it's at the same kind of angle. It looks to have the same kind of parts. Everything about it is very confusing. So you could see even the elevator attachment piece there. So it's just like, is this going to be a mere image of Val Raven? It looks exactly the same. We know this is a large dive coaster. No matter what it is, the marking is DMG. It probably stands for dive machine giant. That's probably what Val Ravens was to anything over 200 feet has probably marked that. It probably doesn't stand for dive machine giga. But yeah, this is getting really interesting. I have no idea what this project is going to look like now. We know that it's going to be unique as we've said in previous videos. This is probably going to be the most unique dive coaster to come. The timing of the project is super weird. The fact that we have track already. I mean, I compare this to Leviathan. So in October, Leviathan's lift hill was just getting started. We're talking about like the pre-lift, installing the transfer track and all that. Like that was just done in October 11th. I went back and looked at some of my footage online. So I'm like, why is this project getting started so soon? So here's the sport beams I was talking about. English is hard for me right now. It's so hot outside. I just got back from the park. So these are the support beams that I was talking about. Now they don't look painted yet. It's hard to tell because I am suspecting and I know this is weird, but for some reason I'm expecting some sort of like copper or gray or black kind of support beam. And I'm going to tell you why. This coaster goes through a forest and they're going to look for something. I hope it's not brown too, but they're going to look for something neutral that'll blend in and not be like, you know, so ugly in the forest. I mean, I almost feel like the support beam should have been like a dark brown to match the tree trucks and the track should have been a different color. I'm really hoping they don't go for brown on brown. I'm really hoping that they don't do that.  I'm not, I'm really hoping that they don't do purple or like that blue color. Like on Valray then I'm hoping something different just so it blends in a little better. But this is just all so exciting.  It looks like they're shipping it out in groups of four and five, like they produce four or five track pieces, have them ready to be shipped out. And I know from the construction update today that they are already done the pre-lift and now they're building this weird giant structure around the pre-lift. So as you can see, they're getting ready to pour a lot more cement in the pre-lift area. And there's some weird water like proof materials that came in, which I have no idea what could be for or if that's just normal for the coaster. But yeah, lots of weird activity going on in the pre-lift area. It's definitely larger than that to Valray. But it's already Valray been sized with the pre-lift and now they're attaching a massive structure surrounding it. That's just one wall there by the way. So if you look, it's like a massive rectangular or square building frame going around the pre-lift. So that's something that is different to Valray been and there's a lot of digging going on in the station area now from what I can tell. So this is the other end. Vertical construction should be starting again. I'm using should because we don't know anything about the coaster project as a whole. This is just mere speculation should be starting in the next couple of weeks from what we're seeing. There wouldn't be a purpose to ship all the track. Now we know that they don't have a lot of area to store track. So my prediction is that they're gonna be shipping track in groups of four or five and they're gonna be installed and then more track will be shipped and fitted into the storage area. Cause it can't fit a lot of track in that small storage area. The other storage area has haunt buildings and all that in it. So that's full. They don't have a lot of places to store track until the fall when the parking lot's not filling up anymore. So I have a feeling that they're gonna assemble this coaster slowly. Not slowly, but like in groups of four and five instead of like where you typically see all the track pieces just arriving at once. You know what I mean? That just also seems like a smarter practice as a whole. But yeah, you see right here an overall shot. That's massive. The pre-lift is in there. It's really deep down much deeper than that to Valraven. You see Valraven's exact ground level. Well, our pre-lift is actually further down. Anyways, comment down below what you guys think. Hopefully you enjoyed this. Give the video a like. Subscribe if you haven't and share this video. Have a good one guys. Bye.


Welcome back to another edition of the Falcons Ottawa presented by AT&T. Thanks so much for joining us on Spotify, AtlantaFalcons.com, YouTube, and of course iTunes. All of the different channels to get your podcasts. I'm Derek Rackley. He's Dave Archer, and this guy did his job last week, just like we talked about. Again, if you're an Atlanta sports fan, DJ was in Houston last week. No, I missed it. I missed it. He was eating W's. DJ, first of all, before we get into the Falcons, thanks so much for securing that Braves World Series when you're down in Houston. Real quickly, for the folks that are watching, tell us about the atmosphere and experience in the Braves Win the World Series. I want to thank you for obviously putting it all on my shoulders. I really went out now. We do what we can. I did a swell job. I got to save. You know, I had to come home right now. No, but it was an awesome experience though, man. It was cool to be able to go to a World Series and be a part of it. I don't know if you guys ever been to a World Series. I have not, no. It is pretty cool. I mean, it's equivalent to Super Bowl and all that. I mean, just the atmosphere around is cool. I didn't see the whole team do it was making it be more sweeter. So I was a surreal moment for real. Braves take care of business and grand fashion down in Houston. But then we're not going to talk about the Braves. We're going to talk about the Atlanta Falcons and all things NFL today. Before we get started, fellas, here is the rundown of what we're going to cover. Our quick hitter is going to be a Houdat edition.  Atlanta Falcons style. We'll talk about buying or selling. Are the Falcons closers as they closed out another game against New Orleans in the fourth quarter? Storytime. Dave and DJ are going to tell us some of the most satisfying New Orleans wins or victories that they've seen, whether they were a part of them or not. We will take a look at the playoffs because it seems like every week the Atlanta Falcons, they get that victory, kind of pushes them back into that discussion. We'll talk about what it takes, even though there's a lot of season left. Speaking ahead, looking ahead to next week, Dallas Cowboys on the road. Guys will tell us what it's going to take to beat the 6-2 Cowboys. So let's go ahead and get it started. Dave, I'm going to start with you. This is our Houdat edition, a quick hitter. So basically what we're going to do is you're going to tell me a player that you thought was Houdat. Because you know the Saints fans are always screaming a Houdat. I don't even know if there's a definition of it, but we're going to Houdat here, Atlanta Falcons style. So you give me a player that you thought was Houdat in the game last week. Let's go. Here we go. One, two, three. Houdat, James Fodders that. James Fodders. James Fodders had the strip sack, of course, did an outstanding job of creating a play for the Falcons. All right, DJ, Houdat for you from the Atlanta Falcons. All right, Houdat, Alamadez, the key is that dude. I mean, you're talking about a guy came in, had three targets and two of them go for touchdowns, three catches. And the thing I love most about OZ was his awareness within routes. Like the second touchdown where he has to kind of pin, pin Billy back, back out and go back to the right side and just kind of uncovered from that for the touchdown was big and knowing what to sit down on the first touchdown was big. So Alamadez, a lot of credit, man. Two big touchdowns in that ballgame. All right, we got Fodders is Houdat because of his strip sack. We got Zaccheus is Houdat because of his three catches, two of them going for touchdowns. And I'm going to say Matt Ryan is Houdat for his performance last weekend. When you complete 76, 77% of your passes on the road against the Saints and divisional opponent. Three touchdowns total, no interceptions. That's taking care of business and it's giving your offense the best chance to succeed. And ultimately your team, the best chance to win a game. So as much criticism as Matt Ryan takes is the quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons. I think he's also got to get some credit. Speak that right is due. Speak that right. Ryan is Houdat. All right. So there's your three Falcons that are Houdat. So let's dive into this a little bit more. So this is one of the fourth time this season. Maybe that we've seen the Atlanta Falcons close out a game in the fourth quarter. I think a lot of people would say this is not necessarily how you draw it up. I mean the game was in control for Atlanta and then New Orleans give them credit for scrapping their way back into it. Maybe Atlanta got a little bit too complacent towards the end of the game. Tough to manage when you have such a big lead. But Dave, your thoughts on Atlanta, have they shown enough to be closers or is it still TBD for you? So always be closing. Glinglary Gunn-Ross, right? Always be closing. So I think that there's, and I, you hate to hedge it, but I think they are learning what it takes to win at the end of football games. I think Arthur Smith is learning how to win games at the end too. I've talked to Arthur every game, pre-game, and always talked to him after the game. And he talks about how do you call a game? How do you finish a game? Offensively I think he's getting that done. I still think there's some ground to travel defensively as to how you win games. Can you win the game with your defense on the field? I think you'll love the fact that if Ryan gets the ball at the end of the football game with a chance to win the game, I mean, he's only done it 41 times. No big deal. He's going to find a way to get that done. But how do you play complementary football in the fourth quarter if you have a big lead like this where you get first downs, work clock, run it down to where the defense is it back on the field after consecutive three and outs? That's the one they got to, that's the one they got to figure out. If they can get that figured out, they truly are. Do have that dimension of being a closer.  What are you supposed to do? Drain the clock. Well, how do you drain the clock? You run the football, right? Well, the Falcons try to run the football and they go three and out basically, right?  They're being a little bit too conservative. Why don't we mix some throws in there? Well, then guess what? You get a couple incomplete passes and you're stopping the clock, right? So everything is good when the plays are working. When you're running the ball and you're picking up first downs, when you're throwing the ball and picking up first downs, yeah, that's the ideal situation, DJ, but it wasn't necessarily like that. So do you feel like Atlanta is a closing team or still something to be determined?  And for me, what I wanted to say was similar to what Dave said was, which is it comes from the top. It comes from the coaching. It comes from being the style in which they called the game at the end. And the one thing that I'll add to what Dave said, I'm not going to repeat what he said because it's absolutely right. And I'm on that same kind of wavelength on their learning how to do it. But the fact you do it on the road, the fact you do it when everybody's against you, that you can keep everybody together and everybody's against you and things aren't going your way. Like you just mentioned, hey, you got a lot of stuff going for you. You're up 18, but then here they come storming back. You get some penalties that go against you.  They're laying the ball game that kind of helps them. But you find a way to get it done in a hostile environment and you continue to do that. So that gives me a lot of confidence to know that this team will absolutely do it and will continue to do it because they've shown it on the road, which is it usually you don't hear about it. Usually it's the team that's at home. You can find a way to do it. You got your home crowd. You can build on all that. But when you're away, that makes it even tougher. So give a lot of credit. Like I met you last week to the leaders of this team.  A minute ago, and you got to go down to score. They just took the lead. And number two, it doesn't even blink. He walks in the huddle. First play. And they asked him as the game. What did he say? He said, he said, we're going to go win. Like that kind of stuff you need to have around your team and your environment.  And then give, like I said, a lot of credit. Arthur Smith or not just trying to, you know, hey, just didn't get dunked. Let's pick up a couple yards here. Hey, let's go back to what worked. Usually a lot of coaches don't do that. If something works early in the ballgame, you don't see it happen too often.  And I love the play call. The thing that I think that we got to keep into consideration of this closing thing. And it's tough.  We saw Baltimore what a couple of weeks ago on a Sunday night come back from 17 down to win a game. It's not just happening here in Atlanta. It's hard to hold on a lead like you said, Rack. So how do you do that? So Arthur Smith has dramatically changed his play calling in that situation. And he did in this game. He was very aggressive. You remember they scored the touchdown, missed the two point conversion. It's now 24-19 is the score. We come right out. And he's throwing the ball. It's a play-action two-man route where they're trying to hit a big shot. And if they don't tackle Kyle Pitts, it's going to be a 40 or 50-yard play. They get defensive holding. They come back out. They run the zone read. A different look out of that. Then they come back and try to throw the ball again. And Alameda Zaccheus falls down. He's trying to do a little retrace back outside against man coverage because he knows they're committing resources to stop the run. So this wasn't one of those scenarios where he ran it three times and just ran the clock. The beauty of that sequence that's going to get lost on the fan, and I want to try to remind him, is your quarterback who you just said completed 75% of his passes in the game. He also thinks through, OK, if I throw an incompletion here, the ball, it's going to stop the clock. Take the sack. I'm taking the sack. And they talk, that was strategic in that situation. If you don't have it, take the sack. Don't throw the football away to conserve yardage. We're going to need the clock moving. That was a play that dictated that's what you need to do. That's a cerebral type play. Even though you look at it, that's a negative play as a sack. On the defensive side, remember, Dean Pease is having to manufacture pass rush. That means five, six guys coming at the quarterback. We saw Faya Lua can come clean. We've seen Dion Jones come clean. Guys coming off the slot. When you go into that prevent defense, you can't manufacture pass rush. Now the four guys have to get home. And they're not doing that to our satisfaction yet, which means the quarterback has enough time to throw the football.   Why are you playing so aggressive on defense? The guy just ran by you. Or you play back and say, why are they giving up all those throws? It's a really tough nut to crack defensively for Dean right now because he doesn't have fire breathers. Maybe one, occasionally another one, but maybe it's just Grady that can come after the passer to create that pass rush where I can drop seven in the coverage. So it's easier said than done when you look at it. And one last thing I'd like to add to the one particular play that Archie's talking about where Foyer comes clean. And this has made something that fans may not even see and maybe recognize. You got Grady Jared outside in a nine technique. You're moving him all around to try to create ways for guys to get pass rush. And in that particular play, they use all three guys on that defensive line and they push everybody to the right side. Guy crossed his face and it forces that guard to come by and now you've got a free runner and Foyer and he has to let that ball go maybe a half a second sooner than he wanted to, but everything is working together. They dropped Dante Fowler out right under where Camaro is going to be. You see Dion Jones dropping to his area.  Yeah, the interesting thing that we talked a lot about the fans, right? Fans is watching this. And I think it's easy to be critical on this game, especially with the Falcons performance on, they had such a commanding fourth quarter league and they let it slip away, right? So a lot of people want to criticize, but here's what I'll say. All three of us played this game. There's three things that came out of this victory that I want everybody to understand. They want a game in the NFL, which is extremely difficult to do. They want a game against a divisional opponent. Big. And they want a game at a divisional opponent. Okay. So for everybody who wants to be critical, these three right here will tell you that is a great win. And as we sit here today, those Falcons and the coaching staff and the personnel sitting across the street, they are happy right now. They are extremely happy because it doesn't matter whether you win 27 to 26 or you win three to two in the NFL. If you win a game specifically against a divisional opponent, it's a great week for you. We all agree. Absolutely. You run and don't let the door hit you in the rear end on the way out. We're going to go watch the film. We're going to get better for the stuff that we've made a mistake about. But guess what? We got to win. We're four and four and we're still in this hunt. And we can all say in here, it is far better to get teaching points than all the coaching points after you win a game than when you lose a game. So there's no question that, yeah, they know they have a lot of stuff to fix and get better at and we're in week eight and we're making some of those progressive moves. But it's a lot better to do it after W. 100%. This episode in part brought to you by the Home Depot. Everything you need for your next home improvement project is just a tap away on the Home Depot app. The Home Depot app digital toolbox gives you access to how-to guides, project calculators, and image search. So you'll know exactly what you need to pick up. With the tap of the finger, you can rent and reserve the right tools for the job. Also, browse through millions of items from top brands that you can have delivered right to your door. Whatever your project, find exactly what you need with the Home Depot app. Download the Home Depot app today. So let's maybe take a half a step back away from this game and let's just let's kind of wrap up the Saints discussion with the guys to give us an opinion on the most satisfying win over the Saints. Because as we know, this is a bitter rival and they like to take their shots at the Falcons whenever they can. So when we get a victory, I want you guys to talk about maybe was this the most satisfying win? Was there one in recent memory or does it go back 15 or 20 years? Does anything stick out to you, Dave, as far as a most impressive victory over the Saints? Well, I gotta tell you, Rack, I've been a part of this rivalry for a long time. I played in this game five or six times. I never lost to the Saints in their building.  We beat them 31 to 10 and 86. I mean, we have beaten... In recent memory, I think that the game in 19 was one that Atlanta was really struggling, right? And just couldn't get a win. And New Orleans and San Francisco are both on their ways to, you know, win in the division, or at least being the representative in the playoffs.  I thought those were two really good wins. But that win in New Orleans specifically, Sean Payton and Drew Brees' team had never been held without a touchdown. Grady Jarrett, I think, had two or three sacks in the game. They sacked Brees seven or eight times and won the game, I think, ironically enough. It was like 24-9, which is kind of what the score was, I think, or 24-6 was what the score was before they began their comeback. So that one sticks out in my mind. This one ranks up there. Because this is a game... You just lost the game at home. You were supposed to win. Yes. And you needed to go on... And I don't think... Did anybody give them a chance to go beat New Orleans? In New Orleans, after New Orleans, just beat Tampa, the World Champs? Yeah. Nobody. This was just right up there. DJ, how about you? Yeah, I'm on the same boat. I mean, there was... I'm gonna be a prisoner of the moment because of what this meant and ours just lined it up as far as what just happened the previous week. We just talked about it. Winning a division game is big and you just didn't do that the previous week. They were coming up for big win. They had a quarterback who gained a lot of confidence after beating the World Champs in his own building. So he's coming and feeling really good about yourself. And you come into a ball game where you feel like if you don't have this, then you fall way back behind in the division. And you think about being at the bottom. Now you're talking about, hey, you got a chance to be at the top of the division and playing for January football, which is what you all want. And if you don't get this win, it hurts you. But the fact that everything going into this ball game tells you you should not win this ball game. You got one of your main weapons that's been out for a couple of weeks now and you're still trying to figure out who's gonna be that next guy to step up on the outside. We just talked about what they were coming in with. So everything pointed to you not going into this building and getting a win and you come out and you get the win. So this absolutely was a big win for this organization for this year. One last stat on this game real quickly. When you start thinking about improvement, are we improving as a team? When you look at the defense, you gave three touchdowns to the fourth player. They're not improving defensively. Let me give you just a quick stat. You've been run over the last couple of weeks in the run game. We talked about Carolina 198 on the ground. Miami was 125 plus. This was a same team that was averaging 125 yards a game on the ground. Alvin Camara, Ingram running the football. They got 83 yards rushing in the first half. Okay, you think, wow, okay, I mean, that's more of the same, right? And it looked like at the first three or four, maybe the first 20 minutes of the game. They had 26 yards rushing in the second half and it's not because they didn't run it. Alvin Camara had seven carries for 42 yards. He had six yards of carry in the first half. He carried it six times in the second half, eight yards.  There's a lot of reasons why there's some names that we want to tell you about, I guess, here in the show. But they're doing some things on that side of the ball that's improving. They're getting bigger bodies on the field. There's some things happening there. So pump your brakes on this defense is not very good because I think they're really trying to reach out. Dean Pease is doing a good job. But Terry Fontenot and Arthur Smith are going out and putting guys in that they're developing here in practice. They put some of those guys on the field. We saw Votters make a play. Anthony Rush, six-foot-five, 350-pound nose tackle, created problems in the run game. That's some of that stuff you're looking for for an improvement standpoint. Well, DJ, you talked a little bit about the playoffs. And we discussed it a couple of weeks ago. And then that discussion kind of went away with the loss to the Panthers, right?  But it's back into the discussion now because if you look at projections, and again, we understand there's a lot of football left. But the Falcons sit in the seventh playoff spot right now. And just like you said, DJ, it's just about getting into the dance, getting into the postseason, and then anything can happen, right? So what are you guys feeling as far as the Falcons being a playoff contender? What do they need to do throughout the rest of the season? Obviously, it's win games, DJ. But we got to go deeper than that, right? What does Atlanta need to do to keep themselves in the discussion of a playoff berth?  You're going to have some games at home you have to win. I mean, we've got to call a spade a spade when you're winning games on the road, which is great, which is, you know, what you want. But you've got to be able to win in your own building to get to January, which is important. But I think the next step is, offensively, we have to find a semblance of a run game. We have to have it.  But we can't expect that every single week. We can't expect teams to play that man free and allow quarterback Patterson to be one-on-one on the outside and win. That's not going to happen every single weekend. We're going to go against defenses who are just as good as New Orleans, but they're not going to allow that. They're going to see that, hey, this is what you do in crunch times. You find your playmakers. We have to be better than one point whatever it was running the football. Matt Ryan was the leading rusher in the ball game at five carries for eight yards. I mean, are we kidding me? I mean, we can't have that. We have to find some semblance of a run game. We said it since day one. This offense is predicated of having the play action. Everything has to go into one. And when you have that value in your offense, it makes it that much better. And you think about it, if you have that, how much better this offense will continue to be when you already got a quarterback who knows going to take care of the ball and is going to distribute the football the right way. But if you have a run game involved in it, it gives you an even better chance to win and makes you even more valuable.  And I'm with two quarterbacks here, right? But they understand the importance of a run game and how it ends up helping your passing game. You've got to be able to take that second safety out of the backfield. And you've got to get the linebackers to respect the line of scrimmage when there's a play fake in the backfield to open up those slants, to open up those skinny posts. Dave, is it similar for you? Is it run game or what else does it land and need to do down this stretch to get themselves into the postseason? I think you have to play really clean, Rack. I think that this is a team that's going to have to eliminate some of the dumb mistakes. I don't think that they're so dynamic on either side of the ball. There's certainly some semblances of it on the offensive side. Defensively, it's a little bit finer edge. You can't have the pass interference calls. We can't have the rougher-than-the-passer calls. Got away with it this weekend, but you have to play cleaner in the game so eliminate some of those negative plays that extend a drive. You're always going to have a bad call or two in a game and you just got to live with that.  I just think playing cleaner, and I'll give you, for instance, we were talking about it before the show started. Fabian Moreau, who I think has done a pretty solid job at corner, I've got to understand that if I'm on the goal line, I can't backpedal because they ran a speed out for a touchdown. I can't give any ground there. I've got to play my technique a little bit tougher. So that means that just that little, and it's a little thing, but play it a little bit cleaner. I'm there. I knocked the ball down. I'll tell you, that's the most dangerous though you can make. Go ask Joe Burrow how that throw worked out for him on the goal line this last week. I went 100 yards for a touchdown. You have the back line to protect you. You've got the sideline to protect you. Don't backpedal. You don't need to go anywhere. Just squat on the route. That's my fear as a quarterback. They're going to squat on the route. Throw a speed out. That's a dangerous throw. Boom. It's going in the direction. So just little things like that. Richie Grant makes the tackle and the kickoff. He throws the guy out of bounds. You don't need to do that. Even though you're just kind of trying to get off him, he throws the returner out of bounds. You get a 15-yard penalty. Now you shorten the field. Those things have to go away coupled with what you guys are talking about. Being able to run it, protect, keep play action involved, those kind of things. But I just think the technique stuff has to be a little bit cleaner for Atlanta maybe than it needs to be for other teams. You're not quite as talented across the board maybe as other teams are. Yeah, DJ is talking about run game needs to be better. Dave is talking about being maybe a little bit more situationally smart and not necessarily third down in everything you're talking about. Moreau, that's understanding the situation where you're at on the field, right? One of the things that comes to mind, actually two things.  And can Atlanta make sure that one of those four to six plays is not like that passenger clearance that gives up 60 yards. Is not the holding penalty after a 60 yard completion on offense that backs them back up. Because when I look at it, I feel like the Falcons margin of error is small, right? Because they're just not a complete team yet. Another thing that comes to mind is and this really hasn't been a problem for Atlanta, it was for New Orleans in the game last weekend is drops can't be an issue in the passing game. We know that Matt Ryan is a very good quarterback and he's going to give his wide receivers and running backs opportunities to make plays, but drops cannot become a problem later in the season. Every time you get a step on the defense and the ball's there, you've got to make the play. Whether it's TaJay Sharp or it's Kyle Pitts, you've got to make the play. If it's as simple as a four yard catch or maybe a 44 yard catch, these are all the little things that these three here feel like is going to help Atlanta get into the postseason. Well, getting into the postseason might take a victory over a team like the Dallas Premier, Ben, kind of one of the class teams of the NFC. Falcon's got to go on the road this week to play Dallas. Dave, I'm going to come back to you. This is kind of a special matchup for you too.  Yeah, I can give you a couple of quick stories about Dallas. We played them my second year in the league. We went out there, we're up 10-0 at halftime. I do three interceptions second half. We lost 21 to 10. And after the game they're a venerable coach with the little fedora and stuff. We're talking about how they intimidated me. And they didn't. I just didn't play well. I just didn't throw very well. They said they intimidated you? They said we think we intimidated the kid. It was on my second year in the league. It was only like my fourth start in the league. So I said, okay, well I filed that away. I had no idea we were going to play in the third game of the season the next year. Both teams are undefeated. We won our first two games going in and we go to Dallas. Atlanta had never beaten Dallas in Dallas before. And we won a classic game, 37-35. We made a couple plays late in the football game to win.  And we won the football game. And we left there with our chest stuck out and all that kind of stuff. But I just remembered, you always think about bulletin board material, right? Does it really exist? I never forgot that they had said that they had intimidated me and I could not wait to play against them the next year. And we went in and got a W. So you got to kind of go in when you play on the road. You guys, we've all played in games on the road. We all won games on the road. You got to go in a little bit of chip on your shoulder, circle the wagons mentality. This team seems to have a little bit of a bunker mentality about them that they kind of dig doing that. And I like that. I like that they've got it. Now we got to get it figured out here when it's all of us in the same building. We're all Falcon fans. But on the road I like their mentality. Make no mistake though this Dallas team, they just kept knocked off by Denver kind of got surprised. Dak Prescott didn't play well. They're going to be ready to play. This is not going to be a surprise if Atlanta wins the game. Dave, let me tee you back up on something that I've thought about. I know Falcons fans. I know the players across the street again. They've got a familiar matchup this week. Dan Quinn, defensive coordinator for the Cowboys is going to be going up against Matt Ryan, a guy that he coached for a number of years. Do you feel like that favors one matchup or either side of the fact that Dan Quinn knows Matt Ryan some of these players so well or do you feel like it's just going to be business as usual? I think there's a little bit of a probably a little bit of bonus on both sides. I mean Ryan understands what Quinn wants to do defensively and Quinn his defense ebbed significantly from the time he first got here as a cover three rush four guy to essentially bring in kind of like what we're doing now bringing more pressure playing some more man coverage and Ryan watched that evolution and saw that. And so he understands how to compete against his defense here in practice. But I also know that Dan Quinn knows the throws Ryan doesn't want to make. Yes. And can he force him into those throws and force him into a situation where he's uncomfortable. Dan will know that as well. So maybe that's in the wash. Right. You know but it still will be a factor. It'll still which which guy can impose his kind of his thoughts on the other one. And Q knows a personnel too. I mean sometimes we think about okay a guy knows a particular person like I just mentioned the particular throws maybe Matt doesn't want to make but he knows okay this guy and this protection really doesn't favor well when we bring this kind of blitz or you know this receiver he doesn't really run this type of route every time he's out. So there's going to be a little bit of cat mouths going back and forth but I think once the game gets going it's going to be how do you match it and how do you know play your style against them because at the end of the day he's not going to be thinking about that's Matt I know he likes to do this he's going to be worried about how to get his guys in the right spot. I'll tell you one thing that might play in though. Remember DeMonte KZ playing in the back end of that defense and Keanu Niels playing in the second level. So if there's a player to player scenario Ryan knows those guys extremely well what did I beat those guys on maybe in some one-on-one stuff here in practice that stuff will resonate as well if potentially those matchups come together. Definitely some familiarity I think you make a great point DJ you know Dan Quinn around here when some of these offensive linemen were drafted and maybe he knows from watching in practice that maybe it's a footwork maybe it's going left versus going right and that's can help him in his play calling maybe he brings one extra to a certain side that he feels like there's a weakness on the offensive line so those are some of the cat and mouse things that go on in a matchup like this. I want to go back to you guys real quick on this game just give me one key on you think DJ I'm going to start with you and I'm going to play for ten seconds to give you a chance to think about it. One key that is going to be important for Atlanta going on the road we talked about him being tough going on the road that they're going to need to do in this game to give themselves a best chance to win it could be offense defense or special team. I'm going to deep inside a ball and talk about the obviously being aware of what Dak is because you just mentioned it didn't play his best ball game last week he's going to be salivating to get back and play at a higher level and something that has hurt the Falcons throughout this season is guys who can create once they get outside the pocket we've seen Jaylen Hurts in game one we saw Tyler Heinecky practically bring his team back and win that ball game with the way he moved around so they're going to be situation in this ball game where you have to have eyes on four and if you don't know where he's at or how he's going to improvise or how you stick to a guy on the back end that can hurt you and that's a big part of this ball game is his extension of plays and if they allow that it will be a long day. I will tell you this guys not to digress or anything but I always thought Dak Prescott was a great college quarterback I did not see this I did not see him turning into this type of NFL quarterback so credit to him and the work that he's put in Dave key for you what sticks out to you is most important for Atlanta well we're going to score points this weekend guys I think that Dallas is going to put some points on the board I think it's their offense is going to play much cleaner Dak had been on the bench for three weeks so he looked rusty made some throws that you normally see him make pretty easily didn't make them very well give Denver credit for for being on coverage and being able snuff out the run because Dallas was not able to run it they'll be a better version of themselves this weekend Dak will be a better version of himself so I think that Atlanta is going to have to score points so offensively you're going to have to operate extremely sharp you can bet that Quinn is going to try to take the run away Denver ran for a hundred and ninety yards in the game against them there that's like getting beat over the head you do not want to physically give up that kind of run game they're going to crowd the run I would think early in the football game play action is a major operation for you had success with it I think Ryan was seven of eleven on play action this last weekend for over a hundred yards I think you'll see more of that this weekend on first down take advantage of those opportunities one last big stat that I remember from this last ball game was the Falcons had four plays of thirty plus yards something that this offense was lacking for a while explosive players have now been added to it and that's something that I know DQ and that Dallas cowboy team will be looking forward to and say hey we can't allow that yeah gotta gotta find a way to slip free get behind the defense whatever ends up being so I think it's great insight from you guys as always DJ great to have you back in the studio always great to be back man so hopefully we can continue this momentum a serious victory a Falcons victory and hopefully Atlanta Falcons victory on the road arch always great from you and I just wanted to remind everybody that he was not intimidated my dude don't get intimidated never intimidated that was not it my dog don't get intimidated he's played crappy you said I just played bad you guys didn't intimidate me that could happen I think at least it did for me that's going to wrap it up here on the Falcons audible presented by AT&T once again thanks so much for watching on atlantafalcons.com, YouTube, Spotify and iTunes wherever you get your podcast we thank you so much for joining us we'll be back right here next week to recap against Dallas Cowboys and for all three of us and all those people across the street hopefully it's a victory because there's a lot of bees going on thanks so much for joining us everybody