On the couch with her hood up like this.

I don't let the grass do the talking, which isn't like actual grass talking.

That doesn't sound good.

Happy Friday Falcons fans, and welcome to our new show.

It is called The Friday Five.

I'm Will McFadden.

I'm joined Tory mc laney and Taron Walk who were holding up fives at me, which is awesome.

I love it.

We're getting in the spirit and what this show really is is our attempt to have a little bit more fun heading into the football weekend.

So each show we're going to incorporate some element of five into the rundown.

That's really just kind of it.

Did we just choose five because of the alliteration, Tory?

I think we did.

I don't really actually remember how we landed on this.

I just remember there was at one point where I was like, we have to end every episode like with a joint high five?

And did we did have that?

Like we had that at.

Some point in the early iteration of this show.

I was like, we need to like do something with high fives.

But we're still learning, we're still trying to figure out what this show really is.

Yeah, I mean one week we may have five topics.

The next week, we may have five trivia questions and are spurs throughout shoot one show.

We may all be replaced by five year olds.

I don't know.

We haven't thought through it all that much.

That would be great, though that let's put that.

On the idea doc.

We do have an idea doc on you know enough five year olds?

I don't I'm getting close.

That is true.

Will would know the most kids.

Yeah, that doesn't sound good.

All right, move right along.

So that is the spirit we are bringing to this new show and we're excited to start this journey with you all.

If you have any recommendations or feedback for the show, leave comments wherever you can, whether you want to do that on Spotify, YouTube, hit us up on social, et cetera.

And on today's episode, we're going to share our five biggest things for the twenty twenty five season.

Now, I guess a running pattern already for this is that biggest Things is a little bit nebulous, right, So for some it could be lessons we learned from last year that we're keeping in mind.

It could be the things we need to see from the team this year.

So you know, let's just go ahead and get right on into it.

But before we get to the football, I want to start with a little bit of personal.

I want to get to know my two lovely co hosts here, and we're going to start with Terrean.

So Taran, I want five adjectives, words, phrases to describe you.

Okay, that's not one of them.

I want to all of them right there.

I want to preface this by saying I took it upon myself to be like, what are Terran's five going to be?

And I want to say I got really close.

So I want you to know that.

There's one curveball.

There is one curve ball, and I'm curious why I save the curveball for save the curveball for last.

Okay, So word number one is Nascar.

Am I supposed to describe or give a reason why I just roll?

Keep going?

Okay?

Surin what I don't.

Know that of Thailand?

There are six locations.

I've been to five.

It's a restaurant.

It's a restaurant, right typhood ty t Martini?

Who is having some tonight?

Is it only in Thailand than Okay, just to Thailand.

Visit five of the six restaurants America base gotcha?

Okay, so a small thie chain, yes in America?

Yes, Okay, Spotty cow all hail the best beer to exist Reality TV because we know I'm a huge fan.

And my last one is Stitch.

Okay, that's the one that I have a question about because for those that don't know, Taran loves the movie Cars, similar to Will's son, I am Taren and I used.

To live heard the two sides of the ven diagram for the five year old.

Taran and I used to live together, and I knew that she would be like missing home or like going through something because I would walk into our living room and she would be on the couch with her hood up like this, like so, watching cars, and I knew that she was going through something.

If that was okay.

So the fact that Stitches on here threw me off completely.

I like, I couldn't do cars because I also had Nascar on there, and because you predicted cars, and because Will made me think if I said cars that people are gonna think I'm a car junkie, which they still might because I said Nascar.

But it's fine, Stitch.

You're super into Stitches.

If you google not Google.

If you search Stitch in the gifts on your phone, all of them are just me like as a person, Like that's just like my spirit Animal's interesting.

There's like the sad Stitch, there's the dancing Stitch, there's the angry Stitch.

I relate to Stitch.

Did you see the live action?

No?

Sorry?

What was your what was your kind of like sad?

I feel good movie that you turn on?

Oh man, when I was younger, at any point when okay, so back right now, what's your go to?

It's a bad day, it's maybe it's rainy outside.

Up.

I love a good wrong comment for every like Valentine's Day, for basically like my entire life.

I would watch Letters to Juliet.

I love that movie.

It is one of or She's the Man, She's the Man.

Letters to Juliet my probably my two favorite movies.

Just when I'm feeling a certain type of way, those are my two go tos that make me feel better.

Mine was always this is stupid.

But also, you know, the biggest like millennial boy thing of me is forgetting Sarah Marshall.

For whatever reason, there was something about just seeing like a schmuck go to Hawaii, being down on the dumps that I related to where I was like, I too, am having a bad day Jason Siegel, and I wish I was in a while.

With fifty first dates.

Yeah, that's a good one too.

Yeah, Adam Sandler's having a moment.

Anyway, we're all back the rails, yes, so let's go ahead and bring it on back.

I will share my five first one is cooking pretty good.

Cook Ali benefits on our anniversaries and her birthday.

Is that the only time you cook for her?

No?

I actually cook.

I actually cook dinner.

Like most nights you listened to two days though, this day, well, those are the days where I really really like push myself.

Ironically, we were having kind of the kickoff cookies today and I tried my hand at baking cookies yesterday and it did not go well.

So I'm not a baker.

I'm I'm a cooker.

Cooker right, culinary arts only.

Here's a word for that.

There you go, cooking chef's cinema.

That's my second word here, all right.

I'm a big fan of movies.

You know, when you when you're sports twenty four to seven, you need to kind of relax and take your mind away from it all.

So movies are really my kind of comfort food when I want to chill out.

I'm really smooth when nobody's watching, right, So if nobody's looking at me, I'm gonna, like, you know, the kind of things where like, hey, I got some trash and I'm like gonna shoot in the trash can from like fifteen feet away, like an impressively far, like I'm gonna make that every single time, and then like the minute that I'm just like, DoD anybody see that thing, It's like, no, what are you talking about?

So I always just have to kind of brag about these little random things that nobody else would care about except for me.

See, we can't believe you.

We're just sitting here like m hm sure.

Yeah, well there you go, there you go.

So nobody will ever nobody will ever know animal lover, you know, bring me your dogs, bring me your cats, bring me your hedgehogs.

I love them all.

And then data is my last word, because that is is what Liam currently calls me now, and I love it.

Not McCullough, not not McCullough now.

My son also starts with an mc though, so you know Liam mc tory Tory MC.

Okay, So for Will's cooking, I am actually the anti cooking.

I hate cooking.

Why anything?

I hate Like, I'm not good at it.

I can make scrambled eggs, I can make cereal, and that is about it.

I struggle in the kitchen.

I don't have the patience for it.

I also in hell my food.

So like, if I cook, it takes such a long time and then I eat it in zero point two seconds and then I'm like I did all of that for nothing.

It's true, she does not cook.

I hate it.

You threw me under the bus being roommates.

Yeah, you never had groceries.

It was always like pre made meals, yeah, or uber eat or uberes.

Yeah.

Do you consider making cereal cooking?

No, it's combining.

Yeah, it's like not even making anything.

But at least she bought groceries.

That okay, because she doesn't even do that.

I don't even do Yeah I have.

I have not gone to a grocery store to get anything besides like wine and a prepackaged meal in months.

I just don't like it.

I don't have time for it.

I feel like I can use my time elsewhere.

Wow.

That was a very revealing.

First first word for this.

One's not so.

My second phrase word is not surprising.

I'm pro Taylor Swift just as a human and a person and her music.

I love her.

She's my girl.

Can't wait to go to that wedding.

I will be a bridesmaid.

So number three podcasts, but specifically podcasts about murder.

I love crime junkie.

I love anatomy of murder like I love true crime podcasts, specifically when there's a murder and the murderer is found out.

I think clusing, like one of my favorite games as a kid, really has really yeah, really has transformed into my adulthood.

So they're not a fan of unsolved murders, correct.

I don't like a cold case.

I like those solved murder.

I like being able to wrap it up in one fail swoop.

She knows the murder is not out there, then exactly, I.

Know the murderers hot Okay.

So I My fourth thing is I despise wildcat formation.

I have despised wildcat formation for much of my adult life.

I'm not a fan of it.

I think it's predictable and I don't think it really works.

I know that there are people out there that could pull up ten different plays out of Wildcat formation that have worked and have scorn touchdowns I e.

The University of Georgia circ.

Twenty seventeen.

However, I will never like it poibot period, the.

I mean the Wildcat Like how many running backs right now are are still or receivers right?

Mohmtsanu was kind of the last one I think here to do that.

Like we've seen Drake from time to time, but is the Wildcats?

Is it still coming to get you?

I mean not as much as it was I think five six years ago, and definitely not in the professional landscape.

I think it was more of like a college type of look and something that they would like to throw in.

But there for a while, Uga did it too much and I hated every moment of it.

I literally would see them set up and.

Was Isaiah was it Isaiah Mackenzie?

Yeah, Nicole Hardman or both of Bokay Yeah?

And then Sony Michelle like him.

A couple times I thought that was gonna be your fifth thing.

No, my fifth thing is love's a good frozen marg for Taco Tuesday.

There's nothing that really gets me going quite like a frozen margarita after a long day at work over some tacos and cheese.

I love cheese.

What's your favorite type of cheese?

Oh?

Boy, my favorite scooda to quote she's the man.

Bring it back.

It's like, what are the five biggest cheeses in America?

We had that whole debate and that was amazing.

Not again, yeah, what were they?

No, it said cities.

It didn't say cheese.

It was not the five types of cheeses.

Yeah, the five.

Most cheeses was said, but the question of the day was the five top cities with this, somebody miss that's funny.

All right, let's go ahead and get to the season.

Let's get some football here.

So the Falcons are gonna play their their season opener against Tampa Bay Buccaneers one pm on Sunday.

Be sure to check out our kickoff, our pregame show one hour beforehand on YouTube.

Taylor Vismore Derek Rackley do an amazing job with that.

But this is gonna be less about Sunday's game, more about the season, and Sunday's game obviously plays a very big part in all of that, maybe even a bigger part than in some recent years, given who the opponent's gonna be so Tori, why don't you go through kind of your five and then we're gonna pick one or two to to really kind of dig into and touch on a little bit further.

Yeah, So number one, stay a step ahead of Tampa Bay at all times because I think, I mean, as we all know, Tampa Bay has been very much a team that's been out in front of the division for years at this point.

So you have to stay a step ahead of them throughout the season's entirety in my opinion.

Number two, rethink the way we think about Kyle Pitts, and if you want to touch on that later, I'll elaborate.

Yeah.

Number three, the old cliche about a dynamic run game being a young quarterback's best friend.

Yeah, we're gonna need that to be true in Atlanta.

I think just because Michael Pennix can throw the snot out of the ball, I don't think that you have to You don't, You shouldn't.

You should not get away from your bread.

And butter as an offense and bread and butter in one sentence.

That's a tough that's a tough look.

Number four, I said, get after the MFN quarterback.

This is a pass rush that needs to come alive and hasn't come alive in years.

And they've pumped a lot of resources into this defense in order for that to be the case.

And finally Number five put some respect behind this roster.

And I say that because there are a lot of individual pieces that are praised nationally but never the team as a whole.

And of course it's because like they're not winning games, they're winning seven, they're going seven to ten or whatever the case might be, very in the middle of the road, mediocre.

For lack of a better word.

But as we've talked about on this podcast, there are a lot of individual players who are have these big accolades and are nationally known.

So like, change the narrative, Like this team has the individual pieces to be great, so be great.

Change that narrative about how things are looked at around here.

I do want to go back to Kyle Pitchers.

I knew you what, but I want to start kind of continuing that thought that you just gave us, because I wonder how much, like offensively, I think a little bit of an identity has been building through the draft.

Right, we have heard nationally friends like Robert Mays, you know, Steve Wish, everybody like that saying, hey, they've got a young, up and coming offense with great skill players.

You got to find that quarterback.

But you've got an offense play with cohesive, like we know that piece of it.

Defensively, the kind of pingponging back and forth between styles and coordinators, even though some of these faces now have been around for a little bit of time, like of course Ajate's werell, but even Jesse Bates, Kaden Ellis we got some familiarity with.

I just wonder nationally if it's that kind of lack of an identity of a playing style on that side of the ball has played into that a little bit.

And I kind of think Jeff Ulbrick is maybe one of the perfect coordinators to bring in here to immediately implement a style and a way of playing toy.

Do you expect to see that early right out of the gates in Week one, is like kind of that new style defensively?

Yeah?

I do, because I also think that you saw it in the preseason, like I felt like that very first game against Detroit, you felt that attack style front.

This is something that you know we've been talking about at nauseum all off season is like who they were going to be and how they're going to dictate their own terms and not play a passive defense.

And to your point about, like, let's be real, Jesse Bates has been here for three years.

He has had three different defensive coordinators.

You think about the guys who were drafted for Arnold Ebaghetti has had a different coordinator pretty much every single year he has been in Atlanta, Like, it's really difficult.

I know you're in the professional ranks, but to your point, like, it is difficult to establish an identity when the head of the snake is constantly changing.

And it's I don't blame the players or the like strategy of like drafting certain guys.

I think it has been just there has been no consistency defensively and it makes it really hard to put your feet down into anything if the ground is constantly moving out from under you.

So for all of those reasons, like I do think that, like it's a big the onus is really on Jeff Albrick to like really truly hone in on who this defense is because you've got to identify a identity of who you are very quickly considering how much change has happened, how many new faces that you have.

So I think for him, like, in order to get the best out of these guys, it's like they've got to come out very early and know exactly who they are and what exactly they're being asked to do.

Yeah, I think you've got to adopt that personality and show it early on.

But you mentioned consistency, Taran.

A player that's going to need to show more consistency this year is Kyle Pitts?

Right?

And Tory said, we need to kind of maybe change the way that we think about Kyle Pitts.

I'm curious, how do you think about Kyle Pitts going into his fifth year here in Atlanta?

What is your view of him in this offense where there are a lot of these young skill players kind of vying for the ball.

I remember you and I have had this conversation before on the podcast where I have said, and I still stand by this, I don't think it's realistic to expect the rookie numbers out of Kyle Pitts.

Would it be great?

Yes?

Can you do that year after year at his position?

It is very, very difficult and so I agree with Toy that you have to change your mindset and expectations when it comes to him, because I know we looked at the yardage and the totals he had been like, oh my gosh, we want this.

When you look at his touchdown totals, I believe I don't have his numbers right in front of me, but those have increased year over years.

It's one, two, three, four, Yeah right.

It's just hone it on that emphasize that make him a scoring machine rather than just a yardage picker.

Upper.

Yeah, I love that.

So now, Toy, I want to see what you meant by how should we now think about Kyle Pitts.

It goes exactly to what Tarin is saying, Like I think that everybody is talking about trying to recreate Kyle Pits, the rookie feene on that he was, and it's like, I don't think that is where this organization is anymore.

This offense is not anywhere near what it was when he came into this organization.

Like you think back to that time, Julio Jones was not here, Calvin Ridley was going through stuff that Calvin Ridley was going through, and he was not on the field.

So you're and you did not have Jon Robinson, you did not have Tyler Algier.

Yes, you still had Matt Ryan, but who was who were Matt Ryan's weapons at the time.

And also, let's be real, I think Russell Gage also got hurt for a period during that season.

Was Kyle Pitts, Yes, and that was.

Kind of it.

That was kind of all you had to work with.

So of course Kyle Pitts is getting a big chunk of the targets.

Now let's fast forward to where the team is now.

You have Darnell Mooney, you have Jon Robinson, Tyler Aljier, like Drake London.

You have these targets that.

There we go, we hit five, let's get a sound effect, Jared, But no, it's so much excit.

Let's do a counter terror.

So I say all of that that, like, there are a lot of mouths to feed, And I think I don't foresee this huge uptick in targets for Kyle Pits in twenty twenty five.

I kind of see it being similar to what it was last year, where it's like, okay, maybe you get like four or five and you got to make the most of those four or five.

And to Terrence's point about what Kyle Pits is, the reason people valued him so high in the draft when he was coming out was because everybody was saying, he's such a mismatch in the red zone.

He is such a mismatch in the red zone.

You throw it up and it's a fifty to fifty bond and he's coming down with it like almost in the same vein of you talking about Drake London.

Well, that hasn't manifested.

So that, to Terrence point is where the where we need to focus in on Kyle Pits and who he is and what he can provide this team, not necessarily him having ten targets in a game and having one hundred and fifty receiving yards like that's that's not it.

Yeah, It's about kind of that efficiency of usage.

It's like, what are where can you find value because the role has changed, the situation has changed, the offense has changed, frankly, and it figure out where you are adding the most value in any given game plan.

And that's what I think kind of the tight end position is almost definitionally with the way that they do everything.

So Tory, you want to give us a real quick recap of your five Just bang bang bang.

Bang man mang.

Stay a step ahead of Tampa at all times.

Rethink the way that we think about Kyle Pitt.

The old cliche about a dynamic running game being a quarterback's best friend is true for this team and has to be true for this team.

Get after the mother quarterback.

Put some respect behind this roster.

Despite there being a lot of individual pieces that get national attention, changed the narrative to make it a team wide endeavor.

That last one was setting one breath.

I did it.

It's so great.

Pretty soon we'll be able to nail those in under five seconds.

Yeah, so that's something to work towards.

All right, I'm going to go through my and then you guys maybe identify one or two that you want to lean in on.

Number one is learn how to win in different ways.

I think this season that's going to be crucial for you to reach the postseason.

Number two, at least two new standouts on standout players on defense need to emerge.

Number three Weeks eight through thirteen are the most important games this season for Atlanta.

Number four, well, the kicking game remain a concern, and Number five week seventeen against the Rams is going to be huge.

Yeah.

So the one that I want to kind of hoe in on a little bit is you said at least two new standout players on defense need to emerge.

Do you have kind of a list of the running group that you're like, if these guys emerged, it means that we're talking about this defense differently.

Yes, I do.

I think Brandon Dorles is one of the guys on that list, but you could also grow row like, I'll take one of those two guys.

Zach Harrison is another young defensive lineman.

Obviously, if one of the Ed rushers, James Pierce or Jalen Walker, those guys, but Divine Diablo is a player, he would be on my short list.

If I was going to pick two, it would probably be it would probably be Brandon Door listen to Divine Diablo.

But I think the fact that you can rattle off a few of these candidates is why I think that there's a good chance this happens.

And also, you know, I think the Falcons need those guys to step up because those are a lot of new faces on this defense who are going to be playing significant roles.

My question is why the Rams.

Why the Rams?

Yeah, your last one.

Why Week seventeen is going to be huge?

So a couple of reasons.

I'm so glad you asked this term.

First off, let's think back to Week seventeen last year.

That was a little game against Washington prime time with a lot of stakes on the line, you know, frankly, and so I kind of feel like the season is going to be taking a similar shape, and the Rams to me are a team where if you look at the NFC West, I really expect San Francisco to have bounce back.

You I think Seattle is going to be good.

So the Rams could be in that mix for the wild card spot.

Atlanta could be right there too, So a late season game with also some draft implications because if Atlanta is a playoff team, who has that first round pick next year?

Los Angeles, right, So that changes a lot of the calculus.

So I think there's a lot going to be at stake for the Rams one way or another, whether they're in the playoffs or not, because of the draft implications.

And then I just kind of think that the way that this schedule is going to be shaping up, that Week seventeen could be a meaningful week for Atlanta if they are in the playoff hunt.

Oh I fascinating.

All right, give us your five really quickly again for the people, and then we'll move on to Tarran.

All right.

Number one, learn how to win in different ways.

Number two at least two new standout players on defense need to emerge.

Number three.

Weeks eight through thirteen are the most important for Atlanta this season.

Number four will the kicking game remain a concern?

Number five Week seventeen against the Rams is going to be huge.

All right, Tarn, you're year five.

I'm just kidding, okay.

Number one, actions speak louder than words, which they know with this whole quote move in silence end quote, slogan that has been preached as of late.

Do you want to explain the move in silence kind of quote a little bit?

This is how I interpret it, at least because no one has actually explained it.

But it's more so that they're not gonna say they're gonna be good.

They're not gonna say they're gonna make the playoffs.

They're not gonna say they're gonna win the Super Bowl.

They're gonna show it, like they keep saying, leave it on the grass.

Let the grass do the talking, yeah, which isn't like actual grass talking.

It's their play is going to show that this is a winning team.

Like their actions will show this as a winning team, not their words.

That's how I interpret it.

So they're moving in silence.

That's that's how I interpret it as well.

Cool.

I was like, no one's actually defined it, and so we're gonna go with what I think.

Number two win in week one, enough said.

Number three also enough said, win the NFC South.

It has been since two thoy seventeen that the Falcons have made the playoffs.

The drought's gotta go water the field.

I don't like that analogy.

I'm sorry I did it.

Number four Michael Pennock Junior living up to the hype that has been building since Week sixteen last year.

I think people are putting a lot of stock in those three games, and I can understand why, but I think that's also putting pressure on such a young quarterback to live up to these expectations that are coming out of just three games.

So I want to see that in a full season, not just three games, not just the first half of the season, an entire season.

He shows us who he.

Is, and that might not be immediate, it might be later, so a different week seventeen kind of feeling yep.

Then number five.

Remain healthy.

It's important every season, but with a week five by and the final two thirds of the.

Season are going to be long and grueling, and.

As Will said, weeks eight through thirteen, I agree, are going to be really tough, and so getting through the first half or not even first half, first third of the season, which is tough on its own, getting through the middle third, which features an international game, which is gonna be tough also physically, yeah, and then going to the final third when it kind of matters the most, that final push into the playoffs.

So this season, I think, more than most, staying healthy is key.

I want to dig in on the Michael Pennocks expectations a little bit more because I agree with you, I think, and I'm guilty of it as well.

As those three games were awesome from Michael Pennix, and I do think that doing it for seventeen games is a different beast.

And I've been asked a lot over the last couple of weeks, like what do you expect to see from this offense?

From Michael Pennox out there week one, and frankly, I kind of don't know what to expect, Like I think we did see some of that over those final three games, but this is gonna be new offense.

It is a whole new year.

He's now done training camps as a starter, So kind of what's the mindset you're going into the season these first four games, Like are you going to practice some patients with Michael Pennix even though we saw kind of what it really can look like of those three games, or do you need to see him kind of hit the ground running now that he's had this ramp up period into the season and he's taken all these reps as the starter, Like, where do you fall on.

That I would practice patients?

I would love to say hit the ground running, especially since we're saying the first part of the season is rather tough.

But he's only in his second year and I do think it is going to be a completely different look than last year.

Maybe not totally, but they have a playbook now surrounding Michael Pennox Junior, whereas last year the playbook was surrounding Kirk Cousins and then they switched it or they adapted it to Michael.

This is a completely different ballgame essentially, and so seeing how that plays out will be interesting.

And I'd rather see simplicity and clean.

Clean, cleanliness.

And that's not how I.

Like it, but like play to start is key, Like let him get comfortable and then throw the snot out of the ball.

There you go, Hey, what about you?

Sorry?

I think for me it's you invested a number eight overall pick in Michael Penis Junior when you did knowing you had Kirk Cousins on the roster.

Like I, I also get the like patient approach of it, but I'm not really feeling very patient.

Let me see something out of number Yeah.

I think ultimately for the Falcons to get where they want to go, you're gonna need a lot for Michael Pennocks Junior.

And I think that is he's a He's in as good of a situation as I think I would argue.

There are a lot of quarterbacks that My big thing about this is that, sorry now I'm about to get on a soapbux so Bob, there are I've always said a quarterback's early success in his career is indicative of the pieces around him, and the stability of the offensive plan around him.

Michael Pennocks has the most stability I would argue of hardly anybody else in the league, considering how many returners he has in front of him and that he's throwing to.

He has one of the most dynamic running backs in the league and Bajon Robinson to help him out as a secondary part of this offensive attack.

So for those reasons, it's like, we should see some dynamic play early, we should see them putting up points, we should see all of that.

And if we don't, then I'm concerned because I think that you do not draft Michael Pennock's number eight overall when you already have a multimillion dollar quarterback who's been a VET in this league for thirteen years sitting there, if you do not have conviction that he can come in and play for you well and take your team to the next level.

I want to see the time is now for that next level.

Kyle Pitts is on the fifth year of his contract, Drake London will be playing on the fifth year next year, but Jon Robinson's rookie year is running out or halfway through it.

Time for this offense and the investment you made and all of these offensive players is now.

It's not in the future.

It is twenty twenty five.

Well, twenty twenty five kicks off on Sunday one pm against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Again, please check out the pregame show one hour before kickoff on the YouTube channel.

A few more things though, if you want to check out Atlanta Falcons dot com, we had our season kickoff video just getting you a hype for the season.

Writ large go up on the site Thursday.

You can follow along on any Darnell Mooney injury news, any team injury news for both Atlanta and Tampa Bay with the injury reports that go out each afternoon.

And then we had a roundtable discussion kicking off the season with Tory, Taylor, Arch and Shock.

So if you're a fan of kind of the Network, you're gonna see some of your favorite faces there as well.

Before we get out of here, though, I just want a five word prediction from both of y'all on Sunday's game.

So Tory five words predicting Sunday's.

Game make Baker Mayfield's life difficult.

It's not really a prediction as much as it is go and freaking do it.

There you go, manifest it.

Yeah.

I don't think mine's a prediction either, just like a statement that needs to be done set the tone for season.

I couldn't put the in there, all right.

Mine is watch out for Jesse Bates Good, it's in a big game for number three.

All right.

Well, thank you guys so much for tuning in for the very first Friday five.

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Be on the lookout for a final whistle coming brand early Monday morning.

It will be recapping this season opener.

You will hear from Tory and I breaking it all down.

Four quarters of action.

So excited, let's go or we will see you all then.

Until then, take care,