They present, you know, a nice running game with the outside running game. But also, I mean the biggest, the biggest story that is Matt Ryan and Julio Jones. Those are two big time playmakers. So we know they're gonna try to get the ball to Julio Julio as much as they can, and which they should because he's he's a dynamic player. Just start the season off with this team to wave. Oh, I'm very excited for a season to start. I mean, we've been gearing up for this
thing for a while now. It seems to like I've been waiting forever for the season to get gone. But now it is actually here. Really, you know, we're overly excited and you know, happy to kick it off on Monday night. Yeah. I do anticipate, anticipate playing on on Monday night. Again, coach Coach Davis will monitor the raps or see how much I play, but I do anticipate playing. Watch film. What do you watch because obviously there's there's a small sampha size of games with this Yeah, it's
it's tough men. You go back and try to watch the offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan, who and I spent some time with him in Houston, so kind of he's still running similar plays. So nothing nothing, nothing much has changed, you know. You checking out a new team, we always look at the coordinator and where he's been and the type of play structures that he likes to run. So yeah,
it is, it is. You don't have we don't have many tendencies, So it's it's kind of like a preseason game, you know, because you don't have many tendencies to go off of because again they're starters. Matt Ryan didn't play much during the preseason, so there's not much to go off of, you know, being that they have a new coaching style and Michael and the old basis of all right,
I know it'll works out. You know. However, however, things you know, shape out between myself, Michael and Kiko, I know it all work itself out and whatever's best for our team moving forward, that we can have two good linebackers out there at the time. You know, whatever it takes you, it'll work out. To get the team's expectations services whatever they expects from the city. A lot of what you're gonna do. How do you get to get
balance that? Yeah, well, we always have high expectations for ourselves. If we didn't there was you know, then there's no purpose of coming to word, no purpose of you know, going through training camp and all the off season work if you didn't have high expectations for your team. So again, we as much as our fans on the outside have high hopes for us, just believe that ours is our team.
Our expectations are even higher if you just get it out of the way and just getting the sources went forever for the ball, the things the team and went for them are you guys? I think it's going well, but that process will continue to go throughout the season. I think you know, we're you know where we want to be right now, but their process will continue to will continue to grow as a team as the season goes on. To me, but you had you've been here
through a few different defensive coordinators. What is it about Bill Davis that really is kind of like, uh, what I mean? What is he like? What is he a teacher? And what is it what are his attributes that are his strengths? Bill is a is a is a teacher, and Bill is not afraid to make any any calls. You know, Bill has been around for a long time. He's he's very knowledgeable, a very knowledgeable coach, and you know, he always has an answer for you, whatever course and
you have, he always has an answer for you. So it's been great working with Bill over the past few years. And you know, I think he's a he's a really great coordinator. We guys gave up a lot of Figer players last year. It must be a pretty good test out of the gate against the guy like Ryan Lulio Jones to see how much you guys have improved from that as It will be a big test for us and our our main focus has been keeping keeping the
ex plays off of us. And uh, you know that this will be a main focus because of you know, the great quarterback that they have and Matt Ryan. We know he can he can get it down field and he has you know, some receivers to get it too. So you know, if we talk about stopping the ex plays, we have our mats going up on Monday night. Is there any concern about sort amping off to sixty minutes?
You know the conditioning watch because you guys generally see a lot of reps because of how fast your offense goes, So we amp up conditioning. Yeah, I mean it's difficult because you haven't hadding many reps in the preseason. Oh no, it won't be difficult at all, you guys, thank you, all right, thank you,