Good morning, everybody. Today is Friday, June 16th. Thank you for making me a part of your morning.

I hope your Friday's off to a fantastic start. And I hope there's some weekend plans cooking up here in the next two days for everybody.

Middle of June weekend, big summer official weekend kicking off next weekend. We're into some nice days here in June.

NBA is done. NHL is done. Hopefully it

clears some focus for everybody. Today's focus, NFL, first thoughts, Atlanta Falcons.

The reason we've picked the Falcons is because yesterday, first official release of the

2003 season, a timely one in that with all of the other sports wrapping up.

We went Atlanta Falcons over eight and a half wins for the season at minus 110.

A lot of folks were able to get a much better price than that.

We were very fair with the release price that we sent out.

A lot of Falcons fans in the service, a lot of Falcons fans here on the playoffs.

Let's talk about some reasons that went into part of making the decision to back the Atlanta

Falcons going over.

First and foremost, big focus, Arthur Smith, head coach of the Falcons, third season,

back-to-back seven-win seasons, Huge expectations here for 2023. A lot of urgency

for him to meet them. Otherwise, a lot of doubt in his job going forward. It hasn't been

implied directly. You can read between the lines. This is a monster year for Arthur Smith,

a do-or-die in many ways. He's gone out of his way

to put a lot of parts on both sides of the football to make sure he has the best chance of

success. He has implied directly, and again, you're kind of mixing words here. Ritter is his starting quarterback.

That's who he's proceeding with at this point.

I think it's very likely we see Ritter start, and that's who he goes with to begin the

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