Falcons HC Arthur Smith on Igniting the Tannehill Titans, Unleashing Derrick Henry, Atlanta’s Potential, and Late-Night Bravo | Flying Coach With Sean McVay and Peter Schrager

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🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Sean and Peter are joined by Atlanta Falcons head coach Arthur Smith to talk about Sean’s and Arthur’s similar career paths, interviewing for other teams’ head coaching positions, Arthur’s creative play-calling in Tennessee, their most regrettable play calls, Arthur’s unique family life, boys trips to Nashville, ESPYs stories, unleashing Derrick Henry, and Matt Ryan’s role in Arthur coming to Atlanta (1:59). Finally, we finish the show with some listener emails and voicemails (51:29). Follow 'Flying Coach' here on Spotify! Email Sean McVay and Peter Schrager your questions at flyingcoachpodcast@gmail.com. Or leave us a voicemail and it may be featured in our next episode! (818) 253-1572‬ Hosts: Sean McVay and Peter Schrager Guest: Arthur Smith Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What if the Len Bias story hosted by Jordan Riddercon
0:03.2	is the ringer's latest narrative podcast?
0:05.6	You can find new episodes every Wednesday on the Book of Basketball 2.0 feed.
0:09.8	Here's a quick trailer.
0:12.8	You've heard his name, Len Bias.
0:15.7	1980s phenom, second pick in the NBA draft.
0:20.1	And then, cocaine, tragedy.
0:23.6	One of the most shocking deaths in sports history.
0:26.2	35 years later, Bias' legacy is still making an impact.
0:31.6	From Spotify and the ringer podcast network, this is What If, the Len Bias story.
0:37.2	I'm Jordan Riddercon.
0:49.9	Welcome back, episode 5 of season 2 of Flying Coach.
0:53.6	My name is Peter Schreger. I am joined by Sean McVeigh, the head coach of the Los Angeles Ram
0:59.0	Sean. We got a good one up ahead, huh? We do. Glad to be able to have new head coach of the
1:04.4	Atlanta Falcons Arthur Smith with us. And you know, you're recovering from a wild,
1:11.0	boys' weekend in Nashville, filled with Applebee's dinners and all that kind of stuff.
1:17.2	And, you know, I'm, it was great to be able to go to Denver, support the nuggets,
1:22.5	and be there with the, you know, the Kronk you family.
1:25.2	Unfortunately, the sun's finished out that series, but still be able to, it was still great
1:29.4	to be able to go to game four. And I just got back from that earlier today.
1:33.3	There was a video that went viral of a sun's fan fighting a nuggets fan in the crowd.
1:39.6	Was that, that wasn't, you weren't involved in that, right? There was nothing. That wasn't.
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