Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome into Tom Carman's Patriots Talk Podcast. We get a good one today.

When I have an opportunity to talk to D. Orlando Ledbetter from the Atlanta Journal Constitution, I take it every time. And you're going to see why. It's simply for the, hey, Tom. And then the intel as well, which you're going to enjoy. Also, we're going to have Robert Spillane, irrelevant questions. We get to the bottom of whether or not I'm allowed to call him Bobby. But first, let's look at this match up a little bit. The Patriots, obviously, on a five-game winning streak. They are at six-and-two, home against the Falcons on Sunday. They have the trade deadline looming on Tuesday. And first on this game, I think you look at the Falcons and listening to Mike

Frable talk about Atlanta. It was clear how much he is wary of the Falcons defense.

It's a good tackling football team. So they don't really give up a lot of big plays because of

miss tackles and they're able to, you know, turn those catches,

have some space maybe in the middle of field into a 15-yard gain as opposed to a 25 or 30-yard

gain because of the way they tackle. So we're going to go a little bit more in depth with

D. Orlando Ledbetter on the Falcons weapons, but if you look at their numbers, they are a team

that does bring pressure. They have 16 sacks so far this year. They're also incredibly unpredictable.

Last week, they got blasted by Miami of all teams, 34 to 10. They lost 30 to nothing earlier this

year to Carolina. Michael Pennix was not in the game last week. He will most likely be in the game.

This week he's dealing with a bone bruise. But the Patriots are going to have to prepare

for both players. Here is Bravel speaking about Pennix. Who's a left-hander, as you might

remember. There's more mobility and which hand you're going to use to match. And that was the thing.

I thought we did a nice job getting our hand on the football last week.

We had eight PBUs, and we got a couple at the line of scrimmage

and the pass rush situation, and those usually end up getting intercepted.

So we'll practice, you know, both ways.

And we'll have to make sure that one's a little bit more mobile

than the other and then be ready to go. I think the concepts are similar. But, you know,

there'll be some different play styles that are different between obviously Michael and Kirk.

The Falcons going into this season were probably a team that would be ahead of the Patriots

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