Discussing Julio Jones and More with Will McFadden of The Falcoholic

04/06/2021 52 min

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Episode Synopsis

We hope you enjoyed our Clip of the Week (instead of a traditional episode) on social media last week. 
This week we're back with an episode that—in our opinion—is well worth the wait! On this episode, we're talking with none other than Will McFadden, current freelancer for The Falcoholic and former Digital Reporter for AtlantaFalcons.com. 
Will literally worked behind-the-scenes with the Atlanta Falcons from 2017 until last season. He tells us about walking the line between objective journalist and being a fan who was employed by the team, how he got started in the sports industry (which is how he and Asif met originally), and then...
Around 14 minutes into the episode we start talking about Julio Jones. Some questions answered include: Where will he get traded? Will he even get traded? What things do the Falcons need to consider in making such a deal? What's Grady Jarrett got to do with any of it? Is Julio making a mistake? 
There's a lot more too, such as did Julio's trade request at season's end impact Atlanta's NFL Draft strategy? And who was Will's favorite pick of the NFL Draft for Atlanta? 
As always, there's beer talk too... and because this is a podcast about Atlanta sports (& birds), Will also gave us a prediction for Game 5 between the Hawks vs. Knicks, which took place right after this conversation.
We hope you enjoy this episode and find the audio quality to be listenable as Asif spent some time doctoring it up. While it might sound less than ideal at the very beginning, it certainly stabilizes and improves for the duration of the episode within the first few minutes. 
Thank you to Will and all of our listeners! You already know you can find us on social media everywhere @bearsbirdsandbrews. Will can be found on Twitter at @willmcfadden. 
Cheers, y'all!