Divine Deablo

I would take a little comfort if I was a Raiders fan that you've got some veterans right now.

You remember Divine Diablo in that preseason game, right? And we've seen it a few times when they've played the 49ers or teams that do the eye candy and the misdirection and, oh, look over here.

Yes, keep focusing over there because the ball is over here, and we're running for 70 yards right now.

I like the fact that it's Quay Walker and N'Kobi Dean.

And then Zaccheaus is also questionable.

Linebackers Divine Diablo and Charles Snowden, edge rusher Samson Abukam, and offensive tackle Cameron Williams is also questionable while still in his 21-day window to return from injured reserve.

So while the Bucs are more healthy coming into this game, there really isn't anyone on Atlanta that is going to potentially miss the game.

and it would derail from anything that they want to do.

Mostly, I think the injury news is kind of gone the way we expected.

Atlanta, I think Divine Diablo and Billy Bowman finally arrived to practice this week.

And for the Bucs, it just looks like Go Deck, he's the only one for sure that's going to miss it.

Looks like two healthy teams, honestly.

And then later on on Wednesday, after I had finished recording, I saw he got in a full practice and was blown away.

So we'll see if Divine Diablo is back this week.

I'm kind of hoping we get another week of Kendall Daniels because the matchup is great and Daniels has really been much more effective than Diablo in this role.

So Harold Perkins Jr. would also get a rankings bump if Diablo is out.

How impressive was that, Arch?

Yeah, I think that the part that you begin to think about, okay, what was put on his plate to start the day? Okay, Divine Diablo is not in the game.

So now he becomes the green dot.

What the green dot is, is there's a green dot on the back of your helmet, the literal sense of it, and he's the one guy that the coach can talk to to call the defense.

How cool is

that? We talked a little bit about him.

We talked about all through the offseason, through training camp, guys, who was going to be playing next to Divine Diablo.

And that spot, you felt like, OK, well, you can play next to Divine Diablo and he can kind of work your way into the NFL.

The Falcons also were dealing with a good bit of injuries.

Divine Diablo was out.

Avion Terrell missed the game with illness.

Billy Bowman was out.

The rookie Kendall Daniels had an outstanding Sunday afternoon.

Now, a week after being taken off the field on a stretcher and you just didn't know how serious that injury was, he was everywhere.

Again, no Divine Diablo, which meant Kendall Daniels and Harold Perkins were both going to play bigger roles.

And Kendall Daniels had a huge game.

And, and just looking at what they were able to do Jarvis.

I mean, there were several unactive inactives rather on the defensive side of the ball, no divine Diablo, no Avion Terrell, no Billy Bowman, but you do get back AJ Terrell and you do have Kendall Daniels, which that was a touch and go earlier last week.

But then you find out at the end of the week that he will be a go and whether It was Kendall Daniels just stepping in with a huge pick on Rob Purdy with the 49ers driving or what he was able to do really throughout the course of this game.

Really feel like even with a score, a game where the Falcons scored 29 points, the defense really set the tone.

Absolutely, and I said coming to this game that the linebacker play was going to be important, right, especially when you have the leader of your defense in Devon Diablo, and I'm starting to come off of that a little bit in a good way.

This might be Kendall Daniels' defense going forward because that's just the type of play that he has, and when you talk about – A guy that just took off as soon as he stepped on the field.

It took him a while to get on the field right in the spring.

Just continue to progress.

That will be tough for them to be able to replace.

Their linebacker, Divine Diablo, he's out.

He's dealing with a forearm injury.

So another linebacker that would have been out there helping against George Kittle, helping against Christian McCaffrey, he's going to be missing.

So dirty eyes for the Atlanta Falcons.

George Kittle and Christian McCaffrey versus the linebackers.

And, you know, Divine Diablo is going to be out.

So they're going to have even more question marks at the position.