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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, and welcome to the Falcons Final Whistle Podcast.

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Speaker 1: I am Atlanta Falcons dot Com Digital Managing Editor Scott

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Speaker 1: bare and I'm here with the Crackpot team from the

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Speaker 1: team website. Tory mcelhaney, Falcons Beat writer in Football Analyst,

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Speaker 1: long form Features reporter man. These titles are fun. Chris

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Speaker 1: rim is also here and we are here to break

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Speaker 1: down a thirty four to thirty loss, the Falcons loss

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Speaker 1: to the Washington football team. We are still here at

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Speaker 1: Mercedes Benz Stadium. They have not turned the lights off

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Speaker 1: on us yet and we are going to take the

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Speaker 1: time over the course of this podcast to break down

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Speaker 1: what happened and what it means in totality and try

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Speaker 1: to make sense of everything that fans saw here at

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Speaker 1: we start, our Falcons final whistle. Over the course of

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Speaker 1: five minute quarters, there will be four of them, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna break this thing down. Tory generally speaking, what

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Speaker 1: were your thoughts about this game, especially how it ended.

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Speaker 1: I just feel like I've seen it all before, and

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Speaker 1: I know we'll get into this, but y'all can ask Chris.

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Speaker 1: I called it. I knew it was gonna happen. I

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Speaker 1: saw it happening. I saw how things were unfolding, and

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Speaker 1: I was like, I've seen this before. I know I'm

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Speaker 1: about to see it again, and I hate to tell y'all,

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Speaker 1: but I was right, Yes, you were. I mean, my

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Speaker 1: thoughts is just devastating. After last week, you think maybe

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Speaker 1: the Falcons, even though it was a injured team and

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Speaker 1: the Giants not the best team, but they figured out

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Speaker 1: how to win a game on the road. They figured

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Speaker 1: out how to win a game something that they couldn't

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Speaker 1: do that they didn't do last year, and then this

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Speaker 1: week you see the team that we saw last year, right,

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Speaker 1: So that that was my kind of takeaway from today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to get into a lot of different

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Speaker 1: details about that, including the fact that we listened to

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Speaker 1: what you guys want to talk about and We're going

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Speaker 1: to incorporate that into the course of this podcast as

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Speaker 1: we go through a number of topics, and we're going

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Speaker 1: to get to the first one here in the first quarter.

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Speaker 1: The first quarter is now underway, and we have five

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Speaker 1: and what to make of it because the Falcons had

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Speaker 1: an eight point lead with about four minutes left. They

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Speaker 1: coughed it up, ended up losing this game in a

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Speaker 1: fashion reminiscent to recent seasons, especially a twenty twenty campaign,

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Speaker 1: where they let late leads go constantly. You guys, I'll

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Speaker 1: remember the Dallas game, and the Bears game, and the

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Speaker 1: chart Argers game and the Lions game, and we can

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Speaker 1: go on and on and on. Right, So the question

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Speaker 1: is it fair and appropriate for Falcons fans to say,

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Speaker 1: here we go again. I tried to delve into that

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Speaker 1: in my column at Atlanta Falcons dot Com Shameless Plug

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Speaker 1: number one and watched a lot of Chicken Little videos

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Speaker 1: true story, because I thought, is the sky falling? Our

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Speaker 1: fans screaming that the sky is falling when it's not,

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Speaker 1: or is it really And that's kind of how I

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Speaker 1: don't know yet, because we don't know how this thing

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Speaker 1: is going to go. But Tory, you cover this team

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Speaker 1: last year, you experience all those games that I just

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Speaker 1: to me, is like, you know, we saw so many

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Speaker 1: The Falcons didn't do any of those things to where

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Speaker 1: not proud of it that I was able to do that,

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Speaker 1: But but this team was doing what was necessary to

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Speaker 1: This season's going to have ups and downs. That's what

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Speaker 1: that that's how you have to respond moving forward. Thanks

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Speaker 1: everybody for joining the Falcons Final Whistle podcast after a

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Speaker 1: disappointing result for the home team, a thirty four to

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Speaker 1: thirty loss to the Washington football team, and thanks as

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Speaker 1: Falcons Final Whistle podcasts after every single game as we

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Speaker 1: chronicle the course of this twenty twenty season. There's been

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Speaker 1: It's never dull, always interesting with this Falcons team. And

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