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Speaker 1: Dirty Birds. What's up?

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Speaker 2: And welcome to another edition of Falcons Final Whistle presented

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Speaker 2: by Zaxby's. I'm your host Will McFadden and I'm joined

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Speaker 2: by Tory mclaney and Tarren Walk. We are here to

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Speaker 2: break down a frustrating loss to the Los Angeles Chargers.

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Speaker 2: The Atlanta Falcons, for all intents and purposes, were the

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Speaker 2: better team out there on the field today, and yet

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Speaker 2: they end up with a seventeen to thirteen loss inside

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Speaker 2: of Mercedes Benz Stadium. They fall to six and six

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Speaker 2: on the season. They're back to five hundred, a little

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Speaker 2: bit back to square one. And Tory, I think the

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Speaker 2: biggest thing that we got to start with is the

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Speaker 2: play of Kirk Cousins today. He had four interceptions, a

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Speaker 2: lot of them were untimely. What did you see from

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Speaker 2: from number eighteen out there?

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Speaker 3: It felt like he was having a hard time seeing

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Speaker 3: what was happening in front of him. A little bit, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it felt like the decision making wasn't there that I

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Speaker 3: think should be there for someone who's a thirteen year

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Speaker 3: NFL veteran, And this is it's not something that I

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Speaker 3: think is new. This is not something that I think

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Speaker 3: is random and just kind of like a bad day

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Speaker 3: at the office. It is a bad day at the office.

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Speaker 3: But this is now three games in which this offense

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Speaker 3: has faltered and stuttered and not been able to punch

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Speaker 3: the ball into the end zone. And you have to

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Speaker 3: understand too, that the quarterback plays a role in that

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Speaker 3: situation in all three of those situations, whether or not

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Speaker 3: you can put the blame solely on Kirk Cousins on

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Speaker 3: his shoulders, I don't think you can do that when

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Speaker 3: you're looking at the last three losses just as a

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Speaker 3: collective unit. But it's really really hard to say that

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Speaker 3: he didn't his role in it wasn't significant when he

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Speaker 3: has not thrown a touchdown pass in three games, He's

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Speaker 3: thrown six interceptions, he's fumbled the ball four times. He

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Speaker 3: has a sixty two point five percent completion rate over

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Speaker 3: these three games, and the Falcons are being outscored in

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Speaker 3: all three of those games collectively seventy five to thirty six.

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Speaker 1: Wow, it's yakes. That's tough.

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Speaker 3: It's really really hard for me to sit here and

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Speaker 3: not say that the Falcons don't need more from Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 3: They do if they want to be a team that

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Speaker 3: and I tweeted this after the game and I wrote

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Speaker 3: about it.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's my entire column.

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Speaker 3: For the Falcons to be the team that I think

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Speaker 3: we all consider them to be and have the expectations

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Speaker 3: for them to be. Kirk Cousins can't play like what

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Speaker 3: we've seen him play the last three games. Because where

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Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins goes, this Falcons offense goes. And if he's

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Speaker 3: not leading them to touchdowns, that's an issue and that's

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Speaker 3: a problem. And he said as much he's said, you know,

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Speaker 3: he was like, I'm disappointed in my performance. I need

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Speaker 3: to go back and have a critical eye and look

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Speaker 3: back at this game and figure out what went wrong,

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Speaker 3: why it went wrong. But it's it's three games in

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Speaker 3: a row now where I've been very, very disappointed in

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Speaker 3: the offense as a whole, but also in Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 3: Where's the Kirk Cousins that did what he did against

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Speaker 3: a very good Tampa Bay secondary in October. Where's the

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Speaker 3: guy who led the league in passing yards in October?

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Speaker 4: Where's that guy?

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Speaker 3: If the Falcons don't have that, they don't need that

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Speaker 3: guy all the time, but you need to have a

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Speaker 3: resemblance to that guy, and we haven't seen that in

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Speaker 3: three games.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Saron, it feels like we are a long way

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Speaker 2: away from kirktober.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean it is now December, so we

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Speaker 5: are a month away from Kirk October in fact. But

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Speaker 5: I think the one that I stick on more than

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Speaker 5: anything is the zero touchdowns in the last three games.

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Speaker 5: First time in his starting career that he had back

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Speaker 5: to back games without a passing touchdown. And now we're

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Speaker 5: at three games. And the simple fact of the matter

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Speaker 5: is you cannot win a football game without scoring touchdowns,

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Speaker 5: and you also can you can, to be fair, you can't.

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Speaker 4: Can They've done it.

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Speaker 3: Kickers matter, but you know what, but that matters also can't.

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Speaker 3: You can't expect and Raheemoor said this, you can't expect

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Speaker 3: to win games when you toss four interception though.

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Speaker 5: What was interesting though in the locker room was Drake

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Speaker 5: London was like, I don't blame Kirk. I blame myself

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Speaker 5: more than anything. He took a lot of the fault

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Speaker 5: on the interceptions because he's like, most of them are

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but I can maybe get on board with being like,

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Speaker 4: oh like Drake, but like the very very last one

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Speaker 4: at the end of the game he did trip.

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Speaker 2: Yep, Yeah, but that was that was a play that

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Speaker 2: Derwin James was sitting on that pest. If Drake doesn't

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Speaker 2: slip at best, I think it's a fifty to fifty

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Speaker 5: Just adding the locker room ins, I hear you'll.

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Speaker 4: No, I know this isn't to you, and what you're

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Speaker 4: saying is this is overall.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think that it. Let's do a let's

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Speaker 2: do a breakdown of the four interceptions. So the first

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Speaker 2: one he threw into triple coverage. He was targeting I

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Speaker 2: believe Drake on that play, and it looked like he

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Speaker 2: double pumped, kind of threw it a little bit late,

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Speaker 2: and it was such a long pass that Tarheeb still,

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Speaker 2: who had two picks, including a pick six which will

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Speaker 2: here in a second, he had a chance to kind

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Speaker 2: The second one a sixty one yard picked six that

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Speaker 2: you know. Kirk said he was maybe being a little

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Speaker 2: bit too decisive with that throw, that he maybe should

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Speaker 2: have let the play develop a tick longer, because when

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Speaker 2: he decided to throw that ball to the flat at

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Speaker 2: the same time, it looked like Still decided to sit

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Speaker 2: Drake it looked like kind of coming open behind Still

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Speaker 2: because he broke down on that flat route to Mooney.

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Speaker 2: So that's another one where Kirk says, maybe I hold

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Speaker 2: onto that ball second longer I get it to Drake.

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Speaker 2: Third one, the float of the back of the end zone.

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Speaker 2: He kind of was trying to throw it up to Drake,

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Speaker 2: overthrew him. Kind of a weird play there. And then

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Speaker 2: the fourth one that ended the final drive, Drake slips,

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Speaker 2: Derwin undercuts it, and there you go.

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Speaker 1: That's the story.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I mean, you can explain it all day long,

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Speaker 5: but at the end of the day, what matters is

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Speaker 5: what's on the stat sheets that's in all of our

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Speaker 5: hands because they lost the game.

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Speaker 3: And what's crazy, though, is even looking at this that sheet,

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Speaker 3: if you look at what this Falcons offense did in

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Speaker 3: the second half, I mean, I'll just read you the numbers,

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Speaker 3: because it was mind boggling to me. The Falcons lost

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Speaker 3: this game despite holding possession for over twenty one minutes

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Speaker 3: in the second half, out gaining the Chargers two hundred

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Speaker 3: and twenty two yards to forty two. Atlanta ran fifty

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Speaker 3: plays in the second half to Los Angeles's seventeen. They

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Speaker 3: ran seventeen plays for forty two yards and still won

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Speaker 3: the game. That's to me unacceptable and it all goes

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Speaker 3: back to again these turn turnovers and dark whereas the

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Speaker 3: last couple of games it's been oh, penalties in the

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Speaker 3: red zone and that's why things are stalling out. Today

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Speaker 3: it was you're just giving the ball to the other team.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're moving the ball.

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Speaker 5: It's fun, but you're still not clean.

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Speaker 4: You're still not clean.

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Speaker 5: It might be clean up when it comes to the penalties,

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Speaker 5: but the performance itself was not.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know after the game it's fair to

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Speaker 3: ask Raheem Morris about the planet quarterback and he was

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Speaker 3: asked the plan at quarterback.

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Speaker 4: He was asked, at any point.

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Speaker 3: Did you think about pulling Kirk Cousins for Michael Pennocks Junior.

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Speaker 3: He said flow, no, without hesitation, and then asked about

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Speaker 3: moving forward, moving forward and what the situation would be

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Speaker 3: with Kirk Cousins, Michael Pennocks, et cetera, et cetera, and

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Speaker 3: what he said I thought was very interesting, where he

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Speaker 3: again said no, and he said that guy has carried us.

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Speaker 4: That guy has.

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Speaker 3: Gotten us to the point where we are six and six,

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Speaker 3: first place in the division, where we still have everything

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Speaker 3: in front of us. Despite what happened today. It's up

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Speaker 3: to us to bounce back and find ways to win

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Speaker 3: football games. And there's no better man than eighteen to

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Speaker 3: go do that for us. And to that I say, Okay, yes,

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Speaker 3: he has gotten you to the point of being six

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Speaker 3: and six. I believe you should be better than five hundred.

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Speaker 3: Yes you are still first place in the division, and

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Speaker 3: yes you still do have everything in front of you,

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Speaker 3: but you're not gonna have everything in front of you

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Speaker 3: if you don't start winning game.

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Speaker 5: Like vision isn't as clear anymore.

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Speaker 3: I literally said when we were talking in the press box.

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Speaker 3: It's like every single time the Falcons have lost a

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Speaker 3: game in the last three times out, a little chip,

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Speaker 3: a little bit of their ability to control their own

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Speaker 3: destiny goes away. And at this point, you're almost if

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Speaker 3: you're the Falcons, you almost are sitting there looking at

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Speaker 3: the next few run of games with a lot of

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Speaker 3: really good opponents coming up, and in the back of

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Speaker 3: your head, if you're a fan, you may be rooting

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Speaker 3: for more of a Tampa Bay loss, than you're rooting

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Speaker 3: for a Falcons win, and that's not the position that

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Speaker 3: the Falcons want to or should be in at this

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Speaker 3: point in the season, Taran, Is.

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Speaker 2: It a good thing that the Falcons and more importantly,

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Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins has Minnesota next up on the schedule? Is

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Speaker 2: it a way for him to almost focus on something

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Speaker 2: else other than this game. It's going home, it's going

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Speaker 2: back to the team that he just came from. He's

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Speaker 2: going to be in a building that he has played

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Speaker 2: in many, many times before. So I could see an

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Speaker 2: arguments be made that this is going to reshift Kirk's

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Speaker 2: focus to the next team because it is such an

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Speaker 2: important team for him. And yet the counterpoints to that

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Speaker 2: could be is this little more added pressure for Kirk

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Speaker 2: coming off of this performance.

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Speaker 1: Which which way do you fall on that?

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Speaker 5: I think it's more pressure. I don't know how he

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Speaker 5: views it, because we I.

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Speaker 2: Think he's going to put the pressure on himself regardless

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Speaker 2: after this performance of who you know, it doesn't matter

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Speaker 2: who the opponent is. I think he's going to take

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Speaker 2: this performance very seriously.

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Speaker 5: I think the timing of the game is very interesting

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Speaker 5: because the way you phrase everything. Part of me wants

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Speaker 5: to be like, oh, yeah, it's the perfect time to reset,

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Speaker 5: but they just came off of a bye they did, yeah,

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Speaker 5: and a week off wasn't enough to reset and get

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Speaker 5: back on track for the Chargers game. I don't know

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Speaker 5: that going quote unquote home is going to offer that

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Speaker 5: type of reset either, because the emotions are higher. So

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Speaker 5: I go back and forth on that where it's like

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Speaker 5: it's added pressure, and I don't know that it'll be

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Speaker 5: an a good way.

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Speaker 4: I think too that Kirk said postgame.

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Speaker 3: He was kind of asked about it and whether or

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Speaker 3: not there's there's something to be made of a player

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Speaker 3: being hot and cold and like having runs and spells

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Speaker 3: of like really.

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Speaker 4: Really awesome play like what you saw.

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Speaker 3: Him have in October and really really downplay that you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's no doubt that the team's got to

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Speaker 5: And just came off the by That's what's it is

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Speaker 2: And he did a QB sneak he did this man

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Speaker 1: You know he's there the picts and it wasn't just

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Speaker 3: Every single pass it felt like to Darnell Mooney was

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Speaker 4: If it did not hop to him before it.

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Speaker 2: Got to Yah that one on the first drive, if

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Speaker 1: That's a touchdown.

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Speaker 5: And this is a connection we praised in October.

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Speaker 3: Right, No, absolutely, And I think it was interesting too

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Speaker 3: when Raheem Morris has asked questions about Kirk Cousins, and

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Speaker 3: to win the NFC South. The reason you bring in

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Speaker 1: It's why they're going to stick by it, and it's why.

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Speaker 4: They're going to stick by him.

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Speaker 3: I know everybody is kind of asking, like, oh, Michael Pennis,

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Speaker 1: And also, Kirk tober is exactly, we're.

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Speaker 3: Not We're a month, We're a month removed from that

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Speaker 5: Keep going back to, like the reason he's here is

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Speaker 5: you said, like you're shipping away at this opportunity.

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Speaker 2: really really good coming out of that Bucks game, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, coming out of Debt Dallas.

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Speaker 1: It was there. You could see the road.

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Speaker 2: I mean, people were starting to talk about what's the

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Speaker 2: and then very quickly you see how this NFL can

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Speaker 2: bring you back to reality and force force you to

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Speaker 2: look yourself in the mirror. But one group that did

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Speaker 2: look themselves in the mirror was Alana's pass Rush. Talk

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Speaker 2: about coming off the bye week, man, they got right,

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Speaker 2: They got right in the best possible way.

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Speaker 1: They had five sacks.

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Speaker 2: On Sunday, and it's it's a real shame that, you know,

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Speaker 2: of a loss, because I mean Arnold lib Katy two sacks,

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Speaker 2: quibble with Grady. Maybe should have had a half side

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Speaker 5: I don't like that at too many sandwich analogies on

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Speaker 5: this podcast. Just one sandwich and at the bottom bun.

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Speaker 2: Well, that was a previous podcast, but thank you for

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Speaker 2: bringing that back. You'll bottom bun tear and walk over there.

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Speaker 1: Why.

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Speaker 2: But so a few more things that the defense did well.

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Speaker 2: They held I mean you mentioned all the second half numbers.

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Speaker 2: Insane held h in one hundred and eighty seven yards total.

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Speaker 2: They were the Chargers were three of eleven on third

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Speaker 2: You know, a touchdown came off of that pick six

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Speaker 2: I think baled out and it was it was impressive

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Speaker 5: I am going to quote Raheem Morris on this and say,

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Speaker 4: That's fair.

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Speaker 3: We had the same conversation coming off of the Dallas

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Speaker 5: A lot three still wasn't that much, though, oh he's

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Speaker 3: Departively speaking, it was a lot and they and it

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Speaker 3: This was, honestly, I think one of the best performance

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Speaker 3: And I would have maybe even said that even if

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Speaker 4: I still would have felt that way, but I will.

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Speaker 3: Say something that I found to be really interesting about

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Speaker 3: it's just the fact that it's overshadowed will to your point,

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Speaker 4: That's what's so that's what's so frustrating.

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Speaker 3: And I think it was even Kirk Cousins said, you know,

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Speaker 1: They should be.

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Speaker 3: Because they honestly, they kind of made me eat crow

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Speaker 3: I was like, you are who you are, this is

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Speaker 2: That's why I think that this can be carried forward

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Speaker 2: however many they send, aren't really there to bring him down.

441
00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,560
Speaker 2: Once that pressure is applied, they can usually step up

442
00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:15,280
Speaker 2: an out or roll out of the pocket or however

443
00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,000
Speaker 2: they want to escape. And today justin Herbert did that

444
00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,439
Speaker 2: like a little bit, but by and large, when he

445
00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:23,639
Speaker 2: was trying to get away from somebody else, another falcon

446
00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:25,320
Speaker 2: was there to clean him up. And so I think

447
00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:28,800
Speaker 2: that the cohesiveness of the pass rush was really strong

448
00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:30,440
Speaker 2: today and I hope that that can continue.

449
00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:30,840
Speaker 4: Yeah.

450
00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:32,879
Speaker 3: Something else that I'll add too, is like, this is

451
00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:36,960
Speaker 3: why it's so important that someone like Arnold Abachetti gets

452
00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,800
Speaker 3: more reps. I think the fact that you don't like

453
00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:42,520
Speaker 3: seeing anyone get hurt, that's for sure, But I feel

454
00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:46,080
Speaker 3: like the reps and the live game action that Arnold

455
00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:49,680
Speaker 3: Abukatti got with Lorenzo Carter on IR with a concussion, Yeah,

456
00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:51,400
Speaker 3: I think those kind.

457
00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:52,480
Speaker 4: Of built up reps.

458
00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:57,080
Speaker 3: Those accumulated reps only helps someone like Arnold Abukatti. And

459
00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:59,879
Speaker 3: I think that this game, and I'll have to go

460
00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,600
Speaker 3: I can watch it to see kind of what those

461
00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:03,840
Speaker 3: sacks look like for him and whether or not they

462
00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,520
Speaker 3: were more designed scheme wise, or if it was him

463
00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:11,160
Speaker 3: just winning. But I kind of feel like he benefits

464
00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,600
Speaker 3: from that, and you're kind of sort of finally seeing

465
00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:18,040
Speaker 3: the fruits of that labor perhaps, and you hope that

466
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,440
Speaker 3: that continues for someone like Arnold a wa Katti, because

467
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:22,160
Speaker 3: I did think that he had a good game today.

468
00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,080
Speaker 2: You you spoke to Arnold Abkadis Taran after the game,

469
00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:27,199
Speaker 2: did he say anything that stood out to you?

470
00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:30,920
Speaker 5: He said, obviously, anytime you get two sacks, it feels good.

471
00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:32,520
Speaker 1: Yeah it does. Yeah it does.

472
00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,159
Speaker 5: But he even had the butt. At the end of

473
00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,080
Speaker 5: the day, you still want to get a win. So

474
00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:39,640
Speaker 5: even the defense is recognizing that the progress that there

475
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:43,879
Speaker 5: was is great and all, but the scoreboard ends up

476
00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:47,040
Speaker 5: mattering most which what was interesting though, is like he's

477
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,159
Speaker 5: crediting the bye for a lot of help. Still he's like,

478
00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,760
Speaker 5: my legs felt so fresh. Oh interesting, And he also said,

479
00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,240
Speaker 5: like just self scouting it's like we were there, like

480
00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,600
Speaker 5: the initial rush might not work, but don't give up,

481
00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:58,560
Speaker 5: Like just keep rushing.

482
00:21:58,680 --> 00:21:59,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a story.

483
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,679
Speaker 5: Just keep swimming, just keep brushing. And he said, like

484
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,080
Speaker 5: they just had the defense just had a really good

485
00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,960
Speaker 5: week of practice. Awesome, So if they can repeat that,

486
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,119
Speaker 5: maybe they can repeat the performance. And it was a

487
00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:15,560
Speaker 5: domino effect because then even Clark Phillips was recognizing how

488
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,959
Speaker 5: well the defensive line played and that enabled the secondary

489
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:20,679
Speaker 5: to be Yeah.

490
00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:24,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were put you know, looked like they had

491
00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 2: a real turnover mentality in the secondary. Clark Phillips punched

492
00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:30,159
Speaker 2: the ball out. I mean like, yeah, exactly, I mean

493
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,400
Speaker 2: they were you the defense came in with an edge.

494
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,119
Speaker 2: The defense came in with it with a goal, and

495
00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:37,760
Speaker 2: they accomplished that goal against a good Chargers offense. Justin Herbert,

496
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 2: we all know who he is. He's a great quarterback.

497
00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,879
Speaker 5: Until the defense had to buy Yes, I think I

498
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:44,040
Speaker 5: think that's the big difference.

499
00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:45,040
Speaker 1: They looked refreshed.

500
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah, they they played like they they

501
00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:52,320
Speaker 2: weren't feeling the wear and tear of eleven previous games,

502
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:56,560
Speaker 2: which is awesome. Somebody else who looked pretty fresh out there,

503
00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:57,400
Speaker 2: He looked.

504
00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,400
Speaker 1: Less fresh as the game went along. Was Lad McConkey.

505
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, he just had nine catches, which is a career

506
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 2: high for him, one hundred and seventeen yards. He was

507
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 2: really the only nitpick I think you can have ye

508
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 2: for Atlanta's defense, but he was the entire Chargers offense,

509
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,200
Speaker 2: and he kind of is becoming just the entire Chargers offense. Obviously,

510
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,719
Speaker 2: people here in Georgia know what Lad McConkie can do,

511
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:20,960
Speaker 2: so I don't think we need to be labor that point.

512
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,160
Speaker 2: One other note about the defense and special teams. Falcons

513
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 2: had another fake punt that they stopped, which I think

514
00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 2: that's their third on the season. Shout out to Marquise

515
00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:33,480
Speaker 2: Williams reving those guys prepared and ready to go. And

516
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,159
Speaker 2: then Young Wayku kind of redeemed himself after missing that

517
00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,800
Speaker 2: early field goal. He then connects on two more and

518
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:40,679
Speaker 2: he makes his extra point. I know, you know a

519
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 2: lot of people are feeling some sort of way about

520
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:47,720
Speaker 2: Young Wayku. He's going through a rough patch, Tory. Was

521
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 2: it nice to see him bounce back and make the

522
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:51,960
Speaker 2: other two after missing that first one.

523
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 3: It was, but you still got to make that first one,

524
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 3: you know, like that's what he is so exactly. That's

525
00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 3: the thing is like, and I even think Rahem Morris

526
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 3: said it like he knows it, we know it, everybody

527
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:03,159
Speaker 3: knows it. Like you got to make that. It was

528
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 3: a thirty five yard or thirty four yards.

529
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: Into the week with a right hip injury.

530
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,880
Speaker 4: And I'm sure that played into it a little bit, but.

531
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,479
Speaker 1: You got to make You got to make those off

532
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 1: the port.

533
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 3: Those are things that at the high school level, at

534
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,359
Speaker 3: the college level, like, that's the expectation is you make

535
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:18,920
Speaker 3: a thirty five.

536
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:19,439
Speaker 4: Yard field goal.

537
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, and in game against a good team like this,

538
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:23,119
Speaker 2: every every point matters, and.

539
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:23,720
Speaker 4: It did matter.

540
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 5: An opponent hasn't missed a field goal in Mercedes Benz.

541
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 3: That's crazy that season season.

542
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:31,560
Speaker 5: Yeah.

543
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 3: I saw that stat somewhere and I thought, I think

544
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:37,440
Speaker 3: that's why. Also it feels like that not that not

545
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:41,080
Speaker 3: minimizing the misses of young Waykup, because I'm not minimizing

546
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 3: that at all.

547
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 4: It is interesting though.

548
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:47,639
Speaker 3: Because it does feel like because opponents haven't missed hardly

549
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,680
Speaker 3: any field goals at all this year, whether home or away,

550
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 3: I think pressure is it makes it feel even more

551
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:59,159
Speaker 3: magnified when Young Wait doesn't make a feel and he

552
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 3: probably knows that he knows it.

553
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure.

554
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 2: All right, Let's get to our final topic. What is

555
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,639
Speaker 2: the Falcons outlook at at this point? They still have

556
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 2: the lead in the division as of now, Tampa Bay

557
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 2: and Carolina is on the TV in front of us

558
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,959
Speaker 2: as we speak. Carolina is in the red zone. There

559
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 2: is forty seconds left in the third quarter. They have

560
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 2: a thirteen to ten lead over Tampa Bay. Even if

561
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay emerges with a win today against Carolina, the

562
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,199
Speaker 2: Falcons will be leading the NFC South by virtue of

563
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 2: the tiebreaker they have secured against Tampa this season. But

564
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,880
Speaker 2: this is not the position the Falcons were in three

565
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 2: weeks ago. Nope, the lead is shrinking and it's shrinking quickly.

566
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 2: So Tory, how do we feel about Atlanta with five

567
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 2: games remaining?

568
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,639
Speaker 3: They I think it goes back to something I was

569
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 3: saying earlier, where you do have everything in front of you.

570
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 4: You know, if they go up.

571
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 3: To Minnesota next week and beat Minnesota, you feel very

572
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 3: differently about their outlook. If they beat the Raiders on

573
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 3: Monday night, you have a different feeling about the outcome. Heck,

574
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 3: if they go to Washington right before the season ends

575
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 3: and beat the Commanders. With the Commanders rolling the way

576
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 3: they are right now, you feel different. So I do

577
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:14,920
Speaker 3: believe that every there is a true statement that everything

578
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 3: is in front of them. They win some of these

579
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 3: big time games, it's gonna matter. But if they play

580
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 3: the way that they've played against the Saints, the Broncos,

581
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,439
Speaker 3: and now the Chargers, they're not going to win those games.

582
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:26,919
Speaker 4: And that's going.

583
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,439
Speaker 3: To be a problem because again to the point I

584
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,679
Speaker 3: was making earlier, you want to have like control of

585
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 3: your own destiny. You want to sit there and have

586
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,640
Speaker 3: the control and to have your hands on the ball

587
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:41,479
Speaker 3: and have possession and all that. I mean, not to

588
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 3: use every cliche in the book. You want to be

589
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 3: the ones controlling things. And when you're losing games like

590
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 3: the ones that they've just lost these last three games,

591
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 3: you're not doing that. You're not controlling your own destiny,

592
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 3: and you're kind of hoping here here the.

593
00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,200
Speaker 4: Panthers are at the end of the literally.

594
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:03,120
Speaker 3: Like the Panthers just scored sixteen to ten in at

595
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,680
Speaker 3: the end of the third quarter, and if you're the Falcons,

596
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 3: you're like kind of breathing a sigh of relief.

597
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 4: If this thing holds.

598
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, you used a lot of ifs right when you

599
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: started that.

600
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 2: You're saying, if you do this, if you do this

601
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 2: three four weeks ago, we weren't using ifs right. It

602
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 2: was you are in control, keep it going, play your game,

603
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 2: and handle your business right. And so now as you

604
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 2: kind of get to the very end of the season

605
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 2: and everything is tightening up, you start to have less

606
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,120
Speaker 2: and less in your control. Now. Fortunately, the Falcons are

607
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 2: still in a position where they do control things because

608
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 2: of that tie break. And I actually disagree with you slightly.

609
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 2: I do think that if the Falcons played the way

610
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 2: they did against New Orleans and today, that bodes well

611
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 2: for them moving forward. They just need to clean up

612
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,199
Speaker 2: the turnovers as was the case against the Chargers, and

613
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 2: then some of the untimely penalties and giving the explosives,

614
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 2: and then.

615
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 3: The yeah, they didn't play because you have to think

616
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 3: about it collectively.

617
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm saying is outside of those areas. I think, like,

618
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 2: if they can finish the job against New Orleans right

619
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 2: and punch the ball in and we're playing the F game.

620
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,199
Speaker 5: But they we just said we weren't playing the F game.

621
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: No, No, I'm in.

622
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,479
Speaker 2: But they were the better team against New Orleans and

623
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 2: against Los Angeles.

624
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 1: They just didn't win, but they.

625
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,360
Speaker 3: Yes, because of the decisions that they made.

626
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 4: In the game.

627
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 2: No, the decision, the decisions Kirk's turnovers aren't decisions were

628
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,360
Speaker 2: fundamentally one player. But the team deserved to win this game.

629
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 2: The team dominated this game.

630
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 4: You can't say one without the other.

631
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 3: Though, you can't say oh because of Kirk Cousins.

632
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:32,680
Speaker 1: Per a forward.

633
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 2: I can say that I think the team played well

634
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 2: enough and I will take this performance from the Falcons

635
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 2: except for one piece that.

636
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: We are projecting forward. We are projecting, we're projecting.

637
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 3: I think we are thinking about this in two totally

638
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 3: different ways. I think that there is like semantics almost

639
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 3: like and.

640
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: They're coming entirely from Tory.

641
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 3: Right, entirely for me, of course, But no, I because

642
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 3: you can't oh, god, almost well.

643
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 1: He's flipping the table over.

644
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,239
Speaker 3: I I just yes, Like you can say, you can

645
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 3: say that all day long, but you can't take the

646
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 3: totality of the game without taking the bad with the good.

647
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: That can heem say a growth mindset? Right?

648
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 2: So I want to I want to keep everything that

649
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 2: is working and then just grow, like five percent of it,

650
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 2: and that five percent is you know, don't turn the

651
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 2: ball over four times, then you win this game.

652
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 3: No, I agree with that, but it was going against

653
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 3: the original argum where you're saying you were disagreeing with

654
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 3: me because of the collective.

655
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 2: You're saying, if the if the Falcons play the way

656
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 2: they did, which which you're right, yes, because that does

657
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 2: include the negatives exactly. But I think if they play

658
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 2: as a team the way that they have, but then

659
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 2: fix the couple of issues that popped up against New

660
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 2: Orleans and kind of the one main issue today that

661
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 2: I do like that as a path moving forward for success.

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Speaker 2: I think you keep like ninety percent of it and

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Speaker 2: then kind of fix the ten percent of it, then

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Speaker 2: I do think this team can get back.

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Speaker 1: On a role.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, my brain hurts. Great.

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Speaker 3: I think again it's semantics. We're not agreeing on semantics

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Speaker 3: here exactly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're disagreeing on that ten percent.

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Speaker 5: I thought I didn't get involved in that one Teren's

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Speaker 5: face throughout that whole conversations.

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Speaker 2: I just it didn't match the listeners faces. But if

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Speaker 2: it did, we apologize. So, like Taren, this is kind

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Speaker 2: of a now to me, Well, this is a little

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Speaker 2: bit of a reversal. I feel like from what we

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Speaker 2: saw at the beginning of the season from the Falcons,

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Speaker 2: right they were playing these close games, but they were

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Speaker 2: finding the ways to win. And now they're playing these

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Speaker 2: close games and they're making the plays that kind of

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Speaker 2: hurt them and cost themselves and.

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Speaker 5: Always find the way to win though it was just

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Speaker 5: always close.

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Speaker 2: You guys are very combative over the last seven minutes

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 5: The reverse of what we saw in some games at

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Speaker 5: the start of the season, where they could randomly pull

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Speaker 5: off a victory in the final two minutes because they

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Speaker 5: decided to execute well in a pit in the two

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Speaker 5: minute drill. Yeah there, yeah.

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Speaker 4: There you go. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Something I've been wanting to say that speaks volumes to

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Speaker 5: this entire debate is we have never had a game

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Speaker 5: on the TV while recording this podcast, and that just

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Speaker 5: goes to show the shakiness of the playoff structure that

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Speaker 5: the Falcons stand on right now, as soon as a rocking,

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Speaker 5: I really want to see Glaudiator two.

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Speaker 3: That was amazing, Thank you, Mike Drop. Honestly, what a

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Speaker 3: note to end on all.

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Speaker 2: Right, let's wrap it there, that will do it for

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Speaker 2: today's podcast. That was obviously not the result of the

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Speaker 2: Falcons wanted. They drop seventeen to thirteen to the Los

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Speaker 2: Angeles Chargers. Now six and six on the season. We

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Speaker 2: will see how they can regroup reclect themselves for a

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Speaker 2: big road game against the Minnesota Vikings. But that is

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Speaker 2: a week away and we've got a lot between now

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Speaker 2: and then. The Falcons have some things to work on,

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Speaker 2: and we will check back in with y'all on Friday.

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Speaker 1: That will be our preview show.

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Speaker 2: We will look ahead to the Vikings game and kind

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Speaker 2: of recap the week that was for Atlanta. So until then,

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Speaker 2: everybody for Tory mclaney and Tarn Walcke. I am Will McFadden,

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Speaker 2: and we will see you all then