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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, and welcome to the latest edition of

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Speaker 1: the Falcons Final Whistle Podcast, presented by Zaxby's I'm Scott Bahar,

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Speaker 1: accompanied as always by Tory mclaney Tarren Walk and for

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Speaker 1: a second straight home game podcast, Omni Subpan is here

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Speaker 1: with us and she will come in and talk about

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Speaker 1: what was a ferocious day for the Falcons defensive front.

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Speaker 1: But before we get to that, we do need to

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Speaker 1: talk about the fact that the Falcons beat the Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: Colts here at Mercedes Benz Stadium on Christmas Eve by

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Speaker 1: a score of twenty nine to ten. That sounds decisive,

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Speaker 1: something that's been has not been a part of our

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Speaker 1: vocabulary as much as missed opportunities and critical mistakes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I could have gone the whole night without

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Speaker 2: hearing those words.

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Speaker 1: That's why I wanted to get it done at the.

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Speaker 3: We could have We could have gone the whole podcast

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Speaker 3: was without those words, because the Falcons family put together

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Speaker 3: a what I felt like was a.

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Speaker 4: Very complete performance.

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Speaker 2: We only get one Christmas miracle.

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Speaker 1: Per year, I guess, and honestly, it was an impressive

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Speaker 1: win all the way around. Six sacs from the defensive front,

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Speaker 1: the running game was something else.

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Speaker 2: They plugging chugs and overall.

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Speaker 1: The offense toy You've got the number on the top

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Speaker 1: of your head, right, the six pointing yards per play,

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Speaker 1: six point three yards per play during the first half,

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Speaker 1: it was as high as seven point one's that's really

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Speaker 1: moving the ball. Yeah, they had four hundred and six yards. Now, look,

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Speaker 1: we're going to get into some issues that they still

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Speaker 1: need to remedy, but overall, this was a good, decisive

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Speaker 1: win for the Falcons. A clean fourth quarter game, something

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Speaker 1: Taylor Heinecke said on Wednesday. We need a clean four

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Speaker 1: quarter game. It's good that they got one. It's a

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Speaker 1: bit unfortunate that it comes in week sixteen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that's where it kind of leaves you,

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Speaker 3: is that when you're looking at this this win, it's like, yes,

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Speaker 3: it was a decisive win, and yes, it was as

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Speaker 3: complete as this team has looked in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 3: and yes it was balanced, and yes and yes and yes,

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Speaker 3: and this was exactly like this was as close to

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Speaker 3: what I thought.

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Speaker 4: They would be going into this season.

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Speaker 3: And then the fact of the matter is that, yes,

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Speaker 3: we are in Week sixteen and the Falcons don't kind

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Speaker 3: of hold the cards in the NFC South, they don't

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Speaker 3: hold destiny in their own hands, and they or I

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Speaker 3: guess control their own destiny. As the saying goes, they're

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Speaker 3: kind of having to sit around and wait to see

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Speaker 3: what Tampa Bay does.

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Speaker 4: They on Let's today, Yeah, I mean Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 2: That's over. They beat the Jags thirty to twelve.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, they're rolling, which I think is kind of

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Speaker 3: interesting considering where we are in the season and kind

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Speaker 4: Thought we would be.

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Speaker 3: But nonetheless, the Falcons have to do what they can

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Speaker 3: do right now, which is put together some wins. And

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Speaker 3: it started with this Indianapolis game. And this was a

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Speaker 3: Colts team that came in I thought, playing pretty well.

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Speaker 3: They had a winning record coming in, and so this

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Speaker 3: kind of marks the first time that the Falcons beat

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Speaker 3: a team with a winning record, which is kind of

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Speaker 3: wild to think about.

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Speaker 4: It really mm hm.

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Speaker 3: So I think when you look at the totality of

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Speaker 3: this game, it's like, all of this is so good,

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Speaker 3: and you really enjoyed seeing this game, And I honestly

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Speaker 3: had more fun watching this game than any other game

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Speaker 3: to this point for this team. This this I mean,

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Speaker 3: I go back to that third the first drive of

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Speaker 4: Like, with CP the way that they use CP.

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Speaker 3: Bajean and Tyler Algier, I feel like that's the one

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Speaker 3: time this season where I could look at a singular

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Speaker 3: drive and be like, that's what I thought it would

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Speaker 4: And but again goes back to we are.

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Speaker 3: In week sixteen, and you do have to ask the

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Speaker 3: question is is it a little too late?

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Speaker 1: And with the way Tampa's playing, it's possible. And the

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Speaker 1: only reason why that matters is because they lost back

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Speaker 1: But if you look at it, and maybe that's what

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Speaker 1: is kind of not shading over this win, but you

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Speaker 1: look at it and you think if this could have

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Speaker 1: been figured out faster or done more consistently, done more consistently.

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Speaker 1: Falcons have a dramatically different record considering the strength of

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Speaker 1: their schedule and the opponents that they've played and the

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Speaker 1: opportunities that they haven't capitalized on and look, they were

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Speaker 1: still not good in the red zone, right, but my goodness,

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Speaker 1: they looked really, really good. They were moving the ball.

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Speaker 1: It was to Tory's point, it was a fun game

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, well it was interesting.

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Speaker 3: You talk about them going they were zero for three

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Speaker 3: and that's not where you want to be. That's not

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Speaker 3: a stat line that you want to have. And Taylor

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Speaker 3: Heineke spoke about it after the game and Arthur Smith

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Speaker 3: and they said, look like, we're not minimizing the fact

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Speaker 3: that we didn't score when we got in the red zone,

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Speaker 3: like we of course you want touchdowns coming out of that.

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Speaker 4: Of course you.

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Speaker 3: Don't want to rely on Yung Waiku to put up

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Speaker 3: seventeen of your twenty nine points in this game, but

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Speaker 3: you know, you still come out of it with points.

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Speaker 3: And I think both the gist that I got with

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Speaker 3: both Taylor Heineke and Arthur Smith after the game when

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Speaker 3: they were asked kind of about this idea was that

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Speaker 3: they both were like, yeah, obviously you want more, but

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Speaker 3: we'll take this win because I think in the end,

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Speaker 3: the Falcons did more good than they did bad And

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Speaker 3: how many times have we been able to say that

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Speaker 5: I hate to be the one who does it first,

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Speaker 5: but we talked about not wanting to say missed opportunities,

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Speaker 5: and then we say now that there were so many

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Speaker 5: opportunities where they should have scored touchdowns rather than field goals.

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Speaker 5: So it's still I'm gonna be the grinch and say

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Speaker 5: there was still a bunch of missed opportunities. It's like,

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Speaker 5: who had seventeen points? You don't want that necessarily, And

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Speaker 5: if you think about how many drives did end in

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Speaker 5: it's an even more decisive win. So I hate to

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Speaker 5: be Devil's advocate, but it is there. Yeah, And there's

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Speaker 5: like a persistent theme I think throughout this season.

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Speaker 1: And that's an important thing to note because when you

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Speaker 1: look at it, two of the field goals easily could

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Speaker 1: There was a kind of a one to the back

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Speaker 1: on the sidelines, and it was a little too much

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Speaker 1: it was late throws a little too maybe soft, and

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Speaker 1: he ended up stepping out of bounds. But so what

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Speaker 1: you're starting to see is you're seeing this this kind

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Speaker 1: of offensive churn and production, I thought, and we can

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Speaker 1: get into Taylor Heineke in a bit. But defensively, my goodness,

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Speaker 1: six sacks, Jesse Bates had an interception, no late game

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Speaker 1: And now I'm going to bring Omna in to see

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Speaker 1: this past rush get going. What were the defensive linemen,

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Speaker 1: the linebackers kind of saying about why they were why

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Speaker 1: they were able to generate so much pressure in this game, Omna, you.

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Speaker 6: Know, Kalaius. What stuck out to me the most was

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Speaker 6: Kalais in the locker room, who said he expected them

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Speaker 6: to look like this all season. So now they're they're

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Speaker 6: finally starting to get it going. You know, when he

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Speaker 6: signed here, he's always said that this could be a

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Speaker 6: really scary defensive front.

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Speaker 4: And six sacks that's a lot.

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Speaker 6: They haven't had that many since twenty nineteen, when they

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Speaker 6: They're glad that they were able to get that this

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna make such a good point too, because going

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Speaker 3: off of what she was saying about what Kalaias said,

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Speaker 3: he really did say like, this is what.

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Speaker 4: It was supposed to look like. And I thought that

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Speaker 4: was so That quote in and of itself was so telling.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of the theme of what we're talking about,

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Speaker 1: right that you always sort of sense, and not just

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Speaker 1: on paper, but we've seen this team practice a ka

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Speaker 1: billion times and I've seen them work from the spring

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Speaker 1: to the summer all the way around, and you kind

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Speaker 1: of felt like, if if things go right, it could

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Speaker 1: I think Omne was pretty impressive. Not only did Kalaius

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Coach Gray said this week, like he got the

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Speaker 6: first one. Now he's talking about getting more, and that's

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Speaker 6: exactly what he did. And he felt like now that

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Speaker 6: it was just a confidence boost to go out there

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Speaker 6: did just like keep coming and coming. I you know,

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Speaker 6: Scott would say, one of my game day roles is

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Speaker 6: to pull highlight. It's from Twitter, and they just they

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Speaker 6: literally just kept coming. There's one that I had to

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Speaker 1: You were busy today, Yes, I was very busy.

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Speaker 6: Literally that that never happens.

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Speaker 1: Something that I think can't that that is kind of

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Speaker 1: a sneaky benefit here is you're you're looking at all

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Speaker 1: of these sack numbers and then you look at the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the defensive box scorer and it says that

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Speaker 1: David Onyamata, who's been out with an ankle injury, had

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Speaker 1: zero tackles and one quarterback hit. Right, doesn't light up

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Speaker 1: the box score, but I could feel that dude playing today.

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Speaker 4: Here's the thing with interior defensive line play. I am.

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Speaker 3: I used to say this about ta Kwan Graham where

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Speaker 3: before he got hurt last year, in the first half

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Speaker 3: of the season, I loved watching Takwan Graham play, but

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Speaker 3: you never saw him in the statu sheet. But what

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Speaker 3: he was doing in collapsing a pocket and making a

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Speaker 3: quarterback move off of his spot. You see that with

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Speaker 3: someone like david On Yamada. In this game, you saw

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Speaker 3: how much he was penetrating the front of this cult

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Speaker 3: offensive line and putting a lot of pressure on Gardner Minshew.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I.

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Speaker 3: Those guys in the interior, I oftentimes think that they

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Speaker 3: they get the glory and everything. But you really do

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Speaker 3: have someone like a david On Yamada holding that defensive

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Speaker 1: And they have games coming up.

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Speaker 4: Against Carol and the Saints.

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Speaker 3: And the Saints so they need to in order for

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Speaker 3: the Falcons to have a chance, they need that. They

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Speaker 3: they need the Saints to beat Tampa Bay and they

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Speaker 3: need Carolina to beat Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 1: So we're officially telling Falcons fans to be Saints fans

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Speaker 1: next week. That's what That's what we're saying.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be saying.

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying that.

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Speaker 3: But if they do want a chance at the postseason,

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Speaker 1: They could use New Orleans to have a good week

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Speaker 1: and then they.

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Speaker 4: Can go back. That's the thing.

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Speaker 3: If the Falcons beat the Bears, they have the Saints

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Speaker 3: in New Orleans, Like you can go right back to

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Speaker 3: feeling how you feel about the Saints.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, that's kind of the way that I understand it.

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Speaker 4: That is, if Tampa Bay has one more win, they

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Speaker 4: essentially clinch it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and when you look at kind of at this

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Speaker 1: point in the pod, we like to say, okay, like

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Speaker 1: what needs to happen in the future for the Falcons

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Speaker 1: to succeed or get back on track or whatever happen

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Speaker 1: in the game. I think the analysis pretty simple. Replicate

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Speaker 1: that game that we just saw.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this was the best four quarters we've seen this

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Speaker 1: Right and to your to everybody's point that they're still

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Speaker 1: room for improvement and improved efficiency. I think that's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a key thing as well. For Look, Taylor, Heineke

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Speaker 1: also said, I know we're supposed to be Jags fans,

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Speaker 1: but he admitted, look, everybody's looked. There is nobody on

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Speaker 1: right right, nobody, And but you have to kind of

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Speaker 1: be able to tunnel vision it during the games themselves

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Speaker 1: understanding all right, and look, say what you want about

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Speaker 1: the Bears, but they can score all of a sudden, right,

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Speaker 1: they can score justin fields and DJ Moore are doing things,

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Speaker 1: So you're gonna need offensive efficiency in what's probably gonna

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Speaker 1: be frigid temperatures at least with wind on New Year's

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Speaker 1: Eve in Chicago. So it's yeah, more of what we saw,

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Speaker 1: and I think that if they can do that improve efficiency,

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Speaker 1: they can at least finish this thing out. Right, It's

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Speaker 1: just crazy. I've been screaming nine and eight will do it,

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Speaker 1: nine and eight will do it. Well, maybe nine and

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Speaker 1: eight won't do it, Yeah, at this point because of

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Speaker 1: who they lost to, right, exactly. Yeah, and that part

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Speaker 1: just kept saying nine to eight, is that that played

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Speaker 1: a huge role. And that's why first to Tampa and

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Speaker 3: That eight day swing was really. Yeah, that was the

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Speaker 3: hardest part of this season. And I think if the Falcons,

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Speaker 3: you know, regardless of what happens in the next two weeks,

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Speaker 3: if they even you know, have a chance at the

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Speaker 3: end of the season to be NFC South champions, regardless

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Speaker 3: you look back on that eight day time period, and

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Speaker 3: you I think that leaves a bad taste in your mouth,

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Speaker 3: and it's one that you hope that next year, regardless

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Speaker 3: of how this season ends, you kind of fight fire

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Speaker 3: with fire a little bit in those games and hope

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Speaker 3: for and honestly will a better outcome.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that that's a really good way to

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Speaker 1: phrase it. I think that's a good way to wrap

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Speaker 1: up this Christmas Eve recording Christmas Day Delivery edition of

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Speaker 1: the Falcons Final Whistle podcast presented by Zaxby's for Tory

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Speaker 1: Mcaleney and Tarren Walk and Omni Supon. Thank you so

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Speaker 2: Why don't you Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, all that fun stuff, and we

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Speaker 1: will talk to you again after the Bears game.

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Speaker 3: See it.