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Speaker 1: You are listening to the End Around postgame podcast with

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Speaker 1: Matt tebegan Will McFadden Will the Falcons just dropped at

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Speaker 1: twenty seven, twenty four game in Indianapolis. A lot of

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Speaker 1: storylines here before we get to my main takeaway. What

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Speaker 1: is your biggest takeaway from this loss? Matt? This is

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Speaker 1: probably going to, I don't know, maybe not sit well

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Speaker 1: with a lot of Falcons fans, but I don't want

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Speaker 1: to overreact to this loss because the team that I

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Speaker 1: So that's my general impression of the game. I know,

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Speaker 1: I know it's going to be frustrating for some Falcons

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Speaker 1: fans to have another slow start on the road and

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Speaker 1: all of that stuff, But that second half gave me

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Speaker 1: a little bit of optimism. And that's probably not a

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Speaker 1: popular opinion right now, but that's where I stand. What

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Speaker 1: about you? For me, the big story is, you know,

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Speaker 1: I wrote my column on Matt Ryan's pretty performance. This

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Speaker 1: was a drive away from being one of the most

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Speaker 1: improbable comebacks in team history. Unfortunately, you don't always get

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Speaker 1: those ops, those opportunities like Matt Ryan talked about, and

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Speaker 1: they came up short. It was too little too late,

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Speaker 1: But what an incredible second half performance by Matt Ryan. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: not a lot of people are gonna really savor that.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna think about the sixteen penalties. They're gonna think

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Speaker 1: about now, this is thirty five penalties through three games.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot. And they're gonna think about the slow start,

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Speaker 1: first half. And they're also going to think about Keyan O'Neill,

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Speaker 1: because it's hard not to think about Keyan O'Neill because

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Speaker 1: he was the one thing this summer that made us

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Speaker 1: all feel really really good and to see him on

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Speaker 1: TV crying in the end zone was really really tough

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Speaker 1: to stomach. That's what I'm going to take away from

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Speaker 1: this one. Well, yeah, I mean to talk a little

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Speaker 1: bit about Kean o neil. I mean, you and I

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Speaker 1: both know him personally. He's one of my favorite players

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Speaker 1: in the locker room. He is just kind of the

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Speaker 1: kindest and generalist guy off the field. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: all know how he loves to deliver the big blow

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Speaker 1: fun to talk to and you can just tell how

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Speaker 1: much he was looking forward to being back that's what

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Speaker 1: that's what really hurts. I think about this injury in

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Speaker 1: particulars who had happened, to the way it happened, and

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Speaker 1: to see his reaction and to know how much he

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Speaker 1: we don't know anything definitive yet, but I think his

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Speaker 1: that's really important to point out. But yeah, just real

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Speaker 1: quick on him as a human being. He is. He

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Speaker 1: is one of the nicest guys. If you're in the

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Speaker 1: lunch line, he standing next to you, he always ops,

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Speaker 1: gives you a fist bump, hey, how are you actually

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Speaker 1: listens to how you're doing, and seems to really carry

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Speaker 1: He's just a good human being. We hope the best.

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Speaker 1: We're hoping that, you know, it's not as bad as

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Speaker 1: it looked for for darn sure. But and I'm a

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Speaker 1: know that, I mean it. Yeah, So the Falcons fall

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Speaker 1: to one and two. It's early, you know, it's it

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Speaker 1: was the Colts home opener. If you want to take

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Speaker 1: positives away from it. There's a lot of different storylines.

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Speaker 1: Here's here's one for you. In the opener, they fell behind,

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Speaker 1: and you know it just the Falcons just couldn't get

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Speaker 1: and you know, as hot as Jacoby Brisette was in

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Speaker 1: the first half with sixteen straight completions, Matt Ryan comes

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Speaker 1: out absolutely on fire in the second half, eighteen straight

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Speaker 1: l they're wanted to, yep. And part of the reason

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Speaker 1: they lost today will was because of the penalties. The

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Speaker 1: Those are backbreakers. Yeah, it was seven. And I mean,

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Speaker 1: The Falcons expression. The Falcons out scored the Colts in

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Speaker 1: the second half twenty one to seven. I mean that

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Speaker 1: even though they played an nearly perfect second half offensively,

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Speaker 1: any of your stories or suggested headline. It was a

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Speaker 1: tale of two halves. That's every sports editor across the nation,

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Speaker 1: every sports or that's ever lived, cringes when they see that. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, though, I still cringe though when coaches

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Speaker 1: I just you know, I'll let you tell Dan Quinn

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Speaker 1: know what, though, it was it was a rough It

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Speaker 1: was rough going in the first half. Yeah, it was

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Speaker 1: a twenty to three game. It was just nothing was

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Speaker 1: DeVante Freeman, and wow, that was great to see. Yes,

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Speaker 1: DeVante Freeman ended up with eighty eight yards on sixteen carries,

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Speaker 1: That was so much fun to see. He's just such

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Speaker 1: We thought that they would have success today running the

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Speaker 1: they ran it more. But I'm not trying to Monday

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Speaker 1: it was effective, he did still have as many carries

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Speaker 1: where I'll disagree with you on that. This team is

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Speaker 1: can score points and can pick up yards in a hurry.

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Speaker 1: You've got to keep the defense honest, and they can,

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Speaker 1: and so early on in the game, even twenty to three,

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Speaker 1: I don't think you abandoned the run. Forget about Edo

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Speaker 1: Smith going out, just in general, I'm talking about running

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Speaker 1: the football. When you do get behind, you do you

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Speaker 1: do throw the ball. But I'm talking about just in

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Speaker 1: the first half, even though they were down, I still

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Speaker 1: think that you just you know, you don't give up

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Speaker 1: on the run. I'm not saying that the Falcons did.

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Speaker 1: I'm just refuting your point. I'm trying disagreeing with you

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Speaker 1: a little bit, but I just I just I think

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Speaker 1: his number of sixteen is probably closer to nineteen or twenty. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and a few of those got called back. Yeah. But

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Speaker 1: how how it played out? You know, Um, they met

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Speaker 1: was a really great play call by e Scrike at

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Speaker 1: And we say it all the time, you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: Every week. There's there's a there's two or three they're

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Speaker 1: you know, lop sided. It seems like, but then the

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Speaker 1: what this means in what's next? What was what was

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Speaker 1: your one standout player the game? Who you know, who

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Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen season. But because that's a little bit

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Speaker 1: of an obvious one, I'm gonna say Austin Hooper. I

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Speaker 1: really think what the Falcons need offensively to really really

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Speaker 1: If he can continue to develop into that player, because

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Speaker 1: it's what Tony Gonzalez did for this team for so long.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he was automatic in the red zone. When

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Speaker 1: To see Austin Hooper do that today was really really encouraging.

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Speaker 1: So he's my positive player of the game. Yeah, you know, negatively,

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Speaker 1: I think I really liked the game that Isaiah Oliver

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Speaker 1: That really really hurt this comeback effort. I mean for

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Speaker 1: think Matt Ryan's day, Um, you know this, this this

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Speaker 1: could have been one of those games as ugly. Some

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Speaker 1: if he can develop, you know, every single year he's

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Speaker 1: you're playing New Orleans, Carolina and Tampa Bay. Now. You

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Speaker 1: That's that's. No is gonna dispute that at all. And

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Speaker 1: Just today just didn't just wasn't enough. And you know,

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Speaker 1: quote was, you know, today, on limited possessions, we had

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Speaker 1: But in this league, it's about every snap and we've

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Speaker 1: And that's really it came down to a snap in

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Speaker 1: because that the Falcons play to the level that they're

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Speaker 1: so we you know, look, they got to clean up

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Speaker 1: loaded with playmakers. On offense. The calein McGarry is getting

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Speaker 1: you know, eventually they'll get Chris Lyndstrom back. And offensively,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot to feel good about this team.

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Speaker 1: Matt Matt Ryan's performance to day reminded you of how

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Speaker 1: special quarterback he is. Defensively, I'll tell you what, not

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Speaker 1: just Dian Jones, but Alan Bailey showed up at times today.

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Speaker 1: There were some guys though, This team is talented. This team.

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Speaker 1: If you're a Falcons fan right now, yeah, you're mad

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Speaker 1: because they lost, but look at this team has a

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Speaker 1: there's a lot to feel good about. It's early in

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Speaker 1: the season and uh you know what, Hey, you still

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Speaker 1: got thirteen to go. Let's get back to it next week,

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Speaker 1: all right. Well, Uh, any last thoughts on your end. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to put it behind us, and uh we're

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Speaker 1: onto Tennessee. All right, man, great job, and uh, if

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Speaker 1: if you have not been to Atlanta Falcons dot com yet,

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Speaker 1: go check out our stories. Um Will wrote about the penalties.

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Speaker 1: My column was about the the quarterback and just Matt

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Speaker 1: Kelsey Conway also wrote a story, you know, just a

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Speaker 1: reaction from the players and uh, it's really really strong

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Speaker 1: quote in there from Julio Jones. Um and those players

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Speaker 1: aren't aren't happy. I don't want to miss that. Those

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Speaker 1: to be happy. But that'll do it. Thanks for listening,

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Speaker 1: and uh, well let's do it again next Sunday. Awesome,

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys, all right, thanks m