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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 recorded on

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Speaker 1: video here in the Ticketmaster studios, which is somewhat unusual

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Speaker 1: because normally I'm Scott that's tearing the story, and normally

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Speaker 1: we do this audio only right after a game, but

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Speaker 1: there was a very long flight home from Arizona that

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Speaker 1: didn't end until about one point thirty in the morning

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Speaker 1: on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Night, So we're doing this Monday morning.

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Speaker 1: Monday morning, And if you occasionally hear some buzzing, it's

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Speaker 1: because the Falcons IBM Performance Field facility is getting some upgrades,

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Speaker 1: and some upgrades involve some construction noise. So hopefully the

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Speaker 1: guys outside can just take a chill pill for a

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Speaker 1: second now, but I don't anticipate it.

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Speaker 2: My stomach rumbling, right.

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Speaker 1: So, the Falcons lost to the Arizona Cardinals twenty five

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Speaker 1: to twenty three at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk a little bit about that, but since

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Speaker 1: we're heading into a week eleven by, we're gonna big

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Speaker 1: pick a little bit as we go through the course

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Speaker 1: of this pod and kind of give a state of

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Speaker 1: the Falcons. They are four and six. I don't think

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Speaker 1: that's where they wanted to be at this point. All

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Speaker 1: three of us were in the locker room Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: The frustration was palatable with the way that the guys

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Speaker 1: were talking, but there does seem to be some that

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Speaker 1: they're also resolute in the fact that like, hey, we're

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Speaker 1: better than this, but they also know that they have

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Speaker 1: to get it turned around fast.

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Speaker 3: I think when you look at the conversations that we

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Speaker 3: had in the locker room and it's like, we're frustrated,

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Speaker 3: we're freshrated, we're frustrated, and then it's like, Okay, what

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Speaker 3: do you do with this frustration? Because there's been frustration

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Speaker 3: now for a few weeks because the Falcons have lost

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Speaker 3: four of their last five. They've lost two teams that

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Speaker 3: when we were looking at this schedule going into this

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Speaker 3: five stretch of games with the Commanders, the Texans, the Titans,

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Speaker 3: the Vikings, the Cardinals. You looked at that five slate

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Speaker 3: of games in May when we get the schedule and

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Speaker 3: it's like, all right, that's a pretty good slate of

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Speaker 3: games for you to potentially go on a run here,

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Speaker 3: because you would think on paper that this team is

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Speaker 3: pretty dang good and with the talent that they've accumulated.

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Speaker 3: And I think that's what's so frustrating is that this

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Speaker 3: the potential of what we were advertised this team to

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Speaker 3: be in training camp has had moments of seeing that potential,

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Speaker 3: but you've got to win games in order for that

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Speaker 3: potential to actually be met. And so I think, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I think frustrated is the right word for it. That's

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Speaker 3: the word that everybody used in the locker room, whether

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Speaker 3: it was Arthur Smith or it would Drake London, whoever.

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Speaker 3: And I think that it's what you can do with

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Speaker 3: that frustration, because otherwise it's like, Okay, you're frustrated.

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Speaker 1: Cool.

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Speaker 4: What it's like the saying goes. Actions speak louder than

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Speaker 4: what right. No matter how many times you say you're frustrated,

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Speaker 4: who cares? If you keep losing, that frustration is gonna build.

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Speaker 4: But if you don't change the tide to the other

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Speaker 4: directions like okay, say it as many times as you want,

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna stop believing.

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Speaker 5: You, right, And you know the words that also kept

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Speaker 3: And this wasn't even just on Sunday night after the loss,

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Speaker 3: but this was going into the the week ten prep

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Speaker 3: was that Arthur Smith was saying, we're gonna reassess, reevaluate,

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Speaker 3: figure out what needs to be fixed and fix it.

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Speaker 3: And I think like even he said, you know, this

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Speaker 3: have to be critical because if you're not critical, you're

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Speaker 3: not going to grow. Right, be as critical as you

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Speaker 3: can be, because this is this thing. I think, going

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Speaker 3: in two games below five hundred is not where this

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Speaker 5: Be, or should be or should be.

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Speaker 1: And I think that Arthur Smith talks so much and

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Speaker 1: prides himself on being objective and at times brutally honest

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Speaker 1: his players. Right, that will kind of take you as

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Speaker 1: you as you're catching, we're kind of taking a page

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Speaker 1: from that, right it is that we're going to try

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Speaker 1: I think I've covered some really bad teams. I've covered

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Speaker 1: seen this start at zero to ten, and at some

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Speaker 1: accepting where that team is at and where that team's

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Speaker 5: Right, that's the last two years, right, that's not this Yeah.

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Speaker 1: This is You look at this defense, you look at

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Speaker 1: And I think that's what spikes the frustration a little bit,

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Speaker 1: especially when you lose the teams that you figure that

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Speaker 1: I kind of look at it and you look at look,

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Speaker 1: every game is a his own story, every play is

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Speaker 1: its own story. But you can look at overarching themes

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Speaker 1: and the one thing that kind of keeps coming up

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Speaker 1: But explosive plays allowed is something that this defense has

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Speaker 1: been good. The pass rush has been pretty steady, although

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Speaker 1: they would like to get the quarterback down more often.

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Speaker 1: But we saw Trey McBride, yes right, like, have a

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Speaker 4: He knew he was on fire too, because I don't

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Speaker 4: hear him in the post game. Yeah he was chopping

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Speaker 4: some shade on Richie Grant. Yeah, he was like I

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Speaker 4: was killing him. I asked Kyler for that ball because

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Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, yeah, And I think that that's

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Speaker 1: and you look back at the Vikings game, you think, well, that's.

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Speaker 5: The thing, is like, this hasn't been a new issue.

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Speaker 3: It's not like all of a sudden the last three

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Speaker 3: just talking about this. This has been something that has

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Speaker 3: But against you know, Detroit where you have Sam Laporta

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Speaker 3: Tampa Bay. It's like these are kind of one off situations.

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Speaker 3: But it's gotten to the point now in the last

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Speaker 4: And I asked Kaden Ellis about that in the locker

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Speaker 2: You can shake them off. It was a fluke.

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Speaker 4: It happens as he said, like everybody gets paid in

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Speaker 4: this league.

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Speaker 2: Everyone is great.

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Speaker 5: You can get got at any point in time. You got,

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Speaker 5: you got got.

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Speaker 4: But I said, how do you balance brushing it off

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Speaker 4: as a fluke or like getting got? And also it

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Speaker 4: becoming a tread And that's the thing because if they

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Speaker 4: realize it's working, they're gonna do it again.

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Speaker 2: And so that's when the play happens.

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Speaker 4: You finish the drive, you let it go in the moment,

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Speaker 4: but when you get to the sideline, you immediately have

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Speaker 4: to figure out how to fix it. I got the iPads,

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Speaker 4: it got the tablets or whatever bougie expensive device.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry, but no, Yeah, I mean I think like

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Speaker 3: that's the thing is like Trey McBride had what one

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Speaker 4: He had I think sixty six yards in the first

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Speaker 5: So they didn't fix that, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I think as we kind of continue to evaluate

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Speaker 1: question marks, are areas that have to get addressed. Arthur

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Speaker 1: address the quarterback situation. Taylor Heineke has has been had

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Speaker 1: been playing from second half of Week eight against Tennessee

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Speaker 1: of Sunday's game against the fourth quarter Arizona when he

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Speaker 1: allow him to return. We saw Desmer come back fall

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Speaker 1: or die he found a way to drive the ball.

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Speaker 5: That's the most successful play for the Falcons in the

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Speaker 5: red zone. If you don't believe me, go look at

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Speaker 5: Friday's Falcons dightly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so he he scores the go ahead drive

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Speaker 1: that doesn't stand. But and Arthur Smith was asked after

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Speaker 1: How's it is it going to impact? That's what he

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Speaker 1: was asking, Yeah, is it definitely? And he's right. So

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Speaker 1: but also with the understanding that the game plan was

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Speaker 1: they ran the ball forty one times. Yeah, so and

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Speaker 1: they ran the ball effectively. But John Robinson had ninety

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Speaker 1: That's never been a problem. But when you look at

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Speaker 1: this quarterback situation, what plays And this is just us

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Speaker 1: talking here like like what plays a role to us? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: To you, this just calling Peyton Victoria from right. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Now everyone knows my favorite, my government name.

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Speaker 1: No Quiet.

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Speaker 3: So Arthur has said from for the last two weeks

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Speaker 3: that Okay, we're not going to play musical chairs with

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Speaker 5: We're going to reevaluate resss and regroup after the bye week.

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Speaker 3: I'm using his words again, but that a whole big

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Speaker 3: construct of that is around the quarterback, and and it's

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Speaker 3: who's going to be the starting quarterback after the bye

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Speaker 3: because it's not going to be a week in week out.

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Speaker 3: Oh it's gonna be Taylor Hanekey this week. Oh it's

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Speaker 3: going to be Desmond Order this week. That's not what's

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Speaker 3: going to happen. Whoever Arthur Smith I think names as

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Speaker 3: the starter going into the game against the Saints in

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Speaker 3: Week twelve, will start the rest of the season.

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Speaker 5: Barring injury of course or anything ns.

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Speaker 2: If it falls apart, then.

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Speaker 3: You cross that bridge when you get to I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I don't have the answer to that. All I can

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Speaker 3: to this point. Do you stick with desmonh jutor and

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Speaker 3: just kind of be like, look the issues for him,

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Speaker 3: it wasn't that he wasn't moving the ball. I think

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Speaker 3: it was the fact that he wasn't taking care of

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Speaker 3: the ball in really key situations. And it's like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: has he learned a lesson in the last two weeks

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Speaker 3: by Taylor Henike going out there? And it's like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: what is Taylor heniekey provide you. When Arthur Smith says

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of variables that go into this decision,

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Speaker 3: he's right.

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Speaker 5: I wish he would be a.

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Speaker 3: Little bit more forthcoming on what those variables are so

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Speaker 3: and everybody like that. But you also got to take

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Speaker 1: And Taylor Heineke is extreme, has always been well liked

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Speaker 2: So we wouldn't come back up for emergency.

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Speaker 5: Out you were going to say my name and no, sorry, no, And.

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Speaker 3: We were talking to him about this whole quarterback chained situation.

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Speaker 5: I'm working with des, I'm.

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Speaker 5: I have to get in rhythm with him. What are

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Speaker 1: Here. Here's my counter though, is that so like new

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Speaker 3: Because I think it's it's all about the play call

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Speaker 5: And that's not taking anything.

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Speaker 1: is there. They're not out of it. They're right in

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Speaker 1: the thick of this thing. And even still, and we

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Speaker 1: all know on paper doesn't matter, but even still, I

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Speaker 1: think the Falcons match up well with the Saints. I

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Speaker 1: feel like they match up well with the Bucks and

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Speaker 1: they can compete with those teams on that level. So

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Speaker 1: with all that said, right, and we've talked about the

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Speaker 1: adjustments and everything being on the table, and I think

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Speaker 1: that's why there's such a sense of urgency right because

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Speaker 1: they can still do it. They's seven games left. Three

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Speaker 1: of the next four they do an NFC South Tour,

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Speaker 1: So they're gonna get a chance. If they can take

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Speaker 1: care of business in the division, right, then it's all

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Speaker 1: still there.

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Speaker 3: Right And that's the thing is because of the way

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Speaker 3: this division is right now and has been for the

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Speaker 3: last few years, it's just a little bit chaotic, which

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Speaker 3: means that anything can happen. And we've gotten to the

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Speaker 3: point in the last few years where it's like we

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Speaker 3: get to week fifteen sixteen and it's like we're still

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Speaker 3: having these conversations as to who's going to be first place,

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Speaker 3: and it's all about like different tiebreakers and who needs.

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Speaker 5: To beat who.

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Speaker 3: And I feel like if the Falcons do what they're

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Speaker 3: supposed to do, they save everybody a lot of trouble

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Speaker 3: if they go and they beat these divisional opponents.

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Speaker 5: And that's what you hope.

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Speaker 3: You hope that for the Falcon's sake and for this

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Speaker 3: team that they can turn it around, because they do

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Speaker 3: have a chance. The way that this division is, you

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Speaker 3: don't need twelve games to win the division. You don't

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Speaker 3: need eleven games to win this division. Dare I say,

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Speaker 3: you don't need double digit wins?

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Speaker 2: Like you know?

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Speaker 3: So I think it's very it's very possible, so to

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Speaker 3: leave you with a little bit of hope, like this

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Speaker 3: thing isn't over yet, but they've got to turn it around.

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Speaker 3: They've got to score more touchdowns, they've got to get

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Speaker 3: in the end zone. They've got to stop giving up

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Speaker 3: explicive plays, like.

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Speaker 2: It can't just be potential right right.

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Speaker 1: And I think that everybody in the locker room would

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Speaker 1: say the same thing because I feel like they know

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Speaker 1: what they can be and at times we've seen the

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Speaker 1: type of quality that is available within the confines of

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Speaker 1: this depth chart and the depth that they haven't had

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Speaker 1: last year. The difference I think between the conversations had

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Speaker 1: in previous seasons where they're like they're like they're still

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Speaker 1: in it, but they're kind of like hanging on by

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Speaker 1: a thread. And I think, but everybody kind of knew,

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Speaker 1: all right, the death isn't there because of all the

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Speaker 1: cap constraints on the talent level overall, isn't there. I

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Speaker 1: don't know about that this time. I think it. I

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Speaker 1: think if two main things can happen, which haven't happened yet,

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Speaker 1: but if two main things can happen, if they can

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Speaker 1: be more efficient in the red zone and be and

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Speaker 1: get more consistent quarterback play. And if they it's so

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Speaker 1: easy to say, right, it's like, be like, be consistent,

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Speaker 1: consistent forty yard pass. Right, It's one of those things

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Speaker 1: that if you can eliminate those, be the good run

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Speaker 1: defense that they are. I think that they can figure.

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Speaker 5: It out and capitalize. I'll say this, to capitalize on turnovers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, something that's happened.

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Speaker 5: When your defense gives you the ball back as an

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Speaker 5: offense and you have good field position.

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Speaker 2: Didn't they get it at the fourteen, got it at the.

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Speaker 3: Fourteen, had it at the one last week, got it

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Speaker 3: at the thirty three, thirty four also.

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Speaker 2: Again enemy territory.

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Speaker 3: Right, Basically, these are turnovers that are giving the Falcons

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Speaker 3: really really good opportunities and they're not capitalizing on these

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Speaker 3: moments and.

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Speaker 2: They have to field goals are not enough. Well.

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Speaker 3: I think Arthur Smith even said it after the game

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Speaker 3: after the loss in Arizona, where he was like, you

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Speaker 3: know a lot of these games are one possession games,

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Speaker 3: and he's right, they are, especially for this team.

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Speaker 5: Tara Nos she writes.

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Speaker 3: The postgames story at the Buzzer, So no stress, right,

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Speaker 3: So these are one possession games, but in those games,

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Speaker 3: in those games you have to capitalize on those moments,

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Speaker 3: and you can't have quarters where you have negative net yards.

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Speaker 3: The Falcons had negative two net yards in the third quarter,

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Speaker 3: but three against the Cardinals.

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Speaker 5: That can't happen, right, So.

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Speaker 1: I think it goes back to overarching thing is that

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Speaker 1: consistency on both sides of the ball. So ultimately, if

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Speaker 1: they can achieve that and get their explosive playmakers rolling

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Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball, anything can happen. I

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Speaker 1: think it's definitely possible, and I think that they believe

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Speaker 1: that too, So when you go into this, you can

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Speaker 1: really work and evaluate and be objective. I encourage Falcons

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Speaker 1: fans to do the exact same thing about this team

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Speaker 1: as they move forward through it. We have reached the

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Speaker 1: end of our time here on Falcons Final Whistle presented

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Speaker 1: by Zaxby's. We're going to obviously take the the bye

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Speaker 1: week off. I don't think any one of the three

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Speaker 1: of us will be in the city of Atlanta this weekend,

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Speaker 1: and ultimately we will come back to you next week

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Speaker 1: after a massive engagement with the New Orleans Saints in

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Speaker 1: Week twelve at Mercedes Benz Stadium. Find it ticket. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be awesome uh. For Scott, Torri and Tarn, we

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Speaker 1: will see you real soon. Bye h m hm

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Speaker 3: Hm