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

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Speaker 1: Falcons Final Whistle podcast. We are coming to you from

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Speaker 1: AT and T Stadium. After the Falcons lost a lopsided one.

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Speaker 1: I think everyone knows that forty three to three to

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. This was not a good result, not

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Speaker 1: one that the Falcons were looking forward to continue the

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Speaker 1: positive momentum after beating the Saints in New Orleans. That

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Speaker 1: a Thursday night game against the New England Patriots. Tory

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Speaker 1: mclaney your biggest takeaway from this specific game. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to take one thing away from a game

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Speaker 1: where the Falcons lost forty three to three. I think

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Speaker 1: for me, it was just kind of the I wanted

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Speaker 1: this to be a competitive game, I really really did,

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Speaker 1: and I thought that after they beat the Saints last

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Speaker 1: coming out and seeing what happened in that second quarter

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Speaker 1: was really discouraging and it was really tough to watch,

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Speaker 1: I think down through the last two quarters of the

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Speaker 1: That wasn't a fun one to watch. Yeah, it definitely wasn't.

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Speaker 1: And that voice you heard was Tory mclaney. I'm Scott Bear.

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Speaker 1: I didn't do the intros off the top, silly me.

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Speaker 1: I think you mentioned my name, I mentioned yours, but

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Speaker 1: nobody else. So now we're on the back track a

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Speaker 1: little bit. I'm Scott Bear and Chris Ram coming up next.

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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts after this result that was disappointing

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Speaker 1: for the Falcons and their fans. I think, like Tori said,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to take away one thing, but maybe just

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Speaker 1: the nature of the NFL. You know that the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: were last week, We're down thirty to nothing in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter, six minutes to go, and this week they

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Speaker 1: beat a team forty three to three. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think it's just my biggest takeaways is just the

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Speaker 1: nature of the NFL, how things can change so quickly. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to break this game down and identify

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Speaker 1: things that went wrong in what Arthur Smith called the

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Speaker 1: second quarter avalanche. We're gonna go over some stats that

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Speaker 1: really tell the story, and we're going to look forward

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Speaker 1: to how the Falcons have to rebound quickly heading into

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Speaker 1: that Thursday night game against New England at Mercedes Benz

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Speaker 1: Stadium where they haven't won a regular season a game

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Speaker 1: yet this season. And then we're gonna try to look

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Speaker 1: forward and see how the Falcons Cans, as Foyer put it,

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Speaker 1: stay in the hunt. They're in the hunt now. They

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Speaker 1: want to play meaningful games in December, how they can

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Speaker 1: of four core, spending five minutes talking about where this

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Speaker 1: Falcons Cowboys game went wrong for the dirty Birds and

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Speaker 1: it went wrong in the first half things kind of

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Speaker 1: got out of control. Chris Ram you you wrote about this,

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Speaker 1: uh for Atlanta Falcons dot com. Where do you think

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Speaker 1: this uh, this game got out of hand? Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I think the second quarter, like like Arthur Smith mentioned,

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Speaker 1: out of hand. But I thought that the momentum really

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Speaker 1: I thought the obviously being up, um, you know, twenty

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Speaker 1: thirty one. It was thirty four to three when they

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Speaker 1: me is when I thought that it just kills It

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Speaker 1: me watching that, I was just like, oh man, this

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Speaker 1: is comebacks have happened, big comebacks have happened before. But

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Speaker 1: like it was one of those things that you know,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't that they put this huge gigantic drive together

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Speaker 1: immediately it goes from being a twenty eight to three

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Speaker 1: Arthur Smith's right, it was that second quarter that really

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Speaker 1: It was just the start of the second quarter. Dallas

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Speaker 1: and in one, two, three, four five plays has a

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Speaker 1: remember who it was, but it was a twenty three

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Speaker 1: That was I think the moment for me that it

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Speaker 1: I know we're talking about the second quarter avalanche, as

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Speaker 1: Arthur Smith put it, But in the first quarter, the

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Speaker 1: Falcons are taking yards in chunks like through their first

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Speaker 1: two series. Towards the end of their first two series,

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Speaker 1: I looked at the team stats and they were averaging

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Speaker 1: was about to say Matt Ryan hit cow Pits with

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Speaker 1: ease multiple times, right, And I think avalanche the word

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Speaker 1: wrong because the Cowboys put up forty three, so you

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Speaker 1: I mean, like we're talking about going to thirty six

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Speaker 1: to continue to go down this way, and ultimately it did,

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Speaker 1: numbers that explain what happened and numbers that maybe were

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Speaker 1: uncharacteristic of how the Falcons have been playing in recent weeks.

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Speaker 1: which I think sometimes stats can be deceiving as story,

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Speaker 1: as you wrote in your article for Atlanta Falcons dot com,

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Speaker 1: sometimes they can really identify where areas went wrong. I

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Speaker 1: Three weeks ago I wrote a story on aj Terrell

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Speaker 1: they're doing things that don't show up in a stat book,

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Speaker 1: and so you know, you can't always like take stats

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Speaker 1: just kind of transpired here. I think it's really funny

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Speaker 1: particularly it absolutely did, Chris, did ever surprise you to

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Speaker 1: The Falcons had been pretty good in those situations, and

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Speaker 1: they had some opportunities early in this game to get

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Speaker 1: the fourth down that didn't work out for the Falcons. Well,

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Speaker 1: Another thing that just kills momentum. But I think the

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Speaker 1: most surprising thing about the Falcons struggling on lake downs

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Speaker 1: the game, like you said, getting chunks of yards. Kyle

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Speaker 1: the how things change in the NFL so quickly, especially

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Speaker 1: even with the Patriots hid in the stride and everything today,

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Speaker 1: each week as its own thing. Yeah, it's own. It

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Speaker 1: really is this year more than any other year. I

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Speaker 1: saw a tweet the other day that said, Uh, I

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Speaker 1: don't think anyone's gonna win the Super Bowl, like because

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Speaker 1: everybody's just beating each other. Yeah, exactly so, so I

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Speaker 1: think it's fair to. It's fair to just like you said,

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Speaker 1: forget about this and think that the Falcons will come

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Speaker 1: in here and look like a completely different team. If

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Speaker 1: we're gonna look at the NFL playoff picture in good times,

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Speaker 1: we can look at it in less than ideal times

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Speaker 1: as well. And as it looks right now, the Vikings

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Speaker 1: That really goes back to your point, no one's gonna win. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Saints lose to Tennessee basically if we're

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Speaker 1: looking at seating, because why not. The Falcons are ninth

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Speaker 1: at this point. But it's all tight, yeah, all close.

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Speaker 1: And Foyer said that last year they were they never

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Speaker 1: that's why we're so upset by how we played here.

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Speaker 1: And I think that that motivation will spurn them forward.

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Speaker 1: Is the goal is to be relevant, be in the

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Speaker 1: They ain't in that. Yeah, that's not where they are

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Speaker 1: that They're in a much different place. So they got

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Speaker 1: to kind of stay competitive. As we see some teams

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Speaker 1: of fighting for that six and seven spot. Falcons want

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Speaker 1: to stay in it. I think that motivation will be important.

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Speaker 1: I think what Chris pointed out about Matt Ryan's leadership

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Speaker 1: turning the page and nobody feels sorry for ourselves or

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Speaker 1: no soft souls. I think all that comes into play.

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Speaker 1: Can they can they get to a point against the

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Speaker 1: Patriots at home where they can put themselves in position

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Speaker 1: to win this one late to go. It's so funny,

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Speaker 1: for as bad as everybody may feel after the Cowboys game,

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Speaker 1: if you come out of this five day, two game

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Speaker 1: stretch and you're one and one, you're like, I, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're You're totally good with that, Totally good with that.

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Speaker 1: So we've been through the start of this difficult stretch.

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Speaker 1: No Falcons fans are not thrilled. They're still an opportunity

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Speaker 1: here to come out of it ahead or come out

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Speaker 1: of it even and stay in the hunt. And I

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Speaker 1: think that that's going to be important as we wrap

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Speaker 1: up a quarter number four and the end of this

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Speaker 1: Falcon's Final Whistle podcast. So with that, y'all know the

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Speaker 1: push it forward, and then those guys are gonna take

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Speaker 1: Well it'll be Friday morning by that. Friday morning, no

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Speaker 1: doubt about that.