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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 Behar,

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Speaker 1: alongside as always Taron Walk and Tory mclaney and joining

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Speaker 1: us for the first time ever another one of our writers.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that you've read her work on Atlantafalcons dot com.

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Speaker 1: Omna Subhan is going to join us. Hello and welcome.

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Speaker 2: Hey y'all. Happy to be here alongside you.

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Speaker 1: And we're going to come to Omna later on to

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Speaker 1: discuss the Falcons injury situation and everything that she wrote

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Speaker 1: for an article that's up on the website about how

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Speaker 1: the Falcon's depth was definitely tested. It was tested and

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Speaker 1: it ultimately came through, but the Falcons as a team

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Speaker 1: did not. They ended up losing to the Tampa Bay

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers twenty nine to twenty five here on Sunday at

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Speaker 1: Mercedes Benz Stadium where we are talking to you right now.

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Speaker 1: And this was a big one. There's no if ands

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Speaker 1: or butts about it. The Falcons had a one game

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Speaker 1: advantage in the NFC. Salvin had an opportunity to create

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Speaker 1: separation within the within the division and be the pace

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Speaker 1: car for the NFC self to go a game above

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Speaker 1: five hundred and fight for that above five hundred more

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Speaker 1: respectable record. Ultimately, what happened was a loss that really

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Speaker 1: has muddied the waters. Now the Falcons, Bucks, and New

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Speaker 1: Orleans Saints are all sitting at six and seven and

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Speaker 1: things got a lot more complicated after this one. Tori,

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Speaker 1: you wrote about this, and I think that you're ultimately

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Speaker 1: right this. There's a lot of people, I think who

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Speaker 1: are holding up their hands saying that I'm accountable. I

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Speaker 1: think there's there you could point fingers, but you shouldn't.

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Speaker 1: That this loss is on the entire team. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It was Arthur Smith after the game who said, you know,

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Speaker 3: we're not into playing the blame game, and I agree

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Speaker 3: with that because to this when it comes to this game,

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Speaker 3: there was a lot of blame to go around, and

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Speaker 3: I think every single unit from offense to defense to

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Speaker 3: special teams had a moment or multiple moments where there

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Speaker 3: was a misqueue or a mistake that ultimately took points

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Speaker 3: off the boarder in the defense's perspective, allowed the Bucks to.

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Speaker 4: Put points on the board. So for me, when you.

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Speaker 3: Are looking at the grand scope of this game, yng

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Speaker 3: Way Kumus's two field goals.

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Speaker 4: That's six points.

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Speaker 3: He said in the locker room, And I know Terren's

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Speaker 3: going to talk about this later, but said in the

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Speaker 4: I feel like this loss is on me.

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Speaker 3: So he says that, And then this offense goes an

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Speaker 3: entire third quarter without being able to put any type

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Speaker 3: had really really good field position on three of those

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Speaker 4: Then there's the safety.

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Speaker 3: Then there's the interception that ultimately set up the bucks

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Speaker 3: first touchdown. And then there's the defense, who I thought

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Speaker 3: played very very well up until the last quarter when

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Speaker 3: you needed them to stand on what they were standing

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Speaker 3: on for the first three quarters and so and they

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Speaker 3: ultimately give up what goes on to be a game

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Speaker 3: I felt like it was a disappointing outing. And you know,

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Speaker 3: guys in the locker room talked about how this one stings,

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Speaker 3: This one's frustrated, like we're frustrated, and I think those

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Speaker 3: are the right words to describe this, especially because the

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Speaker 3: goal of today was to sit atop the NFC South

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Speaker 3: unimpeded with other teams. That's not what happened. The Falcons

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Speaker 3: are now a top. There's still a top the NFC South,

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Speaker 3: but with the Saints and the Bucks, that's not.

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Speaker 3: So I think that's kind of where this game has

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Speaker 3: in the last two weeks, having beaten the Saints and

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Speaker 5: I'd partially like to say I called it last week.

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Speaker 5: I said this game is beyond important because of the

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Speaker 5: repercussions that could have not only in the standings, but

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Speaker 5: also like mental and emotional confidence, because they still haven't

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Speaker 5: NFC South, which is bonkers to me. Let's begin with that.

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Speaker 6: So this loss, it feels heavier than the other.

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Speaker 5: Losses in my opinion, maybe it kind of rivals the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that that's fair. And the more

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Speaker 1: that you think about this, all three phases thing, you

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Speaker 1: that ultimately leads to points. And this defense for as

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Speaker 1: like they are doing better. They are tough to play against.

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Speaker 1: They have lots of stats that tell you that this

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Speaker 1: is a good unit, but there are ways to close

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Speaker 1: doing enough of that, And there are lots of little

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Speaker 1: that frankly, the Falcons expect to win. And yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure everyone's sick of me bringing this up at this

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Speaker 1: But I think it's so important because during that three

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Speaker 1: they expected to win this game. They walked in feeling

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Speaker 1: ultimately not what happened. And look, nobody cares about style points,

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Speaker 1: nobody cares about outside respectability or fun ridiculous memes on

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Speaker 1: social media. But there was also an opportunity here for

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Speaker 1: the Falcons to go on a run, win three in

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Speaker 1: And what you get now is you get a bunch

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Speaker 1: one of them gets to host a playoff game. The

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Speaker 1: Falcons shouldn't give back that opportunity, but they need to

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Speaker 1: start playing better if they are going to assert themselves.

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Speaker 1: And last part of my rants, but so much at

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Speaker 1: the end of the last few seasons, we've heard a

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Speaker 1: lot about the Falcons being in quote unquote playoff contention

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Speaker 1: or fighting for a spot right, but really what that

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Speaker 1: that's not what happened, and I think that that should

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Speaker 1: words that you've heard. Everything is still out there in

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Speaker 1: Bucks or Falcons at this point, and every game, like

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Speaker 1: Jesse Bates said, every game essentially is a playoff game

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Speaker 1: to this point. That's a slight exaggeration that shouldn't be

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Speaker 6: I agree, no notes on your rent, no notes on

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Speaker 1: So let's dive a little bit farther into somebody who's

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Speaker 1: been automatic for this team and is so trustworthy and

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Speaker 1: confidence inspiring. And that's kicker Young Waiku miss two field

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Speaker 1: goals that started a run of unsuccessful possessions. They went

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Speaker 1: missfield goal, safety, miss field goal, and then four consecutive

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Speaker 1: raised his hand and said, Hey, this one's on me.

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Speaker 1: Did that surprise you? Don't?

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Speaker 5: No, Just because knowing his character, I'm not surprised that

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Speaker 5: he kind of took the blank for maybe I'm surprised

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Speaker 5: a little bit how blunt he was about us being like, quote,

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Speaker 5: I cost us today, that's all me end quote. But

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Speaker 5: he was put in not ideal situations, which Desmond Ritter acknowledged,

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Speaker 5: saying we shouldn't be putting him at fifty plus yards

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Speaker 5: every single time he has to kick a field goal,

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Speaker 5: because the two kicks he missed were from fifty and

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Speaker 5: fifty two yards out. The only other field goal he

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Speaker 5: had missed this year was fifty something, toy, what is it?

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Speaker 6: I thought it was forty eight or forty thirty.

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Speaker 5: Seven, forty seven? I found it in my story forty seven.

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Speaker 5: I just assumed it was over fifty because otherwise Coup

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Speaker 5: is clutch. He's made all of he's three for three

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Speaker 5: for beyond the fifty yard mark this season. Actually, so yeah,

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Speaker 5: the only other one he has missed the season was

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Speaker 5: a forty seven yard are during the loss to the Lions.

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Speaker 5: But that's three kicks this season alone. This was only

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Speaker 5: the second time in his entire career he missed more

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Speaker 5: only other time was a rookie when he was with

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Speaker 5: the Charger. So it's been a really pretty minute since

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Speaker 5: he's done this that I'm sure he's feeling pretty down,

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Speaker 5: but that's probably why he took bail personally, but everyone

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Speaker 5: has always praised young Way so much of just getting

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Speaker 3: And look, I don't think that any I don't think

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Speaker 3: Young Way is sitting there like trying to make excuses

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Speaker 3: what we've kind of known him to be. And Drake

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Speaker 3: London in the locker room, we were talking to him

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Speaker 4: Worried about Young Way. He was like, no one is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was like, he's automatic, and I consider this

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Speaker 4: You know, some people just have bad days. Heck, I

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Speaker 4: feel like I have bad just as any bad days

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Speaker 3: You know like that, We yeah, that's just how life is.

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Speaker 3: And it's the same for you know NFL kickers. But

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Speaker 3: in young Way's defense, and this goes back to what

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Speaker 3: I was saying before, the Falcons had way more opportunities

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Speaker 4: To put points on the board.

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Speaker 3: And it's the thing, it's something that we've been talking

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Speaker 4: Touchdowns not field goals.

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Speaker 3: There are so many games that this Falcons team it's

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Speaker 3: they're not able.

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Speaker 4: To get in the end zone, and like that.

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Speaker 3: That's the frustrating part to this is, yes, Young Waiku

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Speaker 3: needs to make those field goals. He knows that. Everybody

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Speaker 3: knows that. That's not we're not discounting that. But again,

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Speaker 3: you can't have this offense in the third quarter just

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Speaker 3: not show up, which there have been many times in

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Speaker 3: the third quarter where this team has struggled offensively to score.

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Speaker 3: And when you're not putting points on the board beyond

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Speaker 5: You've got to get in the end zone. I mean

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Speaker 5: the pendulum swings both ways. If young guy makes both

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Speaker 5: those field goals, they win. But say instead of that

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Speaker 5: on the spot, but well it would have been tied.

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Speaker 3: It's frustrating to hear that word missed or those words

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Speaker 3: I will say Drake London had one hundred and seventy

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Speaker 4: Yards was great, so.

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Speaker 3: For him to stand there on the five yard line

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Speaker 3: win instead of a loss. That hurt him And I

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Speaker 3: think this loss hurts the Falcons and they all, that's

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Speaker 3: not something that I'm just sitting here saying, that's something.

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Speaker 4: That they said.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is a big moment for for

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Speaker 1: Falcons leadership now in terms of the response and not

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Speaker 1: having one loss turned into two. Arthur Smith had a

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Speaker 1: very good point when he said, just look at our

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Speaker 1: actions over the course of the year, and our actions

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Speaker 1: respond and work hard like we've like we've seen those

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Speaker 1: and I think we saw evidence of it in like

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Speaker 1: in the locker room where where why am I escaping?

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Speaker 1: On the name Kalais Campbell's talking to Zach Harrison trying

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Speaker 1: clear that he was doing that with some of these

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Speaker 1: younger players, and I think that's going to be important

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Speaker 1: for their minds to be right understanding. Next week's game

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Speaker 1: and they've got to start building some positive momentum. They've

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Speaker 1: got to start stacking these wins and really assembling it because,

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Speaker 1: as you pointed out, ultimately they have to do better

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Speaker 1: take control of this division. I think anything less than

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Speaker 1: that it's going to be a disappointment considering where they

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Speaker 1: except for first, I think that's not a good thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and just think about how we talked about the

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Speaker 3: NFC South leading into this season, right, it really did

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Speaker 3: feel like if the Falcons were not at the top

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Speaker 3: be at the top of this NFC South Because that's

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Speaker 3: just where this division.

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Speaker 1: Is, right it would be interesting to see how it unfolds.

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Speaker 1: Arthur Smith said that there's it's gonna get crazy down

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Speaker 1: the stretch. I have no doubt that he is correct,

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Speaker 1: so we will come to you again after the Panthers

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Speaker 1: game next week. So thank you so much for joining

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta the Falcons Final Whistle Podcast. Let's try to

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Speaker 1: and Omna special guests. Thank you so much for joining in.

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Speaker 6: See you