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Speaker 1: Thirty birds, what's up? And welcome to another edition of

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Speaker 1: Falcons Final Whistle, presented by Zaxby's I'm your host Will McFadden,

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Speaker 1: joined as always by Tory mclaney and Tarren Walk and

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Speaker 1: we are here to unfortunately break down an eighteen to

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Speaker 1: ten loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Falcons season

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Speaker 1: opener here at Mercedes Benz Stadium. Really quickly, Tory, can

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Speaker 1: you summarize your thoughts of today's game in ten words

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Speaker 1: or less?

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Speaker 2: As I wrote postgame, the honeymoon is officially over?

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Speaker 1: That was close?

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Speaker 2: As I wrote postgame, the honeymoon is officially over? Got

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Speaker 2: there none?

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Speaker 3: Oh, even if you counted postgame as two.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, but we know postgame is

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Speaker 1: one word exactly thanks to the style guy, I put

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Speaker 1: together ten words or less, which got.

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Speaker 3: The rose colored glasses have come off?

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Speaker 1: Love? It was? That was short and sweet. Mine would

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Speaker 1: be gratty. Jared is good, TJ is better, That's tough.

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Speaker 1: It is tough. But honestly, there was a lot of

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Speaker 1: tough in today's game, and I think we can probably

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Speaker 1: start with the toughest, which was Atlanta's offense.

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Speaker 3: They were they tough, were they tough performance.

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Speaker 1: It was a little tough to watch at times.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: It was two hundred and twenty six yards total, one

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty seven yards passing, eighty nine yards rushing.

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Speaker 1: They were two of nine on third down. But what

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Speaker 1: was really interesting is that, you know, four and a

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Speaker 1: half yards per play. They were kind of moving the

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Speaker 1: ball in fits and starts. They just could never really

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you're exactly right, and that's something that as

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Speaker 2: you're watching the game, especially in that second half, where

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Speaker 2: they were moving the ball, like what you're talking about,

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Speaker 2: John Robinson was getting six yards of pop four yards

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Speaker 2: pop there for a little bit. They were, but the

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Speaker 2: problem was these turnovers. Sorry that was these turnovers. But

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Speaker 2: like Kirk Cousins throws two interceptions, almost was a third

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Speaker 2: at one point the guy just couldn't hold onto the ball.

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Speaker 2: And then there's this fumbled snap that the timing was off.

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Speaker 2: It hits Rostwelly in the legs while he's in motion.

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Speaker 2: There are these, especially in the second half, there are

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Speaker 2: these penalties that just completely get the offense off track.

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Speaker 2: Kind of throw away seventeen yard pick up by Kyle

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Speaker 2: Pitts and it puts Atlanta back on the five yard line.

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Speaker 2: In another instance like that. There were so many instances

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Speaker 2: where the Falcons issues were very self inflicted. In that

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Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins said, you know, those turnovers, he took responsibility

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Speaker 2: for them, as I think he should. The self inflicted

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Speaker 2: wounds of these penalties like those are some things that

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Speaker 2: you just can't do in those scenarios where you're moving

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Speaker 2: the ball, okay, and especially knowing this Steelers defensive line

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Speaker 2: and how good it is and how sharp it was playing,

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Speaker 2: and kind of how they were just playing with their

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Speaker 2: ears pined backed and there wasn't really anything this offensive

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Speaker 2: line could do to stop TJ. Watt. And he's exactly

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Speaker 2: what you said. He's really really good, and he's a

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Speaker 2: game disruptor and he's a game wrecker, as Raheem Morris

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Speaker 2: said in the middle of the week, and he did

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Speaker 2: exactly that against the Falcons today. It was a tough

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Speaker 2: offensive sledding there in the second half where they only

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Speaker 2: had fifty one total yards, did not even get into

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Speaker 2: the position to be able to put points on the board.

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Speaker 2: When you lose eighteen to ten, that is when you

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Speaker 2: have the like expectations and the perception of what this

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Speaker 2: offense should be. If you've been listening to this podcast,

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Speaker 2: Like we have people coming in that are national folks

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Speaker 2: be a top ten offense. That what we saw today

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Speaker 2: very very quickly. They do not have time to kind

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Speaker 3: What stuck out to me most is we talk about

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Speaker 3: it being a tough thing to watch, Well, it could

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Speaker 3: he made up for his own air. But then you

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Speaker 3: There were supposed to be two more sacks. There were

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Speaker 3: So it's just like, oh, it was tough, Oh it

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Speaker 2: Been tougher, and it was like two strip sacks by Tea.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, fumbles like massive plays and if you want

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Speaker 1: it didn't this game. It did not. But Taran, I'm curious,

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, it's just whether it was

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Speaker 3: was discombobulated. It wasn't flowing like it was very staccato

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Speaker 3: rather than rhythmic. I think I'm using those terms correctly

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Speaker 3: when it comes to music, but it just that first drive,

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Speaker 3: You're like, okay, And maybe it's because it didn't finish

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Speaker 3: I was saying and go for it, go for it

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Speaker 3: And so it's just you I had the potential and

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Speaker 3: And I feel like that was the theme overall with

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a very big proponent of you know, kind

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Speaker 1: of what the Falcons did in the preseason, what a

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Speaker 1: lot of teams are doing. Rest of your guys, get

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Speaker 1: them healthy, that's ultimately what matters. But Tori, after seeing

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Speaker 1: think it's now fair to wonder if some of these,

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Speaker 1: the formation, maybe those get cleared up a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Maybe, And I think at the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: I'll say this like, I don't make the decisions about

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Speaker 2: know if a series in the preseason changes at all

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Speaker 2: what we saw this offense do today. You can go

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Speaker 2: back and forth on that all day long. The reality

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Speaker 2: is is that the Falcons didn't play their starters in

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Speaker 2: the preseason. They come out and they don't look whole

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Speaker 2: offensively in this first Week one game. Is there a

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Speaker 2: correlation to that. There is a loud section of the

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Speaker 2: says yes, and they have a reason to feel that way.

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Speaker 2: The Falcons didn't give them a reason today to not

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Speaker 2: I again don't know. We won't know because Raheem Morris

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Speaker 2: has said I'm not going to operate in this way

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Speaker 2: as long as I'm the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons.

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Speaker 2: This is what we're doing in the preseason. He's made

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Speaker 2: that abundantly clear.

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Speaker 1: It's not going to change, and you can find results

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Speaker 1: all around the league in Week one that support an.

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Speaker 3: Argument right well, and at the same time, of course,

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Speaker 3: this is me saying it. Who wanted them to play

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Speaker 3: in the preseason. It happened, it fell apart, more so

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Speaker 3: in the second half that it's like, maybe it would

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Speaker 3: where the argument of if they played in the preseason,

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Speaker 3: they didn't have that catchup period. It was like kind

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Speaker 2: It's like, I understand the argument, and we even went

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Speaker 2: There's not a right or wrong answer. Yeah, but the

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Speaker 2: of this, and again I say it, the Falcons didn't

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't make their own argument right today, and

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Speaker 1: though that. And in kind of looking at the next

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Speaker 1: of him Tua, and Tua historically gets the ball out

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Speaker 1: very quickly. Joe Burrow usually doesn't. But I do think

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Speaker 1: that coming off of an injury, Kirk, coming off of

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Speaker 1: in the passing game. That's where I think either Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: did they tear?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: I mean the furthest down the field that they went

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Speaker 3: fluke thing. Give credit where creditors due, like Kyle got

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Speaker 1: But it scrambled and extended to play looked really good.

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Speaker 3: So that was a good one.

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Speaker 2: The only one that was the only one that was

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Speaker 3: I think the defense is the winner of the Falcons

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing about this defension, I do think jump

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Speaker 2: There were one too many explicit plays from George Pickens.

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Speaker 2: One too many runs that I felt like should have

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Speaker 1: That's so crazy. That was my high school year book quote.

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Speaker 2: Was it really?

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Speaker 3: This feels like another theme from last year that we

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Speaker 2: What's frustrating in that, though, is that I don't know

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Speaker 2: Grady Jarrett became the Falcons all time record holder in

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Speaker 3: Hey, now there's a story on Atlanta Falcons dot com

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Speaker 3: coming right exactly.

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Speaker 2: But also when you think back to this week one game,

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Speaker 1: Grady got back.

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Speaker 2: But know how many people are going to remember that?

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Speaker 2: people to remember this guy for what he's done. And

436
00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,920
Speaker 2: I don't know if these offensive struggles and the fact

437
00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,800
Speaker 2: that defense has kind of been a punching bag in

438
00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,800
Speaker 2: his first years in the League. Like I don't know,

439
00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,120
Speaker 2: I'm going on a soapbox and a tangent, but that

440
00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,520
Speaker 2: I do. I just I think about that and in

441
00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,040
Speaker 2: the context of this day and what it meant for

442
00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:45,359
Speaker 2: him to get back, and yeah, that we're we have

443
00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,239
Speaker 2: to talk so much about this offense. I mean, it

444
00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:48,720
Speaker 2: just goes to show it's a team sport, it's not

445
00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:49,240
Speaker 2: one person.

446
00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:53,359
Speaker 1: I think I think Grady will be remembered because of

447
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,320
Speaker 1: everything that he's done in the community as a leader

448
00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:59,280
Speaker 1: in the locker room. And he's just a dang good football.

449
00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:00,680
Speaker 3: Player, but you would was more.

450
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:04,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's so Jonathan Babineau is probably a great

451
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 1: comp right, and and Grady is a better version to

452
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,159
Speaker 1: me of Jonathan Babino And that's not a slight to

453
00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,399
Speaker 1: Babs at all, but like he was a part of

454
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:16,679
Speaker 1: that twenty sixteen Super Bowl team and nobody really recalls that.

455
00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:20,280
Speaker 1: And he had a decade plus career here in Atlanta

456
00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:23,200
Speaker 1: was in a lot of ways kind of like original Grady,

457
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,360
Speaker 1: not to that level, right, but just a fan favorite

458
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,280
Speaker 1: who brought it and was a consistent presence every single

459
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,920
Speaker 1: week in the middle of that defensive line. And yeah,

460
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,520
Speaker 1: like you don't hear Jonathan Babineau's name right at all,

461
00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 1: really by this fan base. I don't think that's going

462
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,440
Speaker 1: to be grady, But your point is well taken. Where

463
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,240
Speaker 1: As a defensive lineman, if you're not like an edge guy,

464
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,960
Speaker 1: if you're not TJ. Water, Miles Garrett or whatever. And

465
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,960
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald literally is maybe one of the greatest players

466
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 1: in the history of this game, and like that's the

467
00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:53,280
Speaker 1: level it takes for people to care about, kind of

468
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,720
Speaker 1: like that defensive tackle type of guy. So even on

469
00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,280
Speaker 1: a day where he was one to half sacks first

470
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:00,359
Speaker 1: game back, he's already got one to have sacks. That's awesome.

471
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 1: We spent all off season clamoring where's the fast rush

472
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 1: coming from. It's coming from ninety seven out there on

473
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 1: the field. Looks great. But yeah, we're all sitting here

474
00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:11,680
Speaker 1: talking about the offense. That's what we're leading with. Tearn,

475
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,600
Speaker 1: anything else about this defense that you want to bring up?

476
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:18,440
Speaker 3: Hmmm, No, not necessarily. Sorry.

477
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 2: I did think it was interesting and this is something

478
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 2: that we should monitor moving forward. Is the fact that

479
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 2: my cues got the start opposite A. J. Trel at

480
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:30,639
Speaker 2: corner and then for a few defensive series in the

481
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 2: third quarter to start the second half, Clark Phillips got

482
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 2: in there and got some reps and then they went

483
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:36,880
Speaker 2: back to my cues in the fourth.

484
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is interesting.

485
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,240
Speaker 2: I wonder if it's like well.

486
00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:41,359
Speaker 1: S raheem asked about that at all.

487
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,399
Speaker 2: No, he wasn't. Not postgame. I imagine he could. We

488
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,520
Speaker 2: could ask him about it on Monday. But that's just

489
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 2: something that I'm going to keep an eye on because that,

490
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,440
Speaker 2: to me is a little bit like, Okay, we I

491
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 2: don't like that position battles over. I told y'all, I

492
00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,400
Speaker 2: told y'all this thing is gonna go all the way

493
00:23:59,440 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 2: to week.

494
00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,879
Speaker 1: Said I. I just wonder is it still a battle

495
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,040
Speaker 1: or is it like Clark has carved out a role

496
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,880
Speaker 1: for himself and how big is that? But I mean

497
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 1: to your point, like, yeah, you don't, corner is not

498
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:11,879
Speaker 1: a position where you have roles really, you know, you

499
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 1: got your Nickels and your outside guys, right, So yeah,

500
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 1: maybe it is still going. I do think last thing

501
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,120
Speaker 1: on the defense, so the seventeen third down that attunds

502
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 1: that Pittsburgh had is kind of indicative of what we're saying. Like,

503
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 1: on the one hand, Atlanta's defense did a good job

504
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 1: in forcing them into third downs a lot. I think

505
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:35,680
Speaker 1: they played pretty well on early downs. However, Pittsburgh was

506
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,679
Speaker 1: able to convert almost half of those. Yeah, and the

507
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,480
Speaker 1: fact that they had seventeen third downs shows how often

508
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 1: they had the football. And when you have three turnovers

509
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 1: and you're not converting your own third downs, Yeah, And I.

510
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,880
Speaker 2: Think too, it's if I want this defense, if I'm

511
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 2: just putting it out there like an area that this

512
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:57,399
Speaker 2: defense can improve, manifested, it still is ceiling off the edge.

513
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 2: I thought justin Field was able to leak out a

514
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 2: little bit more. I thought Najie Harris was able to

515
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,679
Speaker 2: leak out a little bit more. Going back to what

516
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,880
Speaker 2: I said off the top about you know, there were

517
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 2: one or two yard runs that turned into four or

518
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:11,959
Speaker 2: five six yard runs, And I think that's that's an

519
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 2: area if you can kind of seal the edge a

520
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 2: little bit and let your big guys work in the

521
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:20,680
Speaker 2: middle and make it that pocket a bit tougher to

522
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:24,920
Speaker 2: squeak out of, that would bode well for this defense.

523
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 1: So we're going to wrap it up with our game balls.

524
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,879
Speaker 1: So each after each game, we will nominate one player

525
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 1: we want to give a game ball. To Tarin. We'll

526
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:33,679
Speaker 1: start with you.

527
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 3: Well, if we're looking at both teams, I want to

528
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 3: give it to Chris Boswell because the man was six

529
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 3: of six.

530
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: Your favorite colors and yellow. You want to give Chris

531
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 1: Boswell the game ball and I love specialty. We're going

532
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 1: to trade you to Pittsburgh.

533
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 3: I swear I've only been there once, so I don't

534
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 3: know what's good a home. But no, seriously, I think

535
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 3: I'm going to do Grady Jared because I know well

536
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 3: I did write about six hundred words on him. But

537
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,200
Speaker 3: another point is he deserves it.

538
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, like it does.

539
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 3: It raised the outcome of this game, and it's the

540
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 3: Grady Jered game.

541
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: Yep.

542
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:11,400
Speaker 3: I do hate that the outcome has completely overshadowed his comeback,

543
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 3: but I think he took it in stride. He's like,

544
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 3: I think the defense, but he's like, I'm proud of

545
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,439
Speaker 3: how the defense performed, but there's still always room for

546
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 3: improvement and didn't like blame anyone. That was a huge

547
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 3: thing in the locker room. No one was blaming anyone.

548
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one of seventeen.

549
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,679
Speaker 2: Yeah for me, obviously, you don't get a game ball

550
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,960
Speaker 2: if you don't win. But since we're giving out game

551
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 2: balls for this segment.

552
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: It could be deflated.

553
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 2: Gall I one, I would like to double down on

554
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 2: Grady Jered giving getting the game ball for sure. I

555
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 2: also would just like to say that I really liked

556
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 2: what I saw from Nate Lammon in the role that

557
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 2: he was playing today. I think there are a few

558
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:56,119
Speaker 2: moments where you kind of did mat There were a

559
00:26:56,160 --> 00:27:01,120
Speaker 2: few moments where you did miss Troy Anderson's speed and

560
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 2: you were trying to get more of that thumper mentality

561
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 2: from Nate and Cayden together instead of this Troy Anderson

562
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 2: who can run sideline to sideline, bring guys down and

563
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:12,399
Speaker 2: kind of going back to what I was talking about,

564
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 2: help with the leaking of the pocket. But when Nate

565
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 2: was in I thought he did some good things, especially

566
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 2: that we talked about it that fourth down stop in

567
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 2: the red zone to bring this offense back out at

568
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,120
Speaker 2: the specific time that they did, which.

569
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 1: Was there was like four minutes lest yeah.

570
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,199
Speaker 2: And it was like their second to last drive, and

571
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,160
Speaker 2: it really felt like, Okay, if they can go down

572
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 2: and eat up all that cloth.

573
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 1: Ten score, seventeen to fifteen, win, let's walk out of here.

574
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 2: That felt like a game stop a game changing moment

575
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 2: for this team. And I thought the fact that it

576
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:53,439
Speaker 2: was Nate Lamon who has been working through the quad

577
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 2: injury over the course of the last few weeks, hasn't

578
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 2: really been one hundred and ten percent. We've been talking

579
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 2: about this whole idea of how the Falcons were going

580
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 2: to deploy these three linebackers that can be your starting

581
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 2: inside linebackers in Nate, Troy, and Kayden. I liked the

582
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,160
Speaker 2: way that they used them. It's very obvious that it's like, Okay,

583
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 2: when they got their big guys in and they're wanting

584
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 2: to stop the run, it's Nate. When they need some

585
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 2: speed and they need to kind of get maybe drop

586
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 2: somebody into coverage or have some blitz packages, it's Troy.

587
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 2: There wasn't a whole lot. Maybe I'm wrong. I'll have

588
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 2: to go back and look. I didn't think there was

589
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 2: a whole lot of Cayden with his hand in the

590
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 2: dirt on the defensive line. Yeah, which I think I

591
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 2: want to see more of moving forward, because I think

592
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 2: that's something he does really well and I think that's

593
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 2: actually what his roots are and I think it provides

594
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 2: a different layer in a different look. But maybe again

595
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 2: something in the game plan didn't.

596
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a lot of This was a true

597
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: like three four yes looking game. There were a lot

598
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: of the tight fronts with your nose tackle and then

599
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: your five techniques, and then you had your stand up

600
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: edge rushers out there. And so maybe when there's more

601
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: of a four to three look, that's where you'll see

602
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 1: Kayden kind of mix in a little bit more. But

603
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: that's a great pick. I will flip to the other

604
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 1: side of the ball and named Jean Robinson. You know,

605
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 1: the offense didn't have a great day, but I thought

606
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: Bejan at least looked the part. That's what I expected

607
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: from Jean. He's never really been like that breakaway speedster.

608
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: He's more of like he's gonna turn a four yard

609
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 1: game into an eight yard game with consistency. Yeah, and

610
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: that's kind of where where I thought he was, even

611
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: though again it wasn't really a strong day for anybody

612
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 1: on the offense, but he he looked the part. Would

613
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 1: love to see Tyler all Jiar get more than three

614
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: carries next time. He averaged seven yards to carry.

615
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 2: There was the play at the very very beginning. It

616
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 2: was one of the first couple of drives and it

617
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 2: was they put Bijon in motion and then they handed

618
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 2: it off to Tyler going the opposite way. I thought,

619
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 2: I loved that play design. Yeah, and I feel like

620
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 2: you can and they did a few times, especially early,

621
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 2: they had a couple of times where they had a

622
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 2: two back set with Jean and Tyler and I I

623
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 2: think I want to see a little bit more of that.

624
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 2: I liked what I saw when they had both of

625
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 2: those guys.

626
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 1: In rapid rapid fire thirty seconds or last. What did

627
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: you think of Zach Robinson in his debut is Atlanta's

628
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: play caller in a in an actual game setting.

629
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 2: I actually think it's really hard to tell at this

630
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 2: point because of the fact that the mistakes that were

631
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 2: made I didn't think were scheme related. Yeah, I thought

632
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 2: that it was a breakdown.

633
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: In execution and operation right when.

634
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 2: You're talking about these buckets of problems and issues. It

635
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 2: was turnovers and it was ill time penalties. I don't

636
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,719
Speaker 2: blame the play caller for that. He has he's up

637
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 2: in the box. He can't tell Kirk he's yes, he's

638
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 2: in his ear, but he can't tell Kirk Man don't

639
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 2: throw it to that guy.

640
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm TBD.

641
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 2: TBD, I'm TVD on it. I think that we will

642
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 2: know more when we are able to see these longer

643
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 2: drives strung together, which I thought we were getting there

644
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 2: in the first half. And the way that he is

645
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 2: using Jon Robinson, I think is it's very obvious that

646
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 2: there is an uptick Injon Robinson's usage. How much more

647
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 2: there needs to be balanced with some of these other guys.

648
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 2: I think we'll We'll have to wait and see.

649
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 3: I was going to go off of the balance because

650
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 3: I was looking at Vijon's record and the most times

651
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 3: he carried the ball last season was twenty two the

652
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 3: nineteen and eighteen, so he's already up there when it

653
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 3: comes to like carries.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, in eighteen three total touches today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm just looking at a total plays.

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Speaker 1: Kirk threw the ball twenty six times, so Jon touched

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Speaker 1: the ball almost as many times as they like Kirk

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Speaker 1: throw it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: But I think you need to spread the love a

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Speaker 3: bit more, because, like we said, there was not much

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Speaker 3: Drake London, Darnell Mooney, Kyle Pitts that I think finding

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Speaker 3: a better balance is going to be the key.

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Speaker 2: Which you think about how like what was in like

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Speaker 2: this is why I go back to kind of saying

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Speaker 2: I don't really know how to evaluate Zach Robinson yet,

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Speaker 2: is because it's like how many plays were drawn up

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Speaker 2: that they couldn't get to because of pass protection issues,

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Speaker 2: because of turnovers, because they're behind the sticks.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: That's why the opening that opening drive, if there is

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Speaker 1: anything that anybody wants to go back to watch to

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Speaker 1: maybe get a fuel for those Falcons, like the first

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Speaker 1: fifteen plays, ten plays you'll script, right, and so the

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Speaker 1: fact that the Falcons were able to string together a

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Speaker 1: nice long opening possession, those are all plays that when

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Speaker 1: Zach and Kirk and Raheem and everybody was sitting down

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Speaker 1: for the game planning, they put those plays in there.

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Speaker 1: They wanted to go to those plays. So that's probably

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Speaker 1: indicative of what Atlanta would like its offense to look

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Speaker 1: like when things are humming.

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Speaker 2: And in that drive, I'm looking at it. Handoff to

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Speaker 2: Bejon Kirk to Darnell Mooney, Tyler Algier, thirteen yard run,

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Speaker 2: Bijon Robinson, Kirk to drake An incompletion, Kirk to Bajon Ye.

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Speaker 2: There was a level of yeah, we're hitting different guys

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Speaker 2: we're doing different things.

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Speaker 1: There was a flow to it.

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Speaker 2: There was a flow to it.

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Speaker 1: And if Peyton Wilson, great rookie at an NC State

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Speaker 1: Steelers linebacker, if he doesn't make a tackle on that

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Speaker 1: screen pass down in the red zone to Baijon, I

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Speaker 1: think Bajon scores on that opening drive, and who knows

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Speaker 1: where we go from there. But where we're going to

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Speaker 1: go from here is back home because we have put

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Speaker 1: in a long day of work. So we're going to

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Speaker 1: wrap it up after this eighteen to ten loss in

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Speaker 1: Week one to the Pittsburgh Steelers. What is next for Atlanta?

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Speaker 1: They have a longer week ahead to prepare for a

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Speaker 1: Monday night game on the road against the Philadelphia Eagles,

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Speaker 1: who are fresh off their thirty four to twenty nine

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Speaker 1: win against the Green Bay Packers in Brazil. So Falcons

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Speaker 1: got to turn right back around, get everything right because

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Speaker 1: they've got a pretty good team up ahead. So they've

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Speaker 1: got a tough three game stretch. They're now entering game

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Speaker 1: two of that, and it is going to be their

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Speaker 1: first road game. So hope they get the offense kind

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Speaker 1: of worked out, the defense travels, and we will see

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Speaker 1: where they go from here. Here but that will do

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Speaker 1: it for us today, for Tarren Walk and Tory mclaney.

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Speaker 1: I am Will McFadden. Thank you guys so much for

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Speaker 1: listening to Falcons Final Whistle presented by Zaxby's. We will

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Speaker 1: see you all again soon