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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. I'm Scott Bear and through

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Speaker 1: the Zoom Cyberspace universe is Tory mcillany and Ashton Edmonds.

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Speaker 1: We're all back in the etail at this point, coming

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Speaker 1: to you after a nineteen to thirteen loss to the

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Speaker 1: Washington Commanders. If you saw this game live or heard

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Speaker 1: it on the radio, it didn't end well for the Falcons.

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Speaker 1: It nearly did, and then did courtesy of an interception

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Speaker 1: that was batted and then caught by the wrong team.

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Speaker 1: When the Falcons are at the four yard line, killing

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Speaker 1: a comeback that had so much promise that would have

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Speaker 1: put them in yeah, we'll just say it, in first

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Speaker 1: place in the NFC South. Because Tampa Bay loss in overtime,

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Speaker 1: the Falcons were not able to take advantage and pick

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Speaker 1: up a game on their vos from Tampa Bay. Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: they end up losing a close one, a difficult one,

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Speaker 1: to one that they're going to have to get over

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Speaker 1: pretty quickly because no matter how much we'd like to say,

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Speaker 1: and I try to write in my column that, hey man,

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Speaker 1: we don't use the playoffs word around here anymore until

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Speaker 1: they start stacking wins. The Bucks just keep that division compact.

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Speaker 1: They really make it difficult on all of us. They

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Speaker 1: really do everybody. All everybody in the NFC South is

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Speaker 1: just like, let's just make this hard on everyone else,

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Speaker 1: hard on everybody. And it's not like the Saints want

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Speaker 1: to make up ground. They lost to the forty nine ers,

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Speaker 1: and I mean they had a golden opportunity to move

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Speaker 1: into this place today and we're like, nah, we're not

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Speaker 1: into it. No way, hard pass. So nonetheless, I normally say,

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Speaker 1: overall takeaways, how about this one of you go from

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Speaker 1: the game, Tori, go from the game, Ashton, go with

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Speaker 1: your takeaway on the state of the NFC South. Tori

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Speaker 1: go first, Yeah, take it. The game was that the

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Speaker 1: Falcons again, I felt like lost a game that they

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Speaker 1: had every opportunity to win. It's really interesting because when

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Speaker 1: you look at the last you know, the Falcons have

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Speaker 1: played twelve games this year, and I believe ten of

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Speaker 1: the twelve have been decided by the final like drive

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Speaker 1: of the game or the final minutes. Yeah, and nine

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Speaker 1: as one score games, but yes, yes, decided at the end. Yes.

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Speaker 1: So because of that, it's it's like the Falcons it

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Speaker 1: almost feels very like frustrating, and no one can see me,

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Speaker 1: but I'm literally just like running my head like my

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Speaker 1: hands like on my forehead. I feel like I have

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Speaker 1: a headache from this game because it was another game

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Speaker 1: in which the Falcons had an opportunity to win and

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Speaker 1: couldn't finish it out. And I think something that I

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Speaker 1: feel like keeps coming up is the Falcons don't have

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Speaker 1: an issue holding onto a lead this year. It's fighting

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Speaker 1: from behind that I think has been hard. Wins have

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Speaker 1: been hard to come by in that sense. So that

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Speaker 1: was kind of my major, major takeaway. I'm sure we're

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Speaker 1: going to get into all of the nitty gritty stuff,

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Speaker 1: but that was it just kind of big picture looking

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Speaker 1: at the game itself, that was kind of what I

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Speaker 1: took from it. Yeah, And I would say looking at

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Speaker 1: the NFC South as a whole, it's weird because no

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Speaker 1: team is over five hundred. You know, the Bucks are

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Speaker 1: five and six, We're five and seven. The Panthers and

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Speaker 1: Saints are both four and eight. So it's like this.

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Speaker 1: I would say this conference, or this division specifically, has

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Speaker 1: has definitely fluctuated a light. The Falcons definitely have to

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Speaker 1: win against Tampa Bay and the Saints, you know, moving

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Speaker 1: forward in these last five games, it's very vital, is crucial,

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Speaker 1: especially if they do want to have a playoff spot.

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Speaker 1: But you know, it's it's I guess Tampa Bay losing

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Speaker 1: today was good for the Falcons, But the Falcons aren't

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Speaker 1: If we're not, they're not playing like a playoff team,

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Speaker 1: and they had they have to win these last five

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Speaker 1: games to be considered like a real playoff team contender. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Ashton's right with a very accurate and kind of you know,

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Speaker 1: tough point right in that they're not playing like a

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Speaker 1: playoff team right now. Tyler Algier, who's I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's barely old enough to drink and really

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Speaker 1: had a meeting with the media that I thought was

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Speaker 1: showed a lot of maturity. Yeah, really wise when and

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Speaker 1: the crux of what he started in saying is that

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Speaker 1: good teams keep it close, great teams finish. That's true,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes, you know, and the Falcons have kept it

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Speaker 1: close time and time again. We talked about so many

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Speaker 1: of these one score games they've they've played twelve again,

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Speaker 1: nine have ended with one score difference between the winner

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Speaker 1: and the loser. They are now four and five in

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Speaker 1: those games. Last year they were seven and two. The

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Speaker 1: close game efficiency or success doesn't often travel from one

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Speaker 1: There's not luck, but there's a lot of very minute

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Speaker 1: they're not coming up clutch more like often enough. And

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Speaker 1: I think it goes back to Tory's point. If you

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Speaker 1: look at so many of the games where they've lost

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Speaker 1: by one score. It was against Tampa fell by fell

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Speaker 1: behind big, it was the La Rams that they fell

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Speaker 1: behind big, and then and then in this game, it

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Speaker 1: like it was really pretty close. The Chargers they jumped

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Speaker 1: not coming out all of these close games at a

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Speaker 1: high enough clip is costing them here. And this was

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Speaker 1: one of those games. It was a low scoring game,

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Speaker 1: and I still think that we should go ahead and

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Speaker 1: sell the audience to the Scott and Tory. It's not

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Speaker 1: really complaint of Fest, but it's definitely like ongoing and

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Speaker 1: unfiltered narrative of what's happening in the game. And there

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Speaker 1: was a point where I forget which one of us

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Speaker 1: felt like they were down by eighteen, right because they

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Speaker 1: just were giving up, as Grady Jared put it, leaky

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Speaker 1: gained more. And ultimately Washington churned out a couple more

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Speaker 1: comes down to that final drive. So enough of my

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Speaker 1: filibustering tory. Let's get into this final drive. It looked

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Speaker 1: I just did, like the biggest sigh. Thought I was

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Speaker 1: gonna keep talking. I know. I feel like that side

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Speaker 1: it was it was the could have, would have should

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Speaker 1: have drive, could have would have should have the Falcons

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Speaker 1: if they finished out that drive. It is the drive

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Speaker 1: that could have, would have should have beaten the Washington commanders,

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Speaker 1: just in my opinion, And what's really crazy too, is

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Speaker 1: I was looking back at the second half just in general,

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Speaker 1: even though they only scored ten points going into halftime,

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Speaker 1: it was a very balanced offensive attack. You had, I

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Speaker 1: and that's really tough when you have a commander's team

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Speaker 1: that had two very long, physical, productive drives that ended

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Speaker 1: like thirteen and a half minutes. So that juxtaposition of

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Speaker 1: of the fourth quarter versus what the Commanders were doing,

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Speaker 1: that was kind of the crux of the situation that

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Speaker 1: the Falcons got themselves in. But again, Scott, going back

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Speaker 1: to what you were saying, the defense did give them

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Speaker 1: a shot at the end, and that's kind of all

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Speaker 1: you could ask for when you get to that point.

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Speaker 1: And Arthur Smith even said we knew it was going

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Speaker 1: to be a low scoring game. So because of that,

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Speaker 1: that was the part that I kept sticking on. We

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Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota and Tyler Algier were saying, where it was like,

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Speaker 1: you know, the play call was there, the look was there.

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Speaker 1: It was just a defensive lineman made a play on

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Speaker 1: whole situation. We could probably talk for forty five minutes

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Speaker 1: the third and fourth quarter all together, and it wasn't

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Speaker 1: executing at the way that they needed to. And again

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Speaker 1: going back to they had every opportunity to win this

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Speaker 1: I think Marcus Mariota is taking a lot of heat

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Speaker 1: for that final interception. I actually don't have a problem

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Speaker 1: make a few decisions that I kind of was very,

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Speaker 1: very questionable. Absolutely, But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: I could keep talking, but I'm just gonna stop talking

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Speaker 1: because I'm getting myself frustrated. All right, Well, I have

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Speaker 1: to offer a rebuttal. We had most things. I think

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Speaker 1: we're going to disagree on this. The previous three and

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Speaker 1: and their inability to maintain a consistent lead productive offense

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Speaker 1: with so many of these games, we talk about coming

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say, well, that's just bad luck.

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Speaker 1: A guy got his hand on the ball, right, at

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Speaker 1: some point, you've got to execute down there, right, you

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Speaker 1: just do. And in those two plays after the offside

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Speaker 1: set them up with I believe a first down and

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Speaker 1: Arthur Smith wasn't terribly specific about whether Marcus Mariot made

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Speaker 1: And I know that we are going to get nitpicky

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Speaker 1: in him. We're not gonna go forty five minutes. I've

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Speaker 1: when it comes down to those key moments, are you

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Speaker 1: going to execute or are you not? Okay? And they

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Speaker 1: had the opportunity there because it's a team effort. Three

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Speaker 1: and out, all right, that's not good for the offense.

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Speaker 1: But the defense got you two key stops. They got

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Speaker 1: again with thirty seconds left. But there was a penalty

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Speaker 1: that negated that opportunity. But I look at those moments

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Speaker 1: as determining factors about that you want to look back

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Speaker 1: in January or whenever you're done playing with as few

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Speaker 1: regrets as possible. That's gonna that, in my opinion, ranks

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Speaker 1: right up there with the Jalen Ramsey intersection, with the

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Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts splitting the safety against the Chargers that play.

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Speaker 1: Whether it was the right call or not, I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that you're wrong, right I think maybe fans are

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Speaker 1: gonna say, my mail bags is already full of why

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Speaker 1: didn't they run overpassed right? The old Seahawks argument, why

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Speaker 1: in it. But when you're on the two and you

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Speaker 1: have to find it in gott to punch it in,

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Speaker 1: and you have four chances to do it because it

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Speaker 1: was first and goal from the two, Yeah, first and

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Speaker 1: all of their lifelines. Ultimately, I think, I think, and

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Speaker 1: that's why y'all's answers were, I've been in the South

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Speaker 1: too long, you all, no, no, no no, no, no, y'all, y'allah.

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Speaker 1: It's that that that's why they're sitting where they are.

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Speaker 1: I think the Tampa Bay influence of it all is

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Speaker 1: that they're still in it because Tampa Bay could be.

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Speaker 1: I'm not could be. I'm not trying to say what

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Speaker 1: they should win or law lose. But in a normal

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Speaker 1: division you would have at least one team that's well

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Speaker 1: over five hundred and the Falcons would sort of be

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Speaker 1: out of it. But the still in it through some

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Speaker 1: good luck and some grace. And the only way that

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Speaker 1: any of that matters is if they perform better in

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Speaker 1: the clutch and to Tory's point, more consistently over the

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Speaker 1: course of four quarters. Are we gonna get and if

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Speaker 1: they win, just win like that, like just win, like

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Speaker 1: break over that, like just step over the line. They're

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Speaker 1: toeing the line. Just step over it, right. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: feel like that's better. And I wish people could see

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Speaker 1: it because tor has has her Apple wired headphones in

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Speaker 1: and she just lifted the microphone up directly in front

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Speaker 1: of her voice so everyone could hear that. Last. I

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Speaker 1: think that's a great way to end it. The inside

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Speaker 1: is fantastic. It doesn't matter how you get there, how

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Speaker 1: pretty or ugly it is. Get across the line. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's our new theme. Get across the line. They were

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Speaker 1: a couple of yards away and couldn't do it against Washington.

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Speaker 1: Can they do it against Pittsburgh. We will be there

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Speaker 1: to break it all down after that Steelers game at

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Speaker 1: well to the tune of four Winds to this point.

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Speaker 1: At home, they're gonna need another home crowd. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: there will be some Steelers fans That should be a

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Speaker 1: raucous atmosphere. Red helmets are coming back? What red helmets

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Speaker 1: are coming back? And red helmets are coming back? All

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Speaker 1: of the exciting things together at once. It should be

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I think Ashton's families coming to

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Speaker 1: this one too. Edmonds Clan is going to be is coming,

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited. Yeah so, but they're gonna be. We're

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Speaker 1: in Falcons here right right, Ashton, There's only one answer,

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Speaker 1: Oh no, nonetheless, nonetheless. Thank you all so much for downloading, listening,

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. I think I'm done. I'm out of oxygen.

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Speaker 1: It's super laid on a Sunday. We made it in

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Speaker 1: less than thirty minutes, who random mandate was achieved? Talk

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Speaker 1: to y'all next week. H