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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. And wow, do we have

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Speaker 1: things to talk about after a twenty seven to twenty

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Speaker 1: five victory, the Falcons victory over the rival New Orleans

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Speaker 1: Saints at the Superdome. We are not at the Superdome

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Speaker 1: actually right now, because the Superdome, in Saints fashion, had

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Speaker 1: the Wi Fi stopped working. They probably didn't want all

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Speaker 1: those positive Falcon stories heading out into the world. So

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Speaker 1: we are at the JW. Marriott Executive Lounge. So if

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Speaker 1: you happen to hear somebody playing pool behind us, or

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Speaker 1: you hear some Ariana Grande pumping, yeah know that that's

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Speaker 1: the reason for that. But let's get back to this

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Speaker 1: game here again. So much, so much fun to talk

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Speaker 1: about here. I'm your host, Scott Bear. I'm here with

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Speaker 1: Tory mclaney and Chris rim As always, Chris rim I

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Speaker 1: will start with you. What was your big takeaway from

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Speaker 1: a game that the Falcons controlled for a long time

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Speaker 1: and then lost complete control of and then game back

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Speaker 1: right there at the end. Yeah, I thought for me

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Speaker 1: the biggest takeaway was Arthur Smith's play calling um at

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Speaker 1: the end of the game, he made a call that

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Speaker 1: we now know was this was the same It was

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Speaker 1: the same play that they ran on the first drive

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Speaker 1: the game to win the game. But earlier in the game,

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Speaker 1: I thought, you know, there were there were probably some

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Speaker 1: plays that he probably some plays that he called that

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Speaker 1: But ultimately at the end, he made the call that

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Speaker 1: set the team up to win the game. So I thought,

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it was it was

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Speaker 1: his play call, and that stood up to me. Tory, Uh,

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Speaker 1: what was your big takeaway from an absolute It's cliche,

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Speaker 1: but a roller coast run. Yeah, I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: the fact that the Falcons even pulled the game out

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Speaker 1: think shows me that the Falcons are at least heading

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Speaker 1: in the right direction. I think even Arthur Smith said

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Speaker 1: after the game, he was like, yeah, it feels ugly

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Speaker 1: at times, but the fact that we got the win.

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Speaker 1: I mean, at the end of the day, no one's

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Speaker 1: gonna remember exactly what happened when it happened, but they

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Speaker 1: will remember what. You know, A record stands longer than

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Speaker 1: a moment, so it's like they at least came out

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Speaker 1: with the win. That that is true, and we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about all that and so much more. You

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Speaker 1: guys know the format by now, four quarters five minutes

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Speaker 1: each and we're gonna touch on CPS, big sixty four

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Speaker 1: yard catch, what happened in the fourth quarter, and some

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Speaker 1: unsung heroes from this Falcons victory, and also where the

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Speaker 1: Falcons stand. Yes they are in the playoff picture, true

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Speaker 1: freaking story. We're going to get to all that over

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Speaker 1: we had to quarter number one. Now we're gonna take

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Speaker 1: five minutes to break down that really decisive fifty I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: sixty four yard absolute dime from Matt Ryan to speed

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Speaker 1: demon I mean, I really like our social team they

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Speaker 1: do scored Scudarell. Yeah, Like that's my favorite nickname I

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Speaker 1: think of this season so far. Yeah, I think that's

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Speaker 1: a good one. Chris, you wrote about this play. What

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Speaker 1: I thought it was cool to hear the thought process

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Speaker 1: five which works. And as soon as he heard this

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Speaker 1: I thought it was a great ball. He probably won't

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Speaker 1: yards he's had in the receiving yards he's had in

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Speaker 1: on a tear. Yeah yeah, And Chris, you you've written

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Speaker 1: U including a feature of a fat feature, a very

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Speaker 1: does he feel about being in Atlanta's offense, being with

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Speaker 1: and a team unlock his athleticism to this degree? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think he I think he loves it. And he

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Speaker 1: I mean, he said since the summertime I was his

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Speaker 1: we should have seen the signs then. Yeah, but he

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Speaker 1: more of a special teams player. And You've seen so

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Speaker 1: And I've seen him beat somebody downfield and have the

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Speaker 1: always been this type of player, but to see him now,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's doing things that should captivate the entire

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Speaker 1: what's stopping him from doing it the last half of

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Speaker 1: I think he said in the feature like a baller.

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Speaker 1: Like he's like, just I don't want to be a

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Speaker 1: play through positions I saw today. Yeah, that absolutely did.

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Speaker 1: And he was everywhere. He was huge for the Falcons,

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Speaker 1: there being like, you know what, Like I have seen

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Speaker 1: of this Falcons team, and people honestly use like falconing,

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Speaker 1: like oh, they're pulling a falcon likes It's such a

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Speaker 1: they have turned the narrative around. And I think the

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Speaker 1: Because it came against quality opposition, And yeah, in New

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Speaker 1: And looking at what Teddy Bridgewater did against the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: a corner and not just flash. So with that, we

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Speaker 1: have hit another buzzer here. That's the end of the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. That also brings an end to The Falcon's

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Speaker 1: Final Whistle podcast. After a twenty seven to twenty five

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Speaker 1: victory over the New Orleans Saints, in New Orleans at

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Speaker 1: the Superdome, huge wind, no matter how you slice it,

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Speaker 1: incredibly dramatic. Patterson even said that we don't need to

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Speaker 1: give our fans heart attacks every single week. They're kind

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Speaker 1: of doing that right now. I saw a tweet that

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Speaker 1: said he hasn't been here long enough to realize that

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Speaker 1: that's not funny, and that's probably not gonna change anytime soon,

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Speaker 1: because this team wins in crazy and dramatic ways. But

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Speaker 1: you guys know what to do at this point, right

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Speaker 1: Next week, after the Falcons play the Cowboys, that's when

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