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Speaker 2: This is Tory McIlhaney joined with Tarren walk For It's

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Speaker 2: a little bit of a different duo today because Will

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Speaker 2: two to the McFadden family. So, honestly, great day to

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Speaker 2: be a McFadden. Maybe not so great day to be

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Speaker 2: in Atlanta Falcon. The Atlanta Falcons lost thirty four to

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Speaker 2: ten to the Miami Dolphins, a one team, a one

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Speaker 2: win team coming into this game with their only win

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Speaker 2: coming against a team that didn't earn their first win

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Speaker 2: until today. It was kind of a clunker of a

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Speaker 2: game from start to finish, and Tara and I are

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Speaker 2: going to go through it all. If you're new here,

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Speaker 2: as a reminder, we have four topics that we split

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Speaker 2: moving on. So, Taryn, are you ready to get into

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Speaker 2: this one as ready as I'll ever be. Okay, let's

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Speaker 2: do it. Quarter one. I kind of wanted to pose

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Speaker 2: this question to you, Taran and also to me and

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Speaker 2: our audience about was this loss to Miami worse than

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Speaker 2: the loss to Carolina when the Falcons were shut out

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Speaker 2: thirty to zero in week three. I know you talked

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Speaker 2: Kayen Nellis had something some really important things to say

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Speaker 3: The answer overall is kind of a yes, because we

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Speaker 3: week three, and Kaden Ellis pointed out that that's kind

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Speaker 3: we're in week eight, changes do have to be made,

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Speaker 3: he said, or they can be made.

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Speaker 1: They should be made at this point.

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Speaker 3: And it's not necessarily a whole team change from what

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Speaker 3: look at the Carolina game, the Bills game, even though

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Speaker 3: the forty nine Ers game, and that he's going to

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Speaker 1: Because if all your.

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Speaker 3: Collective pieces are doing well, the hole should be as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's the thought at least. Yeah, we'll see if that happens.

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Speaker 3: But that's the reason that this feels almost worse than Carolina.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that where I land on this, I

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Speaker 1: And then you kind of.

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Speaker 2: Move forward, and for the most party, it wasn't happening.

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Speaker 2: You saw some improved you saw.

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Speaker 2: There were some things to take out of the weeks

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Speaker 2: I think that's where I ultimately stand on it.

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Speaker 3: So the Falcons he thinks, played better in this game

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Speaker 2: And I think that's honestly where where you have to

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Speaker 3: The issue is you cannot call this one an anomaly, right,

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Speaker 2: And so you get to this where you go into

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Speaker 2: A big issue within that is that the run game

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Speaker 1: Over the last two weeks.

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Speaker 2: They only had forty five yards on the ground against

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Speaker 3: You saw what would happen if the Falcons can't get

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Speaker 1: It's your lifeline. Yeah, I don't want that to be

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Speaker 3: And it's so shocking because the stats we explained on

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they were not And also, I will add

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Speaker 2: You still have Bejeon Robinson Tyler Algaier, Like, realistically, yes,

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Speaker 3: I mean, looking at the numbers right now, the Dolphins

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Speaker 3: the Falcons defense should have exploited that. And meanwhile, the

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Speaker 1: But it's never that simple, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think that there were some things where

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, And I think like that was

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Speaker 2: that's the epitome of these offensive issues. Like the Falcons

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the Dolphins scored.

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Speaker 2: So we're gonna move on to our halftime and this,

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Speaker 2: been curated by them. The Falcons had eleven total first

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Speaker 2: speaking to the Miami Dolphins, who I think had twenty

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Speaker 2: It kind of felt like an uncharacteristic performance from this group.

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Speaker 3: I know, with the offense, we just said we can't

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Speaker 1: It was a roster of big names.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So as we know, Jalen Walker, Billy Bowman Junior

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Speaker 1: That's kind of been since training training camp. So those

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Speaker 2: They have not but they've not been there for the

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Speaker 2: were also missing Zach Harrison, who has become a very

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Speaker 1: That weren't there.

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Speaker 2: But the main one that we have to talk about,

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Speaker 1: Or the pass, they're bullying for JD.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think, like, I mean, I don't blame them, No,

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Speaker 2: that's just that's called a there's a plan of attack.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a game plan, offensive game plan or offensive

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But what.

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Speaker 3: I'm surprised and I'm curious your thoughts on this when

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Speaker 1: I don't feel like we saw that today.

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Speaker 2: No, I didn't necessarily outside of they they did rotate

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Speaker 1: Ronnie Harrison. Yes, yeah, sorry, I just said Ronnie like buddies.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't like they rotated j. D. Bertrand out for

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Speaker 2: Bit less of a bi committee approach than I originally thought,

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Speaker 1: You know that.

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Speaker 2: I felt like there were a wide range of options

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Speaker 3: Right, because he's on injured reserve officially as of Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Right, so you can count technically this Sunday's loss that

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Speaker 2: But I don't know, Like I'm curious. I'm curious to

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Speaker 3: A plan of mine already is to ask Jeff ulbrick

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Speaker 1: Get him back.

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Speaker 2: No, I agree, because I don't know if what we

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Speaker 2: I think that you saw Miami take advantage of those

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Speaker 1: Like there were just some moments. And of course I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that too, and we've known that to be a

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Speaker 2: Yes, all right, well we have one more quarter for

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Speaker 2: So Taren, I've posed this question three times four times

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Speaker 1: Where what do they do?

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Speaker 2: Knowing you have the Patriots on deck, knowing you have

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Speaker 1: That you should win this game. Playoff teams win this game.

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Speaker 2: But we're now going into a three week stretch that's

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Cool, I mean it's a tough question.

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Speaker 1: I don't have the answer to that, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think of the locker room, both from the team

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Speaker 3: Like today proves that you can do that flop again

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Speaker 3: That's probably one of the biggest highlights from the locker room.

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Speaker 3: Another one is the team sticking together, Like those questions

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Speaker 3: flush it. They said it after Carolina. You got to

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Speaker 3: move on. You got to move on. Every Sunday is

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Speaker 3: that's the right approach, I don't know. Everyone is different,

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Speaker 3: like everyone handles losses, wins, how to go about an

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Speaker 2: Say you got to get back on track, you know,

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Speaker 2: see what that ultimately looks like, because we did, we

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Speaker 2: did see them bounce back after that Carolina loss, but

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Speaker 2: then it tapers off and it is one of those

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Speaker 2: things where it kind of does feel heee. Morris talks

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Speaker 2: all the time about this emotional roller coaster, getting off

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Speaker 2: the emotional roller coaster. And I know what this league is.

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Speaker 2: The league wants there to be an emotional roller coaster.

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Speaker 2: It wants any given Sunday that any team can be

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Speaker 2: anybody else on any given day.

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Speaker 1: Today proved it. Today proved that.

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Speaker 2: And I'm sitting here too wondering about the injuries and

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Speaker 2: how long we're gonna be discussing those things as well.

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Speaker 2: Because the Falcons do not have a bye week coming up,

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Speaker 2: you know, like they.

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Speaker 1: Do say they are in the.

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Speaker 2: They're coming off of their bye week two weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: so that they're in the thick of it.

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Speaker 1: They're in the thick of it, and it's not getting

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Speaker 1: any easier.

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Speaker 2: If anything, it's getting more difficult to go from a

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Speaker 2: West coast trip last week to Okay, you're going up.

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Speaker 2: You're going out to Germany in two weeks time. So

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Speaker 2: you have all of this, plus your starting quarterback is

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Speaker 2: working through a knee injury, your starting number one receiver

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Speaker 2: is working through a hip injury. You have all of

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Speaker 2: these defensive players that are questionable have been out for

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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks, like we'll continue to be out.

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Speaker 1: For a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: There are so many variables with those injuries that do

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Speaker 2: It's almost like, do you remember we were talking about

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Speaker 2: the Washington Commanders and that week and this year. Yes,

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Speaker 2: And we were talking about the Washington Commanders, and then

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Speaker 2: a couple weeks later we were talking about the San

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Speaker 2: Francisco forty nine and we were kind of saying, how

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Speaker 2: according to which individuals are up and who are available,

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Speaker 2: you get a very different team.

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Speaker 3: The forty nine ers felt like that specifically, We're like, oyeah,

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Speaker 3: you're either getting that. I hate saying this, but the

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Speaker 3: a team or the be team. Right, yeah, you're because

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Speaker 3: of how many starters were injured.

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Speaker 2: Exactly and who had missed a bunch of time. And

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Speaker 2: it almost has felt like, Okay, that's what the conversation

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Speaker 2: around the Falcons could be for other teams looking in

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Speaker 2: about like who which Falcons team are we going to get?

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Speaker 2: If you're the Patriots, Like which Falcons team is going

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Speaker 2: to show up to Gillette? If you're the Colts, which

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Speaker 2: Falcons team is going to make the trip to Germany? Like?

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Speaker 2: And again if you're the Bucks, the Saints, the Panthers,

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Speaker 2: which Falcons team are you going to see?

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Speaker 3: And we're gonna find out actually rather soon, because after

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Speaker 3: New England, after Indianapolis slash Germany, you have the Panthers

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Speaker 3: and Saints back to back, right then you have two

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Speaker 3: games and then the Bucks and then two games and

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Speaker 3: then the Saints. Like it's very NFC South heavy loaded

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Speaker 3: in the second half of this season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, gosh, we don't even halfway through. No, we are not.

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Speaker 2: And so I think that is why this next stretch

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Speaker 2: of games, Like I know, we talked about this game

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Speaker 2: against Miami being a must win for the reasons of

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Speaker 2: like you are fundamentally, should should be a better team

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Speaker 2: and you should win this game, and then they didn't.

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Speaker 1: So now it just.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely turns up the fire to kind of make it

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Speaker 2: a must win. These these games coming down the wire

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Speaker 2: over the course of the next month and a half.

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Speaker 2: Gotta win them, there's no option. Well that is our

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Speaker 2: final quarter. Thank you everybody for joining us. I know

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Speaker 2: that probably wasn't the most fun game to go over

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Speaker 2: if you were a Falcons fan, but I appreciate you

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Speaker 2: hanging with us. Make sure you like and comment and

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Speaker 2: subscribe to the Atlanta Falcons podcast network, and make sure

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Speaker 2: to follow along with all of mine and Terren's reporting

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Speaker 2: over the course of the next week, and we will

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Speaker 2: see you win. The Falcons face the New England Patriots

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Speaker 2: next week at the Leete Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys,