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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, and welcome to another edition of the

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Speaker 1: Falcons Final Whistle podcast. My name is Scott Barret. I'm

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Speaker 1: here with Tory mcelhaney and Ashton Edmonds and Falcons Final

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Speaker 1: Whistle has resumed its status as a postgame podcast. We

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Speaker 1: are coming to you after a difficult loss for the

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. The New Orleans Saints won twenty seven to

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Speaker 1: twenty six. It was a nail biter. It was a

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Speaker 1: dramatic finish. It was not a result that the Falcons

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Speaker 1: were ultimately ultimately looking for. After really controlling both lines

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage and the tempo for three plus quarters, the

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Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints ended up erasing a two score, sixteen

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Speaker 1: point lead in the fourth quarter, And we're going to

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Speaker 1: get into that a little bit and then really try

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Speaker 1: to see where the positives were from this one and

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Speaker 1: what the Falcons do from here. How, you know, like

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Speaker 1: how they advanced on what is a long road trip.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna go to Los Angeles to play the Rams,

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Speaker 1: and then they won't come home and they're gonna fly

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Speaker 1: straight to the state of Washington to play the Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: So that's kind of sets the stage for everything that

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Speaker 1: you're going to hear about over the next twenty ish

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Speaker 1: minutes or something like that. My filibuster is now over,

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Speaker 1: and I will pose a question to you both. What

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Speaker 1: went wrong in that fourth quarter? Where did things get

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Speaker 1: out of hand for Atlanta when it seemed like they

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Speaker 1: were in such firm control over the first three periods. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for me, it kind of lies in what we saw

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Speaker 1: Jameis Winston and the Saints skill players do in terms

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Speaker 1: of stringing explosive place together. After the game, I really

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Speaker 1: looked at those explosive plays because at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, in the first three quarters, Jamis Winston had

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Speaker 1: less than sixty passing guards. In the fourth quarter alone,

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Speaker 1: it was over two hundred. Oh my gosh, that's crazy.

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Speaker 1: That number to me is wild. And then you break

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Speaker 1: get down even further and I was looking at, Okay,

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Speaker 1: how many plays did they have over fifteen yards a pop? Seven?

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Speaker 1: That's seven over fifteen yards a pop. Four of those

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Speaker 1: over two hundred yards that Jami Winston through four one

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy four came off of those seven plays alone.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that this is the reason the Falcons lost,

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Speaker 1: because we could go and say the opposite for the

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Speaker 1: Falcons offense, they didn't do anything in the red zone

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter when they absolutely needed to to

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Speaker 1: hold off what the Saints were doing offensively. This whole thing,

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Speaker 1: this whole game in the class that we saw in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. It's on both the offense and the defense.

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Speaker 1: And to me, it's the explosive plays. It's not producing

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Speaker 1: I feel like we're talking about that didn't happen in

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Speaker 1: the first three quarters that you're excited about what the

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Speaker 1: Falcons did in the first three quarters, and then to

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Speaker 1: go a complete one eighty in the fourth quarter, it's

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Speaker 1: really a hard field to swallows. Yeah, yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I definitely agree. I feel like, um, the Falcon secondary

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Speaker 1: players like Michael Thomas in the first three quarters, but

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Speaker 1: you know, like Tory said, they came alive in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Um Jamis Swinston found them deep feel, you know,

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Speaker 1: in open pockets, and I feel like that's what really

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Speaker 1: you know, it was it was a green light from there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I think that the Saints offense and the Falcons

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Speaker 1: or maybe not doing offensively, because the offense, a good

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Speaker 1: running game can be a real closer, and the Falcons

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Speaker 1: running game was pretty good, to the tune of two

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Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota was moving with the football. There were a

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Speaker 1: we saw young Waku, who is who is as reliable

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Speaker 1: want more of a cushion, right, And look, everybody saw

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Speaker 1: I mentioned the rushing yards. I was impressed not only

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Speaker 1: And when you look at this offense and how Arthur

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Speaker 1: were balanced, which is something that you don't often say

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Speaker 1: over and over and over again in his post game

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Speaker 1: press conferences was that the Falcons got two one dimensional.

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Speaker 1: Today after the game, we heard Marcus Mariota say that

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Speaker 1: we weren't one dimensional as an offense, and I think

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Speaker 1: if you're holding onto anything in terms of hope, in

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Speaker 1: because that is something that I could not get out

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Speaker 1: some It did some really good things, but also didn't

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Speaker 1: do enough to win. And that's ultimately what happens Ashton.

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Speaker 1: When you look at this Falcons pass rush, right, they

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Speaker 1: just the communication was there between that that front line.

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Speaker 1: It was on full display. We saw that in that

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Speaker 1: And I really think that the difference was was they

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Speaker 1: they speed up the tempo. Jameis Winston is able to

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Speaker 1: the fact that Michael Thomas and Chris Olive were getting

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Speaker 1: or not, but it's something that really this Falcons team

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's no bones about it. It's like it's

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Speaker 1: a difficult loss. But what do you do from here?

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Speaker 1: And they're going to have to turn the corner quickly.

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Speaker 1: I talked to a bunch of different people in the

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Speaker 1: open locker room period, Rashaun Evans, Jake Matthews, Grady Jarrett,

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Speaker 1: Don't let this define us. I thought Jake Matthews said

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Speaker 1: something interesting in that he said, we don't need to

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Speaker 1: Everybody understands how to work around here, how to keep

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Speaker 1: super dramatic. You just got to get back to work.

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Speaker 1: And I know that even Grady Jarrett said kind of

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Speaker 1: move forward, if they can really do the old twenty

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Speaker 1: do need to turn the page quickly. I think Ashton

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Speaker 1: you you wrote a story on number eight overall NFL

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Speaker 1: draft pick, Drake London had his NFL debut today. What

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Speaker 1: did he say postgame about what was really a pretty

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Speaker 1: solid performance from the USA product. Yeah, man, I mean

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Speaker 1: he really The gist of what he said was he

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Speaker 1: a big rivalry. And he showed him proved today. You know,

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Speaker 1: he came out and did his Thingum. He led all

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Speaker 1: thing I'll add to about that is when we were

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Speaker 1: before the game that he hurt his knee, he was

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Speaker 1: very candid, which I was very surprised, I think for

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Speaker 1: the last three weeks that we have not seen Drake London.

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Speaker 1: I assumed that the knee was not really that big

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Speaker 1: preseason and you're like, okay, like first play, first catch

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Speaker 1: But the more we talked to him in post game

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Speaker 1: after this game, I think I realized how more how

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Speaker 1: got more clarity on that because he told us after

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Speaker 1: the game. Someone asked him, you know, if this same

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Speaker 1: still take you three weeks to get back? And he

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Speaker 1: said yes, And that was very surprising to me. So

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Speaker 1: three weeks actually look like for you? Like how much

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Speaker 1: were you actively able to do? And he said he

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Speaker 1: I think if if he can get back to one,

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Speaker 1: he's an explosive, impactful player. Yeah, this is that's the

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Speaker 1: thing is like, this may not have been one hundred

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Speaker 1: like when I when we were talking to him after

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Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, that's if that Drake Glendon, what does

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Speaker 1: thought there were lots of encouraging signs. Look, the Falcons

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Speaker 1: are gonna be able to move the football. Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: just will. It's just a matter of in close games.

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Speaker 1: What they were so good at six and two in

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Speaker 1: one score games last year is not making that fatal

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Speaker 1: that in the future. I'm obviously nobody likes to start,

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Speaker 1: and one I'm sure the Falcons don't, especially when they

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Speaker 1: But I just go back and I look at it,

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Speaker 1: and I think this team has firepower. This team, if

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Speaker 1: it can rush the passer with the talent and its secondary,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna win some football games. So I think it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be really interesting to see how they do moving

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Speaker 1: forward here. So anyway, that's gonna do it for us.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go ahead and wrap it up right here,

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Speaker 1: head home on our respective drives away from Mercedes ben Stadium.

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