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Speaker 1: Falcons Final Whistle Podcast. We're coming to you with some

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Speaker 1: good news after the Falcons beat the Miami Dolphins and

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Speaker 1: yet another close contest, this time the Falcons came out

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Speaker 1: on top of it by a score of thirty to

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Speaker 1: twenty eight. Here at hard Rock Stadium, I'm sitting next

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Speaker 1: to Tory mclanny. Chris rim Is back at home. We're

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Speaker 1: staring at him through fancy technology, and Chris watching this game,

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Speaker 1: seeing what transpired. What was your biggest takeaway from this

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Speaker 1: Falcon's victory that brought them to three and three on

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Speaker 1: the season. I think, oddly enough, who was that Cordell

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Speaker 1: Patterson is here to stay. I think when I was

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Speaker 1: reading things and looking at much of the discourse on

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Speaker 1: social media or elsewhere, there was the assumption that Cordell

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Speaker 1: Patterson would have some kind of drop off in that

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Speaker 1: his first five games were like some sort of anomaly,

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Speaker 1: that he was just playing well. But he got fourteen

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Speaker 1: carries today. He didn't do as much as in the

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Speaker 1: receiving game, but he scored a touchdown and I think

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Speaker 1: today's game just showed me that he's going to be

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Speaker 1: a part of this offense for the full seventeen game

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Speaker 1: season and whatever they do after that, and the first

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Speaker 1: five games weren't just you know, a spike in his

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Speaker 1: career and Tory, what was your big takeaway after this one?

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Speaker 1: I think for me it was that even though the

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Speaker 1: Falcons didn't play a complete game, and I know there

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Speaker 1: are parts of this game that I'm guarantee you that

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Speaker 1: they would say that they wanted back, that they still

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Speaker 1: found a way to win in the end. And I

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Speaker 1: think they found a way to win through the talents

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Speaker 1: of their playmakers. So you take Matt Ryan's performance, Kyle

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Speaker 1: these are all very specific people who really kind of

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Speaker 1: it's it's why we got to the score that we did.

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Speaker 1: It's why the Falcons are walking away at a five

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Speaker 1: hundred record right now instead of the alternative. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: starting to see the mindset that Arthur Smith wants to

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Speaker 1: instill in this team, and it's starting to come out

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Speaker 1: and pay dividends late in the fourth quarter. It's that

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Speaker 1: winning mindset. It's that belief that if we get the

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Speaker 1: ball last, we are going to win, and that's going

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Speaker 1: to be essential for this team this season and on

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Speaker 1: down the line. We're gonna break all that down here

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Speaker 1: on this episode of Falcon's Final Whistle. You guys know

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Speaker 1: the format by now. We're gonna break things down over

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Speaker 1: the coast of four quarters five minutes each and in

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Speaker 1: this one, we're going to talk about that fateful final drive.

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Speaker 1: We're obviously going to talk about Kyle Pitts, I mean,

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Speaker 1: du dah, and we we're each going to pick an

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Speaker 1: MVP from this game, and as we always do, we

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Speaker 1: are going to look ahead to the two NFC South

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Speaker 1: may not use the word playoffs at least me just

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Speaker 1: And now we're going to get started with quarter number one,

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Speaker 1: and the first quarter begins with five minutes. Talking about

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Speaker 1: that final drive where the Falcons won it with a

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Speaker 1: He did what I recall the tune of seven catches

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Speaker 1: fun to watch. Chris, what about this game in in

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Speaker 1: think against the Saints and then even following those games,

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Speaker 1: I think we'll learn a lot about how good this

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Speaker 1: Dolphins who have one win, um, the Giants who have

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Speaker 1: just put fifty four on them today. Yeah, so it's

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Speaker 1: I think we have to I think we'll learn about

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Speaker 1: them through because just look at past those games. The

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Speaker 1: so you'll, well, we'll learn a lot. Yeah, And I

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Speaker 1: think that that's why it's fair to be excited, it's

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Speaker 1: fair to temper it and continue to try to evaluate

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Speaker 1: this team logically. The one thing that I would say

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Speaker 1: confidence that you can perform. Now, I'm sure that they're

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Speaker 1: that they're hearing just exactly what what what What we're

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Speaker 1: saying is that they haven't beat anybody big yet, but

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Speaker 1: they're not one in six right now. They're not where

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins are, and they're in a spot where they

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Speaker 1: have executed well at times with still so much more

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Speaker 1: think Jalen Hawkins said it well that they know maybe

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Speaker 1: it was a for like they know that they have Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Jayleen was like, we're well aware that we have things

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Speaker 1: that we got to clean up like and I think

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Speaker 1: Arthur Smith has said a bunch and I know Matt

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Speaker 1: Ryan even said this past week and his availability before

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Speaker 1: this game was he was like, we're striving for more consistency.

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Speaker 1: They're well aware of the consistency issues, and I think

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Speaker 1: the fact that they're aware of it and they're like,

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Speaker 1: this is something we need to get better at in

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Speaker 1: I think that's that's really good that they're verbalizing that.

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, And if they're continuing to, as Arthur

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Speaker 1: Smith says, get one step better and one step better,

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Speaker 1: then they should be competitive in these games. They can.

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Speaker 1: They have performed well in the clutch three out of

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Speaker 1: the last four games, and I think all those things

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Speaker 1: forward here with the end of the fourth quarter, and

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Speaker 1: that's going to do it for another episode of The

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Speaker 1: Falcon's Final Whistle. We are getting out of here. It's

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Speaker 1: getting late. It's freezing cold in this stadium press box, freezing.

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Speaker 1: We're in Miami Arden's, Florida right now, and outside it

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Speaker 1: is sweltering, like just so hot. But in this room

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Speaker 1: It is freaking freezing in here. I'm shivering, Chris, How

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Speaker 1: is it at your spot? A nice seventy two sixty eight? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: sent seventy four? Good God, that's hot. I have the

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Speaker 1: window opens, so it's like, right, it's not. I don't

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Speaker 1: think that's correct. I think it's like this area of

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Speaker 1: seventy four. Let's try it like sixty eight. You gotta

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Speaker 1: be so cool, calm, collected, just like the Falcons we are.

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