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Speaker 1: You are listening to the End Around podcast. I am

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Speaker 1: Matt to Beek and today we have an additional Falcons

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Speaker 1: writer here from at Lama Falcons dot com. Will mcfen

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Speaker 1: and Kelsey Conway joins us here at Mercedes ben Stadium

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Speaker 1: following the twenty seven twenty loss to the Seattle Seahawks. Today,

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Speaker 1: we're just gonna jump right off before we unpack the

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Speaker 1: actual game. There was a moment after the game both

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Speaker 1: Will and Kelsey, you guys were down there outside Dan

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Speaker 1: Quinn's press conference. Moments later, Falcon's owner Arthur Blank met

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Speaker 1: with the media and had some pretty strong words to say. Um.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't there, but some of it was is that

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Speaker 1: he was extraordinarily disappointed. Will you want to you want

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Speaker 1: to just kind of jump off and tackle that one? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So he was, he was frank, He was not mincing words.

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Speaker 1: He said, you know, extraordinarily disappointed with the way that

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Speaker 1: the season has started, with the way that the game's unfolded,

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Speaker 1: being inconsistency, he said, you know, was was frustrating, and

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Speaker 1: he expects more from this team. He talked about, you know,

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Speaker 1: as as everybody has talked about, just the status of

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Speaker 1: coach Dan Quinn's job entering the bye week. Um. He

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Speaker 1: said that he was not going to make a decision

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Speaker 1: over these couple of weeks, but that he was really

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Speaker 1: going to think long and hard about possibly making that decision.

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Speaker 1: And he said he's not bashful about making that decision,

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Speaker 1: so you know, he expects more clearly. One thing that

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Speaker 1: he did say, though, that I thought was important was

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Speaker 1: he did reiterate a couple of times that the players

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Speaker 1: loved Dan Quinn. He said that a few times, but

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Speaker 1: that doesn't seem like it's going to be a major

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Speaker 1: deciding factor, but he said it was an important factor

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Speaker 1: in how he makes this decision. Kelsey, Four times now

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Speaker 1: the Falcons have fallen behind with deficits of at least

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Speaker 1: seventeen or more points. Today was twenty four nothing. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's it seems like a broken record at this point.

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Speaker 1: You know, to kind of piggyback and what mister Blank

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Speaker 1: said about the team and just the narrative of this

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Speaker 1: season so far. Your thoughts on what the owner said,

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Speaker 1: and you are also in Dan Quinn's press conference after

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Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, well, adding to what Will said, The

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Speaker 1: other thing that Arthur Blank said that really stood out

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Speaker 1: is the inconsistency the team has shown. He said, well,

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Speaker 1: if we could, you know, put a full game together,

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Speaker 1: that would you know, change a lot of things. But

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Speaker 1: as Will said, he's not bashful. He recognizes that although

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Speaker 1: the you know, the players love dan Quinn, they work

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Speaker 1: really hard during the week, it's not translating into wins

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Speaker 1: and losses. And this is a bottom line business and

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, all that matters is

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Speaker 1: wins and losses. But he too pointed to the inconsistency

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Speaker 1: and the inability to play a full game. And when

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Speaker 1: dan Quinn was asked what the focus of the bye

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Speaker 1: week was going to be for him, it was trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out how to get this team to play

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Speaker 1: the way they're capable of playing for four quarters. And

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Speaker 1: I think you hit it on the head when you

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Speaker 1: and how they could you know, play a full game,

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Speaker 1: and it's just nobody seems to have the answers for it.

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Speaker 1: Julio Jones doesn't have the answers for it, dan Quinn

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Speaker 1: doesn't have the answers for it. And it's certainly a

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Speaker 1: big question that they need to figure out. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: that's kind of what I wrote my column about. Not

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Speaker 1: was just, you know, there was there was good and bad,

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Speaker 1: and every single week there's either it's a strong second

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Speaker 1: was the case again too. You know, they looked much

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Speaker 1: Matt Schob steps in for Matt Ryan and h you know,

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Speaker 1: for a guy that hadn't started a game in more

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Speaker 1: than fourteen hundred days dating back to twenty fifteen, you know,

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Speaker 1: he threw for four hundred and sixty yards, the second

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Speaker 1: I mean and a big reason why is because the

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Speaker 1: and you're like, how did the Falcons not win this game?

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Speaker 1: But then you see the turnovers and three cost reasons.

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Speaker 1: And he saw the way that the Seahawks ran the

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Speaker 1: we saw an example of that again today with DeVonta Freeman,

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Speaker 1: want to see him maybe protect the ball live another

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Speaker 1: And you know Kelsey and know you touched on that.

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Speaker 1: But that they to not come away with points there,

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Speaker 1: it's huge. Yeah. You know, I'm when I see a

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Speaker 1: of call me old school, but I believe in a

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Speaker 1: you know, look at look at all the really good teams,

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Speaker 1: name names, but there's there's quite a few teams right now,

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Speaker 1: And you know, Kelsey brought it up three zip on

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Speaker 1: the turnover differential today and it's just it's not good

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Speaker 1: and uh, it's it's it's kind of you you feel

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Speaker 1: bad listening to the Julio Joneses and the Dan Quinns

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Speaker 1: afterwards because it's just so perplexing. Um, no one can

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Speaker 1: I don't know how they completed that pass. It happened

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Speaker 1: mental lapses. The two touchdowns to DK Metcalf where he

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Speaker 1: Is insane. I just don't get it. Well, there are

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Speaker 1: And I asked coach Quinn, I said, are you happy

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Speaker 1: for Isaiah's skill sets. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned Kendall Sheffield twice today he was blanketing Locket

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Speaker 1: that area. Any performances, you know, I wrote my column

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Speaker 1: the offensive. On the receiving end, he's having perhaps well

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Speaker 1: not yet, but he's on pace to have his best

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Speaker 1: for season as a Falcon. Though it wasn't all perfect

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Speaker 1: with him. No, he missed a couple of blocks, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: some costly blocks. Um. But again, I love the fact

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Speaker 1: that's a good thing for this offense and Kelsey Julio

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Speaker 1: would be remissing if we did not mention what Julio

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Speaker 1: Those catches that he made today, they were pretty impressive.

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Speaker 1: First game without Mohammed Sanu and those guys played well.

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Speaker 1: Russell Gage stepped up a little more. What did he

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Speaker 1: finish with I forget but seven catches for fifty eight yards. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Players change and I don't know, but they're they're one

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Speaker 1: Coach Parcels always says you are what your record says

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Speaker 1: you are. Um, and here we are heading into the

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Speaker 1: U up next? Kelse New Orleans Saints Drew Brees Good today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and let me tell you, he doesn't turn the ball

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Speaker 1: over unless it's Dean Drones. Unless it's to Deonones, then

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Speaker 1: he does so the Saints layer, I think, I think

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Speaker 1: that if you asked me, what's kind of been the

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Speaker 1: most surprising thing is the Falcon's lack of uh takeaways

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Speaker 1: because you know, you think about Demonte Casey last year

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Speaker 1: know the two sacks today came from not even defensive ends.

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Speaker 1: They came from you know, your defensive tackles. So the

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Speaker 1: pass rushers aren't getting to the quarterback and now to

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Speaker 1: you know, force some fumbles and it's like Keanuneil forced

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Speaker 1: a good amount of fumbles for this team. Um, I

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Speaker 1: think part of that too, Kelsey is the quarterback they're playing.

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Speaker 1: It's he's he's so mobile and he's just I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, he know if they don't surround him quick

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Speaker 1: but it's so it's so hard. Well, I guess that's

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Speaker 1: a that's a bright spot to bring up because I

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Speaker 1: I think I think we're I think we've got that

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Speaker 1: of well, sound the schedule unless Can Newton comes back,

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Speaker 1: I mean yeah, tough to think of Gardner minshew. So

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Speaker 1: maybe the past rush will get dialed up. Then, Hey,

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Speaker 1: anything can happen in this league. And you know what,

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Speaker 1: this the first half is proof because no one I

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Speaker 1: wrote about that was my column last week, Right, I

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Speaker 1: didn't see this coming. None of us saw this. If

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Speaker 1: said what yep, But that's where they are. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's the reality of the situation and over the second

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Speaker 1: how it'll play out. But yeah, right now, I would

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Speaker 1: like to see moving forward, Let's see, let's see what

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Speaker 1: you got in some of these young guys. You know,

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Speaker 1: we got an opportunity to see some of those guys

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Speaker 1: like to see more of that. We saw some of

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Speaker 1: that late last season with some of those younger guys.

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Speaker 1: It hasn't translated into you know what, I thought they

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Speaker 1: might have this season, some of those second year players.

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Speaker 1: But let's get let's get Dedrin's not active, Let's get

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Speaker 1: quadrealis and active. Obviously, obviously the coaching staff has their

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Speaker 1: finger on the pulse with those guys more than we do.

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Speaker 1: But at this point, you know, you are where you stand.

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Speaker 1: Going to the bye week can't hurt, right, well, at

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Speaker 1: the very least, I think Brian Hill has earned a

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Speaker 1: little bit more. Yeah, you know, and so I mean

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Speaker 1: you could make that case too with Itta, like Edo Smith,

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Speaker 1: he was playing really well too before he severed that concussion.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know, let's tinker around, let's try some things.

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Speaker 1: They try something, all right, guys, So the end a

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Speaker 1: Round will not be back next week, but with the

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Speaker 1: bye week, we will be back following the November tenth game,

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Speaker 1: the aforementioned Saints game. All guys, Kelsey, thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Let's come on back, hopefully I'm calling from New Orleans

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Speaker 1: with good news. All right, that's a wrap, thanks, guys,