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

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Speaker 1: The Falcon's Final Whistle podcast. I'm Scott Bear looking through

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Speaker 1: the zoom technology at Tory mcillaney and Ashton Edmonds coming

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Speaker 1: to you after another unwelcome results in Let's be honest

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Speaker 1: a series of them. The latest, which came on Sunday

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Speaker 1: of week fifteen, was a twenty one to eighteen victory

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Speaker 1: by the rival in New Orleans Saints over the Falcons.

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Speaker 1: And this was yet another one that comes down to

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Speaker 1: the wire. Tory mcillaney and I were joking on Saturday

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Speaker 1: that we weren't sure what was going to happen, but

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Speaker 1: we were pretty sure it was going to end with

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Speaker 1: a three point swing either way. It always does. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we got that part right, and again unfortunately for the Falcons,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't end well for them. They now fall to

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Speaker 1: five and nine. But just because of this result doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean that there's nothing to talk about. In fact, there's

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Speaker 1: quite a bit because this was a lot to talk about. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: this is Desmond Ritters a lot. This is Desmond Ritters

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Speaker 1: NFL debut. We have Tyler Algier going full on beast mode.

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Speaker 1: We have another disappointing result, and we have a weird,

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Speaker 1: wild will this ever end with a victor NFC South

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Speaker 1: where Tampa Bay loses, Carolina loses, Atlanta loses the Saints

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Speaker 1: When everybody's bunched together in a competing and absolutely maddening

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Speaker 1: way that I don't really think is I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if it's entertaining. It's kind of

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Speaker 1: just become sad a little bit. It is one of

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Speaker 1: those things that I think it has become. It's taken

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Speaker 1: on a lite of its own, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I like it. It's like it makes it fun.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like I've talked about this before where

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Speaker 1: I love it when you know NFL teams are kind

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Speaker 1: of all on the same level. I think that's when

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Speaker 1: you have like the most fun games league wide. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we just saw on Sunday how many over the course

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Speaker 1: of this week fifteen, how many games took a last

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Speaker 1: second swing or a significant comeback or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: The NFL's at its best when kind of everybody's on

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Speaker 1: the same level, I think. But the NFC South right

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Speaker 1: now is just bonkers. It's really wild to sit and

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Speaker 1: think about all the different outcomes that we could have

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Speaker 1: in the next three weeks. Right, But none of the

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Speaker 1: matter until the Falcons figure out themselves. Right, So this

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Speaker 1: is going to be an inward looking podcast almost all

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Speaker 1: the time. We get to the end of it and

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Speaker 1: we say, what's the state of the NFC South. Well,

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Speaker 1: the state of the NFC South is that Tampa Bay

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Speaker 1: leads it at six and eight. Other team is five

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Speaker 1: It wouldn't matter if Atlanta was in second place. What

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Speaker 1: matters is that they are not doing enough good things

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Speaker 1: and are not putting together a complete enough performance to

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Speaker 1: come out of these games with a victory. They've lost

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Speaker 1: too many in a row. They've lost too many in

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Speaker 1: a cluster tory. What did you say, five or six?

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Speaker 1: I think it's six of seven. Now I think it

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Speaker 1: was five. I think it's five of six before we

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Speaker 1: went into the bye week. Well, that right, But we're

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Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and focus inward about what the Falcons did,

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Speaker 1: about how Desmond Ritter and Tyler Algier and the defense did,

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Speaker 1: and where the Falcons go from here. More than let's

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Speaker 1: try to figure out some mathematical tiebreakers in a way

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Speaker 1: that the Falcons can still win the NFC South. That's

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Speaker 1: for only if they get on the winning track and

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Speaker 1: finish really strong and perform better in close games than

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Speaker 1: they have recently. Before we get to all that big

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Speaker 1: This was one of those situations to worry where they

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Speaker 1: fell just short. What did you make of this Falcons

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Speaker 1: out to me will be that it's kind of fallow.

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Speaker 1: It followed similar patterns to what we have seen this

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Speaker 1: Falcons team b in twenty twenty two. And what I

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Speaker 1: But then you look at what the offense was doing,

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Speaker 1: how many games that they have at over two hundred

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Speaker 1: to fix. It's like the problem that they have in

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Speaker 1: the past game and the lack of execution that they

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Speaker 1: to put on one person. It's I think it's a

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Speaker 1: collective issue that the Falcons have had from the beginning

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Speaker 1: of this season to where we are now. We're now

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Speaker 1: this has been a consistent talking point. I think of

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Speaker 1: are the Falcons struggling in one score game? Honestly, I

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Speaker 1: that first half start is what really hurt the Falcons.

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Speaker 1: Early on. They just they couldn't find a rhythm. They

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Speaker 1: last year they were seven and two in one score games.

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Speaker 1: This year the record is a lot worse. It's mostly

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Speaker 1: been coming close after early deficits, like Ashton pointed out,

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Speaker 1: Like there's too much randomness to assume that that can

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Speaker 1: They are battling all the resiliency, the fighters, the lots

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Speaker 1: I think Tori brings up a good point that inserting

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Speaker 1: Ritter wasn't going to magically solve all of their problems.

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Speaker 1: When I think a lot of people maybe unspokenly thought

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Speaker 1: mistakes that we can pin on the quarterback. If we

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Speaker 1: And if we were going from veteran to veteran, maybe

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Speaker 1: it's not like we're talking about a first round pick

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Speaker 1: too when you're watching a guy who hasn't taken a

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Speaker 1: wrote about and what the Falcon said about Desmond Ritter

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Atlanta has the fourth best rushing offense in

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Speaker 1: the NFL in Talo Algier. His production has plays a

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Speaker 1: big role in it. What we saw today against the Saints, Man,

432
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Speaker 1: he showed up in every way, in every aspect. I

433
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Speaker 1: think he converted on six or seven first downs they

434
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Speaker 1: continued to give and his offense second chance or you know,

435
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Speaker 1: second and third chances. But um, he showed up big,

436
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Speaker 1: not only on the ground, but even in that two

437
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Speaker 1: point conversion. Um that yes, that was a great run.

438
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Speaker 1: He bounced to the outside and extended the ball over

439
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Speaker 1: the potline. But I think, like Arthur Smith said, his instincts, um,

440
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Speaker 1: and he's a he's a very smart player, and he's

441
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Speaker 1: only a rookie. And I think, you know, down in

442
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Speaker 1: in the future of his career, he's he's going to

443
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Speaker 1: be one of the best when when this all said

444
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Speaker 1: and done. But I think, um, you know, he's he's

445
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Speaker 1: definitely a bright spot for Atlanta's offense and just for

446
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Speaker 1: the team in general. And I think, um, you know,

447
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Speaker 1: for him to be a fifth rounder, man, I don't

448
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Speaker 1: think anybody expected him to come out the gate like

449
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Speaker 1: this and and really, you know, really have this much production.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think the ringers, Bill Simmons, he said,

451
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Speaker 1: he even said, the least cover NFL story this season

452
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Speaker 1: is Tyler Augier, um being a best running back. That

453
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Speaker 1: might be his opinion, but that I think this is

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Speaker 1: a story that you know, should continue to get more

455
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Speaker 1: spotlight because he's doing amazing as a rookie, and I

456
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Speaker 1: think he's exceeding expectations. Yeah. I think Arthur Smith said

457
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Speaker 1: he's a guy that you don't want to keep tackling

458
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Speaker 1: over and over and over. He's a volume guy, and

459
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Speaker 1: yet he was really efficient in seventeen carries. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: he just seems to kind of get it. As an

461
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Speaker 1: NFL runner, I'm always more impressed by. You know, we

462
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Speaker 1: talk about like what we like in certain position groups.

463
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Speaker 1: We want cerebral quarterbacks, right, who can make the good

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Speaker 1: decisions pre and post nap. An underrated feature that I like,

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Speaker 1: which is always why I love Levon Bell in his prime,

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Speaker 1: is patience. Right. It's about knowing and he wasn't maybe

467
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Speaker 1: even super patient, but it's about knowing when to hit

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Speaker 1: the whole, when to give up on a run and

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Speaker 1: bounce it outside, when to make the right choice. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily mean that you're sitting around waiting. It's just

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Speaker 1: let's pause, let's take a breath and make the right choice.

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Speaker 1: And I think that we're seeing Tyler do that, and

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Speaker 1: then when he makes the right choice, then he's a

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Speaker 1: bowling ball. And that and that tory I think is

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Speaker 1: fun to watch and it's fun to watch him develop.

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Speaker 1: He was inactive in week one and now he's running

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Speaker 1: for one thirty nine. Yeah, that's what's crazy is is

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Speaker 1: kind of how he has It was like a slow

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Speaker 1: burn almost with Tyler Algier, where you didn't necessarily you

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Speaker 1: knew that the Falcons drafted him for death. But if

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Speaker 1: you are talking about this Falcons running back group you're

482
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Speaker 1: taught in August, you're talking about Cordarell Patterson, Damian Williams.

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Speaker 1: Tyler Algier is kind of there, but it's kind of

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Speaker 1: he's kind of on the back burner. He's not really

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Speaker 1: the star of the show per se. He was the

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say, the one good thing that

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Speaker 1: the Falcons had going from them for them on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: but he was the most productive that thing that they

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Speaker 1: had going for them on Sunday against the Saints. And

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Speaker 1: something that Desmond Ritter said and I even asked him

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Speaker 1: this question in the middle of the week when we

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Speaker 1: first talked to Desmond on Wednesday before the Saints game,

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Speaker 1: and I asked him, I was like, you know the

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Speaker 1: fact that there's like this old saying that the best

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Speaker 1: friend of a rookie quarterback is a productive run game,

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Speaker 1: and how that kind of adds a little bit of

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Speaker 1: comfort to Desmond Ritter going out there against the Saints

498
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Speaker 1: and you know it's not do or die if he

499
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Speaker 1: can't connect on so many throats. Well, yes, they lost

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Speaker 1: the game, but you do. And then I thought it

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00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: was interesting how you fast forward that too, you think

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Speaker 1: about that conversation on Wednesday and fast forward it to

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Speaker 1: today where Desmond was like Tyler Algiers almost like in

504
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Speaker 1: the run game in general is almost a security for me,

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Speaker 1: Like I don't worry when I'm handing the ball off

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Speaker 1: to Tyler that we're going to get anything less than

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Speaker 1: like five yards. And Arthur Smiths kind of said the

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Speaker 1: same thing. He's like, you know, we were running it

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Speaker 1: out a clip of almost six yards of carry. Why

510
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Speaker 1: would we stopped doing that? So I think Tyler Algier,

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Speaker 1: and not just Tyler Algier, but Cordarell Patterson and this

512
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Speaker 1: offensive line talk about stories that I think a lot

513
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Speaker 1: of people are missing right now. Is the improvement of

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Speaker 1: this offensive line as a collective group. I know desn't

515
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Speaker 1: Order was sacked four times against the Saints, but their

516
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Speaker 1: run blocking just continues to impress me. And I do

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Speaker 1: think that there's just a lot, there's a lot to

518
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Speaker 1: be happy with with this run game. And I said

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Speaker 1: this after the game. I think I even tweeted it, like,

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Speaker 1: I don't have any issues with the Falcons run game.

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Speaker 1: I need the past game to catch up to that productivity. Yeah,

522
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Speaker 1: And that's what I wrote about it is that passing

523
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Speaker 1: efficiency right now is the missing link to their winning formula.

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Speaker 1: It's just not pulling enough weight. It doesn't have to

525
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Speaker 1: be the second coming of Warren Moon's run and shoot.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be Peyton Manning with crazy hand

527
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Speaker 1: signals and omaha or the you know, second coming of

528
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Speaker 1: those types of offenses. What it does need to do

529
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Speaker 1: is it needs to be a bit more aff and

530
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Speaker 1: play off of how well that they're running and burn

531
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Speaker 1: teams for putting eight and nine people in the box.

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Speaker 1: And let's say the run game doesn't do well enough

533
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Speaker 1: and you got to hit on a third and seven,

534
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: then that's what you have to do. And I know

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00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 1: it says in our script to go defense here, I

536
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 1: do want to hit on two more things, though one

537
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: is a rookie and one is DMPs. At the very

538
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Speaker 1: end of it, as we kind of wrapped this thing up,

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Speaker 1: the first is Drake London, right, Drake London had a

540
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 1: good day today in terms of again, if you just

541
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Speaker 1: look at the box score, you're looking at eleven targets,

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Speaker 1: seven receptions for seventy yards. He also had on fourth

543
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Speaker 1: and five. Say what you will about Desmond Ritter's inefficiencies

544
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: or the flaws in his game. On fourth and five

545
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Speaker 1: do or die moment, he delivers a perfect strike to

546
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Speaker 1: Drake London. That was a clutch read, a clutch throw,

547
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Speaker 1: a clutch play, and Drake London gets the ball knocked

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Speaker 1: out of his hands and a loss fumble, a lost opportunity.

549
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 1: That happened at the Saints nine yard line. Then, and

550
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 1: then you got two minutes left, and you can, at worst,

551
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Speaker 1: you can set yourself up in the middle of the

552
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Speaker 1: field for the most reliable kicker in football outside of

553
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Speaker 1: Justin Tucker, to give a young way a chance to

554
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Speaker 1: at least tie it. Right, That's not what happened. The

555
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Speaker 1: Saints get the ball. Drake olin and did talk to

556
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Speaker 1: the media. He easily win asked for an interview. He

557
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Speaker 1: could have said, I gotta go somewhere else. At doing

558
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Speaker 1: he could have made up any excuse. He did not

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Speaker 1: do that. He talked two or three separate times, and

560
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Speaker 1: I want to bring up one quote to you guys.

561
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Speaker 1: I didn't include it all in my tweet, but I

562
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Speaker 1: think it's important when talking about the fumble. One he

563
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 1: brought it up himself. He was talking about the game,

564
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Speaker 1: and he said that game would have looked a little

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Speaker 1: different and I'm paraphrasing right now. That game would have

566
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Speaker 1: looked a little bit different if I didn't drop the ball, right.

567
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Speaker 1: And I think that's an important thing for someone in

568
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Speaker 1: his position to have to say. You know, and basically

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Speaker 1: what he said is on a couple of different occasions,

570
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Speaker 1: he said, we just have to figure out a way

571
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Speaker 1: to get over the hump. I don't think my play helped.

572
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: He got a hand on it. I have to be

573
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Speaker 1: better with ball security, better situationally, and better overall in

574
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: the game. And then later on he talked about that

575
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: same play and he said, I'm not going to be

576
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: at all happy about it. I just sold the game.

577
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: It's hard. I'm a competitive person and for me to

578
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: let the team down and let the fans down, it

579
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 1: just sucks. It's a hard pill to swallow. That is

580
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: honest truth, right after the game, when your emotions are

581
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: still firing. This guy is a good player. I think

582
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: he's motivated by these welcome to the NFL moments. He's

583
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: not a guy that puts the ball on the ground.

584
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: I thought it was honorable for him to do that,

585
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: and I don't think this will impact him long term.

586
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: I think it's important in these moments. I think it

587
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: shows maturity for a young player. And now I'm in

588
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: Scott never shuts up mode here, tory is that? Um?

589
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: I think it's important in those moments. Right. Fans may

590
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,239
Speaker 1: not care if if if he had guy talks or not,

591
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: but he stood up there, he owned it, he said

592
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: how much it bothered him. And I think that those

593
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: types of things, that's good. It's good professionalism, and you

594
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 1: know it's going to motivate him moving forward. He doesn't

595
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: seem like the type of guy to make the same

596
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: mistake twice, right, Yeah, No, I think that's all really

597
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: good take. And you know we saw you saw you

598
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: see glimpses of what Drake Lindon can be. And I

599
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: think about that catched it like right down the sideline.

600
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: I think when he was cutting back across. I'm not

601
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: sure it all runs together at some point. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

602
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: that one was Yeah, you see these moments and then

603
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: you but then you see the fumble and I think

604
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: it's I think you heard it with I mean, you

605
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: think about all the people that kind of spoke on

606
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 1: camera after the game. It was Desmon Ritter, Drake London,

607
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: and Tyler Algaeo. A lot of other guys spoke on camera,

608
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: for sure, but those are are the ones that I

609
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: saw as I was kind of walking around, and those

610
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: are all rookies. Those are all guys that are going

611
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,959
Speaker 1: to be here for the next four years. So I

612
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 1: think it's important that they do have these welcome to

613
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 1: the NFL moments because you do learn something from them. Yeah,

614
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: and A shouldn't go ahead, Oh yeah, I was just

615
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: going to piggyback off of what you said. Scott just

616
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Speaker 1: about his majority, I think a lot of young sometimes

617
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: you can see a lot of young players lash out

618
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: and get mad and be really emotional. But from watching

619
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Speaker 1: on TV, it seemed like he walked over to the

620
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: sideline and was just trying to keep this composure. You

621
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: could tell he was really mad and really disappointed in

622
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: that play. But I think, like you said, his maturity

623
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Speaker 1: and the way he handled him. So after the game,

624
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,719
Speaker 1: speaks volumes about his character, who he is. Yeah, and

625
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: then one more thing, just we have only a couple

626
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: minutes left before Zoom officially boots us because I'm too

627
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: cheap for the upgrade. Is this what happened early in

628
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: the game. Please go read the statements issued by the Falcons.

629
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Speaker 1: But Dnps was standing on the field during warmups talking

630
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: to someone. There was a collision between him and a player.

631
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: He was carried off the field and a stretcher taken

632
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: to a hospital and evaluated. It was a scary moment.

633
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 1: Tore and I were on the field at the time.

634
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 1: I didn't see it happened. I don't know if you did, Tory,

635
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, it was kind of a scary scene. More

636
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: than anything else, I just didn't want this whole podcast

637
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: to go without us saying how much we like and

638
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: respect and care about Dan Pas. Part of working for

639
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: a team as you really get to know some of

640
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: these people better, and cafeterias and on airplanes and those

641
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: types of things, it was a scary moment for everybody

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Speaker 1: to be okay. It was pretty scary in the moment though, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was really scary. You know, we send out, you know,

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Speaker 1: because I mean, he's a y'all know how I feel

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Speaker 1: go into all of that, but it was very scary

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Speaker 1: and just seeing the concern of everybody on the sidelines,

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Speaker 1: a very quick process where the Falcons literally had to

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Speaker 1: But you know, at the end of the day, as

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Speaker 1: just I think everybody's just really thankful that it wasn't

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Speaker 1: us to be in this position again best of a

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Speaker 1: kind of bad situation. But I at least just wanted to,

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Speaker 1: you know, say what Tory said and just kind of

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Speaker 1: good to see him come home. So yeah, literally, Zoom

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Speaker 1: is like, shut up one minute, can we stretch it?

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Speaker 1: Now I'm kidding? And now now there's no more countdown.

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Speaker 1: a Monday there. Yes, I'll play the Ravens on Christmas Eve.

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Speaker 1: We're not doing anything on Christmas Day. You guys don't

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