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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. I'm Scott Barrett alongside me, Chris

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Speaker 1: rim and Tory mclaney. They are actually in Santa Clara.

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Speaker 1: I'm back in the ETL, but all three of us

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Speaker 1: covered what was surely a disappointing game for the Falcons,

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Speaker 1: A thirty one to thirteen loss to the San Francisco

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Speaker 1: forty nine Ers at Levi Stadium. That, and this is

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Speaker 1: no exaggeration, severely hinders their playoff hopes. If you trust

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Speaker 1: the good people over at five thirty eight dot com,

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Speaker 1: a victory over the forty nine ers could have lofted

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Speaker 1: the odds of making the playoffs to around forty two percent.

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Speaker 1: A loss to the forty nine ers drops it down

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Speaker 1: to two percent. Huge swing, huge loss, But the Falcons

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Speaker 1: still have three games left. Tory, let's start with you.

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Speaker 1: What was your biggest takeaway? Where do you think that

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Speaker 1: things went wrong out there in Santa Clara. It's almost

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Speaker 1: kind of easier to say, like where things went right,

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Speaker 1: because I feel like the things that went right were

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Speaker 1: significantly less than the things that went wrong. And I

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Speaker 1: as like disappointed as I was, and having been able

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Speaker 1: to see the progress that the Falcons had made over

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Speaker 1: the course of the last like three ish weeks, and

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Speaker 1: then to come out and have this performance in a

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Speaker 1: game where it really really mattered in terms of what

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Speaker 1: happens after the season in the postseason. I think that

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Speaker 1: was kind of my biggest takeaways, which is kind of

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Speaker 1: like the frustration that you feel from it and Chris,

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Speaker 1: what stuck what stuck out to you? If I can

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Speaker 1: say that phrase correctly, what stuck out to you from

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Speaker 1: this one? Yeah? I think it was that really just

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Speaker 1: that first the start of the game. The game started

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Speaker 1: really well. You have that turnover on the kick return,

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Speaker 1: and then things just went downhill from there. And also

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Speaker 1: I still have the edge of Matt Ryan like looking

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Speaker 1: so frustrated on the field, the most frustrated it seemed

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Speaker 1: like he has ever looked. I think he yelled at

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Speaker 1: an old alignment. At one point he was going back

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Speaker 1: and forth with his coaches on the sideline trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out what play they were calling. Caught a time out.

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Speaker 1: It just seemed like everything went wrong today for the Falcons.

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Speaker 1: That you go wrong in a sense, and we are

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Speaker 1: going to break all of this down exactly what happened

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Speaker 1: in this game. We're going to talk about the falcons

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Speaker 1: troubles in the red zone and really within the ten

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Speaker 1: yard line. We're going to talk about their playoff hopes

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Speaker 1: which have been hindered significantly. We are going to talk

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Speaker 1: about Russ Gage coming through yet again, and as we

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Speaker 1: always do, in the fourth quarter, we are going to

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Speaker 1: look ahead to what the Falcons have coming up next.

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Speaker 1: We're going to start the first quarter with five minutes

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Speaker 1: talking about what happened to the Falcons inside the red zone,

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Speaker 1: really inside the ten where they left they got inside

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Speaker 1: the San Francisco ten yard line three times they came

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Speaker 1: away with zero points. I can't believe that statement is true.

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Speaker 1: I have absolutely no idea how especially because we're talking

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Speaker 1: about more than one scenario where ultimately they had to

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Speaker 1: get a yard to cross the goal line and weren't

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Speaker 1: able to do it. That's how this game started. Just

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Speaker 1: as Chris was talking about in the introd, they blew

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Speaker 1: a golden opportunity there. They went forth on fourth down

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Speaker 1: two other times and were not able to score. Head

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Speaker 1: coach Arthur Smith, So that was the difference in the game, Tory,

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Speaker 1: Do you agree with that statement, yes or no? Yes,

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Speaker 1: think Matt Ryan said it best after the game where

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Speaker 1: like this forty nine ers thing that I've never heard before.

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Speaker 1: But they were pretty ramped up and excited about this

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Speaker 1: Even if it's not impossible yet, the Falcons would have

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Speaker 1: Huge swing Tory, Is it even fair to talk about

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Speaker 1: But I do still hold on to and believe in what,

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Speaker 1: the Terry Fontine Arthur Smith era. I know that's really

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Speaker 1: really big picture and not necessarily like, oh, like just

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Speaker 1: think that's kind of where my head's at right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I want to see especially after this game.

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Speaker 1: It was such a disappointment there was the stakes were

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Speaker 1: and a loss is so vast, right Like, it's dramatically different.

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Speaker 1: So how do you respond to a situation like this?

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Speaker 1: Are they going to keep fighting? Is Arthur Smith going

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Speaker 1: to get the same practice tenor the same buy in,

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Speaker 1: the same commitment moving forward that we've seen to get

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Speaker 1: to this point. It's always a letdown when you even

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Speaker 1: though that they're not mathematically eliminated, and I'm not trying

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Speaker 1: to say that that they are, but what happens when

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Speaker 1: you're disappointed. I always like to it's a good character check.

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Speaker 1: I want to see how I want to see how

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Speaker 1: they respond. I think it could help them if they

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Speaker 1: get on a little run and build some positive momentum

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Speaker 1: and do things that they haven't done to this point.

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Speaker 1: Be the team with a winning record would be one.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have that opportunity against Buffalo win, go on

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Speaker 1: a winning streak. That's other things that they haven't done,

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Speaker 1: and see exactly where this young foundation stands as we

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Speaker 1: move forward. And that is also going to kind of

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Speaker 1: wrap it up for us here at Falcon's final whistle

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Speaker 1: after let's just call it what it is. It was

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Speaker 1: a disappointing showing by the Atlanta Falcons. Thirty one to

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Speaker 1: thirteen was not what they wanted for all the reasons

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Speaker 1: that we have described here. It did not work out

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Speaker 1: well for them. It was a significant setback. But Falcon's

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Speaker 1: final whistle, We're not stopping right now. We're going all

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Speaker 1: the way to the end of the season. So do

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Speaker 1: what you always do, right give us a five star

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Speaker 1: review or five star rating, I'm sorry and a review.

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Speaker 1: for Falcon's Audible People, great pod, great guys in DJ Shockley,

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Speaker 1: DJ Rack and Dave Archer. So thank you all for

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Speaker 1: joining us. Chris and Tory from Santa Clara met from

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Speaker 1: the atl And We we'll talk to you again after

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Speaker 1: the Lions game at home on December twenty six, so

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Speaker 1: have a happy holiday to all of you and we'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you next week.