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Saints Embarrassed by Falcons in 45-24 Loss | Matt Moscona’s Monday Night Football Rant · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: frigging thesaurus couldn't come up with enough adjectives to appropriately
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  Speaker 1: describe the abomination that you and I in the world
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  Speaker 1: witnessed on Monday Night Football. I love words. I love
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  Speaker 1: big words. I'm a wordsmith. There aren't enough of them.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to use bad words right now, but I
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  Speaker 1: did that last night on YouTube. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: do it right now. Saints lose to the Falcons 45-24.
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  Speaker 1: The city, the state, the fan base, the NFL, ESPN,
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  Speaker 1: everyone built this massive stage for a memorable night. Think
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  Speaker 1: of everything that happened yesterday. You got a freaking second
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  Speaker 1: line down Poitras. Ida and Steve Gleason, Drew Brees is there.
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  Speaker 1: They got a freaking float. Going down Poitras. You bring
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  Speaker 1: Irma Thomas out to sing the national anthem like she
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  Speaker 1: did 20 years ago. Incredible moment. Same opponent, same uniforms
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  Speaker 1: as 20 years ago in 2006. Y'all, they bring Steve
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  Speaker 1: Gleason out to do the Houdat chant with his son.
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  Speaker 1: who raises his hand, and they got members of the
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  Speaker 1: 06 team there. I'm literally standing in my den watching this,
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  Speaker 1: tears welling in my eyes. Not being dramatic, anyone who
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  Speaker 1: lived through what we lived through 20 years ago, it
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  Speaker 1: called us all right back there. Seeing the imagery on
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  Speaker 1: TV again, the floodwaters, all of it. It brought us
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  Speaker 1: all back to what we remembered. And these chumps let B.
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  Speaker 1: John Robinson go 59 yards on the third freaking play
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  Speaker 1: of the game. Kendra Miller fumbles. You're down 14-0. And
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  Speaker 1: they get their ass off the mat for three and
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  Speaker 1: a half hours. Rolled over and died. Like a stuck pig. Awful.
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  Speaker 1: Zero pride. Disgusting, man. Look, I know... that an anniversary
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  Speaker 1: will never mean as much to the current players or
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  Speaker 1: the future players as those who lived it. I know that.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about this on Monday. I get it. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of these players, Tyler Shuck was seven years old
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  Speaker 1: for the dome coming. There's no concept or awareness. I
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  Speaker 1: get that. But it's like a birthday. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to have been there for the birth to understand the
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  Speaker 1: significance of celebrating the milestone. My grandfather's going to be
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  Speaker 1: 94 tomorrow. I wasn't there the day he was born.
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  Speaker 1: You don't think I'm going to have a great day
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  Speaker 1: celebrating that dude tomorrow at 94 years old? You're darn
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  Speaker 1: right I am. But if you can't understand what that
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  Speaker 1: day and everything it entailed meant to the city, to
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  Speaker 1: the fan base, it is disgusting. The effort that team
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  Speaker 1: put out yesterday. And it was from the third play
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  Speaker 1: of the game. First play of the game. The back-to-back
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  Speaker 1: chunk play passes. The third play of the game. There
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  Speaker 1: goes B. John Robinson. Nobody wants to tackle him. All
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  Speaker 1: the way to Brian Robinson's final touchdown. The final, like,
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  Speaker 1: dagger and then... spit in the face, breaking four tackles
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  Speaker 1: on his way to the end zone because nobody wanted
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  Speaker 1: to bring him down. Ridiculous. Man, what a shame. What
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  Speaker 1: a shame for thinking this team actually could be different.
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  Speaker 1: Shame on me. I bought it. I drank the Kool-Aid.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't tell you they were a contender, but I
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  Speaker 1: listened to all the reports in fall camp, all the
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  Speaker 1: joint practices, the offense is great. Tyler shucked this, everything.
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  Speaker 1: I listened to all of it. I was like, you
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  Speaker 1: know what? I think the way they finished last year,
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  Speaker 1: 5-4 when Shuck became the starter, he had the full offseason.
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  Speaker 1: They went and addressed the offense in the offseason. They
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  Speaker 1: gave him weapons. They signed David Edwards. They went and
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  Speaker 1: drafted Jordan Tyson. Maybe we'll see him eventually. Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: Who could have thought he might have had hamstring injury issues? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: shocker on that one, right? Shame on me for thinking
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  Speaker 1: it might be different. Maybe they can go 9-8, win
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  Speaker 1: a bad division, get back to the playoffs. Take that step. Nope.
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  Speaker 1: You have to have heart. You have to have want
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  Speaker 1: to and give a damn. This team doesn't have any
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  Speaker 1: of it. Very clear. And they're led by a coach
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  Speaker 1: that refuses to raise his voice. How about the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line investment? How disgusting is this? Taliasi Fuaga, first round pick.
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  Speaker 1: Cesar Ruiz, first round pick. Eric McCoy, second round pick.
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  Speaker 1: David Edwards, $ 61 million. $ 61 million. I can't even exclude
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  Speaker 1: Kelvin Banks' first-round pick. He wasn't there. So what? Their
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  Speaker 1: left tackle got hurt, wasn't in the game either. Didn't
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  Speaker 1: stop them from running for 200 yards right up your donkey.
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  Speaker 1: All that investment. All that investment. And you ran 19
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  Speaker 1: times for 50 yards. Like it's the 85 Bears lining
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  Speaker 1: up across from you. The Purple People Eaters. No, it's
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  Speaker 1: the 2026 Atlanta Falcons. You got Harold Perkins, who's a
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  Speaker 1: six-round pick. God bless Perkins. Great, but what are we
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  Speaker 1: talking about here? It's not Jack Lambert in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the defense. It's not Mike Singletary. It's not Brian Urlacher. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Ray Lewis over there. 19 carries for 50 yards. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, Tyler Shuck pressured 27 times. 27 pressures. 27 pressures.
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  Speaker 1: 12 quarterback hits, two sacks. They didn't have Kelvin Banks.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't have Kelvin Banks against Detroit. They gave up.
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  Speaker 1: They had Kelvin Banks against Detroit. He was pressured 22
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  Speaker 1: times and sacked five times with Kelvin Banks. Trash pile, man.
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  Speaker 1: Either your coaching is awful or your evaluation is awful
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  Speaker 1: or both. Probably both. You let Demario Davis walk. With that,
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  Speaker 1: you let the most productive defensive player and the heart
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  Speaker 1: of your team walk right out the door. Have you checked,
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  Speaker 1: by the way? Demario Davis, in your a million in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, has 32 tackles and two sacks with the Jets.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, he's played in all four games. In
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  Speaker 1: eight years in New Orleans, Demario Davis missed one game.
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  Speaker 1: It took four games for Caden Ellis to be hurt
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  Speaker 1: and miss a game. Great job, Mick. Way to nail
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  Speaker 1: that one. Talked about it all offseason. You failed to
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  Speaker 1: address corner. My biggest complaint of the offseason. Sugarwater McKinstry,
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  Speaker 1: not a number one. What's going to happen every time
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  Speaker 1: you face a legit receiver? What happened last night? What
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  Speaker 1: happened against Detroit? Amin Ross, St. Brown, 10 catches, two tuds.
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  Speaker 1: What happened against Baltimore? Nosey Flowers, no lane. Oh, you
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  Speaker 1: go win that game. What happens against Las Vegas? Brock Bowers,
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  Speaker 1: 10 catches, 116 in the game, ceiling touchdown. What happened
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  Speaker 1: last night? London, five catches, 96 yards. Had no answer.
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  Speaker 1: Sugar water ain't a one. What do you think is
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  Speaker 1: going to happen this week when Justin Jefferson comes to
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  Speaker 1: the Dome? How do you think that's going to go? Mick?
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  Speaker 1: Go up to New York and take on Malik Neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: How do you think that's going to go? Mick? And
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  Speaker 1: can Kellen Moore raise his voice, please? Can I see
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  Speaker 1: any semblance of emotion like you actually care? I get it.
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  Speaker 1: The nice guy routine works and the players will like
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  Speaker 1: you and you can win that way. Tony Dungy was
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  Speaker 1: a nice guy. Every now and again, like a parent,
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  Speaker 1: you got to raise your voice at your kids. They
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  Speaker 1: may like you. They're going to stop respecting you. You
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  Speaker 1: lay down like that and you can't even, you can't even,
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  Speaker 1: you can't even get in anybody's face about effort. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I can handle losing. Y'all, it's the NFL. Everybody loses.
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  Speaker 1: I can handle losing. I've seen a lot of losing
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  Speaker 1: in my life as a Saints fan. But getting outplayed, out-coached, out-physicaled, out-hustled,
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  Speaker 1: out-efforted on a night where they're commemorating 20 years of
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  Speaker 1: dome coming? And even if you were a child that
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  Speaker 1: had no awareness, just walk into the building and see
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  Speaker 1: the emotion. Who couldn't see it at the onset? Right?
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  Speaker 1: The fans were there. They came. The place was packed.
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  Speaker 1: The emotion, all it was there. And you laid down
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  Speaker 1: and never got up. Unacceptable. Unacceptable in every way, man.
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  Speaker 1: You want to find out what this team is made of?
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  Speaker 1: I'm afraid I already know, but you're really going to
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  Speaker 1: find out in five days. You have five days. Minnesota's
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  Speaker 1: coming into the dome. How do you think that's going
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  Speaker 1: to go? Minnesota undefeated Minnesota pretty good defense maybe the
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  Speaker 1: best receiver in the NFL coming into the dome on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday after this behind whipping this embarrassment pick yourself up
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  Speaker 1: let's see how you do let's say you got any
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  Speaker 1: pride whatsoever show up Sunday and play like you care
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  Speaker 1: because I'm not sure many of you do I know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean to be the guy like the 44-year-old
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  Speaker 1: ball-headed bearded guy sitting in an air-conditioned studio saying they
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  Speaker 1: didn't give any effort, the fans care more than they do.
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  Speaker 1: I understand those dudes are going out there, they're the
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  Speaker 1: ones working, putting their bodies on the line. I'm respectful
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  Speaker 1: of that, all of that, okay? My point is, you
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  Speaker 1: can just watch what you saw last night, and the
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  Speaker 1: crowd came ready, people wanted that so badly, and it
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  Speaker 1: didn't look like all the way from the first play
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  Speaker 1: to the final play especially defensively and on that offensive
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  Speaker 1: line they didn't want it not nearly as bad as
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta did and certainly not as bad as people in
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  Speaker 1: the stands did that is so disappointing on any night
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  Speaker 1: especially on that night