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Guaranteed Human.

Second and goal.

Gavis Freeman.

Devante driving and pushing and into the end zone for the Atlanta touchdown.

Shotgun snap against a four-man Atlanta rush.

Off his back foot, he deals.

Nearside, end zone. Cooper Cup back foot, he deals near side.

End zone.

Cooper Cup.

Touchdown away.

Ryan takes a snap, fakes it to Freeman, back foot throw,

loop to Jones to catch.

Touchdown Atlanta.

Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL podcast presented by Head and Shoulders,

joined by a stadium filled with heroes.

Van Hansis is Chris Wessling and Mark Sessler, and also with us.

Another hero tonight at the Coliseum, Robert Alford, the cornerback for the Atlanta Falcons, a 26 to 13 win for the Falcons. An upset, they say, wasn't an upset, really, though, Robert? I mean, it was a brum-burner. I mean, you can't underestimate those guys. I mean, we don't really look into the predicaments. I mean, we just came out here and we just played outside of the bar and came away with a victory. Robert had three-passed defense that led his team. You might remember last time they had a playoff game to Falcons. Robert Alfred had a pick six and 11 tackles, blew it up. That didn't end the way you wanted it, but this is kind of the fresh start, right? You came to L.A., you win a big game. Now you're going to Philly to face Nick Falls

and the Eagles. You've got to be feeling good. Yes. I mean, we can't look too far past this game. We had to go in tomorrow, look at the mistakes that we've done today, and then capitalize on them, and then, like we say, look forward to Philly and look at their scheme that they run and just learning it to the tee. In your week of preparation, Dan Quinn, the rest of your defensive coaching staff, what did they stress? Because you watch the Rams week to week, and it's just there's weapons all over the field, and they score points and bunches. And you guys just did, you lock them down kind of from why they never really seemed to find their flow tonight. What was the goal coming what was the thing you had to do we just had to go out there and just be fundamentally um sound we had to go out there and run the scheme and run it to the tee um just go out there and everything that we've seen from film i mean they ran it at the end of the day we just got to go out there and just play our style of ball you know everybody's been talking about the Eagles defense all year. They've got a great front seven. The secondaries played well. But Atlanta's over the second half of the season, especially the past month, one of the top five defenses. How good are you guys feeling right now about your D? We're feeling real good. I mean, that was a goal for us just coming into the season was to be top five.

And, I mean, like you said, to know that we're a top five, because, I mean, I don't really look into it. I mean, that feels real good for us on the defense inside the ball and just letting them know that continue to do what we're doing and the sky's the limit for these defense. Robert, as a hacky sports writer, I like cliches. and I think a cliche that I'm going to use for the Falcons,

the way

they seem today where you seem today battle tested like you guys have been through it all you've seen

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