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A week ago, the Falcons had lost two games in a row and were believed by some to be in the early stages of another midseason swoon. Then came a win over the Packers and a manhandling of the Buccaneers only four days apart, and the Falcons now stand at 6-3.

Coach Dan Quinn isn’t surprised by the team’s ability to turn it around.

“This is a totally different team,” Quinn told Alex Marvez of Sporting News. “We’re just built different, man. Our mindset, our attitude. . . . We’re tough as sh-t.”

Quinn explained that the team is becoming what he wanted it to be when he took the job a year ago.

“I so wanted desperately wanted our style — the toughness, the attitude, the football, the brotherhood connection — to take place overnight and it didn’t,” Quinn said. “I thought that part would come faster.”

The boss agrees that things are working well, which is good news for anyone who receives a check signed by Arthur Blank.

“When you put steel in a kiln, it gets hardened,” Blank told Marvez. “This team is just more resilient and has more grit. It has tasted the other side of what that kind of [2015] season can look like. Obviously, nobody likes that taste.”

For the Falcons, the flavors are far more pleasant this year. Still, in the NFL a mouthful of mango chutney and burned hair is never very far away.