There had been a lot of growing optimism in Atlanta over the past few years with the hiring of offensive whiz Arthur Smith as the Falcons' new head coach. The excitement quickly escalated when Smith and general manager Terry Fontenot made high first round investments in…
Our offense is not performing perfectly fine for the circumstances. If we have great talent all over the offense except QB then how are we moving the ball well yardage wise with an absolute inability to score close where your QB matters less.
We also don’t have a trash defense. We spent a crazy amount of money on them last year and until the wheels started falling off the past couple of weeks we’ve been Top 10. We’re also playing the easiest schedule with the most amount of brand new QBs I’ve ever seen. Arthur Smith is also almost completely 100% hands off with the defense. I’ve never even heard him praise the defense at all this season, which is strange considering they’re the reason we won 3 of our 4 wins.
No one is complaining about Jonnu’s production in the passing game. London and Pitts usage are both fine. We’re complaining about Jonnu’s Smith’s usage in the redzone on trick plays and with Bijan’s usage in total but espically in the redzone.
It is absolutely malpractice to save your 21 rookie RB with the division being so weak. The Falcons could very feasibly be 6-3 this year and in total control of our division and frankly, we should be. If we “weren’t ready to compete yet” then drafting a RB at 8 to replace your young 1000 yard rusher is the firable offense. Either way you slice it he’s fucking it up.
Atlanta was suppose to compete this year. I’m not drinking so much copium to think we were competitive in the playoffs necessarily, but we absolutely should be competing for NFC South title and the fact that we’re going 7-10 AGAIN is frustrating and a lot of that falls on Arthur Smith.
A good qaurterback matters so much more in the rz because of how condensed the field gets and how much less time you have to make a decision as a result of the reduced spacing. Plays are also limited due to this as well and high level accuracy as a QB is imperative as well as quick processing and reaction time. Running the ball becomes much more difficult in the rz.
The defense isn’t that good. It is a bunch of mostly vets past their primes and no true actual difference makers at any position besides maybe AJ, which even then feels like a stretch to say. They are bottom half in points allowed. Bottom 10 in turnovers. Given up the 4th most passing TDs. I’ll give them they have been good against the run, but they are not good against the pass at all. They are 29th in pass rush win rate. On Oct 16th they were the 29th ranked pass defense based on DVOA. Not sure what it is now, but I know it isnt good.
Youre not listening if you don’t think people are not complaining about London/Pitts/Bijan usage. There has been one game with bad play calling at the goalline on 3 straight possessions and people want to blanket apply it to the entire season now.
Slamming your rb into the ground as a rookie on a bad team just to MAYBE win the division only to get steam rolled in a playoff game is pointless. Last I checked, Smith isnt the GM so why are we blaming him for Bijan at 8? He was arguably the best player available at 8, and was without a doubt outside of Carter. Most rookie don’t get slammed year 1. Hell, Carter rarely plays over 50% of the snaps.
Only Falcons fans thought ATL was supposed to compete this year. Everyone else knew this is the Saints division and that ATL would be just good enough to not be a bottom barrel team while playing a cake schedule.
Smith hung 28 on the Vikings with Heinicke (who threw a pick 6 btw) and somehow it is his fault and his offensive play calling/scheme’s fault bc his defense and DC let Dobbs hang 3 tuddies on them.