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.