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The postseason is rapidly approaching, clearing up the image as far as teams that have a shot to make the playoffs over the final month of the season. This week’s Four Verts starts with a team that has, perhaps unsurprisingly, rapidly fallen down the standings after a month-long skid.
Falcons blowing the divisional race is peak Falcons
Of course. It was never going to be easy. After a 6-3 start with a chokehold on the NFC South, the Falcons’ season came to a screeching halt with a four-game losing streak that has them at 6-7 and, currently, out of the playoff picture. Calamity sticks to this team like an illness and its latest bout with its disease ended with 21 fourth-quarter points for the Minnesota Vikings in a 42-21 loss on the road. The investment in Kirk Cousins quickly went from being a great move that stabilized the franchise to a disaster that already has his future with the team in doubt.
Nothing is really working with this team right now. The Falcons’ offensive efficiency isn’t where it was when they were winning games earlier in the season, they stink in the red zone and the defense is, well, still a Falcons defense. Atlanta is capable of, outside of the Broncos game, putting together long stretches of competency. They move the ball well in between the 20s and have a good offensive line paired with a very good running back duo in Bijan Robinson and Tyler Allgeier. The framework of a good team is here, but the substance isn’t. As the season has gone on, Cousins’ lack of mobility has become a huge strain on an offense that feels like it’s starting to run out of answers.
The Falcons don’t really have anything in their call sheet that can stress a defense, despite having one of the best rushing games in the league. According to TruMedia, they run the least amount of play-action in the league (7.9%) and have scrambled on 0.4% of their dropbacks this season, good for 31st. Their passing game solely consists of Cousins dropping back…
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Publish date : 2024-12-11 20:24:00
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