BACK TO MEDIOCRITY? Falcons News After Disappointing Loss To 49ers In NFL Week 7

BACK TO MEDIOCRITY? Falcons News After Disappointing Loss To 49ers In NFL Week 7

Are the Falcons officially back to mediocrity? I’m here to tell you not so fast, my friends. I still believe that this is a good football team that maybe got exposed a little bit last night due to some glaring issues that I saw. The main one being exactly what Arirov Myrov, I’m going to go with Myrov. I’m going to go with Ari Myrov and what he had to say, which was Christian McAffrey versus the Falcons. 201t total yards and two touchdowns. That’s the main reason that you lost this football game. But on today’s episode, we’re going to go through the other glaring issues that are holding back the Atlanta Falcons. Welcome to Falcons Today by Chat Sports. My name is Moose and like I said, I’m not here to tell you that the sky is falling. What I am here to tell you is that there are some areas that if the Falcons want to be playoff contenders this year, they need to clean up. Now, let’s start with this question because I know a lot of Falcons fans already had the question answered in the previous video, but I’m going to ask it again anyway. What was the reason the biggest reason the Atlanta Falcons lost versus the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday Night Football? I’ve got four reasons in my opinion. Now, the biggest reason could be up for debate. However, this is in my opinion the biggest reason the Falcons lost this game. You cannot stop the run. Now, you might be a smart Alec fan and say, “Well, you got to put points on the board to win football games.” But to be completely honest, if you stopped Christian McCaffrey last night, they would not have put any points on the board. They only scored 20 total. Christian McCaffrey was responsible for 12 of those. 20 minus 12 is eight. You would have won the football game 10 to eight if you stopped Christian McCaffrey. But the reason that I bring up not stopping the run is because this is something that even I last week on October 16th brought up and said, “Hey, kind of waving a little bit of a red flag here. The Falcons have a big problem. They don’t have a true nose tackle. They don’t have someone that can plug up the middle of the field and stop the run.” And there were tons of you that were like, “Well, I’m going to be completely honest with you. I’d rather have a quarterback. I’d rather have some corner depth. I’d rather have a wide receiver. No, the biggest area right now that the Falcons need is a defensive run stopper. That is the biggest area. The 49ers ran for 174 yards on you last night. And again, multiple of you. Well, Moose, you said this was an elite defense. Okay, look. I’m going to say it right now. I’m gonna say it one time only. I think the Falcons secondary is showing that it’s elite. This is a very good, much improved defense that has a glaring weak spot. It is a very, very good defense that has one major problem. They can’t stop the run right now. And also, this is the last play that I mean, this is third and what? 12. What does that say, Dylan? Second. Third and 13. Third and 13. and you have 10 men on the field. What are we doing? That’s a coaching mistake. That’s Jeff Albbrick right there. That’s Raheem Morris right there. You got to have all of your players on the field. 10 players and you go up and that’s that’s that uh crossing route to Christian McCaffrey that ends up getting that first down which leads to that final touchdown which was the dagger in the coffin. But back to my original point, you need a nose tackle. Let’s just call it like it is guys. You need a true defensive run stopper. I can think of two players right now that you could call up and absolutely get on your team. Originally, I had said that Jeffrey Simmons wasn’t up for trade, but the Tennessee Titans are like what, one-6. They suck. I mean, they couldn’t beat the Raiders, and the Raiders just got blown out by the Chiefs 31 to nothing. So, I’m sure if you offered a decent enough package, you could get Jeffrey Simmons. But Shelby Harris is the second option on this list and he was the one that Adam Shfter had listed as a trade candidate. You wouldn’t have to give up nearly enough or excuse me, nearly as much to get a player like Shelby Harris. That’s like a third day pick and maybe at best like a fifth. I don’t even think you would have to give up a fifth. You probably have to give up a sixth or a seventh to get a player like Shelby Harris considering how old he is and he doesn’t start. Mason Graham has that title. So, that’s the first major issue the Falcons have right now. They cannot seem to stop the run. Number two, Penn versus the Blitz. And look, I’m I’m still in on Michael Penn Jr., he’s only had nine starts, but he has now a clear and obvious problem. When he’s under pressure, he panics. He panics big time. We went through every single throw last night based off of NextGen stats and we determined that Pennix threw under pressure nine times yesterday. Nine. He was 0 of nine. I mean that there is no again advanced metric for that. You can’t complete one pass under pressure. You’ve got a problem. Now, when Penn is left in a clean pocket, it is a completely different player, completing 69% of his throws,00 passing yards this season. Now, he does have three interceptions, but look, you’re going to throw interceptions in the in the league under pressure and in a clean pocket. Interceptions are going to happen. So, I’m not looking at the interceptions. I’m looking at the output, the completion percentage, the passer rating. All of it is significantly higher than when he’s under pressure. His completion percentage under pressure is below 50% and it’s almost at 40. He’s only got 297 yards, only a touchdown. And his quarterback rating, passer rating is 63.6. Here’s the other scary thing. He’s not turning the ball over under pressure. He’s not completing passes. So, here’s what I would look at. If you’re turning the ball over under pressure, you’re trying to fit a ball into a tight window, you’re trying to make a play happen, something gets tipped. I get it. Those things happen. He’s not finding anybody. Meaning, his accuracy is completely dipped. And you know what the main reason is? Is that the the feet the feet he never gets his feet set. He looks like a jumping rabbit around there. And for a player that has not been known for his mobility, he’s more mobile than we give him credit for, but he’s not a mobile quarterback. He looks far too jumpy in the pocket for for his type of play. I mean, look, Caleb Williams might not be great from the pocket as well, but he can scramble. Same with JJ McCarthy. Same with Boone Knicks. I mean, Jaden Daniels can run. Everybody in that draft class has the ability to roll outside of the pocket. Drake May can do stuff with his legs. Pennix is the least mobile out of all of them and he has the craziest feet. Another thing, by the way, and I know that you’re going to look at this and say, “Duh, but the intentional grounding is inexcusable. You are driving down at the very end of the first half. You cannot take that bad of a penalty. That is a rookie mistake. Those things get cleaned up with experience. So, the intentional grounding I’m not super worried about. I’m not super upset about. I thought last night the Falcons offensive line played perhaps its worst game all football season long. Bad performances are going to happen. What you have to do is take these inexcusable performances, these inexcusable plays, these inexcusable drives, and you have to learn from them. You’ve got to be able to get outside of the pocket. You’ve got to be able to get that ball to the line of scrimmage, and it’s got to be in the direction of one of your wide receivers. I realize that that might be a lot to throw at you and it might sound like I’m harping on Michael Pennock Jr., but he’s still a young kid. He’s still got a lot of football left to play. So, I still believe in Michael Penn Jr. I’m typing my yeses. You should as well, but if you don’t, let me know in the comments section why. I don’t think Falcons fans are very fair when it comes to their criticism of Michael Penn Jr., he’s got nine starts. He’s not going to look like a Pro Bowler after nine starts. Hell, even Jaden Daniels last year only really started to become Jaden Daniels down the stretch. And Michael Pennix Jr. didn’t have the luxury of starting over Kirk Cousins last year until the final three games. So, there’s a lot of time left for MPJ to learn and develop. Now, we’re going to get into the other two areas that I noticed. But before we do that, I have to tell you about my friends over at Factor. Go ahead, Dilly. Push that over. All right, listen. 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Everybody in their mother is calling for the Falcons to run the football. You take Bean out of the game. Wait, what do you mean you take Bean out of the game? Like what? I mean, let’s put aside the fact that on third and one, the play before, you run a pitch play to Bean. Now, putting the ball in Bejian’s hands is the right thing to do on third and one, but it’s the wrong play design. You’ve got to pound that rock up the middle. You’ve got to halfback dive that. You’ve got to power run that. That is This is not a finesse play like that pitch indicated. And of course, Bejon being so good can make something out of nothing. He got hit behind the line of scrimmage and still is able to push his way back to the original line of scrimmage to keep it at fourth and one. But tons of fans echoed the exact same things that we’ve been talking about on this channel. Why are you taking your best player off the field in the most important play of the game? Again, I have given Zack Robinson credit for when he’s moved down to the field that the play calling has looked better, but situationally there have been moments where I’m like, “Dude, get your head out of your ass.” And using him as a wide receiver has seemed to work. It has. I like them using him in the slot. I like him lining up as a wide receiver. I think it adds more variety to what he can do as an offensive weapon. but not punching that ball forward with your very best player. The sports can be so simple. If you dumbed down sports, right, to its very basis basic elements in crunch time, when the game is on the line, you want your best player to have the ball. Period. in any sport. In any sport, football, baseball, hockey, golf, basketball, I mean, Michael Jordan, like he always wanted the ball because he knew he gave his team the best chance to win. And speaking of chances to win, he had multiple opportunities in this game to score. You had multiple opportunities to fight back, get in this game, and you just couldn’t execute. That’s the problem. Last night was about execution. You had multiple drives that absolutely just took the wind out of your sales. It’s not the worst thing in the world because, like I said, it’s not a foundational problem. That was an execution problem last night. Now, maybe the foundational problem is that the inconsistencies are still there in execution, but last night was not a we just have worse players. That’s not what it was. And last but not least, losing Dine Diablo hurt, man. That really hurt. He has been your best player outside of Xavier Watts all season long. People on Twitter were going ballistic. You can already tell what it looks like when you have JD Bertrand on the field instead of Divine Diablo. I mean, look, everybody’s got to step up and do their job. But Divine Diablo, there is a reason that under the right coaching, this guy can be a Pro Bowl talented linebacker. Take a look at his PFF grades. This was going into last night’s game playing for the Las Vegas Raiders. He is like slightly slightly above mid maybe with the Falcons. He’s great, but I also want to calm your nerves a little bit. We had some other players missing in action against the 49ers. Jaylen Walker was out. That’s another player that could help. Billy Bowman Jr. is out. Nickel corner covering the slot. I mean, that’s a big thing considering Christian McCaffrey dominated you from that position all night. Divine Diablo ruled out. And then Ray Ray Mloud, another offensive weapon, was a healthy scratch because of his off the- field issue. So, you got four players that could end up making a difference. Ray Ray Mloud being the exception there because I don’t know how much of a difference he makes. But three players for sure that make a difference on the defensive side of the ball to stop a player like Christian McCaffrey that you were without and you still only lost by 10. It wasn’t a good game. Final thought here. It wasn’t a good game. But based off of what I saw, I’m not ready to jump off the bridge. We’re three and three. We’re heading into a very favorable part of our schedule. You’ve got two very tough games against the Patriots and two and another game against the Colts, but you play the Dolphins, you play the Panthers. And look, I’m still on the boat that I don’t think the Panthers are that great of a team. I think they’ve had some good games. I don’t think they’re that great of a team. You still have to play the Ants twice. So, there’s still a lot of wins on the table. There’s still a lot of opportunities to go out and win this division. If you still have faith, like I still have faith. Type those ATL’s down in the comments. Also, this is the very end of our video, so it does show me that you watched to the very, very end. That’ll do it for us on today’s episode of Falcons Today. 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Atlanta Falcons news after the loss to the San Francisco 49ers is harder to look at now that more stats are coming out on the missed opportunities to put points on the board. Falcons Today host Trace Moustakas explains why this loss on Sunday Night Football does sting, but still feels like the Falcons aren’t and shouldn’t be considered a bad team. Moose does, however, call out Falcons quarterback Micahel Penix Jr, Falcons offensive coordinator Zac Robinson and Falcons head coach Raheem Morris for poor football execution. Moose claims that poor play calling, Penix Jr’s performance, a lack of run defense and injuries were the main reason the Falcons lost in NFL week 7.

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Falcons inactives vs. 49ers on Sunday Night Football:
Jalon Walker: OUT (Groin)
Billy Bowman Jr.: OUT (Hamstring)
Divine Deablo: RULED OUT (Forearm)
Ray-Ray McCloud: OUT (Scratch

Atlanta Falcons issues after the 49ers game:
No.1: You can’t stop the run
No.2: Penix vs. the blitz
No.3: Bad situational play calling
No.4: Losing Divine Deablo hurt

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Michael Penix Jr. 2025 stats:
Clean Pocket
COMP%: 69.3%
PASS YDS: 1,112
PASS TD: 4
INT: 3
QB RTG: 94.3
Under Pressure
COMP%: 41.4
PASS YDS: 297
PASS TD: 1
INT: 0
QB RTG: 63.6

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