The Falcons Loss To The Dolphins Just Got 1000x Worse After Seeing This…
All right, Falcons fans. So, I’m gonna get a little objective in this specific episode. Don’t worry, it’s still slamming the Atlanta Falcons. But, I do want to give you more of a numbers and analytical deep dive into this horrendous loss rather than just kind of the emotion and the feeling behind everything. Because I’m going to be completely honest with you, the loss does look 100 or excuse me, 1,000 times worse than I originally thought. After going back and looking at some of the numbers and then taking away some of the things that are not only happening right now, but could happen in the near future, the Falcons look lost. And by the way, when Raheem or Zack get fired, I promise you we will go live. So, make sure you hit that bell notification, hit subscribe, and make sure you never ever miss the post that comes out that says breaking news. One of them is fired. So, how does it get worse for the Atlanta Falcons? Well, the first big takeaway of why I think it is 10 times worse is that one, you’re without Divine Diablo for quite some time, and him being gone hurts way more than I originally thought it was going to. And the reason I say that is because JD Bertrand, his replacement sucks. Big mega booty cheeks. Now, here’s one thing that I will say that I actually agreed with Raheem Morris on. This is like the lone thing in his last press conference that I was like, at least you have some awareness. He said, you’re always going to miss those players, but nobody cares. It’s always going to be the next man up mentality. Bingo. Nobody cares that Divine Diablo is not playing this specific week. We know he’s on IR. We know he’s not available. So, who steps up to help get the Falcons the win? This guy? No, it’s not him. And I know that everybody looks at PFF kind of like, well, is it an accurate indicator of how a player plays? Maybe not specifically 100%, but it does give you a nice well-rounded bird’s eyee view of how a player stacks up with his contemporaries. That’s how I view PFF. It doesn’t tell the whole story, but it kind of gives a generalized summary. It’s like the Spark Notes of the NFL. And what do the Spark Notes tell you from a 28.8 PFF grade? Bertrren stinks. Like, this guy sucks. And I take no pleasure in saying that. He’s from Notre Dame. one of my favorite places on earth. It’s like Disneyland for Moose. And this guy is ass, man. The numbers don’t lie. While he might stack up a lot of tackles as a middle linebacker, which is kind of like what you’re supposed to do, right? You’re supposed to be a tackling machine. He’s not a good player at the line of scrimmage. He’s not a good pressure player. He’s absolutely atrocious in pass coverage. and his PFF grade amongst his other contemporaries as backup linebackers is still subpar. So, let me ask you this. For a guy who is touted as a smaller, faster linebacker, you can’t be bad in coverage and yet he’s awful in coverage. He looked like a fifth grader playing football with high schoolers. It was actually hard to watch him play. He was getting cooked by the Miami Dolphins, man. Like, it it was just hysterical to watch. Like, and and not in a good way. I don’t mean hysterical like, “Oh, that’s cute.” I mean like, “Get this guy off the field.” I’m not the only one that says that, by the way. You could go to Twitter right now and find a bunch of D uh JD Bertrand clown tweets. But this specifically from Falcon Sports Illustrated kind of exactly caught what I believe every single Falcons fans thinks about this guy. JD Bertrren just can’t be an every down linebacker for this team. He’ll pile up the tackle numbers at his position, kind of like I said, but he was targeted early by the Dolphins in both the run and the pass. And the Falcons weren’t selling out to stop the run, gambling that the Dolphins couldn’t methodically move the ball down the field without a negative play. Well, they sure as proved you wrong. And you can’t stop the run regardless, Raheem. So, you’ve got a player like JD Bertrand who can’t drop back in coverage. You’re not playing the run. So, you’re letting him do the thing that he’s already terrible at. Like, coaching is hard in the NFL. It is. It’s not that hard, Raheem. Like, don’t have a player that’s notoriously bad at one thing. Do that one thing primarily for the entirety of the game. Simple. Simple. And again, if I go back to the run stuffing, the run defense, which I’ve told you is absolutely atrocious, the Falcons have a run stuff rate, meaning their defensive line stuffing you at the line of scrimmage of 17.6%. That’s 27th in the NFL. There are only a handful of teams that are worse against the run than the Atlanta Falcons. They don’t have any physical presence in the middle of that defensive line. Yes, I’ve said they’ve got a really good scheme blitz package from Jeff Albrich and I will continue to say that the pass rush has been better this year than in years past. The secondary has been better than in years past, but they cannot stop the run. Period. It It’s just every run is five, six, seven yards over and over again. So, Divine Diablo’s presence over the middle of the field hurts tremendously. Here’s the main subject I want to talk about on today’s video. Terry Fontnau, he can’t win. he cannot win. And I have so many statistics that will break this down for you coming up later on in the episode. Now, before I get into that, let me tell you about our friends over at Prize Picks. This episode is brought to you by Prize Picks. The hard-hitting football action is even better with Prize Picks. The weather might be changing, but the feeling of being right never gets old. 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Fun fact, I’m sure you knew that. And remember, this is not just a Terry Fontau issue. This is an entire front office organizational issue. It’s just absolutely awful. But Terry Fontnau specifically has had a lot of crazy headlines even in the last calendar year. I’m not even going back to 2023. This is what’s happened in 2024 up until this point in 2025. You fired Jimmy Lake after one season. You played zero starters in the preseason. That’s more of a Raheem Morris thing, but you know, head honcho makes those decisions as well. You had the whole Ray Ray Mloud situation. That was a disaster. You had the tampering with Kirk Cousins where you lost your fifth round pick. You then ended up paying Kirk Cousins all that money and drafted Michael Pennix Jr. only to have Kirk Cousins sit on your bench and be a 27.5 million capit. You kept Kirk Cousins knowing that and you fired Ikillyard. That’s all in the last calendar year. This is organiz organizational decay. This is rot from the inside up. It’s hysterically bad. And ultimately, can you say the day-to-day decisions based off of the football operations are a Terry Font no problem? No. Because Raheem Morris runs the X’s and O’s. But you are in charge of everything else. The drafting of the players, the paying of the players, the hiring of coaches, that is on you, Terry. And you’re failing. You’re failing. But like I said, it’s not just Terry. It’s Arthur Blank as well. You got to throw him in in this because he is not without blame for the win. Nice little online uh blog that I like to read which holds no punches. It goes straight for the jugular every single time. Said this specifically about Arthur Blank. Under Blank’s recent watch, the Falcons have eroded into a shell of themselves from the winning years of 2018 and 20 or 2012 to 2018 and the 2016 to 2017 playoff stretch. Losing that 2017 Super Bowl seems to have done irreparable damage to the Falcons brain trust. You can say that again. which leads me to believe that my trust in the Atlanta Falcons front office is like a 10 out of 100. The only reason they’re not at a one is because this last draft class looks like they’ve hit on a lot of players. James Pierce Jr., Jaylen Walker, Xavier Watts, Billy Bowman, all of them can play. All of them. But I’ll ask you and you let me know in the comment section down below what your view on this is. The final reason that it gets worse, and this is probably not something that Falcons fans want to hear, but you’ve got to talk about it regardless. Your future looks bleak in a lot of different areas, cap spacewise, draft picks-wise, coaching wise. I mean, it’s just bad. Let’s start with the draft that’s coming up because most bad teams in the NFL can look forward to this. If we sell off some capital, if we gain more draft picks, then we can start fresh and just accumulate a ton of players in the upcoming draft. At least that’s something to look forward to. The Falcons have five draft picks in 2026 and no firstrounder. None. Your first pick in the 2026 draft is going to be round two. Right now, it would be pick 46. That’s subject to ch change obviously, but from where the Falcons are at right now. Here’s another thing that you need to know. When it comes to the paper, that dollar dollar bill, Kirk Cousins is a guaranteed cut. So, you’re basically kind of admitting that this was one of the worst contracts that we’ve ever seen because if you do cut Kirk Cousins in 2026, you end up saving about $35 million. So, he’s absolutely gone, which would bring up your projected cap space way higher. However, as of right now, the projected cap is $4.6 million in 2026. That’s like 28th in the NFL for 2026. And the coaching carousel is low this year. There’s a couple of good candidates, but none that I believe would actually want to take this job based off of the guys upstairs. Ask yourself, who’s going to want it? Tell me who’s going to want it. Like there is not a single really great Ben Johnson-like candidate out there this year that would ever consider coaching the Atlanta Falcons as long as that organizational rot continues to just breed. I mean, I wouldn’t. There’s a couple of guys that some big names. Joe Brady, the offensive coordinator for the Bills, although he’s regressed. Brian Flores is probably my top candidate right now. He’s an absolute leader of men, but would he want this job? Would Clint Kubak, the offensive coordinator for the Seahawks? How about Robert Salah? Would he want this after going and coaching for the Jets? He knows what dysfunction looks like. And Matt Naggie, who look, let’s be honest, he’ll take any job that he can get. But as far as like offensive minds go, he’s kind of been carried by Andy Reid, don’t you think? The Bears fired him. So, there’s no A+ candidate outside of Brian Flores, and I’m not so sure that he’d be the one that says, “Let me take it over, guys. I’m ready.” It’s just It’s not good. It’s not good. Who do you want as the next Falcons head coach? Because it’s inevitable. Raheem Morris will not be here next year. At least in Moose’s opinion. I I really can’t see how they bring him back unless they go on an absolute tear. But even then, that the way that they’re playing football right now, that’s not going to happen. Either way, let me know in the comments section down below. That’s going to do it for us on today’s episode. Uh, I hope that I provided some clarity for you about where we’re going, where we’re at, and uh, kind of how it’s been. A little past, present, and future for you. That’s all I got for you today. Rise up. I’ll see you tomorrow. Be cool.
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– Atlanta Falcons run defense
– JD Bertrand struggles
– Raheem Morris press conference
– Terry Fontenot tenure with Atlanta Falcons
– Falcons Owner Arthur Blank
– Falcons 2026 draft picks
– Falcons 2026 cap space
– Falcons coaching search
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2024-25 Atlanta Falcons headlines:
Fired Jimmy Lake
Played 0 starters in the preseason
Ray-Ray McCloud situation
Tampering with Kirk Cousins
Paying Kirk Cousins/Drafting MPJ
Keeping Kirk Cousins
Firing Ike Hilliard
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Falcons Sports Illustrated On JD Bertrand:
“JD Bertrand just can’t be an every-down linebacker for this team. He’ll pile up tackle numbers as his position warrants, but he was targeted early by the Dolphins in both the run and the pass. The Falcons weren’t selling out to stop the run, gambling that the Dolphins couldn’t methodically move the ball down the field without a negative play.”
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– Falcons predicted to have $4.6 MM in cap
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Falcons rushing leaders:
– Bijan Robinson: 304 carries, 1,456 yards, 14 TD
– Tyler Allgeier: 137 carries, 644 yards, 3 TD
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29 comments
Falcons fans- How much do you trust the Falcons front office? Scale 1-100
Make Ike Hilliard the OC. 😀 Bring back Ray Ray. "The problem" with them may have been they were calling out the BS.
Why does Bertrand wear that stupid helmet cover anyway? He’s never going to hit anyone hard enough for him to need it to protect himself. I’m guessing he needs it every time he gets knocked on his ass & gets trampled.
They're missing Grady Jarrett
Morris, please have dignity and resign. You're no good as a coach.
Note no gm makes these kind of moves without Rich McKay, Rich McKay is Mr Blanks handle. Terry ,Raheem are just figure head and do what they are told and Rheem doesn't know it but Jeff will get Raheems job and that should make you nay sayers happy
He's slow ASF 😅😅😅 probably 5.55 speed
I would at least test the waters with Lane Kiffen, just to see if he wants an NFL head coaching job
Todd Monken
John Gruden ….
This has nothing to do with anyone else in the organization. The blame is on Morris and Robinson
Monken, Gruden, or Flores in that order
JD is terrible
0000000
20% trust in the office . and barely that
7 out of 100
"Garage sale" the whole brain trust! A once promising team looks like they skip all practices and film study in a disciplined effort to look fresh and worry free about opponents as they hit the field trotting on Sundays.
Boy, our media is so melodramatic. Win a game and we're going to the playoffs, lose a game and fire everyone. I think I'm going to keep watching my team grind it out and tune out the noise.
John Gruden would do wonders
NOT HAVING JIM BOB COOTER ON THE TOP OF UR POSSIBLE HEAD COACHING LIST IS CRAZY!!
I have the PERFECT head coach for the Falcons!
Leeman Bennett.
Sure, at 88, he's almost old enough to be Pete Carrol's dad. But can Coach do any worse than Morris? Leeman Bennett has more career playoff wins than Morris. Hell, re-hire Jerry Glanville as his DC and June Jones as OC.
At this point, what do we really stand to lose?
Old fart here. The dump that the team left on the field was a collaborative effort of players, coaches, and front office. Since the days of Norm Van Brocklin (I give Norb Hecker a pass because he was the inaugural coach and had little to work with save rookie Tommy Nobis) the Falcons have never been able to capitalize on success. It is the defining characteristic of the Rankin Smith era and is magnified to the point of ignition in the Blank regime.
BREAKING NEWS 🗞️😞…..the Atlanta Falcons decided NOT 🚫 to make any similar changes after the 49ers and the Miami Dolphins lost…I F*****G TOLD YOU!…. Raheem Morris 😡 ran 🏃🏾♂️to AUTHOR BLANK and CONFINCED Author that THEY HAVE A PLAN…he told AUTHOR BLANK that he likes Zac Robinson and he's is going to remain OC….I'm so fucking SICK of this dude..the shit is fucking PATHETIC!!!!!…. AUTHOR BLANK is a got damn scumbagg for letting this continue to happen…so yeah….The ATLANTA FALCONS 🏈 decided to NOT make any changes…. AUTHOR BLANK you SUCK dude….wtf are you doing to the Atlanta Falcons my man… RAHEEM MORRIS is your kiss ass…the guy is OUTSTANDING 👏🏾 AT KISSING 💋 YOUR ASS…and tell you a bunch of bullshit 😡…I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN…our season is over until we land a new Head COAH… what a fucking Moron Author Blank. Thank you 👍🏾
Funny you say James Pearce but the man doesn't get many snaps still. Even with Walker out. Even John Abraham is noticing it too! You should notice it too Moose. Do your research. Check the numbers. It's mind blowing.
Also draft pick at 46 is Brazzell II from UT. Watch.
Next head Coach will be Brian Callahan and OC will be Kliff Kingsbury or Eric Beinermy
If we fire the head coach or the offensive coordinator who's going to step in? My fear is that once again, the team just spirals downward. Before we fire anyone, we need someone who can step in and manage the talent better. I don't want this to be just another rebuilding moment. We have had too many of those already
At this point just call up Ed Orgeron to coach this team
He also gave up our next year’s first round pick for a guy who has been pretty average so far. I do like JPJ, but not sure if it was worth it. Especially since we’re probably going to be drafting in the top 15 again. Maybe top 10