{"id":570556,"date":"2025-12-02T15:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/570556\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:02:11","slug":"falcons-waste-a-huge-day-from-bijan-robinson-in-loss-to-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/570556\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons waste a huge day from Bijan Robinson in loss to Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Atlanta Falcons<\/a> continue to disappoint their fans and waste stellar individual performances. It\u2019s been a recurring theme of the season and one fans are sick of. Here\u2019s the Week 13, 3 up and 3 down:<\/p>\n

The Falcons won\u2019t have their 2026 first-round <\/a>pick, but James Pearce Jr. is making a strong case to justify the trade up that landed him in Atlanta. The rookie has a sack in four straight games and is starting to create his own opportunities and not just clean up others\u2019. Pearce is beginning to consistently display his pass rush ability and is becoming a familiar face in the backfield. If he maintains this level of play over the final five games, he should be in the Defensive Rookie of the Year talks.<\/p>\n

Pitts<\/a> had a season high 82 yards and was Kirk Cousins\u2019 most reliable option during the drizzly afternoon game. The tight end was able to stretch the field and even put his head down to drive a pile of tacklers. It\u2019s been a quiet year for Pitts, but he\u2019s still top 10 in both yards and receptions among all tight ends.<\/p>\n

Pitts will never live up to his draft selection, but he\u2019s still a serviceable player. It\u2019s hard to say what will happen between Pitts and the Falcons after 2025, but a reset would likely be best for both parties.<\/p>\n

Bijan had his fourth game of over 150 scrimmage yards, the most of any player this season. The running back also averaged over 6.2 yards per carry for the third time this year. Robinson has been the do-it-all superstar the team has hoped for, and his numbers would be even more gaudy this season if it weren\u2019t for his offensive coordinator and depleted offensive line. Performances like these should be rewarded with a win, but this one was unfortunately spoiled.<\/p>\n

The worst unit in the league put on one of its worst performances of the year. The group is so bad that the Falcons\u2019 plan for most of the afternoon was to just kick the ball out of the end zone and give the Jets the ball at the 35. When Atlanta finally gave the Jets a chance to return the ball (a decision that makes no sense considering their previous approach was \u201cworking\u201d), the result was an 80-yard romp. Add in Jamal Agnew\u2019s muffed punt, and that\u2019s 10 points the unit gave away.<\/p>\n

When asked why special teams ace and Pro Bowler KhaDarel Hodge was a healthy scratch, apparently, it was because of some mistakes made against the Saints, and the team wanted a spark. Unfortunately, that spark produced a cataclysmic implosion.<\/p>\n

Robinson\u2019s offense has struggled on 3rd down all season, and they finished 4\/12 against the Jets, which lines up with their season average of 33%. The Falcons offense becomes dysfunctional in these must-have situations, and ZRob shoulders most of the blame. Robinson is grasping at straws, and the group has become boom-or-bust whenever it faces even an ounce of adversity. The Falcons needed Robinson to take a step as a play caller this year, but he\u2019s failed to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cStats are for losers,\u201d and that\u2019s what Morris\u2019 4-8 Falcons are. This team has failed to find a way all season; they\u2019re 2-6 since the bye week, and they have a 4% chance to make the playoffs at the start of December. Calling this season a failure would be generous, and all the team has left to play for is pride. Morris made this mess, and it\u2019s hard to rationalize a return for him in 2025. He\u2019s been outcoached in nearly every game since his arrival and has failed to deliver a winning product.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a rough season, and there are still five games to go. The Falcons will have their hands full with a dominant Seahawks team next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlanta Falcons continue to disappoint their fans and waste stellar individual performances. It\u2019s been a recurring theme…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,79029,85127,2554,224,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-570556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons-analysis","11":"tag-atlanta-falcons-coaching-staff","12":"tag-atlantafalcons","13":"tag-falcons","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115650582677293151","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}