The Atlanta Falcons are a complete and total embarrassment. They have lost five games in a row to fall to 1-6 on the year. They must replace Dan Quinn.
The Atlanta Falcons have not looked this bad in over a decade. The last time Atlanta looked this incompetent on the football field, Matt Ryan was still playing quarterback in the old Big East for the Boston College Eagles. That horrendous 2007 campaign saw Atlanta’s head coach Bobby Petrino quit on the team. Flash forward to 2019 and the roles have been somewhat reversed.
The 2019 Falcons had lofty expectations this year. Maybe they could bounce back from 7-9 B.S. and win the NFC South? Atlanta has many of the same pieces from the same team that blew a 28-3 lead in Super Bowl LI in Houston. Most coaches would kill for this array of offensive talent. Why has it gone so bad so quickly this fall?
The biggest difference is that guru offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan is in his third with the San Francisco 49ers and Atlanta is stuck with defensive-minded Dan Quinn. Quinn, supposedly the greatest disciple of the Pete Carroll defensive coaching tree, has seen his team lose five straight games after a 1-1 start. This might be the most pitiful team in the NFC and maybe the NFL.
His pass rush is completely toothless, the secondary busts coverages like it’ll get paid $200 for passing go in Monopoly and the entire defense collects more yellow laundry than both uniform staffs of a Green Bay Packers versus Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl. There is nothing positive to say about this Atlanta defense. It stinks and everybody in the football world knows it.
Atlanta got shelled at home by native son Sean McVay’s Los Angeles Rams 37-10 in Arthur Blank’s breathtaking Mercedes Benz-Stadium. Clearly, the winning from Atlanta United FC’s MLS Cup Playoff game yesterday afternoon didn’t matriculate its way into the Falcons locker room. The bye week can’t get here fast enough and they need to fire Quinn because it’s becoming untenable.
Quinn won’t fire his Big 12 defensive coordinator because he is Atlanta’s Big 12 pillow fight defensive coordinator. By letting last year’s defensive coordinator Marquand Manuel, Quinn has spread himself too thin, thin enough to where the same Butch Jones redundant clichés aren’t sticking in the Falcons locker room or resonating with the most loyal of the Dirty Bird Faithful.
Atlanta had a tremendous opportunity to get back in the win column on Sunday. The Falcons were hosting a reeling Rams team that had lost three in a row. Their Super Bowl hangover found them in Week 4 and it took a disinterested Falcons team to cure what ailed them. If you want a win, just hope the Falcons are on your 2019 schedule. 1-15 is in play for this dreadful football team.
It was so bad that Falcons running back Devonta Freeman decided to wrestle Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald after the whistle to get himself ejected. When Jalen Ramsey, who forced a trade to the Rams after having back issues with the Jacksonville Jaguars, outplays everybody on the Falcons’ roster in his Los Angeles debut, you have serious problems.
Atlanta has a certain beatdown coming in Week 8 when they host the Seattle Seahawks. At presumably 1-7 at the halfway point, Blank has to accept that Quinn has driven his once-proud NFL franchise into the ground. There is no other way to look at it.
When the rebuilding Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, who are going from the antiquated triple-option attack into something more modern under new head coach Geoff Collins, win more games in your city than you do through Week 8, it’s time to move on from your head coach.
Quinn can’t continue to coach this team unless Blank and general manager Thomas Dimitroff want to draft Ryan’s replacement No. 1 overall in the 2020 NFL Draft. The problem is Ryan has theoretically several years left in the tank. Unfortunately, Quinn and his staff have wasted one thanks to blatant coaching malpractice. They let their star quarterback get hurt in this one.
Once Carroll delivers the knockout punch to his coaching protegé next weekend, it might be time to give either offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter or assistant head coach Raheem Morris the interim gig and try not to suck as bad as the Falcons have through seven weeks. Atlanta deserves better than this crap Quinn has gift-wrapped to us every Sunday this fall. Make a move, Arthur.