Good lord, how did we lose to this craptastic Falcons team :(

[andyh64000]

They are embarrassingly bad. I hope that loss doesn't come back to bite us.

 

[RobDaHawk]

It won't, because even though we ultimately did lose to them.......we are playing with "house money." Plus their record after tonight is 4-6, shouldn't be an issue unless we implode and they turn it around. I don't see both of those happening.

 

[Donn2390]

They are embarrassingly bad. I hope that loss doesn't come back to bite us.

I sure wish the Seahawk team of today could have been around when we lost those three games, it would be a completely different outcome.

 

[cymatica]

As the saying goes, it's not who you play it's when you play them.

 

[Raifers]

Ideally we lost to them so they’d have a better record than the Broncos.

 

[Bobblehead]

Why did the Falcons put away their best weapon, C Patterson?

 

[HomerJHawk]

It's all about how you finish.

Like most teams, games 1-4 are a continuation of preseason. This was game 5, so yeah, we needed an extra game.

After that, the team got tuned!

 

[evergreen]

Didn’t a bad call help out a bit?

 

[PlinytheCenter]

Agreed; the Falcons looked hapless. Despite this, their division is crap so they may win it with a 7-10 record. We may end up playing them again, and the outcome will be different.

 

[BlueTalon]

We were kind of craptastic ourselves at the time.

 

[Mick063]

Number 52 had his worst game as a pro, the Falcon coordinator caught on to it quickly and kept going back to the well until Seattle could adjust. They didn't adjust and Cordarrelle Patterson looked like Bo Jackson. That about sums it up.

 

[CPHawk]

We shouldn’t have lost to them or the saints.

 

[AgentDib]

Another way of looking at last night is seeing another reminder that NFL parity is really good. Every week there is at least one game like this where 9/10 analysts pick the favorite and then the underdog pulls out the upset. It is far more common for division games to be split than it is for one team to win both.

The implication for fans is that you shouldn't learn too much from any one game.

 

[HawkRiderFan]

Another way of looking at last night is seeing another reminder that NFL parity is really good. Every week there is at least one game like this where 9/10 analysts pick the favorite and then the underdog pulls out the upset. It is far more common for division games to be split than it is for one team to win both.

The implication for fans is that you shouldn't learn too much from any one game.

To illustrate your point we are in the same season where the Colts beat the Chiefs

 

[JPatera76]

We shouldn’t have lost to them or the saints.

The Saints loss.. is a lot that had tastes of a certain SB in 05... with officials. We walked into that Dome with the L already. They just showed up to so the officials could make it, well official.

 

[94Smith]

179 rush yards likely was the biggest reason before the defense woke up

 

[BASF]

Jordyn Brooks was calling line slants in the wrong direction for the first five games of the season. It made everyone's job harder as the backers were looking to fill the wrong lanes. That combined with the defensive coaching staff (I'm looking at you Clint Hurtt) decided that the line would read and react instead of attacking a gap. With the change to attacking a gap, the line slants became easy to call. The Falcons took more advantage of Brooks' mistakes than anyone else.

 

[CalgaryFan05]

We shouldn’t have lost to them or the saints.

Still say we got jobbed at the saints ....

 

[HawkRiderFan]

Still say we got jobbed at the saints ....

When they reversed that fumble by Arizona last week to an incomplete pass it made me think of the DK fumble in New Orleans. Just my opinion but I don't think DK had position or made a football move any more than Moore (?) did

 

[GemCity]

We’ve also got to keep in mind the number of rookies we have starting and in key roles. Every game, they’re getting better and better.