The Falcons needed to bolster the offensive line. That was the marching order, perhaps directly from Arthur Blank himself, and they busily set about doing so in the 2019 offseason. The only problem was that for 2019, basically nothing went as planned.
Chris Lindstrom got hurt. Kaleb McGary struggled mightily throughout large chunks of the year. James Carpenter was bad and then injured, while Jamon Brown was injured then bad then benched. All the additions the team made didn’t go much of anywhere, which certainly contributed to the lousiness of the year.