There’s always at least one Falcons preseason game that turns into an unmitigated disaster, and it was difficult to argue against the notion that it was this one in particular. Too bad we have two to go.
The Falcons’ offensive line was shaky despite the considerable investments the Falcons made in it, penalties flew all over the place, and most notably the team lost three useful players to injury, and only Damontae Kazee looked like he was going to return anytime soon. While the game settled down from there, that and the weird decision to keep Matt Ryan in for almost the entire first half as he was getting killed left a very sour taste in my mouth for this one.