When a team builds an effective identity, they start finding winning ways. That was the biggest highlight from the 2022 Atlanta Falcons’ season, where Arthur Smith’s offense had stretches of pounding opposing defenses into submission and making timely plays through the air to win games. They constructed a strong foundation of attacking defensive fronts with a mixture of run concepts that utilized the running back group’s powerful attributes and an athletic offensive line that could demolish units with the right side of their starting five.
That ideal plan hasn’t come to fruition often in 2023. It doesn’t entirely fall on an underperforming offensive line, but they’ve struggled in several games and have fallen short several times in short-yardage situations.