Dave Choate
This team is courting disaster in such an unnecessary way.
Everyone’s pretty clear that poor defensive play put the Falcons in a position to lose this game, but the blame for the loss has gone to deep breath everyone from Dan Quinn to Marquand Manuel to Robert Alford to Desmond Trufant to Isaiah Oliver to Brian Poole to Matt Ryan. These maddeningly close games have opened the floodgates for that kind of criticism, but honestly, this team should not have been in a position to lose so narrowly to the Bengals.