Hope isn’t a strategy. It’s something people use to create optimism, in creating or strengthening the belief that things will change for the better in the future. That’s the best way to describe the Falcons’ plan to improve an appalling pass rush going into the season.
They ranked at the bottom of nearly every statistical category regarding sacks, hits, and pressures in 2021. It couldn’t get any worse, which meant they had to make some sort of strides with new young talent and capable contributors.
To go from 32nd to 30th in sacks isn’t exactly the type of improvement the coaching staff had envisioned.