The Falcons pass rush is a punchline again. Atlanta’s inability to get home when it matters has been a running source of frustration for the team and fans for a long time now, and even during those 2016-2018 seasons when production picked up, it has not felt like the team was truly terrorizing quarterbacks on a consistent basis.
Still, those are halcyon days compared to where we find ourselves now. The team went from a modest 28 sacks in 2019 to 29 in 2020 before the bottom fell out in 2021, when the team recorded a futile 18 sack total.