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Photo by Justin Setterfield/ Atlanta tweaks the defense with quality results, while Jonnu Smith has his big day. Offense Desmond Ridder: 58 Jake Matthews: 58 Matthew Bergeron: 58 Drew Dalman: 58 Chris Lindstrom: 58 Kaleb McGary: 58 Drake London: 50 Mack Hollins: 46 Bijan Robinson: 44 Kyle Pitts: 37 Jonnu Smith: 32 MyCole Pruitt: 19 Keith Smith: 17 Tyler Allgeier: 15 KhaDarel Hodge: 14 Scotty Miller: 14 Kyle Pitts played his lowest share of snaps since Week 1, and in general tight end snap counts were depressed slightly this week even though Jonnu Smith went nuts....

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports An inept offense leaves Atlanta in the lurch in London. The Falcons dropped another ugly game, falling to the Jaguars 23-7 in London. It was Atlanta’s second straight game where it did not score at least 10 points, another alarming sign that the offense is completely off the rails. Read on for Hat tips & head-scratchers from Atlanta’s loss on Sunday. Hat tips Bijan hits the juke stick Running back Bijan Robinson remains one of the only bright spots on the Atlanta offense, seemingly putting a highlight on tape each and every week. He did...

Photo by Lindsey Wasson/ Week 4 of the 2023 NFL season wraps up with Monday Night Football featuring a clash of two NFC playoff teams from 2022: the Seattle Seahawks (2-1) taking on the New York Giants (1-2). Read on for our picks and predictions. The fourth week of the 2023 NFL season is coming to a close, and while it didn’t feature as many of the absurdly lopsided scores as we saw in Week 3, there were a number of surprises and entertaining games. We witnessed a pair of overtime contests, with the Los Angeles Rams topping the Indianapolis Colts and the Philadelphia...

Peter van den Berg-USA TODAY Sports It’s more of the same for Bijan Robinson (good) and Kyle Pitts (bad) Atlanta’s offense looks stuck in neutral at the moment. In what they hoped would be a bounce back game in London against a Jacksonville Jaguars team that got off to their own slow start to the season, the Falcons took embarrassing football onto an international stage. For the second straight week, the Birds were unable to crack double digits on the scoreboard, and have now scored 13 points combined in the last two weeks. It’s a big issue that needs to get...

Peter van den Berg-USA TODAY Sports Atlanta has been making every bad decision at quarterback for years. It has caught up to the team, which gave itself few options other than to stick with the struggling quarterback. Things went from bad to worse in London for the Atlanta Falcons. After two nice wins to start the season, the first strong start for the Falcons in years, defenses keyed in on Arthur Smith’s run game and put the game into Desmond Ridder’s hands. The results were nearly as bad as you could imagine. Ridder, who was praised for being so safe with the ball...

Photo by Bradley Collyer/PA Images via Atlanta hoped for better abroad than they were able to deliver. That was not the bounce-back performance Falcons fans flocked to Wembley Stadium to see. For the majority of Sunday’s 23-7 loss to the Jaguars, the Falcons couldn’t consistently move the ball or take control of the action. Jacksonville was a better team than its 1-2 record entering the game indicated, but Atlanta is left with some real lingering questions after falling to 2-2. A matchup against the suddenly hot Houston Texans awaits, so the Falcons need to get...

Peter van den Berg-USA TODAY Sports Atlanta are favorites after a loss. Despite its shellacking across the pond, the Atlanta Falcons have opened as 2.5-point favorites over the Houston Texans on Sunday, per DraftKings Sportsbook. Given the usual standard of giving a field goal advantage to the home team, it’s not exactly a vote of confidence for the Falcons over the Texans. Atlanta was atrocious against another AFC South opponent on Sunday, falling to Jacksonville 23-7 in London. It was the second straight week that the Falcons failed to score at least 10 points,...

Photo by Justin Setterfield/ The Falcons got beat up again and can’t find their footing in London; now .500 and absolutely lost on offense, they have to get the tires gripping in Week 5. At one point last winter, after a storm that saw freezing rain and ice angrily pouring down from the sky, I found I couldn’t get my car to move. I put it in drive, I put it in reverse, I put it in neutral and pushed, I put sand and salt down to give the tires some purchase, and still the damn thing wouldn’t budge. All of those measures helped get me free of my driveway in the...

Photo by Bob Kupbens/Icon Sportswire via This is a painful loss, if only because many of the same problems that plagued Atlanta against Detroit remained visible The Atlanta Falcons fell to 2-2 on Sunday after a 23-7 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars in Wembley Stadium. A slow start once again doomed the club, which could not make up a 17-point deficit to start the second half. This is a painful loss, if only because many of the same problems that plagued Atlanta against Detroit remained visible. Too often, the offense looked one-dimensional and non-threatening while key...

Photo by Justin Setterfield/ The Falcons fell to 2-2 after another mistake-filled performance from Desmond Ridder, and the team lost to the Jaguars, 23-7. Join hosts Kevin Knight, Allen Strk, and Adnan Ikic as they recap this week’s game. Fellow Falcoholics, welcome to Week 4 of the 2023 NFL season and our Atlanta Falcons vs Jacksonville Jaguars Postgame Show! The Falcons fell to 2-2 after another mistake-filled performance from Desmond Ridder and the team lost to the Jaguars, 23-7. Join hosts Kevin Knight, Allen Strk, and Adnan Ikic as they recap Ridder’s...

Photo by Stephen Pond/ Atlanta’s high hopes and 2-0 start haven’t gone to waste, but the last two games have been painful for Atlanta. The Falcons traveled all the way to London to fizzle in front of an international crowd. Doomed by uninspired offense keyed by a pair of truly ugly Desmond Ridder interceptions and further submarined by a couple of big defensive mistakes, Atlanta wasn’t able to turn a couple of stronger drives into points and once again managed under 10 points on the road. The Falcons are just .500 now, a mark we’d have taken before the season...

Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK At least we got a fun Bijan highlight, I guess. The Falcons offense looks to be entirely off the rails at this point. But as usual, Bijan Robinson finds ways to remind us why the team selected him with the eighth overall pick in the 2023 draft. Of course he’s a standout talent at the running back position, but it’s his versatility that makes him so hard to contain. This one-handed grab is the perfect example of that. Can't get enough Bijan.#ATLvsJAX on ESPN+Also available on #NFLPlus https://t.co/Jq9JHUeqb6...

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Atlanta hopes to move to 3-1 with a London win, so let’s hope we can enjoy that with our coffee. The open thread this week is on time, so thank goodness for small blessings. Hopefully you’re awake and alert for the Falcons taking on the Jaguars in London, because it’s kicking off in about a half an hour. Use this as your open thread for the game, and let’s hope we leave today with our favorite football team sitting at 3-1 on the season. Go Falcons!

Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK There can only be five, and they must be intriguing. With the Atlanta Falcons headed overseas to face the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 4, naming five Falcons hasn’t gotten any easier. But inevitably I must persevere to find an intriguing quintet. Drake London Given that he’ll be playing in his namesake city, Falcons wideout Drake London certainly portends a great deal of intrigue. This isn’t the first time London’s name has made this list. And the last time it did, it preceded a game in which he had six catches and a touchdown....

Photo by Don Juan Moore/ You may disagree, but this one’s an easy answer for me. It’s that time again: Time to debate a completely arbitrary and hypothetical question. Which Jaguars player would you steal for the Falcons’ roster? This one’s easy for me. Josh Allen. The Jags’ Josh Allen, not the Bills quarterback (though honestly, I’d take him in a heartbeat, too). Allen finished the 2022 season with seven sacks and four forced fumbles, and he already has three sacks this season — the same number the entire Falcons defense has so far in 2023. Which Jags...