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Everyone used to be all for the cross sport Sunday, and that’s the reason some degree of pleasure for the Falcons.
“I think I enjoyed this one a lot just because everybody on the offense got to do something big,” Robinson mentioned postgame. “We utilized Jonnu, Kyle, obviously Drake, Mack (Hollins). It wasn’t like you got to focus on a couple people. You had to focus on everybody to beat us.”
That ultimate sentence from Robinson is not a brand new concept. It’s one the Falcons were pronouncing all offseason. It is going in conjunction with Arthur Smith’s logo of “positionless football.” It’s what the Falcons need to be, however have struggled to be, in the first 4 video games of the season. In the ultimate two losses particularly, when the run sport has fizzled, the cross sport could not come alive to make up for it. It’s one thing the Texans took understand of.
“They got wide receivers if they use them,” Texans safety Jimmie Ward said via a clip from KPRC 2 Houston’s Chancellor Johnson in the week main as much as the Week 5 matchup. “I do not believe they are seeking to cross the ball. They’re seeking to out-physical groups, and run the ball. We’re going to have a tricky activity to hand in preventing them from working the ball.
“When I was on (the San Francisco 49ers), I didn’t play last year, but I saw what they did to San Fran last year. San Fran went down there and they ran the ball and beat them up pretty bad. I already know they’re going to stick to the run for sure.”
As I wrote in Saturday’s 5 issues to observe installment, I do not essentially suppose this used to be a slight at Ridder via Ward. I in point of fact suppose it aligns with how the remainder of the league perspectives the Falcons.
Ridder used to be requested about this remark from Ward after the sport Sunday. He mentioned he did not see it. Whether he did or did not is a moot level, regardless that, as a result of he replied the remark along with his efficiency in the sport itself.
“They are a run-first team, and we held them to under 100-rushing yards. We did what we needed to do, but they had a lot of good plays dialed up, like the boots and the strike routes,” Ward mentioned after the sport. “The coach did a nice job, and the quarterback did a nice job.”
And that is the distinction in the Falcons ultimate two losses and this win: When the run sport wasn’t running, that they had the cross sport to fall again on for manufacturing. It’s what solidified them in the ultimate pressure, too, with Ridder going 5-for-5 via the air to get the Falcons into box purpose vary.
In the finish, everybody used to be concerned. It wasn’t simply huge receivers or tight ends or working backs… or fullbacks. (Jimmie Ward most likely wasn’t considering an excessive amount of about Keith Smith in the week main as much as the sport).
It used to be everybody, and that can imply so much to any Falcons good fortune transferring ahead.
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