The unfortunate injury to Heinicke came on a hell of a scramble to nearly pick up a first day, and that meant he gave way to Ridder. This was an unusually anemic day through the air even by Atlanta’s standards, but on the average day when the Falcons don’t come with the most timid plan of the year, leaning on the team’s corps of playmakers will pay dividends. Robinson managed just over half of Atlanta’s rushing yards and scored one of their three touchdowns, with London and Pitts combining to assemble over two-thirds of the team’s passing yards and Robinson chipping in 11 of his own. The Falcons finally just said “okay, let’s roll out our three best players on offense as often as possible” and repeated the benefits. Let’s just jump right into the snap counts for this loss against the Arizona Cardinals. I could kick this off with a long-winded note about the Atlanta Falcons losing, but with each passing week, that gets more and more depressing.
