It’s no great secret around these parts that we lay a lot of Atlanta’s failings the past two seasons at the feet of Dirk Koetter, the recently-retired offensive coordinator for the Falcons. This team swung wildly between brutally ineffective and somewhat impressive on defense, but the consistent thread for this offense was that they were worse than their talent level indicated they ought to be, especially in the red zone. Koetter was never working with a top-to-bottom (or left-to-right, I guess) great offensive line, but Matt Ryan was still a very capable quarterback working with quality weapons, and that offense never should’ve been as ineffectual as it was.
Arthur Smith intends to bring unpredictability, aggression to close games in 2021
