I held out hope that the Falcons might right the ship at last and, if not beat a surging Baltimore team with perhaps the league’s best defense, at least give them a battle. Instead, they played an offensively poor game of football, and I mean that in multiple senses of the word.
I fully recognize how good the Baltimore defense is, and I don’t want to rob them of credit. But this Ravens D surrendered 30-plus points to the Panthers and 17 to the Raiders, for god’s sake, and yet the Falcons managed just 16 points and didn’t even get over the 100 yard mark until near the end of the game.