Friends, I feel bad for fans of the Atlanta Falcons and the offense of the Atlanta Falcons. They are staples of this column, a talented quarterback and a few talented receivers stuck trying to caretake for a coaching staff that lives a consequence-free life of disappointment. Eventually the hot-seat articles start getting published and Dan Quinn reverse-engineers just enough out of his defense to deceive a gullible ownership group into thinking that next year, when (players are healthy or a new defensive mastermind is calling the plays), things are going to change around here
How that has unfolded as a whole on defense looks like this:
| Atlanta Falcons Defense Through the Years | ||||||
| Year | Def DVOA | Rk | Pass Def DVOA | Rk | Run Def DVOA | Rk |
| 2020 | 4. | |||||