The Atlanta Falcons offense that demoralized Seattle Seahawks fans during the 2016 divisional round playoff game 36-20, is gone. Although most of the same personnel remains in place, play-caller Kyle Shanahan decamped for San Francisco and replacement Steve Sarkisian has struggled to match the production of last year’s NFC champion Falcons. Of course, some regression seemed certain for a team that produced an outlying passing performance that had scarcely been seen since the 1930s and 1940s (those weren’t the NFL’s peak passing years at all—which means the variance was wilder and outlier performances in those days even more extreme, relative to average).
On 1st and 10, Matt Ryan and Falcons offense not reproducing 2016 rhythm
