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Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and Frank Schwab discuss whether new Atlanta head coach Raheem Morris can elevate the Falcons defense to match its potent offense. Listen and subscribe to the “Zero Blitz” podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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I’m sneaky high on the Falcons this year.
I don’t know why I just got, I got the good, good, good, good feels so like I’m sneaky high on the Falcons.
So give me, give me your one big thing.
Yeah, my one big thing on the Falcons and we could talk about their offense for days.
We talked about them all off season.
Great addition with Cousins and Michael Penick’s drama.
They have all these weapons.
But to me, I’m thinking about Raheem Morris and his defense, Raheem Morris, obviously their new head coach, he’s been a marvelous defense coordinator throughout his career getting a second chance at the head coach.
And I think, look, the Falcon’s offense is going to be good.
Like, I don’t see they really being many paths where, yeah, Kirk Cousins might struggle with the Achilles and the quarterback controversy might seep in at some point, but I believe the Falcons offense is going to be good enough.
My question for them is can the defense be good enough to get them to the playoffs and actually be a factor?
Not just, uh, hey, we won eight or nine games, we won the NFC South.
We’re gonna get bounce in round one but actually be a team that other opponents fear in the playoffs that’s based on the defenses.
This defense has not found a pass rusher in years and years and years and they didn’t invest in that in the draft.
They drafted Michael Pennix instead.
Very questionable.
There does just adding Raheem Morris fix the defense and if you can raise that defense to middle of the pack in the NFL, I think you can make a huge difference with the way that offense is going to be.
They could put up a lot of points with Bijon and Pitts and Drake London and all them.
If the defense comes along too, it really could be a really…
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Publish date : 2024-07-08 12:00:59
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