Mariota sucks. We have no idea what we have with Ridder. I’d rather figure out what we have in Ridder now and start draft prep if we don’t think he’s the answer
I agree. I'm not calling for his job but he's gotta really make a move forward next year. With more cap room and theoretically a better team on paper, there's going to be less excuses for failure. How low is the bar set where he's a genius because he's 5-8?
This group of receivers is horrifically bad. It's kinda amazing they do anything at all outside of London. Combine that with a below average passer in Marriota and this is what you get. I'm not blaming the coaching staff either, if anything they are getting the most humanly possible out of practice squad level players. Things will be better next year when they get another draft cycle in and a boat load to spend in free agency. I don't think there's any doubt the focus needs to be on building depth at receiver, then pass rush though.
It’s kinda hard to get a real sense of how the WRs really are with such awful QB play. Turns out the media was right all along, 5 wins is our ceiling this year, we will be lucky to get another 1-2 but I’m not holding my breath.
Not expecting anything different from Arthur, but all I wanted from this regime to be better about having some foresight than the previous regime. Not much hope in that department after almost two years. I mean the falcons offense hasn't score more than 20 points in 5 weeks now. It's not like people saw that the offense was stagnant. And LOL at all the Marcus defenders from last week. He's still and will continue to be the vet that he's shown in over 70 starts. That's who he is. The faith and hope that Marcus would be any different by Arthur and some falcons fans was just pure delusion. Hope this game clears it up, but like I said, I'm not putting anything past Arthur.
I told my wife just in time for Marcus to screw up and asks what do you mean? I said he usually fumbles or throws a pick here. I got here out just as he released the ball, sigh.
What’s funny about that? The falcons have made mediocre talent look down right elite literally all year. Pickett is no exception. He’s objectively not a good quarterback…
Something something Mariota ain't it, something. I ain't even mad as it, because In all honesty, that penality at the end killed us. Why am I not mad? Because at this point, I expect him to use his arm to us out of games.
The Falcons have a bunch of money to spend next year. Ridder is a very confident individual, a few bad games wont ruin him. We need to find out what he can do this year so they can spend all of that money on the right positions. Rookie Pickens is going to be better next year because of the experience he gains this year. It would be good for Ridder to gain some experience this year.
It wont matter when he has no one to throw too. They are running one NFL lvl receiver out there and a bunch of practice squad level guys now that Pitts is out. They need to prioritize building depth at that position in the draft and FA. Not saying to overdraft or overpay, but they've got to seriously allocate some resources to a #2 or #3 level receiver so Pitts and London can get more single coverage.
I’m 6”5 I played wide receiver I had a 35 inch vertical I can name off the top of my head the amount of times a ball was too high drake London is 6”5 has a 40 inch vertical……and has a higher wingspan do you know how terrible you gotta be to overthrow a 6”5 guy
Mariota is so bad. The Mariota fanboys need to come to accept the fact that he’s not starting QB material anymore. They remind me of the Ryan apologists that took over the Colts sub lol. For real though, Mariota seems like a nice dude but fuck, enough is enough. Put Ridder in please!
I would call y'all Ridder fanboys but he doesn't deserve you. You'll be gone after he loses a game anyway. Even if it is because of our lousy O-line and our defense which can't tackle. You'll be calling for us to draft a QB the following week.
I mean, Mariota is definitely not starting material but Matt Ryan absolutely is. He’s the only reason that horrible offensive unit has scored any points at all. He’s not MVP Ryan, but he’s middle of the pack average behind the one of the worst lines in history.
Defeat once again snatched from the jaws of victory. See you all in two weeks. Arthur Smith has to do better, this one is on him as much as its on Mariota.
This is why i was never really a believer in a run first offense. Its nice and all but it aint winning games, you need a competent pass game to succeed. Run first offenses only work if you have a top 10 defense.
Yet another game that we could have won if just ONE thing went differently. I'm still saying that's an improvement over last year, we're not getting blow out in games, we are either playing TOO conservatively, or one thing happens that knocks us out of TD range, or one dropped pass makes us one score short, etc. But, we can NOT make QBs like Picket look good, he's historically bad.
This was the end of the season, very likely. I’ve tried to remain hopeful, but I don’t see a reason to remain hopeful for a playoff spot this season. Even if we do make it, there’s no reason to risk draft positioning for an early exit in the wild card round. We’ll be embarrassed.
My patience running out. It’s 2023 or nothing with one of the biggest cap spaces in the league. They can nail FA and draft, then the team could sneak into playoffs. Brady may retire and Saints QB/coach situations are murky. Panthers just flat out suck.
We’re 1 game away from a top 5 draft pick with 4 games left and that was the “easiest” game left on the schedule. Young/Stroud are still well in play ladies and gentlemen. Also the perfect time to give Ridder the chance to prove why we don’t need a QB.
Perfect time to plug Ridder in during the bye week and see what we’ve got. I’m sure others are saying the same but I came here to put my two cents in before I read everyone else’s lmao
Can't wait to see how Arthur Smith spins this for MM. I'm so tired of his 3 word answers for legitimate questions. You can do that when you are winning not when you're 1-5 in your last six.
Sadly the fact that we can still make playoffs somehow will be the only reason Arthur Smith needs to STILL continue to start MM. When DR can just learn on-field live action. You're not gonna learn too much behind MM when he's making these mental mistakes.
On the very, and I repeat, VERY slim chance we make the playoffs, we’re gonna lose that first game. This season is pretty much a waste at this point, so they might as well see what Ridder can do. Can’t be any worse
This loss is on MM for his shit throws, Dean Pees and that trash ass defense, but I'm mostly pissed with Arthur. If you're going to play Mariota, then fucking acknowledge that he's terrible at throwing the ball. Why wait until late in the 3rd Q to run the football?!!
Bro please just play Ridder😭 there’s literally no way we make the playoffs with Mariota and even if we COULD there’s no way Ridder can do worse than he has
This had basically all the facets of a Falcons loss: close game, ref calls, Mariota, penalties (new feature!), bad clock management, soft coverage, getting run on, and Koo our only hope. Like a Thanksgiving dinner of the Falcons experience!
Can we agree we are trash yet? And give Ridder a shot to see what he can do? Seems like not a bad idea going into offseason at least having some clue what we have in him.
There isn't anyone defending him. More people defending the coach is discretion on when it's time. I do not believe anyone on this sub is a Marriotta Stan.
I understand we were supposed to be bad, but this is the fifth straight year of the Falcons being total garbage. I don’t know how much longer I can take this.
Lol what did you want him to do on the pick, pressure comes up the middle. If he throws it away its intentional grounding and you get a safety. No one else was open. Im excited to ridder but please stop this shit
Hindsight and all but we should have taken Fields. What a blunder.
Eh. He's not a great passer either, just a better scrambler than Mariota.
Mariota sucks. We have no idea what we have with Ridder. I’d rather figure out what we have in Ridder now and start draft prep if we don’t think he’s the answer
Why does every game at mbs a home game for the away team
Yikes Colts. I've seen the Cowboys do that to us.
Guys, mariota is a really bad quarterback
I am not sold on Arthur Smith like this sub. No clue what everyone is seeing.
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Someone else needs to be calling the plays and managing the clock. Hes a good coach but his game management is shit
I agree. I'm not calling for his job but he's gotta really make a move forward next year. With more cap room and theoretically a better team on paper, there's going to be less excuses for failure. How low is the bar set where he's a genius because he's 5-8?
I would like to say this was a Falcons game. Marcus Mariota played like Marcus Mariota, defend him if you want. Arthur Smith coached I guess.
This group of receivers is horrifically bad. It's kinda amazing they do anything at all outside of London. Combine that with a below average passer in Marriota and this is what you get. I'm not blaming the coaching staff either, if anything they are getting the most humanly possible out of practice squad level players. Things will be better next year when they get another draft cycle in and a boat load to spend in free agency. I don't think there's any doubt the focus needs to be on building depth at receiver, then pass rush though.
It’s kinda hard to get a real sense of how the WRs really are with such awful QB play. Turns out the media was right all along, 5 wins is our ceiling this year, we will be lucky to get another 1-2 but I’m not holding my breath.
Morpheus jpeg meme
WILL NOT TOLERATE OZ DISRESPECT!!!
Not expecting anything different from Arthur, but all I wanted from this regime to be better about having some foresight than the previous regime. Not much hope in that department after almost two years. I mean the falcons offense hasn't score more than 20 points in 5 weeks now. It's not like people saw that the offense was stagnant. And LOL at all the Marcus defenders from last week. He's still and will continue to be the vet that he's shown in over 70 starts. That's who he is. The faith and hope that Marcus would be any different by Arthur and some falcons fans was just pure delusion. Hope this game clears it up, but like I said, I'm not putting anything past Arthur.
Things could be much worse tbh.
We’re only one win above the #3 pick
Jags have plenty of flexibility with their contracts. They had to spend the money
Be careful with that. This regime has money for the first time ever. Who knows what they do in the offseason.
Too long. Draft a good qb
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STFU
(1) All we needed was a field goal.
The team is bad and MM is worse. Next year will be better, don't die on the sword of defending MM
I told my wife just in time for Marcus to screw up and asks what do you mean? I said he usually fumbles or throws a pick here. I got here out just as he released the ball, sigh.
Hoping to see Ridder next game tbh.
Based on the bye week and the different tone in Smith post-game, i think there's some potential for it.
It's kinda funny that the game that seems to have broken the mariotas back was against a qb drafted after ridder.
What’s funny about that? The falcons have made mediocre talent look down right elite literally all year. Pickett is no exception. He’s objectively not a good quarterback…
Pickett was the Steelers’ first round pick.
Before.
I’m gonna be in my 30s by the time we’re good again. This is so annoying lol.
I'll be in my 40's. They should have won in 2016 during my prime. It's all about me.
Been here, get prepared for joint pain suddenly
I’m jealous
Something something Mariota ain't it, something. I ain't even mad as it, because In all honesty, that penality at the end killed us. Why am I not mad? Because at this point, I expect him to use his arm to us out of games.
begging for ridder
The Falcons have a bunch of money to spend next year. Ridder is a very confident individual, a few bad games wont ruin him. We need to find out what he can do this year so they can spend all of that money on the right positions. Rookie Pickens is going to be better next year because of the experience he gains this year. It would be good for Ridder to gain some experience this year.
Better to shake some rust off now than next year.
It wont matter when he has no one to throw too. They are running one NFL lvl receiver out there and a bunch of practice squad level guys now that Pitts is out. They need to prioritize building depth at that position in the draft and FA. Not saying to overdraft or overpay, but they've got to seriously allocate some resources to a #2 or #3 level receiver so Pitts and London can get more single coverage.
CP should have no less than 15 carries a game. When he’s on the field the chances of scoring go up drastically.
I’m 6”5 I played wide receiver I had a 35 inch vertical I can name off the top of my head the amount of times a ball was too high drake London is 6”5 has a 40 inch vertical……and has a higher wingspan do you know how terrible you gotta be to overthrow a 6”5 guy
Pitts wasn’t available so overthrowing London was the best he could do today.
Man’s is trying to hit ACTUAL Falcons..
Well that about does it
I ride for ridder!!!
After that post game conference...Ridder is in
pLaYOfF CoNteNders!!!
Mariota is an xfl QB
Not even sure about that.
PLAY THE KID
He will next game. He basically said it without saying it when asked just now
What was all that about mariota being a solid qb. Fucking get some balls AS
After the Chargers lost there was a guy here who said that we had an easy 4 game stretch going into the bye and could easily be 8-5...
I mean I thought it was happening too. Gross preformances by the team
29 points in the past two weeks.
Mariota is so bad. The Mariota fanboys need to come to accept the fact that he’s not starting QB material anymore. They remind me of the Ryan apologists that took over the Colts sub lol. For real though, Mariota seems like a nice dude but fuck, enough is enough. Put Ridder in please!
I would call y'all Ridder fanboys but he doesn't deserve you. You'll be gone after he loses a game anyway. Even if it is because of our lousy O-line and our defense which can't tackle. You'll be calling for us to draft a QB the following week.
I mean, Mariota is definitely not starting material but Matt Ryan absolutely is. He’s the only reason that horrible offensive unit has scored any points at all. He’s not MVP Ryan, but he’s middle of the pack average behind the one of the worst lines in history.
Huge MM supporter here… time to move on…
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Half this sub: "actually Mariota played pretty well today" 🤓👍
Does this mean that finally all Falcons merch at Dicks and Academy will be 90% off starting this week?
Defeat once again snatched from the jaws of victory. See you all in two weeks. Arthur Smith has to do better, this one is on him as much as its on Mariota.
Not surprising but another game with no sacks. Team fights but its always coming up short. Well needed bye week coming up
We needed AK badly
This is why i was never really a believer in a run first offense. Its nice and all but it aint winning games, you need a competent pass game to succeed. Run first offenses only work if you have a top 10 defense.
Yet another game that we could have won if just ONE thing went differently. I'm still saying that's an improvement over last year, we're not getting blow out in games, we are either playing TOO conservatively, or one thing happens that knocks us out of TD range, or one dropped pass makes us one score short, etc. But, we can NOT make QBs like Picket look good, he's historically bad.
Launch Mariota into the fucking sun
This was the end of the season, very likely. I’ve tried to remain hopeful, but I don’t see a reason to remain hopeful for a playoff spot this season. Even if we do make it, there’s no reason to risk draft positioning for an early exit in the wild card round. We’ll be embarrassed.
My patience running out. It’s 2023 or nothing with one of the biggest cap spaces in the league. They can nail FA and draft, then the team could sneak into playoffs. Brady may retire and Saints QB/coach situations are murky. Panthers just flat out suck.
The end of the season was the Carolina Thursday night game. If you didn’t realize we was cooked then
I'm glad I was paying more attention to England vs Senegal. This was a horrific performance
Game summary - mother fuck.
We have to start Ridder. We need to know whether or not he has potential or if we need to draft a franchise guy. Let’s get some answers.
While we have a top 5 pick. I agree let ridder start from here on out
refs fucked us and mm is still trash
Two things I'd like to see this season:
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We beat the 49ers
Been a huge fan of Pees so far, but playing that soft when we needed a stop down by 3… about as bad as it gets. Easiest 8 yard pass of Pickett’s life.
Fire smith
We’re 1 game away from a top 5 draft pick with 4 games left and that was the “easiest” game left on the schedule. Young/Stroud are still well in play ladies and gentlemen. Also the perfect time to give Ridder the chance to prove why we don’t need a QB.
No to young or stroud
Idk, Ravens lost Lamar to a knee injury so they are going to be rolling a backup against us.
we would probably need top 3 for one of them, which is highly unlikely at this point
Perfect time to plug Ridder in during the bye week and see what we’ve got. I’m sure others are saying the same but I came here to put my two cents in before I read everyone else’s lmao
Can't wait to see how Arthur Smith spins this for MM. I'm so tired of his 3 word answers for legitimate questions. You can do that when you are winning not when you're 1-5 in your last six.
Sadly the fact that we can still make playoffs somehow will be the only reason Arthur Smith needs to STILL continue to start MM. When DR can just learn on-field live action. You're not gonna learn too much behind MM when he's making these mental mistakes.
On the very, and I repeat, VERY slim chance we make the playoffs, we’re gonna lose that first game. This season is pretty much a waste at this point, so they might as well see what Ridder can do. Can’t be any worse
Nah we'll somehow win the first game and proceed to get mopped by the next team.
This loss is on MM for his shit throws, Dean Pees and that trash ass defense, but I'm mostly pissed with Arthur. If you're going to play Mariota, then fucking acknowledge that he's terrible at throwing the ball. Why wait until late in the 3rd Q to run the football?!!
Good Lord.
Their tackling was trash, but you can’t lose back to back games where your defense only gives up nineteen points.
Bro please just play Ridder😭 there’s literally no way we make the playoffs with Mariota and even if we COULD there’s no way Ridder can do worse than he has
This had basically all the facets of a Falcons loss: close game, ref calls, Mariota, penalties (new feature!), bad clock management, soft coverage, getting run on, and Koo our only hope. Like a Thanksgiving dinner of the Falcons experience!
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Playoffs? We really talking bout playoffs?💀
We have given up less than 23 pts in 8 games (would put us in top half of the league is why I chose that number).
Yeah. They definitely deserve some blame today but they only gave up nineteen points. Can’t lose like that in back to back weeks
Yes. The offense is so one dimensional. If the run game doesn’t work perfectly we lose. And this in a passing league.
What is that? 1-5 in the "easiest" part of our schedule? Season's over. We should see what Ridder has now.
Can we agree we are trash yet? And give Ridder a shot to see what he can do? Seems like not a bad idea going into offseason at least having some clue what we have in him.
BENCH MARIOTA
Ridder please please please please
Bench him.
I’m not sure I’ve seen a less clutch QB than Mariota. Dude always comes up with a costly pick or a fumble on possible game winning drives every week.
Are there seriously any people left on this subreddit trying to defend Mariota?
I'm not defending Mariota but I de believe we are limited by our roster.
There isn't anyone defending him. More people defending the coach is discretion on when it's time. I do not believe anyone on this sub is a Marriotta Stan.
There is believe it or not
The fact that this team can still make the playoffs is so laughable.
we have the same record and have no shot 😭😭
We are the worst team in the nfc south
I’m glad I get to enjoy next sunday
I understand we were supposed to be bad, but this is the fifth straight year of the Falcons being total garbage. I don’t know how much longer I can take this.
Falcons haven’t missed the playoffs in five straight seasons since the 80s btw. Thanks Dimitroff!
Total garage is the Texans. You guys are competitive.
Difference is, those first four years they kept telling you they were going to be good.
If they don’t play Ridder I will lose faith in Smith at least give it a go man
It doesn’t make any sense until we have weapons and a situation that is favorable for him.
The game was over when they decided to kick the fg instead of going for the 4th down.
Idk man Mariota is ass
It was a fourth and ten and Mariota’s your QB. They had no chance going for it
I wish I didn’t love the Falcons.
It’s just fucking frustrating to watch this team continue to barely lose every single game but have zero offense to get caught up.
Excited to see the Mariota Stans defend the pick and his play
Lol what did you want him to do on the pick, pressure comes up the middle. If he throws it away its intentional grounding and you get a safety. No one else was open. Im excited to ridder but please stop this shit
Mariota seems like a good guy, but man, he just inspires zero confidence in crunch time
Just 👏 play 👏 Ridder
On the bright side, we went from the 15th overall pick to the 11th overall pick and possibly 9th overall depending on the Raiders and Colts games
marcus mariota needs to be banned from the city of Atlanta immediately
Yes pls
I heard a rumor they're thinking of putting Mariota's skillset to use and sending him to Afghanistan. They wanna use him to overthrow the Taliban
Lolololol
All in for Lamar next season is the only option
Burn the franchise
It’s Ridder time 😎
13 games still no 100 yard receiving game