Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz, senior NFL writer Jori Epstein, and NFL writer Frank Schwab discuss whether the Falcons win over the Eagles proved that they’ve fixed their flaws from Week 1 or if it just covered up some of their same issues. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on , , or
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What about the Falcons?
Because obviously the Falcons, the sky was falling.
Week one.
Well, then they get an incredible win.
Week two offense looks completely different.
Joey, like this was a, a reimagining of what the Falcons were gonna look like week two after what we saw in week one.
Yeah, I think what I liked is that after week one, you had all this is Kirk actually healthy.
Can he be mobile?
He had like the fewest yards per drop back in terms of his movement in the pocket in week one in his career since they were starting to track it and, and you had all these questions and then you go to week two and it’s like, oh, ok, he can move, he can do play action, he can get out of the pocket.
He’s gonna be fine.
Bijon Robinson is really, really talented.
I think that the other thing that was super interesting to me is I don’t know if you guys saw a clip that sir Rob tweeted out from the Manning cast.
When Matt Ryan was talking about how when he would switch teams, the two minute drill was one of his favorite things because the two minute drill is like fairly consistent, no matter what scheme you’re in.
Staple plays, you know what you’re doing.
And so for Kirk cousins to be able to say like, hey, this is not something scheme dependent that I’m learning for the first year.
I’m going to go into autopilot on this drive.
But I do think that the Falcons really have a belief level in him that they did not have before Monday night, the downside, they have the Kansas City Chiefs coming this week.
So we’ll see what that does for them.
I think you guys would be way too positive on the Falcons coming out a week too.
Come on if Sequa Barkley catches that pass, what conversation are we having about the Falcons?
We’re having conversation that they have scored exactly two touchdowns in two weeks.
Now, obviously, Kirk gets the second chance does a lot with it.
But like you said, joy, like that’s two minutes.
Really?
Finally, I felt a little bit comfortable and let it fly a little bit and ball games come down to that all the time.
So being able to execute that matters, it does.
It absolutely does.
And they could springboard this to something better, but he can’t run the two minute throw all the time in their functional drive to drive offense.
They were pretty bad until the end of that game.
And look, I, you know, I’d have to write a game story that, that pops up at yahoo.com immediately after the game is done.
And until the moment sew Barkley dropped that pass, the entire story was this Falcon’s offense still isn’t right.
They only scored one touchdown tonight, Kirk because it looked better, but it all looked great.
And so this one drive change, all of that, maybe, uh, maybe again, Kirks got to Dr R off and all this kind of stuff, but I give him less of a, honestly, I give him less of a pass than I do Caleb Williams or Bicks or whoever because he has done this for so long that there shouldn’t be that much of an adjustment period.
I get the injury, I get the age.
I, I, I’m still a little concerned about the Falcons reaching the levels we thought they could reach.
No, it’s, it, they needed that win so bad.
One and one is so much better than O and two, but I’m still not on this train of the Falcons have figured it all out.
I think they had one good drive.