I was there and I can tell you we were soundly beaten on the offensive and defensive lines. They were down their best WR and in the 4th quarter down their top 2 WR's. It didn't matter. They just kept pounding us and we didn't fight back.
I kept telling everyone this was a litmus test game for us today. We failed. You knew it was only a matter of time before defensives caught up with us. Let's see what kind of response Kubiak has and what adjustments he makes.
We are woefully short of playmakers. Outside of Kamara and Olave we lack fire power. Shaheed is a feast or famine guy and we saw that today. He's our deep threat and probably is suited to be a #3 or #4. Olave is a 1/2. After that the drop off is evident.
Defensively we made stops when we had to but getting what was effectively 3 turnovers with the block punt and 2 INT's our offense couldn't capitalize. The last play where the TE ran wild down to our 3-4 yard line was just comedy.
The score was not indicative of how badly we were overmatched on the LOS.
I think next week will be a tough one for us. ATL is a scrappy team. Cousins I think is a step or two above Carr. Being that the game is at their yard I think it could be a major challenge for us to go in there and win.
Ugly game today. Time to turn the page tomorrow and adjust our expectations of what this team is and is not.