Falcons Display Improvement, Credit Goes to A. Smith
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00:03 - You know, I gotta give credit where credit is due
00:07 to Arthur Smith because I have had some very choice words
00:10 for Mr. Smith in the history of fantasy sports today.
00:14 And I mean, clearly a big part of what's wrong
00:17 with the Falcons and why Drake London
00:19 is not a top 10 wide receiver,
00:20 why Kyle Pitts doesn't score 15 points a game.
00:24 I mean, they know they don't have a quarterback.
00:26 He looks at their quarterback room and he's like,
00:27 "All right, we got Desmond Ritter.
00:29 "We got to, I mean, imagine this team with Joe Flacco.
00:32 "Imagine the Falcons with Joe Flacco."
00:34 Kyle Pitts would be getting 20 points.
00:35 You'd be like, "I can't imagine how easy it is
00:38 "to win fantasy football when Joe Flacco
00:40 "is throwing Kyle Pitts all these passes."
00:42 But the last three weeks of the season,
00:45 Kyle Pitts has been running the highest percentage
00:48 of routes of his entire Falcons career.
00:51 Drake London last week was the most targets
00:53 he'd ever had in a game 20 yards down the field or more.
00:56 And Bijan Robinson, 78%, 75%, and 75% of the snaps
01:01 in three of the four last games for the Falcons.
01:07 He is giving his best players the ball.
01:10 And when you give your best players the ball,
01:12 what happens?
01:13 You beat the Jets, you beat the Saints,
01:16 really narrow loss to the Arizona Cardinals
01:18 where Kyler played really well in that game,
01:21 had a nice little fourth quarter drive.
01:23 I, yeah, you're starting London, you're starting Pitts,
01:25 you're starting Bijan.
01:26 I think a corner has really turned with Robinson,
01:29 specifically in the passing game.
01:31 They've just been targeting him a ton.
01:33 And maybe more importantly, deeper down the field.
01:35 You know, he scored that nice,
01:36 what was it, a 27-yard touchdown two weeks ago.
01:39 Like he just is, I mean, he's a running back.
01:41 He took in the first round.
01:42 What do you expect?
01:43 Like the dude's really good.
01:45 For the Panthers, I mean, Bryce Young last week,
01:50 negative 3.3 EPA per play.
01:54 So every time Bryce Young dropped back to pass the ball,
01:56 the Panthers were losing 0.3 expected points per play.
02:01 That is, I mean, I've never seen anything that bad.
02:05 And what do you do?
02:06 I guess that's the weird thing is like,
02:08 if this owner's kind of a moron, what GM, what coach,
02:12 what offensive coordinator, what free,
02:14 I mean, I guess they can give T. Higgins
02:16 like the biggest contract he could ever imagine
02:19 in the off season, and that would help.
02:21 But like, what do you, like literally,
02:23 what do you even do?
02:23 You don't have a first round pick.
02:25 I think you don't even have a third round pick.
02:26 What do you do?
02:27 I don't know.
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