How Injuries and Defense Impacted the Falcons' Offense

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00:00With the Falcons offense side of the ball, they end up losing two offensive tackles,

00:09their center and one offensive tackle throughout the game.

00:11Do you think that that kind of, not kind of, but do you think that impacted their progressions

00:15or were they just kind of struggling with the run game to begin with?

00:18Because I felt like they were getting some moments of success, but then Chiefs defense,

00:22they kept coming in strong.

00:23They kept applying that pressure.

00:25It's probably a combination of both, like obviously injuries aren't going to help anyone

00:29and like the outside run play that they're doing with Robinson in the first half, like

00:33that was working at least a bit and it comes down to the injuries and then of course Spagnuolo

00:38like making adjustments.

00:39So, it's like they probably meet in the middle, it's like if they didn't have the injuries,

00:42they probably had a little more success, but ultimately, like we know, there's a great

00:46defensive coordinator that can make those adjustments, so the injuries certainly don't

00:49help.

00:50So, that's probably like the rational way to view it.

00:53We can just view it as saying like, oh, the Falcons continue to struggle at run game,

00:57like they need to get things going.

00:58It's like, it's probably not the case.

01:00Like if you had a fully healthy offensive line, it probably would have been okay in

01:03the second half, but I still trust Spagnuolo to like make in-game adjustments probably

01:08as good as anyone.