Falcons Critics ‘Don’t Know Football!’ Coach Dean Pees Fires Back

Dean Pees finds himself in an odd spot. The defensive coordinator of the Atlanta Falcons was proper in the course of his crew’s almost-win in Week 1, what turned a 27-26 loss to New Orleans that got here late for the Saints as a result of their clutch play …

And, in keeping with some observers, as a result of Pees dialing it again from the stress he’d used to earlier success within the recreation.

However, Pees now responds: “I do not know who the heck thinks we … performed smooth protection within the fourth quarter. The (critic) would not know something about soccer.”

It might probably definitely be argued that the Falcons gained early with coordinator Pees utilizing stress ideas to hassle Saints QB Jameis Winston with 4 sacks – an enormous step up from a 12 months in the past, when Atlanta’s 18 sacks marked an NFL low.

So what modified late?

Did Winston and Michael Thomas – along with his two TD catches – merely outplay Atlanta?

Did the Falcons, proper up and down the roster and proper up and down the teaching employees, gag? 

Did Pees goof by rolling right into a form of “forestall protection” as a result of he had a lead?

The 73-year-old defensive wizard adamantly denies that, explaining, slightly, that there have been a handful of blown assignments late.

Whereas the media and the fan base could also be smarter than ever in regards to the intricacies of soccer, we have all the time tended to present the “in-the-arena” performer the advantage of the doubt. Talking solely personally, having coated the NFL for 40 years: If we’re in a room with Dean Pees (and we have been in a variety of rooms with lots of people on his degree) … we normally do not do a lot arguing.

We lean extra towards listening and studying.

That does not make Pees proper. However perhaps a techno examine does.

Per The Athletic: “Atlanta blitzed on a better proportion of drop-backs within the fourth quarter (35.7 %) than it did in both the primary (28.6 %) or second quarters (12.5 %), in keeping with TruMedia. The Falcons blitzed 44.4 % of the time within the third quarter.”

That does not sound like Pees, up 26-10 coming into the fourth quarter, “went conservative” or “referred to as off the canines” or “acquired smooth.”

It appears to us, extra merely, Pees’ Falcons simply “acquired

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