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Watching the alignments/reads this week was pretty eye opening.
I wonder if the reason the Falcons do such a poor job against the pass is that they do a really poor job of disguising coverages. I'd say about 2/3 of the plays I could look at the alignment pre-snap and know where the ball was going. The Falcons did a really bad job of making it look like they had coverage where they didn't.
I think it was a 3rd down play where Hill lined in the slot and you could see that he had 1 on 1 vs. a LB - so of course Smith hit him quick, he made a single move and went for 20ish. A play or two later was the same story with Kelce.
You could just look at the formation, find the 1 on 1 matchup vs. a linebacker or safety and know that either Hill, Kelce or Ware was going to have room to work. The Falcons DC was playing checkers all day and Reid/Smith were making him pay for it.
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