Hawks #1 D has had same issues last two preseasons as well.
Father time has caught up with this core. They are above average, and can be great on certain nights when at home and the 12's are feeling it.
But a above average qb with an average OL can dink and dunk them all game. You add the fact they only created 19 to's last year and you get where they are at.
Put the Hawks in any other division other than the NFC worst and AFC south and they are a wild card team.
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NOC. Least of all the players on the field.
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Father time has caught up with this core. They are above average, and can be great on certain nights when at home and the 12's are feeling it.
But a above average qb with an average OL can dink and dunk them all game. You add the fact they only created 19 to's last year and you get where they are at.
Put the Hawks in any other division other than the NFC worst and AFC south and they are a wild card team.
"But for a third straight game the defense allowed a long scoring drive to open the game — this week it was a 63-yard, 14-play march for a field goal.
Carroll later blamed much of it on what he thought was some poor form tackling, specifically in not having the needed pad level.
“We can do better,’’ Carroll said. “I thought we saw a couple of things fundamentally that we need to really go to work on and zero in on.’’