Atlanta Falcons destroyed by Carolina Panthers, 38-0
By John Buhler
The Atlanta Falcons were easily blown out by their division rival in the Carolina Panthers Sunday afternoon in Charlotte, getting shutout in Week 14, 38-0.
The Atlanta Falcons just keep on losing football games. They have now lost a league-worst six straight games after being held scoreless at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte by the Carolina Panthers, falling to their NFC South rival, 38-0.
This was the first time that the Atlanta Falcons had been shamelessly shut out since December 4th, 2004 by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. If you remember the pasting the Atlanta Falcons received in Week 17 in the NFC South Division Championship game in 2014, this was worse.
Every loss this season, the Atlanta Falcons at one point or another were within a score of two of winning a football game. Today, Cam Newton, Tedd Ginn Jr. and the rest of the Carolina Panthers offense torched the Atlanta Falcons early and often. It will be a very quiet and sad plane ride home for the Atlanta Falcons this Sunday.
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With both the St. Louis Rams and the Cleveland Browns getting wins in Week 14, their isn’t a team playing worse football than the 6-7 Atlanta Falcons. This team hasn’t won in almost two months and the persistent defeats finally caught up to the team, getting clobbered by an NFC juggernaut in the Carolina Panthers. With the Panthers’ 13th victory on the year, they have clinched at least a first-round bye in the NFC Playoffs. Only the 11-2 Arizona Cardinals can eclipse Carolina in the NFC Standings.
No doubt that Carolina was the better team on the gridiron today, but the play from the Atlanta secondary was the worst it has been all season. I get that the Carolina Panthers have quietly become of one the best offenses in football, but how does Ted Ginn, Jr., a player notorious for dropping big time passes, torch you for two massive aerial strikes. By the time it was 21-0 Panthers, the game was well out of reach.
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If there were two silver linings to this blowout lose to the Panthers for the Falcons, they were that Matt Ryan wasn’t terrible and the pass rush got to Cam Newton a couple of times. How the once-mighty 2015 Atlanta Falcons have fallen. This loss essentially removes all doubt that this team is not going to make the NFC Playoffs for the third consecutive year. It’s that time of the year where Falcons’ fans need to prepare for who the club may take in the 2016 NFL Draft. What a disaster this season is becoming.