Absolutely no excuses for Atlanta Falcons in week 3

This has been a painful year so far for the Atlanta Falcons, but in the NFL things can take a quick turn for any team.

This is a huge week for the Falcons as they are taking on an opponent who is not a better team. These are the games you must win if you want any hope of making the playoffs. Some might say that they already have no hope to make the playoffs – while that is most likely the case – you still never know in the NFL.

There are absolutely no excuses for the Falcons to not leave New York with a win.

The Atlanta Falcons have had two very different weeks so far. Week one they took on the Eagles at home in a game most expected them to have a great chance in winning, they did everything but show they could beat Philly. They may have started out the game playing great on offense, for the most part, but they ended up stumbling for the rest of the game.

Week two they took on the defending Super Bowl champions who were clearly the better team on paper going into the game. The Falcons started out ugly, then played like a winning team, and then ended ugly.

This week it must start pretty and end pretty, Arthur Smith and his team have zero excuses for anything different.

Arthur simply cannot have a horrible start like he had against Tampa Bay. It was brutal to watch. He looked like he had no idea what to do, how to manage the game, or what to call on offense. To his credit, he figured it out in the middle of the game but it was an inexcusable game for the head coach.

The Giants are coming off a heartbreaker against Washington. They lost the game due to a mental mistake by Dexter Lawrence on the game-winning field goal by Washington. This team will play their hardest against Atlanta but the Falcons are the better team as a whole so they cannot allow New York to win this.

This is an early pivot game in Arthur Smith’s career, going 0-3 to start your coaching career is not pretty. He must call a good game and walk away with the first win of his coaching career.