4 Atlanta Falcons that let the team down against the Saints

1. A.J. Terrell

One awful game against the New Orleans Saints doesn’t wipe away the elite corner Terrell is becoming or the strides he has made. However, there is no dancing around the fact that Terrell is a large part of the reason the Falcons lost the game on Sunday. In the 4th quarter with the game on the line, Jameis Winston was unafraid to target Terrell who was on Michael Thomas for key plays down the stretch.

Thomas beat Terrell regularly showing the corner up in Michael’s return to action. While part of this is due to the great talent that Thomas is, Terrell played far too timidly getting beaten by Thomas and failing to make up the distance to be in a position to make a play on the ball.

Terrell is going to want to burn the tape he will be forced to watch back this week reviewing what went wrong for Atlanta. Terrell is far from the main reason Atlanta lost but there is no denying he wasn’t the player he was consistently last season and failed to stop a player in Thomas who has spent much of the last two seasons on the IR. As talented as Thomas is one would think Terrell would have a slight advantage in his first game back. Instead, Terrell was toasted and Thomas was integral to the Saints’ impressive 4th quarter comeback.