Falcons Lose: Special Teams

One final note for today.  I will have the full special teams stuff on Tuesday, but the special teams were just awful Saturday.  As much as anything, BG struggled to stay close due to terrible special teams issues.  That's going to have to get fixed.  The good thing is that no one can be under the illusion that it was anything other than undateable.

Just to run through it....

Punt returns of 47, 34 and 21 yards.

A kickoff return of 67 yards plus a penalty (just when BG had cut the lead to 8)

A blocked FG

A KO OB

Penalties on 2 kick returns

A player who ran OB on the 4 on a kick that was headed into the end zone or OB.

That's 8 special teams mistakes.  That's not going to help you win.  Some of that is Tennessee...their return guys were hard to tackle, no doubt, but they had huge holes to run through, so I don't really put much on them.  The OB KO came after BG had been putting it through the end zone.  The penalties on kickoff returns are on us.  Anyway, it was ugly, making a big challenge nearly impossible.

On the positive side, Tyler Tate made 3 FGs and Joseph Davidson absolutely drilled the ball, only to be let down by his coverage.