The Falcons’ offensive line is banged up. How banged up? So banged up that their right tackle is a tight end.
The Falcons ran out of offensive linemen, had to play TE Levine Toilolo at RT
What happens when you run out of linemen? Random players have to fill in, and that isn’t pretty.
Not surprisingly, Levine Toilolo, the TE forced into playing RT, got smoked on that Matt Ryan sack. pic.twitter.com/ewo2bnPYBS
— Josh Katzowitz (@joshkatzowitz) September 28, 2014 That’s Levine Toilolo, the Stanford product, getting beaten badly off the edge. He’s not even their blocking TE -- that’d be Bear Pascoe -- and he looked lost. He’s understandably unsure as to how to get into the right stance, and just wasn’t ready to face a starting-caliber defensive end who had size, technique and experience on him.
How did the Falcons get here? Well, first, starting LG Justin Blalock left the game with a back injury. That was fixed by Gabe Carimi coming in at RG while starting RG Jon Asamoah slid over to the left. Then starting RT Lamar Holmes went down with a foot injury. Carimi slid over to right tackle while backup C Peter Konz went in at RG. Then starting center Joe Hawley went down. All other backup linemen were inactive, so they were left with Toilolo at RT.
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