The Atlanta Falcons entered the season with lofty goals, but have disappointed with a 1-3 start.
"Well, I am concerned about a 1-3 start," Arthur Blank said. "I don't know anyone who would say that's where we had planned on being or that's where we had hoped to be, but we are 1-3."
Each of the Falcons' losses have come by one score or less. They are 28th in the league in total yards and have suffered a series of major injuries on defense.
"This is not excuses, but reality is reality," Blank said of the injuries. "We've had some very difficult injuries to really good players. All three of the players, people talk in baseball when the middle has to be good: your catch, your pitcher, your second baseman, and then the center fielder. So when you lose Allen and Neal and Deion Jones, those are kind of the middle of that defense. So that hurts.
"And all three of those guys are really good communicators. They not only play at a very high level in their own right, but they get everybody else in the right positions. They make everybody else better."