 This is the Late Round Podcast with your host JJ Sacarisa. Over the Atlanta Falcons' first eight games of the season, they average 0.9 sacks and 3.6 quarterback hits per game. Over their last two games, so since their bye week, that sack number has gone from 0.9 to 5.5, and the quarterback hits have gone from 3.6 to 10.5 per game. And this isn't one game skewing those numbers. They've had 6-5 sacks over their last two contests, and then 11-10 quarterback hits in those two games as well. This may seem like complete randomness, but Dan Quinn evidently handed off all defensive play calling duties to his assistants after their bye week, which was three weeks ago. There was reportedly a bit of a transition beforehand, but the Falcons shook it all up at their bye week. Atlanta's not the pushover that they were defensively earlier this year.