Falcons QB Matt Ryan

RE: How do you go from 6-1 to 6-7?
“You play poorly. To me that’s how you do that, and we’ve done it differently throughout different times of the season but today, to me, was about as bad as we can play and that’s frustrating.”

Falcons head coach Dan Quinn

RE: Opening statement
“Carolina is the best the league has to offer right now, but our performance was totally unacceptable. Too many explosives defensively that put us way behind, then couldn’t convert or move some of the opportunities offensively that we are capable of, got us way behind. That part was extremely disappointing, totally unacceptable performance for us.”

RE: Would you say this is the worst performance you had this year?
“No question about it. We’ve been in some close games, ones that went both ways, but that was not the case today.”