FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The Atlanta Falcons' 2024 season ended Sunday with a 44-38 overtime loss to the Carolina Panthers.

Less than 24 hours later, the 2025 offseason began in Atlanta.

Falcons head coach Raheem Morris certainly wasted no time in declaring as much Monday as he opened his end-of-season press conference with a pointed proclamation.

"Obviously disappointed for us, our organization and our fan base," Morris said. "But our work starts today, 2025 starts today."

The disappointment stems from the Falcons' 8-9 record featuring just one more win than the previous three seasons under former head coach Arthur Smith, despite so much promise with Morris' hiring in the offseason.

The disappointment follows the fact Atlanta has had six different starting quarterbacks in the past four seasons, its third with a midseason change at the position.

The disappointment continues with Atlanta's seventh consecutive losing season without a playoff berth.

And with such results everything comes into question.

Given the defense's performance against the Panthers, which Morris himself called "awful," one of the first questions was about defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake.

Morris, however, avoided naming any specific names.

"We got to evaluate all of our coaches," Morris said. "We got to evaluate all of our players. We got to evaluate everything that we do from the whole program's standpoint. And we will do those things. That's what starts today. That's when we'll get out there and get those things going. We'll have a couple of days, couple of weeks, couple of everything to evaluate everything. We'll have a chance to get back together and really talk about these things. That's the process that happens now."

The Falcons entered the 2024 season with 33 coaches. That count includes Morris, Lake, offensive coordinator Zac Robinson and special teams coordinator Marquice Williams.

Twenty-three of those coaches, like Morris, Lake and Robinson, were new to the Falcons' staff. Ten were retained, such as Williams.

In this sport, consistency is rare. Change is inevitable.

"There'll never be anything that's the same in the National Football League, whether it's players, whether it's coaches, whatever the case may be," Morris said. "Since I've been here, since I've been lucky enough to be in the league, that's just how it is. We'll do those things now."

The process has already begun.

Chandler Whitmer, who was the Falcons’ pass game specialist, has already been hired at the University of Indiana as the Hoosiers' co-offensive coordinator and quarterback coach.

It remains to be seen if more dominoes will fall.

"There's always going to be changes from all standpoints and there's always going to be changes you can do, especially when you start the evaluation process," Morris said. "I think the thing about being brutally honest with yourself, I think it's about being brutally honest with each other and really having the ability to go out there and really participate in order to do the best thing for our fan base and our fans."