Before the 2022 NFL season, The Athletic’s Mike Sando polled five NFL executives from a variety of roles and asked them to rank teams from both the AFC and the NFC. The Atlanta Falcons were ranked as the worst team in the NFC ahead of last year by those execs, one in a parade of awful predictions for the team that turned out to be entirely too dour. The Falcons tied for the 12th-best record in the conference a year ago.
After a productive offseason that has earned Atlanta some buzz as a contender, has the view in the league changed?