As the Falcons roll into Thursday night to play and potentially lose to Washington, it’s an excellent time to take a deep breath and remember what really matters about preseason.
This matters because the Falcons are on a pretty phenomenal run of preseason futility. If you count the Hall of Fame Game, the Falcons have dropped their last 11 straight, the kind of streak that would see Dan Quinn fired out of a cannon and into the sun if it happened ni the regular season. Faced with that streak, you get takes ranging from “preseason literally could not matter less, you odious cretins” to “preseason is a harbinger of things to come and Dan Quinn is doomed, you loathsome morons.