Anyone who knows me well will tell you that I’m a pessimist in most every aspect of my life, with the exception of the Falcons. For whatever reason, this rolling barrel of disappointment has become the thing I’m most optimistic about every year, which has occasionally turned out to be smart (2012, 2016) and mostly not (2014, 2007, many other years). I look at them and hope for the best, and sometimes expect the best.
So it went with Julio Jones. Now that we know the gifted receiver will be holding out of training camp, perhaps for a day or perhaps for the entire thing, we know that optimism was unwarranted.