The Atlanta Falcons’ hog stomping up at FedEx Sunday provoked plenty of strong reactions from your dear columnist.
Lots of garbled cheers, looks of sincere befuddlement and sighs of relief punctuated the afternoon. The 3-4 Falcons beat a really sound 5-2 Washington team, a team built to punk out exactly what that 3-4 Falcons team was bad at. They didn’t just beat them. They roasted them over an open fire and served them up to the entire Falcony crowd up in D.C.
It felt good to win like that again.
Washington’s top-5 defense looked lost when it came to defending a fiery Falcons offensive attack, and the piecemeal Atlanta defense got stops against a unit that, while a bit clipped, could still do plenty to give the Falcons problems.