You don’t necessarily need to abandon ship if there’s a little water in the hold. Maybe it would be even more absurd to suggest that you shouldn’t look into, you know, why there’s water in the hold in the first place.
The Falcons told us they were seaworthy. I wrote earlier this summer that this was a deliberate choice, a bit of swagger from Terry Fontenot after a spring of carefully noting that the Falcons would not make decisions in 2021 that hurt their chances of contending in 2022 and 2023. That was a bold stance, considering Atlanta was rummaging in the discount bin for free agents and moved a generational wide receiver in Julio Jones, but there was enough headliner talent here and a coaching staff most of us agreed looked like an upgrade over Dan Quinn and Dirk Koetter, at the very least.