1. BIG COACHING CHALLENGE: Falcons coach Dan Quinn and his coaching staff face their first major challenge of the season on Sunday.
Quinn got the Falcons off to a 5-0 start, despite not playing particularly sound football.
Now, they’ve hit a rough patch of four games and have dropped three of them.
There’s been shaky play (turnovers), shaky play-calling (Where’s Roddy?) and a bad decision to kick a field goal, when they needed a touchdown to take the lead against San Francisco. Not trying to take the lead from the 1-plus yard line and throwing passes behind the sticks on third downs are cardinal sins in the Cover9@9 football book.