Winter is coming.
And, this time, it’s cheesy.
This doesn’t mean you can celebrate Christmas in July, where we sit now, awaiting training camp, not the hoped-for playoff push the Falcons may embark on late in the season. However, begin to imagine a certain green-and-yellow tundra cracking back open in a big way, and that storied team being Atlanta’s most difficult challenge outside of their own locker room next season to get back to the Super Bowl.
The NFC is shaping up to be a bear, but consider the fun of schedule strength. It’s hard for teams to lock down top playoff seeding with first place schedules; and two conference heavyweights, Philadelphia and New Orleans, will have to face just that.