A reporter at the NFL's annual league meetings asked Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank about his assessment of the team's 2024 season, prefacing his question with how the year started and how it ended up.
Blank cut him off, jokingly.
"Six and three, two-game lead [in the division] -- I got it," Blank said Tuesday, drawing laughs from the gathered media.
After Week 9, the Falcons had completed a two-game sweep of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, their biggest threat in the NFC South, and were 4-0 in division play. The rest of the way, Atlanta went 2-6, missing the playoffs for the seventh straight season.