Destroyed. Wrecked. Pummeled. If you have a world that conjures up destruction and lopsided outcomes, you could use it to describe what happened to the Falcons Sunday then they traveled to face the Bears.
For the Atlanta Falcons, the gulf between the story the team tells about themselves and the product on the field has been wide in a way that makes that story unbelievable. Against the Bears on the road, the Falcons opened up a Grand Canyon-sized gulf between the story—the scrappy team that hangs around late, the team a play or two away, the team that has the answers for quality offenses and can grind teams to dust via their ground game—and the reality of a shaky, inconsistent squad that now has wrapped up its sixth straight losing season.