Two hours ago, I wrote you a friendly little reminder that the Atlanta Falcons are good, fine, and not to be fretted over. Now, though, we gotta talk about that last game, and there just isn’t much I can do to sugarcoat how awful that loss was. It was, thanks to its close margin, ugliness, and general level of frustration, hopefully the worst loss of the year. It just may not prove to be a significant one, once we’ve put our in-game feelings aside.
The Falcons were horrendously unlucky to lose this one. Cruelly, they lost this one by like a yard, after a game where they lost key players like Julio Jones and Mohamed Sanu, saw the referees fatally flub a fumble call that was not accurate and gave the Bills their margin of victory, and deal with some of the most cringeworthy, avoidable turnovers and mistakes they’ve committed in a little while.