This Falcons season ended in very different fashion than it began.
At the beginning, a listless effort against Philadelphia quickly gave way to a calvacade of injuries that played a huge role in the team’s 1-4 start. Those injuries and that start convinced most of us in short order that the Falcons were pretty dead in the water, and while they did reel off two separate three game winning streaks this year, they were interrupted by a five game losing streak that revealed weaknesses of coaching, talent and execution that could not simply be chalked up to injuries.