The Falcons have had their chances. The number of games they’ve lost this season in maddening, last-second fashion would be sufficient to have them near the top of the NFC if you flipped the outcomes. Especially after the firing of Dan Quinn, the defense has repeatedly kept them in games and waited in vain for the offense to get them a win.
Atlanta has instead lost. They’ve lost in a number of horrific, embarrassing ways this year, but it seems fitting that perhaps their most horrific and embarrassing was against a Chargers team notorious for losing that way too.