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Falcons vs. Jets 2015: Starting wheat, backup chaff, and more notes from Week 2 of preseason

Last night was more or less the perfect representation of a preseason game. It featured an exciting performance from the starters, and it proceeded to obliterate all the good feelings generated by said performance with three quarters of mediocre, penalty-ridden football.

The sour feeling that arises after watching the second-and-third stringers bumble and fumble through most of the game erases what's actually important here, which is that the starters killed it. Scoring at will against the Titans is one thing, but when you're pushing past one of the league's best front sevens and Darrelle Revis, you have to feel good.