When did your eye start twitching? When did your heart pick up the pace? When did you start thinking “oh man, here we go again?”
The Atlanta Falcons have made us into nervous football fans over the years, and even if your doubts only cropped up for a fleeting moment, I have little doubt that they appeared in unwelcome fashion when the Falcons went down early, allowed that last minute touchdown drive to the Panthers in the first half, or at some other point. The Falcons have dropped too many of these games—the ones that should be laughers against bad teams like Carolina—to not spark worry.