The Atlanta Falcons came into this game with three straight wins against divisional opponents, sitting at 4-3 and atop the NFC South. The Seahawks were, as I suggested in my previews this week, a better team than recent results had indicated, but it was reasonable to think this would be a hard-fought win or close loss in the end.
The fact that it wasn’t was equal parts jarring and alarming. The Falcons didn’t just lose this game, they got smoked in every phase of it. The offense was disjointed and leaned away from the run at its own peril, saw Cousins make a couple of huge mistakes, and on top of it all, lost Matthew Bergeron in this one.