Consider what 2020 brought for the Atlanta Falcons. It was a junky, janky year for most of us, but for this organization it was exactly the kind of reckoning year we weren’t supposed to have to endure.
In 2020, the Falcons:
- Came into the season having decided that a 6-2 stretch at the end of the 2019 season was an indication of Who the Falcons Truly Were instead of a post-bye bounce that wasn’t necessarily guaranteed to translate into wins the next season. That meant the possibility of a lame duck year where the team would continue to ring up major cap charges without a lot of wins, which meant a new regime would have to get creative if they didn’t want to blow up the team in 2021.