I scrapped my typical one reason to feel confident, one reason to worry format for this week because honestly there aren’t many on-paper reasons to worry. The Carolina Panthers are a bad football team; the Falcons are still finding their way but are clearly somewhere between interesting and good. Logically, they should dominate this game.
We all know logic has little to do with the Falcons, however, and we know that they have a nasty habit of playing poorly against seemingly inferior competition. In 2023 alone, they barely squeaked by the awful Jets, lost to the one-win Panthers, and got smoked by the six win Bears.