The NFL season is roughly a fourth of the way over (thanks, added week, for throwing off the fraction), and the Atlanta Falcons are sitting at the bottom of the division.
That’s to be expected since it doesn’t look like the team is a division challenger right now, with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Carolina Panthers sitting at 3-1 and the New Orleans Saints at 2-2 and coming off a fluky loss to the New York Giants.
Let’s survey how the rivals are doing right now at the kind of quarter pole.