FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. -- It went surprisingly well. Were there mistakes made by quarterback Desmond Ridder in his preseason Atlanta Falcons debut? Yeah, of course. He’s a rookie. It’s going to happen.
But one game into what he hopes is a long NFL career, it went about as smoothly as one could hope, especially playing with second- and third-team players.
“It wasn’t that much faster than college,” Ridder said. “I was just going out here, making my reads and doing what I’m doing every single day out here. I felt like I was comfortable.