The Atlanta Falcons never stop believing in themselves. That’s trite as hell, but it’s true, and Dan Quinn kept trying to tell us that this team would not fold and would not quit. They refused to sell at the deadline and they’ve largely resisted calls to bring in outside help, outside of low-grade signings like Bruce Carter and Sharrod Neasman. It’s just one highly encouraging week, but it appears there might have been something to that all along.
Consider what the Falcons did today. They beat up at 5-2 Washington team on the road that was clearly vulnerable, but had played an awful lot of close games.