After a shaky Week 1 road victory over the Chicago Bears in which the offense looked vanilla and the defense did just enough to get the win, fans and pundits were unconvinced. “Sarkisian cannot run an NFL offense”, “the Falcons will regress in 2017”, “how could Atlanta possibly avoid a Super Bowl hangover?”. All were par for the course after an offseason that saw only a few respect the Falcons as frontrunners in the NFC.
There will be no hangover for the Falcons in 2017
