The Atlanta Falcons are us. They are not the Patriots, achieving a bewildering and frankly unrealistic amount of success. They are not the Browns, putrid and sitcom bad. They are the Falcons, who build and build and build and find they’ve forgotten the roof. They are human.
The loss today did not spell the end of this Falcons season, or anything close to it. At 1-2 they are in the divisional hunt and need a lucky break or two to climb back in it, and anyone who tells you otherwise is simply wallowing in this loss.