The new season has only just begun and the Falcons are already needing to dig themselves out of a hole if they wish to be in any sort of postseason contention. The Birds sit at 0-2, a mark that not one single team in the NFL bounced back from to make it to the playoffs last season.
A road loss against the defending champion Los Angeles Rams in a game where the team nearly came back from a 28-3 deficit is nothing to be ashamed of, but “almost” doesn’t matter in the win-loss column — it still gets marked down as defeat even if moral victory is claimed.