The Commanders find themselves on the path the Falcons might have taken a week off, with three straight losses and plenty of questions brewing about the team’s viability and immediate future. The Falcons, blessedly, took another path by sneaking past a game Texans team and moving to 3-2.
While perceptions are different and justifiably so, the Falcons have to be wary of a Commanders team capable of big plays and ferocious, unrelenting pressure on a resurgent Desmond Ridder. This is an opportunity for the Falcons to run their record to 4-2, a mark that puts them in a very comfortable position with games against flawed teams like the Buccaneers, Titans, Vikings, and Cardinals up next, and to show that last week’s startling improvement from Ridder and this passing offense were the ringing of a bell no one in the NFL wants to hear, and not just the lonely toot of a one-week kazoo.