If I had told you back in August that the Falcons would be 6-5 and have a multi-game lead on the rest of the NFC South at the bye week, you likely would have taken it. In a vacuum, it’s a fine place to be for a team many of us expected to win nine or ten games in 2024. But as I am fond of saying, nothing happens in a vacuum.
These Falcons are foundering. They have been blown out twice in the past five weeks and have a narrow, dispiriting loss to the Saints to add to the pile; they’ve lost two in a row and are 2-3 in their past five games.