Once you assemble over 50 years of history for your football team, you start to notice interesting trends and patterns. Not all of them mean anything, but some of them are pretty remarkable, and may even portend good things. We’re going to talk about one of those today.
The disparity between the even year Falcons and the odd year Falcons since the year 2000 has been pretty striking, as you can see below.
Even Years: 85-58, 6 playoff appearances, 5-6 playoff record, 3 Conference Championship Games, 1 Super Bowl
Odd Years: 60-79, 2 playoff appearances, 1-2 playoff record
Obviously, very few of these years have been under Dan Quinn, when the team has been .