With the maddening doldrums of the offseason beginning to bang their moribund drums, the Atlanta Falcons face one of their trickiest offseasons in quite some time.
After the Super Bowl berth (which is what we’re calling it now because it sounds much easier to stomach), the team had few holes, and fewer decisions to make. Signing Dontari Poe was a bonus, as was adding Takk McKinley to the team’s pass rushers. Duke Riley? Works for us! Wes Schweitzer? Ah, he’ll be fine.
But, even as rocky road as 2017 was, the Falcons still beat an excellent-if-young Rams team in Los Angeles and came a handful of plays away from a second-straight NFC Championship appearance.