A record six teams started the NFL season 5-0, and the Atlanta Falcons were one of them.
If the season ended today, five of those teams would make the playoffs, and the Falcons would not be one of them.
That's insane! Teams that start 5-0 are virtual locks to make the playoffs. Since the NFL went to a 12-team playoff format in 1990, 43 teams have started 5-0. Only four (9 percent) failed to reach the playoffs.
You almost can't miss. It's as unfathomable as someone taking a bucket of Titleists to the beach, hitting the golf balls out to the ocean and then having one of them drop directly into a whale's blowhole.