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How much concern should there be over the Falcons' Week 1 approach with Kirk Cousins?

Usually, it's not good to freak out about anything one game into the NFL season. Especially with many teams not playing starters in the preseason.

But the Atlanta Falcons had a really weird Week 1.

The Falcons ran an offense nobody expected and they didn't run in the preseason, lining up almost exclusively in pistol or shotgun formation. They say it has nothing to do with the health of their 36-year-old quarterback coming off a torn Achilles, though that's hard to believe.

Plenty of offenses struggled last week, but in the Falcons' 18-10 loss the one thing that was clearly obvious was that Kirk Cousins wasn't moving at all and the Falcons were making sure he didn't have to.