Twenty-five years. It’s been 25 years since the new millennium started, and the game of football has transitioned into a completely new era than when the 2000 Baltimore Ravens held 75% of their regular season opponents to 14 points or less.
Offenses have never been more dominant than in the past quarter century, and one of the teams that found unprecedented success because of their offensive output was the Atlanta Falcons. Atlanta was top-10 in points scored seven times (2002, 2008, 2010-2012, 2016, 2018), matching their mark of seven times before the year 2000. Six out of those seven times, they made the playoffs and, for the first time in franchise history, went to the playoffs in back-to-back years.