Falcons fan confidence hit 0% in our weekly Falcoholic Reacts survey after the Week 11 loss to the Saints, and it wasn’t hard to understand why. Atlanta was entirely overmatched by their most bitter rivals, a team starting a gadget player/Sean Payton crush at quarterback, and they were humiliated to the point where they scored just 9 points despite a bye week to prepare. If you want to convince someone you’re not actually heading in the right direction as a franchise, that’s pretty much the textbook definition of how you do it.
This past week, the Falcons hosted the Raiders and surprised just about everybody by thumping them.