The question on just about everybody’s mind after Week 6 is a simple one: Can the Falcons build on their impressive 40-23 win over the Vikings, or was that the sort of one game bounce that many teams with interim head coaches get?
The answer to that question has huge ramifications. The Falcons are, as Evan Birchfield noted last night, not clinically dead, as three 1-5 teams have made the playoffs, two of them in recent history. That’s not even speaking to the expanded playoff field this year, something that may matter with so many expected contenders in the NFC looking shakier than anticipated.