These games are meaningless for the Atlanta Falcons in terms of importance to the regular season and playoff seeding. The majority of our key players have yet to take the field and why should they? To shake the rust off? To learn the offense or defense?
Everybody knows when it’s time to ball, Matt Ryan is going to get you 4,500 yards, Julio Jones is going to get you 1300 receiving yards and Deion Jones is a key in for 100 tackles. There is no reason to prep stars like that when they have nothing to do or nothing to prove.