Setting aside the quibbles about contracts, positional values, and positions left unaddressed, the Falcons appear to be a better football team coming out of free agency than they were going into it. They’ve landed impact defenders, useful pieces on both sides of the ball, and stocked up on depth, and taken a step back at...left guard? We don’t know how many games this Falcons team is going to win, but they ought to be more competitive for work they’ve done in March and early April.
If that were it, you’d be looking at a team that might push for the playoffs in an unsettled NFC South, but fortunately that is not the end of it.