The bloom came off the rose so fast for Atlanta that a sonic boom followed in its wake. The Falcons didn’t just go into the second half of the game losing to a very good Vikings team, something that almost every fan would’ve understood. They got destroyed, mixing colossal mistakes with lousy football, and they’re currently down 21-0.
The Falcons are a talented football team. They’re a team with an experienced coaching staff, a staff with good reputations more or less across the board. And yet this first half of football featured insanely sloppy football, full of turnovers and unimaginably bad decisions.