Being a Falcons fan is about deciding how much hope you’ll have in a given season, and how quickly you’ll allow the Falcons to drain that hope out of you. We have more than one Falcoholic writer weighing on fandom and the state of this team team today, but we have decades of evidence that those who have been the most cynical all these years have made the best choices,
Atlanta’s loss on Sunday was not the most consequential of the Dan Quinn era, or any other era of Falcons history, but it felt emblematic of the way this team defies logic and the odds to lose football games, even so.