Let me take you back to better days we all hope to experience again someday soon. The year was 2017. It was a relatively brisk month of January, and for the first time in four years, the Atlanta Falcons were still playing football this late into the season. Behind the NFL’s most dominant offense, the Birds had just beaten the Seattle Seahawks in the Divisional Round of the playoffs to mark only the second postseason win in the Matt Ryan era.
A day after Atlanta’s victory, the Green Bay Packers went down to Texas and upset the No 1-seeded Dallas Cowboys in their own Divisional Round matchup.