The Falcons and Jaguars feel deeply tied together. While the Falcons have made Super Bowls and the Jaguars have not, both teams have a habit of making the occasional thrilling, deep playoff run only to ultimately fall short, and at other times take a collection of seemingly boundless talent and make little out of it.
There’s also the matter that these two teams seem to play every single year in preseason, that Mike Smith and Dirk Koetter both came to Atlanta from Jacksonville, that Jaguars GM Dave Caldwell worked in the Falcons’ front office with Thomas Dimitroff before landing that job, and that there was once a robust player pipeline flowing from Florida to Georgia.