The nice thing about Sundays and Mondays is that they serve to either confirm or dispel the narratives that have been building all week around a given football team. By very early Tuesday, we’ll know whether the Falcons have managed to discover their missing lead-keeping aptitude and can get to 1-3 with an impressive win over a great football team or whether they’re simply this team and more or less toast at 0-4.
The urgency here is well-understood for Dan Quinn and company. The Buccaneers are 3-1 and the Saints and Panthers are both 2-2, so falling to 0-4 would put this team at least two full games behind everyone else in the division.