As is custom, we polled our staff to see who will win this Sunday’s game. As you’ll see, the optimism is largely there, but it’s muted heading into one of the roughest early season challenges on the 2019 schedule.
I want to believe, so I will. For all the drama around the Falcons these past couple of weeks, they’ve added firepower and beef (beefy firepower? no, not that) to a team that needed both this offseason, with an offensive and defensive line that look like they’ll be better suited to not getting pushed all over the field. Matt Ryan said himself that Mike Zimmer’s Vikings are a physical football team, and if the Falcons can match that they’ll have a shot here.