Every week, there are Atlanta Falcons who distinguish themselves and seem to have bright immediate futures, and Falcons who look awful and force me to make the kind of sour face that you get when you eat a lemon and you weren’t really prepared for it.
Here’s this week’s collection.
Arrow up
Tru needed a bounceback week after getting destroyed by the Bengals, and until an injury knocked him out of the game, he was having one. Trufant did an excellent job of holding Antonio Brown in check when he was against him, and it’s not a coincidence that the Falcons’ pass defense collapsed entirely with him out, allowing Brown to score twice.