In the heady days of August, when this Falcons team still looked like one that might push for an NFC South title in 2018, the Arizona game loomed as a potential trap for an overconfident team nearing the end of its season. We all knew Arizona was going to be brutally bad, yes, but we know the Falcons have fallen on their faces against lesser lights in past years.
Fast forward to Week 15 of the season and the Falcons are barely better than the Cardinals, if they are at all. Atlanta’s free falling and just lost 34-20 to a Packers team fresh off a loss to Arizona, with their much vaunted offense putting up exactly 20 points once in the last five games, the defense looking as shaky as ever, and the return of Deion Jones doing little more than making that failure look a little faster and more physical.