The Falcons are toast. The Panthers are toast waiting to pop out of the toaster. The net result is that this game is going to be somewhere between surprisingly ferocious and horrendous, and I would suspect the latter.
It doesn’t matter much at this stage of the season, but as we learned last week, it’s still a small delight to see the Falcons playing well. If they do so again, it’ll hurt their draft stock but show their ability to hang with a rival, which is worth something, even if it’s just a short afternoon of fleeting happiness.