It’s hard to classify the Falcons’ loss in Cincinnati as a new low. As brutal as it was on both sides of the ball, the team was severely undermanned in the secondary and faced one of the top teams in the league when firing on all cylinders. All rebuilding teams are going to endure their humbling losses, no matter how ahead of schedule they may be in their process.
There was only one alarming aspect of the one-sided defeat, which nobody could have anticipated last April when Drake London was selected with the eighth overall pick.