Atlanta pursued Jessie Bates with the kind of ardor we Falcons fans really hoped for, given that Bates was one of the crown jewels of this free agency class. This team badly needed a tone setter at safety and a playmaker who could punish the kinds of mistakes we hoped a rebuilt defensive front coached by Ryan Nielsen would deliver, and they got Bates to do just that.
The content gods would tell me to create a little intrigue here if I still listened to them and ask you to vote on the team’s MVP for Week 1.