After the Jets game, a lot of commentary in the media and on the internet wrote it off with comments that the team was flat, that it’s only preseason and doesn’t matter, that the team stayed vanilla and didn’t “open up” and tip off their playbook, and similar themes.
The Atlanta Falcons went 0-4 in the 2017 preseason, yet went 10-6 in the regular season and advanced to the Divisional Round of the postseason. This year’s team is shaping up as the finest roster Atlanta has seen in a long, long time, and yet they are 0-2 for the preseason.