Every week, NFL outlets line up to put together their power rankings. If your team is good and coming off a quality week, you get to bask in the relatively meaningless glow of that success in the power rankings. If your team is bad and coming off a loss, you get to bemoan your fate.
This week, we’re obviously in the latter category. A sampling of major NFL outlets reveals that the Falcons are widely perceived to be among the bottom half of teams in the league after Week 1. Most of those outlets did not have high expectations for Atlanta coming into the season, and watching them surrender so many points to the Seahawks did nothing to shake the belief that they’re going to fall short of their own expectations in 2020.