This is clearly not how the Falcons front office, coaches, players or fans thought the first half of the season would go. Sure, we knew they had one of the five toughest schedules among the 32 NFL teams. Most would have thought 6-2 and at worst 4-4, no one could have predicted 1-7.
There is a myriad of reasons and plenty of blame to go around as the reason for the state of the Falcons. Every entity we named above has played a role in the fall of the Falcons. While nothing is going to change in the next couple of months, we can at least take a look back at the performances of the first eight games.