On Sunday, the Falcons lost again. They lost because they cannot hold on to double digit leads, in the same way fully cinched belt cannot hold up against a 70 inch waist. There are physical and metaphysical impossibilities, and the Falcons are all of them at once.
I joked on Twitter in the third quarter, when the Bills had improbably surrendered a 28-3 lead, that the cursed was lifted for Atlanta. It was a joke both because you cannot simply lift a curse like that because another team does something and because deep down, the fear never leaves.