The Atlanta Falcons got steamrolled by the rival Carolina Panthers in 2014 to close the season, nailing shut the casket for the Mike Smith years.
What if the team had won that game?
Well, it’d have come with more ramifications than you might be aware of.
The 2014 Falcons were a ticking time bomb, a team that flashed promise at the start of the year only to fade out into irrelevancy as the season wore on.
Though, somehow, the spirit of playoff hope still burned as they got close to season’s end, and a dumpster fight with a then-6-7-1 Panthers team the deciding factor to see who would win the decrepit 2014 NFC South.