The Falcons find themselves in some very familiar territory going into this weekend’s clash in Tampa Bay — for the third consecutive year they sit at 3-3 as of the conclusion of six games. In each of the past two seasons, they would go on to lose game seven, win game eight and then string together losses before never seeing .500 again.
In each of those seasons, the Birds went on to finish at 7-10. Doing so this year feels like it would be a lot more unacceptable given that it’s now year three of the Terry Fontenot-Arthur Smith regime and that there was significant offseason investment which was not really possible in 2021 and 2022.