The Falcons are trying to build something. The Football Team are looking to get right. Those two competing priorities will meet in Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sunday for Atlanta’s second home game, and the hope is that the Falcons can make it two in a row against the NFC South.
Atlanta’s win Sunday may have been ugly—hell, it was—but it was also a fourth quarter marvel on the road, and the fact that the Falcons clawed their way back into it rather than folding is a big deal. As rough as Washington has looked in 2021 thus far, they have mostly been sliced and diced by terrific quarterbacks like Justin Herbert and Josh Allen, so their defense is likely not as weak as it appears on paper.