When the Falcons take the field on Sunday, they’ll be fresh off a bye week and hopefully just about as healthy as they possibly can be with so many starters on injured reserve. They’ll need to be healthy and ready to go as they hit the road to face a team with a defense tough enough to give them fits.
Washington is not a 5-2 football team, if we’re going by talent or even production alone, but here they sit. A remarkably stingy defense keyed by a talented 3-4 front and opportunistic secondary have gotten them this far, and that’s a concern against an Atlanta team that is a juggernaut on offense but has struggled mightily to block effectively.