Most Falcons losses are easier to digest the next day. Everyone’s mileage is different with this football team, but I tend to ride the roller coaster during the game and its immediate aftermath, and find it much easier to be somewhat rational about it in the days ahead.
The cold light of day hasn’t done much for me this morning, though. All of us except the most relentlessly positive Falcons fans hit a point where we needed to see a massive, improbable string of wins or a regime change at some point during that long losing streak last year, and the fact that we effectively got neither (the 6-2 run came when the year was already lost) made it difficult to think this season was going to be considerably better.