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NFL Week 8 Takeaways: The Falcons Are In First Place; Trade Deadline Could Be Quiet

Plus, Bills look ho-hum in win over the Packers, but it didn’t matter. The Cowboys are rounding into form, the Colts could be sellers by Tuesday’s cutoff and much more.

I don’t know how far Atlanta’s going this year, but I think it’s safe to say the Falcons are on the way up. And to me, Marcus Mariota’s the perfect example of it—a guy the NFL had mostly given up on, and now the quarterback of a division leader.

We’re gonna take you through the wild finish to Falcons-Panthers, and it was wild. But we’ll start with how Atlanta’s in this spot, with the program that Arthur Smith and Terry Fontenot are building, one that’s uncovered so many diamonds in the rough, and squeezed every last little bit out of them.