On paper, this is a bit surprising, given that I think we’d all agree this team is more talented than it was a year ago, my concerns with the absence of Campbell and Trufant notwithstanding. They’re also being given odds that suggest they’ll finish 3rd in the NFC South and 9th (just outside of the playoffs) in the NFC overall. They’re also being given the 19th-best odds to win the Super Bowl, meaning oddsmakers expect them to be right around the middle of the pack in the league this year, listing toward the crummy end of things. Per Oddschecker, the Falcons have an over/under set at 7.5 wins, which would put them right in the neighborhood of where they’ve been each of the past two seasons. With all those changes, surely expectations for the team have changed, as well. Since then, they’ve shed De’Vondre Campbell, Vic Beasley, Austin Hooper, and Wes Schweitzer, among others, but have added Todd Gurley, Dante Fowler Jr., and a pretty solid-looking draft class. Despite everything that went wrong, they still finished 7-9, with a second half surge giving the team hope that they might be on a better track for 2020. Let’s be blunt: A year ago the Falcons doomed themselves by showing too much hubris and making too many poor decisions.
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