"Boy, the Falcons have really done it to themselves yet again. After a high energy win against the Buffalo Bills which reinvigorated the fanbase was followed with a disappointing defeat in San Francisco, Atlanta laid an absolute egg against a porous Dolphins team that had seemingly nothing going right for them. Now, the Birds sit at 3-4, in the middle of a highly competitive NFC, with their season in danger of slipping away right as the first winds of cold have arrived at our doorstep."
"Atlanta would claw back to .500, and will keep themselves in some sort of a hunt for both the division and the wildcard at this moment, but a win against an AFC team isn't a massive needle mover when it comes to tie breaking implications that are looking more and more likely to come into play. Tampa is idle this week, so the deficit in the division would be 2.0 games"
Atlanta Falcons enter Week 9 at 3-4 after a high-energy win over Buffalo, a loss in San Francisco, and an embarrassing defeat to the Miami Dolphins. The team's inconsistency is stark: victories over strong AFC opponents coexist with blowout losses to weaker teams. A win at New England would move Atlanta back to .500 and preserve both division and wildcard hopes, though tiebreaking implications would remain limited and the division deficit would stay at two games with Tampa Bay idle. A loss would drop the Falcons to 3-5 and intensify concerns with a difficult trip to face the league-best Indianapolis Colts in Germany.
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