• The Falcons are in a funny spot right now—they’re 5–8, and carrying over $80 million in dead money on their salary cap (money previously spent on players no longer on the team). Under normal circumstances, it’d be easy to take the final month of the season and earmark it for the development of younger players, and start working toward 2023.
The problem, and I’ll call it a “problem”, is the fact that they’re in the NFC South.
Which is to say they’re not just still in contention, they’re only a game out of first.
