The Falcoholic

3 days ago | thefalcoholic.com | Allen Strk

Photo by Scott Cunningham/Getty Images Facing the Carolina Panthers was always an eventful experience for Julio Jones. While he was on the receiving end of some one-sided blowouts due to Carolina’s success from 2013 to 2015, some of his best career moments came against the division rival. One of them occurred during Carolina’s peak in 2015. The other transpired the very next season.

1 week ago | thefalcoholic.com | Dave Choate

Kirby Lee-Imagn Images The last time the Atlanta Falcons had an honest-to-goodness summer kicker battle was 2019, when Giorgio Tavecchio had a very ugly knife fight with Blair Walsh for duties and ultimately both lost, with the team rushing to bring back Matt Bryant after unceremoniously cutting ties with the franchise great that February. Younghoe Koo would take over from a struggling Bryant midseason, and has held down the job ever since.

1 week ago | thefalcoholic.com | Dave Choate

Brett Davis-Imagn Images The Atlanta Falcons have an exciting, pretty young offense to roll out, and they’re trying to get younger on defense as well. It will not surprise you to learn that with an exception or two, the defense and special teams active leaderboards for a host of statistics are nonetheless veterans, from big name free agent signings to homegrown stars to players who took a unique journey to Atlanta.

1 week ago | thefalcoholic.com | Saivion Mixson

Dale Zanine-Imagn Images Twenty-five years. It’s been 25 years since the new millennium started, and the game of football has transitioned into a completely new era than when the 2000 Baltimore Ravens held 75% of their regular season opponents to 14 points or less. Offenses have never been more dominant than in the past quarter century, and one of the teams that found unprecedented success because of their offensive output was the Atlanta Falcons.

1 week ago | thefalcoholic.com | Allen Strk

Kyle Terada-Imagn Images As proven during the 2013-2014 and 2018-2019 seasons, Julio Jones still shone bright even during the gloomiest of times. 2019 was the second consecutive lost year, where the primes of Jones and Matt Ryan were wasted due to poor front office decisions, questionable coaching, and young players not developing into dependable starters. At one point, Dan Quinn was on the verge of being fired.