NFC South

Mark Bradley: The Falcons’ 2021 schedule doesn’t look all that daunting

A schedule never looks real until it’s a full-blown schedule – the games in chronological order, sites included – because then we can flip through an autumn’s worth of football and slap a W or an L on every entry. Then comes the fun part: We count the W’s and L’s and say, in an orotund voice, “Looks like 9-8 to me.” Or maybe 7-10. This is the NFL, which means there’s not much difference between fabulous and forlorn. The 2020 Falcons were awful, right? They lost their first five games. They lost their final five games. They finished 4-12. They fired their head coach in October. Come January, th…