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NFC South Week 4 review: Falcons fly high as the rest of the division falls

The Atlanta Falcons were the only team in the division to walk out of Sunday with a win; the team couldn’t have asked for a better result. Here’s the Week 4 NFC South Review:

Tampa Bay Buccaneers (3-1)​

Week 4 Result: Buccaneers 25 – Eagles 31
Week 5 Opponent: Seattle Seahawks

The Buccaneers fell for the first time this season, giving others in the division the opportunity to catch up. Fortunately for them, only one team, the Falcons, took advantage of this. Baker Mayfield tried to pull off his routine of late-game heroics, but they fell flat this week.

Tampa Bay has been reeling from all its injuries, and now Bucky Irving is set to get an MRI. While the team has been able to overcome its staffing issues, it might finally be catching up to them. Tampa’s spot at the top of the division is still safe, but they can’t let the losses accumulate. The Buccaneers are set to take on a red-hot Seahawks team that’s on a three-game win streak.

New Orleans Saints (0-4)​

Week 4 Result: Saints 19 – Bills 31
Week 5 Opponent: New York Giants

Talk about YAC #NOvsBUF on @paramount+ pic.twitter.com/rOOLoZPTSd

— Buffalo Bills (@BuffaloBills) September 28, 2025

A quarter of the season has passed, and the Saints are still looking for their first win of the season. What a shame, what a shame. The Saints were surprisingly competitive with the Super Bowl favorites, but Josh Allen and the Bills eventually pulled away. The Saints have yet to play musical chairs with their depth chart, but that should commence shortly if the losing streak continues. This team can’t worry about the division until they get a win. This week, they’ll take on the Giants and rookie quarterback Jaxon Dart.

Carolina Panthers (1-3)​

Week 4 Result: Panthers 13 – Patriots 42
Week 5 Opponent: Miami Dolphins

The Panthers fell back to Earth this week with an abysmal performance against Drake Maye and the Patriots. Bryce Young realized he wasn’t playing the Falcons and wanted nothing to do with the event. Carolina remains under .500 after positioning themselves to break even. Dave Canales’ offense looks disjointed, and Young doesn’t look like he’ll be the quarterback of this team a year from now. A lot can change in the coming weeks, but the premature turnaround celebration that took place in Charlotte after Week 3 will be on hold till further notice. The Pathers will try to claw their way back up against the Dolphins, who are coming off their first win of the year.

Atlanta Falcons (2-2)​

Week 4 Result: Falcons 34 – Commanders 27
Week 5 Opponent: Bye Week

Put some mustard on these @Bijan5Robinson cuts

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— Atlanta Falcons (@AtlantaFalcons) September 28, 2025

After the worst performance in Michael Penix Jr.’s career, the quarterback turned in one of his best against the Washington Commanders. The entire Falcons offense came alive and flirted with their ceiling as a group. The Falcons needed a win after firing a coach and promising to flip the script. They’ll now go into the bye week sitting 2nd in the division at .500 with their playoff hopes intact. Hopefully, players like A.J. Terrell can heal up and be ready to go for Week 6 when the team will take on Josh Allen in primetime.

Only one team walked away with a win this week, and it was your Atlanta Falcons. The first quarter of the season has wrapped, and the team is in a good position to make a run out of the bye. It won’t be easy, but nothing in this league is.

Source: https://www.thefalcoholic.com/atlan...ns-fly-high-as-the-rest-of-the-division-falls

 

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Deadline deal proposal would land Falcons Raiders WR

The last time the Falcons traded for a Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver, the result was pretty disastrous. That’s more about the receiver than the trade partner, however, as Bryan Edwards was supposed to give a lousy depth chart a major boost but instead caught just three passes for 15 yards over seven games and never again appeared in an NFL game. Oof.

This time out, Bleacher Report’s Alex Kay pitches a deal that would bring Jakobi Meyers to Atlanta, pointing to a shaky wide receiver depth chart and recent injuries to Darnell Mooney as rationale.

I’ll get the trouble spot out of the way early: A fourth round pick is probably too rich for Atlanta’s blood, considering they’re already down a first rounder thanks to their draft day James Pearce Jr. trade with the Rams. Atlanta needs more picks rather than less, but that price becomes more palatable the further you go into the draft. It’s not that price is unfair, per se, so much as that the Falcons may not really be able to afford to pay it.

But in Meyers, you’d be getting a fantastic short-term salve for the team’s receiver woes, one who would provide Atlanta with reliable hands—he had the league’s lowest drop rate in 2024—and a proven, consistent track record of high level receiver play. Meyers has at least 800 yards receiving in four consecutive seasons despite having Mac Jones, Jimmy Garoppolo, Aidan O’Connell, Gardner Minshew, Brian Hoyer, and Desmond Ridder throwing him passes over that span, with 20 touchdowns to go with them. He can and does win deep, something that will appeal to Penix, and is a credible if not spectacular yards after the catch threat.

He also has completed two out of three passes for the Raiders the past two years with a touchdown, making him by far the highest-rated passer Las Vegas has had over that span, which I found funny.

Meyers is not the best receiver in the NFL in terms of run blocking, however, which is one item that might give this Falcons team pause. The other is compensation and contract cost; Meyers would be a one-year rental with a chance to re-sign, and is making $11 million this year. The Falcons would have to feel pretty confident they’d be good enough with Meyers to make the trade worthwhile.

But with Darnell Mooney struggling and hurt, Ray-Ray McCloud off to a slow start and likely to be hit by the regression monster in 2025 after a major career year in 2024, and the team’s depth looking somewhere between suspect and unproven, it’s a question of whether the Falcons trust Casey Washington to take a major step forward and think their practice squad crew can offer plenty in a pinch. If not—and if this passing game ends up in a place where reinforcements are clearly needed—Meyers is probably the best affordable option out there for Atlanta.

Pencil it in as a speculative sort of longshot at this point, and we’ll see where the Falcons are before the deadline.

Source: https://www.thefalcoholic.com/atlan...e-deal-proposal-would-land-falcons-raiders-wr