There are many kinds of dread when you root for the Falcons. We could spend days cataloguing those, but frankly you’re already intimately familiar with 99% of them.
The one I’m zeroing in on today is the kind of dread that has cropped up multiple times in the recent past, most notably after great seasons and when jobs were in danger. It’s the dread that comes with knowing that your team has plenty of incentive to prioritize short-term fixes over long-term improvements, with a fear that they’ll succumb to that temptation.
Atlanta’s done this sort of thing before.