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Where the Atlanta Falcons stand heading into Week 5 against the Steelers Roster UpdateThe Falcons made one key roster move this week Authentic Terrell McClain Jersey , adding defensive tackle Michael Bennett (no, not the Seahawks/Eagles Michael Bennett) to the roster. Bennett was promising coming out of college but his career has been repeatedly derailed by injuries, and he’s unlikely to get more than 10-15 snaps in his Falcons debut if he even suits up. The Falcons will lean heavily on Jack Crawford, Deadrin Senat and Terrell McClain against the Steelers with Grady Jarrett out. Otherwise, the roster’s where it was a week ago, for better or for worse. HealthThe Falcons added Grady Jarrett to the injury report this week, and the stud defensive tackle will miss this game. That means the Falcons are missing arguably their best player at every level of the defense, depending on how you feel about Jarrett vs. Takkarist McKinley and Keanu Neal vs. the team’s top cornerbacks. The defense is still in rough shape, in other words, while the offense is healthy outside of the loss of Andy Levitre earlier this year, and Wes Schweitzer has done a fine job of replacing him. There’s another shootout brewing in Pittsburgh. What’s at stake?Basically, a win here is potentially the difference between staying alive in the playoff hunt and transitioning to worrying about next year. The Falcons won’t be mathematically dead for a while Youth Takkarist McKinley Jersey , but their only road to relevance this year comes through winning games right now, starting with this weirdly shaky Pittsburgh team.If the Falcons lose they’ll be at 1-4 in a division where the Saints and Panthers both look like contenders, albeit flawed ones, and will have to make up an unreasonable amount of ground. It’s not impossible, but it will require the Falcons to be superb in a way they just haven’t been on both sides of the ball this season.A win, though? That’s 2-3, with a 1-1 record in the division and a matchup against a crumbling Buccaneers team on deck. That’s hope. That’s being alive. OutlookI’m dubious that the Falcons will win this, as much as it pains me to write that. I thought they could win both the Saints and Bengals game and think they can win this one, but it’s hard to bet on this team in a close shootout after two straight awful losses, and that’s what I think we’re in store for here. I’ll hope for another fireworks display on offense and genuine improvement on defense, but I’m not expecting it. Kudos to you if you are. If you are, for some extremely odd reason http://www.falconsauthorizedshops.com/authentic-brandon-fusco-jersey , still unclear about how good Alabama is, consider this: you very well might be able to look back on their season and point to this Mississippi State game as their worst result this season. To be clear: they won the game 24-0. From a strict margin of victory perspective, the Texas A&M game was Bama’s “worst,” but from a total performance perspective, Mississippi State was the Tide’s biggest speed bump to date. The Tide finally had a game where they did their version of “just enough to win.”Alabama scored on their first two drives of the game, and the thing was pretty much over after that. Nick Fitzgerald is a great running quarterback, but if you have to make Mississippi State chase a game, well ... The Bulldogs went one of 13 on third down, six of which were third and greater than 9. They only ran 50 plays, at a 3.4 yard-per-play clip. MSU got crushed, and their offense made things ... not remotely close. Meanwhile, the Tide offense looked fine against a good defense Logan Paulsen Jersey , not nearly the elite unit that has powered otherworldly ass kickings this season. Tua Tagovailoa was mortal, with 14 of 21 and 164 yards through the air. He again didn’t play the fourth quarter, but that’s because he took a defender’s shoulder to his injured leg in the second half and didn’t return. Nick Saban said “I think he’s fine” after the game. But even while he was in the game, the Bulldogs did a number on Bama. They had five sacks against the Tide, which was almost as much as Alabama had given up during the entire season coming in (six). Their two gains over 20 yards on the day came in the first two drives as well before the Bulldogs defense asserted themselves. After those two drives, this was the Bama drive chart ... But the fact that we can kinda turn up our noses at this result is notable for this Tide team. Defensively this Bama team might still be improving. Arkansas’ 31 points a month ago are now as many as the Tide’s last four opponents combined, and the Tide have now pitched a shutout in nine out of their last 10 quarters. But offensively, Bama’s finally had to work for it, for most of two games in a row.A shutout by not as much as it should be is about the only thing you can pick apart for this Alabama team because they’re that good. And that point by our Alabama blog is the biggest takeaway. The Tide have just obliterated the normal standard for even a Bama team. It’s why we consider a 24-0 win as doing just enough.