A step back for the Packers? Improvement for the Falcons? Barnwell’s six against-the-grain NFL predictions for 2021

The best prediction you can make about the NFL is that things are never going to stay the same. With what was a 16-game season — and now is up to 17 — we’re always going to overreact to things we saw in the small sample. Too often, we end up using that as our new opinion or baseline of how a team will perform going forward. Often, history tells us that won’t be the case.

Let’s use some…