The Pats are riding a 4 game winning streak but their schedule has been soft with 2 wins over the Jets, Carolina and a down Chargers team.
 The Falcons, on the other hand, just got hammered by 40 by a solid Cowboys team and now play at home in just 4 days later. The oddsmakers responded by bumping the Patriots up from four-point favorites on the lookahead line up to +7 now for the Falcons.
Matt Ryan had been playing well before last week's dud one of his career worst, 2 INT's and only passing for 115 yards.

Maybe its certainly possible the Patriots' defense is good, but they've gotten to face some pretty limited offenses lately and rookie QB's. I like the home dog here on Thursday night!