Falcons Fans Put Danny Kanell on Blast After His 2025 Team Prediction

The Atlanta Falcons hope they have the roster to post their first winning season since 2017 this year. But CBS Sports' Danny Kanell isn't convinced that they don't.

The football analyst and former quarterback was critical of the Falcons roster building this offseason and hyped their schedule as difficult. As a result, he sees the team falling back, record wise, from where they were in 2024.

"So Falcons fans may not like this, I have them at 7-10, which is a game worst than they were last year. But if you remember last year, they started out 6-3 with Kirk Cousins as the starter, including a game where he had an overtime win against those Bucs where he threw for 500 yards," Kanell said on CBS HQ. "The schedule is not favorable early. The Bucs, they're going to be underdogs. Vikings, they're going to be underdogs on the road. Panthers is a game they have to have.

"Then they play against the Commanders. We talked about Jayden Daniels and that Washington team that looks really good. There's a chance that they could be 1-3.

"I think that's the most likely scenario. Then the Bills come, it doesn't get any easier from there."

Kanell didn't address any specific offseason moves the Falcons made. But he doesn't see what the team did this spring as having much of an impact.

"I think this roster hasn't been upgraded significant enough," Kanell added. "You've got a young quarterback, first year starting. There's some question marks around him.

"I think it could be a little bit of a bumpy ride for the Falcons this season."

As Kanell predicted, Falcons fans didn't take kindly to his prediction.

Some Atlanta sports fans minimized Kanell, who is usually more of a college football analyst, for not having a relevant opinion. Others called out Kanell for having a bias opinion because the Falcons cut him at the end of the 2000 season.