The Falcons are not really that much better than the one and done versions of previous years.
Seattle should have beaten them last week as well.
Problem is they look a bit better than they are because the NFC is just so piss poor compared to the AFC right now.
SF are a good, well coached team, but Baltimore and New England would both beat them, as could Houston and Possibly Denver.
How can you say the NFC is weak? Packers, 9ers, Seahawks all could have easily gone to the Super Bowl and won and no one would be surprised. If anyone other than NE wins out of the AFC I would have been shocked. (I guess you could include Denver in that list until they obviously lost last week). Falcons look better than they are because they played a weak schedule in a weak division, but they're not in a weak conference.
By the way, the 9ers beat the Pats. So did the Seahawks.