The Falcons' Quarterback Room Is Officially a Medical Emergency

The Atlanta Falcons just dropped their Tuesday injury report, and it reads less like a football roster and more like the waiting room at an urgent care clinic.

When your starting quarterback, your backup quarterback, and your third-string quarterback all appear on the same injury report, you have officially crossed from bad luck into a cursed franchise timeline.

"Marc Raimondi shared the official Tuesday injury report, highlighting the sheer volume of Atlanta's roster issues."

According to the report shared by beat writer Marc Raimondi, Tua Tagovailoa is doubtful with an oblique injury, and Michael Penix Jr. is already ruled out with a knee issue. That leaves Cooper Rush, who is nursing a back injury of his own, as the last man standing in a quarterback room that is currently held together by athletic tape and blind hope.

This is the exact opposite of what you want to see after getting publicly dismantled 34-3 by the Carolina Panthers on Sunday. Atlanta is staring down a short week before heading out to play the Green Bay Packers on Friday, and they are doing it with a severely compromised roster.

Anyone looking at the betting lines for this Packers matchup needs to factor in that Atlanta is missing its top two signal-callers. Add in the fact that starting cornerback Billy Bowman Jr. is out with an Achilles injury and star guard Chris Lindstrom is questionable with a concussion, and you cannot realistically handicap a game when one team is actively disintegrating.

The Falcons have a few days to figure out who is actually healthy enough to put on a helmet. If Rush's back flares up before kickoff in Green Bay, Atlanta might have to start pulling volunteers from the stands just to field an offense.