On the day after the Atlanta Falcons’ history-making win, the blogosphere cheered and looked toward next season.

The Falcons finally beat that dreaded back-to-back winning season curse with their 20-10 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday. Despite not making the playoffs, the Monday-morning quarterbacking was positive, as the Falcons head to the links instead of the football field this week.

The AJC’s beat writer D. Orlando Ledbetter brings us inside the locker room after the historic win and tells us about Jason Snellings’ career-best day. He also looks ahead to 2010, tells us what the doctor ordered Matt Ryan to do in the offseason and what Dr. Mike Smith had ordered for the rest of the team. He also talks about the importance of the Falcons coaching staff staying together for one more year.

Jeff Schultz of the local paper writes about how the Dirty Birds purged history with the win on Sunday.

Always the pessimist, Matt Bradley of the AJC gives us the his not-so-favorite five Falcons whom he thinks the team does not need in 2010.

The AJC’s Bird Cage blog revels in the end of the curse and gives us his take on what went right and what went wrong for the Dirty Birds this season.

Falcons Examiner Daniel Cox writes about how a new streak has begun with Atlanta’s football team and brings us news of the signing of eight players to future/reserve contracts.

The Falcoholic recaps the historic win and gives out not one, not two, but three game balls afterward.

Finally, ESPN.com’s Pat Yasinskas takes a look at possible Falcons draft candidates and looks at the 2010 schedule.

-- PHIL FOLEY