The Atlanta Falcons embark on a very important season in their quest to finally bring home a Super Bowl championship, on Friday night meeting the Kansas City Chiefs at Mercedes Benz Stadium in both team’s second exhibition.

Here are details on how you can take in the game.

Where: Mercedes Benz Stadium

When: Friday, August 17 at 7:00 pm EST

Television: CW69

Radio: 92.9 FM The Game

Streaming: fuboTV; NFL Game Pass

Follow Live: CBS Sports App

Preseason games inspire conflicting responses in fans. Many are happy that football is back in any capacity after a long offseason winter, spring, and summer of going without the game for so long, while others are quick to point out that the games themselves are often boring and uninspiring as teams elect to sit out starters for much if not all of the contest.

But for coaches, the preseason is a very important time.

These games afford them an opportunity to see not only their veterans back in action against live opponents, but they also get a very important chance to see their rookies and other first year players on the field in their uniform and getting live reps in their playbook away from the highly controlled practice field.

The preseason will help head coach Dan Quinn do what he calls an “audit.”

“It’s really almost like doing an audit on everything top to bottom,” Quinn said this offseason.

“How are we doing it? Which players can we feature in a different way? Which schemes do we want to add? Which schemes do we want to take out, and which things do we want to do differently? So, the term that we use is, what are we going to start doing, what are we going to stop doing, and what are we going to do differently?”

Last summer didn’t bode well for the Falcons.

Atlanta went 0 for 4 in their preseason slate, falling in succession to the Miami Dolphins and Pittsburgh Steelers on the road, before opening their $1.5 billion Mercedes Benz Stadium in a pair of defeats to the Arizona Cardinals and Jacksonville Jaguars.

Going winless in the summer, however, didn’t seem to affect their effort in the fall.

The Falcons opened up in 2017 in defense of their NFC crown with a 3-0 record, beating the Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, and Detroit Lions. A three game skid followed and they would win just one in five of their midseason contests before storming out to another three game win streak, and they won six of their last eight.

That late season push helped propel the Falcons to another postseason berth, becoming the only NFC team to make the playoffs in two consecutive seasons. A Wild Card round win over the upstart Los Angeles Rams set them up for a spot in the NFC Divisional Round, where they would fall to the eventual world champion Philadelphia Eagles.