Despite a very impressive performance from the defense on Sunday—Atlanta’s undermanned, much-maligned unit held the reigning Super Bowl champions to just 17 points—the Falcons once again managed to lose in the final minutes. The team put together just two scoring drives in the entire game and had a third fall short when star kicker Younghoe Koo missed the game-tying 39-yard FG attempt.
It’s honestly becoming comical at this point, as the Falcons seem to be exhausting all the normal ways to lose and are forced to come up with increasingly creative ones every week. We all know Atlanta can’t protect leads, but against the Chiefs they could barely move the ball at all.