If I told you the Atlanta Falcons limited the Los Angeles Chargers to 17 points, you would have assumed the Falcons won the game. As shaky as the offense has been recently, the idea that they would fail to score 17 points would have seemed outlandish on Sunday morning.
But they didn’t. They scored 13. A missed Younghoe Koo field goal early on appeared to shake Atlanta’s faith in their kicker, but that was not the primary reason Atlanta lost the game. That would be Kirk Cousins and the Falcons passing game, which squandered a strong day on the ground from Bijan Robinson en route to a couple of tough drops, a lot of off-target Kirk Cousins throws, and a nightmarish four interceptions, including a pick-six that turned out to be the winning score for Los Angeles.