The Falcons have some items to work on, and it showed. They needed big plays to bail out a defense that was allowing Bryce Young and Miles Sanders to move down the field with relative ease, and they couldn’t balance out an offense that was almost wholly reliant on the run. At the end of the third quarter, this was a tie game, one the Falcons of yesteryear would’ve probably lost. If we were lucky, maybe they would have won by a field goal.
These aren’t the Falcons of 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, or even 2018.