If the Atlanta Falcons had come out of the bye flat, showing zero resilience and all the same flaws, it would have been time to dust our hands and declare the season over. Instead, they mixed in the familiar frustrations with some brilliant moments and some genuine improvements, and that was enough to put a slumping Saints team in the deep, dark hole they belong in.
We’ll start with the good stuff, as is apropos when your favorite team beats New Orleans, which I must stress that they did by a full nine points. The Falcons put together a 228 yard game on the ground split between four players and ground the clock to a fine powder on the decisive Younghoe Koo field goal, which put the Falcons up by nine points en route to what I must again mention was a win.