There are too many lessons to take away from the latest loss to the Saints for one short article. There’s Sean Payton’s continued, frustrating dominance over the Falcons, which tells a lot about the quality of coaching and roster-building these two teams have managed over the past decade-plus. There’s Taysom Hill’s solid day against a Falcons defense that had been improving, an embarrassingly sluggish ground game, and the fact that we once again are going to need to put up with justifiably crowing Saints fans for a while.
Perhaps the biggest lesson I took away, however, was how critical Julio Jones is to this passing game.