For the second time this year, the Atlanta Falcons knocked off a top seed, Super Bowl contender in the NFC. Both times on the road.
First, in New Orleans and now in Santa Clara, albeit against San Francisco. The combined records of the 49ers and Saints 21-6 (The Saints hadn’t yet played their Monday night game.) In fact, the two teams arguably had the game of the year last week in a 48-46 shootout.
But that’s neither here nor there.
What we saw from this Atlanta team was impressive. It wasn’t their best performance of the year by any means.