This was the end, even though it wasn’t the end. This was a Falcons team with a million reasons to show up and fight like hell, even against overwhelming odds, falling just as short as you might have suspected they would. They fumbled, they misfired, they schemed poorly, and they failed. Boy, did they fail.
The Falcons paired bad luck with poor play and were down 17-3 at the half. They managed to make the game more interesting in the second half, but only in the way that narrowly losing is more interesting than getting blown out.