Falcons - Dolphins takeaways: What we learned from Friday night

For a preseason game, the Atlanta Falcons-Miami Dolphins tilt actually carried a fair amount of intrigue, given that it came right down to the wire. The Falcons may have lost, but they put up a fight that made the game watchable.

Sort of, anyways. Between injuries, a notably dismal Taylor Heinicke performance, and plenty of typically preseason tire spinning and errors, this had all the hallmarks of the sloppy efforts we’re used to seeing in August. In an uneven effort, though, there is always plenty to learn, and there were takeaways aplenty for these Falcons that they can apply and react to before next week’s game.

Here are a handful of those takeaways to chew on.

Injuries overshadowed the…