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The Falcons pass rush digs deep and finds gold against the Saints

In the waning moments of the game yesterday, while I was prowling around a frigid living room and barking at my television, the unlikeliness of the situation truly sunk in. These were the 2019 Falcons, the 1-7 team that had served up platters of empty platitudes and blown every chance they’d received in the first eight games of the season, absolutely dominating a 7-1 Saints team considered by many to be the best team in the NFL.

The Falcons finally dug deep enough to get there. The maddening thing about that win, which was as thorough a shellacking as the Falcons ever manage to put on the Sean Payton-led Saints, is that it feels like the ingredients for it were here for the past eight weeks.