We need to sell hemlock to the DUmpsters after what has happened to them and their teams between November 2016 to tonight.
Certainly a historic comeback and great win for the Patriots, but if not for the woeful Falcon coaching staff decisions, the Falcons would have won the game in regulation. They just made too many bone headed decisions.
Two things they screwed up on. First, when the Falcons had an 8 point lead in the fourth quarter, they had a 2nd and 11 WITH THE BALL IN FIELD GOAL RANGE, and the offensive coordinator called a pass play. NO, you don’t pass the ball there. You run the ball a couple times and then kick the field goal and go ahead by 11 points. But no, they tried to pass and got sacked and eventually out of field goal range.
The second screw up late in the game was that, for some reason, the Falcons were running play after play with as much as 15 seconds left on the play clock. They should have been running the play clock down to 3 seconds on every play. Had they done that one thing, they could have denied about 50 seconds of clock time to the Patriots.