The Atlanta Falcons entered Sunday’s game against the New Orleans Saints as the better team but you wouldn’t have known it watching them blow chance after chance to get their seventh win of the season.
Missed field goals, bad clock management and some questionable decisions by Kirk Cousins were too much to overcome and the Saints sent the Falcons home with a 20-17 loss in interim coach Darren Rizzi’s debut.
Atlanta suffered its first NFC South loss of the season and fell to 6-4 overall. Here are five takeaways from the team’s maddening loss in New Orleans: