- The Falcons are now 4 and 7 this season. Still in the toilet, but better than 3 and 8.
- The season with the most sacks in Falcons history was 55 sacks in 1997, with Chuck Smith with the most at 12. This year’s Falcons have 34 sacks, with Brandon Dorlus, Kaden Ellis, and Dee Alford tied for 9 each. That includes the 5 racked up today.
- The Falcons ran up 302 total yards to the Saints’ 293.
- From Falcons reporter Will McFadden: The Falcons “blitzed at a season-low rate (15.7%) against the Saints and generated 19 pressures and five sacks when sending four or fewer pass rushers. [Falcons offensive coordinator] Jeff Ulbrich wanted to get to this point. They got there today.”
- From Falcons reporter Tori McElhaney: “The Falcons held the Saints to 3.76 yards per play today. That’s the lowest mark allowed by the Falcons since Week 1 of the 2018 season against the Eagles (3.63 yards per play).”
- NextGenStats: The Falcons used 13 guys (1 RB, 3 TE) on 33 of 55 offensive plays (60%), the highest rate of any NFL offense in a single game since 2016.
- The Falcons’ sack-0-rama over the last four games makes them the 10th team in NFL history to score 5 or more sacks in that amount of consecutive games.
- The Falcons’ lead over the Saints in total games remains intact, 57-56. They are tied at 56 in regular-season-only games.
- It was a needed win, but the Falcons aren’t out of the woods yet. They have six more games to come: The Jets (next week), then Seahawks, Buccaneers, Cardinals, Rams, and the Saints again. They will have to win four of the next six games to break their string of seven losing seasons.
