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The Atlanta Falcons faced seven fourth bottomward plays adjoin the New England Patriots on Sunday night and the Patriots accept to be appealing athrill about the outcomes: Two punts. Two absent acreage goals. Two turnovers on down. One conversion.

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The Patriots won on 6 of the 7 fourth bottomward opportunities and the Falcons’ alertness to try and catechumen showed how advancing Atlanta capital to be in prime time.

“That aloof showed you how big they anticipation this bold was, too,” Patriots assurance Duron Harmon said afterwards the game. “They capital to win and accumulate their breach out there because they acquainted like the breach gave them a acceptable adventitious to win. It’s a attestation to what we did. Alike aback they got it on the aboriginal fourth down, we kept them out of the end zone. We played absolutely acceptable and didn’t accord up any points. Aback they got in the red zone, we fabricated it absolutely adamantine for them to score. That’s what we charge to abide to do and abide to body on this performance.”

The Patriots aegis has fabricated above strides over the accomplished few weeks and their ablaze airing adjoin the Falcons saw all facets of the aegis appear together.

Now it wasn’t absolutely absolute and there are some problems that charge to be bankrupt up- added on that in a bit- but the Patriots accept to be aflame with how they performed at acute junctures in the game.

So let’s attending at the three abhorrent plays run by the Falcons on fourth down.

The Falcons fabricated the accommodation that they were activity to try and catechumen on fourth downs about midfield and they were accustomed an aboriginal befalling in the aboriginal quarter.

“It’s absolutely aloof the acceptance I accept in our guys,” Falcons arch drillmaster Dan Quinn said afterwards the game. “For me, historically I’ve been accepted to be advancing with the opportunities we have. I’d say it boils bottomward to the acceptance we accept in the team, and acceptance in what we can be.

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“I believed we could assassinate in that time, and we nailed it.”

On fourth-and-7 the Patriots alone seven into advantage with all defenders arena bolt or columnist and instantly agreeable to booty abroad a quick pass. This meant aloof four arresting linemen were aggravating to accommodate Matt Ryan adjoin bristles abhorrent linemen, so Ryan played the numbers bold and scrambled.

“It affectionate of afraid us at some point,” Patriots arresting lineman Trey Flowers said about the fourth bottomward attempts by the Falcons. “They had to accomplish a comedy and they capital to accomplish a play, so they ample it was the appropriate befalling to try to accomplish it. We had to comedy four downs.”

Cassius Marsh was captivated on the bend as Ryan bankrupt free, so the Patriots apostle couldn’t abstract and accomplish the stop. Still, Marsh overcommit to the central move and wasn’t in the arch position to accommodate the quarterback. Marsh has a addiction of active himself out of the play, either looping too far about the quarterback or abolition too far inside, abrogation his bend vulnerable. He’ll accept to assignment on this as the division develops or abroad he ability lose time to Shea McClellin.

Still, Marsh ultimately adored himself by blocking the acreage ambition attack at the end of this drive.

The Falcons absitively to go for it afresh on fourth bottomward from the Patriots 47-yard band advancing out of the two-minute warning. If the attack failed, the Patriots would accept had affluence of time to account and with the Falcons breach disturbing to aftermath and accepting the brawl out of the half, it ability accept been a smarter move to aloof punt the brawl and comedy for the additional half.

“I was afraid by the fourth-and-6 that they tried,” Cassius Marsh said afterwards the game. “I’m abiding they had a acumen for it, but it bent me a little off-guard.”

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“[We’re] aloof aggravating to be advancing and the drillmaster is activity to assurance us in those situations,” Falcons active aback Devonta Freeman said. “We aloof charge to do whatever it takes to convert.”

Matt Ryan absolutely had the appropriate abstraction with this bandy to Mohamed Sanu and the Patriots were advantageous that Sanu apprehend the avenue differently. Atlanta had three receivers on the nearside of the field, anniversary in man coverage, and Patriots safeties Duron Harmon and Devin McCourty were arena deep.

Johnson Bademosi covered Taylor Gabriel and was an accessible ambition best as far as the Patriots defenders were concerned. Harmon jumped at Ryan’s slight pump affected and run up to advice Bademosi, while Sanu and Jonathan Jones ran bottomward the field.

With no assurance abaft the receiver, Ryan accepted Sanu to run a added bend on his avenue with a accessible adventitious to get yards afterwards the bolt or alike a touchdown. Sanu was cerebration about accepting the brawl out of bound to stop the clock. This miscommunication led Ryan’s canyon to captain over Sanu’s arch and abatement incomplete.

The Falcons were aggravating to get their aboriginal account of the day, but Kyle Van Noy denied their antic jet ambit attack at the ambition line. This was artlessly a abhorrent comedy architecture by the Falcons because there was no abeyant ballcarrier in the backfield for the Patriots linebackers to respect, which accustomed Van Noy to admit and chase Taylor Gabriel active beyond the formation.

“We anticipation they had all their big guys central and we’d accept to adventitious to get the brawl outside, on the edge,” Falcons arch drillmaster Dan Quinn said afterwards the bold on Sunday night. “We had a difficult time, you know, adjoin all the big guys, you know, accepting movement. So we took a attempt to get the brawl out to the perimeter. For them, fabricated a bigger comedy than we did. That was our chance, I thought, that was the appropriate affair to do. Get advancing and go try to get aback in the game.”

“If you could accept one comedy alarm to get back, that would be one,” Quinn said on Monday morning.

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Credit aboriginal goes to Malcom Brown, Lawrence Guy, and Alan Branch, all of whom played such a abundant bold that the Falcons didn’t alike appetite to try active up the middle. Again acclaim goes to Trey Flowers for alarming up the Falcons blocks, and the Kyle Van Noy for authoritative the tackle.

“It’s a little bit of an abnormal comedy to run bottomward on the ambition band but we’ve apparent it before,” Patriots arch drillmaster Bill Belichick said on Monday morning. “It’s a boxy comedy because in your ambition band aegis aback you’re aggravating to stop the run bottomward there you’re about consistently in some blazon of man advantage principles. So, aback the receiver – [Taylor] Gabriel – comes beyond in a fast motion like that it’s about absurd for the guy who has him in man advantage to get through all of the cartage and get over the top on aggregate and he’s there on the added side.

“Kyle fabricated a abundant play, fabricated a actual accustomed play. He accustomed the motion and again saw that the apostle was a little bit abaft the receiver and so he confused into position to accept bigger advantage on the play. Trey Flowers additionally saw that and it ability accept affected him a little bit deeper. Kyle ability accept fabricated the comedy anyhow but Trey got a acceptable apprehend on it, too, and was able to partially agitate the play.

“If you can aloof force that comedy to not get about the bend anon through a abdomen aback and accord arena or if the agent has to apathetic bottomward and accumulate it all again you’re in position to get there. That comedy is absolutely alarming if they can aloof hit it on the alfresco and again you accept no way to bolt them. Trey fabricated a acceptable comedy on that and Kyle’s acquaintance and the activity with which he got alfresco with all of the cartage so that he could affectionate of accept a bright attempt to appear up the acreage was a absolute active up comedy on his part.”

Falcons appropriate accouterment Ryan Schraeder (#73) and bound end Levin Toilolo (#80) were aggravating to combo-block Flowers on the edge, so Toilolo could get a absolution and allowance Van Noy abroad from the Gabriel. That would accept apparently accustomed Atlanta ascendancy of the bend and Gabriel would accept squeaked in for a score.

Instead, Flowers blew through Toilolo and affected Gabriel to run backwards, abroad from the ambition line. Schraeder absent his block entirely, and that accustomed Van Noy to accommodated Gabriel abaft the band of flat after accepting to action through any blocks.

The Patriots aegis is assuredly arena at the aerial akin anybody accepted above-mentioned to the division and all of the adamantine assignment paid off with absorbing stops at acute moments adjoin the Falcons.

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