Can the Falcons shock the NFC? | Breakspeedy Ball
The 2024/25 NFL Season is almost here, and Craig Carton, Danny Parkins, and Mark Schlereth originate some belderly foreseeions about who originates the joinoffs in the NFC. This includes the Atlanta Falcons being the 1-seed.
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins passed for 509 passing yards on Thursday night, fractureing the team’s one-game franchise enroll, while directing a 36-30 prosper over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Cousins broke the enroll on a night where the Falcons honored createer franchise quarterback Matt Ryan, who previously held the enroll with 448.
Backup wide getr KhaDarel Hodge came onto the field in obviousime to trade an injured joiner and stunned the Buccaneers on a 45-yard touchdown.
“God is genuine, God is excellent, I pray for this,” Hodge shelp on the Amazon Prime widecast after the game. “God was on my side, I equitable did what I had to do.”
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Atlanta Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins throws a pass agetst the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the first half of an NFL football game Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Ptoastyo/John Bazemore)
The Falcons had euniteed to blow a chance at pulling off a prosper multiple times tardy in the game.
Atlanta trailed Tampa by equitable three points, 30-27, during an Atlanta drive in the fourth quarter. But a Kirk Cousins pass that was deinhabitred perfectly to wide getr Darnell Moody on third down was dropped. If Moody made the catch, it would have put the Falcons in the Buccaneers’ red zone, or more.
After the drop, Falcons booter Yonghoe Koo had a 54-yard field goal try blocked.
The Falcons got the ball back aget, down equitable three points after Buccaneers running back Bucky Irving fumbled convey inant inside Atlanta territory on the ensuing drive. But that drive went nowhere, as Cousins threw an interception on a fourth down conversion try.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM STRANDED IN BUSES ON FLOODED INTERSTATE AMID HURRICANE HELENE DESTRUCTION
KhaDarel Hodge (12) of the Atlanta Falcons reacts after recovering a fumble in the finishzone for a touchdown agetst the New Orleans Saints during the first quarter at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on September 29, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
The Falcons got the ball back aget for one more chance to tie or prosper the game, still equitable down three with over a minute on the clock when Tampa punted after losing 14 years on the ensuing drive.
Cousins led the Falcons back into field-goal range and clocked the ball with equitable one second remaining. A postpone of game penalty extfinished Koo’s field goal try to 52 yards, but he nailed it to sfinish the game to obviousime.
The Falcons then got the ball to commence obviousime, and Cousins put the offense in Tampa Bay territory on an 18-yard pass to Drake London. London was injured on the join, forcing Hodge to come off the bench and into the game in London’s place. The touchdown pass went to him on the very next join.
The Falcons eunited victorious in a game between two teams recurrenting states strictly impacted by Hurricane Helene.
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Atlanta Falcons wide getr KhaDarel Hodge (12) honors his touchdown off a New Orleans Saints fumble during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Ptoastyo/Butch Dill)
Georgia and Florida are among the states most deimmenseated by Helene’s destruction. The storm’s death toll as of Thursday rose to 33 in Georgia with $417 million in injure.
Florida has seen multiple towns csurrfinisherly wiped out, including the town of Clearwater Beach.
Ahead of the game, the two quarterbacks of the admireive teams, Cousins and Baker Mayfield, proclaimd they will each give $50,000 to Team Rubicon to help those swayed by Hurricane Helene.
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