This game was a bit of a bummer.

[Peyton]

But....oh well.

The Falcons earned a margin of error, and now they need to use it.

The offense didn't get it done tonight. The lack of playmakers finally caught up with them. Hopefully they will overcome it next week and in the playoffs as they have all this season.

On that front, have to give credit to the Saints defense. They overmatched the Falcons offense tonight, and by a wide margin.

BVG and the Falcons defense deserve credit, despite the game winning drive by the Saints. Those guys played well enough to win this game.........easily. Would have been nice if they could have tackled Brees better though.....only criticism I have.

The officials made a couple of big mistakes that hurt the Falcons. The offsetting calls involving Roddy White early in the game was a bogus call....should have been just a call on Greer. How important was it? Who knows.

Turner's fumble and McClure's bad snap were the two key plays in the game. Real unfortunate plays.

I thought Smith should have gone for it at the end. Didn't think the Falcons had a feasible chance at all after they punted. I thought the defense was spent by that point. So.....bummer.

The officials should have reviewed that second down play. Maybe it's not reviewable as a "spot" challenge, but it was definitely reviewable as a "down by contact" challenge. I think that was a mistake in the interpretation of the rules by the officials.

The bottom line is this game won't matter if the Falcons win next week. But I think that winning this week isn't going to be quite as easy as we think it might be.

I do think that Steve Young is right about this team. It's not really that talented....but Matt has them ahead of where they should be with this talent level.

The good news is that everything the Falcons want to achieve is still clearly ahead of them.