(02-06-2017 12:47 AM)_C2_ Wrote:  Anyways, we could say so if it was anyone but the Patriots.

Nope, it was a choke. Falcons had a first down on the Patriots 22 with an 8 point lead and less than 5 minutes to go. A field goal from there would have made it a two score game and pretty much over. But they ran wide (lost a yard), took a sack that STILL was in makeable field goal range, then a holding penalty and an incomplete. This was a remarkably bad series of calls and execution, almost entirely on the Falcons (Patriots get credit for a coverage sack but only because the Falcons made a terrible play call), that cost them the game. If they had elected to run up the middle 3 times, at WORST they would have lost 5 or 6 yards and been able to attempt a 45 yard field goal to go up by 13.