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Atlanta once again lost a close game, just with a few expected and unexpected wrinkles along the way.

If I had told you going into this game that Desmond Ridder would pass for under 100 yards and the Saints would score 21 points, your guess would likely have been that Atlanta lost this one. The exact manner of the loss—how close it was, how dominant the ground game ended up being, the heroism of individual defenders in a tough effort after a...

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