Scoring Plays:
1Q - ATL - Younghoe Koo 32 yd FG GOOD | ATL 3, NO 0
End of Quarter Score - Atlanta Falcons 3, New Orleans Saints 0
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2Q - ATL - Matt Ryan to Olamide Zaccheaus 3 yd TD pass (PAT Good) | ATL 10, NO 0
End of Quarter Score - Atlanta Falcons 10, New Orleans Saints 0
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3Q - NO - Brian Johnson 35 yd FG GOOD | ATL 10, NO 3
3Q - ATL - Matt Ryan 1 yd TD rush (PAT Good) | ATL 17, NO 3
End of Quarter Score - Atlanta Falcons 17, New Orleans Saints 3
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4Q - NO - Brian Johnson 52 yd FG GOOD | ATL 17, NO 6
4Q - ATL - Matt Ryan to Olamide Zaccheaus 6 yd TD pass (PAT Good) | ATL 24, NO 6
4Q - NO - Trevor Siemian to Marquez Callaway 5 yd TD pass (PAT Good) | ATL 24, NO 13
4Q - NO - Alvin Kamara 2 yd TD rush (2PC No Good - Trevor Siemian pass to Adam Trautman incomplete) | ATL 24, NO 19
4Q - NO - Trevor Siemian to Kenny Stills 8 yd TD pass (2PC No Good - Alvin Kamara rush for no gain) | ATL 24, NO 25
4Q - ATL - Younghoe Koo 29 yd FG GOOD | ATL 27, NO 25
Final Score - Atlanta Falcons 27, New Orleans Saints 25
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Hello Who Dats & Who Datettes and welcome to the Week 9/Game 8 thread. I hope you enjoyed your extra hour of sleep to warm up for today's noon game.

The Trevor Siemian era begins officially begins today as the former heir apparent to Peyton Manning in Denver takes over for the injured Jameis Winston, who suffered a season-ending knee injury in last week's win over Tampa Bay.

And that wasn't the only bad injury news for the Saints this week as it was learned the Saints would be without wide receiver Michael Thomas for the whole season due to a setback in his recovery from an ankle injury suffered in week 1 against the Buccaneers in 2020.

But back to the QB situation, what a first start for Siemian in NOLA as he gets dropped right into the rivalry that is Falcons/Saints. Now granted the rivalry isn't what it was... say... 3 years ago as the Falcons have kinda fallen off over the past couple years, but it's still a significant rivalry.

The Falcons will be without their top wide receiver in Calvin Ridley, who's stepped away from football for a bit to work on mental health issues. So the focus turns to Atlanta's Mr. Everything, former Viking Cordarrelle Patterson. The Saints D needs to keep him bottled up, while continuing to sack Matt Ryan over and over and over again like they have in recent years.

LET'S MAKE MATTY ICE MELT AND MOVE INTO FIRST PLACE IN THE NFC SOUTH!!!!!

By the way, congrats to Roman Harper & Jahri Evans on being inducted into the Saints Hall of Fame last night.

Injury Report:
ATL-
Jonathan Bullard - Concussion - OUT
Calvin Ridley - Not-Injury Related - OUT

NO- (players on IR - like Winston, Peat, Lutz, & Crawley - won't be listed here)
Carl Granderson - Shoulder - OUT
Ty Montgomery - Hamstring - OUT
Malcolm Jenkins - Knee - QUESTIONABLE
Payton Turner - Calf - QUESTIONABLE

Weather: The weather outside may be starting to turn frightful, but inside the Caesar's Superdome it'll be wonderfully comfortable today.

Uniforms: Home in the Dome and it's the return of the all-black uniforms for the Falcons

Current Standings:
NFC South:
Buccaneers 6-2
Saints 5-2
Panthers 4-4
Falcons 3-4

Betting Lines: Saints (-6.5); O/U 42

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Today's Officials:
Referee: #55 Alex Kemp

Umpire: #49 Rich Hall
Down Judge: #63 Mike Carr
Line Judge: #32 Jeff Bergman
Field Judge: #117 John Jenkins
Side Judge: #104 Dale Shaw
Back Judge: #93 Scott Helverson
Replay Official: Mike Chase
Replay Assistant: Durwood Manley

Inactive Lists:
ATL-
RB Wayne Gallman
DL John Cominsky
OL Josh Andrews
LB Jacob Tuioti-Mariner
DL Ta'Quon Graham
DL Jonathan Bullard

NO-
DT Montravius Adams
DE Jaiyn Holmes
TE Juwan Johnson
WR Ty Montgomery
DE Carl Granderson
DL Malcolm Roach

This post was edited on 11/7/21 at 11:05 pm