Kirk Cousins and the first-place Falcons don’t hesitate to list the pitfalls of overlooking the last-place New Orleans Saints.
The Falcons needed a last-second field goal to win the previous meeting in Atlanta in Week 4 and now face a Saints squad that is trying to get interim coach Darren Rizzi off to an auspicious start.
When a coach is replaced, as third-year Saints coach Dennis Allen was earlier this week, “the team plays very well the following week, in my experience,” Cousins noted. “So, I see it as a real challenge that we’ve been thrown.
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