Falcons vs. Patriots: Highlights, game tracker and more

The Atlanta Falcons face the New England on October 22nd in Week 7 of the 2017 NFL season. Here are highlights from the game.

This is finally the week that we’ve all been waiting for, the Super Bowl 51 re-match between the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots. Not to mention, the Dirty Birds are coming off a Week 6 loss to the Miami Dolphins after blowing a 17-0 second-half lead. Needless to say, Atlanta hasn’t figured out how to finish football games since their crushing loss last February.

That said, this game is going to be entirely different than the one played down in Houston eight months ago. This New England defense has been terrible thus far and are going to be missing some of their top defensive-backs on Sunday night.

With Julio Jones and company flying north, this is not an ideal scenario for the Pats.

However, there’s something to be said about this New England football team, especially since they are still (4-2) with one of the league’s worst defenses. If Tom Brady can get a lead at some point Sunday evening, it could get out-of-hand for the Dirty Birds awfully fast.

Highlights

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Again, what a huge game this is for both the Falcons and Patriots on Sunday Night Football. Not only is this the Super Bowl 51 re-match, but it will also determine how each of these teams approach the rest of 2017. A win for New England would get them back in the race for the one-seed in the AFC, but a win for Atlanta would get them one step closer to the NFC Playoffs, which could be played without future Hall-of-Fame quarterback, Aaron Rodgers.