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All over boards and on Atlantas newpaper website- AJC.com people are saying the game was staged and the Falcons laid down for the Saints. Heres their reasons why they think this:

1. Since the Nfl put so much money into fixing the Superdome they werent gunna let the Saints lose their homecoming game.

2. The game was MNF and the first game in the Superdome since Hurricane Katrina and everyone around the US was for the Saints except Falcon fans and the Falcons assured the win for the Saints.

3. Saints barely beat 2 very bad teams in the Browns 0-3 and the Packers 1-2 in Weeks 1,2 while the Falcons dominated 2 seemingly/supposed to be very good teams in the Panthers and Buccs. But in Week 3 the Saints somehow play like a Championship team and the Falcons play like scrubs.

4. Falcons 1st drive: Third down and Vick fumbles on the bootleg without getting touched and the Saints were supposed to recover it and take it for a TD but the guy accidently kicks it out of bounds. So on fourth down, the Falcons make a big gap in their line so someone can easily come through it and block the punt.

5. The Falcons coaches were showing no emotion/anger/concern on the sidelines after bad plays/drives.

6. Falcons WRs especially the Pro Bowl TE Crumpler couldnt catch a cold. Crumpler drops an easy TD when he was wide open. How?

7. The refs didnt give anything to the Falcons and their WRs were getting mugged all the time after 5 yards. They also made a bad call on roughing the passer on Kerney and Mathis purposely pushed Joe Horn in front of the ref to get the penalty.


8. The Falcons coaches were being way to conservative when trailing by 20 points- Not bringing an pressure on D to try and force a turnover and running the ball in the 4th quarter even though still down by 20.

9. Jim Moras post game conference he said:
Congrats to the Saints.....We were all Saints tonight.

10. Falcons O line not blocking and Vick barely trying to scramble and make plays like he usually does.

11. Warrick Dunn had a tour of the destruction from Katrina be given so that the players would feel sorry for the Saints and N.O. and let them win.

12. Jim Mora had been saying it was going to be a special game because he had N.O. ties and his Dad used to coach for the Saints.


There might have been more, but thats what I could remember. let me know what your guys thoughts on this are.

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