It\u2019s only six quarters into the season, but the Falcons may finally have built a defense. Atlanta registered five sacks in the first half against Minnesota. Rookie edge rushers Jalon Walker and James Pearce Jr. each their first, a half in Pearce\u2019s case. Second-year defensive tackle Brandon Dorlus had 1.5 and his draft-mate Ruke Orhorhoro had a half sack. Veteran free agent edge rusher Leonard Floyd had his first sack as a Falcon. Zach Harrison was also credited with half a sack. Atlanta has only had more than five sacks in one game since the 2019 season.<\/p>\n
On top of that, rookie defensive back Billy Bowman had his first career interception, a spectacular diving catch while laying on the top of Minnesota wide receiver Adam Thielen. That play set up the Falcons’ third field goal of the half. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s only six quarters into the season, but the Falcons may finally have built a defense. Atlanta registered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-144621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}