By James Varney
Recapping the New Orleans Saints’ 17-14 win over the Atlanta Falcons on Monday night at the Georgia Dome
DID YOU SEE?
PENALTIES
It’s a lament Coach Sean Payton has sounded more than once in 2010 and the fluttering yellow flags haunted the Saints again Monday night.
By the time it was over, New Orleans had been flagged eight times for 92 yards, statistics that don’t reflect penalties Atlanta chose to decline. Such figures are damaging in and of themselves but they were magnified more than once by the critical situations in which they occurred.