Atlanta Falcons

The clean quarterback won. Michael Penix Jr. finished 25-of-34 for 213 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions, and the Falcons beat the 49ers 29-20 in Atlanta.

Four opening drives, four different answers to the same question: what a coach does with a possession that decides nothing and everything.

NFL Week 7 Roundup: Undefeated 49ers, Pickens' Answer, Charbonnet Sits Three NFL teams enter Week 7 undefeated, and only one of them is walking into a game that will be parsed for meaning.

NFL Roundup: Aikman Keeps a Door Open in Dallas, Mendoza Takes the Vegas Stage Six items, one league, and one retired quarterback in half of them.

Week 7 has 13 more games on the slate, and the ESPN guide has picks for all of them, including Cowboys at Eagles, Bengals at Ravens and Steelers and Saints in Paris.

Four clubs, three press conferences and one uniform note. The through-line across the league: coaches will commit publicly to the players who are fine and slow-play the ones who aren't.

49ers at Falcons Week 7: The Line Says Blowout, the Results Say Otherwise The market has this one filed. San Francisco 49ers -4.5, total 50.5, Atlanta Falcons +185 on the moneyline, 49ers -225 (odds…

NFL Week 7 upset watch: Giants-Texans and Falcons-49ers lead a slate of live underdogs The Week 7 upset board reads like a formality.

Half the league spent Tuesday tinkering. The Giants spent it admitting something bigger, and everything else in today's NFL business reads like a footnote next to it.

NFL roundup: Saints to Paris, Eagles' Hurts diagnosis, Colts' Ballard fallout Four clubs, four flavors of October. The Saints are packing for Paris with something to protect.

Patrick Mahomes tied Tom Brady for the fewest games to reach 100 career quarterback wins, and that is the day's only item with real historical weight.

Three teams are unbeaten at the top — San Francisco at 6-0, Minnesota and Kansas City at 5-0 — while the Chargers sit 0-6 at the bottom.

Falcons' Kendal Daniels Alert After Neck Injury; Giants' Cam Skattebo Says He Got Punished Two clubs, two kinds of bad Sunday. One was done to a team. The other a team did to itself.

Sunday's most consequential plays in the NFL weren't touchdowns. They were the cart, the blue tent, and the official's flag. The Falcons got the only clean win of the afternoon.

Sunday's news cycle split cleanly. One item mattered more than any score. The rest were depth-chart problems that will shape rosters by Wednesday. Atlanta got the only result it wanted.