Numbers you need to know, notes you may not have known and find out which jersey the Falcons will wear in Dallas for the Week 7 edition. It's time for Numbers, Notes and Colors...
- The Falcons are 8-13 all time against the Cowboys.
- The Falcons are +5 in turnover differential during this 2009 season.
- This season Matt Ryan has been sacked 2 times, Tony Romo has been sacked 9 times.
- The Week 5 of the NFL season (Sunday Oct. 11, 2009) was franchise day for each team's wide receivers. Roddy White set a franchise record with 210 receiving yards. Miles Austin did the same for the Cowboys with 250 receiving yards.
- The Falcons will wear their RED jerseys this Sunday in Dallas.
- The Cowboys average 24.4 points per game (11th in NFL) and the Falcons average 24.6 (10th in NFL).
- The Falcons allow 15.4 points per game (4th in NFL) and the Cowboys allow 19.6 (tied for 12th in NFL).
- The Cowboys are 4-0 coming off their last four byes.
- Tony Romo’s QB Rating at home is 60.
- Matt Ryan’s QB Rating on the road is 97.1.
- Keith Brooking spent 11 years in Atlanta with 128 consecutive starts at the LB position.
- Dallas Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips was the defensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons from 2002-2003 and interim head coach in 2003.
- Falcons quarterbacks coach Bill Musgrave was a fourth round draft choice (pick 106) by the Dallas Cowboys in 1991.
- It will be a Razorback reunion as Cowboys running back Felix Jones was teammates with Falcons DE Jamaal Anderson and CB Chris Houston at the University of Arkansas.
- It is the first time the Cowboys and Falcons will matchup in Cowboys Stadium.
- Dallas has won 6 of the last 10 meetings with the Falcons.
- In the there previous three games, the Falcons have scored 76 points and the Cowboys have scored 57.
- When John Abraham has two or more sacks in a game, his teams are 13-3.
- Falcons guard Justin Blalock was a unanimous All-America and All-Big XII Conference first-team selection at Texas as a senior.
- The Falcons are 4-0 this season when forcing 2 or more turnovers in a game.
