FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — Every time the Atlanta Falcons' offense made it into the red zone against the Minnesota Vikings in Week 2, the team put points on the board.

Only one of those five instances, however, resulted in six points — a touchdown. The other four trips turned into field goals, netting three points apiece.

In the end, all that mattered was the Falcons totaled more points than the Vikings, winning by a score of 22-6, but it's no secret Atlanta's red zone performance must change before Sunday's game against the Carolina Panthers.

"I'm sure they wanted to have more sixes than threes," said Falcons kicker John Parker Romo, who went 5-of-5 on field goals. "Hopefully, they'll come."

The Falcons' 20% success rate in the red zone was tied with the New York Giants for 28th among all teams in Week 2. Only the Vikings, Houston Texans and Las Vegas Raiders did worse in the red zone, with a 0% success rate.

Atlanta was the only team in the bottom five to win its game.

"We didn't do a great job in the red zone (Sunday) night, for sure," Falcons head coach Raheem Morris said. "Fortunate enough for us, our defense held their team to almost the same poor play in the red zone, and it was able to work out for us."

Let's recap each of the Falcons' red zone visits.

There were two in the first quarter.

The first began with a second-down play at the Minnesota 18-yard line during which running back Bijan Robinson took the ball for no gain. A false start on left tackle Jake Matthews pushed the Falcons back outside the red zone to the 23-yard line, but quarterback Michael Penix Jr. completed an 8-yard pass to tight end Kyle Pitts Sr. to place Atlanta back inside the red zone at the 15-yard line. The Falcons' drive ended after a delay-of-game penalty put them at fourth-and-2 at the 20-yard line, where special teams came out for Romo's 38-yard field goal.

"That was on us," Morris said. "We had some stuff that we wanted to get across the headset. We couldn't get to Mike and allow him to get that stuff off. So, instead of rushing that thing, going out there and putting together a really bad fourth-and-1, we took the delay, kicked the field goal and kept it moving. We were able to adjust and not really have much trouble throughout the day again with noise (inside U.S. Bank Stadium)."

The second began at the Minnesota 15-yard line, where Penix completed a 5-yard pass on first down to Robinson. There were then two consecutive incomplete passes to Robinson and wide receiver Darnell Mooney, setting up Romo's 29-yard field goal.

In the second quarter, the Falcons reached the red zone once. Again, Penix started off with a 4-yard completion, this one going to running back Tyler Allgeier, but a pair of incomplete passes to Mooney and wide receiver Ray-Ray McCloud III followed. Romo made a 33-yarder.

"When you look at it, I think we're putting ourselves in too many third downs," Falcons offensive coordinator Zac Robinson said. "We had a lot of third downs where on the second-down plays we could have executed a little bit better to get out of those third downs."

There was only one red zone series in the third quarter, too. Penix threw a second-down, 5-yard pass to Robinson that left 2 yards to go for a fresh set of downs. Instead, Allgeier was tackled for a 1-yard loss. Romo hit a 33-yard field goal.

It wasn't until the fourth quarter Atlanta broke the goal line. At this point, the score was 15-6, Falcons. Not impossible for the Vikings to pull off a comeback if the Falcons stalled out again. But Robinson carried the offense from the 19-yard line to the 11-yarder on double carries. A defensive penalty then lifted Atlanta to the 5-yard line, where Allgeier bullied his way through to the end zone for the first and only touchdown of the game. This time, Romo only needed to make a point-after attempt.

"We can't put him on the field until a PAT," Robinson said. "It's our job to put the ball in the end zone. Three points is great, but that's not a good goal to have. Obviously it's been two weeks, but we have to score. We can't settle for field goals. That's not a winning football team."