ATLANTA — Roughly half of the 70,016 fans who watched Matt Ryan’s Ring of Honor induction at halftime were gone by the time his single-game passing record was broken later that night.
Kirk Cousins, who completed 42 of 58 passes for a franchise-record 509 passing yards, found Khadarel Hodge for a game-winning 45-yard touchdown to walk-off the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in dramatic fashion in overtime Thursday, 36-30.
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