FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. -- Falcons coach Dan Quinn loved watching his offense, defense and special teams make enough plays to win at New Orleans.That might sound obvious, but Quinn tries to keep his goals simple.After losing the opener to Tampa Bay and scratching out a victory at Oakland, the Falcons are coming off their most complete game since handing Carolina its only regular-season loss last December.Mondays 45-32 victory had a little bit of everything.Honestly thats what weve been trying to build where all three units have a hand in winning, Quinn said Tuesday.That was special teams on the punt return, defensively getting the turnovers and scoring with it, then offensively getting so many guys in on the attack to contribute.Quarterback Matt Ryan played one of his best games since the Falcons previously made the playoffs in 2012, completing passes to eight different receivers, throwing no interceptions and using a silent snap count to overcome the noise in the Superdome.Running backs Tevin Coleman and Devonta Freeman combined for 194 yards rushing -- 296 yards overall -- and four touchdowns.Their superlatives overshadowed the lack of production of All-Pro receiver Julio Jones, who was targeted seven times but caught just one pass for 16 yards. Limited by a sore ankle and calf through the first three games, Jones leads the Falcons with 188 yards receiving, but is just third on the team with 10 catches.Make no mistake -- he is our feature guy, Quinn said. There are certain coverages that go his way and opportunities come for some other players. He knows that.As the Falcons (2-1) prepare to host Carolina (1-2) on Sunday, Jones is expected to be healthy enough to fully participate in practice. Its just the fourth week of the season, so Quinn isnt concerned about Jones numbers.I wouldnt sleep on him not having many games on him having (low) numbers, Quinn said. There are things he did that definitely didnt show up in the stat sheet, but I promise you he was a factor.Defensively, Atlanta had seven pass breakups and sacked Drew Brees twice. Deion Jones returned an interception 90 yards to put the Falcons up 20 points early in the fourth quarter.But the Saints picked up at least 13 yards on seven plays in the second half. Brees too often had enough time to set his feet and make accurate throws. Running back Mark Ingram picked up too many yards after initial contact.Quinn is most concerned about the high number of big-yardage plays the Falcons are giving up.I do believe in what were doing, he said. I do believe in the players we have. I just know well play like were capable of. Weve got a lot of work to do, but I do remember its a process were building and we have some new parts in here.Game notes Ryan hurt his left thumb in the fourth quarter, but Quinn doesnt expect him to be limited when the team returns to practice Wednesday. ... WR Mohamed Sanu, who hurt his shoulder in the first half and didnt return, will likely be limited this week. ... Quinn said rookie LB DeVondre Campbell, out with an ankle injury since Week 1, will run on the side, but Quinn said it was too early to tell if he will be ready to play.---Online: AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL Fake Jordan .S. 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But until the real dark clouds claimed the skies over Pallekele, a wiry young bowler with cumulonimbus hair lit up Sri Lankas Test, and sent his team spiraling towards equilibrium - though not quite all the way.This is just like any other game, Rangana Herath had told him before the match. Just do what you usually do. What Sandakan usually does, it became clear, was attempt to kiss his way through the nerves. There were two smooches of the ball before his first delivery on Tuesday evening. Many more fluttering pecks followed, between deliveries. At other times, he kissed something in his shirt, and if he thought it could help him, might have planted kisses on the non-strikers cheek on his way into the crease. But, importantly, when the wrists got warm and the legs became steady, his deliveries ceased to merely kiss the pitch; they began to really bite.In his second over of the day, a googly ripped away from Adam Voges, who poked his bat in the other direction, and token appeals from behind the wicket were launched. Then, even when Voges divined the turns inclination, an inside edge was induced, though it didnt lob off the pad to be caught.The first Test wicket was a wrist-spin classic - ripping Mitchell Marshs body to the leg side, then breaking the ball just slightly the other way. The off stump lost its bail, and Australia their promising partnership - the best of the innings, with 60 runs between Marsh and Voges.Mitchell Marsh is a guy who can play the anchor role, Sandakan said after play. Its a big wicket. Dismissing him is special. I bowled a googly to the other batsman, Voges. When he got beaten I thought that I can take a wicket by mixing it up. I was able to fox Marsh and get his wicket.Soon, this 25-year-old fresher, who hadnt played for Sri Lanka A before this month, and had been express-delivered to the Test team from England, was the most menacing bowler in the opposition for several overs. The control was far from perfect, but his excitement had the Test twitching. Stock balls staarted to beat the inside edge, and googlies the outside.dddddddddddd Mitchell Starc edged one that turned away from him, and Steve OKeefe bunted a googly to short leg. On so many recent occasions, Sri Lanka have toiled against the opposition tail, but at Pallekele a strange new spinner helped close out the innings - though he will know that less generous pitches lie in wait in his future, as well as batsmen better-versed in the shapes his fingers make.For someone who, for now, relies on deception for his wickets, he was a little lighter on the trickery than a wrist spinner would usually be. He refused to appeal for lbws when he knew the batsman had hit it. Then, after play, when asked how many variations he has up his sleeve, he said he had four, when he could have said fourteen. Ive got the lissa, the leaper, the floater and baggage porter, he might have ventured. Left-arm wrist spinners are crickets tiniest subset. They seem to exist in a shrouded intersection between fact and fable. Why not ham it up a little, particularly if you have collected the best ever figures on debut, bettering Chuck Fleetwood-Smiths 4 for 64 in 1935?Sandakan has topped Sri Lankas first-class wicket-takers tally in two of the past three years, but the Test team has discovered him here almost by accident. He would not have been in the squad had Jeffrey Vandersay remained uninjured. He would not have played this match had Suranga Lakmals hamstring not packed up. Sri Lankas batting prospects are flimsy, and its fast bowlers almost as fragile as the egos of some administrators, but, in the spin stakes at least, Sri Lanka still have something resembling a production line. Vandersay awaits his Test turn, following a promising start in limited-overs cricket, and Tharindu Kaushal has been quietly refining his big offbreak in the months his doosra has hung suspended. Maybe it is on the wrists of these three spinners that the teams future will turn.Sri Lankas grip on this match remains tenuous. They are 80 behind, with nine second-innings wickets intact. They will hope to leave Australia with at least 150 to chase in the final innings, to give the bowler who has so far been a revelation even to his own team, a chance of springing another surprise. ' ' '
