1995 Atlanta Falcons Season
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Atlanta Falcons The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta. The Falcons compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC South, South division. The Falcons were founded o ...
season was the franchise’s thirtieth season in the
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(NFL). The team finished with a 9–7 record, and qualified for the post-season as a wild cards. The Falcons’ pass defense gave up 4,541 yards through the air in 1995, which was a league record until 2011.Both the 2011 Packers and 2011 Patriots surrendered more passing yards. The Falcons’ defense faced a total of 650 pass attempts, the most all time.As of the end of the 2011 season The 405 passes completed against Atlanta in 1995 are fifth-most in NFL history. Still, Atlanta's points surrendered was 19th in the league, and its point-differential for the season was +13. Falcons receivers
Eric Metcalf Eric Quinn Metcalf (born January 23, 1968) is an American former professional football player in the National Football League (NFL) for the Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons, San Diego Chargers, Arizona Cardinals, Carolina Panthers, Washington ...
, Bert Emanuel, and Terence Mathis became the third trio of teammates with over 1,000 receiving yards in the same season – a rare occurrence, with only five such trios in NFL history (as of
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Regular season


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Standings

NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book, Workman Publishing Co, New York, NY, , p. 291


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1995 Atlanta Falcons
at Pro-Football-Reference.com
Atlanta Falcons The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta. The Falcons compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC South, South division. The Falcons were founded o ...
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