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Those $2 hot dogs aren’t the drawing card that they were supposed to be.The Falcons are struggling to fill their new home stadium. The venue went ridiculously over budget John Sullivan Jersey , and for NFL games it’s now grossly underperforming. That’s happening in large part because the team that plays there is also grossly underperforming.Consider this photo from Dan Wolken of , taken in the middle of the first quarter when the butts-in-seats ratio should be fairly high. The crowd, at best, seems sparse.According to the official game book, paid attendance for the Rams-Falcons game was 71 Cory Littleton Jersey ,856. However, the true number of fans in attendance likely falls far short of that.Earlier this year, the demonstrated based on public records the significant gap between announced attendance and actual attendance. For example, the announced attendance for the Falcons’ seventh home game in 2018 was 72,262. The actual attendance was 60 Nickell Robey-Coleman Jersey ,626. For the final home game, 72,084 actually was 56,470.It will be interesting to see what the actual numbers were for the Rams game on Sunday. Whatever they were, thousands were missing out on those $2 hot dogs. Jared Goff wasn’t spectacular Andrew Whitworth Jersey , but he got back on track after an early strip sack that can be easily attributed to a missed blocking assignment by new acquisition C.J. Anderson - though Anderson redeemed himself with a massive day on the ground.Aaron Donald broke the sack record for defensive tackles and could feasibly push for Michael Strahan’s record next week. It’s probably a good thing he’s accustomed to double and triple teams at this point.... he could be one of a select few starters who get significant playing time next weekThe rest of the defense finally stood up as well. Ndomukong Suh had some good plays and Cory Littleton had a nice deflection as well as some clutch tackles. In addition to holding David Johnson to 3.5 yards per carry, the Rams shored up the pass D and held Josh Rosen under 50% completion percentage.The Rams finally dominated in a way you expect an 11-3 team to dominate a 3-11 team in week 16 and moved a step closer to earning a bye week.Sure it was against inferior competition, but Sean McVay’s Rams did what they had to do in order to allow fans to breath a little easier over the holiday.