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By the numbers: Craziest stats from Cousins' monster game

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Kirk Cousins stepped up when it mattered most in prime time to help the Atlanta Falcons walk off the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 36-30 in overtime with a spectacular 45-yard touchdown to KhaDarel Hodge.

The Falcons' win and Cousins' performance - which featured 42 completions on 58 pass attempts for 509 yards and four touchdowns - entered the NFL record books.

Here are some stunning stats and facts about Atlanta's victory on Thursday Night Football:

0.03%: Hodge's unbelievable catch-and-run touchdown was the sixth-most improbable TD reception of the season with a 0.03% probability, according to NextGen Stats.

1: Cousins is the first player in NFL history to post a 450-yard passing game for three different teams (Washington Commanders, Minnesota Vikings, and Falcons).

2: Only two QBs in NFL history have won a game after attempting at least 58 passes for 460-plus passing yards with a completion rate of 68% or better: Cousins on Thursday and Tom Brady in Super Bowl LI when he orchestrated the biggest comeback in NFL history over the ... Falcons.

4.7: Atlanta's chances of winning bottomed out at 4.7% after Cousins threw a fourth-down INT to give the ball back to the Bucs at the Falcons' 28-yard line with 1:44 left to play, according to NextGen Stats. Atlanta had a similarly impressive comeback against the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 2, overcoming chances as low as 1%.

11: Seconds needed for Atlanta to execute a 14-yard passing play, race up to the line, and spike the ball with one second left in the fourth quarter to kick the game-tying field goal and force OT.

13: Cousins is only the 13th player in NFL history to record at least 500 passing yards and four TD passes in a single game.

36: At age 36, Cousins tied Y.A. Tittle (1962) and Drew Brees (2015) as the oldest NFL QBs with a 450-yard, four-TD performance.

509: Cousins' total yardage against Tampa Bay not only set a career single-game record, but it's also a new Falcons record and the most by any QB in the 2024 season. All of Cousins' yards in Week 5 came from passes within the pocket, the most in a game in the Next Gen Stats era (since 2016).

550: The Falcons' total yardage on offense is the most the Bucs have allowed in a regular-season matchup since Todd Bowles started running the defense in 2019.

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