FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The knuckleball got the best of the Atlanta Falcons' kickoff return unit in the team's Week 3 loss.

To prevent it from happening again, the Falcons' special teams players repped that style of kick "a lot" to prepare for Sunday's game against the Washington Commanders (1 p.m. ET, CBS).

"Even after practice, me, Jamal (Agnew) and all the kick returners, we just got a kicker and told him to kick us the craziest ball he can," Falcons cornerback and return man Natrone Brooks said. "Let us go out there and field them."

Over and over and over again.

The repetition is needed because no two knuckleballs are the same. And, just as a knuckleball is difficult to hit in baseball, these kicks are tricky to field cleanly.

"It flies in a similar way," Brooks said. "Of course it'

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