That was as bad as it gets for the 49ers. They fell to the Falcons 29-22 at Levi’s Stadium on Sunday and dropped back into the No. 5 seed.

Here’s what we took away from the loss:

Finally a bad loss

There it was. The 49ers have avoided a bad loss all year by putting teams away early or making enough plays to pull away late. They couldn’t avoid it Sunday when they couldn’t overcome a slow start. San Francisco let the Falcons hang around and it came back to bite them when Julio Jones caught a five-yard pass from Matt Ryan to take a 23-22 lead with two seconds left. This was the trap game of all trap games and the 49ers fell into it face first.