ATLANTA -- It was a rambunctious, rollicking crowd in the Georgia Dome here Saturday. Moments like these do not happen often in this city. Ryan Schraeder, the Atlanta Falcons' right tackle, said he had to take a deep breath in the closing moments just to inhale the scene of a sold-out crowd in a frenzy.

"I took a second and talked to Chris Chester (right guard) and said, 'This is awesome!'

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"The fans were rocking," Schraeder said. "It was a pretty cool moment at the end."

That settles it then. The second-seeded Falcons will have their cheese head garb Sunday, rooting for Green Bay to beat the top-seeded Cowboys, right?

Schraeder just smiled wide and said, "Well....." He just shrugged.

"It's going to be a tough matchup either way," he said. "Home field advantage would be cool either way, but we're prepared to go on the road because that's been our mentality all year long, just win. But the fans today blew my mind. When our defense was out there you couldn't hear the thoughts in your head; the fans came out and showed up."

It was like that throughout the Falcons locker room following the 36-20 win over the Seattle Seahawks. More than one Atlanta player raised hosannas to the home crowd of 71,155.

Still, the Falcons were not about to get caught openly rooting for Green Bay over Dallas.

So leave it to 15-year veteran defensive end Dwight Freeney to give the perspective of where the Falcons will be coming from this week, regardless of the opponent. They are ready to play anybody, anywhere, even the corner sandlot.

"I would love to be home, but we don't really care, we're rolling right now," Freeney said. "We have momentum definitely on our side, so if it's Dallas, we have to go to Dallas, if it's Green Bay they come here. It would be good to have it at home."

The Falcons are 12-5 and on a five-game winning streak with the NFL's best offense and an MVP candidate in quarterback Matt Ryan. They have won six of seven with the only loss to a playoff team, Kansas City, 29-28. Atlanta just put 36 points on the NFL's third-best defense. Considering the confidence in the locker room here early Saturday afternoon after averaging six yards a play, yeah, does it matter who is next?

"Whoever we get matched up with we'll be ready to go," Schraeder said. "I watched the Packers recently and Aaron Rodgers is hot right now and definitely dangerous and the Cowboys have a good offense and real solid O line. Their defense is coming along."

Still, you get the sense the Falcons would like to experience the cauldron of the Georgia Dome one more time before it is torn down in March and replaced by a new $1 billion dollar stadium.

"The crowd noise and the environment gave us an advantage as a team," said center Alex Mack. "It would be great to use that again, but some things are out of your control. Dallas-Green Bay is out of our control."

"Maybe deep down inside you might think that you want them (Green Bay), but winning this game was too much work for me not to take the time to enjoy it," right guard Chester said.