Comments on: Mock Draft 5.0: USC’s Cushing falls to Falcons

By: HIGHPROGLOW

HIGHPROGLOW — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:17:56 +0000

ALL OF YOU H*MOS SWALLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! U CANT DENY IT…..:P U LIKE TO SWALLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RINSE AND REPEAT!!!

By: HIGHPROGLOW

HIGHPROGLOW — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:15:09 +0000

TOP OF THE MORNING TO U TOO……. U F**KEN H*MO

By: richbrave

richbrave — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:05:13 +0000

COACH KEN STRICK:

Thought you might get a kick from my take on the REDSKINS o-line current position. Sounds like being a FALCONS fan from a few season’s back doesn’t it? I’m hoping SIX FLAGS goes under and DANDY DAN et. al. are FORCED to sell their assets to cover the loss. Damm, I hate being cynical, but right.

O-o-o-o-h, SCOTT BURLEY, EDWIN WILLIAMS and MIKE WILLIAMS along with DERRICK DOCKERY and a resurrected JON JANSEN will be the saviors of the offensive line. Oh, and D’BAPTISTE also, lest we forget.

Lets see from LT to right by position:

Currently unable to participate in offensive practices – SAMUELS, STILL recovering from last season’s injury. DOCKERY brought in because RINEHART (third round 2008) can hardly stay on the active roster. D’BAPTISTE playing out of position and unproven at any. RABACH capable as long as the guards on either side take up the slack. EDWIN WILLIAMS to back-up the center position and to replace “the GEYSER ” who is recovering from injury last season. THOMAS limited participation, recovering from SERIOUS surgery. JANSEN trying to prove he still belongs. HEYOR questionable abilities to carry the load at right tackle, but probably will do O.K. in 2009. SCOTT BURLEY and MIKE WILLIAMS just in case.

Makes a fan feel mighty secure and full of hope for the season doesn’t it? CAMPBELL-ZORN just lovin’ life. Zero pressure-zero heat.

Since we drafted replacements for KHARY CAMPBELL and JUSIN TRYON on special teams lets see about the captain himself, ROCK CARTWRIGHT. After all we’ve got our own “Refrigerator” in MIKE WILLIAMS 6′5″ 410. No need for a third running back OR fullback now. MIKE SELLERS where are you? Your contract requires you to show up and be counted among the present. There will be demerits for tardiness.

By: MountainDawg

MountainDawg — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:18:19 +0000

Falcons should definitely land Cushing (if he’s still on the board). The guy is a workhorse with lots of talent. Also, there’s no way that sumo slug Andre Smith should be a top 15 pick, he’s grossly overrated. Finally, James “Lil’ Animal” Laurinaitis, & SC’s Clay Matthews Jr should go in the 1st round. There both ball hawks & are getting the shaft on this mock draft.

By: matty

matty — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:32:45 +0000

i honestly dont see the falcons getting a LB with their first pick…no matter who falls to us. i hate to say it, but i think LB is one of our least needs on D, although we arent very doos there. DL and our entire secondary is in much worse shape than our LB. i say e trade back a little and get delmas or moore. cook in the second round.

with all of our holes on D, i say the we finish 8-8 at best. the O wont be good enough to make up for how young/inexperienced/just not good our D will be this year. we got by with smoke and mirrors last year, and you can only ride your luck for so long. plus the schedule is so much harder than last year. 8-8 at best, probably a game or two worse. but i think were headed in the right direction. IN TD WE TRUST! give it a few years and the falcons will be a force to be reckoned with in the NFC.

By: mars

mars — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:47:41 +0000

Keep in mind, we still have option of trading a very flawed, and yet very talented Michael Vick. Also, in QB hungry league, Shockley is a waste as a bench-rider, and J Anderson might actually fit into someones defensive scheme somewhere (I type with straight face, no less). Look for one or all of these options to be exercised. Drafting Pettigrew would signal a return to the brain dead decisions that represent the history of the Falcons. If not interested in bringing Justin Peele along (quite talented and servicable, affordable without dropping ones pants), then wait for Jared Cook (as good as Pettigrew in all aspects). Considering our needs, squandering the first pick on a tight end would be moronic.

By: WR

WR — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:44:37 +0000

Seminole, I don’t think we have to transition to a 3-4 for this to work. Its just a hypothetical view of using a freakish player like Johnson as a pure backer not a LB/DE hybrid. Johnson is so freakish in his physical attributes that I figured why not play around with some different uses for the guy. Problem is no matter where he is used he has to be more consistent and I’m saying that as a Tech fan. If this guy could stay focused he would be the still of the draft in the third round.

By: SeminoleWarrior

SeminoleWarrior — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:26:34 +0000

A change is oming in my personal Falcons mock as doctors have advised my second pick in the fifth round, TE Brian Mandeville, to not pursue a NFL career due to a heart condition.

Best wishes to the young man. He has skills, was compared to Kevin Boss of the G-men, and would have been a nice late round steal I think.

By: SeminoleWarrior

SeminoleWarrior — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:13:23 +0000

WR, I really don’t know about this one. Your scenario would actually play into what I described last night. Are we quietly transitioning to a 3-4 scheme? And is Van Gorder up to the task as a DC?

By: WR

WR — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:27:03 +0000

The idea of Micheal Johnson slipping into the third round would change my falcons mock draft. I couldn’t see the birds taking johnson in round one or two but in the third I see something special and heres my thinking process. Johnson is 6′7 266lbs and runs the forty in the high 4.5 to mid 4.6 range. As a project you turn Johnson into a pure linebacker he has the speed and height to man up on tight-ends without any need for over the top safety help, no other team or player offers the same combination set, teams usually put a LB or safety on the TE and 99% of the time the TE always has a height advantage even in perfect coverage which is why teams use over the top safety help, Johnson eliminates that option which would only make a defense that much better. Imagine a LB who drops in coverage on a TE without the need of safety help, you would have two safeties roaming the secondary with two corners on receivers in a normal package, in a nickel you have 3 corners with the two safeties. A defensive coordinator could use some wild imagination in his blitz package because a player or players have been freed up to come from any angle. In the variety of sound blitzes defenses use Johnson would help offer a monster of choices. If Johnson is truly slipping into the third round, the birds take 1.Jerry, 2.Cook, 3.Johnson, 4.Moala if he’s there if not Sammie Lee Hill. Johnson at 3 looks pretty good. Your thoughts anyone?