John Abraham slides out on way to practice; Smith cancels show
John Abraham's car slid off the road on the way to practice.
UPDATE 10:24 AM
Defensive end John Abraham tweeted that he slid off the road and posted pictures. Falcons defensive lineman Kroy
Kroy Biermann to the resuce for Abraham.
Biermann picked him up and they have arrived at the facilities. No injuries reported.
Abraham tweeted at 9:45 a.m., “I’m the passenger so I wasn’t being unsafe trust me. I (got) kids ain’t (trying to) go no where any time soon.”
Abe tweeted at 9:35 a.m., “We literally (just) crashed (two) exits away.”
Abe tweetwed at 9:30 a.m., “Jus got on 985 shud b to work in 20 hopefully funny thing is we have a short day we done at like 12 1230″
COACH SMITH’S SHOW CANCELED
–Coach Smith has canceled his radio show, Falcons Live, according to the team. He usually does it at a Sporting Good Store in Flowery Branch on Monday.
“Falcons Live: Come (Mike) Smith Show has been canceled tonight due to the weather. We will advise if it gets rescheduled,” the team tweeted on its official twitter account.
FLOWERY BRANCH – The inclement weather should not effect the Falcons preparation for their divisional playoff game with the Green Bay Packers set for 8 p.m. Saturday at the Georgia Dome.
The coaches were at the facilities late Sunday putting their finishing touches on the game plan and likely stayed on-site in the dormitories.
Monday morning, the players were trying to make their way into the facilities for a walkthrough practice that was schedule to start around 11 a.m. and conclude at 12:30 p.m.
When the team gets assembled, they will likely hold their practice at the indoor facility and the team would have to option of moving everyone back into the dormitories, which is where they live during training camp.
Here’s the practice schedule for the rest of the week:
Monday — Team Walkthrough.
Tuesday – Practice 1:10 – 3 p.m. (Game Plan Installation)
The Falcons could be playing some billiards in the players' amenities building if they stay in the dormitories at Flowery Branch. (D. Orlando Ledbetter/Dledbetter@ajc.com)
Wednesday – Practice — 11:40 a.m. – 1:20 p.m. (Game Plan Installation)
Thursday – Practice 11:00 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Friday – Team Walkthrough
Saturday – NFC Divisional Playoff vs. Green Bay, 8 p.m.
–D. Orlando Ledbetter
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225 comments Add your comment
cheesehead
January 10th, 2011
12:25 pm
@Message…………so true. Definition of a sahsage-fest = a bar in Milwaukee. Had to come down here and get me a southern belle:-)
Go Pack Go
warfalcon
January 10th, 2011
12:28 pm
The game will be played at the Dome,,cheesehead and if you come you will be leaving early.GO FALCONS GO.SBB.
My cow died
January 10th, 2011
12:32 pm
Some things I hope to never hear/read again
1. “That being said”
That being said, let’s move on to #2
2. Analyst, and people who fancy themselves as such referring to young players (22+yo men) as “kids”. Are they children or goats?
3. Anything more about Katrina, the Super Bowl appearence the NFL arranged to help pump $ into a below sea level cesspool and especially, “Who Dat”.
4. Nothing about my spelling or grammer.
GO FALCONS!!!
Ray B
January 10th, 2011
12:40 pm
DrJ….How did all these cheeseheads find this blog?
Nothing else to do in Wisconcin….
GO FALCONS!!!!
Greg Mendel
January 10th, 2011
12:41 pm
Saturday’s game will be reeeeal interesting. Neither team will get blown out. Both teams are good, with first-rate quarterbacks. I still think the Falcons defense has weaknesses, but it’s played hard and stepped up all season. I’m betting Matt Ryan gets a longer leash if things get too tight. The Falcons can’t afford to fall behind early in the game, if at all. I have a gut feeling Tony G. will be critical to Falcon fortunes in this game. I just hope GB comes in believing the media hype.
Chattanooga Chuck
January 10th, 2011
12:47 pm
Saints2010, it does my heart good to see a classy Saint fan.
cheesehead
January 10th, 2011
12:50 pm
Oh jeez Ray B, dairs lots to do in WI, like snow mobiling, and ice skattin, and snow blowin……..oh wait…..ur right. But we CAN drink! Woooooooooooooo!
Go Pack Go!
A Sheboygan Brat a day, keeps da doctor away
DrJ
January 10th, 2011
12:50 pm
Cheeseheads may be able to drive on snow, but not on Atlanta’s Mattie ICE.
Playa
January 10th, 2011
12:56 pm
Kroiy Beerman driving a 4WD Truck LOL
ATLFalconFister
January 10th, 2011
12:58 pm
How much snow did you guys get in Atlanta???? I moved from atl to Denver and we just got poured on…
My cow died
January 10th, 2011
12:59 pm
hey green bay peckers, wouldn’t peckerheads e a better nickname for you?
WestSiderATL
January 10th, 2011
1:06 pm
It’s amazing how the stooges come out every time the Falcons play a historically successful team…are even one-tenth of you “Pack fans” even from anywhere remotely around Green Bay? Sheer demographic fact answers that question perfectly…I would venture to guess that you are all pretender morons who latched on to Green Bay because they were mildly successful in past years and you like their uniform colors or something. I’ve seen all you poseur jerks at the Dome with your dumb outfits and cheese heads, etc…pretty comical if you ask me.
BTW…get ready for the beat down on Sat night…the place will be so loud, your living in the shadows QB Rogers will be quaking in his cleats!
Go Birds!!!!!
Brian
January 10th, 2011
1:08 pm
Back in November, packer puff fans came on the AJC postings and talked big smack until they went home with tails between their legs. It got very quiet on Sunday afternoon. None of the yappers had much to say! Now they’re back… history repeating itself. They’ll be gone again on Saturday night. Falcons fans, act like you’ve been here before. Beating the pack is just business… not personal.
cheesehead
January 10th, 2011
1:08 pm
Jus opened up a fresh can of Leinenkugel’s……..jus like the Pack is gonna open up a fresh can of woop-a$$ on da Falcons Sat night
Go Pack Go!
NotFromGreenBay
January 10th, 2011
1:08 pm
Trash talk. Trash talk. It’s fires up the innards. It swells your head and your other parts down below. Ultimately, it’s just what the first word says ‘trash’. Throw it out and take some time to come up with something that really matters.
Like GB thinking that they have suddenly acquired balance that they didn’t have the first time they played us. Don’t start with the woulda coulda shouda. If GB had a better backup QB, they would have beat the Pats instead of flubbing the last minute of the game. EVERYBODY has a would coulda shouda.
Like GB’s inconsistency, not beating the teams they were supposed to beat earlier. That’s why they end up a wild card instead of a higher seed (losses to Miami, Redskins, Detroit(!!!!!)
Inconsistency was the killer for the Saints. It will be the killer for the Pack.
Come back when you’re a more complete team.
wade ford
January 10th, 2011
1:09 pm
shouldnt he have been driving the ford truck he endorses? why was he in that car?
cheesehead
January 10th, 2011
1:16 pm
WestSide…..We’re wear all that goofy s BECAUSE we’ve been through some of the most gawd aweful football in history, and we developed a dumb sense of humor. You’re not from there so you wouldn’t understand but, Bart Starr the QB, great. Bart Starr the coach, ugh, that was some bad BS. We watched Lynn Dickey (good arm, NO legs, David Whitehurst (lives here now) and Don Machowski just to name a few of the non-famous Packer QB’s take us to 8-8, seasons or worse, yr after yr in the 70’s & 80’s. We’re not fair weather fans like ALL Y’ALL Falcons fans.
DEE-ROME
January 10th, 2011
1:19 pm
To all the cheeseheads you must have forgot about that a$$ whopping we gave earlier this year I look for more of the same we more rested more prepared and these aint your daddys Falcons…. RISE UP!!!!!!
todd
January 10th, 2011
1:26 pm
People make some of the dumbest statements…The “fragile” Matt Ryan? I like Aaron Rodgers and I think he’s a great QB but let’s hope that he doesn’t hit his head too hard on the dome turf as he’s already had two concussions this year. Now give the ATL some respect.
And to all the northerner’s who wonder why ATL shuts down when it snows. Well, it’s real simple. It might snow down here once a year or every other year; therefore, the state doesn’t think its important enough to warrant spending millions of dollars on equipment to clear roadways and people don’t buy snow tires that get crappy gas mileage just to use them once. So, not like you guys are that smart because you can drive in the snow. Is there anything else you would like to know?
JONESBORO SLIM
January 10th, 2011
1:30 pm
Now that the Falcons have won the championship…there are many of you who have jumped on the wagon at the last minute saying things like “we should do this , they should do that”..then we have those relocated CHEESEHEADS down here who have brought there LOYALITY with them saying “IF we hadn’t done this and we had done that we would have beat you”….IF IF IF… if the word “IF” counts for anything the PACK would have been THE #1 SEED so stop bitching and bring your #6 seeded team back here… so we can give you and your team a long LOSING ride back to Green Bay…..
KevinKolb
January 10th, 2011
1:31 pm
Having seen both the Packers and Falcons from one of the best vantage points in the games, I’m taking the Packers. The Falcons are over rated and while Ryan is a good quarterback, he’s quite inexperienced when it comes to the playoffs. If the Packers tackle and don’t turn the ball over, the season will be over the Falcons. Go Pack!
Its cold
January 10th, 2011
1:32 pm
Bears vs Packers for NFC Championship
JONESBORO SLIM
January 10th, 2011
1:37 pm
There you go with that ..IF crap again…..
Eric
January 10th, 2011
1:40 pm
Prediction:
Falcons beat Packers 27-20 and go on to play Bears in NFC Title Game.
Media’s totally predictable story:
“Falcons have no chance against dangerous Cutler and the Urlacher led Bears defense.”
This has been the theme all year. Every game we are treated to all the reasons why Atlanta can never beat “X” opponent. Then when they do, it was just a fluke and their next opponent “Y” will expose them. Only, Atlanta just keeps winning. I guess the sports media guys are just about as good at covering stories as their regular media counterparts these days….
NotFromGreenBay
January 10th, 2011
1:41 pm
@Its Cold.
Thanks for the swell-headed, swami prediction.
HOWEVER
That projection isn’t worth the electrons you typed to get them there without some evidence that you have been right earlier, with some decent level of accuracy.
Who did you pick in the Seattle-NO game?
Spare us the wasted time in reading your opinion.
And, by the way – be sure to come back after the NFC Championship to own up to your failed prediction, unlike the clowns calling the Seattle game a ‘bye-week’ for the Saints, who’ve suddenly disappeared like a f*rt.
FAILCANTS ARE LLLOOOSSSEERRRS!
January 10th, 2011
1:44 pm
You stupid, redneck FAILCANT fans are still talking about the Saints, who already own a SB ring and beat you a couple of weeks ago? Get over it. Worry about the PACKERS and the fact that they are coming to destroy your pathetic dreams of ever winning a superbowl for a pathetic franchise…where is your ring, losers?
FAILCANTS ARE LLLOOOSSSEERRRS!
January 10th, 2011
1:45 pm
Packers / Patriots SB; Pats will win…FALCLOWNS are one and done…fraud for a team and a franchise…America could care less about a bunch of ghetto dwellers and hicks from Georgia…
George Stein
January 10th, 2011
1:45 pm
Uh, why is Abe driving a Mitsubishi?
CanWeStillRead?
January 10th, 2011
1:52 pm
1 – Abe wasn’t driving. Nothing said that it was his car.
2 – READ the article
3 – Mitsubishi starts with M. The name of that car starts with L.
The Joker
January 10th, 2011
1:59 pm
FAILCANTS ARE LLLOOOSSSEERRRS! ,
You sound like a bitter sAINT’S Fan, ten years down the road no one will care about their little super bowl rings, we are concerned now about the cheezewhiz heads, time to focus and take care of business… GO FALCONS!!!!!
JONESBORO SLIM
January 10th, 2011
2:00 pm
When the Falcons were “CHOOSING” the teams they wanted to play this season like the Baltimore’s, Pittsburgh’s, and the mighty Green Bay…we thought these were the EZ games we knew we could win….I see your team picked Miami, Chicago, and the mighty Washington Redskins…I see you didn’t choose Atlanta but we picked you because we knew we wipe your a$$…good day
JONESBORO SLIM
January 10th, 2011
2:01 pm
That’s a Lincoln
George Stein
January 10th, 2011
2:02 pm
It was a joke, Read. Take it easy.
SickandTired
January 10th, 2011
2:04 pm
Bottom line for you Green Bay fans is that you already know we can beat you . The Falcons will not look past you, they will look right into your soul and destroy you. Is Fabio making the trip with your girly men linebacking corps? Matthews didn’t get off the bus last time you guys came to town. He was AWOL. Get back to meat packing up there in Green Bay. Let us handle the the serious preparations down here in the Deep South.
JONESBORO SLIM
January 10th, 2011
2:04 pm
Where’s the punch line?
George Stein
January 10th, 2011
2:06 pm
Good lord. You typically expect to see athletes driving pretty fancy cars. That doesn’t look like a pretty fancy car (to me, at least).
And I have no idea where you the the L on the car.
George Stein
January 10th, 2011
2:07 pm
*see
s falcon
January 10th, 2011
2:08 pm
It’s not snow It’s ice.Over half the people in the ATL are from up north and they can’t drive in this.
JONESBORO SLIM
January 10th, 2011
2:09 pm
@Geo. Stein
What are you trying to say?….look the “AUTO” blog is not here…this is FOOTBALL…
George Stein
January 10th, 2011
2:10 pm
Forget it, Slim.
Take your finger off the caps lock button.
s falcon
January 10th, 2011
2:11 pm
Who would drive a $100,000 car on ice anyway.Thats probably his everyday car.
JONESBORO SLIM
January 10th, 2011
2:14 pm
Geo. Stein
Getting my point over to YOU…nobody else just YOU
George Stein
January 10th, 2011
2:14 pm
You WRITE like a RETARD.
HARDCORE FALCON FAN
January 10th, 2011
2:15 pm
ATLANTA..20 GREEN BAY 13..I HAVE NEVER SEEN A NO1 SEED TEAM SO DISREGUARDED AND DISRESPECTED BUT FALCONS DISPITE THAT YOU CAN RISE UP AND WIN THIS GAME THEY DISREGUARDED AND DISRESPECTED YOU IN 1998 YOU WENT INTO MINNEAPOLIS AND SHOCKED THE WORLD..YOUR IN A BETTER POSITION NOW 74.600 WILL BE IN YOUR FAVOR ME INCLUDED I,M EXPECTING YOU TO DELIVER..AND MOVE TO THE NEXT LEVEL..RISE UP ATLANTA AND SHOW THEM WHY YOU ARE IN THE POSITION YOU ARE IN!!!
Football Wife
January 10th, 2011
2:17 pm
Lord, the Packer fans have got their swag back, haven’t they? Yes, the Atlanta fans are talking smack but trust me, Coach Smith has been studying tapes of your guys for three weeks now and is prepared for whatever you throw at our boys. And please, stop whining about the what ifs! The Pack gave up the ball and lost the game. Enough said.
JONESBORO SLIM
January 10th, 2011
2:18 pm
Geo.
Now you’re name calling….RETARD?…just because this blog is not talking about cars…poor YOU
Steve C
January 10th, 2011
2:18 pm
cheesehead
January 10th, 2011
1:08 pm
Jus opened up a fresh can of Leinenkugel’s……..jus like the Pack is gonna open up a fresh can of woop-a$$ on da Falcons Sat night
Go Pack Go!
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This guy isn’t a Cheesehead, too many references to things northern/Wisconsin trying to convince you that he is. Probably Joe Tess Fish House again based on the spelling and grammar, or just another local Falcon hater stirring up crap.
George Stein
January 10th, 2011
2:22 pm
You totally missed the point, Slim. But the good news is that the more you write, the better I understand why you missed it.
JONESBORO SLIM
January 10th, 2011
2:23 pm
Geo.
what was your point? ….tell me
George Stein
January 10th, 2011
2:27 pm
It was a joke about the car Abe was in. I was expecting it to be a BMW, Mercedes, Range Rover, etc. because professional athletes make a lot of money.
I thought it was humorous that he got in an accident in that car (whatever it is).