5 things we learned at minicamp practice
Falcons safety Thomas DeCoud soars high for a pass at Tuesday's minicamp practice. Can X-Men fly? (D. Orlando Ledbetter/DLedbetter@ajc.com)
BUFORD – Here are five things we learned at minicamp practice on Tuesday.
1. Free safety Thomas DeCoud is a fan of X-Men: DeCoud, who was sporting a blue X-Men t-shirt, was working out at C.E.S. with Chip Smith. Also, a member of the Saints was working there. When the Saints player left, DeCoud knew it was time for the Falcons to start getting together, too.
2. Quarterback Matt Ryan is a married man: “It’s been great,” Ryan said. “It’s been a month now. The first month has been awesome. Everything you could hope for. We’ll just leave it at that.”
3. Ryan and backup QB John Parker Wilson have been drilling Julio Jones: While Jones wasn’t at the first practice, he has been meeting with the quarterbacks and wide receivers. Also, Wilson said that Jones is a fast learner and will not have any problem picking up the offense.
Ryan is not sure how the Falcons plan to integrate Jones into the offense.
“It will be interesting to see,” Ryan said. “He’s a big physical guy. I think he can do a lot of things for us. I think he’ll play a big part. He’s really good at blocking in the run game. That’s important for our offense.
“I think he can bring some unique things. I’ll be interested to finally get to work with him and see the skills sets he has in terms of route running. Once we kind of find out about that, I think we’ll know more about how we are going to use him.”
Julio, go deep!
4. Linebacker Mike Peterson is a good role model: Peterson is leading the drills and trying to make sure the Falcons stay out of trouble.
“A lot of the young guys will tell you, I’ve been checking up on them,” Peterson said. “I’m just trying to make sure that they are working out. We took down notes last year during the season. ‘Check on your notes. Stick you head in the playbook. Stay out of trouble. Keep your nose out of the news.’ As a veteran guy, sometimes I have to play that Daddy role or that Uncle Pete role. But I think the younger guys accept it and probably expect it.”
5. Wide receiver Michael Jenkins was not upset with the drafting of Julio Jones: Jenkins was not taking aback by the selection of Julio Jones in the NFL draft.
“It was a big move,” Jenkins said. “They obviously felt that he could come in and add to our offense. We are looking forward to seeing him out there making plays, the same way he did at Alabama. I know that everybody is excited to see him get out there.”
–D. Orlando Ledbetter, The Atlanta Falcons beat blog
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87 comments Add your comment
SeenThisB4
May 10th, 2011
4:57 pm
6. The Saints will win the NFC South in 2011
dr3dd1ne
May 10th, 2011
4:57 pm
It’s nice to see the kind of players this organization has assembled. They are a TEAM of Professionals. Man it’s easy to route for this team.
SeenThisB4
May 10th, 2011
4:57 pm
Oh, and eh: FIRST!
Michael Jenkins
May 10th, 2011
5:00 pm
… “Just say the right things and hope they keep printing my checks”…
dr3dd1ne
May 10th, 2011
5:01 pm
SeenThisB4: is that you DLed just trying to stir the pudding and interest in your blogs? >.> LOL No worries on being optimistic about your team B4. The two times my birds and your Saints meet should be some good football bro.
SeenThisB4
May 10th, 2011
5:10 pm
dr3dd1ne: No doubt ’bout that, but have you’re going to be disappointed with the outcomes, dude! LOL.
Gritz Blitz
May 10th, 2011
5:13 pm
Ryan is running the offense in this minicamp and hopefully will be given the same kind of freedom during the season. The coaches need to turn him loose. Last year’s Ravens game is indicative of what this man can do.
richie
May 10th, 2011
5:29 pm
classy answer my jenks. wouldnt expect anything otherwise. and jenkins is still a valuable part of this team. he made some big catches on game winning drives last season and is a jump ball threat in the redzone
SeenThisB4too
May 10th, 2011
5:32 pm
Until the Falcons can show up in the postseason and actually win…NOONE will respect this team…none of this matters without the ring..point blank period!!!!
Mark
May 10th, 2011
5:40 pm
SeenThisB4: We saw the true Brees last year.. He makes poor decisions under pressure!! The only way you guys win the NFC South is if the Birds have significant injuries, or does nothing about the poor pass rush we had last year. Roddy and Julio burn you guys for multiple TD’s next year!!
Durtyburd
May 10th, 2011
5:50 pm
Michael Jenkins should be thinking something to the effect of, “I wonder what the housing market is like in Minnesota…”
southern falcon
May 10th, 2011
5:59 pm
hear this b4 go home and play with your worn out drew brezzz blow up doll. you never know but the aint,s may have they injury bug this season if there is a season
D. Orlando Ledbetter
May 10th, 2011
6:19 pm
B4 — Where is Reggie Bush going?
SCfalconfan
May 10th, 2011
6:29 pm
SeenthisB$ – You’re only as good as your last playoff loss to a 7-9 team………..
J-Man
May 10th, 2011
6:33 pm
Reggie Bush is going to party in some club in L.A. and live off of his USC days and making not quite as dumb as Mendenhall but still dumb Tweets on twitter
J-Man
May 10th, 2011
6:35 pm
Right now the Saints nor the Falcons are beating the Packers………so we need to focus on them 1st and hopefully free agency will help us close the gap and be the best team.
SeenThisB4
May 10th, 2011
6:39 pm
D. Orlando: Good question. I dunno. But once this lockout is over, you’ll probably be seeing this Tweet from him: “Back in the fold, let’s get this juggernaut offense to Indianapolis!
SCfalconfan: Maybe so, but your only as good as your last playoff whipping to the sixth seed.
SeenThisB4
May 10th, 2011
6:51 pm
Mark
May 10th, 2011
5:40 pm
SeenThisB4: We saw the true Brees last year.. He makes poor decisions under pressure!! The only way you guys win the NFC South is if the Birds have significant injuries, or does nothing about the poor pass rush we had last year. Roddy and Julio burn you guys for multiple TD’s next year!!
Injuries? I guess you forget we were plagued with injuries this past season, especially at RB, which made Brees’ offensive more one dimensional and susceptible to the rush and THAT is why you fools got the division title from us. The las time we had a healthy running back corp, we ate your lunch on your home field. It’s YOUR team that won’t be able to maintain that injury-free status that you enjoyed all last year.
I will say one thing for your team, I like your Julio Jones pick. He’ll compliment White very well. Having two high caliber WRs will prove how average of a QB Ryan really is. Wait and see.
STB4 is out.
OldTimer
May 10th, 2011
6:56 pm
The Saints are crap.
SeenThisB4
May 10th, 2011
7:16 pm
OldTimer: Is it OldTimer? Or is it really alzheimer’s? LOL!
Short and succint, but also indicative of a limited mental capacity and anemic vocabulary.
GEAUX SAINTS!!!!!
hiramsaint
May 10th, 2011
7:18 pm
yes you are right – we are the doo doo
hiramsaint
May 10th, 2011
7:19 pm
stb4- hows it going ? glad to see you here from time to time. the failcan fans are a good/poor warm up for the real teams fans this season. they are my off-season workout and practice for regular season taunting of the other teams fans and how fun it is!
Falcons fan
May 10th, 2011
7:22 pm
I can’t believe there are aint’s fans sober enough to post on a message board. congrats seenthisb4.
My bad you must be tweeking and needing to focus on something b4 u climb the walls
Falcons fan
May 10th, 2011
7:25 pm
hiramsain I hope you have your taint’s paper bag around still you will nedd it a lot in the coming years. How silly of me you keep it around for whenever your sister visits right?
nash
May 10th, 2011
7:28 pm
I think we will see Jenkins turn in to Finneran 2.0. I the respect that he is a big target. He may not have the hands that Finn had but I think we could see him as the passion receiver that we loose with Finn retirement.
hiramsaint
May 10th, 2011
7:30 pm
ooooooooooooh failcans fan-your really a meannie aren’t you. to bad your not witty but that helps you fit right in with the rest of the failcan fans. try again later when you think of something else!
SeenThisB4
May 10th, 2011
7:40 pm
Falcan’tsfan: 75% of the drunks in this town are tourist from places like Atlanta, Charlotte, & Tampa, just to mention a few.
Hiramsaint: What’s up man?! Everything’s going good. Jazzfest was unbelieveably superb!
hiramsaint
May 10th, 2011
7:52 pm
yeah i’ll bet . sorry i had to miss it but i was traveling for the past few weeks. finally got to the house last night and plan to stay for awhile hopefully. do you think bush will be missed ? i think with our depth , we’ll be plenty fine. time will tell- see you later!
Too complex for aint's fans
May 10th, 2011
7:54 pm
hiramsaint
I thought Falcons fan;s joke was prety good. You probably didn’t understand it because well you are from New Orleans and not very bright and also drunk. I’ll explain it to you. You still have a paper bag so when your sister visits you can put it over her head when y’all get romantic.
If you stil don’t understand it I’m sure you can find some coloring books all around new orleans that will help illustrate it
hiramsaint
May 10th, 2011
7:57 pm
you sound like a boy of experience in that dept. so your right- i don’t understand it. i know your close to alabama but i didn’t know you were that close ! any way i do have a paperbag but i only use it at your house!
hiramsaint
May 10th, 2011
8:01 pm
by the way- when you have to explain your own jokes , then maybe you just ought to try something else–like a bath!
SeenThisB4
May 10th, 2011
8:04 pm
The Saints did alright without Bush, he was out with a broken fibia most of last year. I think the Saints should try to keep him, but if he wants out, all he has to do is not do anything at all, cause the Saints will not pay him the $11 million he’s scheduled to get. Maybe the falcan’ts will want to pay him that much, but I doubt it.
Realistically, he’ll be offerred $2.75 million, and my guess is that is with incentives. Here’s the thing with him, the best chance he has of leaving some sort of mark on the NFL is amassing SB trophies, and he knows it. There’s only a few teams that can offer him that opportunity, and he’s currently the #2 RB on that team, behind Pierre Thomas, with Chris Ivory, Hamilton and now Ingram all on his heels. So if he leaves, he’ll be missed,…., by the sportswriters mostly, who like to write inane columns about his tweets.
hiramsaint
May 10th, 2011
8:11 pm
he does add a dynamic but not hardly 11 mil worth. imagine if you had paid a rookie 72 MIL and were 0-2 in the playoffs. i think we’ll be ok with or without due to our depth. that depth didn’t help last year though and i know of another team who will likely find out that things can and do change drastically from one year to the next.
SAINTS LSU
May 10th, 2011
8:13 pm
A Running game & Brees & don’t forget the saints add to there D also the saints 14-2 the falcons 10-6 watch
Too complex
May 10th, 2011
8:13 pm
hiramsaint
Yeah you do use that bag when you are bagging up my groceries at Publix. I gave you a nice tip last time and I see how appreciative you are.
OldTimer
May 10th, 2011
8:16 pm
SeenThisb4 is crap. I saw him/gay dude from New Orleans floating in my toilet last night. Flushed em.
SeenThisB4
May 10th, 2011
8:22 pm
LOL: OldTimer: So you invite gay dudes to your bathroom at night? and you did what to him? I don’t get the gay lingo you all like to use, and I don’t really want to know. Keep it to football.
hiramsaint
May 10th, 2011
8:23 pm
oldtimer-sorry dude but that was a mirror !— to complex- in the battle of wits you could blow your brains out with a hanky! time to stand down before you embarass yourself more than your team did against the # 6 seed last year
Jimmy Crack
May 10th, 2011
8:24 pm
DOL, I can’t thank you enough for the report today on the radio. More information than I have heard from anyone on the state of our Falcons. Thanks for everything.
Uncle Pete says “keep your nose out of the news”. Keep up the good work Mike!
Hiram, STB4, with the exception of being the fortunate beneficiary of a horrible Brett Favre pass, we all still remember your team’s fans as decades-long paper bag wearing boo birds. You do remember the paper bags from the old videos, don’t you?
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a202/musette_sf/001291527.jpg
Frontrunning on a rival team’s sports page is also incredibly sad, considering there are plenty of Aints sites around the web to rub your mutual woody.
hiramsaint
May 10th, 2011
8:25 pm
sorry stb4 , i know you can handle your own comebacks but these failcan fans just make it way to e-z and i couldn’t pass it up.
OldTimer
May 10th, 2011
8:25 pm
Got any beads?
hiramsaint
May 10th, 2011
8:25 pm
whats up with all the mid-town failcan fans? are y’all sure your really 49er fans?
OldTimer
May 10th, 2011
8:28 pm
Sticking to football, the Falcons are focusing on the Packers, the Saints are a gimme.
hiramsaint
May 10th, 2011
8:31 pm
jimmy-we got a trophy and y’all haven’t sniffed a bowl since the bronco’s embarassed y’all back in the 90’s [ancient history] . when you become a real team and not a playoff joke then you can TRY and talk smak!
OldTimer
May 10th, 2011
8:32 pm
Get your bags out.
hiramsaint
May 10th, 2011
8:35 pm
your right- the failcans will be saying-gimme another butt whoopin’— awww c’mon man , y’all are makin’ it way to easy !
OldTimer
May 10th, 2011
8:38 pm
Real Saint Fans live and die in New Orleans. The rest of you are crap.
hiramsaint
May 10th, 2011
8:42 pm
is that the best you can do??? defeated and like a true democrat , you resort to name calling. i can tell education was not your fortay!
chipontheroadbirdsrus
May 10th, 2011
8:54 pm
Bush broke his fibia that any thing like a fibula your to funny bra
chipontheroadbirdsrus
May 10th, 2011
9:06 pm
bone up on reality bone head
Falcons fan
May 10th, 2011
9:38 pm
How pathetic is it that the taint’s ride the pity vote and some preferential officials calls to a questionable super bowl win and real football fans have to suffer from bandwagon fruit loops like hiramtaint and seenalotofnudeguysb4.
hiramsaint
May 10th, 2011
9:46 pm
kinda the way y’all won 4 games last year- you know ,with questionable calls. yeah- we all saw it and we all know how good or bad your team was as was in evidence when you played the #6 seed wildcard packers and your #1 ssed team was physically forced to concede the game in the 2nd qtr. you were who we thought you were and have always been – a 3rd rate scrub team with no imagination because your team has no heart
falcon4ever
May 10th, 2011
9:53 pm
I hate to admit it, but hiramstank is right. We were very lucky last year with no injuries,some remarkably wierd calls and way too many last second plays that gave us lucky wins. We were exposed in the Packers game as a solid 10-6 or maybe even 9-7 team. I really can’t see our extreme luck repeating this year and now that we’ve been exposed, teams will know how to play us just as they did the Saints last year. i’ve not beem impressed with Ryan at all, he lacks the proper arm strength for an nfl Q.B. floaters won’t get it this year and I think we will be settling on a 10-6 year.
SeenThisB4
May 10th, 2011
10:02 pm
@Falcan’tFan: Well, judging by the arsewhipping the packers gave ya’ll, your team is going to have to focus on them, which of course will divide your attention, which isn’t much to start with.
Now if the lockout doesn’t wash out our the league-wide season opener, you’ll get to see a real team handle the packers, as decisively as they handled your poor fool team.
falcon4ever
May 10th, 2011
10:08 pm
i never thought i’d say it but here goes-a failcan fan with some objective sense. man , that almost hurt.
saints4ever
May 10th, 2011
10:22 pm
I hate to agree with all the Falcons lovers on here but if it were not for the wave of katrina pity we have been riding for years we would never have made it to the super bowl. I mean we got our butts whipped by a weak ass team with a losing record in the playoffs. In the first round of the playoffs!!!
Our midget QB is doomed
SeenThisB4
May 10th, 2011
10:40 pm
Seems like the multiple personality syndrome is alive and well in ATL. I guess the sorry history of ATL. sports teams created that mental fatigue and blogging diarrhea. STB4 out.
Falcons fan
May 10th, 2011
11:00 pm
Yeah I guess it’s obvious to even an idiot taint’s fan that falcon4ever is a taint’s fan pretending to be a Falcons fan. Smartest thing you have posted today seenmanynakedguysb4.
Jim Haag
May 10th, 2011
11:51 pm
To SeenThisB4… I’m happy to see the AJC allows people from the Georgia Home for the Mentally Challenged to add comments. Obviously your relatives designed the navigational charts for the Titanic, negotiated a peaceful settlement between General Sherman and the people of Atlanta, rented rooms to Gringos at the Alamo, and sold Zippo Lighters to the crew of the Hindenberg. The Saints are very OVERRATED and poorly coached. Like the Saints, your all talk and all ignorant.
easternbird
May 11th, 2011
12:56 am
Well the Saints are a good team,but the Falcons will be much improved if we can get another defensive lineman or two and with the addition of Julio Jones there is going to be a lot of deep fly patterns.What we need to worry about is getting the Labor agreement done and Hopefully Matty Ice won’t melt away in the months after he got married.Congrats on your marriage Mr. Ryan.
Big Ray
May 11th, 2011
3:48 am
Amazing how Saints fans spend more time on an opposing team’s blog than they do in their own stadium. Sad, actually.
They’ll still be here 10 years from now, talking about their lone SuperBowl. Somebody get these guys their own blogs. Please. They may want to retreat there as the Falcons become perennial NFC South champions and bring home the Lombardi Trophy. More than once.
Wingman
May 11th, 2011
6:27 am
Hey, SB4. I HAVE seen this before. Didn’t you say the same thing last year. You said that the saints were going to crush the Falcons and win the division? How did that prediction work out for you?
RambleOn84
May 11th, 2011
8:08 am
Give the Saints fans a break. Their head coach wears eye shadow and abuses pills, for God’s sake.
RambleOn84
May 11th, 2011
8:13 am
In all seriousness, Ingram is a great player. Too bad for him he’s headed to an outdoor sewer.
D. Orlando Ledbetter
May 11th, 2011
9:43 am
RambleOn84 — Really, the Sean Payton wears eye shadow? Where did you get that from?
D. Orlando Ledbetter
May 11th, 2011
9:45 am
Jimmy Crack — Thanks for you kind words. Glad you like the radio report. Silky Smooth Wes is always making fun of my drawl. So I tried to speak faster.
SaintsAreEmbarrassing
May 11th, 2011
10:15 am
I love how Saints fans can saw WE choked when they lost to the WORST TEAM IN THE HISTORY OF THE NFL PLAYOFFS.. maybe I don’t speak cajun, but in the rest of America, that is the text book example of choking. If I remember right, we lost to THE SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS… you lost to a glorified high school team.
SaintsAreEmbarrassing
May 11th, 2011
10:24 am
It is sad to see the Aints fans clinging to something that happened 2 years ago in order to not face the reality that they are a team in decline while the rest of the division is getting better. They got swept by the Bucks and the only reason they didn’t get swept by the Falcons is because that game didn’t mean anything to us while it meant the season to them. Wonderboy Peyton has shown all his bag of tricks… even THE WORST TEAM IN THE HISTORY OF THE NFL PLAYOFFS weren’t fooled. Peyton is a flash in the pan kind of coach. He succeeded by being unconventional, but that only works for a few seasons before teams figure it out. Saints will be third in the division, getting swept by Bucs and Falcons this year and be back at the bottom the year after.
doug
May 11th, 2011
10:25 am
hiramsaint – i can tell education was not your fortay!
That’s pretty funny. Becuase it’s spelled forte. So……
SaintsAreEmbarrassing
May 11th, 2011
10:38 am
Really? Really? Really? Are Saints fans really this dumb? The Falcons lost to The Super Bowl Champions, The AFC Champions, The Defending Superbowl Champions (in a game they didn’t need to win) and an Eagle’s team when they were healthy and red hot. The Saints lost to THE WORST TEAM IN THE HISTORY OF THE NFL PLAYOFFS in such an embarrassing fashion that the “Beast Mode” run is STILL being shown on ESPN. I also love how they call the Packers the #6 seed instead of THE SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS lol… pathetic. Wow, I hope all Saints fans aren’t like this and if they aren’t they should be posting here to let the world know these morons aren’t indicative of them
Rikus
May 11th, 2011
10:48 am
How does a team that lost to SEATTLE in the wild card round talk smack about teams not being able to win in the playoffs?!?
falcon4ever
May 11th, 2011
11:06 am
because we have a winning record in the playoffs and you don’t -thats how
aw
May 11th, 2011
12:13 pm
Saints won a Superbowl. Have the Falcons? QUIT Talking smack!
Tank1818
May 11th, 2011
2:05 pm
Falcons SuperBowl Time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seattle Falcons Fan
May 11th, 2011
2:47 pm
I can’t wait for free agency to begin….do we sign Edwards or Johnson…..what cb will we sign…..what o line do we bring back……it seems Peterson is coming back…….DAMN you lockout!………by the way, I live in Seattle and the Seahawks are horrible so I wouldn’t say to much Saints fans….you don’t want to bed one of those people that live in the past…..
SaintsAreEmbarrassing
May 11th, 2011
3:43 pm
You Saints sound like Al Bundy talking about how great he was in highschool so he doesn’t have to dwell on the fact he is a shoe salesman who has a sorry life in the present. You guys are like those 40 year old losers who still wear their varsity jackets. Let me tell you about the present. You have a coach that runs a gimmick offense. That only works until there is enough tape on you to study all your tricks. If Seattle can beat you, anyone can beat you. You need to be more worried about not losing to Carolina than us.
SaintsAreEmbarrassing
May 11th, 2011
3:50 pm
You didn’t have a winning record in the playoffs last year. You didn’t win a ring last year. You were the worst team the Falcons lost to, and it was in a game that meant everything to the Saints and nothing to the Falcons. Who was the worst team you lost to? Oh yeah, THE WORST TEAM IN THE HISTORY OF THE NFL PLAYOFFS. “Swish, swish, swish”. Do you hear that? That is the broom the Bucs swept you with. While you continue to rest on your past glory, the NFC South has passed you by. The only good news for you is that because of the lockout, Carolina will still be worse than you; but once Newton gets a full off season under his belt it will be back to the paper bags for you guys.
Ackshun
May 11th, 2011
4:45 pm
Oh great some inbred bayou rejects are talking crap about the Falcons season last year. Do you guys know how much you remind the rest of us of that hillbilly character from “The Waterboy.” You win one Super Bowl (pretty much on a pity season with weak opposition an preferential officiating, not to mention a Brett Farve fluke int which was so pathetic the league changed the OT rules for the playoffs as a result. And don’t get me started the onside kick to start the 2nd half in the Super Bowl) an all of the sudden the Saints are the second coming of the Pittsburgh Steelers? PLEASE. The Falcons got beat by the Packers in the Playoffs, but then didnt EVERYBODY get beat by the Packers in the playoffs last year? Well no the Saints checked in early with a rather pathetic showing to the Seattle Seahawks (who?) yeah the Seattle Seahawks who the Falcons had just murdered at their house a few weeks before. The same Saints who got beat at their house by the Falcons and at both places by the Bucs and BTW nearly lost to the Pathetic Panthers. The Saints gimmick driven screen offense is out like the gheri curl (and the wildcat). You guys won a ring but wasnt that two years ago? Aint it time for some fresh gumbo on da bayou? Most of the top players from 2 years ago will check out chasing higher pay (and dry ground) in free agency. Sean Payton has become Mr Predictable and Drew Brees shoulder hurts much more than he’s willing to say. Saints do no better than 9-7 this year and will watch the playoffs from somewhere deep in da bayou. Run tell dat!
SaintsAreEmbarrassing
May 11th, 2011
4:55 pm
No, you still don’t get it Saints fans. The Falcons fans couldn’t care less about who won a ring first. Honestly, would you care if we won a super bowl two years ago, but embarrassed the NFC South by losing to the WORST TEAM IN THE HISTORY OF THE NFL PLAYOFFS? We just find it funny that none of you are willing to admit that last season even happened. It is like you think you are the defending super bowl champs instead of the embarrassment of the division that you really are. Do you know what it is like for the rest of us to have to see the “beast mode” clip over and over. I mean at least we lost to the SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS. No one here is hurt by a ring that has lost its shine. It is actually pretty entertaining to see how many ways you can bring it up without admitting that you were an embarrassment to that ring last year.
SaintsAreEmbarrassing
May 11th, 2011
5:12 pm
I honestly like it that you guys cling to the past so much while refusing to acknowledge the present because I think it is indicative of the Saint’s organization. You have your eyes so focused on 2009 that you don’t realize you are now the second worst team in the division and the only team with an arrow pointing down while the Falcons, Bucs and even the pathetic Panthers are all teams on the rise. Peyton and company will continue to believe they are offensive geniuses even though the Saints don’t scare anyone anymore. Gimmicks only work in the NFL for about 2-3 years. Once you have shown your hand on film, it is over. You can only kick a surprise onside kick once before it is not a surprise to teams anymore. The Saints won’t worry me until they realize they aren’t in 2009 anymore. I am more worried about the Bucs. They are a team on the rise like the Falcons, not a team talking about their superbowl win in 2003.
hiramsaint
May 11th, 2011
5:28 pm
lost to the packers-try this we threw out the white flag in the 2nd qtr.. sure every body got beat by the packers but only the failcans got humiliated in their own invincible ga. tent. i can still remember all the empty seats as the camera panned the ga. tent at the opening of the 3rd qtr. that helps block out our loss to a div. winner.
Jay Dubu
May 11th, 2011
5:30 pm
Jenkins having to go out and show he’s worht the $$$ might bring out the receiver that the Falcons hoped they were getting when they drafted him.
Althoug, they’re going to want some of that $$$ back if JJ takes major playing time.
mrzizzle
May 11th, 2011
8:04 pm
Hey Aint’s fans…2 words Marshawn Lynch
Ouch!
SaintsAreEmbarrassing
May 12th, 2011
3:19 am
HAHAHAHA! Division winner… HAHAHAHA! You are right, they were the division winner… but IT WAS THE WORST DIVISION WINNING RECORD IN THE HISTORY OF THE NFL PLAYOFFS. Wow I can’t believe you said that. Division winner… man that just made my day. The only reason they made the playoffs is because that was the worst division ever. We may have lost to the #6 seed, but they had a better record than your division winner lol. WOW! That is really all I can say lol.
Falcons Chic
May 12th, 2011
5:05 pm
Would he ever be switched to TE?
Falcon James
May 14th, 2011
10:50 am
SeenThisB4
May 10th, 2011
6:51 pm
Injuries? I guess you forget we were plagued with injuries this past season, especially at RB, which made Brees’ offensive more one dimensional and susceptible……..
Are you man or a mouse? I read your crap week after week, but I never in my life see someone who makes so many excuses. You whine like a baby wanting milk! Do yourself us a favor and whine with your pathetic team.
SeenThisB4
May 14th, 2011
9:18 pm
@FALCAN’T JAMES: Nah Nah Nah, get to the part that means anything!