Atlanta Falcons: Spoon’s attracting early Pro Bowl hype
Eagles quarterback Michael Vick (7) fumbles the ball, stripped by Falcons linebacker Sean Weatherspoon (56). (Jason Getz / jgetz@ajc.com
BIRDLAND — Falcons linebacker Sean Weatherspoon, who’s set to enter his third year in the league, is receiving some extremely early Pro Bowl hype.
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We checked in with Spoon back in May. CLICK HERE.
Also, it is clear that defensive coordinator Mike Nolan has high expectations for Weatherspoon.
“He’s playing the same position in this defense that he was before, so there are no changes there,” Nolan said. “It’s very familiar to him. The expectation of him is that he continues to play well.”
Weatherspoon figures to have a big role in Nolan’s pressure packages.
“All players like to have their numbers called when you are pressuring and things like that,” Nolan said. “I’d like to think we’ll spread it around a little bit more than most. A lot of that depends how good of a guy he is at doing those things. Spoon is a very good player. I would hope that if he was pressuring or not, he would be making plays.”
Gregg Rosenthal, of NFL.com, is doing an around the league feature before training camps open. He predicted a breakout season for Weatherspoon in 2012.
I’m uncomfortable making Weatherspoon my “Making the Leap” pick for the Falcons, because he’s already made a sizable jump. He’s the leader of this Falcons defense. (Why do you think they let Curtis Lofton walk?) Weatherspoon is already one of the best 4-3 outside linebackers in football. He easily could have made the Pro Bowl last year, but he’s not a big enough name yet.
He’s listed here because he deserves more attention. Those Pro Bowl nods are often built on reputations gained one or two years after a player truly earns recognition. I’m doing my tiny part to elevate Weatherspoon’s reputation now.
Last season, the NFC Pro Bowl outside linebackers were Green Bay’s Clay Matthews, Dallas’ DeMarcus Ware and Chicago’s Lance Briggs. Weatherspoon had more tackles than all of them and more sacks than Briggs, according to NFL.Com stats.
Ware had 58 tackles and 19.5 sacks. Briggs has 105 tackles and no sacks. Matthews has 50 tackles and six sacks. He also had 12 passes defensed and three interceptions.
I don’t think Rosenthal is off the mark at all. But, do you all think, Weatherspoon will make the Pro Bowl in 2012?
–D. Orlando Ledbetter, The Atlanta Falcons beat blog
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mark
July 6th, 2012
5:45 am
First
Marcus
July 6th, 2012
6:36 am
yup. I think Nolan’s schemes will up the profile of the entire D.
tjhook
July 6th, 2012
6:40 am
Weatherspoon was part of a defense that could not get off the field on third downs. I have to say his Pro Bowl hopes lie with that result. Get off the field quicker and he will get on a Pro Bowl roster.
Virginia Jim
July 6th, 2012
6:42 am
Appropriate picture-`wave of the future` against `pains of the past`.
Mike is Back
July 6th, 2012
7:35 am
Yes, I think the chances are very good…if not the pro bowl…A giant leap amongst his peers in the game…dude got mad skills…and speed to back it up.
Another hit like the one he put on Stafford…and everyone will know his name.
SeenThisB4
July 6th, 2012
8:02 am
His stats aren’t very impressive for being a No. 1 pick. However, he is your team’s best OLB, but after him, that depth chart looks real desolate. And he’s receiving early Pro Bowl hype? LOL! From where? The Georgia media? LOL!
FalconFANatic
July 6th, 2012
8:20 am
I can’t wait to see Nolan’s pressure packages this coming season. This is the most excited about the defense I have been in a while….I would much rather have Spoon over Lofton anyday….I guess the Saints like eating off of the Falcons scrap pile. Go Falcons!!!
NFCCHAMPSLIVEINGA
July 6th, 2012
8:24 am
SW56 has done well for the Falcons!! I expect him to continue to get better. Our D will improve from last year. I expect some hickups early on, but afterwards, a more aggressive and consistent well oiled machine. Keep up the good work SW56!! RISE UP!!
Falcon James
July 6th, 2012
8:43 am
Other than he show boat a little too much, Spoon is one of the Top 3 OLB in the league. He is solid in all phases and his stat prove it. I agree the only reason he did not make the Pro Bowl last year was because he don’t have the name yet. This year will be different. 2012 will be the first of many Pro Bowl for him.
True Falcon Fan
July 6th, 2012
8:52 am
8:02 hey your stats aren’t very impressive either! You and ZERO have a sure thing in common……… My bet is you both like to play with baby ducks in the tub………
Go Spoon — Go Falcons!
SeenThisB4
July 6th, 2012
8:53 am
“He didn’t make the Pro Bowl last year because he don’t have the name yet?” Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Sure, Pro Bowl selection is based in part on a popularity contest, but it’s also based in part, on performance.
I’ll agree with this: Spoon is one of the Top 3 OLBs on the falcan’t s roster.
robertussen
July 6th, 2012
9:02 am
the pro bowl is a popularity contest. and as a falcons fan i know my team is not popular. if we go out and have another 13-3 season we might have multiple probowlers again, but chances are people will just choose house hold name players regardless of their performance during the year. is spoon a probowl caliber player? without a doubt, he is. will spoon make the probowl? probably not, unless he gets even higher numbers in key stats and the falcons win almost all of their games.
PMC
July 6th, 2012
9:25 am
Sorry Spoon, it’s going to take a pro bowl season before I can get that Chicago game out of my head.
rollo lawson
July 6th, 2012
9:33 am
If th Falcon defense is Top 10, Spoon will make the Pro Bowl. Also watch out for William Moore. I believe he will have a break-out season. I love the way this guy plays. Defensive players coming out of Missouri lately have been damn good. Add Aldon Smith to that list as well.
True Falcon Fan
July 6th, 2012
9:53 am
9:33 i agree re William Moore very intense, tenacious hitter and has nose for the ball player. He just needs to consider wearing padding to protect his hip & knees…
Go Falcons!!
DavidGilmour
July 6th, 2012
9:57 am
I believe in him. I would just like to see a little less trash talk from him… maybe the OLB equivalent of a Barry Sandersesque approach where you celebrate by handing the ball to the ref.
Reminder: Saints fans = Turds
Saints fans, I showed a modicum of respect by capitalizing Turds.
SeenThisB4
July 6th, 2012
10:00 am
LOL! Glad you mentioned that davidgilmour. I never, ever capilaize “falcan’ts”. LOL!
PreyDawg
July 6th, 2012
10:10 am
Spoon should be a top Candidate for pro bowl. I hope for a healthy season for him and if he has his health, I think he has defensive MVP potential.
I keep thinking about William Moore too. I love this guy but he hasn’t become the safety I thought he would be. I have a feeling, that if he stays healthy, he might lead the NFL in INT’s by a safety this year and sacks by a safety. I think this defensive scheme changes his game to the next level.
But Spoon is my favorite Falcon along with Ryan.
Dirtybird 82
July 6th, 2012
10:15 am
Spoon is our Von Miller. Now that he is playing under a DC who will know how to take advange of his skill set he will shine. Schemes make a HUGE difference on how a player performs, and he exceeded expectations in the limited one he previously played in. I fully expect him to make the Pro Bowl this year.
rollo lawson
July 6th, 2012
10:26 am
Two reasons why William Moore hasn’t become a Pro bowl player yet. Injuries have slowed him down. When healthy, you can see the potential. Moore has also been cursed with playing under a clueless, overmatched defensive coordinator in Brian Van Gorder. The guy didn’t know how to use him. Hopefully, Mike Nolan will have him blitzing and creating havoc all over the field. Same goes for Spoon.
rollo lawson
July 6th, 2012
10:29 am
And I could care less about the celebrating. I’ve been saying it for the longest, this team needs to shed the “choirboy” persona. Along those lines, Asante Samuel is just what the doctor ordered for this team.
SirReal
July 6th, 2012
10:29 am
It’s his time. He should get there. As always, I get a lil nervous toward the end of this month through the next. If we stay healthy over the stretch of training camp and preseason, THEN I’ll start really talking about this.
True Falcon Fan
July 6th, 2012
10:48 am
Although i agree with most of the recent post referencing the changes of our defense. I just can’t wait to hear the ZEROs’ comment of these post —- i can hear his or her fingers pounding the keyboard at this moment. Quote: You Falcon fans are soooo over zealous, right “Z” man “you sadistic ZERO”!!!!
Go Falcons!!!!
abby normal
July 6th, 2012
11:07 am
Spoon is a terrific player; I just hope he does not buy into all the hype and get a big head. We’ve had too many go down that road.
ATLJBO
July 6th, 2012
11:39 am
Spoon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X91bBAJE18k
Rueben r
July 6th, 2012
11:46 am
Damn right.
Drew Brees is insufferable and arrogant
July 6th, 2012
11:53 am
SeenThisB4, can you please pass the following message on to your Quarterback: If he is looking for “evidence” that there was a bounty program, he can start by looking at the admissions by current and former Saints coaches. He can also examine his conscience and ask himself why, as a visible NFLPA leader, he was so vocal against the proposed 18 game schedule last year (citing player safety concerns), yet refuses to even acknowledge a program admitted to by his own coaching staff that is far worse for player safety.
SeenThisB4
July 6th, 2012
12:01 pm
All of the Saints coaches, former and current, have admitted to having a pay for performance program not a bounty pay for injury program. So your self-generated “evidence” that you are claiming, is just that: fabricated. Maybe you should take the time to carefully read what they admitted to.
Drew Brees is insufferable and arrogant
July 6th, 2012
12:04 pm
Hmmm…so would a “pay for performance” program violate the salary cap? And what about the letter Greg Williams signed–that admitted to the bounty program, did it not?
Drew Brees is insufferable and arrogant
July 6th, 2012
12:11 pm
See link below; Williams admitted everything. There’s your evidence.
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/19378838/nfl-reveals-more-bounty-evidence-much-of-it-courtesy-of-the-saints-banned-williams
SeenThisB4
July 6th, 2012
12:12 pm
You see the words “bounty program” below, cause I don’t:
“I’d like to again apologize wholeheartedly to the NFL, Coach Fisher, the entire Rams organization and all football fans for my actions. Furthermore, I apologize to the players of the NFL for my involvement as it is not a true reflection of my values as a father or coach, nor is it reflective of the great respect I have for this game and its core principle of sportsmanship. I accept full responsibility for my actions. I highly value the 23 years that I’ve spent in the NFL. I will continue to cooperate fully with the league and its investigation and I will focus my energies on serving as an advocate for both player safety and sportsmanship. I will do everything possible to re-earn the respect of my colleagues, the NFL and its players in hopes of returning to coaching in the future.”
And yeah, pay of performance is a salary cap violation. So what?!
Drew Brees is insufferable and arrogant
July 6th, 2012
12:16 pm
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/19378838/nfl-reveals-more-bounty-evidence-much-of-it-courtesy-of-the-saints-banned-williams
My favorite part about Williams’ admission is that the Saints targeted Marshawn Lynch…LOL…I wonder if it was before or after he was steamrolling them in that 2010 Wildcard game???
SeenThisB4
July 6th, 2012
12:23 pm
Aain, the only person using the term “bounty” in your referenced link, is the writer of the story, hardly worthy of an admission. Talk about putting words in somebody else’s mouth! Can you say: Fabrication?!!
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SeenThisB4
July 6th, 2012
12:34 pm
From your own cited reference:
Williams told the investigators that by utilizing a pay-to-injure scheme he was mistakenly “rolling the dice with player safety and someone could have been maimed.”
Notice how the term “pay-to-injure” was not inside the quotation marks above? Cause it was a term used by the writer, not Williams. The NFL’s case is flimsy, full stop, end of story. If it does make it to court, the NFL’s suspensions will be thrown out faster than you can say “frivolous”.
Drew Brees is insufferable and arrogant
July 6th, 2012
12:41 pm
So the part that is in quotes–him lamenting that someone could have been “maimed”–is simply in reference to a pay for performance program and not injury/bounty program? Huh? How does that work, exactly? If one of your DBs gets 2 INTs he gets $1,000! That’s pay for performance–how would someone else be maimed in that type of system?
True Falcon Fan
July 6th, 2012
12:55 pm
B4 – you sound like a homeless moron laying on the railroad track and daring the train to stop…. Sorry “schmuckO’ your dead” and you definitely don’t have a clue of what you are trying to talk about!
True Falcon Fan
July 6th, 2012
12:57 pm
Hey where is the “ZERO” certainly he/she has an opinion??? Hey “Good Buddy” bring your “Rubber Duck” — it’s a convoy
Gunner
July 6th, 2012
1:04 pm
People need to remember, the COACHES call the play, you do your job or the coaches will find you another place to play, next year!
SeenThisB4
July 6th, 2012
1:20 pm
Why don’t you ask him what he was talking about? It could be his penchant for riling up his defenders to hit the opponents as hard as they could, or it could be that he was talking about his scheme to blitz, blitz, and blitz some more, or it could have been his challenges to his players to sack the QB time and time again. The short end of it is, YOU don’t know what he was referring to.
OK
July 6th, 2012
1:36 pm
It’s funny how you’re clowning the Falcons STB4… the aint’s don’t have a LB in the top 30 for tackles.
Drew Brees is insufferable and arrogant
July 6th, 2012
1:37 pm
SeenThis, I’m only applying your logic to Williams’ quote. Since it was the writer, not Williams, who used the word “injure,” you feel that he (Williams) could have been referring to anything…but if we agree that the part in quotes is actually what Williams said, I think it’s pretty damming. I don’t think a simple pay for performance plan would have anything risk of maiming anyone. Your last post is laughable-you think Williams is lamenting the tone of his own motivational speeches? That could risk players getting maimed??? Please…he has clearly given the league quite a bit of evidence and tesitomny on this matter.
I also question why Payton and Williams and Benson are not screaming to high heaven protesting their innocence. (As, admittedly, some of the accused players are).
Bottom line, I think Drew Brees should think of player safety and acknowledge, like his former DC did, the harm that his team’s program could have had on opposing players.
True Falcon Fan
July 6th, 2012
1:46 pm
B4 — I guess if you keep telling your children when they mis-behave and say “i am warning you if you don’t stop this mischief you are going to room and no food tonight” — well that’s enough punishment for you right? The point is moron, the ain’ts from management, coaches & players were worn to stop the bounty BS for almost three seasons. What did the ain’ts do, they continued their BS bounty crap. So you know what happens in the interim, re the NFLPA signs-up another CBA for ten years. It seems they didn’t read certain compiling parts of the new CBA. “What we have HIR is failure to communicate” — B4 you are an idiot, moron, hapless ain’t fan that needs a J.O.B.! You and ZERO match-up real close……….
Go Falcons!!!
Joe Tess Fish House
July 6th, 2012
1:53 pm
This is nutz. No way Witherspoon is pro bowel matreail. He is injruy prone and never has a compleat seasion. Whoever think this is hig or sumtin.
True Falcon Fan
July 6th, 2012
1:58 pm
Funny thing about folks like B4, The Zero., to name or call out a few, you’ve got it your raisin minds somebody owes you something. Whether you’ve earned it or not, but because of your brainwashed cultural ancestry back ground you think somebody in citizenry owes you something. Nope, no one owes you anything,”NOTHING”!!!!!
True Falcon Fan
July 6th, 2012
2:02 pm
Say “FisH” i guess you missed this one below, i’m sure if spoon was injured during these plays — wow how do think he would play if he were completely healthy. HHMMMM
ATLJBO
July 6th, 2012
11:39 am
Spoon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X91bBAJE18k
SeenThisB4
July 6th, 2012
2:06 pm
@ 1:37pm
#1: Benson hasn’t been accused of anything whatsoever, so he has no reason to protest.
#2: The coaches have been warned that if they don’t cooperate with the league, their suspensions maybe extended.
#3: It’s called Professional Football, not Professional Basketball, their is a high propensity for sustaining injuries and being maimed in this sport. Somebody could be injured just by getting tackled, as we have seen time and time again.
#3: I didn’t say that he was lamenting anything, I was just giving you my opinion of what he could have been referring to, since you asked. And until the NFL releases the so called “evidence” they say they have, no one will ever know what he was referring to, including people like you that like to speculate and fabricate their own fictional scenarios.
#4: Do you really think that Drew Brees, who has to wear a kevlar flack jacket just like every other NFL QB, is really worried about other player safety? Really?! I think that is clearly laughable!
Charles
July 6th, 2012
2:12 pm
“Book Dan O”, he’s in, breakout year in 2012.
Matt
July 6th, 2012
2:23 pm
This is what the off-season is down to? An article about an article about an outrageously premature speculation?
Can we fast-forward a month? PLEASE???
True Falcon Fan
July 6th, 2012
2:30 pm
Would that be that same as “Back to the Future” —- Hello!
canadian falcon
July 6th, 2012
2:44 pm
The problem with saints fans and the bounty is that people are thinking of this through the eyes of the law. a system that is completely retarded. Eveyone can know someone did something, with overwhelming evidence but without admission , and having a good lawyer, helps people get away with murder,rape etc. No different here…. he didn’t say bounty in his admission he said maim. whatever, these players and the nflpa are wasting their money on lawyers instead of booking a holiday somewhwere warm and tropical.
SeenThisB4
July 6th, 2012
2:55 pm
Gee, and I always thought that New Orleans was warm and tropical. The problem with falcan’t fans is that they are just plain dumb.
canadian falcon
July 6th, 2012
2:58 pm
that was a good one….if we all had comebacks that good they would call this grade one blog.
tim
July 6th, 2012
3:01 pm
Big whoop……..spoon is just doing what he’s paid to do.
seems like it all about ME……
Jim
July 6th, 2012
3:26 pm
The excitement of Spoon next year + JJ and Marvin trade. Good things are coming to Atlanta.
Had to light up a hookah in celebration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARczJkBwYGE
Dirtybird 82
July 6th, 2012
3:32 pm
Seenthisb4, do you have a job? It sure seems like you have an abundance of time to blog. I see you are on the ESPN blogs all day too. I feel sorry for your family if they are depending on you to bring home the bacon. lol
Barry
July 6th, 2012
3:49 pm
Hey Y’all:
“THE SPOON” is ready to dish out some NASTY MEDECINE!!!! This is his year. He is backing up his talk since he got healthy last year. THE SWAG IS BACK!!! It is all for the better for the defense. With Nolan putting an aggressive defensive game plan, I am eager for the season to start to watch the defense scare the hell ot of folks in the style of the old Pittspurgh Steelers. We will make a name for ourselves with this group of players and a sound defensive scheme. GIVE THEM THE NASTY MEDICINE WITH A “SPOON”: WITHERSPOON, THAT IS !!!!!!
Now, to convince the offensive coaches to go to the ZONE BLOCKING SCHEME so that are running backs and linemen can get NASTY like the defense. Let’s do this in “ONE HEARTBEAT!!!”.
GO SPOON!!!!!
GO FALCONS.
“FALCONS RISE UP” IN “ONE HEARTBEAT’!!!!
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a SECRET from a FALCON FAN. TELL EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
…………………………”ONE HEARTBEAT, BABY!!!!!………………………….
Drew Brees is insufferable and arrogant
July 6th, 2012
5:35 pm
#4: Do you really think that Drew Brees, who has to wear a kevlar flack jacket just like every other NFL QB, is really worried about other player safety? Really?! I think that is clearly laughable!
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SeenThis–he’s one of the bigwig leaders in the NFLPA. it’s his job to be concerned about player safety. Remember his reaction to the proposed 18 game schedule? Yet when his own team stands accused…when his own (now former) defensive coordinator admits to it…when his team’s computer records and GM and HC are all reviewed and suspensions issued–and he still denies the program, tweets about this being like the “lack of WMDs in Iraq,” etc–he looks like an idiot. (PS-ask the Kurds about Iraq not having WMDs, by the way). Any other QB in Brees’ position would have been grilled by the sports media. For whatever reason–maybe still due to Katrina or the faux earnestness he oozes–Brees gets a pass. It’s BS.
You really think that Gregg William’s quote is so ambiguous? Seriously ? Sure…maybe he was talking about Chris Berman calling the opener on ESPN or the new OT rule. Any of those also “roll the dice with player safety.”
Firsttimer
July 6th, 2012
6:37 pm
I have no interest in the Aints or their immoral programs. I want to talk Falcons. Spoon, (avoiding injury), is a lock for the Pro-Bowl. Not just this year but for many to come. He will be the best known LB wearing # 56 since a guy who played in NY.
Firsttimer
July 6th, 2012
6:40 pm
And BTW, I like his talking on the field. We need more trash talkers and intimidators. Let them know you are out there.
tim
July 6th, 2012
7:16 pm
The “Pro” bowl……a group of guys leaning on each other so they won’t get dirty.
The embarrassing bowl.
John John
July 6th, 2012
8:56 pm
I must say that is possibly the stupidest poll question ever? I mean, “who’s going to be the NFC pro bowl outside linebackers?” . Then you procede to give us 4 choices, in different combinations of the 4. WTH?? I mean that’s like saying “where will the next olympics be held? Germany, Japan, Australia, or Mexico? I mean, there are 192 countries and you just pick 4? Now, you can say “oh well those are the best 4 linebackers to anyone who knows football”? I disagree….I mean there is so much parity in the NFL and unexpected, pleasant surprises every year, and those 4 linebackers could all be injured (let’s hope not, at least with Spoon) most of the year, and none of them make it. I mean Thomas Davis could return to form and win it…One of the Giants linebackers could easily win…a San Fran backer could easily win it. I’m just saying, that is too broad a question for having only 4 choices, like its set in stone…FAIL…
cantTouchthis
July 7th, 2012
1:24 am
2 Legit
JSS
July 7th, 2012
6:26 am
TFF…
You couldn’t out think a new born bi-ped! Remember your alphabet, sixth and twenty-first? They still apply to you!
@ Ledbetter…
Isn’t this what you said about DeCoud in 2009? How many #56 plays were negative plays? How many passes defensed? How many INTs? How did he grade out in coverage?
The problem (for Weatherspoon) is that Briggs and Matthews all made multiple plays in the pass defense game! Ware is a freak! Seriously, nothing wrong with being the 4th or 5th best OLB in the NFC… Here’s the good news for him, Stay healthy, and when they get eliminated (in the playoffs again) he can slip into the “Pro Bowl” as an alternate. I guess then everyone can be happy?
JSS
July 7th, 2012
7:16 am
Oh yeah, he sure covered the heck out of Darren Sporles on that record setting TD! Geez!
D man
July 7th, 2012
8:35 am
It may take a few games for the falcons to get used to the new schemes but they should be an improved team all around this year.
kendall
July 7th, 2012
9:46 am
SeenThisB4: Gee, and I always thought that New Orleans was warm and tropical. The problem with falcan’t fans is that they are just plain dumb.
If we are so plain dumb, what the heck are you trolling this blog for. If you want to pump up the hype for the Saints, go to a Saints blog. Final word is, the Saints fans love their team, and us Falcons fans love our team. Be it that they good or bad. Good Grief!!!!!!!!
Firsttimer
July 7th, 2012
1:44 pm
# 56. Pro Bowl bound. Once Nolan unleashes him on the rest of the league.
Disgusted
July 7th, 2012
3:03 pm
Spoon has been one good TD pick, the oppostite of that disgraceful BUMB Sam Baker.
Really?
July 7th, 2012
4:16 pm
seen this b4 is your typical taint’s fa. He is obviously either drunk or cracked out when he posts but that is how most new orleans folks spend their entire lifes. Well as drunk and high as their welfare check and begging for handouts allows them to be.
He better post as much as possible b4 the season starts because the taint’s will be out of post season contention quickly. Every time another saints cheater files another complaint that’s another couple of missed late hits against the taint’s officials will ignore. Poor little drew won’t get his long term deal because he won’t make it through the season and the taint’s front office knows it.
One super bowl win that was gifted to the taint’s out of pity and no one outside of that cesspool of crackheads and beggars will ever take that win seriously. LOL LOL LOL
SeenThisB4
July 7th, 2012
5:20 pm
Like I said, just plain dumb.
Trailboss
July 8th, 2012
11:46 am
I was in the middle of a Disaster assistance deployment doing the draft I had a bet that the Falcons with The Spoon to my surprise when I got back to camp and got on a computer and the Falcons had drafted The Spoon so, to answer your question. I see him not only making the Pro Blow but leading it in tackles after leading the Falcons to a Super-Blow win. GO BIRDS.
Samuel
July 8th, 2012
12:15 pm
Not so fast……..
CaliDirtyBird
July 8th, 2012
12:46 pm
Glad to see someone else riding STB4 about Brees acting like Bill Clinton! “Well, that depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is….”. Yes, they would like it to be called “pay for performance” because it is the LESSER sin! It sounds about like my six your old. He starts admitting he did something once. He realizes I know he did it but then it turns into “Yes, Dad, I did it BUT it was an accident!”
This continued fight by Saints players has as much to do with the players union trying to wrest control from the commissioner as it does with anything specific to the Saints OR player safety.
If the Saints players are innocent then why aren’t these same players suing Pamplion (sp?) for his “Scorched Earth” (as Pat Yasinski called it)?! They are suing everyone else about everything else…
It is typical deny and blame tactics to obfuscate the truth. The reason Goodell won’t release more proof is because he doesn’t have to! The players want him to so it can be used against the league in their lawsuits by former players over player safety.
Both sides know the guilt of the Saints, that isn’t really why it is still being talked about by players or the NFL, at least. There are obviously plenty of misguided fans and media members. Or do many in the media understand the real issues at play and are just stirring the pot because they know they can?
Either way Drew Brees looks more and more like an idiot to the discerning mind.
BTW- I’m sure STB4 will no doubt have a I’ll constructed response but unlike him I don’t have all day to debate something that really shouldn’t be a debate anymore.
SeenThisB4
July 8th, 2012
2:04 pm
@Calidirtbird: You don’t have all day? Or is it that you have no valid arguments?
Why should the Saints players sue Pampion? Simple, cause he didn’t release anything that implicates any of the players. End of story. Besides, Pamplion didn’t susped anybody.
The reason Goodell won’t release more proof is cause he doesn’t have to? Or is it cause he has none? I’m inclined to believe that when the media and the public are questioning the reasonableness of an investigation, that the accuser would provide the proof they say they have. Instead of hiding behind some flimsy pretext of confidentiality.
Of course, there are always those gullible fans that will believe anything, as long as it gives their own weak teams a competitive advantage.
And yeah, the whole issue is still up for debate, and much to your chagrin, still has a long way to go before it is put to bed.
This Gets Old
July 8th, 2012
4:55 pm
Don’t you guys see how this idiot troll turns the Falcon blog partially into a Saints blog? Ignore the troll and he’ll go away.
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July 8th, 2012
5:11 pm
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JSS
July 8th, 2012
5:31 pm
“Ignore?” Easy to see who didn’t read the thread…
Michael M.
July 8th, 2012
6:13 pm
After a lovely vacation, it is nice to be back home.
I wouldn’t worry too much about the Aints football team this upcoming season because they are having all kinds of worries and distractions from the suspended coach and his divorce and bountygate conspiracy and who knows what else will come out on the table before the Preseason even gets started…….I laughed so much I hurt from all their nonsense.
Back to being serious I am looking forward to seeing what the new coordinators will put out on the football field this season . I honestly believe we all will see what we wanted to see a few years back this Season. I saw something that mentioned Atlanta would be last year’s 49 ers, but I think if that holds true………..that the Atlanta team will be much better because they have a better Quarterback at the controls and he is tough as nails.
Seen this B4, you clown…….go get a job at the Circus !
Wy are the FAILCANTS so jealous of the Saints?
July 8th, 2012
7:13 pm
SeenthisB4 owns you…fact…until your loser football teams wins a playoff game, much less a SB, it is time for every Failcant fan to kiss our ring and stfu….stay classy, loosahs….
Wy are the FAILCANTS so jealous of the Saints?
July 8th, 2012
7:14 pm
Because Saints > no ring Falclowns
SeenThisB4
July 8th, 2012
10:50 pm
@Michal M.: Where did you read that your falcan’ts would be last year’s 49ers? The comic strips perhaps?
Statick
July 9th, 2012
10:10 am
The NFL punishments are big time Karma for the Aints and their lame-@ss, backwood fanbase.
Heck, until Bountygate happened, the only way Aints fans ever understood what karma is was to have the word ‘Hurricane’ come before it.
Delbert D.
July 9th, 2012
10:20 am
I thought the NFL was shutting the Pro Bowl down.
Rick
July 9th, 2012
10:52 am
Directed at “SeenthisB4″ – - – - Dude you have lots of talk for a Saints fan……….the same organization who wont or choose not to pay the best player on the team…………not to mention you now have another troll to help you patrol the Falcons blog………..almost like a due you paid a “Bounty” to help you hurt Falcons fans. LOl. I am speaking of you “Wy are the FAILCANTS so jealous of the Saints?” Wow never got so much pub from Saints fan who declare that you have the best team on earth. LOL.
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July 9th, 2012
10:53 am
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SeenThisB4
July 9th, 2012
11:05 am
Directed at “Rick” — Dude, there are some on this blog that don’t want to make this a Saints blog. So, stay on topic and try to keep your comments falcan’t-centric. Like for instance: Why weatherspoon is only a marginal OLB that consistently gets victimized by opposing young NFCS TEs.
St Simons - we're on Island time
July 9th, 2012
11:44 am
Spoon is faster than I thought when they drafted him.. With experience,
he can add quickness to the speed, (there’s a difference). And he’s a
better hitter & tackler than I thought when he came out of that
soft cow-pasture league. Yep, he’s baaad now.
Rick
July 9th, 2012
11:50 am
Yet you comment on nothing but Saints………..catch up or pipe down cha cha!!!!! Deal with it Spoon is the man and once again he will feed the NFC with his play this year…………directed . at “SeenThisB4″
Michael M.
July 9th, 2012
12:01 pm
D-led, Does Seenb4 get paid a check by you to come on here and rag out our Town, State, Falcons, Bulldogs,etc.etc???? It seems to me he is extremely jealous of what we have here.
In answer to your question b4, ” Where did you read that your falcan’ts would be last year’s 49ers? The comic strips perhaps? “………………I saw it on one of the Sports stations on television at a really fine dining establishment in Tennessee the 4th of July week.
You know, I honestly think you are worried and scared that our Atlanta Falcons are going to the top of the Mountain and and going to hang out up there for quite awhile. Hiring Nolan on defense is huge and was the wildcard they needed on defense and trust me, he will keep a lot of other team’s Quarterbacks sitting on the sidelines throughout the games this year.
We may not have all the best players in the league but sometimes you don’t need to have all the best to be the best. I don’t know what our Falcons will do this year but it will certainly be better than what we had last year points per game. We do have a talented football team out here. With the right direction now and a little luck, I see no reason why they can’t win against the Big Guns in the league. We shall soon find out !
Oh yes, since I am retired and this heat affects us old folks why don’t you be nice and come on over to my place and do all this yard work I need done. I will pay you well and you will have some money to buy tickets to watch your Saints get clobbered by the Falcons this year ! ! Ha ! ha ! ha ! Ha !
SeenThisB4
July 9th, 2012
12:03 pm
Directed at “Rick”. You are incorrect, I respond to falcan’t fans that bring up the Saints. The only thing spoon is going to feed anybody, is his nonstop chattering on the field, but he’s going to get beat like a drum, especially by young TEs that were drafted the same year he was drafted.
SeenThisB4
July 9th, 2012
12:12 pm
Mike Nolan, previous defensive coordinator of the Miami Dolphins, and prior to that, the Denver Broncos….not exactly blood chilling, is it?!
Like I previously said, keep these names in mind: Joe Vitt, and Pete Carmichael. They will hold prominient spots on your list for your head coach search after the season is done.
Rick
July 9th, 2012
12:13 pm
Directed at “Seen”……………..we have better LB here in Atlanta, dont forget you guys picked up our wash down linebacker we put on the street….hahahah. “Aint” fan……….Go do the right thing and sign Drew or shut up! LOL. You guys cant even get that correct.
SeenThisB4
July 9th, 2012
12:33 pm
Directed at “Rick”………trust me, signing Lofton was a bitter pill for me to swallow, he still stinks of that filty falcan’t stench, but he convinced the powers around here that he wanted to play for a real winner, and in front of real fans. They felt pity for him and threw him a bone, what can I say?! It’s not like it was Morton Anderson, or Bobby Hebert, or Joe Horn, or Grady Jackson, or any other of dozens of Saints cast offs that you all have picked up over the years.
Michael M.
July 9th, 2012
12:36 pm
@ b4………..the two teams you mentioned above , Broncos and Dolphins, didn’t quite have the talent on offense or defense that Atlanta has either and you know that so quit grasping at straws and get your facts straight . You just throw anything on your posting to try to intimidate the superior fans in Georgia and really just try to be an annoying pest !
Rick
July 9th, 2012
12:46 pm
Like you said Seen stick to the facts at hand. We are mot focused on years past like you leep doing we talking about this year cha cha!
SeenThisB4
July 9th, 2012
1:12 pm
@ M……”the talent on offense or defense that Atlanta has”….that so?! That’s what you’re hanging your hat on?! SMH. Still believing that it was just all the coordinators fault, huh?! LOL! Good, keep believing that
Rick
July 9th, 2012
2:30 pm
And you have talenr on the defense in New Orleans…….really?
Rick
July 9th, 2012
2:31 pm
Wait San Fran just scored again on that Aints Defense!
SeenThisB4
July 9th, 2012
3:00 pm
And look, Drew Brees just broke the passing record on the falcan’ts again!
Jean Claude Killy
July 9th, 2012
3:02 pm
Joe Tess Fish House
July 6th, 2012
1:53 pm
This is nutz. No way Witherspoon is pro bowel matreail. He is injruy prone and never has a compleat seasion. Whoever think this is hig or sumtin.
I’m sorry,, thats just tooo dang funny!! come on Fishbreath,, lets hear some more wisdom,,
SeenThisB4
July 9th, 2012
3:02 pm
And look over yonder! The falcan’t offense still hasn’t score a single point against the Giants! Will….they….ever…..score?!!!! LOL!
SUX2BaBYRD
July 9th, 2012
3:12 pm
3rd plae in the nfcs won’t be so bad after all , it is a rebuilding year for us with new coordinators you know !
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July 9th, 2012
4:23 pm
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SUX2BaBYRD
July 9th, 2012
5:04 pm
Good comeback…for a failclown fan ! lol
Rick
July 9th, 2012
5:42 pm
Oooops and look, the water boy just got suspended from the Aints for putting a bounty on the Other water boys in the leauge.
hiramsaint
July 9th, 2012
6:53 pm
well rick , with that in depth knowledge of whats going on in the waterboy world , i suppose we can guess your occupation . did you get hurt by the way –lol lol lol lol
Rick
July 9th, 2012
7:21 pm
Well Hiram its better than being a “po boy maker” by the way can you add extra shrimp to my sandwich? And please make sure you clean the shrimp and I will have a side of gumbo with that.
hiramsaint
July 9th, 2012
8:23 pm
actually you are wrong . a poboy maker gets paid and no self respectin’ new orleanian cleans a shrimp- thats for you mid town types
SeenThisB4
July 9th, 2012
9:25 pm
Clean the shrimp? What?! I bet Rick want to see Magic Mike this weekend.
Rick
July 9th, 2012
10:50 pm
Well we see that you are no self respecting new orleans…..guess you told on yourself? Speaking of telling on yourself “Seen” tell us what you are referring to with regards to magic mike?
DR. FALCON
July 10th, 2012
1:04 am
SEENTHISB4, AND HIRAMSAINT, WE DO IT THE RIGHT WAY! NO BOUNTIES HERE! WITHERSPOON WILL BE ALL-PRO. THIS YEAR! YOU NEED TO STOP CRACKING ON ‘SPOON, AND WORRY ABOUT SIGNING YOUR FRANCHISE QB! WHAT A JOKE! THE SAINTS ARE PATHETIC! HOW MANY WINS CAN CHASE DANIEL GIVE YOU? LOL! GEEZ!
Cejay
July 10th, 2012
9:02 am
Seenthis, really?? I’m in utter amazement that you can show your face around here after your team’s pathetic debacle….have you no dignity man !!
Cejay
July 10th, 2012
9:04 am
Then again…you are an aint’s fan….
Cejay
July 10th, 2012
9:13 am
@Dr.Falcon hahahaha
Even Brees doesn’t want to be on the aint’s team. lol !
Rick
July 10th, 2012
10:57 am
HAHAHAHAHAHA Chase Daniels. The Aints or should we call them the STAINTS after they decide to sign Brees. They will revert back to the brown paper bag because when all the free agents see how they wont take care of one of the best QB’s in the game no one will want to play for them. LOL. Get your paperbag ready Seen and Hiram……….you knew this day was coming! LOL.
St Simons - we're on Island time
July 10th, 2012
11:57 am
hot dam Joe Tess, that is some pro quality stuff.
laughin so hard i can’t breathe. Dude, you should be
writing for somebody really.
5150 UOAD
July 10th, 2012
12:15 pm
That is GREAT I hope they LIVE UP to it.
sheeesh
July 10th, 2012
1:34 pm
STB4 earns the life-time achievement award for obtuseness. He is in an even greater state of denial than the convicted liars from the Saints.
Personally, I would love to see this go to court. I have little doubt that the NFL has not yet played their strongest cards in this game. Plus, there are more lawyers in the NFL offices than there are players on the field. If these thug players think they can “lawyer up” on a level with The League, they are sadly mistaken.
At some point, they are going to have to take their whuppin and move on. They should save their lawyer dollars and get on with their careers and lives.
hiramsaint
July 10th, 2012
3:15 pm
and with all that – the Saints will make the playoffs and the failclowns will be trying to hire a new head coach after this season is done
THE Peroxide Bandit
July 10th, 2012
3:18 pm
I’m not looking for a new job next year . I’m gonna throw my Oc and Dc under the bus and save my skin like I did last season !
Michael M.
July 10th, 2012
5:03 pm
It will be the Falcons most likely in the NFC South to win the Division this year with the Taints working from the cellar trying to escape to finish in third place from last place to finish off their upcoming disgraceful Season. This Atlanta Team really is looking better now and will play a new inspired defense and the offense should be ready to showboat and strut their stuff this year and make believers out of the rest of the league.
Don’t worry Tainter Fans for I have a good supply of super sized paper sacks you can bunch two together and hide all of yourselves in after your Taints let you down ” again” this Season,
Just Sayin.....
July 10th, 2012
8:01 pm
Did I just hear correctly on the NFL Network that our qb has never thrown for 200 yards in a playoff game with 3 tds & 4 picks?
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Literacy now
July 10th, 2012
9:12 pm
Why the extra comma.
hiramsaint
July 10th, 2012
9:27 pm
he also lead an O that went scoreless in the last playoff game . yep , he’s elite !
JSS
July 11th, 2012
5:24 am
@ Just Sayin’…
That’s correct, he’s the king of the sub 200 yard post season performance! And he’s accomplished that feat while posting completion rates of 65%, 69%, and 58%! Sorry, that’s not the result of scheme, that’s just a piece of his problems…
JSS
July 11th, 2012
5:34 am
By the way, even the inept Mark Sanchez has passed for more than 225 twice in 6 playoff appearances. How can a nare-de-well like that have 9 TD passes and only 3 INTs?
JSS
July 11th, 2012
5:54 am
Ha ha, even Tebow passed for more than 200 (actually it was 316)!
Note
July 11th, 2012
9:13 am
Sproles had 86 receptions last year, That outlet goes a long way in making Brees a good qb. Hope our new OC uses quizz in a similar way this year.
Rick
July 11th, 2012
9:42 am
If Drew Brees does not have a long-term contract in place by Monday’s 4 p.m. ET deadline, the New Orleans Saints quarterback has no plans to sign his franchise tender and report to training camp, according to league and team sources.
Brees and the Saints must work out a long-term contract by July 16 or he will be required to play the 2012 season under his $16.371 million exclusive-rights franchise tender that restricts the free agent from signing with another team.
However, sources say Brees has made it clear to confidants that he will not sign the tender and report to Saints training camp when it begins July 24. The sources also said that even though Brees is on record as saying he won’t miss the regular season, he may leave the Saints guessing as to whether he will report in time for the team’s opener against the Washington Redskins on Sept. 9.
So this is directed to all those “Aint” fans out there. It so appears that you might not even have a QB! LOL!!! Wow what an organization……………..wont even pay the guy who is one of the best in the leauge. Now that is classy!
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Drew Brees is 10 of 12 vs. the Falcons
July 11th, 2012
5:07 pm
Thanks for showing your ignorance Rick . He’s been offered 19.25 mil per year but I guess you got tired and forgot to read that part huh ! Every time I think the Falcons fans might not be the idiots I think them to be , someone like you post and reassures me that I’m right !