Atlanta Falcons: No Excuses!
The Time Has Come
Time to Get it Done!!!!! (AJC)
New thread up to talk Falcons vs. Seahawks in one of the biggest games in franchise history. The matchups have been analyzed to pieces and the storylines have been beaten to a pulp. It all comes down to who wants it more. The Falcons must win this game for so many reasons, the least of which is to move on in the playoffs. Will be back with more analysis and breakdown very soon, but this one has taken its toll on the Atlanta Falcon Faithful. NO MORE EXCUSES, IT’S TIME TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP!!!!!!…………
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JB Falcon
January 13th, 2013
6:43 pm
BR 6:11, they had to double team Matthews, the octopus. He can step in anytime. Mass may be even better! No worries.
Arno
January 13th, 2013
6:43 pm
“Atlanta avoided embarrassment” –espn
and the beat goes on….
JJ
January 13th, 2013
6:49 pm
DHunt, no prob buddy, just a little worked up, lol. NO WAY this game should have gotten that close. But we all suspected that it would didnt we?
Blaming th headcoach may be unfair BUT it has happened repeatedly over the yrs regardless who the coordinators were.
Ill drop it until were out of the dance but theres a constant, reoccuring theme with smitty and winningest falcons coach is theme 1 no dought. But I have lost faith in his ability to succeed in the playoffs…we luked out today and many, many times over the laST 4 YRS. Some say that means its not luck, I disagree. Over half our wins this yr, last yr and the yr before were wins inspite of coaching. Yes MM n BVG were the main culprit but MS hired them and hanged on to them for way too long. In the real life (away from smitty) BOTH failed and got fired…explain that my cage brothers who coddle smitty balls..lol…luv vodka!!!!
Mike
January 13th, 2013
6:51 pm
BR I think I was choked up, picked up the CSE staff member… For a minute I was 8 again… It was so much like the 81 playoff game vs Cowboys… But this time we had an answer. Now time to finish.
JB Falcon
January 13th, 2013
6:53 pm
I’m thinking/hoping this win gave the Falcons the idea that they may be as good as they actually are. The SF game will be a challenge but I’m thinking we can go all the way if we learn from today’s victory. “Damn the torpedoes!”
JJ
January 13th, 2013
6:56 pm
Setting my pessimism to the side, ONE MORE WIN AT HOME AND WERE AT THE CESSPOOL FOR HUMANITY and the superbowl…anything can happen and its far from magic city!!!
Slant Pattern
January 13th, 2013
6:57 pm
“lol…luv vodka!!!!” – JJ
Woot! Glad you can celebrate already, the stink of Smitty stupidity is gonna take a keg of Irish whiskey for me to forget it seems. I’m not too worried about the FortyWhiners bathhouse scrubbers, the Pats are looking like who we will have hard times with. If Nolan gets smart and lets the Whiner’s score enough to stay close and keep Smitty’s loserball off the table we will be fine. The Pats can match our offense tho and their defense is much better than given credit for.
JJ
January 13th, 2013
7:06 pm
SP, compare the playcalling of the “kings/NE” vs us hillbillies. Its top of the line nfl vs jv ga state (my alma matre, go concrete campus). Cooter needs to watch some tv tonight instead of gloating in his lucky stars!!!!
Matty Bicep
January 13th, 2013
7:07 pm
Ain’t on Smitty or Turner at all, it was a FAILURE of Nolan, and Ryan that allowed the game to be that close. But regardless, those who felt they cannot win due to Smitty or Turner just don’t know football. No, they are the rocks.
Matty Bicep
January 13th, 2013
7:08 pm
Our O line played great, our Defense collapsed, face it, you guys are wrong, have been all year. I was correct, playoffs is just another football game. Now we get to play another.
Slant Pattern
January 13th, 2013
7:12 pm
“SP, compare the playcalling of the “kings/NE” vs us hillbillies. Its top of the line nfl vs jv ga state (my alma matre, go concrete campus). Cooter needs to watch some tv tonight instead of gloating in his lucky stars!!!!” – JJ
How do they get every one so damn open and every one of our passes are contested and have to be picture perfect throws by Ryan? I hate watching them bastids.
Lol at the failed trolling. I’ll play some,
Fire Smitty now please! Turner can stay another game or two.
Matty Bicep
January 13th, 2013
7:13 pm
All the “weaknesses” you guys pointed out again and again were addressed. Turner being over the hill, our O line being bad, etc, was just plain WRONG. Ryan played a dicey game, threw a critical pick, but in the end he was Matty Ice…..The only thing that did not show up was Nolan’s pass D.
JJ
January 13th, 2013
7:13 pm
MB, tks for your ” I was correct all yr and you guys were wrong!”
lol, too rich for me!
JB Falcon
January 13th, 2013
7:14 pm
MB, thank you for blessing us with your all knowing knowledge. We are such fools for being Falcons fans and you, my friend, are a beligerant SOB.
Matty Bicep
January 13th, 2013
7:16 pm
Bottom Line, Smittyball has gotten us the best NFC record over 5 years, for all you clowns saying But but…We have not won a playoff game….Need to retire from trolling. It is over.
Matty Bicep
January 13th, 2013
7:18 pm
Just sayin, when you guys “saw no way we would ever win a playoff game because of Smitty, I disagreed to much adversity…. I was ready to stand tall if we lost, I expect the same..;…
Matty Bicep
January 13th, 2013
7:22 pm
I was not a guy who said we WOULD win in the playoffs, I just said we CAN win, that all the other crap, past experiences, what play we called in week 6, mean nothing in regards to our chances. But the fact that Turner showed up and outplayed the “beast” is not lost upon me.
And for Ryan, well, it was the best of times, and the worst of times……He thew a bad pick, but he redeemed himself…..Overall, hard fought W…..And as I said all year, a W is a W.
Chris
January 13th, 2013
7:25 pm
Too close for comfort, good win though. Definately needed, for the frachise and the city. Also a decent taste of what the 49ers will be like. Handle business, no more trick screens or end arounds. These are desiplined teams in the playoffs and won’t usually fall for such. And for God’s sake it the runs working don’t get away from it. The RB’s looked good today so why start off each series passing on first and running on second as if our lives depended on that play selection. Got to be smarter Cooter, and Nolan, we’ve got to have more confusion for the rookie QB’s. You did it to manning you can do it to these guys.
Matty Bicep
January 13th, 2013
7:30 pm
I will say this, winning a playoff game was not the goal, it just shuts up the “we have not won a playoff” clowns who do not understand competition. I am not naming names, but you know who you are.
But, our screens did have something to be desired, out little play to Snelling was quite innovative to me……Saying that Smitty is not able to allow Koetter to try new things is not true…..As for our D, we focused on stopping ML, and we did, but he had a cost.
Bottom line, we removed an emotional block off our mind, but it is not the goal, not at all…..
Mike
January 13th, 2013
7:31 pm
San Fran jumps out to big lead vs Patriots, Pats come storming back… San Fran manages to pull out the game= mental toughness
Atlanta jumps out to big lead vs Seahawks, Hawks come storming back. Atlanta manages to pull it out= avoiding embarrassment.
Matty Bicep
January 13th, 2013
7:35 pm
Bingo Mike. The NFL is full of comeback stories, and Comeback/Comeback stories….The W is the only thing that is recorded. RISE UP!!!
Matty Bicep
January 13th, 2013
7:37 pm
Lookat that, the Pats allowing the Texans to pull within 10 and 5 minutes left….
Coop
January 13th, 2013
7:57 pm
Glad we won. Smitty should be let go at end of season. He is this team’s Achilles heel. They win in spite of him.
MB – The one who doesn’t know football is plainly you. Again, the ends aren’t the only story. You are such a belligerent a hole…
D3 – seriously, save us from this idiot.
nfcchampsliveinga
January 13th, 2013
7:59 pm
Cage Family,
Atlanta played a gutsy game until the finish. Much respect to the Seahawks for a very good game. I am glad and grateful for the win!! Looking ahead, I know that the 49ers will be a huge challenge next Sunday, but I feel that the Falcons will win that game. Each year under MR2, in our 1st game we have lost to the NFC Champion. This year the tide has changed, this year the Falcons will RISE UP!! Oh and to all of the media elite that have hated on the Falcons this entire season; How about you all go find a hard and rough rock to crawl yourselves back up under! That is all!
The Time is NOW
January 13th, 2013
8:01 pm
JB Falcon
Re: an earlier conversation.
You were right. I am one and done in that regard.
JB Falcon
January 13th, 2013
8:01 pm
MB, out of the last 14 posts, nine of them have been yours. Do you think you own this blog or does your big head not allow you to think such things?
LRD
January 13th, 2013
8:05 pm
I am glad we won or d3 would have chucked a rock thru his TV ! HAHAHAHA
The dome was ROCKING to say the least. My ears are still ringing and my throat is still soar from screaming.
I will say, we did everything we could to grab defeat from the jaws of victory.
Heard on the radio on the way home that in the huddle with 35 seconds left. That Ryan goes into the huddle, states “we’ve been here before, we can do it again” Clabo asks,how much do we need.. answer 30 yds… Ok then, lets go”
What an emotional roller coaster…. in fact I am still stunned about all that happened.
Cant wait for next Sunday. .. glad I have to go out of town for a few days…as I think I would lose my mind listening to all the stuff this week
Matty Bicep
January 13th, 2013
8:06 pm
Coop, why the sour attitude? I grew to respect you, you made some good football points, but do you want me to be banned because I was right?
Sure, I don’t know football, but it was not me who was crying about how we will never win a playoff game 8 weeks ago because we called a dive play.
Matty Bicep
January 13th, 2013
8:14 pm
Let me be clear, back about 6-8 weeks ago, after our 1st loss, people were projecting that we might lose out the season. It pissed me off, and I said that type of talk is just pessimism, that the type of “analysis” was just emotional crap, but not analysis at all. I also said I would stand tall if we went one and done. So here I am….MT33 played great, Nolans D, not so much….Sorry to disagree with you, but Smitty rocks….Right?
JB Falcon
January 13th, 2013
8:17 pm
LRD, you left before the fat lady sang??? Shame on you! I had friends (?) over saying “Game over” half way through the fourth quarter. I told them that, with the Falcons, the game is not over until there is zero time on the clock. MR and Co are winning MF’s, the situation doen’t matter.
Matty Bicep
January 13th, 2013
8:25 pm
LRD, I was thinking the same thing, when we had 30 seconds and 2 timeouts, I was just thinking, hmmm…..Matty Ice, this is what he does…..
I actually like our chances against the 9ers….we can stop the rush…..Make CK beat us with his arm.
LOL at the Aints
January 13th, 2013
8:27 pm
There is more than one way to skin a cat, I like our chances,, battle tested and ready for whatever. Go Falcons!
LOL at the Aints
January 13th, 2013
8:29 pm
Kudos to Matty Ice today, lived up to his name in the end, congratulations Tony, I was cryin with ya brother, Class act, Go Birds
LOL at the Aints
January 13th, 2013
8:31 pm
And Matt Bryant too, clutch,
Hamad Meander
January 13th, 2013
8:36 pm
Look, I’m very very glad we won, and I want Dimitroff, Smith, and Ryan back, but dang, you can’t do what they did today to their fans. The breadth of emotions I endured during the game was not good for my health. If they had lost, losing the way they could have today would have put me over the top.
I’ll take an ugly win over a pretty loss anyday, but this wasn’t an ugly win. It was something else, and I can’t find the correct words to describe it.
LRD
January 13th, 2013
8:37 pm
JB… meant to say, after the game, after we got on marta, we heard them interviewing players after the game…
Matty Bicep
January 13th, 2013
8:37 pm
LOL, agreed, huge monkey off our back, I could see the tension on Ice’s face, now it is all gravy, we just have to play loose and be ourselves. The MT33 fresh legs concept was not popular around here, but he looked like a new RB today. Our D made it close, but Russell Wilson is a hard guy to play against…the guy is amazing.
Matty Bicep
January 13th, 2013
8:40 pm
HM, agreed, it was a meltdown, but, a W is a W, and a playoff W is a playoff W….Again, you never know what the football gods have in store. It could have been devastating…..but, it just showed our resolve.
Big Lou
January 13th, 2013
8:41 pm
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/21551022/ryan-smith-erase-stigma-as-falcons-establish-playoff-bonafides
LRD
January 13th, 2013
8:42 pm
And I just LOVE the fact, Julio ends the game with an INT… that was just fantastic.. and an interesting statistic
Big Lou
January 13th, 2013
8:43 pm
Abraham is reported saying he would play next week. The Falcons held him out of the game at half time on purpose after he tweaked his ankle again. could explain his frustrated look on the sidelines.
LRD
January 13th, 2013
8:43 pm
and Peter Carroll along with Smitty too, made some very questionable coaching moves today…
Matty Bicep
January 13th, 2013
8:44 pm
Lived the JJ pick too….Destiny? I don’t think that is what TD had in mind when he drafted him to be a difference maker.
LRD
January 13th, 2013
8:45 pm
Big Lou.. Abe came off limping badly on the sideline duing 1Q.. and then he spent much time on a cooler at the end of the bench… w/out a lot of training staff checking on him.
I hope he is healthier come sunday
Matty Bicep
January 13th, 2013
8:46 pm
No reason to put Abe in today, he would have rolled his ankle chasing Wilson around in circles…..We would have had 5-6 sacks today of a regular QB.
Matty Bicep
January 13th, 2013
8:49 pm
You see Quizz make the block on that last play to Gonzo? Great play calling.
Matty Bicep
January 13th, 2013
8:56 pm
Sorta reminds me of the Giants, they could not run the ball all year last year……
The Time is NOW
January 13th, 2013
8:57 pm
Big Lou – Thanks for the good read. Surprised to hear such a positive story from a national media outlet.
D3
January 13th, 2013
8:58 pm
Am I alive?
Woweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee………….
The curse is over!
GO GD FALCONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And yes, we’ll beat the “best team ever” Niners next week.
Throw that F’n monkey off our backs and into the ocean!
The Time is NOW
January 13th, 2013
9:00 pm
Congratulations, D3! Your job running this blog next year just got a lot easier to stomach.