Rankings that matter: Falcons are better than Saints

@ Breesus

The Aints are 37-45 against the Atlanta Falcons since you want some history partner.

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falconfan3411,

When you consider how bad the Saints were in their first 20 yrs of existence, that isn’t exactly a huge bragging right that you have an 8 game advantage in the series history lol

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@ falconfan3411

LOL. No, that was a big achievement for Mike Smith in that he was the 1st Atlanta coach to ever have consecutive winning seasons. Arthur Blank himself even commented on it. Shows you what a joke the Falcons are.

The reason they can’t have consecutive winning season’s is the NFL’s scheduling formula – when you have one decent season you get a REAL schedule the next year and the weak teams can’t sustain it.

Even worse, the team management even thought Michael Vick was a quarterback.

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There is an interested article published today by ESPN’s John Clayton in the New Orleans Saints newspaper.
Matt Ryan deserves elite QB tag.With Peyton Manning’s height, Tom Brady’s style and Drew Brees’ smarts, Matt Ryan had the look of an elite quarterback the first time he stepped onto the field in Atlanta Falcons colors. A 20-10 record as a starter followed.

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@ MCR…
How’s your Summer going? You got to love those red letter day on the NFL calendar! I just remember all of that big talk before the Eagles and Giants games last year, some fans never learn. Let them play the game on the field and stop talking so much… Wow, No. 3 huh? It is funny that many are trying to talk around that one… $72 million (0w’s in the post season) – vs- $30 million (3w’s in the post season), how does one spell “value?”

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Ya gotta be kidding! We’ve had the top 3 offense or better the last 4 years, and won the Super Bowl. Yes, i realize that it is usually worst to 1st in the NFC South. The Saints will win the division, and be in the playoffs! I’m not calling beyond that! Our offense is just hard to stop, and the defense we be better this year. After 43 years of letdown seasons, and a Super Bowl win, we still get no respect! The interception that sealed the fate of the Colts was a good play on the Saints secondary! Remember this 2 year DB has yet to play a whole season! We have the best secondary , i think going!

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Matt “Choke” Ryan – i just wanted to be the first to compliment you on your remarkable wit. The way you put the word “choke” in the middle of Ryan’s name, like it was his middle name?!? How did you come up with that?!?! Absolutely hysterical. And just when i thought you couldn’t top that comic feat, you kept using it over and over again!! AND IN ALL CAPS!!! You really do start where the others stop. One word my friend – GENIUS.

PLEASE do me and the rest of America a favor and promise us we’ll be seeing more of your work on the internet. Priceless!!! I can’t even imagine what you’re gonna come up with next!!

p.s. – do you have like a blog or a subscriber list?? don’t hold out on us!

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i don’t even have a shovel big enough for all the b.s. the falcons are coming up with now. i’ll say this to make y’all feel better. the saints had no injuries last year. the refs gave us all the calls. we played no away games and no teams coming of a bye. our qb never got 1 week turf toe and all the turf we playd on was to our advantage. now i hope that makes the falcants fans feel better about being forced to watch real teams in the playoffs and superbowl

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Matt “Choke” Ryan, why do you keep trolling? There can be two good QBs from one draft, and both of them will probably be successful.

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Oops “Arcelor Mittal” Darn these QWERTY keyboards, my bad!

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hiramsaint—Damn it, you’re making me laugh again. I actually started going to church again in hopes that Falcons can make it to another SB. I’m not convinced on Turner’s injury status or Ryan’s ability to ratchet it up from last season. Now someone’s gonna say I’m going to church for all the wrong reasons. They can p_ss up a rope. You got a lot more class than “CHOKE” the way you pick on us.

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Reginald Alfred “Reggie” Bush II (born March 2, 1985) is a professional football player who plays for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League. He has played running back/tailback, wide receiver, and punt returner. Bush played college football at the University of Southern California in 2003–2005, including two National Championship seasons. He has won numerous collegiate awards including the 2005 Heisman Trophy, but allegations that he received improper benefits are central to a controversy surrounding the USC program that have led to severe NCAA sanctions including a 2-year postseason ban, loss of football scholarships, and the vacating of wins in the 2004-05 championship season. Since the NCAA retroactively stripped Bush of his eligibility, the status of the many awards he won in 2005, including the Heisman, is uncertain. Also the saints superbowl might also be withdrawn.

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On June 10, 2010, the NCAA announced major sanctions against USC. The NCAA found that Bush had received lavish gifts from Lake and his partner, Michael Michaels, from at least December 2004 onward, including a limousine ride to the 2005 Heisman Trophy presentation. As a result, USC was slapped with four years of probation and forced to vacate its last two wins of the 2004 season (including the 2005 Orange Bowl) as well as all of its wins in the 2005 season. The Trojans were also banned from bowl games in 2010 and 2011 and will lose 30 scholarships over three years. Running backs coach Todd McNair is banned from off-campus recruiting for one year after the NCAA determined he’d known about Bush’s dealings with the agents. The NCAA also forced USC to permanently disassociate itself from Bush.[9][10]

The NCAA found that given Bush’s high-profile status, USC should have invested more effort in monitoring Bush’s relationships. In announcing the penalties, Paul Dee, chairman of the NCAA infractions committee, said, “High-profile players merit high-profile enforcement.”[11]

Reggie Bush you single-handley destroyed a football powerhouse. For this you suck.

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lawsuit filed by the New Orleans Saints’ former security director accuses the Super Bowl champions of trying to cover up the alleged theft of prescription pain pills from the team’s drug locker by two senior staff members.

According to a report in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the two senior staff members are Saints head coach Sean Payton and linnebackers coach Joe Vitt.

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it’s a no case that went to arbitration. sorry still gotta try harder!– but hey… how about those rings

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@ Jeff Schultz…
You know I’m a little disappointed! I’ve sat back and let you revel in the demise of Woodson and Waddell… Hey, you were the last man standing, but holy gee willeekers Mr. Schultz! There’s not been one story on Marian Hossa hoisting Lord Stanley’s Cup! What gives old chap?

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@ hiramsaint

Those rings looks awfully girly dude. Drew is the only one that deserves to wear one. The rest of the team are one “hit wonders”.

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up north- wishful thinking but not very likely—-i’m no saint- what do the falcons rings look like? oops , guess we gotta go to denver to find that out… 34-19 wasn’t it?

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Mina Brees, a prominent Austin attorney and former president of the Austin Bar Association who was recently subpoenaed by the Texas attorney general’s office, died in Colorado, a family member said. She was 59.

Marty Akins, Brees’ brother who is also a lawyer and former University of Texas quarterback, said he was told Friday morning that Brees died in Colorado, where she was visiting her son Reid. Akins said he did not know the cause of her death.

“It’s my understanding that she was at her girlfriend’s house,” Akins said. “That’s all I know. I just know that she passed away, and I loved her very much.”

Brees, the mother of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, a former Westlake High standout, had her business records subpoenaed Tuesday after she sent letters informing a number of prominent Austin and Houston restaurants that they had lost the legal right to use their business names — but could get them back for up to $25,000.

The mailings, bearing the letterhead of Brees’ law office and dated July 20, said Brees represented a company, Chicksports Inc., that had assumed ownership of the restaurant names because the current owners neglected to reserve them or failed to renew them under Texas business codes. The letters did not mention that Brees was the president of Chicksports or that the corporation shared her law office’s address and phone number.

The Texas Restaurant Association, however, alerted its members to Brees’ activity, saying there was no reason for restaurants to pay Chicksports for continuing to use their names.

Brees received the Austin Bar Association’s 2005 professionalism award for legal ethics and professionalism. In 2006, she came within 22,168 votes of being elected to the state 3rd Court of Appeals in 2006, losing to Republican incumbent David Puryear by 4.5 percentage points. Brees ran as a Democrat.

Brees’ campaign was hurt when Drew Brees asked his mother to stop using his likeness in campaign ads. He said his relationship with his mother had soured and was nonexistent.

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the atlanta falcons were soundly defeated by the denver broncos in super bowl 33 in florida. sources close to the falcons say they expect it to be at least a decade before the team will be able to post back to back winning seasons. with re-alignment approaching atlanta will more than likely be the only team in the nfc south to still have done nothing going into the 2010 season. when asked how this could be possible, falcons staff responded by saying” we’ve always been a losing orginazation and there is no reason to believe that we will do anything other than that”

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The Dallas Cowboys are too soft and all druggies. Tony Homo sucks badd.

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hey i was gonna say that

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WASHINGTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency was hoodwinked to pay for season football tickets, a tropical vacation and a sex change operation, an audit of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita aid found.

Houston divorce lawyer Mark Lipkin says he can’t recall anyone paying for his services with a FEMA debit card, but congressional investigators say one of his clients did just that.

That $1,000 payment was just one example cited in an audit that concluded that up to $1.4 billion — perhaps as much as 16 percent of the billions of dollars in assistance expended after those two hurricanes in 2005 — was spent for bogus reasons.

Prison inmates, a supposed victim who used a New Orleans cemetery for a home address and a person who spent 70 days at a Hawaiian hotel all were able to get taxpayer help, according to evidence that gives a new black eye to the nation’s disaster relief agency.

“I do Katrina victims all the time,” Lipkin, the divorce attorney, told The Associated Press. “I didn’t know anybody did that with me. I don’t think it’s right, obviously.”

Government Accountability Office officials were testifying before a House committee Wednesday on their findings.

Donna Dannels, acting deputy director of recovery for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told a House hearing the congressional conclusions “represent a fraction of the overall assistance provided.”

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the subcommittee overseeing an investigation of post-hurricane aid, called the bogus spending “an assault on the American taxpayer.”

“Prosecutors from the federal level down should be looking at prosecuting these crimes and putting the criminals who committed them in jail for a long time,” he said.

FEMA also could not establish that 750 debit cards worth $1.5 million even went to Katrina victims, the auditors said.

Among the items purchased with the cards:

• An all-inclusive, one-week Caribbean vacation in the Punta Cana resort in the Dominican Republic.

• Five season tickets to New Orleans Saints professional football games.

• Adult erotica products in Houston and “Girls Gone Wild” videos in Santa Monica, Calif.

• Dom Perignon champagne and other alcoholic beverages in San Antonio.

To dramatize the problem, investigators provided lawmakers with a copy of a $2,358 U.S. Treasury check for rental assistance that an undercover agent received using a bogus address. The money was paid even after FEMA learned from its inspector that the undercover applicant did not live at the address.

FEMA spokesman Aaron Walker said Tuesday that the agency, already criticized for a poor response to Katrina, makes its highest priority during a disaster “to get help quickly to those in desperate need of our assistance.”

“Even as we put victims first, we take very seriously our responsibility to be outstanding stewards of taxpayer dollars, and we are careful to make sure that funds are distributed appropriately,” Walker said.

FEMA said it has identified more than 1,500 cases of potential fraud after Katrina and Rita and has referred those cases to the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general. The agency said it has identified $16.8 million in improperly awarded disaster relief money and has started efforts to collect the money.

The GAO said it was 95 percent confident that improper and potentially fraudulent payments were much higher — between $600 million and $1.4 billion.

The investigative agency said it found people lodged in hotels often were paid twice, since FEMA gave them individual rental assistance and paid hotels directly. FEMA paid California hotels $8,000 to house one individual — the same person who received three rental assistance payments for both disasters.

In another instance, FEMA paid an individual $2,358 in rental assistance, while at the same time paying about $8,000 for the same person to stay 70 nights at more than $100 per night in a Hawaii hotel.

“Our forensic audit and investigative work showed that improper and potentially fraudulent payments occurred mainly because FEMA did not validate the identity of the registrant, the physical location of the damaged address, and ownership and occupancy of all registrants at the time of registration,” GAO officials said.

FEMA paid millions of dollars to more than 1,000 registrants who used names and Social Security numbers belonging to state and federal prisoners for expedited housing assistance. The inmates were in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida.

FEMA made about $5.3 million in payments to registrants who provided a post office box as their damaged residence, including one who got $2,748 for listing an Alabama post office box as the damaged property.

The GAO told of an individual who used 13 different Social Security numbers — including the person’s own — to receive $139,000 in payments on 13 separate registrations for aid. All the payments were sent to a single address.

The Louisana Purchase was a bad move.

Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press

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i don’t care who it is lets leave moms out of this. i hope he , she, it [probably] is not indicative of all falcons fans.

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