Rankings that matter: Falcons are better than Saints

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I hope he is right about michael turner it seems that running backs can go from elite to backup in a year because of the pounding. stay healthy burner

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heck I want football season to get here ASAP…does anyone else?
anyway everything went wrong for the Falcons last year and they went 9-7…I am expecting big things in 2010

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YES THEY CAN BE BUT THEY NEED TO ADD A WIDE RECIEVER THAT WILL TAKE THE PRESSURE OFF OF RODDY WHITE.THEY ARE BANKING ON HARRY DOUGLAS RETURNING BUT THATS A GAMBLE.THEY ALSO NEED TO ADD A QUALITY RUNNINGBACK IF TURNER GOES DOWN AGAIN, ALSO THE SECONDARY MUST STEP UP AND PLAY. FINALLY, THEY NEED A RELIABLE KICKER WHO CAN BE CONSISTENT ON FIELD GOALS

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I don’t care how long this guy has been “covering the league”, he doesn’t know the Saints like loyal hard-core Saints fans like myself do and he’s way off in his prediction of how they will fare this coming season. To say that the better two teams both lost to a “magically lucky” Saints team in the NFCCG and the SB is just nonsensical and foolhardy. How about giving credit where it’s due by acknowledging the fact that plays were made by skilled defensive players on the Saints’ side of the ball to cause those “better” teams to fall short in both of those key championship games? Think what you will, but the Saints’ defense will be even better this year than it was last year and the offense will even improve with all it’s key players back to full health again. Atlanta better than Saints, yeah right! Now that’s a funny joke!!!

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Had the Falcons been healthy last year, I don’t think that the Saints could have gotten into the Superbowl.

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I think overall they have better talent. Got to put it together and MAXIMIZE what you have. If you have equal talent, you must prepare better than them. If you have inferior talent, you must work much harder and prepare better than them. So, that on game day, you execute better. That’s who wins!

We shall see.

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You cats must be sniffing my grisgris powder…Saints no. 8! Well we can blow this nonsense back to where it belongs when we beat up on the ViQueens week 1……..at best Atlanta will split with us this year…probably not though. WHO DAT ! DREW DAT ! TRUE DAT !
GGM, World Champion Voodoo Surgeon General

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I dont think the NFC south is that tough. It will basically be a two horse race. Carolina is mediocre at best, and Tampa’s ship is sinking faster than its owners bank accounts. I see us with a 10-6 0r 11-5 season and depending on which. finishing just ahead or behind the Saints for the division.

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realheavyd and GGM, this is a Falcons blog, not a hurricane-displaced Cajun blog.

Seriously, though, I liked his last line about Minnesota. “This is a team with unfinished business.” You think?

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@Jeff … Like yourself, Mr. Gosselin has at least lost parts of his faculties. Manning’s Pick Six in the SB was on a drive that would have potentially tied the score, not put the Colts ahead.

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24th Whoo hooo!

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hiramsaint, do you have a link to his 2009 rankings? I’ve been looking online but can’t seem to find them.

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The Ravens are the NFL’s best team. Mark my words.

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Gris Gris Man – Yeah, but you got to watch out for dat loup-garou.

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I’d take Aaron Rodgers over Tony Romo in a tight spot.

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sorry jeff- he had n.e. at 1 and the vikes at 18 on june 11, 2009

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3. Baltimore: The Ravens have always won with defense. They reached the AFC semifinals last season with the NFL’s third-ranked defense and figure to be even stronger in 2010 with the additions of pass rusher Sergio Kindle and nose tackle Terrence Cody with their first two draft picks. But the offense is no longer just a spare tire – not with the emergence of Ray Rice as a Pro Bowl running back and the arrival of WR Anquan Boldin this offseason in trade. They will help accelerate the development of QB Joe Flacco, who passed for 3,613 yards last season.

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Like I have been saying since the 2008 draft:

SHOULD HAVE DRAFTED FLACCO

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sorry i’m not as proficient as you on the computer. i guess i shouldn’t have expected a falcons fan to do something as simple as google some info

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Dirty Bird Zone

June 16th, 2010
3:45 pm
We played them well head to head last year in both games. So why not win both this year? We Dat team gonna beat them saints, We Dat!

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Shall I remind you of the 4-5 picks by the CHOKE?

As long as CHOKE is the quarterback, the Saints have nothing to worry about, except for Brees and the defense missing the game.

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it’s ok tmoney– you’ll get one day– glad i could help

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Please Do Not Feed The Trolls.

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Why are we concerning our selves with the Saints so much? One loser columnist sais something totally fictitious and we’re all in an uproar. Rick was so far wrong last year , I don’t know how anyone could give that hack a second thought. All I’m hoping is that we can get lucky enough to maybe split with them this year but to win the nfc south is gonna be harder than any of you think. We really need to worry about the Panthers more than the Saints because we’ll have to have those victories to have a chance at chasing the Saints into the playoffs

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Gosselin must not read the same papers I do. The last time I checked, Turner was NOT completely “healthy”—not news that came out right away, but it did come out. Until I know he is, it’s ridiculous to even raise the question whether we’re better than the Saints.

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Stupid. Superbowl Champs #8? I agree, it’ll be Falcons/Saints for the NFC South, but the Saints have EVERYBODY coming back. Stupid…

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this guy is an IDIOT hes got Green Bay rated better the the Saints Vikens and CowGirls. Dallas will blow chunks of vomit an tuck in after the Saints destroy them on Thanksgiving day. Please you think that it was all majic last year going 13-0 to begin did you watch the monday night game against the All mighty Pats They destroyed them without there Top 2 Cornerbacks they 2 guys off the street SHUT down MOSS AND THE BRADY BUNCH. I watched a TEAM play as a TEAM and WIN as a TEAM. With all that said I think it will be the same 2 teams fighting in the NFC Saints and Viqueens at the end with FAVE ON DA GROUND FAVRE ON DA GROUND LOOKIN LIKE A FOOL ON DA GROUND…Jeff Schultz WHAT EVER YOU ARE SOMKING CAN I HAVE SOME CUZ YOU ARE IN LEFT FIELD WITH THE RANKINGS….LOL

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ckoke — now that economics thing was hilarious and true. good job

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I’ll bet if Gosselin ranked each team’s coach/general manager tandems the list would look similar.

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probably right willy- he doesn’t know squat about them either

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thats right jeff- i can’t wait to see how it plays out. seems like a long time since feb.!

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sorry falcons fans , i forgot your saeson ended a bit earlier

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the Falcons are in position to have a great year assuming those intangible things break in their favor. I can’t for the life of me understanding having Dallas #2 though. that’s absurd.

JohnnyB, i’d have to STRONGLY disagree with your assessment that the Saints had just as many if not more injuries than the Falcons last year. i don’t know what the exact numbers on each side were, but the question isn’t the # of injuries as much as it is the impact of the injuries. All teams have areas where they are thinner than others (that’s the nature of the salary cap area), and the Saints didn’t get hit in any of those thin areas. For example, the Saints have no depth at QB, and you guys got lucky there as I think Brees played just about every snap. If you guys lose Brees, you aren’t winning. I don’t think your #1 and #2 runningback went down at the same time either. You guys did lose starters for brief stints, but it was always in an area where you happened to be deep. The Falcons either got hit in areas without depth, or had all of their depth taken away. So it wasn’t the same situation at all.

And understand, i’m not saying the Saints season was all luck – i am saying that any team that wins the SB has to have SOME luck on their side (that’s why teams rarely win it twice in a row), and the Saints were fortunate with injuries… much more fortunate than the Falcons anyway.

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I’m a Saints fan and of course you have to worry about the hangover.
Talent wise I will still keep them at the top of the division.
The Saints biggest problem will be their monster schedule, a usual thing for the Super Bowl winner. They may be a better team but the schedule could be the difference.

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Joe Joe – you sound like one of us with the excuses. This year we shouldn’t have any and if we do Mr. Blank and Mr. Smith will have to answer for them!

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the funny thing is –ONE journalist out of all the THOUSANDS in the country makes an uninformed prediction and it makes news in atl. what a sad time in atl. to have rick gosselin as your ray of hope.

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Dallas
Eagles
Packers
Vikings
Cardinals
Saints

What have the Falcons done to beat out any of those teams?

If anything the Niners, Redskins and Bears had a better offseason, so that’s 9 teams that the Falcons have to beat out just for a wildcard.

I do believe this time last season, you guys were saying the very same thing.

Maybe next year (AGAIN).

Since the divisional alignments, the Falcons are the only team not to play for a superbowl in the NFC South.

This is year 3 of the new regime – its now or bust.

Afterall CHOKE predicted 13 wins this season.

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Can’t wait for the “real” season to start ….. forget the preseason stuff!!!

For the Saints fan that made the comment about the Saints having quality backups….you are correct….this past year your quality backups were the NFL officials that were assigned to the Saints games. Even the TV commentators made comments about the bad officiating….the NFL’s feel good story of the year about the city’s recovery is over….back to reality!!!!!

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Sick & Tired, Hatorade is yummy isn’t it?!?!?!?!

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Jeff I believe, if we can stay healthy, we can win the nfc south. Last year if not for redmans int we would have beaten the saints at home. Go look at the tape Tony G was wide open. Dunta Robinson will improve the defense dramatically ,and Harry Douglas back in the mix will make our offenses one of the best

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injuries…refs….bye week….away game… 1 week turf toe. y’all sure are gonna need to invent some new excuses after you finish 3rd in the div.

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this is why taking sports writers serious is worthless… its pretty clear from Rick’s predections last year that he thinks highly of the Falcons as a team and not so much of the Saints… after being dead wrong last year, he came up with a bunch of niffty reasons why he was wrong and why this year will different… yawwwwwwn

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falconfan3411, that’s because Atlanta is a crap sports town when it comes to supporting their pro teams. If you don’t like seeing the Saints stickers, then have your fans show up on Sundays and show support for your OWN team

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We outplayed the Aints both games last season. We just had a couple of bad breaks at the end of the games.Cris Redman played good in place of the injuried Matt Ryan in the Dome. He had the who dat nation shaking in their boots until the final whistle. I was there.

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Heavy and gris go jump in the oil slick!

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falconfan4life,

The better team won both games. The better team went 13-0 to start the year. The better team is the 2009 Superbowl Champion Saints. Who Dat!!!!!!!

7-1 against ATL since Breesus took over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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@breesus

That’s because over 60% of the people living here are carpet baggers from New York.The loyal Falcon fans I know are always there. I have been a season ticket holder since 1995, partner.

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The Falcons are a joke. They’ve never won anything, and they never will.

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@ 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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@ HS…
True dat, but when they can’t win on the field, they always stoop to bringing in outside stuff… May Mrs. Brees find a peace not found in her last couple of years… Some rough is heading your way, batten down the hatches!

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According to Newsweek magazine dated March 11, 2010 issue:

Based on numbers from a Justice Department report, Louisiana is the most corrupt state.

Another study calls the Bayou State the third-most corrupt state—well above Illinois (a middling number 19), and just behind Washington, D.C., and North Dakota

I feel sorry for BP and I am sure BP will face a lot more fraudulent cases than Hurricanes Karina….. with President Obama’s help….

President Obama wants to falsely show that he is in charge of the situation, on the mean time – blame BP for everything, asking everyone (lots of fraudulent cases) to file for claims.

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@Hiramsaint…, where was that sentiment for leaving mohers, and other family members out of it when it was about m. vick??? now when someone makes a documented comment about a D. Brees family member, all of a sudden it’s off limits??? give me a break!

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Anyone know if it went 60ft 6 inches tonight?

Over 20 yards is not something we’ve seen much.

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what a waste of a column. who cares what a dallas says about new orleans that’s reproduced in the atlanta? the saints won the super bowl, something the falcons and never and will never do.

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JOKE-are you saying that we could have had the NFL’s 3rd highest rated DEF if we had drafted Joe Flacco instead of MRyan? Show everyone you actually have a brain and come up with something different.

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I prefer Jackson jersey to Falcons’ jersey.

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[...] and bounce back seasons are expected for quarterback Matt Ryan and running back Michael Turner. One NFL expert already has picked them to win the NFC South, ahead of the Saints. Ryan obviously is the biggest [...]

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@ junebaby–hate to tell you this but mikey ia ancient history too. but allow me to counter– vicks mom was not involved in his CRIMINAL wrong doing but some of his family and homeys were which makes them fair targets. vick is a convicted felon who at one time had some game but now is relegated to being a non passing , to old to run hasbeen. brees on the other hand is a top rated qb who is involved in many charities including the brees foundation for kids plus many other community outreach programs- in short, an upstanding citizen.– all i stated was to leave peoples mothers, including yours, out of these back and forth bantrings especially when they are deceased-try to show a sparkle of class junebaby

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I don’t think the saints are going to do too good this year.

I heard a lot of them were on that oxycotton.

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Do think the Falcons would go after Albert Haynesworth because the Falcons run a 4-3 defence just look at defence Spoon and Haynesworth now that would be a defence.

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The saints, they surely are a bunch of lucky suckers.

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First of all I am and forever will be a diehard falcons fan. With that being said…. the saints got lucky when they beat the vikings. if i remember right they were well into field goal range for kicker ryan longwell and they ran another play in which farve through a pick. so saints got lucky in that aspect. Lets not all forget how miami exposed the saints offense and chocked it off and if i remember right we beat the dolphins in game 1 I know i was there. it should have been the vikings and the colts in the superbowl due to a game wining field goal from ryan longwell. But… thats the vikings fault and the saints won. Now as for the super bowl the saints were the better team they wanted it more then the colts that was easy to see. I will give credit where credit is due but i believe if it wasnt for the easy schedule and drew brees the saints wouldnt even made the playoffs. This year WILL be a different story saints WILL lose to the FALCONS in both meetings and in my opinion be luchy to make it too the playoffs. GO FALCONS TAKE US TO THE SUPERBOWL!!!

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yet after the dolphins choking it off they still lost to the saints because of TEAM play. when both sides can play as one then you get what we had last year ,which is the way we wanted it. i also agree about brees leading the team to the playoffs and i feel the same way about ryan. if the falcon didn’t have a qb with an 80 rating , y’all probably would have gone to the playoffs but with less than 3000 yds with 14 picks 5 fumbles and only 22 td’s, it was never gonna happen. you can say refs…bye weeks… away games… hard schedule…. 1 week turf toe all you want but the reality is in the stats

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This has to be a joke. First defence not in the top ten – offense not in the top ten. And the hope#2 good kid but football punk in his heart. The NFL is trying to pump this guy up. Can he lead this team NO!! the running game is the key . Any QB with time will beat you. but when the pressure he turn to pure punk. In New Orleans the fan base belive . not the Falcons. they will start off fast and lose steam again . The punk does not have heart when under the gun . And the NFL is pushing him like they did the first year yes they gave him a break.

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1.) the Falcons defense isn’t as good as the Saints defense. it’s not even close.
2.) the Falcons receivers aren’t as good as the Saints receivers. again, not even close.
3.) the Falcons 15th ranked run game isn’t as good as the Saints 6th ranked run game.
4.) Matt Ryan will never be as good as Drew Brees.

yet somehow the Falcons are going to be a better team. you dirty birds actually believe this?

to the author of the article… the Saints outscored the Colts 30-7 from the second quarter on. is that really luck?

to the idiot that brought up the Saints v Dolphins game. from the end of the second quarter, the Saints outscored the Dolphins 43-10. i’ll say that again. 43-10… in a little over 30 minutes.

this was one of the least informative articles i’ve read in a while. complete garbage. and the falcons fans are eating it up.

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Sean Payton simply a better coach than Mike Smith, and Brees is simply a better QB than Matt Ryan. Grant it, Mike Smith is a good coach and one of the better ones in the league, and Matt Ryan has a bright future ahead of him, but they just are not better than the Saints, period. Falcons day will come, but as long as Sean Payton, Drew Brees, and Gregg Williams are in New Orleans, it aint happening. Sorry to disappoint.

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That rankings certainly got a lot saints fans panties in a wad.
Maybe all of you could get together and pull each others panties out of the others butt cheeks.
Sounds like you would all enjoy it.

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No, I’m not a saints fan.

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aren’t they supposed to outlaw windbags in misery?

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your tax dollars pay me. you know very little about the team that will sweep yours AGAIN this year. if you knew that you didn’t know anything that would be something but you don’t even know that. i surely hope your around this season as i will find it amusing to hear the newly fabricated excuses as to why y’all lost again or will you default ,for lack of vision, to the same old tired played out ones that you use now. when was the last time the falcons posted 3 winning seasons ? ignorance is in the mirror for you and to the rest of us it’s not cute or funny

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learn how to spell

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Correction,30 points(saints) for the past season a game.

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name the depth and 2 starters

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i rest my case- i never once said anything about me only your beloved falcons. thanks 284 ,now atl knows what a moron you are and that you should seek help

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The Saints squeaked by an injured Falcon team in both meetings.
Explosive as the Saints are they should have blown the doors off the hurt Falcons, but they didn’t.
35 to 27 and 26 to 23. I think those numbers can justify a threat when healthy.
America’s Team – Right now your boys are just a middle of the pack team and as long as Romo is back there it will stay that way. Playoffs but no cigar. I predict you guys will not even win your division.

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[...] a laugh out loud article entitled “Rankings that Matter”, an Atlanta sportswriter recounts his recent interview with Dallas sportswriter Rick Gosselin [...]

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don’t know but we won our super bowl. how’d your team do? thats right 34-19 and your trophy and rings went to denver.i’ll say it that dallas beat us but after that it was the same thing. hold your cards- play ‘em when you need to. a victory is a victory whether it’s by 1 or 40 points. have y’all even heard of strategy? apparently not ’cause you’ve just posted your first back to back WINNING seasons –wow- lets celebrate. well the falcons had plenty of time to celebrate for their season ended earlier than the REAL teams

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LOL!!!! Pathetic!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!

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Can a 12 or 13 yearold be considered or charge as a pedifile?

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I think he is a middle schooler.

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if y’all want to talk kids please get off this site. you can’t talk football cause soon as i refute you , you regress to your hidden passions. first it was 1 falcants fan, now theres of you . it’s an epidemic

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Well this is a Atlanta bases newpaper and this is a Falcon blog, if anyone needs to leave i think its you sir….

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’cause we won the super bowl

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it’s not a fact if you can’t back it up and if grant and fugita are you backups then your as much a loser as your team. i don’t have to prove it to you ’cause you’ll make up some hokey thing that has no basis. try reading the bleacher report. check out solomon wilcots on the nfl network i could go on and on but what you believe is what you believe so we’ll see as the season progresses on. in the mean time feel free to call me names just like democrats do when they are presented with the facts. it shows you have no knowledge or argument on football . your probably puking up what colin cowherd said instead of making your own thoughts and laying them out for debate

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If Dree Brees is so good, why did the Chargers release him? Philip Rivers is better that’s why.

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@ Hiram saint

Did the people of New Orleans kick you out of their miserable city?

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the Saints lost Kendrick Clancy, Mark SImoneau, Paul Spicer, Scott Fujita and Charles Grant.

actually, the only person they “lost” was Fujita. i’m glad he got his payday. he deserved it. he is not irreplaceable. if he was, the Saints would have matched the Browns’ offer.

Mark Simoneau hasn’t been a starter for two years. we didn’t lose him. we let him go. We’ve got Jonathan Vilma. you remember him right? in your own house he single handedly stopped two potentially game winning drives with an interception and a monster run stuff.

Charles Grant was a lazy liability that didn’t contribute a thing to the Saints’ run through the playoffs. the Saints let him go.

Kendrick Clancy was serviceable. not a good, but serviceable. again, the Saints didn’t lose him. they let him go.

Paul Spicer was never a starter. actually, i don’t think he played at all.

now…. the Saints signed Alex Brown. he’s a definite upgrade over Charles Grant

the Saints drafted Earl Heyman and Al Woods. either will be a suitable replacement and upgrade over Kendrick Clancy.

the Saints brought in Junior Galette and Brandon Sharpe. either will be a suitable replacement and upgrade over Paul Spicer. the guy that never played. the guy that used to be good years ago when he played for Jacksonville.

the Saints have been heaping praise on Jo-Lonn Dunbar. just because you haven’t heard of him doesn’t mean a thing. Clint Ingram was brought in to replace Scott Fujita. he’s an upgrade. the Saints also have Stanley Arnoux, drafted last year and sent to IR during training camp. he was basically red shirted. Harry Coleman was also brought in. Bobby McCray, normally a pass rushing DE can play OLB when the Saints line up in a 3-4 defense. there’s even been rumblings that he could occasionally play SLB, Fujita’s position, depending on the scheme. we loved Fujita. he won’t be missed.

every person you say the Saints lost has been replaced and the position has been upgraded. not only that, the Saints also drafted yet another first round DB. the Saints secondary is extremely formidable.

the D-Line has been upgraded.

the linebacking corps has been upgraded.

the O-line has improved depth.

the Saints also drafted a 6′7″ pass catching TE. who on defense are you going to put on him when the Saints are in the redzone? can you say “alley oop”?

saying that the Saints are a worse team than they were last year is just wishful thinking on your part. the Saints have gotten much better.

scary isn’t it?

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[...] ♦ Rankings that matter: Falcons are better than Saints [...]

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Boudin—-Perhaps you missed where I said the Saints have lost a good deal of their depth! But, leave it to a Saints fan to say that a bunch of journeymen and rookies are upgrades!

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[...] ♦ Rankings that matter: Falcons are better than Saints [...]

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[...] writer Jeff Schultz got in on the Falcons love with his article about how the Falcons are a better team than the Saints. Bold statement considering the Saints just [...]

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Saints will suck this year. Back to normal for them.

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Oh – I agree with the guy from Dallas……….the Falcons are soooooooo much better than the Saints…………It was such a fluke………right……..

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These are the Falcons, man…losers. A winning season twice in a row? Get serious.

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I guess we wil all have to wait on see………………………………..the Falcons but a country woop’n on tha aints cajun A**ES! We’ll stomp a mud hole in your butt and walk it dry!! Bring it on you little Nawlean pansies!!! There ae only two things that come from Nawleans…..a queer and his roommate.

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And all of the posts from Martin, kkong, Horton, sean, and NOLA, look like the same dribblings, that come from hiramsaint.

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[...] to enrage everyone who’s apparently never watched two consecutive seasons of football, Adam’s uncle has found a list that has the Falcons as the league’s 7th-best team – one spot ahead of the defending champs. We go through this crap every single year: [...]

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Im sure some of the Aints fan will be the first to whine if the Saints do poorly and offer every excuse that they say can be used by fans of other teams
I really expect the Saint to have the same post Super Bowl Season at the Steelers did a few years back..

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hiramsaint “”you”" didnt win a thing, youre not on the team youre just a bandwagon fan using the the fact they wom the super bowl to brag about to make up for what you lack
next year you will be on to another team saying “we”

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