Falcons’ embarrassing loss means season was an epic fail
Matt Ryan had two interceptions and was sacked five times in the loss. (Curtis Compton/AJC)
It’s year three of this great franchise awakening, and that means one thing: We don’t grade seasons on the first 16 games.
We can praise the Falcons for a 13-win season. We can marvel at their young quarterback, Matt Ryan, for his progress in three seasons and his ability to pull out victories in pressure situations. We can sit back and praise the owner, the general manager and the coaching staff for seemingly doing everything right and winning 33 regular season games since 2008.
But in January of 2011, the Falcons should not be graded on what happens in the first 16 games. They should be graded on postseasons.
They failed. Epically.
There’s no shame in losing to the Green Bay Packers. But getting bodyslammed 48-21 is a level of humiliation that no playoff team should ever experience, especially this one. Not after a 13-3 season. Not in its first playoff game. Not at home. Not after having a week off while the opponent was in a short week following a road playoff game.
You expected a high point for the franchise. Instead, the Falcons gave us a low — the most lopsided playoff loss in their history.
“We didn’t do anything like ourselves,” Roddy White said. “It felt like were a different football team.”
If the Falcons could have stepped outside themselves and astral-projected into other bodies, it would have been an improvement.
They committed four turnovers. They allowed the Packers 442 yards in offense, 366 coming from quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who threw three touchdowns and completed 31 of 36 passes (and I honestly can’t remember the five incompletes).
If you think it can’t get worse, try this: Green Bay never punted. The totals: Five offensive touchdown, a defensive score, two field goals, a missed field goal and a fumble. It was like the return of Arena Football, except only one team was fully functional.
“Totally our fault,” said defensive end John Abraham, who like many Falcons defenders got close to Rodgers on occasion but seldom could get him to the turf (he was sacked twice). “I’m not saying they didn’t play well, but we could’ve done a lot more to move this in the right direction and we didn’t.
“Personally, I had bigger goals. The regular season is good. But being done in the first game hurts, especially the way we got knocked out.”
Some feared the New Orleans Saints coming back into the Georgia Dome and winning for the second time in a month. More feared Michael Vick coming back and winning again. Was this any better — a lopsided loss, with several thousand “Cheeseheads” chanting, “Go Pack Go”?
We thought the Falcons were past this. Granted, they won a lot of close games during the regular season. Great teams win close games. But when a team has such an epic faceplant in its first playoff game, you have to wonder how close it really is.
In 2008 — the first year of the Ryan-Mike Smith-Thomas Dimitroff era — the Falcons rose from two years of wreckage. They went 11-5. Then they lost at Arizona, a team that went on to the Super Bowl — no embarrassment there. This season they went 13-3 and lost to a Green Bay team that may end up in Dallas. The difference is venue — the Falcons were 20-4 in the Georgia Dome in the last three seasons – and what we perceived to be the Falcons’ evolution to this point.
Nobody thought the defense was great. But it appeared to be young and improving and certainly not set up for a dismembering. The offense added Tony Gonzalez last year to win a Super Bowl, but the team hasn’t even won a playoff game. (Nor has Gonzalez in his career. In fact he made his first catch of the game with 2:03 left in the third quarter and then limped off.)
The Packers fumbled on their opening possession. Then they scored touchdowns the next six times they touched the football – five on offensive possessions and one on a 70-yard interception return by cornerback Tramon Williams, a play that Ryan will be reliving in his nightmares for the next several months.
Oh yes, Ryan: The Falcons thrived this season on not turning over the ball. Ryan was at the forefront of that, throwing a career-low nine interceptions. Both second-quarter interceptions were costly. The first ended a scoring drive, though it may have been more the fault of wide receiver Michael Jenkins, who slipped and fell in the end zone, leaving Tramon Williams to make an easy interception.
But the second one was all on Ryan. With the Falcons trailing 21-14, eight seconds left in the half and the ball on the Packers’ 34, Ryan tried to hit Roddy White with a quick sideline pass to set up a field goal. But he threw way short and behind White and the pass was picked off by Williams, who brought it all the way for a score to make it 28-14 at halftime. The most audible sound in the Georgia Dome was a loud groan.
Brave fans stayed for the second half. But when the Packers scored on their first two possessions in the third quarter, it was like somebody yelled, “Fire.” By the end, it was only Cheeseheads in the stands.
This was exactly the kind of playoff meltdown Ryan wanted to avoid. He was 20 for 29 but had two interceptions and was sacked five times. Two years ago, his first pass attempt at Arizona was intercepted and led to a Cardinals’ scoring drive. Later in the game he had a fumble that Arizona’s Antrel Rolle returned 27 yards for a touchdown. The Falcons lost 30-24. We didn’t consider it a great tragedy.
This is different. Two years later, humiliating defeat should not be what this team is about.
They’re not as close as we thought they were.
1,754 comments Add your comment
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 15th, 2011
11:24 pm
Green Bay is the better team and it showed. There’s more work to do.
Birdman123
January 15th, 2011
11:25 pm
I thought we had a good team, but I guess we just suck.
The better team won tonight.
If the better team would have won this entire season, we would have been 0-16.
Herschel Talker
January 15th, 2011
11:25 pm
Schultzie:
Embarrassing doesn’t even begin to describe this disgraceful performance. Heads need to roll for this nonsense.
HT
SophyB
January 15th, 2011
11:27 pm
I’m a lifetime Falcon fan and won’t be jumping off the bandwagon, but this was just awful!! Why do they consistently fall apart in the post season???
Tired of Losing Falcon!
January 15th, 2011
11:28 pm
E P I C FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eric C.
January 15th, 2011
11:29 pm
Jeff, 37-20 is better than 48-21 unfortunately.
Tired of Losing Falcon!
January 15th, 2011
11:29 pm
And just like the Georgia Bulldogs there will eb NO changes for next year!! I hope they are looking at some TALL DBs
TrishaDishaWarEagle
January 15th, 2011
11:30 pm
What a crushing loss…Smitty..what happened???????
But I’m not going to be too down..I knew this was coming after we won the NC…nobody gets everything they really really REALLY REALLY REALLY want
I still love my falcons, I still love Matty Ice, I still love Turner, Tony G, Roddy, Grimey McGrimes….man..13-3 is so rare it just hurts to end this way but I love my Falcons and I thank Mr Blank, smitty, the coaching staff, and Thomas D for a wonderful season.
Disappointed in Cobb
January 15th, 2011
11:31 pm
Can’t we just ship this team to LA and be done with it?
secondliner
January 15th, 2011
11:31 pm
Atlanta can learn from us Saints fans how to party…..AFTER you win the Superbowl, not BEFORE. FALCONS crowned themselves and had too much time off to EAT THE CHEESE. LITERALLY!!!!
Dre
January 15th, 2011
11:31 pm
Sadly, they are who we thought they were…
Sam Troy
January 15th, 2011
11:31 pm
Whole ‘lotta chokin’ going on____. LoL.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
January 15th, 2011
11:32 pm
p.s GO Seahawks..I hope those cheesehead pr*cks go to Quest field (they want to go to chicago) and lose their A**
PackerNation
January 15th, 2011
11:32 pm
Enter your comments here
First of all, Arthur Blank should not be on the sidelines. He looks like Jerry Jones light. Fire that defensive coordinator ASAP. The Falcons need to establish a brand like the New England Patriots. Will NFL football win out over College football in the south? You say what.
Sho-Dawg of Harlem
January 15th, 2011
11:33 pm
Matt Ryan played like a Hot Shot Of Mess!!!!
JSS
January 15th, 2011
11:33 pm
Turned my IPad on just yo check in…
… Well, you can’t say you weren’t forewarned!
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Good night folks, time to watch the floor show!!!
Matthew
January 15th, 2011
11:35 pm
Steps to being a sportswriter:
1. Overblow Everything: If the Home team is favored, get expectations up. When they fail to meet the standard, claim they’re the worst thing ever. Or, set expectations low and when the do better, claim they got lucky. This will keep you employed but logic doesn’t tell us why.
This will work with NFL, NCAA, NBA, and MLB games.
Timmy
January 15th, 2011
11:35 pm
LOL at Aints fans still living off LAST YEAR’S success. Nobody even cares about last year anymore except for you guys…
Seaward
January 15th, 2011
11:35 pm
I am Lovin it. All season long the Falcons were nothing but all talk and no substance. Your defense failed to show up tonight. Better luck next year (LOL).
ATL BOB
January 15th, 2011
11:35 pm
13-3, #1 seed, plastered at home. If management thinks we are close then they are lost in a fog. A #1 seed is not supposed to get a beatdown like this. WE HAD NOTHING FOR GB!
We need speed at RB and Receiver and this defense needs to be fixed!
Mark
January 15th, 2011
11:36 pm
I guess the national media was right all along.
lynn berkner
January 15th, 2011
11:36 pm
Its all payback for 99 against the vikes and by the way with a cupcake schedule this is what happens. Even san fran should of beat you Go pack. Super Bowl dirty birds.
Matthew
January 15th, 2011
11:37 pm
National Media picked New Orleans… so, no, they’re not right all the time.
bofus41
January 15th, 2011
11:37 pm
I’m a happy Packer fan, but I don’t think we are that good ar Atlanta is that bad. This sort of stuff just happerns once in a while. The score could have been reversed. You’ve got a very good young team and therer’s nothing to be ashamed of.
But isn’t Mr. Rodgers something special? Or, as we say back home in Green Bay, “Brett who?”
dbc
January 15th, 2011
11:37 pm
Must be something about teams from the state of Georgia…I’ve seen UGA do this about a dozen times in the Mark Richt era…
Eric
January 15th, 2011
11:37 pm
Never fun having your a$$e$ handed to you…especially on your home field. Hats off to the Pack. To say the least, they were the better team.
opie taylor
January 15th, 2011
11:37 pm
Smith should fire himself as defensive coordinatior, three years of passive defense and scheming. Rushing three passers with 8 in coverage has not worked as he is awful at making adjustments. Jim Mora won his playoff game at home. I could care less about 33 meaningless games and zero playoff wins.
Timbo
January 15th, 2011
11:38 pm
i agree. no doubt about it. we are what they said we are. bunch of pretenders. very disheartening.
D-Man
January 15th, 2011
11:38 pm
SO I GUESS WE SHOULD GIVE THE NAME “MATTY ICE” A REST????
Ted M
January 15th, 2011
11:38 pm
They lost because the offense stunk; mostly Ryan but also the offensive game plan. Don’t blame the defense at all if the offense put some drives together and held onto the ball GB would not have score 48 points.
Who Dat!
January 15th, 2011
11:38 pm
Well, I’ve been saying it all year…The Falcons really were not that good from the start. This is what happens when you play ball control all year and win very close in the end. That type of football wins games, but not playoff games. It’s hard being a champion folks. See ya’ll next season.
Timbo
January 15th, 2011
11:39 pm
oh by the way, i know he’s a rookie but Weatherspoon has done NOTHING this year.
drmondo
January 15th, 2011
11:39 pm
I haven’t felt like this about the Falcons since the ’80s.
neemosacs
January 15th, 2011
11:39 pm
WHO DAT!! NOT DA FALCONS!! GEAUX SAINTS!!!!
Timbo
January 15th, 2011
11:39 pm
also, we have no slot receiver at all. Douglas is a ghost.
ls1z28chris
January 15th, 2011
11:40 pm
Matty “Ice:” Still zero wins in the playoffs. Drew Brees? Super Bowl MVP.
RISE UP!
Mcbubba
January 15th, 2011
11:40 pm
Disappointment with a capital D….
How often do you get such a favorable road to the big dance..?
Dimitroff needs to bring in some people who can actually tackle the quarterback..
This one will sting for a while….
BlacknGoldSuperBowl
January 15th, 2011
11:40 pm
Well, “Timmy”…at least we not only got to…but WON the Super Bowl!!!! And it seems no one really cares about your team…”fans” were knocking each other down racing for the EXIT signs…
Timbo
January 15th, 2011
11:40 pm
Matt Ryan played poorley no doubt.
Kenny
January 15th, 2011
11:41 pm
This is the kind of loss that can set a franchise back a decade. But heck, it’s nothing new for Atlanta. Nothing new for the Falcons. Has any other city’s teams showed so poorly when they had the stage? The Falcons won’t get this close again for a long long time. Here’s betting they don’t make the playoffs next year and finish behind Tampa and New Orleans next year.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
January 15th, 2011
11:41 pm
sorry neemosacs, dem saints lost LAST week
ls1z28chris
January 15th, 2011
11:41 pm
Matty “ice” = 0 playoff wins.
RISE UP! lol
Hickory Avenue
January 15th, 2011
11:41 pm
Karma is a b*tch —– your CLASSLESS fans spent all of their time making fun of our Hurricane Katrina experiences (and our unfortunate demise in Seattle last week); and then began talking all that smack as if they had ALREADY won the Super Bowl ; but unlike the Saints , who actually took care of business and WON the Super Bowl as a number one seed , your dirty-a** Pigeons failed to “RISE UP ” ——- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PackAttack
January 15th, 2011
11:41 pm
and there in lies the problem. Why did “some fear” anything. You were the #1 seed at home. Act like it. Hadnt you caught enough lucky schedule breaks to last 10 seasons to expect one in the playoffs. Heck you got a bye last week. What did you expect? Did you think you would get the Bills coming to town and a free pass to the Super Bowl. You made your way through a easy schedule and when it was nutt cuttin time you got thumped at home.
missouridawg
January 15th, 2011
11:41 pm
We were awful, no doubt. But, we have a good coach, a good owner, and some good players. We’ll be back.
Birdman123
January 15th, 2011
11:41 pm
Timmy, Saints fans can sing because they have a Ring…Falcons fans seemed to have crowned their team Super Bowl Champs before they won a playoff game…or won a single game with any semblance of overwhelming dominance.
Growler
January 15th, 2011
11:41 pm
Packers served up some Matty Melts tonight!
D-Man
January 15th, 2011
11:41 pm
WELL, AT LEAST I HAVE A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN TO MAKE LOVE TO. THE FALCONS WILL SOON BE A DISTANT MAMORY. I MEAN MEMORY.
Matthew
January 15th, 2011
11:41 pm
Hello everyone. I’m a doofus. I think tonight’s game didn’t really mean anything because it was just one game. So please don’t overreact to the fact that our defense gave up TDs on 5 straight drives, that our stud QB pooped in his pants, or that we didn’t show up at all. Nothing to see here, move along.
I am a tool!!!
falcon83
January 15th, 2011
11:42 pm
maybe next year. I really thought that this was the year! I can’t imagine them playing a worse game. Everything they did was out of character. Why do they continue to have stage fright on the national stage. I would just like to see them win one game convincingly on national tv. I would also like to see a reseeding to the playoff system. By all means the falcons should have been playing the Seahawks, Best team should play the worst team. Thanks for the great year Falcons. Maybe 2011 is the lucky year.
Timbo
January 15th, 2011
11:43 pm
Green Bay was right to give Favre the boot. Rodgers is a special quarterback and will be years to come.
Mike
January 15th, 2011
11:43 pm
This was a butt whipping of epic, EPIC proportions. What an egg was laid. Why don’t the Falcons get any respect? You saw why. Lawnchairs. Regular season means nothing. They can’t perform in the playoffs. A really sorry display. Stick a fork in this team.
Dog kicker
January 15th, 2011
11:43 pm
The packers never even punted!!! now that tells me our “D” didn’t even show up tonight.
jack
January 15th, 2011
11:43 pm
Well that sucked,,,, Total embarrassment ,,,,, Not a single Falcon should cash their playoff paycheck,,cause not a single one of them showed up to play tonight,,,,,, What do we look forward to now,, the Hawks ?,,,yeah, right,,, the Thrashers ?,, seriously ?? The Braves ? Not this year,,,, The Bulldogs ?,,, don’t even go there,,,,oh well,, life goes on !
ryan
January 15th, 2011
11:43 pm
Check your math Schultzie, 37-20 is a 17 point loss. 48-21 is a 27 point loss. they are not the same.
Not a Falcons fan
January 15th, 2011
11:43 pm
Rise up !!!!!!! What happen? Fans had already made the Falcons Super Bowl champs. Big Hype at the beginning of the season and what happened? The Falcons choked again !!!!!! I have said this many times. Different year, different players, same old Falcons. I will say it for Falcons fans, maybe next year. Now you know why I am not a Falcons fan. Don’t hurt youself jumping off the Bandwagon.
Worm
January 15th, 2011
11:43 pm
Falcons need DB’s, pass rushers, a speed running back,another big time LBer, and a center…McCarthy and the Pack totally exposed their weaknesses…Amazing that all the talking heads on ESPN,Fox, and CBS all picked the Pack..Trent Dilfer was RIGHT!
SeenThisB4
January 15th, 2011
11:45 pm
LMAO! That was a sweet game! I haven’t had that much fun since last year’s Super Bowl!
EPIC FAIL is an understatement!
GEAUX SAINTS!!
Mitchell
January 15th, 2011
11:45 pm
Anytime the so call experts do not believe in a team. Usually you dismiss it as they don’t know what their talking about. Anytime the so call experts talk about an Atlanta Sports Team. It is alarming how right they always are.
We know the Braves will choke year in and year out in the playoffs. We know the Hawks will struggle in the 1st round and then get embarrass in the 2nd round. We know the Thrashers are everyone doormat. Sure they are playing better. They are just a one year wonder. The Falcons look like the light at the end of the dark tunnel for our pathetic history of sports. ERROR Well wrong on that one.
To Atlanta Sports, 45 years of EPIC FAIL and embarrassments. The Sports World wonder why we don’t get 110% behind our local teams. It would be easy to get behind them if they haven’t perfected the art of choking in the playoffs.
Timbo
January 15th, 2011
11:45 pm
Green Bay was right to give Favre the boot. Rodgers is special and will be great for years to come.
FalconIce
January 15th, 2011
11:45 pm
neemosacs,
Who Dat on the couch tonight watching the NFC South division champs play Green Bay because they lost to the worst team in playoff history?
Oh yeah, the Aints. Silly me.
ATL BOB
January 15th, 2011
11:45 pm
Not surprised though. I was always iffie with this team this year. didn’t quite but into all the wins. We had a lucky defense and a workman like offense that sputtered at times and tonight it threw a rod!
cheshire
January 15th, 2011
11:45 pm
Great article Schultz. You’re gonna hear a lot of fans say a lot of things about the Falcons in the next few days, but one thing I don’t wanna hear is “Oh, but we had a great season”. We didn’t. This season was a colossal waste of time and an utter disappointment… Not because we lost, but because we lost in such a humiliating fashion that it bring a lot of questions up that no one would have even considered a few days ago.
At some point we as Atlanta fans have to start demanding more from our sports teams, and a nice regular season followed by a postseason meltdown is not acceptable. If I want that, I can go watch the Hawks or the Braves. It’s getting old, and if clubs in this town want fans to keep supporting them, they need to win when it matters. The worst part of this is watching fans start to really get behind this team and then get treated like this. Sports teams in this town are turning into “the boy who cried wolf”. It’s the same script over and over – “hey, we’re really good this year! No, seriously, come out and support us! We’re gonna win for sure this time because….HAHAHA, just kidding! You wasted your $$ and time again and we let you down anyway!”
Georgia curse!
January 15th, 2011
11:45 pm
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Waffle House or Bust
January 15th, 2011
11:45 pm
FAIL…….
Packers never punted.
Our secondary played like they did two years ago.
Ryan looked nervous.
Defense came after Rodgers on first drive and then let up.
Fans yelled AFTER Packers called play in the huddle (didn’t get that).
This IS Atlanta pro sports. Next up to disappoint? The Braves (we already know the Hawks are not going anywhere). Ahhhhh the joys of following Atlanta teams.
Gen Neyland
January 15th, 2011
11:45 pm
Exposed and destroyed. Better in the Divisional than the NFCC game or Super Bowl. With this loss, football is officially over south of the
Mason-Dixon Line and the Super Bowl in TX doesn’t count…The Falcons can only apologize to Atlanta and it’s fans for this showing.
kman71
January 15th, 2011
11:45 pm
packers are obviously the class of the nfc. No shame losing to them. Cheeseheads sure seemed to take over the dome tho
Ekim
January 15th, 2011
11:45 pm
Fire everybody! Start over! Disband the team! This is epic! I’ve never felt worse!
Holy Mother of God, where’s my bottle — no, the other bottle. I’ve already got the pills.
Saints fans survived last week; Falcons fans (a term used loosely) will live, too.
Eric C.
January 15th, 2011
11:46 pm
This is not all on Matt Ryan…the defense was as horrible as I’ve ever seen, even when comparing to some of those late 80s defenses. The Packers are a better team…no doubt about it, but the Falcons defense is severely short-handed when it comes to the big games. They looked way out of their league tonight. This was a make-or-break game for a career, and many Falcons failed miserably.
I would almost expect Gonzalez to retire after this season. The injury-prone Norwood is a sure bet to be gone…and the Falcons need a speed back desperately. Turner the “burner” and Snelling look like they are stuck in mud sometimes. The Falcons never have a consistent pass rush…it has been the story of the Falcons existence, with the exception of a few seasons…they cannot generate a consistent pass rush with their base defense. Abraham is entering the twilight of his career…who is going to set in to fill his shoes?
Georgia curse!
January 15th, 2011
11:46 pm
It’s a Georgia thing. The move “Deliverance” cursed us forever.
Sad.
Rural Education
January 15th, 2011
11:46 pm
Several Problems: 1) The Falcons got absolutely kicked in the face. It looked like Pro vs. College, the Packers were ten times more physical 2) Ryan is a competent Qb, but nothing more. He lacks arm strength and it shows. 3) Talent level is okay, but there is a definite lack of top tier talent, the “lines” both offense and defense are pedestrian at best. 4) Once again in a big game, an Atlanta sports teams lays an egg, that is the history of this city.
bdawg
January 15th, 2011
11:46 pm
The Falcons made Trent Dilfer look really smart tonight…what an embarrassment
Ed
January 15th, 2011
11:46 pm
13-3 is still a great season and there is no doubt that this is a very difficult loss. I have a lot of faith in Mr Blank, Mike Smith, and Dimitroff that they will get things tweaked before next season. As a lifelong Falcons fan I will not consider this loss a dissapointment like some bandwagon people will do on this blog. After all Ive been through over the years with this franchise it is a breath of fresh air to see how far this team has come since 2008. I think Dimitroff is building this team for the long run, they certainly need some taller corners and a receiver to be opposite Roddy that is a lot more explosive, perhaps Steve Smith from Carolina. Either way Im very proud of this team and they have no reason to hang their heads.
FalconUGAFan
January 15th, 2011
11:46 pm
Jeff…you are so utterly WRONG that you really disappoint me (I’m sure you care) but the season is not an Epic Fail. You and many otheres around here were propping these guys up as Super Bowl bound. Well they weren’t this year. They were overachieving all year long. They played with heart and guts on many occasions. They are one or maybe even 2 years away from REALLY contending and to call them a fail is just plain wrong. Don’t jump on the hate bandwagon too.
Matthew
January 15th, 2011
11:46 pm
Taint fans… they lose to a 7-9 team a week ago and still run their mouths… that’s why they’re the worst fans ever. But I guess I understand – that’s the only bright spot for an otherwise turd of a city.
Hickory Avenue
January 15th, 2011
11:46 pm
@Timmy —– LOL at you , bruddah ; STILL crying about your Pigeons , failing to ‘RISE UP’ and win a Super Bowl ring — yeah , it may have been LAST year , but at least we DID it —– LOSER !!!!!! (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!)
Birdman123
January 15th, 2011
11:47 pm
Georgia dome empty of Atlanta fans at the beginning of the 4th quarter…Proving to the nation how strong the Falcons fanbase really is.
yuck
January 15th, 2011
11:47 pm
This was just another in a string of embarrassing Atlanta professional sports team losses. I don’t know why anyone even bothered showing up at the Dome tonight…unless they were Packers fans…I mean, Atlanta never had a shot…it’s just the same thing every year in every sport…decent regular season…lose in the postseason…This is Atlanta people…they’ll never win anything.
Waffle House or Bust
January 15th, 2011
11:47 pm
Timbo – I agree about Rodgers but dude looks like Mel Gibson drunk.
Timbo
January 15th, 2011
11:47 pm
DUNTA ROBINSON IS STEALING MONEY!!! What a hack..
Can it be true?
January 15th, 2011
11:47 pm
VanGorders D looked like Georgia’s????? Green Bay never Punted!!! Pathetic just like the end to Georgias season. WOW what a thud
Eric C.
January 15th, 2011
11:47 pm
SinceThisB4, you must live a miserable existence.
Who's yo Daddy
January 15th, 2011
11:47 pm
Terrible on both sides tonight. May need new offensive coordinator, and definitely need better db’s. Blank should definitely seek a refund on all the $ spent on db’s this year. D Culpepper hasnt played up to the level of his salary, and the backup tonight was pitiful. Verdict still out on BVG.
Hopefully this brings the players back with some attitude for next year. We’re a pretty good mid-level team, but not yet in the elite group. Fill a few holes and this team may play at the level of some of the top teams.
djv125
January 15th, 2011
11:47 pm
and this is why the falcons dont get respect on the national stage. when does baseball season start?
Alerba
January 15th, 2011
11:48 pm
I think it’s funny as hell that a Saints fan would come on here and gloat.
Laugh away, below-sea-level crowd.
Timbo
January 15th, 2011
11:48 pm
you funny Waffle House…luv my falcons, but calling it like i see it.
NOLA
January 15th, 2011
11:48 pm
Well since a lot of you Falcant fans flooded nola.com with your trash talk,I think I will return the favor. You got to crawl before you can walk,You got spanked!! Until you win keep all the Aints B.S. to yourself…..Now bow down and kiss the ring chumps!!!
luangtom
January 15th, 2011
11:48 pm
Turn out the lights, the party’s over…..nasty game, nasty showing. Hawks, Thrashers, Falcons ALL go down in defeat tonight. Is it something in the water? But….I haffta remember it is only a game……
Ted Striker
January 15th, 2011
11:49 pm
Magical season — VERY enjoyable — but the pixie dust ran out too soon. That’s football.
Sorry Falcon Fan
January 15th, 2011
11:49 pm
Same old Falcons, turnovers, penalties , bad defense game plan. Where is Artie at? Mattie was put on Ice.
Falcons Forever
January 15th, 2011
11:49 pm
I am just as disappointed as the next Falcons fan BUT I am SO sick of people saying we were never that good. For god sakes! We have some of the best records in the league as a team and we won 13 games….13 GAMES. So we obviously suck at the post season, but thank you Smith and Co. for a great season.
Go Falcons! My love for you is unconditional.
Gen Neyland
January 15th, 2011
11:49 pm
Timbo : Rogers was a work in progress. The thing is the Packers built around him to a degree on both sides of the ball. Wisconsin and Green Bay can say, again, the Pack is back…I hope they win it all.
Losersville USA
January 15th, 2011
11:49 pm
There’s no shame in losing to a good football team. But to not be competitive and be humiliated and embarrassed in front of a national TV audience there’s no excuse for. The last time the Falcons were a #1 seed was in 1980 when they went 12-4 and were eliminated by the Cowboys in their first playoff game at home. I thought that loss was heartbreaking, but at least that Falcons team was competitive and could have and should have won that game. My feelings after this loss is undescribable. Falcons fans want to know why this team gets no national respect. Tonight is the reason why. Atlanta has had one major sports championship. Of all the cities that have sports teams in at least 3 major sports only Cleveland has been worse. I’ve been a fan of Atlanta sports teams all my life and I find myself envious and jealous of the other cities who have multiple championships in multiple sports. I wonder why we can’t have that in Atlanta? I don’t know the answer but I can only hope and dream! The Falcons were a great team for 16 games. I just hope they can recover from this devastating loss. A loss like this can sometimes take a long time to recover from. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had a losing season next year. I hope not and I hope the team and the players use this as a learning experience. With the state of Atlanta sports teams the way they are now with the Braves/Hawks/Thrashers owned by groups who don’t want to spend a lot of money the Falcons are our last and only hope of bringing another championship to this city. I believe Arthur Blank won’t rest until he has brought a championship to this city. No matter what I’ll always pull for my home teams. Better luck next year Falcons. At least it’s good to know we have a great owner/gm/coach who will do everything they can to make this team better. For now, tonight that’s all we have is hope!
Can it be true?
January 15th, 2011
11:49 pm
The only thing that stopped Green Bay was Green Bay. I think they just scored again….. WOW
Sam Troy
January 15th, 2011
11:49 pm
Dear Mr. Samuel L. Jackson:
I want a refund; Falcons DO NOT RISE UP!
Sincerely,
Sam Troy
reality check
January 15th, 2011
11:49 pm
I predicted this all week on my posts, but even I didn’t see that score coming. The Falcons were who I thought they were all year-a well coached overachieving fortunate team. They were exposed big time tonight, and that can’t be debated. From time of possession to turnover margin to fewest penalties to very few injuries, this team just didn’t have much margin for error all season. The Falcons do not have nearly enough good football players to really compete for a Superbowl Championship. I’ve been saying this all year, and many of my posts were met with resistance. This team needs a lot more than many of these bloggers care to admit. In reality, getting to Dallas never had a chance at all. And looking ahead to next season, the Saints and Bucs will both be very formidable division opponents. The Saints were an injured team and the Bucs were an upcoming young team this season, so just winning the division will be a tall order for the Falcons next season. The Falcons laid an egg as a #1 seed tonight as bad as the NFL has seen in a long time if not the all time worst. In the end they truly were the Falcant’s after all!
Waffle House or Bust
January 15th, 2011
11:50 pm
Birdman123 – At least the Falcons fans showed up for three quarters. Thats more than we can say for the players.
Gop Cannon
January 15th, 2011
11:50 pm
I am so embarrassed by this team’s performance… only an Atlanta team could find a way to take a 13-3 season, and in one game make the entire franchise look like a joke.
yuck
January 15th, 2011
11:51 pm
Stay class Saints fans…stay classy.
Najeh Davenpoop
January 15th, 2011
11:51 pm
“The first ended a scoring drive, though it may have been more the fault of wide receiver Michael Jenkins, who slipped and fell in the end zone, leaving Tramon Williams to make an easy interception.”
No it wasn’t. Jenkins had Williams beat by five yards. Ryan floated the pass and threw it to his inside shoulder, allowing Williams to catch up to the ball. Jenkins blowing chances to catch TDs is nothing new, but he wouldn’t have caught that if he had stayed on his feet.
Timbo
January 15th, 2011
11:51 pm
Embarrassing loss. Disgrace to NFL football for a number one seed to go out this way. this felt like the days of the 49ers against the Falcons in the mid to late 80’s. blown out after blow out. we embarrassed ourselves.
mike
January 15th, 2011
11:51 pm
I was there left after the 3rd quarter. You really started feeling a little nausous after that horrible Zach Brown Band performance on the National Anthem but figured we overcame with the kickoff return. Man was it rocking then. But after their 91 yard drive to tie it back up you got the feeling we would never stop them and it was going to be a shoot out. The offensive line really struggled with penalties in the redzone. Performance like this really makes the season feel like such a waste. Good analysis Jeff. I guess the Falcon spin doctor will be out starting tomorrow.
InTheShadowofLambeau
January 15th, 2011
11:52 pm
Someone else said that the Pack wasn’t good and the Falcons are not that bad…and I agree. Atlanta has a good young team and they’ll be back. Heck, 13-3 … there is NOTHING to be ashamed of. Congrats to the Falcons and their fans on a great season.
Sergeant Joe Friday, LAPD
January 15th, 2011
11:52 pm
Ted M…you’re crazy. It was 99% the defense’s fault. GB receivers were open all night long. It’s hard to beat a team that scores everytime you touch the ball.
Hickory Avenue
January 15th, 2011
11:52 pm
@Matthew —Is that you , Matty “Ice” ????? Still crying about your garbage-can a** Pigeons , CHOKING on that Green Bay cheese ??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!! You and the whole “ATL” s*ck ……..
Matthew
January 15th, 2011
11:52 pm
Hey NOLA – when you wake up tomorrow you might have a Super Bowl champion t shirt. But remember, when you wake up, you still wake up in New Orleans… and well, that’s gotta suck.
DandyD
January 15th, 2011
11:52 pm
Embarrassing. The Falcons peed themselves in public.
tom
January 15th, 2011
11:52 pm
penalties, turnovers and a defense that did not show up. Done, over, finished.
Scrappy
January 15th, 2011
11:52 pm
It looked like Mark Richt “prepared” that team for tonight’s game.
SeenThisB4
January 15th, 2011
11:52 pm
One and Done!
One and Done!
One and Done!
LMAO!!!
GEAUX SAINTS!!
Dr. Warren
January 15th, 2011
11:52 pm
There need to be changes. We thought the Falcons were the new version of the Patriots, but actually, they are merely the NFL version of the Atlanta Hawks. Was this loss any better than the Hawks’ collapse against Orlando last year? It was worse, because we were the 1-seed, the Hawks were the 3-seed.
Mopar
January 15th, 2011
11:52 pm
For three years I’ve been saying it, but I’ll say it one more time, as long as that clueless, unqualified, incompetent moron B.VanDumba$$ is the DC of the Falcons they aren’t going anywhere. If tonight’s game didn’t prove without a doubt that he is totally over his head and out of his league then no number of humiliating heartbreaking defeats in big games ever will (and I go back to his blowing National Championship opportunities with at least two Bulldogs teams that should have been there).
His bend over and spread ‘em philosophy set the tone for the entire game and not only destroyed the defense’s chances but it infected the offense, special teams, cheerleaders, fans, you name it. If the Falcons don’t run VanDumba$$ out of town get a proven, qualified DC there is no reason to get your hopes up for this team, it ain’t ever going to happen.
old timer
January 15th, 2011
11:53 pm
It’s not an epic failure. It’s not a bad year. It’s a fine young team with a good future that made terrific strides this season The Packers just are a high-powered team, that can do what they did tonight if you let them get rolling. They have adjusted to the injuries and some of the replacements are better than the players they replaced. I will be just as nervous next week against whomever they play as I was tonight because it’s all good teams now. True Falcon fans, shake this off and look forward to a good 2011-2012 season.
Matthew
January 15th, 2011
11:53 pm
Hickory Avenue… why don’t you go out to Jackson Square and drown yourself.
Chillin on Paradise Island
January 15th, 2011
11:53 pm
Whats is wrong with Atlanta Teams? They ALL choke in the playoffs. I dont get it.
Anyways, there is always next year!
Noodlearm
January 15th, 2011
11:53 pm
let the excuses commence!
Hickory Avenue
January 15th, 2011
11:53 pm
@Gen Neyland —- Wow , that was very “original” ; but you STILL s*ck ….
Timmy
January 15th, 2011
11:53 pm
It’s disgusting how Aints fans have latched on to the phrase “Who dat”. “Who dat” originated as a common phrase used by white stage actors performing in black face.
Timbo
January 15th, 2011
11:53 pm
Ryan played like crap.. no arguing that from me, and I’m a big Ryan fan. …No doubt defense sucked azz, but Ryan never showed that he could win it for us in spite of their poor play. Very disheartening.
FalconUGAFan
January 15th, 2011
11:54 pm
Classy post, old timer…thanks..
Whopper Dawg
January 15th, 2011
11:54 pm
They are not as close we we thought they were. The pick 7 before half was a 10 point swing. D couldn’t even come close to stopping them. Overall the organization has done a great job over the past three years, but there is one thing coming home to roost and that is the TD drafts. Look closely at them, once you get past the Ryan/Lofton picks in 2008, most drafts choices are iffy at best. The BEST teams don’t have that type of draft track record.
Eric C.
January 15th, 2011
11:54 pm
NOLA, honestly…I would never waste my time on the NO chat. And, really, you are going to bash the Falcons for losing to the Packers after your team lost to the Seahawks?
Kyle
January 15th, 2011
11:54 pm
Wonder who the fools are that will buy season tickets next year? I’m sure somebody will but they might have to bring back the $10 seats again after this. Pathetic!!!
Waffle House or Bust
January 15th, 2011
11:55 pm
Falcons suck in prime time. We win today if playing the 4pm game.
Gen Neyland
January 15th, 2011
11:55 pm
Yuck : ‘Stay classy Saints Fans’…Are you kidding me..? Man, they rank with the Eagle and Phillie fans…
james Cassara
January 15th, 2011
11:55 pm
I’m a Packer fan but the Falcons have nothing to be ashamed of. They were beaten by a better team who, on this one night, were much better. But with Mike Smith as coach and Matt Ryan at QB the Falcons have a very bright future.
SeenThisB4
January 15th, 2011
11:55 pm
E P I C F A I L U R E !!!!
Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!
Waffle House or Bust
January 15th, 2011
11:55 pm
I say we all roll every Home Depot in Atlanta tonight! Who’s with me?
techengineer
January 15th, 2011
11:55 pm
The season the falcon had was amazing. But tonight they were way over their heads… I can’t think of any player on the Falcons team in any position that I’d rather have over the Packers. Packers were clearly the superior team on each side of the ball from start to finish. Furthermore, after this game I’m questioning the future of Matt Ryan.. I’m not sure that weak arm can take the Falcon to the Super Bowl!
Sam Troy
January 15th, 2011
11:56 pm
I know these NOLAs ain’t trippin…which team got knocked off by the Seahawks with a 7-9 record????
I’d be more embarrased about that situation. Atlanta just choked…choked on a ****, which this city is accustomed to doing….
ATL BOB
January 15th, 2011
11:56 pm
I think this exposure has opened Arthur’s and Dmitroffs eyes as to how far and how much of a farce this 13-3 record was as far as representing a true contender. All year is was like I-don’t-know by these Falcons
yuck
January 15th, 2011
11:56 pm
Atlanta should just give up on professional sports…UGA and Tech too, while we are at it…all our teams suck…one MLB 1995 strike shortened season world championship…this whole city’s sports team are an epic fail…the Falcons are just the most recent…after the Braves post season loss, after the Hawks postseason loss, after the Falcons post season loss…etc…etc…etc….
Sweer Home Alabama
January 15th, 2011
11:56 pm
the problem with the Falcons are the fans.TWO many Nerd and BULLDOG fans in the same building. I am a big PATRIOT fan so we will take care of this bunch for you.You got my word on it.
The falcons are still a good team just not great yet.
SeenThisB4
January 15th, 2011
11:56 pm
What a whipping! The Packers should be arrested for that massacre!!!
LMAO!
GEAUX SAINTS!!!
Gen Neyland
January 15th, 2011
11:56 pm
Hickory Avenue : Got to you, huh…Stick around. I’ll toss you some more…
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January 15th, 2011
11:57 pm
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JDW
January 15th, 2011
11:58 pm
Bad game…got beat…they will take a few days off and go back to work. Anybody that that can’t see this organization is on the right track is blind.
onelore
January 15th, 2011
11:59 pm
Matty as cold as Ice!!!!!!
Geaux Saints!!!
Ross
January 15th, 2011
11:59 pm
You know, there are really no words. One has to seach back a long way – to the 64 Colts, having dominated the league with genuine all stars like Marchetti and Unitas and Berry and Mackey, losing to the Browns 27-0 in the champ game, or the 89 Broncos getting destroyed even worse than the destruction visited on the 86 and 87 teams – the Bills four straight SB losses – the always-choke Cowboys and Rams of the late 60s – no, none of that is close. This was IMO the most fantastic choke job in the history of postseason football. There is nothing to take away but bitterness and a demand for accountability. The defensive coordinator has to go – period. You cannot live with this cancer in your innards. Someone has to pay, and it’s Van Gorder. The offense is a work in progress – it can be fixed – but this was a failure of the brain, of the preparation, of cohesion, of everything that’s important in football on the defensive side. Heads must roll.
In all my time of watching the four major and some minor sports – nothing compares to this for abject failure. There is nothing positive to say. The Bills had a better year. All 13 wins were reduced to so much hoodwinking. All the talk of the “process” is nothing but empty blather. You cannot lose a home game in such a disgraceful way and claim to have any legitimate role in the NFL.
I’ll be rooting my heart out for them next year – I hope with all my heart that BVG is selling encyclopedias in Antarctica by then.
Disgraceful. Shameful. Awful beyond these too many words. Shock is not what I feel, because I feel nothing right now.
Gen Neyland
January 15th, 2011
11:59 pm
SeenThisB4 : Like at Seattle..? LMAO
Brittany
January 15th, 2011
11:59 pm
well regardless what any one else says we have had a damn good season. i am very proud of the flacons. you can win them all and they just have to learn from this game. yeah i know it was the playoffs and we were hoping to get to the superbowl but just because we lost doesnt mean we should just walk away from our team and tell themm all to go where ever. no a true fan would say to the team ” guys you played good at least you scored something and we will get them next year. learn from your mistakes and pratice you butts off.” i love you all falcons! good job for making it as far as you did! cant wait till next season now! GOO FALCONS! ( the only team that we can seem to still cheer for now)
Eddie
January 16th, 2011
12:00 am
I have been a Falcons fan forever! This is the worst beatdown I can ever remember! Emabarrassing.performance on both sides of the ball. This team is a long way from competing for anything relevent. Back to the drawing board.
gman
January 16th, 2011
12:00 am
Poor effort, poor coaching, poor game plan, poor fans. Mr. Blank, get two new Coordinators that can actually provide a good game plan and I just might renew my tickets. Someon said it earlier, way to take a great 13-3 record and flush it down the toilet in one night. Pathetic.
David Gates
January 16th, 2011
12:00 am
Come to play next time, little boys! Shameful! Disgraceful!
zombiewoof
January 16th, 2011
12:00 am
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Big Ray
January 16th, 2011
12:00 am
OH yes, let’s be a “sky is falling” ninny now. What, you expected to be in the Super Bowl three seasons after the team had to be rebuilt from the ground up?
As for Saints fans, shut your pie holes. We took the division from you and we lost in the playoffs to a team that is likely to go to the Super Bowl.
You lost to a team that didn’t have a winning record. And this time, you can’t blame that on anything. We still had the better season. And we’ll do it again next season. So go back to your blogs. Oh wait, I forgot. You keep coming here because you don’t HAVE blogs down there.
Eric C.
January 16th, 2011
12:01 am
Jeff, you are right…this is an epic fail. Not many regular seasons are this special, and to lose in this manner is a major blow. The Falcons did everything right the whole regular season, got the #1 seed, and just fell flat on their collective faces …poof, one disastrous quarter and it is gone. How do you go into the next season and regroup when you know you did everything right before? Obviously, the defense needs more improvement…but it is depressing to think that a 13-3 season can get washed away in 15 minutes.
SAME OLD SAME OLD
January 16th, 2011
12:01 am
I’m not renewing my tix….you can change the logo, coach, owner, QB, field, etc….but its still the same ol G-DAM Atlanta Falcons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go Braves
Brittany
January 16th, 2011
12:01 am
OH AND AS FOR THE SAINTS FANS ON HERE TRYING TO RUN YOUR MOUTHS HAHAHA WHAT DO YALL HAVE TO RUB IN LOOK WHO YALL LOST TO! LMAO!
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
January 16th, 2011
12:02 am
I predicted:
Packers 31
Falcants 10
Someone else predicted:
Falcants 20
Packers 17
TrishaDishaWarEagle
January 16th, 2011
12:02 am
@packattack..was part of our “soft schedule” beating you 7 weeks ago?
Falcons are not a bad team, we just have a lot of bandwagon fans..but we did play like crap tonight, there is a difference in a crap team and a team that played a game like crap..unfortunatly the result in one game can be the same.
Ed
January 16th, 2011
12:03 am
Matt Ryan might be Matty Ice, during the regular season but in the play offs he’s “Matty Choke”
NolaSaintsGyrl
January 16th, 2011
12:03 am
WOW Falcons Fans……You ARE who we THOUGHT you WERE!!!! SMDH You guys suck!! For talking all of that trash about OUR City for being put into a situation that we neither chose or could help. Question: WTH does Hurricane Katrina have to do with our football team? The fact that some of you chose to trash talk our city shows just how CLASSLESS you really are! When our team was headed to the Championship last year, our fans may have talked a lot of trash on these boards, but I doubt that it ever became PERSONAL! BTW Roddy White….Any new tweets about our city???????? LMBO Chump!!!
ATL BOB
January 16th, 2011
12:03 am
Matt Ryan….big wind-p throws…I Don’t know.
SAME OLD SAME OLD
January 16th, 2011
12:04 am
New owner, new coach, new QB, new logo….same ol’ same ol’ Falcons….
Hickory Avenue
January 16th, 2011
12:04 am
Look here , Falcons fans — I’ll drop the Saints-Falcons rivarly smack talk stuff , and talk football with you guys , for a moment anyway —- Falcons got OUTCOACHED , plain and simple ; Dom Capers through looks at Matt Ryan that he was obviously not able to handle ; and Brian Van Gorder ??? Well , now you guys know how we felt last week , when Greg Williams got outcoached by Pete Carroll , of all people , because OUR defense couldn’t get even one of eight different guys to make a tackle on Marshawn Lynch , and our safety (Harper)got beat like a drum ALL game long ; with that being said , Aaron Rodgers is absolutely ON FIRE , and I’m not too sure if you guys could have stopped that offense , no matter what ever Van Gorder would have thrown at them —– Great season , Falcons / Atlanta fans ; but unfortunately , your team just no-showed at the most INOPPURTUNE time , which sadly just happens to be when it COUNTS the most ……….
Eddie
January 16th, 2011
12:04 am
Whats up will all the Saints fans commenting????? You lost to the freckin Seahawks you bunch of morons!
Who Dat!
January 16th, 2011
12:04 am
How the heck you call the Saints..Aint’s who are Super Bowl Champions! The Faltweets rose up at 8pm tonight, then came CRASHING down at 8:45pm. Wow….we might be below sea level but if the flood returns again as some ignorant knucklehead mentioned earlier, at least you’ll see that Super Bowl ring floating around the city. Who Dat Baaaaabbbbbay!
Timbo
January 16th, 2011
12:04 am
For the record, I’ve always hated the Matty Ice nickname. Its dorky as hell and is media generated more or less. Let’s just call him Matt Ryan and let him earn his nickname in the NFL playoff games. He wasn’t the sole reason they loss, but he contributed greatly….Also, I don’t recall a Tom Brady/Peyton Manning nickname. Give it a rest.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
January 16th, 2011
12:04 am
also @packattack..you play 2 games against the lions and 2 against the vikes in their inflatable bouncy house stadium..that does not seem that tough of a schedule..
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
January 16th, 2011
12:05 am
I never want any of you delusional Falcons fans to E-V-E-R again complain about my nick name and N-E-V-E-R E-V-E-R down play the Great Mike Vick’s playoff wins in Atlanta, when your franchise qb is 0-2 in the playoffs
Atlantan
January 16th, 2011
12:05 am
Hey ’seenthisb4′ when you say ‘One and done’ are you referring to the saints? Minnesota was the best team last yr….welcome back to being the ‘aints again!!
gman
January 16th, 2011
12:05 am
I usually like to hear what the players and coach have to say about a game but tonight I don’t want to hear it. If they say anythimg beyond we were awful and failed then I’ll lose respect.
Bishop Eddie long
January 16th, 2011
12:05 am
Can I get a WHO DAT…I mean amen!!!!
Derrick Bailey
January 16th, 2011
12:06 am
I love my team,this still not bad as the 1980 lost to Dallas,mr. Blank has this team on the right track.we will fill in the holes and be a more sound in the future,i belive that and so do jeff,don’t you?
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
12:06 am
NolaTaintGirl – why do we trash your city??? You trashed it yourselves – that’s why its a joke that all you care about are your 1-and-done Taints.
Now go on – I’m sure your pimp is waitin’ for you over at the river walk.
SAME OLD SAME OLD
January 16th, 2011
12:06 am
new coach, new owner, new QB, new logo…same ol Falcons!!
Ross
January 16th, 2011
12:06 am
Jeff, this would be a good time to ban CHOKE, because we real fans would like to mourn in peace. Please? Make the season worthwhile – get rid of him.
BadgerBob
January 16th, 2011
12:06 am
Just goes to show you that even a dork like Rodgers can learn something from Brett Favre. Oh, but he would never admit it. Go Jets!
JaBe
January 16th, 2011
12:07 am
There were two games during the regular seasons that revealed the Falcons glaring weakness(a boring offense ). These games were at Pittsburgh and the Monday night game at home against the Saints. Next year, we can hope that more offensive weapons will be added to create an explosive offense.
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
12:07 am
Hey Choke – shut it. You’re a Vick homo and his season ended last week. Go jump in front of a train now.
SirSaint
January 16th, 2011
12:07 am
ATL-Falcons—You got your A** tore out the frame!! You can never speak about being a great team. I trully enjoyed watching the game. Pull up a seat and buy the next round!! You make the World Champions lossing last week a lot more palatable!! I drink Crown Black.
SeenThisB4
January 16th, 2011
12:07 am
I guess the falcan’ts must have forgotten the stuff they didn’t want to show against the Saints in the second game…..LMAO! Remember all the poor excuses the falcan’t fans came up with for the loss against the Saints in their home,….the Packers must have studied that film real well!
The #1 Seed got eviscerated by teh #6 seed! LMAO! Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, !
GEAUX SAINTS!!!
Hurst
January 16th, 2011
12:07 am
For all of you foolish Falcon fans praying for another Katrina to wash away N.O. – you all are hopeless. By the way, your little snow flurry last week should not be called “Snowtrina” or “Snowpocalypse.”
TrishaDishaWarEagle, Atlanta is the ultimate bandwagon, trend-following city. I lived there long enough to see that.
bardawg
January 16th, 2011
12:07 am
Can’t b5elieve they got their a$$ whipped like that. Maybe they should’nt have won so many games during the regular season & become so complacent
NOLA
January 16th, 2011
12:08 am
Matthew ,The only thing thats gonna suck about waking up in N.O.,is I’ll probably be hung over. Other than that all is gonna be good.
I usually dont trash talk. But I just had to give you a dose of your own medicine.
LakeDawg
January 16th, 2011
12:08 am
Atlanta has never won anything, because it is a soul-less city. It had some southern funkiness in the 60s and 70s, but since then its been nothing but a money making haven with corporations moving in and bringing 4 million transplants with them. Strip malls and no sense of community. Filled with band wagon fans. Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Boston, San Fransisco…cities with character and comunity spirit. Also teams with a proud sports tradition.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
January 16th, 2011
12:08 am
@Matt “CHOKE” Ryan ..the dog killer is 0-1 in post prison playoff games..maybe all that prison shower social life took a little out of him..
people who abuse animals are the lowest scum on earth.
J.J.M.
January 16th, 2011
12:08 am
lol I wonder how many falcons will play in the pro bowl
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
January 16th, 2011
12:08 am
Big Ray
January 16th, 2011
12:00 am
OH yes, let’s be a “sky is falling” ninny now. What, you expected to be in the Super Bowl three seasons after the team had to be rebuilt from the ground up?
___________________________________________
Still making excuses? Shocker
CHOKE is a JOKE and always will be
JT
January 16th, 2011
12:09 am
The debacle in Atlanta makes the debacle in Seattle more palatable. I enjoyed seeing the “Dead Birds” fall flat on their faces tonight. This means there still won’t be a Lombardi Trophy in “Dead Bird City” and that suits us just fine! Who’s Us you say? The Who Dat Nation of course. I can smell dead birds all the way in Baton Rouge. Who Dat?!
Gop Cannon
January 16th, 2011
12:09 am
Old Timer, so you are saying that this was not an epic fail?
I mean, it was only the biggest melt down in NFL play off history! If this monumental collapse does not count as an epic fail, I don’t know what does.
SeenThisB4
January 16th, 2011
12:09 am
Saints one and done?
Better than the no hit blunder falcan’ts!
GEAUX SAINTS!
SportsFanatic
January 16th, 2011
12:09 am
Matty Ice played ice cold.
reality check
January 16th, 2011
12:09 am
We saw tonight why ESPN and much of the national sports media were not believers in the Falcons. The Falcons were looking for big time exposure and respect, but they got exposed and now whatever respect they had just got flushed down the toilet. This team has more holes than swiss cheese and that was very evident tonight. They hid that defense all year by playing with the lead, winning time of possession, and getting turnovers. But all of that ended in a terribly embarassing loss that the whole country saw tonight. So for all those sensitive bloggers who had been whining about the Falcons not getting any love outside of Atlanta, you all saw why tonight. It may be a long time before the Falcons are the #1 again if ever. I guess the Delta switchboard is jammed right now because all of those tickets to Dallas are now being exchanged for vouchers. Lots of chickens had been counted before they really ever had any chance to hatch!
Mudcatjoe
January 16th, 2011
12:10 am
You people need to find another team to root for. We don’t need fans like you! Thank you Falcons for a great season full of many exciting wins. We’ll get them next year! I knew Schultz would be the first to pile on!!
missouridawg
January 16th, 2011
12:11 am
Fail this…..fail that. You Falcon fans suck. You don’t know squat about football, or any other sport, for that matter. Falcons had a bad game. That’s all. To now claim the team or organization is an epic fail is stupid and indicative of your low sports IQ. The team, no, teams, in Atlanta deserve a better breed of fan.
FalconUGAFan
January 16th, 2011
12:11 am
@ Hickory…you are right on all counts…we were outplayed and outcoached..this time…but I’ve thought all along we weren’t quite ready to compete on the big stage. We overachieved in many games and I knew we would be exposed in the playoffs. But we are moving in the right direction. If we keep Smitty and TD, I see more success in the future.
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
12:11 am
Whenever you Aints fans use the phrase “Who dat”, you are implicit in racist activity. Might as well say it while in blackface.
Jordan
January 16th, 2011
12:11 am
As the Dude would say, “this is a bummer, man.”
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
12:11 am
All the jawing here makes me believe FEMA should have stayed away a little longer to let the rest of the rats drown.
bob_in_Green_Bay
January 16th, 2011
12:12 am
I was surprised. I expected a lot closer game. I can’t figure out why the Falcons came out looking flat. Maybe that bye week should be eliminated. I was expecting more of a repeat of the first game. Thanks Atlanta for the memory and the opportunity to move on to the NFC Championship. Hopefully, you will have been beaten like we were a few years ago against the Giants, by the next Super Bowl winner. You had a great season and you should be proud of your team!
ls1z28chris
January 16th, 2011
12:12 am
Brees is still a Super Bowl MVP. Matty “ICE” is still yet to win a playoff game in the NFL.
RISE UP!
Mike
January 16th, 2011
12:13 am
News flash Matt Ryan attempted to shoot himself, but the bullet was intercepted…next he will try hanging himself, he feels he will be better at choking.
PackerFan
January 16th, 2011
12:13 am
What kind of fan leaves a game before it’s over – win or lose? Packer fans never leave a game until the final whistle blows. We get there early and we stay late. You Falcons fans need to shape up a bit. You need to back your team with a lot more enthusiasm.
Packer Rick
January 16th, 2011
12:13 am
Wow… all the doom and gloom. Honestly the Falcons are a great team. They have one of the best ball control offenses in the league and are going to win a lot of games in the years to come. Just because they caught the Packers Offense on a tear doesnt mean they suck. Tell you what, I will trade Starks for Turner? Want to make that trade? I dont see another team coming back as strong as these two next year. You guys got kinda screwed. The weak Bears pulled the SeaChickens and you pulled the Pack. Not exactly fair… If that clear touchdown in week one Bears / Lions game stands as called the Bears arent in the playoffs, the Pack in the #2 seed, and you just advanced to the NFC Championship. Take it for what it is, a touch break against a team hitting its stride at the right time. Now, when the Pack gets the 15 players on injured reserve back? Look out : P
Karl
January 16th, 2011
12:13 am
Saints fans are most classless people I’ve ever been around. I hope they lose every game every year. The only thing big about New Orleans is the smell.
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
12:14 am
Drew Brees is 32 years old. Matt Ryan is 24. Stupid argument, but one to be expected from an Aints fan on dial-up internet.
ijonathan (formerly a Ryan defender)
January 16th, 2011
12:14 am
Someone better go to Stats bar near the dome and make sure the two 790 zone post game hosts don’t kill each other or fans in the bar. Comical to listen to.
SeenThisB4
January 16th, 2011
12:14 am
Timmy: Your team was raped tonight, on national primetime tv. That’s what the rest of the naton will remember about your team this year, if they even think of them again at all!
By the way, what was that final score?
GEAUX SAINTS!!!
birdgirl
January 16th, 2011
12:14 am
look saint fans get over it. all you know how to do is talk smack! you know whot the better team is THE FALCONS!
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
12:14 am
The worst part about this loss for the Falcons is that they blew a chance that they probably won’t get for a while. They capitalized on a season in which they got to play the NFC West and the usually strong NFC East had a down year to gain a #1 seed. How likely is it that they gain a #1 seed in upcoming years when they don’t get to play the worst division in football and typically strong divisions don’t underachieve? This was a golden opportunity the Falcons blew.
Calm Down
January 16th, 2011
12:14 am
We lost – the sun will still come up in the morning. This is still a damn good football team and to say otherwise is beyond ignorant.
Sure I’m disappointed but come on. Rogers would have beaten anybody tonight – he completed nearly 90% of his passes and not because the Falcons suck – he was in the zone. He is a very gifted QB. Green Bay was the superior team tonight – nothing more – nothing less.
Packer Respect
January 16th, 2011
12:14 am
Bringing the Lombardi Trophy home to Lombardi Avenue , Green Bay Wisconsin!
mark
January 16th, 2011
12:14 am
I agree with the other commentator from GB. ATL isn’t that bad and the Pack, while good, isn’t THAT good. Must give credit to McCarthy for outstanding coaching job this season with 14 players on IR including Finley (best offensive player besides A.R.). GB could go all the way or just as easily suffer ATL’s fate. Rodgers really is something, though.
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
January 16th, 2011
12:14 am
TrishaDishaWarEagle
January 16th, 2011
12:08 am
@Matt “CHOKE” Ryan ..the dog killer is 0-1 in post prison playoff games..maybe all that prison shower social life took a little out of him..
people who abuse animals are the lowest scum on earth.
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And how low is the Arizona psycho?
Not everyone gives a darn about your four legged boyfriends
TrishaDishaWarEagle
January 16th, 2011
12:15 am
@mudcatjoe..amen..13-3 , as much as our choke tonight hurts, was the second ebst season in my life for the falcons and i’ve been alive since the mid 80’s. I love our professional ownership, front office, and coach and I still love our players Especially grimey McGrimes who played his heart out tonight..I watched the replay fo the atl-gb november game tuesday and our D line was manhandling their O line..tonight, for whatever reason, it was obviously reversal of fortune in that area..their O line had no trouble with our D. I know our fanbase is 50% diehard and 50% bandwagon idiots, but I have to say 99% of our local sports media are Bandwagon..Chuck Dowdle is about rhe only diehard in the bunch.
Iceman
January 16th, 2011
12:15 am
I am seirously depressed. What an embarassing effort. Im not going to panic and say that this team is a fluke. Their major flaw is that they try to be a ball control team in a quick strike passing era.
Van Gorder – Has to go bring in a proven D cordinator
Mike Jenkins – He is brutal. Needs to go.
Harry Douglas – Did he even dress
Our secondary was brutal but its hard to defend when there is no pass rush.
Where was Jerry? Or Sidbury.?
Mularkey’s calls are terrible.
I would like to see Turner get traded and this team be Matt’s team. You cannot be a power running team in this league and win.
ijonathan (formerly a Ryan defender)
January 16th, 2011
12:15 am
When does Ryan’s contract expire?
If there is a lockout next year and no football, might we have an open QB competition for the 2012 season?
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
12:15 am
it took brees 8 years to get to the super bowl. I think the falcons are just fine with Matt Ryan.
DaTruthHurtz(Really Bad!!)
January 16th, 2011
12:16 am
Your beloved Dirty Birds are an embarrassment not only to your pathetic city but the NFL in general. You want the real facts you say? Try this on for size losers…all-time record of 298-402-6 in 45 years of God-awful existence, 1 SB in those years, and you guessed it, no SB titles! Your “Ring of Honor”(Shame?) is made up of barely recognizable talent save one or two real players. And here you had the most miserable sports city in America thinking they actually had a chance in hell of hoisting a championchip banner this year. And you disappointed them. Severely, I must add. Who would of thought this team would have choked?
Forget about it. This team WILL NOT deliver a SB ring ever. It’s in their genes to choke. That’s how it’s been for years and it’s not changing anytime soon. Get over it imbeciles and go back to your double-wides to what should really matter to you…like getting a high school education.
SirSaint
January 16th, 2011
12:16 am
ATL -FANS—just sit and take your medicine–we did last week!! Stop with the FEMA references,it does not exibit good sportsmanship, we all talk trash!! BTW, I will sleep better tonight!!
PackerFan
January 16th, 2011
12:16 am
Geez, you Saints fans are something else. The Falcons lost, but at least they lost to a team with a winning record. You guys lost to a 7-9 team for crying out loud.
Socialbandit
January 16th, 2011
12:16 am
Fire Van Gorder. Falcons have pitched a sub-par defense all 3 years that clown has been DC.
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
12:18 am
Seenthis, you know what people will remember about the Aints? Losing to a below .500 team in the playoffs. Your entire city is a joke that thinks they are important because people who want nothing to do with the city come there to get wasted for a few days out of the year.
Those same tourists would sooner watch your sorry city completely sink than choose to live there.
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
January 16th, 2011
12:18 am
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
12:14 am
Drew Brees is 32 years old. Matt Ryan is 24. Stupid argument
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Actually CHOKE is 25 years old and turns 26 in 4 months
SeenThisB4
January 16th, 2011
12:18 am
The entire country could see this train coming when it pulled out the station! No way the falcan’ts were going to win this game, and all the pundits knew it! Except for Terry Bradshaw who is just a freaking comedian! Like the falcan’ts! They had me laughing all night!!!!
GEAUX SAINTS!
Saints LSU
January 16th, 2011
12:18 am
superbowl wins saints 1 falcons 0
World Champ Saints
January 16th, 2011
12:18 am
What an enjoyable game. Except for the “fans” who left at halftime.
Baron Samedi Papa Legba
January 16th, 2011
12:18 am
This is the curse of the energies of balance and truth….the Falcons and their fans should not have made “fun” of New Orleans and Katrina.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
January 16th, 2011
12:18 am
BTW congrats to the GB fans..I am a sore loser but you earned this win..
the sore loser part comes when I pull against you , hopefully at quest field because you want that bears matchup so bad
nolafan
January 16th, 2011
12:19 am
You guys are really something, banging on the Saints. Yeah, the Saints lost to Seattle. But nothing to be ashamed about there & not really surprising. That game came after back to back short weeks, a cross country flight & the need to go 8 deep at RB because of injury. But Atl — No. 1 seed, a month at home, a bye week & no real injury problems. Falcon Fans been talking about their history, so lets look at some recent history. No. 1 NFC seed loses in the divisional playoff round in 2007, 2008, & 2010. What happend in 2009 — that’s right, the Saints took care of business & won it all. You guys had a nice season, but IT DON’T MEAN A THING IF YOU AIN’T GOT THAT RING!!!!!
mark
January 16th, 2011
12:19 am
Badger Bob is delusional. I suppose it’s Thompson’s fault that Brett got caught with his pants on the ground. Thank G. that Ted shipped Favre out when he did.
Wright
January 16th, 2011
12:20 am
CRUSHED.
Jeff Schultz
January 16th, 2011
12:20 am
Folks, not much to say except it was unacceptable humiliation. Column has been updated online with some quotes.
http://blogs.ajc.com/jeff-schultz-blog/2011/01/15/falcons-embarrassing-loss-means-season-was-an-epic-fail/
Jaamal anderson
January 16th, 2011
12:20 am
Hey falcons fans…the saints lose to the sea hawks in Seattle in the cold without ivory thomas and jenkins. Besides we didn’t get our butt whipped at home. The falcons were healthy at home with a bye and we had the worse lose in playoff history? So what if we did I will go to bed on my super bowl 44 blanket reminiscing bout winning the super bowl can u?
SeenThisB4
January 16th, 2011
12:21 am
@Timmy: I don’t think anyone in New Orleans would ever want you to come to our city, even just to visit. So, if you stay away, no one will give a damn! Bottom line, your team got whipped and used like the little sissies they are by the #6 seed! BRA HAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!!!
GEAUX SAINTS!!!
reality check
January 16th, 2011
12:21 am
It’s official now: Call them Mike”regular season” Smith and Matt”regular season”Ryan. The Smith/Ryan combo now is 0-2 in postseason. But at the very least, the Falcons can say they’re not far away after tonight. LOL!
Hickory Avenue
January 16th, 2011
12:21 am
@Eddie — Saints fans are commenting because some of your fellow Falcons “FANS” have been coming on nola.com and other various sites , and trash talking and make jokes about Hurricane Katrina —- I lost EVERYTHING that I had in the storm (including the life of my grandmother) , and I can assure you , there was nothing funny about it —- and so now your CLASSLESS fellow fans are “reaping what they have sewn” ………….
FalconUGAFan
January 16th, 2011
12:21 am
Ouch… Saints fans are being called out by the visiting Packers fans….You Cheeseheads are ok
mamaj
January 16th, 2011
12:21 am
When the Fat Lady was warming up, I could already name that tune in 2 notes…LOSERS!
World Champ Saints
January 16th, 2011
12:21 am
Atlanta, thanks for your airport and whatever else is going on over there.
Chillin on Paradise Island
January 16th, 2011
12:21 am
Lol Falcons Fans and Saints fans going at it. We laughed at yall last week, now yall get revenge. But Lets face it, both our seasons ended terribly.
Matt, Roddy, and Abe
January 16th, 2011
12:22 am
Yes we all stunk up the dome tonight. But guess what? In the morning, we will all wake up multi-millionaires with no worries at all. You pinhead fans who buy tickets, jerseys, and souvenirs at the games are all chumps who made us rich as h**l. How do you like us now?
FALCLOWNS are losers
January 16th, 2011
12:22 am
How does it feel to NOT have a SB ring? I would not know was a SAINTS fan, LOSERS! LMAO! How fitting of an end for perpetual losers…..
Jay V.
January 16th, 2011
12:22 am
Dude, “epic fail” is way over the line. For a team that has struggled so much over its entire existence…we just had our third winning season in as many years and only three regular season losses. Don’t forget we have an NFC South title to boot. How can you call that an “epic fail”. That is just unfair. I say thanks for a great ride. We keep getting better every year.
Keith
January 16th, 2011
12:23 am
Please people, the Falcons are a good team, we just have to get better and they will, tonight showed the teams shortcomings, Our defense is young, we will shore it up in the draft, giving up on your team is no better than some of the comments we saw last week after the NO loss, Greg Williams is a good coach, but he got out coached, suck it up and look forward to next year, Go Falcons
whodat70816
January 16th, 2011
12:23 am
RISE UP? RISE UP???? RISE UP YOU SAY!
BAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….BAHHHHHAHAHAHA!
Sit you sorry arses down! Your boys got SCHOOLED and Matty Ice Melted as every other NFL fan knew he would.
And, I know the Saints lost to a 7-9 team, but Seattle got very very lucky agianst a Saints Defense that decided to stay in New Orleans last week.
Your boys had a week of rest played in the Atlanta Circus Tent, were all healthy and couldn’t even keep it close….LOL….lost by 27 points….LOL!
As the cameras pulled back at the start of the 4th quarter…all that was left in the stands were cheeseheads…..LOL
Where was your Elite QB????? Oh wait, he had an off day….LOL.
FALCONS ARE EXACTLY WHAT WE ALL KNEW THEY WERE!!!!!!
Dutchluv
January 16th, 2011
12:23 am
Wow, there’s a whole lotta Falcon naysayers- it’s too bad because you have no appreciation for having a young and up and coming team. As a Packer fan I often see the same thing on this end. In fact, there’s still some Packer fans that believe Ted Thompson/ Mike McCarthy don’t know what they’re doing and Brett Favre should still be on this team. Even after Rodger’s performance tonight. Naysayers never see the positives- they are impatient. Calling for coaching changes won’t get the Falcon’s to the Super Bowl any faster.
The reality of the situation is that the Falcons are close to being a top level team. The unfortunate aspect of all of this is that you all were believing your 13-3 regular season record meant something. While it is important, I think if you really break the regular season down- the Falcons just had favorable matchups at the right time. After all, in week 12 you beat the Packers- but did you really think you had a better team? Well, I think we all know the answer now.
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
12:23 am
Hickory – that’s exactly why we make fun of you – the only thing you have to hang your hat on is a NFL team that got lucky last year. You’re going to spend your whole life reliving the 2009 Superbowl while the rest of life passes you by. That’s why Taint fans are such a joke.
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
12:23 am
Here’s the Falcons’ last playoff win.
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/09000d5d801b7e24/Falcons-47-Rams-17
Happier times.
PackerFan
January 16th, 2011
12:23 am
Uh NolaFan, the Pack has 12 starters on IR. The team didn’t have a running game until last week. The Pack also flew cross country to Atlanta. And the team had a short week. Don’t make excuses for the loss to Seattle. Good teams find a way to win. And by the way I like Drew Brees, he’s a Purdue Boilermaker.
reality check
January 16th, 2011
12:24 am
Najeh Davenpoop: Well said pal!
Jessie tuggle
January 16th, 2011
12:24 am
@Timmy…I want you!!
Falcon66
January 16th, 2011
12:24 am
@ Packer Rick
Hey Fan, I like your comments. Next year is only going to be better.
Hurst
January 16th, 2011
12:24 am
So Timmy, what does soulless, lifeless Atlanta offer to the world? 50 malls within 50 miles of wherever you are in the area, with stores you can find anywhere in the U.S.? Maybe you can patronize one of them to try to forget about what happened to the Falcons tonight. You can’t get any alcohol from now until Monday.
Joe Packer
January 16th, 2011
12:25 am
What is an epic fail are the Falcon fans. Your team had a great year, played a dud playoff game, so what; they will be back next year. To leave the game and your team to an empty stadium only occupied by Packer fans is really bad fan behavior. You folks should have stuck around and thanked your team for the season. I could hear constant Packer chants thru out the game on TV audio. If you want to win playoff games – support your team – the players feed off of fan support.
World Champ Saints
January 16th, 2011
12:25 am
When does the Dirty bird leave for Dallas???
latenightlive
January 16th, 2011
12:25 am
ONE and DONE….OVER-RATED SAD ASS FALCONS….They end the season with 2 humiliating loses…to the SAINTS and the PACKERS…and the taste of a Super Bowl victory is so sweet, guess ya’ll will have to “wait til next year!” WHO DAT
Eddie
January 16th, 2011
12:25 am
Thanks goes out to the packers fans who actually have some class. Here’s hoping they go on to the Super Bowl and thanks to those who defend our team vs. all those Saints aholes who…..well……
are full of crap.
Hickory Avenue
January 16th, 2011
12:25 am
@nolafan—–you tell’em , bruddah !!! you’re exactly right ; it don’t mean a damn thing , if you “ain’t ” got that RING !!! (And when you hold it up to the light , it shines with a “BLING ” , baby !!!!!)
Voice of Reason
January 16th, 2011
12:26 am
Jeff, I thought Mark’s blog was better (sorry). More facts, less negativity. That said, Matty played horrible. Defense played horrible. Hell, everyone except Eric Weems played horrible. If you would have told me at the beginning of the year we’d be 13-3 and the number one seed in the NFC, I would have considered this one of the best seasons ever. That said, it was still one of the best regular seasons ever. But we need to build a better team to compete in the post season. For one, we need much more pressure on the QB. Second, we need more playmakers on offense. We need to learn from this and move on. I am more than disappointed — and angry. But we either quit or we get better. I look forward to all the football experts (i.e., you and Mark and Orlando) writing about ways we can improve for next year. Let’s face it, the Falcons are still one of the best franchises we have in this town, despite tonight’s disaster. Let’s look for positive change in the future.
Mike McDevitt
January 16th, 2011
12:26 am
GO PACK GO!!!!!!!! The Falcons are way overrated!!!!!
Savage57
January 16th, 2011
12:26 am
I am going to be magnanimous in victory here. All week long, not only were all the Falcons posters bragging on the Falcons and how the outcome of the game was a foregone conclusion, the vast majority of people had to make it personal. Now I understand fervor for your team, but there are lines you just don’t cross. Lots of smack about how much better southerners were, about how much the people of Wisconsin and Green Bay sucked, about how great Atlanta was, about how little there is to do in Wisconsin, about how much Yankees suck. It’s just a game played by millionaires, so why the personal vitriol? You’ll not hear it from me even though the Packers totally spanked the Falcons.
Well here’s the deal. Having lived in both Wisconson and Atlanta, I can tell you that both places have their sins and their saving graces. It was just a football game folks, and I think y’all need to get a little perspective.
That said, the Packers absolutely owned the Falcons tonight. Does that make me any better, smarter or wiser than a Falcons fan? No. But the team I support with grace and class carried the day and in that there is a small measure of redemption after the amout of just plain ol’ nastiness dished out by a lot of folks that lost their sense of measure over the last week.
Humble pie is one of the toughest dishes to swallow, but I have to say that based on the talk that preceeded this game, y’all earned a double serving.
FALCLOWNS are losers
January 16th, 2011
12:26 am
What abgreat regular season team the FAILCANTS are….Saints As # 1 seed last year WON IT ALL! Loser Falclowns can’t win a playoff game – epic failure – much worse than Saints losso Seachicks….SAINTS remain the BEST team in the NFC SOUTH! Later, redneck ghetto dweller Falclowns fans and losers….
saintsgirl
January 16th, 2011
12:26 am
My regrets to all Falcon fans. However, my predictions on NOLA .com about the Packer/Falcon game were spot on! As a Saints’ fan, I must say seeing the Falcons get destroyed is the next best thing to a Saints win. It especially lifts one’s spirit following the collapse of my team in Seattle. As for those of you who question why Saints fans are on your site, you should have seen the Falcon fans trashing the Saints on the New Orleans site last week.Some of the evil words that were spoken about our imperfect but resilient city were reprehensible. As to why we keep bringing up the superbowl, I’ll let you guys in on our little secret. All Saints fans are aware that our team stunk it up against the Seahawks and are no longer the world champion, but the pride that comes with becoming world champs stays forever. Maybe, some day Falcon fans will know of what I speak. We are not living in the past, but we get to keep the bliss of past memories forever.
The truth is both NFC South teams did a good job of embarassing themselves in the playoffs. The Saints lost to a 7-9 team, and the #1 seed Falcons were dismantled at home by an obviously superior Packer team. One thing I can emphatically say is that such losses hurt alot less once you have won a superbowl. We will get to see who is best in the south next year .I like my Saints’chances over your Falcons next year, however, neither us should sleep on the Bucs-they are getting really good really quick.
AintsFan
January 16th, 2011
12:27 am
HA! HA! HA!, RISE UP, more like FALL DOWN. What a joke. That is sooooo LAME!!!!! The Falc*nts really stunk up the joint just like i knew they would. 13-3, number one seed with home field advantage and still couldn’t seal the deal. I am proud to be an Aints Fan. The Saints rose from AINTS to Super Bowl Champions when they had every reason to throw in the towel. Think about this, the 2009 Saints accomplished in 4 years what all the other Saints were unable to accomplish in 42 years after the city and team was almost wiped off the map. Tell Roddy, a Katrina might do yall some good. Katrina showed the world what the people of New Orleans are made of. WE ARE SURVIVORS, and we are moving on. Not only did the Saints get to the big show. THEY WON IT!!!!!! Don’t go if you can’t win it. That’s why it’s best that the Falc*nts lost tonight because nobody would have wanted to see yall lose the Super Bowl again. The SAINTS will always be better than the Falc*nts because we won the Super Bowl first, and we will win another one before yall even make it to another one. Yeah, I know the Saint’s lost to Seattle, but at least they showed up. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! I will sleep very well tonight. May next year FALC*NT LOSERS!!!!!!!!!
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
12:27 am
LOL at the sob stories of the Aints. “Oh no, classless Falcons fans have been talking trash on a aints board? So obviously I have to respond by stooping to their level, right?”
Seriously, I don’t care that Falcons fans have invaded your boards. I’m not one of them, so all I see is YOU guys over here commenting on OUR blogs, and yeah I’m not going to respond nicely when you come here talking trash…but I will never stoop to the level of going to an Aints board.
“Oh no, I lost everything in the hurricane because I was too hard-headed to take the warning signs seriously.”
Cry me a river, then sail your belongings down it.
Jessie tuggle
January 16th, 2011
12:29 am
Bless you boys!!! Bless you boys! Go saints!
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
January 16th, 2011
12:30 am
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
12:23 am
Here’s the Falcons’ last playoff win.
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/09000d5d801b7e24/Falcons-47-Rams-17
Happier times.
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Who was that quarterback?
Bob in Suwanee
January 16th, 2011
12:30 am
The best part of the evening is that the half-a$$ed cable company Charter couldn’t deliver an HD signal that had less tiles than an Egyptian mosaic.
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
12:31 am
The same QB who last to GB last week with a hell of a lot more firepower around him…no thank you
Pat
January 16th, 2011
12:31 am
Hey can the falcons RISE-UP from the dead now after getting undress by the packers?
nolafan
January 16th, 2011
12:32 am
Packer Fan: not making excuses. We’re a good team that didn’t get it done & lost by 6. Different reality when a 13-3 No. 1 seed is made to bend over on national tv & get drilled by 27.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
January 16th, 2011
12:32 am
The packers still didn;t have a good running game tonight, the only bright spot for the ATL D was they shut down the running game..But Brett Farve Jr carved us up..I can;t explain it since our D line manhandled their O line 7 weeks ago, but it is what it is..I still am very happy for our 13-3 season and after a week of ouch I will be renewing my season tickets and looking forward to the start of the NFL season 2011 and AU’s season opener.
Maybe if we had not won the national championship monday, I would be more upset..but I think the Falcons will be contenders again next year, and In the NFL, this is how the season ends for 31 teams every year..at least our season lasted longer than 25 other teams..the days of years and years between playoff trips are hopefully gone for this franchise.
Keep Paying
January 16th, 2011
12:32 am
New owner, new coach, new QB, new logo,…….same ol Falcons…..don’t but into the hype……29 days till pitchers report
missouridawg
January 16th, 2011
12:33 am
Fail Clowns – You are so right. You should see the way they trash the Braves, Bulldogs, and every single team in this city. It’s crazy. The Atlanta fans are so freaking ignorant it’s unreal. One bad game and they turn on you. They leave at halftime, etc. No support whatsoever. Worst FANS on earth.
Lassie
January 16th, 2011
12:33 am
Timmy, it’s me Lassie. I know how you are after a Falcons loss so meet me like you always do for a little canine lovin’…
Schultz = Trash
January 16th, 2011
12:33 am
A journalist using the term “epic fail” in the title of an article is an epic fail in itself. This term was recently relegated to the garbage bin of the English language. Congratulations Schultzie – you are writing like a stoned high school kid.
Jeff Schultz
January 16th, 2011
12:33 am
Ryan — that was fixed, thanks.
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
January 16th, 2011
12:34 am
Just remember delusional Falcants fans, that the last regime was let go after 3 seasons and they went to the championship game
Hickory Avenue
January 16th, 2011
12:34 am
Falcons fans —- seriously ??? Did you actually think that you guys were gonna talk all of that smack that you guys are so ADEPT at doing on a regular basis , and then trash-talk our city and make fun of the Katrina stuff , and then go out and get your a** handed to you , at home as the number #1 seed , by a 27-point margin , and NOT have Saints fans UNLEASH on you guys ????? C’mon , man ……….
Jeff Schultz
January 16th, 2011
12:34 am
Cheshire — Thanks. I don’t believe most of fan base will be satisfied. Like I said, no shame in losing to Packers but not like that.
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
12:34 am
Hey Lassie, do yourself a favor and go barking “Who dat” in blackface like the Aints fans
Joe Packer
January 16th, 2011
12:34 am
Future looks bright – Matt Ryan is an awesome quarterback. NFL teams need good QB’s to excel. The Falcons have one. Hope for 2012 starts now for you folks, good luck!
ijonathan (formerly a Ryan defender)
January 16th, 2011
12:34 am
Aaron Rodgers is now part of the current NFL QB elite…right with Brady, Manning (who is close to falling out of it), Brees, and perhaps Big Ben and Rivers.
Tonight, Rodgers showed that he is >>>>>>>>> Matt Ryan.
There is indeed a chasm between Matt and the elite quarterbacks.
I’m not confident he’ll ever be able to bridge that chasm.
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
12:35 am
WHO DAT!!!! BLEAUX ME FAILCANS!!!!
Brogens Hero
January 16th, 2011
12:35 am
Jeff did you pick the Falcons to win the division this year? Matt Ryan a third year quarterback made some poor decisions. This is a team that will get better. Jeff is a columnist who sadly will not get any better. Congratulations to the Falcons on a great season. I am in support of local columnist who tell it like it is, but to completely dismiss the season based on one loss is ridiculous.
Fail-Clowns
January 16th, 2011
12:35 am
TIMMY BOY…you see that’s the difference between Saints fans and FAIL-CLOWN fans….you resort to an event like Katrina where people actually died. That’s why you are void of class to an epic level. It costs money and resources to evacuate a city. Everyone who could afford to evacuate, evacuated you idiot. The ones that stayed didn’t have a choice.
WE HAVE A RING, YOU WILL NEVER HAVE A RING…..EVER. DEAL WITH THAT FOR THE REST OF YOUR SAD LIFE. RISEEEEE UP LMAOOOO
World Champ Saints
January 16th, 2011
12:35 am
A lot of Falcon fans here, I guess when you leave at halftime…then you have time to login and blog about NOLA.
Atlantan
January 16th, 2011
12:35 am
‘Aints superbowl was a fluke, can you say fix?? Minnesota was the best team last yr…Why are you on this board anyway? Your season ended vs. team with a LOSING record!!
Baron Samedi Papa Legba
January 16th, 2011
12:36 am
May Timmy forever be cursed by the Voodoo Gods for comments about New Orleans and Katrina.
Jeff Schultz
January 16th, 2011
12:36 am
Georgia curse! — You are the first to the table with the “Deliverance” theory. And I’m guessing the last.
kaminari
January 16th, 2011
12:36 am
Well, at least we can get revenge.
Numba1PackFan
January 16th, 2011
12:36 am
Falcons fans need to support their team until the end, win or lose.
Asisde from that Atlanta is a great city with an up and coming team. I expect to see the Falcons in the playoffs next year.
Go Pack Go!
whodat70816
January 16th, 2011
12:36 am
Matty Ice is no elite QB. The falcons didn’t have an off day, they started the game like they’ve started their games all season long.
Difference was…this time Rodgers and his offense controlled the clock and the Refs didn’t overlook the penalties the Falcons have been committing all season.
What this game proved was Matty Ice and the Falcons can’t come back when they are down by 3 or more possessions.
How many interceptions did Matty Choke have tonight? Fumbles?
LMAO…
What a waste of a #1 seed!
Flipper- NOLA
January 16th, 2011
12:36 am
Only way the Falcons will ever get to the Super Bowl will be if they buy tickets!!!!.
LMAO!!!!!
reality check
January 16th, 2011
12:36 am
My predictions for next season in the NFC South assuming that all four teams have equal health which certainly wasn’t the case next year. 1. Saints 2. Bucs 3. Falcons 4. Panthers. The Saints talent level is superior to the Falcons, and the Bucs are a young talented team headed north. The Falcons better upgrade their talent because all of this regular season’s good fortune is highly unlikely to be duplicated. Was this a historical loss(by 27 pts) by a #1 seed in the divisional round tonight? I’m not sure but it just might have been!
Bob in Suwanee
January 16th, 2011
12:37 am
Anybody that works for Charter want to explain why you can’t deliver an HD signal on channels that are obviously being heavily watched?
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
12:37 am
I don’t go on Aints boards. All I see are Aints fans talking trash on Falcons board. I feel no need to retaliate by going on an Aints board where I’m not wanted.
It’s not my fault if you can’t restrain yourself from going on an opponent’s site to talk trash. Same goes for the Falcons fans who you Aints fans claim invade your sites.
Keep Paying
January 16th, 2011
12:37 am
ESPN reporting the Falcons threw the game and the refs were in on it .
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
12:37 am
Hickory Avenue – why don’t you shut up and return to your position as the town jizz-jar out on bourbon.
Jeff Schultz
January 16th, 2011
12:37 am
FalconUGAFan — I’m not “hating.” I hate that term. I’m just saying this kind of loss in unacceptable.
Jessie tuggle
January 16th, 2011
12:38 am
I’m on bourbon st…celebrating the azz whupping I just saw!!! Who dat! When I played for the falcons back in the day,I knew then the city of new Orleans was by far more classy than Atlanta. WHO DAT! Bless you boys….bless you boys!
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
12:38 am
“Aaron Rodgers is now part of the current NFL QB elite…right with Brady, Manning (who is close to falling out of it), Brees, and perhaps Big Ben and Rivers.”
You’re forgetting someone.
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
12:38 am
“I’m not “hating.” I hate that term. I’m just saying this kind of loss in unacceptable.”
Why are you hating on that term?
barnzey
January 16th, 2011
12:38 am
You know what losers do when their team’s been OBLITERATED by the #6 seed in front of their home “fans” and have to face the music with their fiercest division rivals? They make Katrina jokes. THAT is classy. Tell me something, you pigeon fans drown your sorrows, do you go to Applebee’s, T.G.I. Friday’s or some other P.O.S. cookie cutter restaurant that defines the bland culture of your soulless glass-and-steel town? Or do you just hit the moonshine still out back? Win or lose, there’s gonna be a parade in NOLA, where people know how to celebrate. You should be thankful the pigeons reverted to their sad-sack selves and got embarrassed at home … if you’d actually achieved the level of greatness the Saints have, you morons would’ve made Gen. Sherman look like he was playing with matches. Your slogan has gone from “Rise Up” to “Throw Up.”
Keep Paying
January 16th, 2011
12:38 am
NFL insiders stating that NFL pushed the refs and Falcons to let Green Bay win…..for ratings and $$$
SirSaint
January 16th, 2011
12:39 am
Timmy—grow up young man!! Football is a GROWN MANS SPORT!! Please refain from making such statements. Again you must have lost your house by betting on the Falcons. Trust me, tomorrow you will feel a lot better. Why don’t you download a picture of the Saints SB Ring and go to sleep. Maybe it will give you something good to dream about.
Jeff Schultz
January 16th, 2011
12:39 am
Ross — I feel your pain but like I’ve posted on comments before, I don’t ban people for being obnoxious.
FALCLOWNS are losers
January 16th, 2011
12:39 am
Hey, Timmy, I could care less about your attempt to “rise up” and not comment on the Saints board. Your self-righteous play is transparent and comical. I am a well-educated Saints fan living in ATL that knows your fan base and franchise i npathetic and jealousy toward the Saints and their GREAT SB victory burns the Falcowns fans deep…..bottom line, we have a ring and you don’t. Say what you want about our great city, but no one isplannng a vacation to the redneck terrain and ghetto dwelling city known as ATL…now, get back to your shift and stocking shelves at Walmart…
whodat70816
January 16th, 2011
12:39 am
@Atlantan
The real Fluke was the Falcon’s #1 seed and Home Field advantage.
Super Bowl Rings:
Saints – 1
Falcons -0
Keep Paying
January 16th, 2011
12:40 am
ESPN reporting Falcons told after the 1st qtr to ease up on the Packers….unreal!!!!!!!!!!!
ijonathan (formerly a Ryan defender)
January 16th, 2011
12:40 am
DANG, Najeh, you’re right…
Probably a mental block given the way he pi$$ed away his future with the Falcons.
Vick is in that next tier, in my opinion, with Big Ben and Rivers. If he could stay healthy all year and be strong at the end of the year/playoffs, and overcome better defenses/schemes, he’d be in the top tier.
WE HAVE A RING
January 16th, 2011
12:41 am
WE HAVE A RING. HOW MANY DO ATL HAVE????????????????
FALCLOWNS are losers
January 16th, 2011
12:41 am
Sir Saint is a super-hero! Who Dat!
Packer Rick
January 16th, 2011
12:41 am
I had no idea the Saints had so much hate for the Falcons! ha ha What is even more funny is why are they mad? Obviously not following up their only successful year in the NFL is bothering them. lol Saints… Its too bad the Pack doesnt have the chance to own their D yet this year. If the Falcons couldnt stop A=Rodge you think that D could? ha ha ha They gave up how many points to the Sea Chickens?
Keep Paying
January 16th, 2011
12:41 am
NFL asked Blank and the Falcons to throw the game…..ESPN reporting it right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
whodat70816
January 16th, 2011
12:42 am
@Jeff
Thanks for not banning us Saints fans, because last week Falcon fans have been all over our sites being just as obnoxious.
What comes around goes around!
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
12:42 am
To the well-educated Taint fan living in Atlanta… why? If Atlanta sucks and New Orleans is so great, why are you here? It cannot be for things like education or jobs… or does it? New Orleans sucks and so do you.
Jeff Schultz
January 16th, 2011
12:42 am
Jay V — Regular season a success. Postseason an epic fail. By year three, I’m judging by postseason. No excuse for a 48-21 home loss. That’s my opinion.
Maynard Jackson
January 16th, 2011
12:42 am
Oh when falcoons…go marching home. Oh how I want…to be in that dome…hahaah.
Jeff Schultz
January 16th, 2011
12:43 am
Voice of Reason — You want MORE facts? I’m confused. What facts did I leave out?
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
12:43 am
To a Taint fan, NFL history began and ended last year.
GTBob
January 16th, 2011
12:43 am
Saying the season was an epic fail is a little over the top. We won our division, got home field advantage in the playoffs, and didn’t play well. It is what it is. An epic fail would have been going 6-10. I’m not sure what happened tonight but it shouldn’t take away all of the positives from this season.
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
12:44 am
Maynard… could you be a little more racist?
Lassie
January 16th, 2011
12:44 am
Timmy, you’re nothing more than a typical inbred backwoods hillbilly. Sorry to put that out there to you. Your mom and dad(who are first cousins) should have told you years back. BTW, how does an inbred reject like you get constant internet access in a trailer park? You must of sprung for a fancy double-wide…
barnzey
January 16th, 2011
12:44 am
If ATL had a taste of the success the Saints had, Buckhead would be burned to the ground. Real Housewives of Atlanta have attained greater heights than Arthur Blank’s never-won-anything franchise.
murphy
January 16th, 2011
12:45 am
The Falcoons need to realize that when one team expose you the entire NFL takes note. They were exposed by the Saints and every honest football fan knows it. Matty ice (thawed), Roddy (no so roddy) Turner (turned back) are your only weapons so stopping you is no big deal. Ask the Packers, they packed you up for the summer.
Vince Lombardi
January 16th, 2011
12:45 am
What the he!! is going on out here! Grabbin; grabbin, grabbin,
Jeff Schultz
January 16th, 2011
12:45 am
Reality Check — I’ll hold off on NFC South predix until we go through offseason. But I still like Falcons chances.
lol
January 16th, 2011
12:45 am
so this blog is just filled with saints fans bragging about how classy they are.
hmmm… isn’t that not classy?
And thank god we didn’t loose to the seahawks
Keep Paying
January 16th, 2011
12:45 am
I guess Green Bay should win….I mean the Big 10 dominates college football right????
Packer Rick
January 16th, 2011
12:45 am
Falcons = going somehwere the next 5 years. Saints = No defnese and not much hope outside of high scoring losing seasons. Sorry, but reality is tough to deal with. Over the next 5 years you will see lots of Ryan vs Rodgers battles. Dont think you will see too much down there is NO until you get a defense. I was totaly routing for NO last year too, just because I hate the Vikqueens but honestly… hope that giant head can keep you afloat for the next flood. One championshop vs 12. lawl.
whodat70816
January 16th, 2011
12:46 am
@Packer Rick,
Of course you wouldn’t understand the rivalry that exists between the Saints and Falcons….Your team will get its shot at the Saints next season. We’ll talk then.
As for losing to a 7-9…yep, it was definitely heartbreaking…..
But the Falcons getting Schooled by Rodgers and the Packers….totally eases that pain.
Geaux Saints!
barnzey
January 16th, 2011
12:46 am
To Matthew, NFL history doesn’t exist.
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
12:46 am
Nola fans talking about trailers is funny. FEMA Funny.
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
12:46 am
You know what makes you completely void of class? Coming in and talking trash on a newspaper’s blog that is geared towards the fanbase of a team that just lost.
If Falcons fans are talking trash on your blogs or whatever, shame on them. I’m not one of them. But you’re here talking trash, so shame on you. By responding in what you think is a plausible manner, you are part of the problem. I’m not about to venture over to Aints sites now or any other time to talk trash just because you guys are over here being classless.
And you think my comments about Katrina are classless? Guess what? They never would have been made if you lowlifes weren’t over here talking trash. And at the end of the day, actions speak louder than words. I donated over $2000 in the Katrina relief effort so that arrogant folks like yourselves could get on your PCs and come talk trash to Falcons fans after we suffer a major defeat.
Jeff Schultz
January 16th, 2011
12:47 am
Najeh Davenpoop — Because it’s stupid. Somebody criticizes something and suddenly they’re a “hater”? Who started that? Lamest thing ever. (Or were you joking … sometimes I can’t tell.)
TrishaDishaWarEagle
January 16th, 2011
12:47 am
I think our Defense should be forced to watch the Rex Ryan foot fetish videos as pennance for tonights performance. Then we can move forward for next year.
Packer Rick...
January 16th, 2011
12:47 am
@packer rick.You hog mall eating fool!! Saints beat the pi$$ outta the cheeses on Monday night football two years ago… Remember that blood bath? And Da bears will beat y’all frauds! Who dat Bitoooochh!!!
Keep Paying
January 16th, 2011
12:47 am
I go to New Orleans when I want to puke
ijonathan (formerly a Ryan defender)
January 16th, 2011
12:48 am
@Schultz, do you know Hans Heiserer on 790 the zone? He’s doing the post game show at Stats with Sam Radin. Dude is ready to pick fights, yelling at callers, I fear for his health.
GETTOFFDABUSS
January 16th, 2011
12:48 am
@packerrick
get out of the falcants butt. we could care less about losing to you or any other team we are classy compared to these jerks. if you were on our site the last two weekends you would know why we are on this site blasting these clowns. go somewhere enjoy your teams success and mind your dam business!!!
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
12:48 am
barnzey – i’ve heard it all night – if you ain’t gotta ring, yada yada yada. Did the Taints matter before 2009 to you, or was it all meaningless for you until they won a ring? So suck it. go get wasted in the crescent city and dream of a land above sea level.
lol
January 16th, 2011
12:48 am
i can’t believe how saints fans are so cocky when they lost to the hawks in embarrassing fashion. Enjoy it, b/c i know ya’ll will be back in the atl next time your city sinks. thanks for the trash.
Keep Paying
January 16th, 2011
12:48 am
I go to Green Bay when i want to hook up with fat chicks
World Champ Saints
January 16th, 2011
12:48 am
FOX should have started the game earlier so the Falcon fans could have stayed till at least the 3rd quarter.
Matt
January 16th, 2011
12:49 am
The Defense is what failed us…
13 plays 76 yards GB TD
10 plays 92 yards GB TD
7 plays 80 yards GB TD
12 plays 80 yards GB TD
8 plays 50 yards GB TD
Buddy Roe
January 16th, 2011
12:49 am
The Browns, 49ers, Cardinals, Panthers, are the teams the falcons beat. What do these team have in common? (No QB, Coach gets fired). The loss to the steelers and eagles were against two backup QB’s. The falcons played only two pro bowl QB’s this year. Playing the clock does not win championships. Matt Ryan is average at best. The game plan to beat this team is shut down the runnig game. You are not going to win with a limited QB and not taking shots down the field. Great QBs do not need a running to succeed. They make the team around them better.( i.e., Manning, Brees, Brady, Rivers, Rodgers, Vick, Big Ben). The Falcons are fools gold!
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
12:49 am
“Najeh Davenpoop — Because it’s stupid. Somebody criticizes something and suddenly they’re a “hater”? Who started that? Lamest thing ever. (Or were you joking … sometimes I can’t tell.)”
Just joking… sometimes these things don’t translate so well in writing.
World Champ Saints
January 16th, 2011
12:49 am
“Keep Paying” they have chicks in Green Bay?
Jeff Schultz
January 16th, 2011
12:49 am
IJonathan (formerly a Ryan defender) — Seriously?
Fail-Clowns
January 16th, 2011
12:49 am
OH DID I HIT A NERVE TIMMY? WELL GUESS WHAT….EVEN WHEN YOUR FAIL CLOWNS COME TO OUR SITES AND TALK TRASH WE STILL WOULDN’T BRING UP A SITUATION WHERE PEOPLE DIED……….PERIOD.
YOU ARE CLASSLESS AND YOU WILL HAVE TO KISS OUR SUPERBOWL RING FOREVER…
FALCLOWNS are losers
January 16th, 2011
12:49 am
@ Matthew – sir redneck, job transfer….which you would not understand working at Walmart or Target as a stock boy…can’t stand the fact that we have a ring and you dont, huh, redneck? you rednecks are a bunch of puppets…i write comments and you get pissed, the strings are easily pulled when you are a FAILCANTS fans….now, give your laptop back to your mom and gono bed – way past your bedtime….btw,the Hawks lost tonight and Hornets won…just a nightmare for ATL…LMAO! Kiss the ring, loser…l
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
12:49 am
looks like the ice boy melted… WHO DAT!
Fan Since 72
January 16th, 2011
12:50 am
Wow, just wow. 13-3 regular season, No. 1 seed in the division, first round bye, then the ultimate choke job on the national stage.
While I appreciate what the team and front office has done over the past three seasons, this performance just shows how much work the franchise has to do.
I hope that we as fans DO NOT EVER WHINE ABOUT RESPECT AGAIN. Respect is earned by performance, football is no different than life in that regard.
Packer Rick
January 16th, 2011
12:50 am
LAWL, youre right Packer Rick… I should be ashmed of my team’s 12 championships and your one MNF win. ha ha ha ha You guys got big mouths for one good season. geeze.
I like men
January 16th, 2011
12:50 am
@packer Rick…wanna come to the GAY-TL? You sound tough…
Keep Paying
January 16th, 2011
12:51 am
Matty Melt
ijonathan (formerly a Ryan defender)
January 16th, 2011
12:51 am
@Jeff…well, he’s probably not going to have the big one and keel over…but he did start to yell at a local Fox 5 reporter doing a story at the bar (with Packers fans) and he had to stop talking a couple of times and turn the show over to Radin because he was so flustered. He sounds a little calmer now.
Fan Since 72
January 16th, 2011
12:51 am
@504 and all other trash talking Saints fans. I wouldn’t come in here talking smack. You guys lost last week to a 7-9 team.
SeasonTicket
January 16th, 2011
12:52 am
Marty Icemelt! Ryan crumbled under the pressure. He was awful and he looked timid and scared. And the defense was god awful. They stunk up the place. ASS WHUPPIN’ is all you can say.
Michael B
January 16th, 2011
12:52 am
Sad performance by all. The coaches must have watched Glee this week instead of game films of Green Bay. How do receivers consistently be open by 10-15 yards. You rush 3 guys and have 8 back — How???? This game represents how the Falcons have treated their fans forever, so this should be no surprise. Get to the playoffs every now and then just to keep the fans coming.
Packer Rick
January 16th, 2011
12:52 am
Well anyway, this is definitly trolling on my part and I get that. Just was really interesting to see the Saints / Falcons stuff. GL to you guys next year, I am sure it will work out better for you than the Saints. Hope you watch the NFC Championship this weekend. We wont let up on the Bears either. Should be epic. See ya in the big dance next year.
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
12:52 am
timmmaaaayyyyy u mad? the failcans lost brah, its ok if u mad lol WHO DAT!!!
lol
January 16th, 2011
12:52 am
to the saints fans coming to atlanta newspapers to “show off”
Why does it smell like dead dog in your city?
serious question.
Enjoy loosing to 7-9. the nfc south looks to be pretty bad now, so i don’t think you have much room to brag.
plus aren’t the hornets being moved?
reality check
January 16th, 2011
12:52 am
Seen: You were right all along that the Falcons truly were the Falcant’s. You were among the first on these blogs to use that term for the Falcons, and you were undoubtedly proven correct tonight. Nice call pal!
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
12:53 am
the sheer volume of taint turds on this board makes me laugh each time les miles eats a booger… or reggie bush breaks a leg…
Mark Chumura
January 16th, 2011
12:53 am
@packer Rick…you give us a bad name….you cheese queen
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
12:54 am
“The Browns, 49ers, Cardinals, Panthers, are the teams the falcons beat. What do these team have in common?”
The Falcons had five quality wins this year, against the Saints, Packers, Ravens, and Bucs twice. All of those teams have ten wins. You can’t minimize the significance of those wins.
They won all those games by making fewer mistakes and controlling the ball better than the other team. That’s fine, in the regular season. In the playoffs, though, other teams step their games up and limit their own mistakes, so just playing mistake free football isn’t enough — you have to make big plays of your own to win, and that’s something that at least on offense the Falcons cannot do. (They usually do it on defense and special teams though, and the defense didn’t really make any big plays today aside from Nicholas’ forced fumble on Jennings). Of course, they didn’t exactly play mistake free in this game either, which is why they got blown out. But the Falcons going forward need to be able to make more big plays offensively to be taken seriously as a Super Bowl contender.
barnzey
January 16th, 2011
12:54 am
Since you guys keep bringing up Katrina, let me hit you with knowledge. Since our town went underwater, the Saints are 8-2 against the Pigeons, have 4 playoff victories and a Lombardi Trophy. Meanwhile, in NOTlanta, you’ve watched a head coach slither away to a slightly less hillbilly, inbred locale (NW Arkansas), a star QB headed off to Leavenworth, and 500 weddings between couples with at least one set of grandparents.
Keep Paying
January 16th, 2011
12:54 am
New Orleans is Atlanta’s little playground….
FALCLOWNS are losers
January 16th, 2011
12:54 am
@ Matthew – are you really that delusional thinking the Falclowns had a chance to win? Quit listening to the boys on the loading dock….oh yea, the Saints have been relevant for many years, especially last year,nwhen we ON the SB….how many rings the FALCLOWNS have? Zero, which is what you are….stay classy….redneck…
ijonathan (formerly a Ryan defender)
January 16th, 2011
12:54 am
I’ve come to the liberating realization that the only midrange/long passes Ryan completes with any consistency are the timing out-routes, as they don’t require tremendous arm strength, just timing (which he’s pretty good at) and enough time from the O-line. Any other situation, where Ryan has to force a longer pass into coverage or loft a ball down the field to a streaking receiver, he’s about the most inconsistent QB I’ve seen. Our receivers need to employ their jump ball skills on almost every one of those passes.
LeeS
January 16th, 2011
12:54 am
Can’t look into the heads of the present day roster, but can say that Falcon teams of the past that made it this far at least gave it a run when they reached the playoffs. This has to be one of the biggest meltdowns in NFL history
(Un-) Fair weather fan
January 16th, 2011
12:55 am
I have to wonder, was Rodgers’ 31 for 36 a playoff record?
It was truly astonishing to watch.
Poor Matt Ryan. When has a highly touted NFL quarterback laid such a massive egg on the big stage?
jestjuda
January 16th, 2011
12:55 am
The Atlanta Chicken Chokers coughs up another one!!!
terrible ending to a good season
January 16th, 2011
12:55 am
my brother in law is a packerfan.
he’s getting a kick in the nuts tomorrow
so that should make everyone feel somewhat better.
Skip Bayless
January 16th, 2011
12:55 am
Like I said this whole year, the Falcons just aren’t that impressive… Hartley missing a gimme FG, 49ers fumble when they had the game in hand, getting manhandled by the Eagles, barely beating the Bucs twice, getting beatdown by the Saints on national TV on Monday Night Football. This team just seem to have too many flaws, you guys have a good core but you really need to upgrade the offense with some playmakers. Matt Ryan’s YPA is too low and if teams roll coverage towards Roddy White, you can’t really move the ball. Being dead last in plays of 20 yards or more didn’t help matters as well.
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
12:55 am
lesticles doesn’t eat boogers. he eats the grass. U mad matthew? U mad about LSU’s two recent national championships? U mad they’ll be #1 next season? U mad the saints going to two dat next year? Yeah u mad. WHO DAT!!!
Voice of Reason
January 16th, 2011
12:55 am
Jeff — don’t get upset. It’s unbecoming. I just liked Mark’s column more than yours. Mark focused on the defense, and in my view had more “facts” about defensive performance and less pure opinion than your column. I enjoy your blogs, but you’ve become quite negative of late. This is a negative night, no doubt! But I hope the blogs going forward will focus on the fix. We ain’t moving out of Atlanta (unless you’ve got a new job), so it’s the only team we have.
Vick Supporter
January 16th, 2011
12:55 am
Man this article had me laughing so hard I had tears coming out of my eyes, LMAO.
Great article Schultz!
Roger
January 16th, 2011
12:55 am
Well,,,without the interception for a touchdown and the turnovers, the game should have been close…the falcons played terrible,,,,should have been a close game….but hats off to Green Bay….they are the better team(not just tonight either)…..Good luck to GB..I hope you win the NFC and super bowl….that offense is going to be hard to stop….on a side note….Starks was not a factor…and GB does t have a running game…but damn they sure do have a passing game!!!!!!
barnzey
January 16th, 2011
12:55 am
that is … couples who share at least one set of grandparents.
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
12:56 am
I have a B.A. in English from Georgia State and I’m currently enrolled in grad school.
Your level of classlessness trumps anything I’ve said because anything I say is after-the-fact that you decided to mosey on over here. I have more class than to invade an opponent’s board. Nothing at all good can come from that and I get no satisfaction out of bathing in a foe’s misery. Once you go that route, you deserve to have cruel things said to you.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
January 16th, 2011
12:56 am
@packer Rick, N.O. has an inferiority complex ..fortune 500 companies prefer to locate in cities ABOVE sea level, for some silly reason. I just let their comments slide, because i threw up on the sidewalk in their city a lot on weekends when I was a student to Auburn and I figure they had to clean it up because I sure never did:)
World Champ Saints
January 16th, 2011
12:57 am
On TV it sounded like a Packer home game.
FALCLOWNS are losers
January 16th, 2011
12:57 am
@ Matthew the redneck – now he brings up Les, LSU and the SEC. Do you really want to go there, loser? How’s that West Ga degree working out for you?
Hickory Avenue
January 16th, 2011
12:57 am
@FalconsUGAFan —- Yes sir , you are right ,indeed ; as a Saints fan , I will be the first to admit that the Falcons are a VERY GOOD team , and will be a legitimate NFC playoff contender for many years to come , but unfortunately they just “no-showed” tonight , BOTH players AND coaches —- I think maybe having the bye week actually hurt them , in a strange sort of way , because other than that first drive in the first quarter , they looked totally out of synch — Mularkey got outcoached by Capers , and Van Gorder didn’t stand a chance , going against that juggernaut . All I can say is that your Falcons will be right in the mix for the top spot next year , but so will my Saints, as well ; and bruddah , we’re gonna take this “RIVALRY” to the next level ! See ya , Pigeons fans …………….
wat
January 16th, 2011
12:57 am
no one in atlanta fears the saints.
DE will smith can’t beat his wife, much less tackles anymore.
and next time god will finish what he started and clear out the left over trash
whodat70816
January 16th, 2011
12:58 am
Why do all the men in Atlanta run around in high heels, mini skirts and lip stick?
Fail-Clowns
January 16th, 2011
12:58 am
STILL WAITING FOR ONE JUST ONE FAIL CLOWN FAN RESPOND TO THE FACT THAT THEIR FANS LEFT THE STADIUM BEFORE THE 4TH QUARTER BEGAN.
25% OF THE GAME WAS A HOME GAME FOR GREEN BAY…..WIN OR LOSE THAT IS THE MOST EMBARRASSING THING IN ALL THIS…I MEAN…BESIDES THE FACT YOU GOT BLOWNNNNN OUT AT HOME AFTER A BYE WEEK LOL….YOU GUYS WILL NEVER WIN ANYTHING BECAUSE YOU DON’T HAVE CLASS FANS OR PLAYERS…
George
January 16th, 2011
12:58 am
Fail.
This team did what they always do when they reach the playoffs. They saunter around on the field as if it’s the pro bowl and not a playoff game. To say it was a dissapointment doesn’t quite cut it. Embarrassing is closer. I spent this whole year speaking highly of this team and the ones who arrived at the dome didn’t resemble them in the slightest. I would say there was bad tackling by them but that would imply there was any tackling to be seen in the first place.
Interceptions, fumbled snaps, yes this one had it all. The Packers played a good game but we made them look better than they are.
It’s a sure bet Gonzalez hangs it up after this year. Sorry, Gonzo. It would have been nice to end your career with a Super Bowl ring.
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
12:58 am
timmmaaayyyy congrats on your english degree brah. maybe you can teach roddy white how to spell W-H-O-D-A-T into his twitter.
Baron Samedi Papa Legba
January 16th, 2011
12:58 am
Repent Timmy! God don’t like ugly. Shame on you Timmy. I feel sorry for your friends and family for having to also feel the wrath of the Voodoo Gods for your actions. The Goddess of truth, balance and justice is here. Timmy it’s you and people like you who are to blame for the Falcons loss. Your evil and wicked statements have brought down God’s vengeance upon the Falcons. Let this be a lesson to us all.
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
12:59 am
So, I’ll finally answer that question. Who Dat, you ask? Well, the answer is a bunch of worthless losers that have nothing going on in their lives other than claiming a crappy city that won a superbowl last year. “dats who”. A city with failing schools, a corrupt government, and clueless and abhorrent immorality. “dat’s who”.
Taint fans suck.
Good night.
djack0062
January 16th, 2011
12:59 am
Congrats on a great season!!! It takes time to build a winning playoff tradition in NFL. Teams like the Packers, Patriots, Steelers can feed off history (Playoff, Super Bowl wins)…we will one day. You also need coaches and players who have those kind of “roots” to win during the playoffs. Almost there.
Kane337
January 16th, 2011
12:59 am
Time to make Kroy Biermann a backup. Need to draft to replace him. Where has he been since the Cleveland game? Total non-factor.
Vick Supporter
January 16th, 2011
12:59 am
Damn the Falcons got their asses whooped. At least my Eagles could have won at the end. If our kicker makes all his FGs, we would have beat the Packers.
The Falcons though…had ZERO chance. Weak armed QB can’t stretch the field…the last in the NFL in big plays proves it.
William T. Sherman
January 16th, 2011
1:00 am
The sorry a$$ Falcons got burned tonight just like I burned your precious city back in 1864. I would of loved to see this massacre in person!! Oh well, I will definitely sleep amazingly well in my grave tonight…
SuperbowlXLIVChamps
January 16th, 2011
1:00 am
The Falcons are who we thought the were. Every sports news station in the country tried to tell ya’ll falcons fans your squad was below average but ya’ll remained in denial. The truth hurts, and the Packers are the truth.
ijonathan (formerly a Ryan defender)
January 16th, 2011
1:01 am
Kane337…He’s been employing the power rush against Kim Z.
FALCLOWNS are losers
January 16th, 2011
1:01 am
This is funny. Ga redneck losers are getting into a geographical discussion of New Orleans. How pathetic is that? This is a football blog, not a discussion of one of the most historic and visited cities in the world. WTF wakes up and says ” I am planning a week vacation in Atlanta”…only a redneck like Timmy…btw, my company would never hire from GSU….get a degree from a real school, loser…
Keep Paying
January 16th, 2011
1:01 am
How does my tax paying bailout taste New Orleans?
Pour4now
January 16th, 2011
1:01 am
Alright, so where are all the ATL fans that wanted to serve me crow tonight? I see none of them had the courage to come back after a tough loss. Like I said at the beginning of the week, Rodgers has more experience than Ryan and it showed tonight. You guys had a great season and it looks like you have a QB that will just keep getting better. GB is playing very good ball right now and thats why most of the media picked the Pack. I don’t think it was a dis on the Falcons. Good luck next year.
GO PACK!!!
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
1:02 am
whassa matta matt? U mad? U mad that new orleans has all the charm and of a centuries old city ripe with tradition and soul? U mad that your city is a concrete jungle of walmarts and unoriginal sprawl? yeah u mad. It’s ok. We ain’t mad atcha, we just laughin atcha!!!!!!
wat
January 16th, 2011
1:02 am
i can’t believe this is all saints fans
what a pathetic fan base, only joy is to watch their division weaken.
The saints put up 17 on a defense that just gave up 47.
something to be proud of.
I guess people in NO have great social lives.
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
1:02 am
People only visit new orleans to poop on it.
Aaron Rodgers
January 16th, 2011
1:03 am
Too bad we can’t play the Falcons every week, I faced tougher defenses while I was still at CAL.
World Champ Saints
January 16th, 2011
1:03 am
Falcons fans were loud and proud because they cheered when the team came out of the tunnel.
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
1:04 am
matty people only visit atlanta…. to connect to their final destination via delta.
IBleedGreen&Gold
January 16th, 2011
1:04 am
Tough loss, but you’ve got one helluva team Atlanta. Keep your heads up and get ‘em next year!
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
1:04 am
I don’t think Roddy White cares how to spell “Who Dat”. Keep in mind this originated as a phrase used in minstrel shows (white people prancing around stage in black face). That’s what you are supporting with that phrase.
The Falcons fans you claim littered your boards last week need to grow up. But so do you. Going to a newspaper website to talk trash to the fans of the team in that city is about as low as it goes.
FALCLOWNS are losers
January 16th, 2011
1:04 am
This sums it up ProFootballTalk.com:
It was the kind of spanking that the top seed in a division-round game is supposed to periodically administer to the visiting team. Instead, it was the worst loss by the NFC’s top seed in the division round since 1987, when the Vikings shocked the 49ers in San Francisco, 36-24.
We’ve got a strange feeling that the Falcons, in a division that features the potent Saints and the up-and-coming Bucs, won’t get another shot at holding serve as the top seed any time soon.
Baron Samedi Papa Legba
January 16th, 2011
1:04 am
May the Voodoo Gods curse all you who make fun of New Orleans and Katrina.
Keep Paying
January 16th, 2011
1:04 am
Glad my taxes pay for your salary in New Orleans
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
1:05 am
504 – you may want to do some research on all the people that continually leave louisiana because it sucks. and then match that up with the growth of atlanta and its surrounding suburbs.
oh wait, your from new orleans.. so facts are of little use to you.
World Champ Saints
January 16th, 2011
1:05 am
Gotta admit, Atlanta does have some nice airport food and restrooms.
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
1:05 am
i hate taint fans, sofa cough!!!
pretenders
January 16th, 2011
1:06 am
falcons were just pretenders. That may have been the biggest hiney whipping in nfl playoff history. I would be embarrassed to admit to being a pigeons fan. The bucs and saints have lombardi trophies. The pigeons are forever bottom dwellers with the panthers in the nfc south. Pigeon fans when you are done kissing the zippers of saints and Buc fans maybe they will let you steal a peek of the lombardi. You were to arrogant but now you been humbled.
You need to learn “how” to win first. When you boast before you win the championship then its called arrogance! you dimwits wanted to celebrate before you won a championship.
Ruxin
January 16th, 2011
1:06 am
KEEP PAYING, what you’ve just wrote is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this blog is now dumber for having read them. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Ga=TrailerTrashMecca
January 16th, 2011
1:06 am
Matthew, you’re a fool. City with failing schools, corrupt government? Sounds alot like Atlanta too you dumb a$$…
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
January 16th, 2011
1:06 am
Falcons, Matty Ice go cold when it counts
Posted by Mike Florio on January 15, 2011, 11:34 PM EST
Falcons fans love to quote the team’s record at home under quarterback Matt Ryan. They likely aren’t as interested in bragging about the team’s record in the playoffs under Ryan.
0-2.
Widely regarded as the best young quarterback in the game, the man known as Matty Ice goes liquid-nitrogen cold when it counts the most. Two years ago, a superior Falcons team lost in Arizona during the wild-card round. This year, with a 13-3 record and the top seed in the NFC playoff field, the Falcons and Ryan were dismantled by a Packers team that suddenly looks a lot like the Super Bowl favorite that so many thought they would be before the season.
With a 48-21 win in the Georgia Dome, the Packers managed in only six days to knock out the two franchises that seemed during the season to be on a Mike-Vick-returns-to-Atlanta collision course.
The Packers did it with four drives of 80 yards or longer and a pick-six from cornerback Tramon Williams, who lately has emerged as the best playmaking cornerback in the NFL, despite not being named to the Pro Bowl roster. His first pick on the night ended in the end zone a drive that would have continued the back-and-forth scoring fest that had the game knotted at 14.
And they did it with a night to remember from Aaron Rodgers, who has gotten the Brett Favre monkey off his back, stuffed it, mounted it on the wall, and texted a photo of it to Jenn Sterger.
Said Rodgers after the game, to Pam Oliver of FOX: “To be able to put up that kind of performance as an offense, it’s incredible.”
Yes it is. Rodgers completed 31 of 36 passes for 366 yards and three touchdowns. The Packers gained 442 yards on offense, holding Atlanta to fewer than 200.
It was the kind of spanking that the top seed in a division-round game is supposed to periodically administer to the visiting team. Instead, it was the worst loss by the NFC’s top seed in the division round since 1987, when the Vikings shocked the 49ers in San Francisco, 36-24.
We’ve got a strange feeling that the Falcons, in a division that features the potent Saints and the up-and-coming Bucs, won’t get another shot at holding serve as the top seed any time soon.
“AMERICA HAS SPOKEN”
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
1:06 am
nooo timmmaaayyy as low as it goes is you and your fans katrina talk.
Lawmoe
January 16th, 2011
1:06 am
Matt Ryan will continue to improve. Last year, the talk was how Rogers could not win a playoff game. He proved that wrong. So will Ryan. I feel you Falcon fans, but your team will be back. Cut them some slack for being one of the last standing. GO PACK!
saintsgirl
January 16th, 2011
1:07 am
I don’t understand why Saints and Falcon fans have to be so nasty to one another. Both our teams have a rough history, and I think there is some jealousy from Falcon fans( like Timmy) b/c the Saints won a SB and the Falcons have not and after tonight, won’t during this post season either. But, why must either people from N.O. or Atlanta say and wish such terrible things towards one another. It does not look good for either side. I think both teams’ fans could learn something from Packer fans who have conducted themselves with alot of class on their posts.
On another note, I don’t yet know if Matt Ryan will ever be an elite QB or not. It all depends on whether or not he has reached his ceiling as a player yet. If he ever is to reach that next level, he must improve quite a bit. I thought a telling statement came from Clay Matthews following the game. He said the game plan was to shut down the run and force the Falcons to throw against them. No defensive player would say that about the established elite QB’s, such as Brady, Manning ,Brees, Rivers, Rodgers. Game plans against those players are all about slowing down the passing games. If Atlanta is ever going to reach a Superbowl, Ryan must become a passer that defenses fear. Only teams with elite QB’s can win it all in today’s NFL.
Keep Paying
January 16th, 2011
1:07 am
We should have let New Orleans stay under water, maybe my taxes would be lower
Aints
January 16th, 2011
1:07 am
Aints have nearly 30 free agents in the offseason, with their team getting old I don’t see them contending any time soon.
(Un-) Fair weather fan
January 16th, 2011
1:07 am
On a more positive note, look at it this way. If the Packers play anything like how they played tonight against the Bears – assuming it’s the Bears – they’ll probably blow Cutler and company off the field in a week’s time as decisively as they did the hapless Falcons tonight.
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
1:07 am
The voodoo gods have obviously already cursed you, Baron. You will spend an eternity trolling the blogs of teams that were further along in the playoffs than the Aints.
ejj
January 16th, 2011
1:08 am
Why is Mike Smiith taking his whole coaching staff to the Pro Bowl? Alot of them need severance.
reality check
January 16th, 2011
1:08 am
Wat: Are you bitter tonight? Did you drink that kool aid and RISE UP? Hope you didn’t lose your bet too!
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
1:08 am
minstrel this: WHO DAT!
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
1:08 am
trailer trash buffoon – why don’t you give me a history lesson on Huey Long? Or maybe explain who has jurisdiction over the levee system and then talk to me about corrupt politics, moron.
Keep Paying
January 16th, 2011
1:10 am
At least we got Swamp People for some good off-season laughs
Black Falcon
January 16th, 2011
1:10 am
To say that you are building a team for the future is an excuse that can justify any playoff loss. At some point in time the future has to arrive, obviously it wasn’t tonight for the Falcons. I, for one, did not expect the Falcons to win but I did not think they would get beat this bad. A total embarrassment for the number one seed.
Brian Van Gorder
January 16th, 2011
1:10 am
Can anyone explain to me this concept of what they call “blitz?” I’m not familiar with the term.
FALCLOWNS are losers
January 16th, 2011
1:11 am
@Timmy – you ARE the biggest Loser on earth….There is NOTHING you can say, write or philosophize that will change the events of tonight or 2009, when the Saints won the SB…Falclowns DO NOT have a ring, we do….I know it hurts, but insulting New Orleans changes NOTHING…dr phil can help you. Best of luck to you, loser…
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
1:11 am
awwww c’mon matty. there’s no crying in football.
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
1:11 am
Matt Ryan will be fine. The Falcons just need to add another receiving threat, get a speed back to replace Jerious Please-don’t-breathe-on-me-or-I’ll-get-hurt Norwood, and draft defensive backs.
OrlandoSaint
January 16th, 2011
1:11 am
HAHAHAHAHA NO SUPERBOWL FOR YOU!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
1:11 am
or trailer trash, how about explaining why louisiana is so backwards, its the only state that sticks with the napoleonic code?
Mike Mularkey
January 16th, 2011
1:11 am
I don’t believe in plays of 20 yards or more.
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
1:12 am
You guys won the SB. Congrats. Doesn’t make it any better to come over talking trash. Actually it kind of makes it worse, because you should be able to just simply hold your head up, take a deep breath, and make the active decision NOT to engage in such a petty activity.
Rodney King
January 16th, 2011
1:13 am
I thought my beating was bad, but I actually feel bad for the Falcons!
hodeho
January 16th, 2011
1:13 am
Outside of perhaps Atlanta, no one thought the Falcons would win this game. Matt Ryan is an above-average QB, but no more. Aaron Rodgers is an exceptional QB and showed it. The Falcons play in a nothing division against nothing opponents. It was shocking, though, how they quit. That’s on their coach.
notNourhouse
January 16th, 2011
1:14 am
It’s O.K. fellow bird seeds,
We will bounce back next season, I just wish we could’ve done like the Saints did last year and defend our house like #1 seeds supposed to. 48-21
WoW! that would’ve never happened to the Saints in the superdome. We have a good team though a good draft and we’re right back in it. I wish we had a better QB though, you know! like Brees maybe. Did I just typed that? Sorry ATL just thinking out loud. Here’s another thought. We Suck!
Geaux Saints.
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
1:14 am
that’s right matty. if you talk about napoleonic code everyone else will totally forget about the football game that was just played……. rise up birdies! tweet this: WHO DAT!
reality check
January 16th, 2011
1:15 am
Aints: Saints have 28 free agents and will let guys like Shockey and Sharper who have had their better days go. But make no mistake, the Saints aren’t an old team at all and younger than The Falcons at many positions. Most of their core players that they want back will be coming back. Get your facts straight before you tackle a subject you know little to nothing about!
dee
January 16th, 2011
1:15 am
Stop it people! The birds were exposed. They’ve only played 4 good teams all year and they lost 3 of those. Steelers,saints and eagles.
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
1:16 am
hey timmay, I’m holding my head up, taking a deeeeeep breath, and yelling WHOOOOODAAAATTTT!!!! all over your town’s internets. U mad brah?
mikey vicks
January 16th, 2011
1:16 am
that was soooooo pathetic——-i even feel sorry for you losers. By the way anybodies knows where i can buys a pit bullz.
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
1:16 am
504 – it’s not so much about football as much as how and why new orleans sucks and their only claim in life is a team that won a superbowl. whoopedee do. you suck, your city sucks, and your taint team lost to a 7-9 team last week, so they suck, too.
sofa cough
CAPTAIN Kirk
January 16th, 2011
1:16 am
I guess I missed whatever trent Dilfer said that several posters have mentioned………
just what was so epic that emerged from his piehole??
WhoDatXLIV
January 16th, 2011
1:16 am
your quarterback = mediocre at best, also sounds like he hasn’t hit puberty yet
your running back = morbidly obese, probably has another year before he’s obsolete
your tight end = older than the dinosaurs, and a loser, too
your team = sitting on the sofa for the next 200 days, also losers.
you know, we had an early exit from the playoffs too, but the difference between the SAINTS and the foulclowns is that we have a ring for being ONE OF THE BEST, MOST DOMINANT TEAMS OF ALL TIME, and you have NOTHING. it don’t mean a thing if you ain’t got that ring baby!
it’s okay, bourbon street is always open for y’all to come drink your sorrows away. you’re welcome anytime
William T. Sherman
January 16th, 2011
1:18 am
Enough, Matthew. It’s bedtime. Momma and Pa are calling you up now. Put down your computer and put on your jammies and go to bed with your sister. After all, your shift at Wal-mart starts at 5am sharp. I’d hate to see you stock store shelves up with nary a couple of hours of sleep. BTW, always remember my haunting words as I rode victoriusly out of Atl that fateful winter….BURN, BABY BURN!!
Aints
January 16th, 2011
1:18 am
@reality check, they’re old and Drew Brews is regressing – look at his INT’s this year, he looked more like Jay Cutler and Eli Manning.
serious
January 16th, 2011
1:18 am
through the thick and thin, i am always proud to be a falcons fan. Haters can hate, but i love my team.
and i would never root for someone else.
and the rest of you can burn in hell, especially aints fans who have nothing better to do than feel good about other teams loosing.
Looking forward to next year. can’t win em all. sometimes you get humiliated.
i would think aints would know about that, but i don’t think they even care.
So keep spouting who dat, because we all know its now the seahawks calling card.
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
1:18 am
WhoDatXLIV – we all know that your invitation to drink on bourbon street is also an invite to get butt raped, sofa cough.
Falcons Suck Tonight
January 16th, 2011
1:19 am
Well, it seems like old times, 1980 in particular, when our hearts were ripped out by Danny White and the ‘Boys in the last seconds. Except it wasn’t the end of the game,
and we were destroyed early on the scoreboard and in our heads. Don’t blame the
fans for leaving early when the damn team gave up a few seconds into the 3rd quarter!
It was obvious we needed to take more chances and throw downfield but our offense is not allowed to do that except in extreme circumstances. Our defense needs to be mostly rebuilt, we cannot stop an offense like GB, I saw the first GB game recently and we were very lucky to beat them the 1st time. Just thank god it wasn’t to the Saints or the Iggles.
This was definitely the biggest letdown in Falcons history. The team laid down, pure and simple.
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
1:20 am
my city is the greatest city on earth matty.
“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.”
You see that matty? Your city is cleveland.
GETTOFFDABUSS
January 16th, 2011
1:20 am
whats worse for you AINTS is that Matt Ryan looked old and regressed tonight
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
1:21 am
504 is a one trick pony. U lame, brah? Yea u lame.
rooster
January 16th, 2011
1:21 am
bofus41… I salute you, sir, for being a gracious winner. No, the score could probably not have been reversed, though the home team might have one a close one had some key mistakes been avoided. But the Packers forced some mistakes, and that’s part of being a great team also. And yes, Aaron Rodgers is something special. Congratulations. Your Packers might have been fundamentally the NFC’s best team all along. Hope they get to the SB and beat Foxboro.
Pour4now
January 16th, 2011
1:21 am
WOW, are the Saints fans always this bad to the ATL fans? I’m not sure I would be running my mouth after the Saints got embarassed by the 7-9 Seahawks. I’m also not sure winning 1 NFL Championship qualifies your team for elite status. Saints fans with any class should have been rooting for the team still left from their division. I don’t get it.
Aints
January 16th, 2011
1:21 am
He didn’t look old at all but he did have 2 boneheaded throws.
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
1:21 am
“I guess I missed whatever trent Dilfer said that several posters have mentioned………
just what was so epic that emerged from his piehole??”
He said before the Falcons-Saints MNF game that the Saints would beat the Falcons then and come back to the Dome and beat the Falcons again in the divisional round.
Didn’t quite play out like he predicted, but from the Falcons’ point of view it was pretty close.
Doesn’t do anything to change the fact that for the worst Super Bowl winning quarterback in NFL history, he sure does have a huge sense of self-worth.
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
1:22 am
i know new orleans. its a broke joke sitting on the world’s taint like a giant hemorrhoid. it just needs to be sunk for good. all the way to the west bank.
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
1:22 am
what’s the matter timmmaaayyyy? U still mad brah?
Keep Paying
January 16th, 2011
1:22 am
I won’t be renewing my season tix….good news for you saints fans….u can come to the GA Dome and spend some of your federal tax paying bailout clean up checks……I think its called stimulus money
FALCLOWNS are losers
January 16th, 2011
1:22 am
Good night fellow Saints fans….was a great joy to mess with the rednecks I have to interact with daily….I definitely miss home….will be a great football season next year when my Tigers and Saints dominate again….btw, ignore people like Matthew and Timmy as they are special needs….WHO DAT! Life is good when the FALCLONS embarrass themselves on national TV and suffer EPIC FAILURE…their loss to GB is the real Katrina story of football tonight…
Falclowns fans – have a wonderful offseason thinking about your EPIC failure and the fact that the SAINTS have a SB RING and YOU DON’T and NEVER WILL….you support a pathetic franchise…
Seahawks4life
January 16th, 2011
1:22 am
You New Orleans fans have no room to talk after the spanking from our team. Watch us beat the Bears and shock the world by beating the Packers next week!
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
1:24 am
It’s OK Matty, the failcans still have an excellent home record when ice ice baby is QB. You know, as long as they aren’t playing the SAINTS. WHO DAT! WHODAT WHODAT WHODAT! (multiple times just for timmaaayyy)
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
1:24 am
504, u lame, brah? Yea u lame.
Matthew
January 16th, 2011
1:24 am
hey clown. with any luck, you’ll get washed away and we won’t have to put up with your idiocy next season.
504forlice
January 16th, 2011
1:26 am
brah? ize like so stoopid. i love taints. boogity, voodoo, blah blah blah, brah?
404chan
January 16th, 2011
1:26 am
504forlife
u jelly we richer than you
lol you madder than hell
lol u jelly so mad at 8-9
dfosterf
January 16th, 2011
1:26 am
I think that every single poster that complained about the Packers being characterized as “dangerous” owes everyone an apology.
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
1:27 am
Agreed, Matthew. These clowns who come over here to talk trash are the lowest of the low, and sometimes it takes drastic actions to weed them out.
404chan
January 16th, 2011
1:27 am
saints play great at home except for the falcons, by your logic 504forlife
oh u mad u mad u so jelly
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
1:27 am
Don’t be mad timmayyy. Teach me more about minstrels timmayy. WHO DAT!
Mike
January 16th, 2011
1:27 am
I really think Matt Ryan needs to work on his arm strength this offseason. Love his intangibles but he throws a very weak ball, I’ve seen high school QB’s with stronger arms.
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
1:28 am
Yea 504 be jelly. He so jelly. He lame too. 504, u lame, brah? Yea u lame.
GETTOFFDABUSS
January 16th, 2011
1:29 am
atlanta payroll= $0 all the banks have failed
Fletcher
January 16th, 2011
1:29 am
Bottom line Falcons are not ready for the big stage. It’s a mans league. Stop with the talk and the “Matty Ice” stuff. To win playoff games is what its all about. Everything else is your aunt talking.
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
1:29 am
Dang 504 you so jelly. I can tell. So jelly. U lame, brah? Yea u lame.
FalconHata
January 16th, 2011
1:29 am
Matthew, your revisionist history is lame. BTW, I wish my Coors Light was as cold as Matty Ice was tonight!
rooster
January 16th, 2011
1:29 am
504 for life…Your city is actually a peculiar, corrupt, dirty little dump smaller than Charlotte, Nashville, Sacramento, and Buffalo, and Jacksonville, and known for public intoxication, a particular type of music, and a particular type of food…sort of like Jamaica without the beaches.
404chan
January 16th, 2011
1:30 am
504forlife u so mad jelly mad mad
8-9
8-9
8-9
hey i can be retarded on the internet too!
it was a great regular season and at least the hawks aren’t moving to green bay (i bet chris paul and the hornets will love seattle)
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
1:30 am
Timmy sound like he bat for the otha team
matthew
January 16th, 2011
1:31 am
Revisionist history? Wow, someone learned a big word today.
Sherminator4chan
January 16th, 2011
1:31 am
Packazz brought the heat. Made me homesick. U mad brah?
Timmy
January 16th, 2011
1:32 am
504 want some Timmy? U want some Timmy, brah? Yea u want some Timmy. But you can’t have no Timmy, brah. You so jelly.
matthew
January 16th, 2011
1:34 am
Taint fans – by coming here you remove all doubt that you’re losers in life.
sofa cough
MattyIce
January 16th, 2011
1:35 am
Next time I’m in the playoffs I’m shaving my eyebrows. Ice ice Matty… but he melted, he melted.
U mad?
Keep Paying
January 16th, 2011
1:35 am
Loserville?
Micheal
January 16th, 2011
1:36 am
What is it with everyone saying that the Falcons had an easy schedule……we beat really good teams….2 against Tampa, GB, NO and Baltimore. We did win 13 games! Also, for those that say the fans made fun of Hurricane Katrina victims….get real! We never did that! Falcons will be back next year and even better!
reality check
January 16th, 2011
1:36 am
Aints: They(saints) are no older than the Falcons pal. You may be surprised at next years roster because some of their young guys have beaten out veterans that will be gone. Mickey Loomis does an excellent job so I wouldn’t underestimate him. You are correct about Brees’ int’s, but the Saints have an attacking aggressive passing game that will throw some int’s. With Ivory and Thomas(who is projected to be re-signed) healthly, the Saints run game could return to their form of 2009. Their recievers and secondary are deep. However they do need a couple of outside linebackers, a pass rusher on the D-line, and another O-tackle. When healthly, they definitely have fewer holes than the Falcons do.
matthew
January 16th, 2011
1:37 am
Falcons lost to teams with winning records.
Taints lost to teams with losing records.
Yourownreporter
January 16th, 2011
1:37 am
EPIC FAIL.
/thread
Weatherman
January 16th, 2011
1:37 am
As the ice melted in Atlanta today from the winter storm earlier in the week, so did your quarterback.
egghead
January 16th, 2011
1:37 am
HELL , I DON’T KNOW WHERE TO START WITH THIS DEBACLE ……TALK ABOUT SUCK…..DAMN Y’ALL SUCK THE BIG ONE……LOSERS!!!!!! HA HA F—IDIOTS TO THINK THAT YOU KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A CHAMPION…..PALEAZZZE….QUIT BEING RETARDED AND LOOK AT REALITY!!!
whodat70816
January 16th, 2011
1:39 am
Who still AINT got a super bowl ring?
Who AINT done nothing with their #1 seed, home field advantage and their bye week?
ATLchan
January 16th, 2011
1:39 am
timmmaaayyyyy you can eat some crow wit dat jelly brah! WHO DAT!
MattyNO-ICE
January 16th, 2011
1:39 am
As a Packers fan, All I heard all day and week was how Rodgers was a “Stats QB” and Matt Ryan was a really winner. Really? What has Matt Ryan won?? I’m tired of listening to Atlanta junk…y’all deserved this beatdown so y’all could understand where you stand in the NFL…NO WHERE!!! Ha Ha…Falcons fans will always be ignorant and weak…The Packers are a true NFL franchise and a better team from top to bottom…it’s about time that the ATL’s BS luck ran out this year….Matty Ice pissed his pants, and Aaron Rodgers will lead the Packers back to Greatness!!! GO PACK GO!!!
Arthur Blank Stare
January 16th, 2011
1:39 am
Good night to all the Saints and Packers fans. I’m not a fan of either but I seriously can’t stand the city of Atl, its teams, and their fair-weather “fans”. I think I need to sell this wretched team. BTW, I really think Timmy and Matthew share a condo in Midtown if you know what I mean…
jestjuda
January 16th, 2011
1:40 am
BREAKING NEWS: CNN HAS JUST REPORTED THAT THERE ARE DEAD DIRTY BIRDS FALLING FROM THE SKY ALL OVER THE ATL.!!! GEAUX SAINTS!!!
FailcanFan
January 16th, 2011
1:41 am
I rose up in the 3 quarter. Rose up, out of my seat, and out of the stadium.
Yeah, I was mad brah.
whodat70816
January 16th, 2011
1:41 am
@mathew…
And how did all that losing to teams with a winning record turn out for your Falcons?
Hickory Avenue
January 16th, 2011
1:42 am
@Timmy and Matthew —- you guys represent just exactly what is wrong with the “ATL ” fan-base , which is more focused on trash-talking , and in the process , exposing the extremely low “football IQ ” that alot of your fellow fans have been afflicted with ; but fortunately , there is some hope , however , since a guy like FalconsUGAFan apparently has vastly superior football knowledge , in comparison with you 2 a**-clowns , so perhaps there is a chance for the possibility of some Falcons fans to actually “RISE UP” with a little CLASS , after all ; the bottom line is that your Pigeons got reamed mighty hard tonight , and I’m sure thatit is a very unpleasant feeling ; but take pride in the fact that the Pigeons still are a very good team , and they’ll be back in the mix next year —but so will the Saints , and them (and us )aren’t going to be going away anytime soon , and that has to be the most disheartening thing of all , “ain’t ” it ?????
Go Pack Go!
January 16th, 2011
1:42 am
Thanks to the Falcons and their fans for the most exciting game so far this year
GO PACK GO!
matthew
January 16th, 2011
1:44 am
hick – this is an atl forum, so get lost
BJ Tompkins
January 16th, 2011
1:44 am
Bears Fan here. How did Atlanta win so many games???? They looked putrid.
saintssuck
January 16th, 2011
1:45 am
hey arthur blank stare, sounds like you love one part of the city since you know where the man whores live…time to go spoon with yours I guess…
GETTOFFDABUSS
January 16th, 2011
1:45 am
hey matty is that sofa cough clearing out male pubic hairs…or is it matty ice cubes??
DawgDad
January 16th, 2011
1:45 am
I stopped reading your article after the headline. The SEASON was an “epic fail”? Schultz, there are no words sufficient to express the loathing I hold for you and the AJC for allowing that to be posted.
This GAME and the PLAYOFF RUN was an “epic fail”. The SEASON surely was not. I for one enjoyed watching every minute of the Falcons games. As I posted on the Bradley blog, this is not a time to cry in our beers, it’s time to be thankful for a great season and for having a team with a future.
Hickory Avenue
January 16th, 2011
1:45 am
@Michael — Dude , have you been living in a cave ??? How about coming back to the “real world’ , where the REST of us live ……….
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
1:45 am
lulz @ matty and timmaaaay bein mad.
WHO DAT
Lassie
January 16th, 2011
1:46 am
Timmy? Put up a real name kiddie. What are you, all of 10 years old? BTW, my offer is still good Timmy. Meet me at the back of your trailer in a few minutes…
matthew
January 16th, 2011
1:47 am
whodat – it turned out to be a better record than the taints. that’s what.
NOLA
January 16th, 2011
1:47 am
Micheal…..Not saying it was you,but some of your Falcant brethren,did indeed make many references to Katrina. In fact that was their favorite comeback. So before some of you say how classless us Saints fans are for coming over here and rubbing it in your faces a bit. Some of you should sweep your own doorstep before talking about someone elses being dirty. If your fans comments were strictly about football,Im sure most Saints fans would’ve been pulling for ATL. But the Katrina comments were way outta line. Case in point Monday night in the NC game. We dont like Auburn,but most of us were rooting for them just because they are a SEC team,and just because they are located in the South.
Hickory Avenue
January 16th, 2011
1:48 am
@Matthew — you need to go to the doctor and get that cough checked out , SISSY BOY ……
matthew
January 16th, 2011
1:48 am
fa cough
JSS
January 16th, 2011
1:49 am
ijonathan
January 15th, 2011
1:40 pm
“@JSS…Professor, NARC, “Cutty Shark”…lots of names for a well-rounded, modern renaissance man. LMAO.”
_______________________________________________________________________________
You forgot “Oracle of Epic Falcons Failure!”
GETTOFFDABUSS
January 16th, 2011
1:50 am
guess he was wit a guy that doesnt shave regularly hickory ave
whodat70816
January 16th, 2011
1:51 am
@matthew….LOL..but both teams will be sitting home watching the Super Bowl.
So enjoy the Failcants 2010 13-3 season and their #1 seed they couldn’t even do anything with. Enjoy it, because next season they’ll be lucky to win 10.
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
1:51 am
I was worried when you combined the 1 week layoff with the ice storm chaos. It looks like that is what happened. That was not the same team I watched all season, but I’m used to saying that since I’m more of a Braves fan. ATL teams and the playoffs just don’t work out much.
Brian
January 16th, 2011
1:51 am
What a let down. Packers brought their “A” game and Falcons couldn’t respond. They imposed their will on the Falcons. Aaron Rogers was unstoppable. Congratulations Packers. If they put up 2 more games like that, they will be impossible to beat.
expatoz
January 16th, 2011
1:51 am
I thought there was no way any team could lay a bigger egg than New Orleans did this postseason. Boy, was I wrong.
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
1:51 am
matty likes playin’ doctor with the other boys, that’s why he’s always coughing….
lolumadmatty?
whodat70816
January 16th, 2011
1:52 am
Rise up?
LOL
Sit your @$$es down!
matthew
January 16th, 2011
1:54 am
hickory avenue and offdabus have this in common: they spend their lives hiding behind a keyboard typing things they’d never have the balls to say to someone’s face.
GETTOFFDABUSS
January 16th, 2011
1:54 am
scott please lovely atlanta my A$$. your town has more natural disasters on a weekly basis…arent you still shoveling snow off the streets??? has the kids been to school lately??? how many banks have foreclosed in the past few weeks??? if atlanta is a lovely metropolis than adam and eve began in new orleans
NOLA
January 16th, 2011
1:54 am
The bottom of the NFC South?? HAHAHAHA!!! You still must have a lil bit of jizz in your eye from shooting your wad too soon….
matthew
January 16th, 2011
1:55 am
and 504 is a troll self-pleasuring his rectum with his mom’s rusty dildo right about now. right, brah?
Stew
January 16th, 2011
1:56 am
blow it up again. start all over. this effort was pitiful. just lost all interest in falcon’s football
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
1:56 am
lolumad? matty down to mamma jokes, yeah u mad brah. WHO DAT!
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January 16th, 2011
1:56 am
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peter thermansen
January 16th, 2011
1:56 am
GB season ticket holder. 55 years old — seen some games. Tonight, things went GB’s way. For the most part, probably because GB was the better team. In time, this will change. That is the beauty of the game. I think the best part of being a fan is that it can help you strive to be better at what you do, if only for a awhile. May the best team win.
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
1:57 am
Has the kids been to school? than adam and eve? wtf
Justin
January 16th, 2011
1:57 am
What happened tonight was appalling! A 13-3 team should never get ripped apart at home. Ridiculous. AS A FAN I WANT ACTION! Heads need to roll for this.
GETTOFFDABUSS
January 16th, 2011
1:58 am
awwww matty dont get so teary eyed…you think i’m going to give you my full name so you can commit identity theft on me like atlantans do…lmao. and bsides dude i didnt want to fight all of a sudden when you said new orleans was all that stuff. get the pric out ya mouf and take it (up tha butt) like a man
Mitchell
January 16th, 2011
1:58 am
Why is it Schultzie and Bradley take this kind of stance on the Falcons and pretty much every other team in this city but not the Braves?
Somebody wanna tell me that? Explain that to me please.
When the Braves tanked it in September and totally choked yet again in the playoffs it was like, “What a magical year for the Braves.”
“Heartbreaking loss to the Giants does little to diminish a marvelous 2010 season.”
Bulls***!
If you blow a 7.5 game lead in your division and end up going 18-19 in the final two months and have the best home record in the majors and lose both of your home playoff games by a run… it’s a bad season.
If the manager and players are crying after being eliminated in the playoffs,,, IT WAS A BAD SEASON!!!
And not good crying. Not tears of joy. No, tears of failure.
Somebody tell me why Bobby Cox or Scheurholz never got this kind of direct criticism from the AJC.
Maybe we the fans would have been spared tears of our own for twenty years.
I hate to say I don’t really care about the Falcons. I was hoping they would win but my TV signal was out and after listening to the first half on the radio I could tell it was completely over.
I knew they would lose though. All our teams lose.
When you win thirteen games and dominate all year and then lose at home in the playoffs, your season was a definite waste.
It’s nice to see the media in this town tell it like it is for once.
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
2:00 am
Braves did not have a good team. Good pitching, but the D and O were not so great. This was a pretty good Falcons team and that got us a serious beat down. The team is not a total failure, but that game sure as hell was.
GETTOFFDABUSS
January 16th, 2011
2:01 am
aww you no what i mean count_spatula dont pretend you didnt get it schmuck…you hurt too???
expatoz
January 16th, 2011
2:02 am
NOLA, honestly…I would never waste my time on the NO chat. And, really, you are going to bash the Falcons for losing to the Packers after your team lost to the Seahawks?
*****
The Birds didn’t lose, they were annihilated — at home.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:04 am
Tell your FB that he should have been preparing for the Pack last weekend instead of watching the Saints/Seahawks game at the bar cheering on the Seahawks. And “Matty ice”…..that name is earned in the POSTseason. Tell me when he earns it…..that’s it for now, gotta go look at a pic of our Lombardi trophy!
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
2:04 am
The fact that Saints fans come in here to knock on falcon fans is kinda pathetic. Your trying to make yourselves feel better about your loss. We lost to a hot packers team that is alot better than the seattle team you lost to last week. Both fan bases should feel ashamed at the ending to their seasons. With that said I will be the first falcons fan to admit we were more fortunate than good this season. But on the bright side I know the falcons will have more success in the long run then the saints because we have a damn good owner who will do whatever it takes to get us up with the best in the NFL. Ten years from now the falcons will laugh about this loss. You have to crawl before you walk. Three years ago we did not even know how to crawl. The falcons will make the changes next season that are necessary to get to the next level I can guarantee you that.
NOLA
January 16th, 2011
2:04 am
Im gonna do a little paraphrasing here…
Saints are raw, you ain’t even medium rare, stay the f*@k outta our hair boy
You can look, you can stare, point,
But you can’t touch we’re too clairvoyant
I don’t get it man, is there a void,
All this weak sh*t, what we steroids?
Well b@*ch, we back with some sh*t for that a$$,
In ya trunk elephant hemorrhoids
And remember boys…
Saints SB Rec 1-0
Falcants 0-1
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
2:05 am
nice talking to you matty… brb, going to look at more pics of saints superbowl rings!!!
#whodat
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
2:07 am
@GETTOFFDABUSS, I was replying to Mitchell. You are obviously an illiterate, so there is no conversation to be had with you. Get yo’ momma to read this back to you since even these short monosyllabic words probably escape you.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:08 am
UGAKev…….we’ll see how many SB you have in 10 years…..zero! And if you think fans are “pathetic” for having some fun, then what do you think of Roddy White opening his big mouth the week of the Saints/Falcons game a few weeks ago. Is that not pathetic of him….and even worse after his team lost thatb game? Please.
Jeff Schultz
January 16th, 2011
2:08 am
I’m having to delete too many comments. Please clean it up. I don’t want to have to close this blog to commenting and start banning people.
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
2:09 am
roddy white’s next tweet: “by the grace of god atlanta… oh wait, god don’t like atlanta neither”
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
2:10 am
Schultzie… lol, it’s a 2am drunken blog tonight. Let us vent. Go Braves!
JSS
January 16th, 2011
2:11 am
The embarrassments keep coming…
http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-falcons-blog/2011/01/16/falcons-coaching-staff-to-coach-nfc-team-in-pro-bowl/?cp=1#comment-79926
Oh the irony, they have to coach Vick!!!
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:11 am
Is the Ga dome, and really old Fulton Co. stadium, the easiest stadium in the country for opposing fans to “take over” when the Falcons are losing? Apparently saints fans aren’t the only ones who can do it.
GETTOFFDABUSS
January 16th, 2011
2:11 am
my mother tried to read it too me count_schmuk but she didnt understand monnucleosis frekkin genious…if it weren’t for me making the same statements you commented on i would have left your sorry *ss alone. waste of time anyway(no comma) i was enjoying myself giving it to mattyice.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:12 am
JSS….THAT is funny
NOLA
January 16th, 2011
2:12 am
count_schemula…I’m with you there!! Jeff let the boys play. This blog has more excitement than the Falcants last showing!!
WhoDatXLIV
January 16th, 2011
2:13 am
people please…this isn’t about the fans. we can go back and forth calling people gay and poor or whatever for ages. honestly atlanta is a pretty cool place (it still has NOTHING on NOLA though), and everyone is welcome in the great city of New Orleans.
however, atlanta’s team is severely deficient in nearly all areas required for winning a super bowl, and it showed tonight. when you have a good quarterback, a good running back, a tight end who isn’t 96 years old, receivers who sound like they’ve actually had an education and don’t cheat, as well as a defense that doesn’t lay turd sandwiches on your home turf, then you can come into THE DOME and bring the noise. And next time, our kicker won’t miss the game-winning field goal.
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
2:13 am
@SHORTBUS
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
2:13 am
matty ice ice bayybeeeee. maybe if they’d lower the temperature in the jawja dome he wouldn’t melt like he did 2nite!!!
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
2:14 am
The funny thing is I could take the talking like a man if a steelers or patriots fan was talking about us but when a teams fans (saints) talk crap just because they got one super bowl in their trophy case its histerical. Seriously no one really cares… if you ask the average fan who won the superbowl last year they probably have already forgotton because it was such an irrelevant team that won it. Yeah the falcons are irrelevant too at this time in history, yeah dree brees is better than matt ryan, but it still does not take away from the face that the saints are justt as pathetic so there is no need to talk, it only makes u look retarded.
$hey
January 16th, 2011
2:15 am
Can we afford Cam Newton as our QB?!
Loserville USA
January 16th, 2011
2:16 am
Obvious game was fixed.
After 45 years I’m done with the NFL. Game was totally out of left field. No way. Don’t buy it.
Jeff Schultz
January 16th, 2011
2:16 am
IJonathan — Glad I wasn’t there.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:16 am
Whihc is why Roddy should shut up. I’m just saying be consistent when you call people out. Don’t be a homer.
BOBBY JACKTARD
January 16th, 2011
2:16 am
It’s soooo sad that we lost but damn them boys looked good in those shiny red uniforms. Don’t worry. We’ll win next week. Oh yes, and, wait for it – the GA Bulldogs will be number one by October 1st. Gooooo Georgia. Sic em woof, woof, woof!
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
2:17 am
People are gonna talk. Especially when it’s a rivalry. Especially when failcan fans make noise on our sites. Especially when idiot failcan receivers who can’t back up their smacktalk tweet messages about Katrina pregame.
Payback is payback.
Whodat is whodat.
Lombardi trophy is still in da big easy.
WHO DAT.
Jeff Schultz
January 16th, 2011
2:17 am
Voice of Reason– I’m not upset, really. Defense obviously was the biggest failure but Ryan’s pick six at end of first half was crusher.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:17 am
Glory, Glory Hahahahahahaha…..
DIAMOND DAVE
January 16th, 2011
2:18 am
The fix is in. Get a bet down.
ClatisC
January 16th, 2011
2:18 am
Jenkins also had to come back on a shortly thrown pass to play defender. Ryan’s lack of ability to get it on target and time on deep, like Rogers was exposed. I like Ryan, but I’m concerned about his accuracy on the deep routes.
I know we see drops, but Jenkins was doing a lot of “coming back to the ball” tonight. And Ryan’s decisions were not “ICE-like” by any means. That interception just before the half was Cutler-like.
Joe Buck even mentioned another pass, “No QB could get that pass there”.
JSS
January 16th, 2011
2:19 am
Man, you just have to be grown man, grown woman, or grown transgendered enough to admit that it was not your day, year, or decade(s)…
One, Nine, Six, Six, and 2011 won’t change that one…
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
2:19 am
If Joe Buck is slammin’ you… that’s not good.
NOLA
January 16th, 2011
2:20 am
Ok I just called my 86 yr old grandma who has Alzheimers,and Dementia. Who pretty much dont know what football is anymore,and asked her who won the Super Bowl last year?? Her ansewr?? You guessed it,THE NEW ORLEANS SAINTS!!!!
expatoz
January 16th, 2011
2:20 am
The funny thing is I could take the talking like a man if a steelers or patriots fan was talking about us but when a teams fans (saints) talk crap just because they got one super bowl in their trophy case its histerical. Seriously no one really cares… if you ask the average fan who won the superbowl last year they probably have already forgotton because it was such an irrelevant team that won it.
*****
Actually, I’m pretty certain that anyone who follows the NFL knows quite well who won last year, considering that the Saints were the most popular underdog ever in the Super Bowl.
Jeff Schultz
January 16th, 2011
2:20 am
Count_schemula — I’m aware of the hour and, hah, certainly the level of drunkeness. But sorry, commenting standards don’t change.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:21 am
Jeff…that’s question for the coaches. I understand a few more yards, but in hindsight….is there that much differenc in Bryant trying a 53 or a 48 yarder?
Jeff Schultz
January 16th, 2011
2:22 am
JSS — That is kind of funny.
matt
January 16th, 2011
2:22 am
From a Wisconsin Packer fan, you guys don’t have to hang your heads. You have a good team and your franchise has been turned around since the Vick fiasco. You will be good for years to come. To the guy who said he hoped us Cheesehead pr**** got our as*** handed to us in Seattle? You can put an all star team together of players from the Bears and Seahawks and play the game at either of those places and we still will win by 2 TD’s.
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
2:22 am
Saintsfan, your life must be very pathetic if this is called fun for you…lol. Your talking crap to about ten falcons fans on the atlanta journal constitution. I honestly hope this is helping you lick your wounds from last week because we would hate to see anymore of you get hurt. Roddy white is a complete bum, if I was the falcons I would throw major money and players to trade up to get a guy like A.J Green in the draft that just plays ball. Your preaching to the choir so you get no type of joy telling me that moron
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
2:23 am
Is it just my imagination or is GB’s #38 actually humping the football in that photo on the Georgia Sports homepage?
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:24 am
Licking my wounds…..??? Her’s a funny thing…guess what winning the SB does for ya? I’m actaully 1/100 as upset as I’d have been about Seattle were we not the WORLD CHAMPS….not that you would know how that feels though.
Jeff Schultz
January 16th, 2011
2:25 am
Saintsfan — There is: 5 yards. I think is long is 51. I get the point, some have debated whether they should’ve tried a pass. I didn’t have a problem with trying a play (maybe not that play) but if it’s not there then throw it away. You just can’t have that pick 6 at the end of the half.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:25 am
And actually I’m passiong teh time at work in the middle of the night.
reality check
January 16th, 2011
2:25 am
Tonight we may have seen the worst 13-3 team(now 13-4)in NFL history. The quarterback was totally both overmatched and overwhelmed. Those 600 carries for Turner the last two years has taken its toll on the former “burner”. Guys like Gonzalez and Abraham have seen their best days, and we all saw that the Falcons are not explosive at all. Where this team goes from here is anyone’s guess, but I think 10 wins could be tough to get next season unless this team upgrades their talent quickly. Remember this was possibly the NFL’s healthiest team. It was the league’s least penalized. It was a plus 14 in turnover margin before tonight, and it was near the top in time of possession which played a big part in being able to hide a suspect defense. Boy, was that defense exposed tonight, and so was the offense which really showed its lack of explosiveness. I think Dimitroff has a lot more holes to fill than he probably previously thought. It should be an interesting offseason to be sure!
A surprised Packers fan
January 16th, 2011
2:26 am
Being a Packers fan, I’m a little surprised by the mindset of Falcons and Saints fans. Winning a Super Bowl doesn’t mean you have a great team. It only means you had one great season.
Being a great team requires decades of successes. Packers fans don’t think about winning the Super Bowl so they can remember it 10 years later and show off their souvenirs. They aren’t focused on having a great season. They care about having a team that is consistently successful and that will carry on its tradition. If the Packers win the Super Bowl this year it will be just a footnote in the history of the team. This is a team that has a 75,000 person waiting list for season tickets and has fans everywhere on the planet. The city seal and the team logo are the same. The Packers don’t play football, they are football.
Learn from them. Don’t leave the stadium even if you are losing 100-3. And pick rivalries with teams that can sustain it. Finally, play the season only as a preparation for the playoffs. Your season record and seed means nothing. The playoffs are to the regular season as the regular season is to the preseason.
Green Bay’s victory today wasn’t surprising nor was Seattle’s victory last week. In the last decade, Green Bay has made the playoffs 7 times and Seattle has made it 6 times. While it isn’t possible for the Saints or Falcons to be like Green Bay, the Seahawks would be a great team to emulate. The fan base is fanatic and the team is built to win over the long run. While Seattle currently has no titles, give them 20 years and people will recognize their power. Seattle wants to be like Green Bay, Chicago, or Pittsburgh. Atlanta and New Orleans should too.
GETTOFFDABUSS
January 16th, 2011
2:26 am
@WhoDatxliv
i agree completely, i think atlanta and new orleans are two of the coolest places on the planet. but roddy and these numbskull fans coming on nola.com was the end all. actually enjoy the saints-falcons rivalry and thought this season is where it should be. these guys had too much arrogance and needed to be taken down. congrats to all the whodats that came on here too get after those jerks (bet they are off the bandwagon by now) from the past two weeks
TCCB
January 16th, 2011
2:26 am
I knew that the Falcons were an ok team. I did not get into all that World Championship mess; and besides it is Harvest time for Aurthor Blank, you reep what you sew!!!!!!
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:26 am
good points, reality check.
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
2:27 am
The bears are going to win the NFC, I guarantee it. The packers believe they are better then they are by beating a overated falcons team. Either way the super bowl champ runs through the AFC this year. Another trophy for the Pats. I wish the falcons had a guy like brady
JSS
January 16th, 2011
2:28 am
@ Jeff Schultz…
Wonder how Smith and his staff are going to look in those June Jones shirts and leis? Life is SO much better than fiction!
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:29 am
A surprised Packers fan …..ask them about the Braves (and I’m actaully a Braves fan my whole life in N.O).. believe me whne I say that Braves fans would take 2-3 more titel as opposed to all those “consistent” division champs who failed in the playoffs.
G. Tampa Bedwetter
January 16th, 2011
2:29 am
Falcons …. Thanks for a great ride.
TCCB
January 16th, 2011
2:30 am
One and done, just like I said when the playoffs began.
matt
January 16th, 2011
2:31 am
A surprised Packers fan…..I think there is a team that actually wins once every 30 years and then throws their souvenirs in everyone’s face like they are the team of the century…..but then again, if you had to root for the Cubs every summer, I’d understand why Bears fans do it, too. LOL.
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
2:31 am
A Surprised Packers fan, You have alot of nerve to talk about tradition to SEC country. The falcons are not the most popular team in the state. This is Georgia bulldog country where 95,000 fans feel up the greatest place in the country on saturdays. That is where our resources go to. The falcons are just a bonus in this state. I love the Falcons, but they will never have my heart like my dawgs do win or lose.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:31 am
Be like Green Bay? Aren’t we already? Packers 7 playoffs, one SB title. Saints 7 playoffs, one SB title. Who cares about 40 years ago?
NOLA
January 16th, 2011
2:31 am
A surprised Packers fan…I agree with you totally. Green Bay has always been my “second” fav team. Go Pack!!
Hickory Avenue
January 16th, 2011
2:31 am
Hey , Schultz —-I know I’m a Saints fan , but a serious question for you , since you cover this team , which is this ; With the bye week off for extra practice and game-planning , etc. , shouldn’t the Falcons have given a much more COMPETITIVE effort ? After Weems ’s kickoff return for TD , seemed almost as if they mailed it in from there — not what I would expect from a team that pretty much was in front of the entire NFC for most of the year . I think that you would have to agree with me that they got out-coached , rather BADLY …..(?)
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:32 am
Or like that Jersey he bought form AJ green either.
matt
January 16th, 2011
2:32 am
And yeah UGA Kev….maybe you missed that game a month ago where we almost beat the Patriots in their house with our BACKUP QUARTERBACK LOL.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:33 am
SEriuosly UGA……the Bears may be the worst NFC champ on record if it happens.
ATLisNONEandDONE
January 16th, 2011
2:35 am
WOW_ you guys really stunk it up tonight-like you didnt even belong!!!! How embarrassing! Maybe think twice next time-before talking so much SH*T on the website of the CHAMPS!!!!
…….FACT—–> we have a RING and the LOMBARDI!!!!!!!!!!!, ATL—->does not!!!! HA HA
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:35 am
That would be Matt “Matty Ice” Flynn……a Tiger, not a Dawg.
CAPTAIN Kirk
January 16th, 2011
2:35 am
Najeh,
thanks..for cluin me in.. I never knew Dilfer won anything unless he had a D to carry him>>
it is fun workin my way thru all this vitriol between Birds n Aints fans..and some of the witty comments..
I lived in A town before we relocated to Arkansas for a promotion. Ive been to NO and know full well all the criticism s of both cities.. Before we left when the Birds were in turmoil ala Vick Petrino…one of the reasons we left were the flood of illegals into rental housing in our neighborhood and that the cops did nuthin to enforce noise ordinances or improve the quality of life..It was a common complaint across the metro area that gangbangers and illegals were makin fun of decent citizens..which is the main reason we left and moved to the sticks..so I can appreciate the vitriol of Aints fans toward my Brids..even thouugh the facts behind the vitriol arent really accurate
Before we left ATL, I listened to quite a bit of Sports talk radio and the Vick defenders were legion in defending a scumbag criminal beacuse of race alone… Then I said goodbye to my home of the previous 32 yrs and hit the road..
This loss burns though as did the one in ‘80 and for much the same reason. Thanks
CK
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
2:35 am
sign matt, comparing games…the number one sign of a less educated fan.
matt
January 16th, 2011
2:35 am
Saintsfan….MORON…..we have 1 Superbowl win? Maybe look up your NFL history and the names Vince Lombardi and Bart Starr. We have won several Super Bowls…..and real ones, too…..not one that was fabricated for the NFL just to re-invigorate the NOLA economy and get press out of NO winning. We saw how fake your team was this year. I only wish the Packers would have had the chance to pound you into the ground this or last year.
TCCB
January 16th, 2011
2:36 am
Where is CHOKE?????????????
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
2:36 am
saintsfan your the worst superbowl champ on record…whats your point?
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:36 am
Matt…notice how they brought Matt Flynn in to ICE it at the end!
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
2:37 am
The bye, the snow/ice and the INT with :08 before the half. I’m not making excuses, but this team is not as bad as we saw tonight, and they are maybe not quite as good as we thought. Ryan may not be an elite QB, merely a good QB. If he’s on plan, then he’s ok. When the plan falls apart. Trouble,
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:37 am
confession….I grew up in the eary 80s a Bartkowski-White shoes fan. I liked those Atl teams alot. They were very genuine, maybe b/c I was so young. Idon’t know. The Falcons today are just boring to me. No offense.
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
2:37 am
there was no fabrication. Saints 2009 world champions. Believe dat!
GETTOFFDABUSS
January 16th, 2011
2:37 am
@surprised that you can type
you must have read that information from how to be a fan for DUMMIES!!!
i bet those wooden trophies are ashes in someones fireplace by now. you really sound silly
expatoz
January 16th, 2011
2:38 am
@Surprised Packers fan: If you don’t think Saints fans are faithfully fanatic and fanatically faithful, you must never read news outside of Green Bay. But thanks for the arrogance.
matt
January 16th, 2011
2:38 am
Well see UGA Kev…I guess that is the difference between you and I. I don’t buy into the ESPN hype like you might. Maybe it’s the same hype all of you Falcon fans bought into until you got exposed and anyone who knows football (and the 95% of experts who picked the Packers to win tonight) knew that. The Patriots don’t impress us. Matter of fact, they looked rather unimpressive when we played them…..the same you guys looked when we played you in the regular season. We are realistic about our team and realistically….no one is beating us if we play like we did tonight….Patriots, Saints….don’t matter.
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
2:39 am
“The embarrassments keep coming…
http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-falcons-blog/2011/01/16/falcons-coaching-staff-to-coach-nfc-team-in-pro-bowl/?cp=1#comment-79926
Oh the irony, they have to coach Vick!!!”
Haha…that’s EXACTLY what I thought of when I saw that. Best Falcons coaching staff Vick is ever going to have.
matt
January 16th, 2011
2:39 am
Hey 504forlife…..2009 is over. It’s 2011. The Saints are golfing right now. Believe dat.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:39 am
“saintsfan your the worst superbowl champ on record…whats your point?”….Evidence?
“not one that was fabricated for the NFL just to re-invigorate the NOLA economy” …belive me, aside form selling a few t-shirts, the economy down here is not reinvigorated. dumb comment.
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
2:40 am
Actually saints fans to be honest with you talking crap about the falcons is not a big deal to most falcon fans, your prob wasting your time. It does not hurt falcons fans to suck. The only way you might possibly get under any fans skin is if you talk crap about how bad the dawgs sucked this year. Thats who the fans care about here unless you are one of the few tech-falcon fans.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:41 am
Golfing…and poliching the SB ruings in between shots no less!
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
2:41 am
2011. Time for TwoDat!
ATLisNONEandDONE
January 16th, 2011
2:41 am
I am sooooooo happy. I wonder where ATLFALCONNO1 is????? Show your face!
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:41 am
Hey UGA KEV……how many Falcon jersyes do you think AJ will sell if they draft him?
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
2:42 am
would talk crap about dawgs… but dawgs will not play LSU next year unless they make the SEC championship game…. its possible but I don’t see that happening. Prolly Florida-LSU.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:43 am
Mark this down…….UGA will beat Auburn by two Tds next year.
ATLisNONEandDONE
January 16th, 2011
2:43 am
NONE and Done! …..Still no superbowl rings ATL Failcons, Oh well, maybe next year!! Ha Ha!! WHO DAT!! WHO DAT!!
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
2:43 am
No offense? They had a 1200+ yard receiver and back and their game was controlling the clock, which is legitimate. We did not control the clock. We got killed. The Packers played a great Packers game. The Falcons did not play a good Falcons game. You only get the one chance though and right now the postseason 0-1 hurts a lot more than the regular season 13-3 felt good.
matt
January 16th, 2011
2:43 am
I’m just playing with you NO fans. At least you still rep your team to your rivals. Not….”well we lost but I’m not even a Falcon fan….I’m a Dawg fan.” Get real. Yeah….UGA….even worse. How did THEY do this year?
Falcon Jack
January 16th, 2011
2:44 am
Great season by the Falcons. Some Murphy Law stuff happened and Rodgers was on fire. Next year, everything could go the Falcons way. WE LOVE AND SUPPORT THE ATLANTA FALCONS. THANKS YOU FOR A GREAT SEASON.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
2:45 am
If I “had to be like a GB fan”…..I think I’d just go out back and shoot myself! I’m surprised the idiot in the #52 jersey in about Sec 106 or so didn’t have his teeth knocked out and his body dragged from endzone to endzone. We could see him all the way from Sec 316.
OK….So how does a guy get so wasted when the beer is gone in the 2nd QTR? Not buying it, sorry. He was just another GB friggin fan who thinks the sports world revolves around a frozen piece of the USA that most Americans have never visited or even had the most REMOTE DESIRE to visit in their lifetimes! Green Bay, WIS….A tourist destination…..LOL
It’s not MY Green Bay….It’s YOURS. So instead of Go Pack Go, why don’t you just GO BACK HOME?!? This just in….98.9% of Americans polled would rather live in Alaska than Green Bay. The other 1.1% would choose to have their remaining teeth pulled with rusty pliers and no local anesthesia.
Get it? Celebrate your football victory tonight because you’re DOOMED to live in a place like Green Bay Wisconsin…..
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
2:46 am
Rodgers was on fire. No choice but to that performance props.
matt
January 16th, 2011
2:46 am
UGA Kevin….your attitude about the Falcons….and I know it’s not rare down there…..I know most FB fans are UGA fans and not Falcon fans….is the reason why Packers fans were able to get so many tickets and why your crowd was never really a factor tonight and everyone in Wisconsin knew that you guys are all transplants and fair weather fans.
ATLisNONEandDONE
January 16th, 2011
2:46 am
You guys SUCK! what a poor performance by the NUMBER ONE SEED!!!! HA HA
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
2:46 am
Matt I was one of the 95% so there is no point in telling me that. I knew the falcons would lose. I actually would of bet the house on it. Why? Because I watched everygame this season and knew the reality. When you mix in the fact that the falcons caught breaks and that the city of atlanta chokes in any sport then you get the outcome tonight. It was not a hard game to pick. But you are going to get a false sense of security. The patriots did not take you serious the last time you played because it is hard to get fired up for a team that does not have their franchise starting quarterback playing against you. The patriots almost learned a lesson from that. They will not do that again, especially in the playoffs.
expatoz
January 16th, 2011
2:46 am
confession….I grew up in the eary 80s a Bartkowski-White shoes fan. I liked those Atl teams alot. They were very genuine, maybe b/c I was so young. Idon’t know.
*****
lol this brings nightmares of Big Ben and any number of other humiliations for the Saints to my head. Thanks, now I’ll never get to sleep tonight.
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
2:48 am
Saintsfan, As many as he wants. And it will be ALOT.. Thats the beauty of being a pro
NOLA
January 16th, 2011
2:48 am
Fabricated Super Bowl win…HAHAHAHAHAHA. How much do you think they payed Peyton too throw the pick that sealed the deal?? I guess the ref’s in the NFC Champ Game said “Hey Brett we need to have 12 guys in the huddle,then throw a pick” Get over it!! WE WON FAIR AND SQUARE!! And the only thing good about UGA. My wife thinks your little doggy mascot is cute….
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
2:49 am
“Celebrate your football victory tonight because you’re DOOMED to live in a place like Green Bay Wisconsin…..”
Not so quick there. It’s not like Atlanta is not without it’s problems as a place to live. I walked to the bar and back with a loaded (unchambered for those with babies) .40 cal glock. That’s how we do in the A.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:49 am
gotta admit though that those were some of the most exciting games ever in this rivalry. I remember we went to the dome one year and I cried b/c my mom made me wear an “I hate Atlanta” T-shirt. She has a picture of it. Of all the things to survive the flood….
Daniel
January 16th, 2011
2:49 am
i am a saints fan, sadsadsadsadsadasadsadsadsadsad hahahahahahahhaahhahahahah falturds falturds they need to sell yall team blow out at home and yall want to talk trash.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
2:49 am
Who Dat won the NFL South this year, Who Dat? The FALCONS.
Who Dat got spanked by the only team in NFL HISTORY to ever limp into the playoffs with a LOSING RECORD, Who Dat? The Saints.
Who Dat has the first 500 hits when you Google “One and Done”. Who Dat? The Saints.
Dat’s what I thought…..
matt
January 16th, 2011
2:50 am
I disagree. The Patriots are overrated. I am so tired of hearing about them and we would have loved nothing more to be the ones to pound them in the Super Bowl back in 2008. The Patriots are not one of those teams who fail to get up for an opponent….they are a well coached team and they are a veteran bunch and they just don’t do that. Regardless of whether you take a team lightly….you shouldn’t almost lose to a QB (and an LSU grad) who has never played in the regular season before.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:52 am
Matt….tell mccarthy to check out the film of what the Saints did to the Pats last time.
reality check
January 16th, 2011
2:52 am
UGA Kev: That post about 95,000 at greatest sat. venue sounded really redneck. Outside of SEC country, some places in the midwest, and most of Texas and Oklahoma, very few care about college football in this country. Go to a Vegas sportsbook on a Sat. and then on a Sun. and you’ll see for yourself. Take Philadelphia for example-no one there cares about college football and that city has more population than the entire state of Alabama. I’m actually surprised that you like the NFL. By your post, I would’ve guessed SEC football on sat, Nascar on sun, and the tree stand the rest of the week!
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:53 am
very few care about college football in this country…………….Just because they don’t gamble on it? Not true, my friend.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
2:53 am
“That’s how we do in the A.”
You’re a prime example of precisely WHY we don’t live in “the A”…..Once you guys finish killing yourselves off, we might move back down there, you know?
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
2:54 am
^ its problems* I wish this blog was more robust and allowed 1996 technology like the ability to edit…
matt
January 16th, 2011
2:54 am
I disagree with reality check….who does the Philly area have in terms of a good conference or college team? No one. I know people here in the midwest are crazy about the Big 10….
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
2:55 am
Reality check…I HATE nascar and my favorite band is Underoath and The Devil Wears Prada …look them both up and then let me know if i am a redneck or not
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:56 am
If college football were promoted as a single entity as the NFL is, then it would be 10 tiomes more popular. Think of the whole “my school” angle b/c you went there. no one has any association hardly with an NFL team. If you think people don’t care about CFB, then ask your self this…how come all the noise at NFL games is artifical and pumped-in music, whereas at a college game there is no need to have any artificial noise at all. It’s already there. Go to the SEc title game…you can literally fell it.
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
2:56 am
Big 10 is worthless. SEC football is the only conference that matters.
NOLA
January 16th, 2011
2:57 am
Rednecks can like Metal too….
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
2:57 am
@FalconsFANS – What are you talking about? If some ish goes down while you were eating or walking back to your car, you’d be happy I was there. I’m on the good side. I paid my $100 bar tab, I did not rob the place and shoot the cook in the head. Feel me? And I’m no gun nut, I’d rather not deal with this crap, but I’m not blind either.
WhoDat in Poland
January 16th, 2011
2:57 am
Well well well…….hmmmmm….let see now….Saints..even though we lost last week……i believe we are still the defending SUPERBOWL CHAMPIONS…..ahh that sounds so nice….on Feb 6 we give the torch to the next WORLD CHAMP………i think the Failcons problem started with theirt usual cockiness…harassing New Orleans with pitiful trash talk ..especially about our losses in Katrina…when you idiot receiver mouthed off……the FalCAN’TS bad karma took over….the Saints marched into Not so hotlanta and burned the Failcons,like Sherman did years ago….this was your turning point in an otherwise successful season….so we silently took a picture on your pigeon head…again your classless fans cried over it…..now Green Bay annihalates you..lets see…48-21…wew…i could smell that one from here in Poland….you reap what you sew Failcons…….so lets see….New Orleans Saints….defending WORLD CHAMPS….one ringy dingy on our fingers..da FALCAN’TS NO RINGY DINGYS ON YOUR FINGERS…..hahahahahha…oh and support your team like we do even in a pitiful loss….dont leave the stadium..stay to the end next time…we did this for 43 years with bad teams…so have the decency of supporting yout team..they did have a great year..just couldnt feather the Pack!!!!!!!!
expatoz
January 16th, 2011
2:57 am
reality check, that last line of your most recent post made my staying up so late worth it (and I love the SEC, too, though I had to think for a minute before I remembered what a tree stand is).
matt
January 16th, 2011
2:57 am
You are just a moron if you think most people don’t care about college football. I honestly don’t follow it that much….nowhere near as much as the NFL….but I know I’m in the vast vast minority….especially in Wisconsin.
J-Man
January 16th, 2011
2:58 am
Can we tell Blank to sign Nnamdi Asomugha and Champ Bailey NOW!!!!!!!!!
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
2:58 am
Thats one thing I agree with you on saintsfan
Hickory Avenue
January 16th, 2011
2:59 am
@UGAKev —- Let’s put your theory to the test right now , because LSU is 100 TIMES better than those garbage-can a** Dawgs of yours ; and now that we got some LEGITIMATE quarterbacks (Mettenberger and the Stephen (Chargers QB ’s little brother) Rivers kid in the mix , a national championship is certainly a possibility —- so be thankful that your Dawgs don’t have to play the Tigers this season , because they would get their limp-a**es CRUSHED !!!!!!!!!!!
NOLA
January 16th, 2011
2:59 am
504forlife
Big 10 is worthless. SEC football is the only conference that matters.
Spot on!
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:59 am
finally…something!!
Alpha9
January 16th, 2011
2:59 am
no cupcake schedule thats just stupid…Who Dat im so glad you gave advice on what wins playoff games because your method worked so well against a 7-9 team…It’s amazing how people’s true colors come out in a time like this..set a franchise back years huh…because we havn broken any trends or changed history the last 3 years at all…Same old Falcons you people are pathetic..This city deserves a better class of fan
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
2:59 am
Nola …lmao that made my night…I dont believe rednecks hate nascar though
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:00 am
Murray is better than anybody we have.
jestjuda
January 16th, 2011
3:01 am
What is the difference between a dirty bathtub and the Atlanta Dirty Pigeons? The dirty bathtub has a ring. LOL.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:01 am
Willie Martinez needs to go.
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
3:01 am
LSU will be unstoppable with a real qb
matt
January 16th, 2011
3:01 am
Big 10 football might be worthless to you….but let’s be honest….UW would have pounded UGA and LSU this year.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
3:02 am
A guy with a $100 BAR TAB walking around with a loaded Glock…..Surely I’m not the only one here who sees something WRONG with this picture???
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:02 am
They can win with Jefferson. He’s gotten no coaching for two years. check CRowton’s history. has happened everyehwere he’s beene xcept LA Tech…and he wasn’t the QB coach there.
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
3:02 am
The Atlanta fan problem is a no brainer. Are you from Atlanta? Few of us are. I bring my loyalty for the Dolphins and UM football with me and the local teams are more adopted. I do love the Braves. That is my baseball team (thank you for you sympathies) but the Falcons and Hawks I’m a little more fair weather, and I don’t know anything about hockey.
NOLA
January 16th, 2011
3:03 am
Im not a redneck and I like NASCAR a lot!!!
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:03 am
Pounded LSU? NO way. It ain’t Indiana down here.
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
3:03 am
oh please. LSU would destroy any team in the big 10. Big 10 can’t match up with SEC speed. If arkansas wouldn’t have laid an egg that would have been, what, 7 games in a row for the SEC over the big 10(ish)?
Alpha9
January 16th, 2011
3:04 am
does anybody else think that Van Gorder and Mularkey are what the real problems were tonight..Other than Chris Owens and Sean Weatherspoon having no idea what they were doing on the field….Playbook needs to be tweaked and can we get rid of Push Off Jenkins and get a legit no 2 than get open and stay upright
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
3:04 am
@FalconsFAN – let me know when you find out what is wrong with that picture.
idgafkurt
January 16th, 2011
3:04 am
How did the game end? I left in the 3rd quarter with everyone else. Did we hit 115 decibles?
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:05 am
Roddy pushes off more than Jenkins. Check out the tape form the 2 saints games. he had penalties called on him in each.
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
3:05 am
besides, didn’t wisconsin lose to tcu? no way on earth lsu ever loses to tcu.
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
3:05 am
The collective groan hit 121db.
matt
January 16th, 2011
3:06 am
I knew as soon as I found out you had a coordinator named Brian Van Goorder that you guys were screwed tonight.
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
3:06 am
Blah Blah Blah Hickory just like you always crush us huh? Just like the 52 points we put on you in baton rouge the last time we played there or the beatdown the last time we played in the SEC title game. But atleast you got a little help to beat us in the last game you played against us. You better pray that ray drew , jenkins, crowell, and rome do not come to georgia or the SEC will have hell to pay.
idgafkurt
January 16th, 2011
3:06 am
I farted and hit 117 decibles.
JamalAnderson
January 16th, 2011
3:06 am
LMAO…Turner the Burner needs to be permanently placed on the back burner. He’s gonna end up doing crack off an urinal in some seedy Buckhead bar like me…
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:06 am
Any problems with mularkey when 13-3?
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
3:06 am
My point is… how can you make fun of living in Green Bay when Atlanta is what it is?
egghead
January 16th, 2011
3:07 am
Turdbirds thanks for the laugh,,,,,HA ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…….hold on, my stomach hurts….ok i’m good now….Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha …………….EX[POSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:08 am
Know what’s sad….I live in NOLA and I look forward to vacationing to ATL for a few days!
matt
January 16th, 2011
3:08 am
Yeah what an embarrassment losing to a team that finished 14-0.
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
3:09 am
not embarassing…. just not something LSU would do.
NOLA
January 16th, 2011
3:09 am
(5) Wisconsin 19
(3) TCU 21
Another piece of evidence that South owns college football!!
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
3:09 am
Atlanta is very nice to me, you must all like to go to ghettos when you visit cities. How about stay away from those places and use your common sense.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:10 am
Six flags only, and a Braves game..in the daytime…on our way to tennessee.
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
3:11 am
well the good news is i saved 220 bucks on a ticket to the nfc championship game
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:11 am
My son/7 loves the Braves. got to run the bases after the game last year. all he talked about after a two week vacation.
Grant
January 16th, 2011
3:12 am
I’m not the only voice of reason here but here’s my two cents…
This sucks. I didn’t expect this at all. However, in a single elimination playoff, this can and will happen. The Packers are the “lightning in the bottle” team at the moment and the Falcons simply laid an egg tonight. To say that the season was an epic failure is preposterous at best. I admit that I had bigger expectations for our playoff run, but in year three of our Falcons Rennaissance I can safely say that this isn’t a defeat that we can’t build on. We’re still in a stage in our development where we can grow and regroup from such a failure. Can anyone here in their right mind say that we would be here this soon after the Vick/Petrino debacle?
504forlife
January 16th, 2011
3:13 am
besides… when you divide your conference into “leaders” and “legends” you lose the ability to talk smack about any other conference. It’s in the rules. For real.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:14 am
Big 10 new division names (as found on another website)
1) beaten by the SEC
2) soon to be beaten by the SEC
Hickory Avenue
January 16th, 2011
3:14 am
@Matt — Wisconsin couldn’t even beat TCU , so I’m thinking that your very OVER-RATED U of W Bad – gers would have got that a** spanked pretty well by LSU ; and UGAKEV : yeah , your Dawgs did whip us , THEN — but you and I both know that as of the next upcoming 2011 season , LSU is the vastly SUPERIOR team , period …………….
JSS
January 16th, 2011
3:14 am
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
2:33 am
“SEriuosly UGA……the Bears may be the worst NFC champ on record if it happens.”
I think is Jay Cutler is the 3rd biggest fraud to QB in the modern NFL. Only Rex Grossman get him off the hook; well and of course Kerry Collins! The 2000 NY Giants are the worst NFC Champs ever!
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
3:14 am
If the falcons did not have so much money tied up in roddy white I would give him to the panthers along with someone like turner to get A.J Green
CAPTAIN Kirk
January 16th, 2011
3:15 am
I think that whoever drafts “players” like Peria Jerry, when they have a Clay Matthews available need serious couch time..or some remedial classes on football education..
I checked the rest of the uninspired 2009 draft and it was more defensive players with mediocre talent, but without Mike Vick :character” issues…so is that what that cluelss draft was ll about…
Look who GB got from the same draft and those same players made an impact tonite.. BVG has got to be given severance and a sabbatical at Central Gwinnet HS to bone up on evaluating talent..
This defense is pathetic..Reese Witherspoon? #21 who should be spanked..this giuy couldnt cover me..
BUT this anit new news..in 1981, the Birds drafted a cornerback from nebraska, when it was primarily a running conference..
and who can forget Charles ” Human Corkscrew” Dimry..who constanlt left his trou, jock, and shoes on the turf while buying the fakes of every receiver in the division
some things never change….until we have a D..this bus aint goin anywhere
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
3:15 am
I live downtown. I have lived downtown since before you softies moved down here and broke up the projects and provided the hood rats with thousands of easy targets. Come stumbling home from the bar and find yourself in the trunk of your car getting raped and your ATM account drained. Then you get shot for your efforts. No thanks. Just stay on the Northside where 17 year old kids in BMWs speeding around doing 80 in a 25 are your biggest security concerns. I’ll stay down here and romanticize that I’m Ice-T before he started playing a cop on TV. What a loser that Ice-T is. What a phony as Holden Caulfield would say.
NOLA
January 16th, 2011
3:16 am
Good night Falcant fans its been fun!! Look forward to kickin the ish outta you next year.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
3:16 am
Fans of Atlanta professional teams are accustomed to being taken to the altar and jilted every few years in one sport or another…..Yet WE STILL SHOW UP! It’s easy to be a fan when your city has so many championships (Pittsburgh comes to mind) that they start hanging the flags in the parking lot because there’s nowhere else to put them inside….
But the Dome was rockin’ tonight and the ATL fans came to see a victory, not a shellacking. It’s not embarrassing to leave near the end of the 3rd QTR when your team has been out-coached and can’t seem to perform at such a rudimentary level as making a quality football tackle. In fact, we stayed until nearly the end of the 4th QTR and our reward was waiting for nearly an hour just to drive out of the Gulch.
There was nothing wrong with the FANS tonight who DID Rise Up. It’s the TEAM that didn’t Rise Up for the occasion. There IS a difference….Just ask the Saints fans about the Seattle Seahawks.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:16 am
Yeah, but the Giants did beat an awfully good Minnesoat tema in the playoffs that year I think. Moss/Cunningham(maybe)/Crater/Robert Smith. Give them that
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
3:16 am
Hickory if Georgia does not land the juco nose guard and the many five star players in georgia that will make immediate impacts then I will agree with you.
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
3:17 am
ask me that question on feb 2nd
JSS
January 16th, 2011
3:18 am
The NFL Playoffs are going strong with unly one clunker of a game so far and you folks are arguing “COLLEGE FOOTBALL?” Por Favor!
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
3:18 am
Get off AJ Green’s jock. You are crazy if you don’t think Roddy White is a solid NFL receiver. I was not a fan when they gave him the contract, I can go with that, but since then, I’ve changed my tune. Whatever they saw in him bloomed. He runs a good route, he’s a fighter when the ball is in the air.
idgafkurt
January 16th, 2011
3:19 am
Didn’t Georgia suck in the SEC this year? Wisco would dominate Georgia. What a bunch of loser fans bringing up SEC football as a comeback? Really? Wasn’t that an NFL game tonite? Awesome, how pathetic. Atlanta = worst pro sports fans in the US…
JSS
January 16th, 2011
3:19 am
“only”
CAPTAIN Kirk
January 16th, 2011
3:19 am
Hey Count,
you sound like the real deal.. The last 5 yrs I lived in Lawrenceville..the illegals were takin over..so I got a carry permit.. didnt make me feeel any safer.. but you do what you gotta do
JSS
January 16th, 2011
3:21 am
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:16 am
“Yeah, but the Giants did beat an awfully good Minnesoat tema in the playoffs that year I think. Moss/Cunningham(maybe)/Crater/Robert Smith. Give them that”
It was the Vikings! Only the old LA Rams laid more NFC Championships eggs than the Vikings!!!
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
3:22 am
“If college football were promoted as a single entity as the NFL is, then it would be 10 tiomes more popular.”
No way. Maybe to people who are born and raised in houses and communities where college football is king, but everyone else — particularly casual fans — will always gravitate to where the quality of play is best, which is the pros. Personally, I get bored watching college football unless it’s a top 10 team or an SEC game, and I didn’t even go to an SEC school. The quality of play is so much higher in the NFL that once you start watching it watching college football is like slow motion.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:23 am
Vikinigs…or Super Bowl eggs!
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
3:25 am
“raped in the trunk of your car”…..And here I thought they just did that kind of thing right out in the open down there in the downtown area?!? I suppose the trunk provides more of a sense of privacy, huh?
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:25 am
Dude, if the quality fo play is so bad, then why do 50K show up to see any old run of the mill game between teams like Kentucky/S carolina? or Oregon St/Arizona?
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:26 am
College Fb is not slow motion. Wherdo you think all those players come from in the NFL? you must be watching too many big 10 games.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
3:27 am
“how can you make fun of living in Green Bay when Atlanta is what it is?”
That’s a rhetorical question, right?
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:27 am
Despite its flaws, Atlanta is one of tghe most progressive cities in the south. really.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:29 am
Saints used to hold camp in lacrosse Wisconsin.
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
3:30 am
count, let me know how A.J green turns out compared to Roddy white. Roddy white is a great receiver but he can not help is only 6′0 tall. He worked hard to be a solid receiver. A.j will be a game changer on any good team immediately. Roddy whites trash talking does not match what the falcons personel are with mike smith and company. Anybody can poke fun at Green for the stupid jersey sell but green is a class act on the football field and would represent any nfl team well
tj
January 16th, 2011
3:31 am
Look at the statistics. Atlanta had the ball less than 22 minutes and had 44 plays on offense. This was not the running game nor the qb’s fault. When you throw two INTs and GB scores everytime against that pitiful defense it shows in the statistics. Look at the statistics to see what really happened. Instead of possibly being ahead 24-14 at half we were behind 28-14…soon to be 35-14. Defense was terrible. Van Gorder had no answer. When you have to abandon the run the GB defense teed of on the offense and therefore the Turnovers and sacks happened. As a fan you cannot trash this team. GB was that good today and our Defense was terrible and our offense had to pass and abandon the running game. It is simple.
Peter Miller
January 16th, 2011
3:31 am
observations from the Frozen tundra:
1. You have the nucleus of a good team (but watch out for Tampa Bay).
2. You experienced this year what we did last years when we lost to the Cardinals, it hurts, it stings. It’s ok, it should.
3. Atlanta grew up today and found out what we did last year. Next year will be different, the NFC best take note.
4. there were at least 3 sacks left on the field today which would have been huge, see note 3
5. Your team reminds me of where the Packers were a couple of years ago, young, talented and learning, I believe we will see you again, and sooner rather than later.
6. Matt Ryan will be fine
Good luck next year
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:31 am
“class act on the football field”
because that matters more than off it.
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
3:32 am
“Dude, if the quality fo play is so bad, then why do 50K show up to see any old run of the mill game between teams like Kentucky/S carolina? or Oregon St/Arizona?”
Because these are the people who went to those schools, whose parents went to those schools, who grew up in small towns in the state who were all about those schools, who saw everyone around them pull for those schools every Saturday from the time they were growing up, etc. Most college football fans go to support the school, get drunk, sing the fight song for three hours, etc., not so much to watch quality football. Outside of the SEC and the few non-SEC teams that make the top ten, college football is a snooze fest.
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
3:32 am
AJ will be a fine NFL receiver. But it’s not like the Falcons don’t have a fine NFL receiver and larger holes elsewhere. As of today though, AJ has a lot of catching up to do. What did Calvin Johnson do for the Lions? Even with your beloved Stafford?
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:32 am
You have the nucleus of a good team (but watch out for Tampa Bay)…..what??? Freeman is even more overrated than Matt ryan.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:34 am
Najeh…….no one wastes time. If the product were so bad, they wouldn’t go……which is EXACTLY what happens to NFL teams…see Buffalo/ Cincy/ jacksonville, etc.
The Failcaint's "AIN'T" got a ring!
January 16th, 2011
3:34 am
Hey FailCAINT’s, where y’at on NOLA.com? Where’s our daily reminder that the Saints are/were a fluke and that you’re the REAL power in the NFC South and the NFC and, most of all, that you dirty terds were Super Bowl bound? Man, you don’t even get a chance to “improve” your SB record to 0-2! I mean, when you get home field, you’re supposed to at least show up! But your team didn’t, despite one of your few efforts to make some noise in your building.
Oh well, there’s always next year…. for the Saints to get healthy, and make a quick return to the Super Bowl. In the meantime, if any of you want to come on down and actually SEE a Super Bowl banner AND a Lombardi Trophy, you can check them out at the REAL DOME and at Saints’ HQ in Metairie. Of course, I realize that FailCAINT’s “fans” don’t really follow their team with passion or dedication, so it’s just as well that you stay in Buckhead and drown your sorrows.
GEAUX SAINTS!!! and GEAUX PACKERS!!!
CAPTAIN Kirk
January 16th, 2011
3:35 am
I think the earlier poster who said he went to Green Bay to hook up with fat chicks had some insight.
My BIL lives in cheese head land..and the nastiest thing to ever emerge from his mouth is “Oh good gracious golly sakes”" or geeeeeeeeeeeez..ya knowwwwwwwww in that midwesternish nasliy vocab
If we regard cites on the attactiveness of their babes IM sure A town has it far and above most other towns…..as far as Caucasian wimmen that is
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:36 am
Kirk…be careful before your wife thinks you’re making fun of her discreetly.
Peter Miller
January 16th, 2011
3:36 am
Saints fan, if anyone is overrated take a look at your own glass house house before throwing stones at someone elses
JSS
January 16th, 2011
3:37 am
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:23 am
“Vikinigs…or Super Bowl eggs!”
They’ve done both! Since their last SB appearance, they’ve gone 0-5 in NFC championships!
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:37 am
Yeah, i guess winning the SB is very overrated.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:38 am
They’ve done both! Since their last SB appearance, they’ve gone 0-5 in NFC championships
…Eagles are only one better…..of course that win was against ATL so does it count?
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
3:38 am
“College Fb is not slow motion. Wherdo you think all those players come from in the NFL? you must be watching too many big 10 games.”
I pretty much only watch the SEC and the BCS bowl games. The only reason I even watch those is to see the future NFL players and see how good they really are. On the 110 teams that are not in the top 10, you’ll be lucky to find four future NFL players on the roster. ACC, Big Ten, most of the Big 12, most of the Pac 10, and every other bullsh-t conference is absolutely slow motion.
SEC football is OK. I still wouldn’t watch Kentucky or whatever, but usually the top 6 teams in the SEC have enough future NFL players to where they are worth watching.
JSS
January 16th, 2011
3:39 am
@ Davenpoop…
at 3:32PM, college football is about atmosphere, not quality of play…
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:39 am
On the 110 teams that are not in the top 10, you’ll be lucky to find four future NFL players on the roster………
two players from Shippensburg were playing tonight, wherever that school is
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:40 am
college football is about atmosphere, not quality of play…
hence my orignal post about that.
Angie O'Plasty
January 16th, 2011
3:40 am
Same old Falcons !
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:40 am
Did you borrow that from us…same old Saints! we used to say that.
BUt NO MORE baby!
CAPTAIN Kirk
January 16th, 2011
3:41 am
saintsfan,
yeah I know..shes from Nebraska..IM origianlly from the NYC area but as a transplant live 32 yrs in Atlanta and saw it become nearly unlivable…we met in memphis where she was a DR,,she moved to ATL..we moved out here to the sticks..Atlantas babes are incredible..shes also a bae but her bro is a midwest nerd…
just the facts
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
3:41 am
“two players from Shippensburg were playing tonight, wherever that school is”
And the other 20 starters on that team would have sucked, making any one of their games unwatchable for someone who didn’t have a prior rooting interest in the team.
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
3:41 am
Stafford is definitly not beloved in Athens if u ask me. lol…He gave Georgia nothing …No conference championship or sec title. Stafford was not a real bulldawg, he used georgia as a stepping stone to the NFL. A.J green will be better than calvin johnson I believe he will end up in a place not called detroit. I am not saying roddy white sucks but he sure needs to stop running his mouth and play football.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
3:42 am
Yep…..Most women in Green Bay are named “Pat” for a reason. Dude looks like a lady…..Or is it lady looks like a dude? Actually, it probably doesn’t matter much come to think of it.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:44 am
making any one of their games unwatchable for someone who didn’t have a prior rooting interest in the team.
Just b/c you may have watched the games doesn’t mean there weren’t many unwatchable NFL games this year, or any year. If they were all so good we wouldn’t have 1-15 teams.
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
3:45 am
Yes, they have sex in the open “down here.” But it’s usually consensual. In the trunk in the trunk via thug junk? Less so.
The Falcoon's "AIN'T" got a ring!
January 16th, 2011
3:45 am
The Falcons are the REAL “AINT’S” of the NFL as in “AIN’T” got a Super Bowl ring!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! GO SAINTS!
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
3:46 am
AJ Green RAN OUT OF BOUNDS against GT instead of making the effort for a first down. That’s something Hines Ward has NEVER, EVER, EVER even thought of in his entire receiving career. It’s also WHY AJ will be the biggest FLOP of this year’s draft. Book it…..
JSS
January 16th, 2011
3:46 am
Anybody cracking on Shippensburg State’s NFL products doesn’t seroiusly follow football… I bet you crack on Fort Valley and Louisiana Tech’s track record too?
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:46 am
All I’m saying is if you take the top college teams and promoted it as one “super conference” or something….those teams would be so spread out across the country (but with heavy representation in the south no doubt) that with all the “prior interest” you have mentioned….that is exactly why CFb would be more popular. Forget the other 100 teams. Don’t need ‘em.
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
3:46 am
“at 3:32PM, college football is about atmosphere, not quality of play…”
I agree with this. The original discussion started, though, when I responded to someone saying that college football would be more popular than NFL if it was marketed better.
The problem is, the only people who are going to go to college football games for the atmosphere are people who have a prior rooting interest in the school (either because they went there, their parents went there, they grew up in a college town, etc.) Very few people without a prior rooting interest are going to latch on to a college team to become fans of them. This is why I don’t agree that college football if better marketed would surpass the NFL in popularity. Football fans without prior rooting interests will always be drawn to the league that gives them the highest quality of play, and that’s always going to be the NFL.
Grant
January 16th, 2011
3:47 am
@UGAKev – Roddy hate? Really? He’s elite. I don’t even have to make this argument. Good night.
TP
January 16th, 2011
3:47 am
Nice job, FAILcons.
CAPTAIN Kirk
January 16th, 2011
3:48 am
Najeh,
I played college ball in PA and shippensburg is a DIVII or II school south of Harrisburg. Its surprising that this inept Falcon defensive brass ever found Brent Grimes, given their track record of drafting, planning, and coaching ineptly..
Time to time, Ive thought that the Deon Sanders draft was a historical anomaly
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
3:48 am
I don’t think you’d give back the Stafford years though. Best UGA football since 1980.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:48 am
wasn;’t WARD a QB at UGA
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
3:48 am
“All I’m saying is if you take the top college teams and promoted it as one “super conference” or something….those teams would be so spread out across the country (but with heavy representation in the south no doubt) that with all the “prior interest” you have mentioned….that is exactly why CFb would be more popular. Forget the other 100 teams. Don’t need ‘em.”
I could see that happening, mainly because if there was a college football “super conference” all the top recruits would go there and every game would essentially be like an NFL rookie all star game, so the quality of play wouldn’t be that bad. Of course, the result is that the other 100 teams would be even more unwatchable than they are now.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
3:48 am
So tell us one more time how the Saints trip to Seattle went……
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:49 am
I’d take david Greene on my team over Stafford any day,.
BoWeevil
January 16th, 2011
3:49 am
Mike Smith should still be given a raise so that he makes more than Mark Richt for God’s Sake.
JSS
January 16th, 2011
3:49 am
@ Saints fan…
Name the schools where every one of the wideouts on your team went to college?
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:49 am
Btter than in the Ga dome tonight
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
3:50 am
Ward was a WR for the Dawgs 94-97.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:50 am
But not as good as the trip to ATL
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:50 am
You sure he didn’t play QB some?
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
3:51 am
“Anybody cracking on Shippensburg State’s NFL products doesn’t seroiusly follow football… I bet you crack on Fort Valley and Louisiana Tech’s track record too?”
Kuhn and Grimes are legit NFL players (Grimes should be in the Pro Bowl). The problem is that everyone else on that team was likely so far from being an NFL product that the overall team would be unwatchable.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
3:51 am
Nope…No better than the Dome. When the W-L column ends up with a 1 in the L, then result is the SAME.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:52 am
Our trip to Ga dome didn’t end with an “L”
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
3:52 am
706 580-5908…..call me when he does flop
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:52 am
Ward played some quarterback his sophomore year, and holds Georgia bowl records for Pass Attempts, Pass Completions, and Passing Yards in the 1995 Peach Bowl in which he completed 31 of 59 passes for 413 yards
wikipedia.
CAPTAIN Kirk
January 16th, 2011
3:53 am
Hines ward for example…Falcons had the chance to draft him..local talent and didnt..The what ifs in Falcoins draft history, the available players they didnt pick who went on to become stars elsewhere..would probably fill a wing in the Smithsonia
Grant
January 16th, 2011
3:54 am
@Najeh – Can we at least attempt to turn the ATL into an NFL town? Wrong place for college football and Bull!?.! CS talk. Sorry. You’re not the only one on here talking college football, but that’s been the knock on Atlanta football fans for years is that we’re good ol’ Dawgs fans first and Falcons fans as an afterthought. Right now the Falcons and their management deserve our support a lot more than the NCAA landed, high expectation but little result Georgia Bulldogs.
Deputy dawg
January 16th, 2011
3:55 am
Ward did it with a broken wrist too…look it up
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
3:55 am
HInes ward is the Sh*T
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
3:56 am
“Just b/c you may have watched the games doesn’t mean there weren’t many unwatchable NFL games this year, or any year. If they were all so good we wouldn’t have 1-15 teams.”
Even many bad NFL teams are at least entertaining to watch. I saw two or three Lions games this year and they were always entertaining even if they were bad, because they had enough good players (Suh, Calvin Johnson, Jahvid Best) to where they would make some highlights. The Vikings were terrible this year but Adrian Peterson makes them worth watching. The Raiders were mediocre but Darren McFadden was a highlight reel waiting to happen. The Texans are bad every year but they are guaranteed to make a few big plays every game. There are too many talented players in the league for more than two or three teams to be legitimately boring. There are not nearly enough talented players in college football to make more than 1/10 of all Division 1 teams worth watching. Really, the only unwatchable team in the league this year (to me anyway) was Miami.
Also, fantasy football helps.
Gman
January 16th, 2011
3:56 am
Wake me up in 15 years when we have another big stage and are poised for a big moment….on second thought, don’t. I’m done.
UGAKev
January 16th, 2011
3:57 am
no i think roddy white is a great talent but his mouth needs to do less talking. And yes I would bet on A.J being a better NFL receiver than White. As far as hating on White I was one of the only fans that stood up for him when the rest of you falcons fans wanted him gone when he sucked his first few years in atlanta so dont give me that crap. If I ever was a hater on any player it would be matt ryan
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
3:57 am
“Can we at least attempt to turn the ATL into an NFL town? Wrong place for college football and Bull!?.! CS talk. Sorry. You’re not the only one on here talking college football, but that’s been the knock on Atlanta football fans for years is that we’re good ol’ Dawgs fans first and Falcons fans as an afterthought. Right now the Falcons and their management deserve our support a lot more than the NCAA landed, high expectation but little result Georgia Bulldogs.”
I’d love to see the A become more of a pro sports town, seeing as how I’m not a big college sports fan. Winning in the playoffs would help though, and that’s something no ATL team has done consistently in a long time.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
3:57 am
I think Ward played some QB during his Soph yr….But my point was about his tenacity as a receiver compared to AJ Green, if a comparison is even worthy here. AJ ran out of bounds against a rival team to avoid a hit where Ward relishes every opportunity to deliver a hit. This is a key difference that will eventually show up on the field in the NFL where MEN hit hard and hit often.
JSS
January 16th, 2011
3:57 am
Colston (Hofstra) and Moore (Toledo) ,only Henderson (LSU) , Meachem (Tennessee), and Arrington (Michigan) went to BCS schools…
Former Falcons Fan
January 16th, 2011
3:58 am
There are limits you know. I quit.
CAPTAIN Kirk
January 16th, 2011
3:58 am
Grant,
bulldog schmulldog..metro Atlanta probably has more transplants from afar and from across the sea, each with thier own team loyalties than bulldog fans as the fan base is IMO segmented..
The typical DAWG fan is Joe Bob billy Bob who rides up to Athens from valdosta in the RV stops at the KFC for tailgate fare and shouts “Let Da Big Dawg Eat”.. that why metro atlanta has sports bars featuring teams from across the nation and Fan base clubs from other NFL franchises.. Thats been my experience with the ATL market over a 3 decade span
Really
January 16th, 2011
4:00 am
God do I hate the Saints fans. To think I actually pulled for them last year out of conference loyalty. What a joke. What would they be if Brees gets hurt? Same crap they’ve always been
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:01 am
What does that mean? What would the Bull shave been w/o Jordan? no point there.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:01 am
Saints fans will NEVER pull for Atlanta. Thats TRUE loyalty.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
4:02 am
How about the 60 yr old guy with the Bulldog painted on his bald head who always seems to show up on televised games? Maybe it’s a tattoo? There is no shame…..
JSS
January 16th, 2011
4:03 am
@ Najeh…
I agreed with you on that point, college football is atmosphere… However, the BCS schools are so poorly coached for the most part that combined with intentional mismatch by scheduling makes it (college football) unwatchable for the most part!
CAPTAIN Kirk
January 16th, 2011
4:05 am
Really,
Oh but it WAS REAL SPORT when in the 90s we copped Morten Andersen and Bobby Hebert from them..so we had 2 qyaulity players who wed never ever have to face agin.. Aints suits were really shortsighted on the Great Dane and thinkin his carrer was in decline.. and Hebert was a great interlude between the anemic Chris Miller-lite and what was that turkey we got under june Jones..his name is forgettable but in an interview he said that the Dome wasnt deons House anymore but was his……an eminanetly forgettable non QB
tejano2k
January 16th, 2011
4:05 am
As a Packer fan, I couldn’t be felling better. I’m always wary of the Special Team’s play and you all saw why. I also have the confidence that The Pack is definitely the best team left, in the NFC. IF they get past the next game, we’ll see how good they really are. Falcons got plucked by the better team is all. The previous win, over The Pack, by The Birds was an aberration. As for the Saints fans that have the audacity to kick The Birds while they’re down…your BOYS were 1 and done. I’m 56, and I probably won’t live long enough to see your team back at the Super Bowl. I thought I’d never see it happen the first time. Until the Saints have the tradition that THE PACK has, keep the pie holes closed would be my advice.
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
4:06 am
“However, the BCS schools are so poorly coached for the most part that combined with intentional mismatch by scheduling makes it (college football) unwatchable for the most part!”
Poor coaching is a big issue too, thanks for pointing that out. So many teams are coached so poorly, and so many others run such gimmicky schemes (I HATE Georgia Tech’s stupid triple option). It’s only when those few good teams play each other that good things happen.
College basketball is even worse when it comes to that.
Grant
January 16th, 2011
4:07 am
@ Najeh. – I feel ya. But you have to at least feel that we are poised for consistency at a bare minimum. It does occur to me that Turner is like Jamal was, Grimes is the flash in the pan that OJ Santiago was and Dunta is this years Ray Buchanan. But I think that is the wounded Atlanta fan in me.
@UGAKev. Roddy put up legendary numbers this year. Who knows what will happen next year for Roddy or the rest of his career or in the career of AJ, but I would take any bet that AJ will not put up a statical season like Roddy in his career. No bets are a lock, but I like my odds on that one.
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
4:08 am
By the way, if you are an NFL fan and you have never seen NFL Matchup before on ESPN, you should turn it on right now. If you ask me this is hands down the best NFL related show on TV, even with Merril Hoge saying “factorback” every five seconds. I don’t know why they only have this show on at 4 in the morning, but it’s really good.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:08 am
Hebert does radio in N.O. now. True Saint, that guy. It sayss something that he’s still such a Saints “homer” even after playing for the Falcons. he loves to talk abuot the time in Fulton Stadium where Saints destroyed Falcons and Saints fans “took over” the stadium and how the players on that team couldn’t stop talking about that experience.
JSS
January 16th, 2011
4:08 am
@ Kirk…
You know you want to say “Jeff George!” You just wish you could forget him!
Lay off Chris Miller, Dan Henning killed his spirit and that O-line killed his brain!
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:09 am
As for the Saints fans that have the audacity to kick The Birds while they’re down…your BOYS were 1 and done…….started bt ATL fans weeks ago on our site.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:11 am
so many others run such gimmicky schemes (I HATE Georgia Tech’s stupid triple option..
Najeh, those offenses are not “gimmicky” the pro style is. those option type offense were around long before the pro game evolved.
Grant
January 16th, 2011
4:11 am
Kirk,
You may be right on the transient nature of Atlanta. I was born in the city. I’ve lived elsewhere for almost a decade, but my memory is of a city filled with transplants, but a core of Hershel Walker hanger ons.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:12 am
Living for the old times…….just like the Packer fan, Matt, talking about his titles in the 60s.
JSS
January 16th, 2011
4:14 am
I can only watch the Conference Tourneys and the first two weeks of the NCAA’s… Any other time I throw things at the screen and watch DVR of other shows… College coaching drives me crazy… Izzo and Kruger, it’s like being in hell…
Grant
January 16th, 2011
4:14 am
I’m drunk. My team lost and my hope of salvaging the night by getting some tail failed. I just used the term “hanger ons”. Does that make any sense to a sober mind out there?
CAPTAIN Kirk
January 16th, 2011
4:14 am
JSS,
yeah..Icouldn’t say Jeff Gorge..and QB in the same breath..but as a 32 yr Falcon fan Ive seen my share of turkeys..Turk Shonert???? Im sure this will open up memory lane
Miller wasnt the answer..and a common joke when Jamie Dukes was on 680 THE FAN was that he was personally responsible for several of Millers concussions…..just thinkin about this gives me bad playoff memories from 1991
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
4:15 am
“But you have to at least feel that we are poised for consistency at a bare minimum”
That’s true. The Braves have always been managed well and the Falcons are managed well now for the first time. The Hawks are winning despite bad management. Consistency ultimately starts at the top, and the Falcons have by far the best ownership in Atlanta’s pro sports landscape.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
4:15 am
I still remember Jeff George having it out with June on the sidelines on national TV…..A historic display that soon cost both of them their jobs. One huge progressive step in the right direction in Falcons history…..
CAPTAIN Kirk
January 16th, 2011
4:16 am
Grant,,
to paraphrase somthing a woman told her daughter about men and neuroses.. babes may come n go but a good Falcon neurosis will last a lifetime..
Im livin proof..Im pullin my hair out for the 35th consecutive year while watchin falcons
Grant
January 16th, 2011
4:18 am
The ultimate question: Will the Falcons win a championship in the next 5 years?
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
4:18 am
If a hanger on is the same or even similar to a Kling on when either you or her is visiting the bathroom, then yeah….It’s probably a tad inappropriate when trying to score. But I defer to Capt Kirk who is probably more of an authority on the subject of Klingons…
CAPTAIN Kirk
January 16th, 2011
4:19 am
Just Google Jeff Gorge..the QB with the deer in the headlites look on his face..
his narrative bio indicated that as late as 2001 he still felt he could play for an NFL team…..and it was a positive step..albeit a baby step in the right direction for the franchise..as was king Arthur buying out the woeful Smiths
onesaintsfan Big John
January 16th, 2011
4:20 am
hate it for ya. But glad to see the dirty birds totally sliced and dice. Like us, 1 and done. C-ya next year.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:22 am
Kirk….wild caRD FALCONS BEAT THE nFC west champ saints in the Superdome in Ot in 1991 in the playoffs on a Chandler OT Td pass. A bomb I think.
Al Lindro
January 16th, 2011
4:22 am
Packers season ticket holder here. They are ours because my wife traded her (one-half) share of her parents’ house in exchange for the right to buy the family’s 5 tickets when her parents died, instead of sharing them with her sister.
What I found MOST surprising about tonight’s game wasn’t so much the outcome — though I expected it to be very close, a point or two — but rather, I couldn’t get over the sight of empty seats in the fourth quarter. It’s INSIDE for heaven’s sakes, not out in the elements as in Green Bay winters.
I was at Lambeau Field when the Vick-led Falcons beat the Packers (was it 27-7?) in post season. I remember some snow and freezing drizzle and I remember the Falcons totally crushing the Favre-led Pack. In the second half, we knew it was not to be, barring a miracle. Injury-ridden (like this year) our good fortune gave out that night. How many people were in the stands at the end? All of them. And they stood after the game and applauded the Packers for the great season, even after it had ended in crushing disappointment.
That’s the difference between Atlanta and Green Bay. One is legendary, with a pride-driven culture that goes all the way from the citizen-owners, to the front office, to the sidelines and the players … and the fans are central to all of it.
We spend winters in Georgia, but would not think of leaving Wisconsin until the Packers are eliminated from the Super Bowl contention. And your fans leave before the game is over? Amazing. I just cannot imagine that, and I don’t think Bears fans, Steelers fans, Patriots fans, etc could imagine that either.
Green Bay players understand how important Packers football is to all us up here, including those on the decades-long waiting list for tickets. Atlanta is apparently not a sports city, so I doubt your team feels the same responsibility towards your fans. And because of that, I don’t see how your post-season fortunes will change.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:22 am
Doug Johnson.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
4:23 am
Hebert is a N.O. “homer” because he’s a freakin Cajun! Of course he loves N.O. Morten Anderson was on the morning news this past week here in ATL reliving his Minnesota kick with the Birds, not his N.O. kicks…..Hmmmmm.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:24 am
When morten enters the HOF it will be as a saint, not a Falcon.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
4:25 am
WOW! AndersEn. Yes, I know the diff! It’s getting late and the Monster is wearing off…..
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:25 am
Morten Anderson was on the morning news this past week here in ATL reliving his Minnesota kick with the Birds…so?
He relives the Saints moments when he’s on Tv/radio here. And there are alot more of them.
Grant
January 16th, 2011
4:25 am
Kirk,
Can’t believe we haven’t crossed paths. 35 years old and have been a hopeless Falcons fan for the entirety.
Falcons moves I would like to see that do not perpetuate previous failures:
The Burner is great but history does not look fondly on RBs his size that pound the way he does lasting much longer. Draft a top notch RB sooner rather than later.
Other than tweaks at RB, leave the offense alone. Leave the coaching staff alone. Draft defense. Draft defense. Draft defense. Did I say draft defense? No? Draft defense. We have a GM that can draft! Draft defense!
JSS
January 16th, 2011
4:27 am
@ Saints Fan…
Not really, the Triple option came out of Texas HS football in the late 50’s because coaches didn’t have the line or passing QBs to run the T or the Wing T… Once Darrell Royal got a hold of the Wishbone and Bill Yeoman developed the veer at Houston in the late 60’s … That whole “only 2 things can happen when pass the ball, and both are bad” mentality had taken over the college game… You don’t have to develop players in the triple option, you just teach the scheme and execute it…
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
4:27 am
But he went to the SB with which team?
CAPTAIN Kirk
January 16th, 2011
4:27 am
Al Lindro
well everything in Atlanta is predicated on traffic..and avoiding gridlock if you hafta drive 4o miles out to suburban land in a 5 million person megalopolis
IN GB they prob remain cause they can get home in 10 minutes
Grant
January 16th, 2011
4:27 am
Saints fan, withoutnlooking it up, I’m almost positive Chris Chandler was not our qb in 91.
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
4:28 am
“We spend winters in Georgia, but would not think of leaving Wisconsin until the Packers are eliminated from the Super Bowl contention. And your fans leave before the game is over? Amazing.”
That’s nice, but fans leaving before the game ends is a lot more common. Arrowhead Stadium is commonly cited as one of the toughest places for opponents to play, and Chiefs fans had completely deserted that place halfway through the fourth quarter of the beat down by the Ravens last week. And I distinctly remember the Bears getting beat down in front of an empty stadium in the 2nd half against the Patriots a few weeks ago in that snowstorm.
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
4:30 am
And let’s face it, the Packers have a much longer tradition and much stronger connection with their home city than the Falcons (or most other pro sports franchises for that matter) do. Lambeau Field’s capacity is larger than the entire population of Green Bay if I’m not mistaken. It’s not that hard to believe that Cheeseheads would hang around and applaud at the end of the game. That doesn’t make ATL fans bad, it just makes us normal.
CAPTAIN Kirk
January 16th, 2011
4:30 am
JSS
triple options are now often the venue of the service academies where they dont get ANY blue chip athletes to throw the ball..wasnt the last Staubach in the 60’s//so its an offense than average athletes can learn and master
Im old nuddff to remember games at West Point in the 1950s when ARmy was a powerhouse..no more but since the alums demand foosball they do the best they can
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:31 am
The option is a variation of the wing T…the “original” offense.
Grant
January 16th, 2011
4:31 am
I lived in Chi town for 4 years. Went to several games at Soldier Field. I can only hope that we can build that kind of fan base.
CAPTAIN Kirk
January 16th, 2011
4:31 am
Grant
in 91 it was Chris Miller lite to Micheal .. the next yr they got Andre Rison but still didnt get it done
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:32 am
Grant…sorry, i meant Miller. wasn;t it him?
Stinger2
January 16th, 2011
4:33 am
How did this blog evolve in talk about Hines Ward?
Why did Saints vs. Falcons trash talk take over?
If people want to comment, why not keep it to subject at hand?
JSS
January 16th, 2011
4:33 am
@ Kirk…
I talked about “Turk Schonert” two weeks ago when I tried to explain to blog knuckle head why I quit being a Falcons fan back at the end of the Mora regime… Man, I’ve seen ‘em all, the two Minnesota cast offs (Berry and Lee), Hunter, Archer (why”), blah… blah… blah!!!
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:34 am
Michael Haynes….from N.O. Fortier H. S.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
4:35 am
“We spend winters in Georgia”…..
Uh, actually THAT is the difference between Atlanta and Green Bay. That and the crazy cheesy-fishlike smell of your women, of course.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:35 am
That one hurt.
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
4:36 am
“triple options are now often the venue of the service academies where they dont get ANY blue chip athletes to throw the ball..wasnt the last Staubach in the 60’s//so its an offense than average athletes can learn and master”
Exactly. Maybe “gimmick” was the wrong word for me to use earlier, but the point is that offenses like this are put in place in college so that they don’t have to rely on recruiting quality players. It works in college because most opposing teams don’t have the talent level to solve such a simple scheme. Ultimately it comes down to the fact that the few truly talented players in college football are spread very thin across 117 teams, and the number of teams that have enough quality players to be watchable is very small.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:36 am
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
go here and check out the pic at the top….let meknow what you think about where andersen’s loyalties lie……
mortenandersen.com
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
4:36 am
Chris Chandler was the Falcons QB mistake of 1997-2001, just for accuracy’s sake.
CAPTAIN Kirk
January 16th, 2011
4:38 am
Grant,
Yeah I no longer live in A town..but in central Arkansas..wifey had big $$$ promotion and our Lawrenceville digs were becomin overrun by illegals..so we bolted after 32 yrs..so Ive seen it ALL with this franchise,,,,
They need DBs..always have,,Deon was the only one who could cover worth a damn and athletes like him arrive once in a lifetime..
just go to recent drafts and see who falcons have drafted versus who Pacjkers have and that says it all
as I posted earlier..Birds had a chance at Clay Matthews, took Peria Jerry then a bunch of ham n eggers
Dimitroff better get his head outta his ass with draft picks and defer to a pro who can draft defense
I concur with you totally
Im off to bed..its been real
CK
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:38 am
Najeh…
but the point is that offenses like this are put in place in college so that they don’t have to rely on recruiting quality players
Yeah, option team of the past have had no players at all. I fact Ok/Neb dynasties of the 70s had no players at all got to NFl huh?
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
4:38 am
Actually, I already Googled Morten Andersen and every image that came up was in a Falcons uni….(But that’s probably just because Google knows where I live, eat, sleep, bowel habits, dreams, nightmares, etc.)
extremus
January 16th, 2011
4:39 am
Well, now where do the Falcons go from here? Depending on whether Tony Gonzalez retires, it’s abundantly clear that they still have a long list of needs to fill if they wish to climb to the next rung on the ladder to greatness. The defense, especially in the passing game, seems porous and easily gives up first down after first down to a patient QB. The lack of fundamentals with regard to tackling (arm tackle attempts seemingly all season) was atrocious; just getting pressure on a Favre or a Brees isn’t enough, not by a long shot; you HAVE to put them on the ground to disrupt their rhythm and confidence. An offense that was Jeckyll and Hyde; it could drive right down the field at times on opponents and convert on third and fourth down situations, and other times just stall out. Matt Ryan never has developed an adequate deep passing attack to open up the field. Michael Turner can be very good some games and disappear in others; as with the whole offense, there is a worrying lack of consistency and killer instinct.
And it doesn’t end with the players, either; losses like the one tonight and the earlier one against the Eagles, even close wins that should have been blowouts, exposed this coaching staff as too conservative and prone to seemingly being unable to adapt to opposing schemes. Will Mike Mularkey be back? Will Van Gorder? Surely they helped develop the Falcons to get them this far, but have they now gone as far as they can under their direction?
Thomas Dimitroff definitely appears to have his hands full as the Birds now look to another offseason of “tweaking”. This could be a very different-looking unit come next season, and who knows how things will go on the field with such changes in place, because it takes time for things to gel. That’s why this game hurts so badly after such a promising season; one never knows how long it will be before another chance comes along.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:39 am
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
To quote yourself…..somewhat….but how many other Qbs (besides chandler) have taken ATL to the SB
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:39 am
Touche
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:39 am
YOu check out that website yet? No comment about that i guess.
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
4:40 am
“go here and check out the pic at the top….let meknow what you think about where andersen’s loyalties lie……”
The vast majority of that intro video shows him in a Falcons jersey.
kenneth
January 16th, 2011
4:40 am
SAD SAD SAD. Dreams dashed and another season down tge drain.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
4:40 am
Stinger2: In case you missed it, we got our @sses handed to us at the Dome tonight. Something you’d like to say about it?
By the way….What ever happened to Stinger1?
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:41 am
Saints helmet at the top before the video even rolls.
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
4:42 am
“Yeah, option team of the past have had no players at all. I fact Ok/Neb dynasties of the 70s had no players at all got to NFl huh?”
I wasn’t alive in the ’70s. I’m talking about what college football is now. Anyway, the current schemes that pro teams use are a result of playbooks evolving over decades and coaches finding newer and more efficient ways to move the football down the field. If it wasn’t for this evolution pro teams would probably still be running the option too. College teams can’t run most of the plays pro teams do because they don’t have the players to run them, which is my whole point.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
4:45 am
You Touche yourself? Very uncivilized….Look it up.
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
4:47 am
Al Lindro,
Green Bay is not as dynamic a place as Atlanta is. I don’t at all mean that in a bad way, just, Green Bay does not turn over large parts of its population constantly. I was at a wedding once when I was older and some old friends from high school were there. I moved to Atlanta in high school – around 1980. I saw a friend and we were getting all maudlin, and he was it was amazing that we all became friends! I was like no it wasn’t. I’m from Miami, you’re from New York, that guy is from Connecticut, that guy is from California. We have NO friends that are from here. We are friends because we are all similar in that we are transplants. We are friends because these natives are violent and stupid as rocks. My senior home room was 50% as large as my freshman home room. All drop outs. I learned to fight in Georgia. A lot of us call Atlanta home, but I’m a Dolphins fan (which has sucked for a while now) and the Falcons are 2nd. I’ve never been to a Falcons game and I live probably less than 5 miles from the Dome. I’m a TV fan I guess. Since then the Atlanta population has continued shift as relos come and go. If I had a nickel for every clown I saw in a Yankees hat. Green Bay, Kansas City, the heartland in general is going to have more generational continuity. My grandparents never left Miami. Yours gave you Packers tickets.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
4:47 am
I don’t really care about the website, dude. I’m just saying Andersen was on the tube this week here in ATL and he wasn’t reliving his greatest moment as an NFL player in a Saints uni….It happened as a Falcon.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:48 am
college teams do run those in real BALL….LSU/ALA/Stanford…Big 10 til recently. Any QB can run pro offense, though success will vary with talent obviously.
It’s the gimmicks that need the uniqure players. Think Cam newton/Tebow can run pro offense? NOpe. But the irony is that there are more Staffords out there than tebow/newtons, whihc goes contrary to your argument.
JSS
January 16th, 2011
4:49 am
The traditional “T” is the original offense… Pop Warner introduced the Wing T at Carlisle with Jim Thorpe and those great teams with unbalanced lines and a wingback
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
4:49 am
“I was at a wedding once when I was older”
I knew it!!! The Count has discovered TIME TRAVEL!!! See, I tried to tell you!
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:50 am
ask morten about that chip shot he missed in the SB
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:51 am
still predated the passing game.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:54 am
Direct qote upon his intro to Saints HOF….from Morten…
I had the greatest 13 years of my life playing for the Saints
nuff said.
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
4:55 am
Morten is a Saint.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:55 am
Thank you.
JSS
January 16th, 2011
4:55 am
They passed, but the ball was larger more like a rugby ball… When they introduced the modern ball in the late 20’s the passing games took off…
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:56 am
exactly….and the passing game was the gimmick at the time. Why would that have changed?
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
4:56 am
Ah, but I was so much older then. I’m younger than that now
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
4:57 am
OK….I went to his site. The opening video shows about 80% of him either kicking in a Falcons uni or his name on the back of a red Falcons jersey…..The main photo on the home page has him kicking in a red Falcons uni…..Click on “contact” and he’s being interviewed in the Falcons locker room, presumably following his greatest moment as an NFL player. That’s enough for me.
So what was it you were trying to say exactly?
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:58 am
If you look at all football teams in the country that ever existed on every level, far more have run some form of the T/option/veer than any other offense that ever existed. It’s not even close. Everything else that came along was a gimmick until it was more established or accepted. these new offenses, like prostyl;e, for example may be the norm now, but in now way does that make the option “gimmicky” thats’ my only point.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
4:59 am
I’m talking about the Saints helmet prominenetly displayed at the top header of the screen. The thing you notice first.
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
4:59 am
The Falcons video footage was probably higher quality (later era) or easier to get. Probably not much more to it than that.
falcock
January 16th, 2011
4:59 am
The Falcons are the NFL equivalent of the Gamecocks. Great start. Revealing losses at the end of the year. Faceplant in the postseason.
Chicken curse!
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
5:00 am
YOuve made good points, but Morten is a Saint. period.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
5:00 am
yeah…his saints footgae is on betamax!
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
5:01 am
Anderson is beloved in N.O. and he knows that. secomnd only to Manning/Brees, and just above Rickey j.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
5:02 am
Where does he live now? Where is his business located? New Orleans I presume?
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
5:04 am
What??!!? They could build a Superdome in N.O……But couldn’t afford quality television or video equipment? LOL
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
5:05 am
what does that matter? you read the quote from his HOF induction that i posted.
I already mentioned earlier that N.O. economy is a stinkhole. POint coneded long ago.
Najeh Davenpoop
January 16th, 2011
5:05 am
“It’s the gimmicks that need the uniqure players. Think Cam newton/Tebow can run pro offense? NOpe.”
I disagree, and this is one of the things that makes me mad about college football. Mobile QBs like them who are fully capable of succeeding in pro style offenses have their development set back by being pigeonholed into spread or option schemes, and this sets back their learning curve in the NFL. This happened to Steve Young, Steve McNair, Jake Plummer, Mike Vick, etc… they were all mobile, they all played in non-pro style offenses in college if I’m not mistaken, setting back their pro learning curve, and they all took several years to master pro style offenses, which wouldn’t have happened if they had played in pro style systems in college. And it’s probably going to happen to Tim Tebow and Cam Newton too. The problem isn’t that they can’t play in pro style offenses; it is that college coaches have a greater incentive to win than to prepare their players for the NFL, and they know that elite athletes like Tebow and Newton can win them games in easier-to-learn systems that are not conducive to their NFL development.
“But the irony is that there are more Staffords out there than tebow/newtons, whihc goes contrary to your argument.”
I don’t know if you mean that Stafford is a bust (which I don’t agree with) or that there are more stationary QBs than mobile QBs, but either way, for every Stafford who is pretty good in college there are 20 pocket QBs in college who stink and end up playing in dumbed down systems regardless. One way or another, the majority of college coaches dumb down and simplify their systems to suit players who don’t have a lot of talent to begin with.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
5:06 am
So are they showing black and white 8mm video of him playing for the Saints in his HOF display? [snicker, snicker]
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
5:08 am
@falconsFAN there you go again with the time travel – the Saints tried to get 21st century video in the 1990’s but the time machine broke and they ended up with 1960s equipment until 2023. Crap, I’m starting to sound like that nut in AZ… lol.
JSS
January 16th, 2011
5:09 am
It was not a gimmick, there were rules precluding it… When they changed the rules, in the early 1900’s (06), that rugby ball was heavier than the modern ball… It took another 14 yearsfor the ball to catch up… There was a reason Sammy Baugh and Don Hutson, were huge stars in the 2nd and 3rd decades of the NFL
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
5:09 am
It’s definitely teh coaches, but i can’t blame them. It’s their livelihood. Wouldn’t you go with what “got you there”? their job is to win for the school, not to putn the players in the NFL and hav ethem succed tehre. Alot of Gerry Dinardo’d players went to the NFL. what di that get him at LSU. Fired.
BUt while you make good p;oints, you use bad examples..Mcnair? No offense in college. go watch his tapes. threw half his passes up for grabs. Young? Not a gimmicky BYU offense. That’s just a system that was the same system successful for 25 years. theyn threw alot, but that’s all. No gimmick. Plummer? Pro style at Az St. Vick? Alot of shotgun, but no spread. just him running around. his case may be the most unique.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
5:10 am
“Direct qote upon his intro to Saints HOF….from Morten…I had the greatest 13 years of my life playing for the Saints”
Maybe you were expecting:
“My single greatest moment as an NFL player came as an Atlanta Falcon, not long after the Saints organization had given up on me…..blah….blah….So once again, thank you for inducting me into the Saints HOF. Goodbye. I have a plane to catch back to Atlanta now.”
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
5:10 am
Whatever you say man, it still doesn’r refute my point that the option is not a gimmick.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
5:11 am
obviously you expected that quote but wqere disappointed it never came out.
saintsfan
January 16th, 2011
5:12 am
later….have to take care of patients now.
JSS
January 16th, 2011
5:14 am
By the way, it was college coaches being copy cats that brought the shotgun to the college game… Landry resurrected in the mid 70’s to protect his scrambling QB Roger Staubach
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
5:14 am
Don’t worry about the patients….You’ve ignored them long enough for them to be tomorrow’s statistics!
And just because Morten didn’t SAY it, doesn’t mean he wasn’t THINKING it! After all…It IS the truth…..
Army Dawg in Iraq
January 16th, 2011
5:14 am
All my life I have had to endure the curse of being a fan of teams from Ga. When will it ever turn around. I am to the point where as long as I live, I never expect a team from Ga. to win anything. I am depressed.
Superfuzz
January 16th, 2011
5:14 am
Matty Ice’s new nickname…Matt
count_schemula
January 16th, 2011
5:15 am
Option has major problems that make it better for high school. Just watching Georgia Tech it’s obvious that they will always have a very hard time coming from behind. Yeah they surprise some teams… they ran for 3,435 yards in CPJ’s first game against the Canes… but that never happened again. College and pro systems need balance with the passing game and the option is pretty difficult to run part time or as a feature.
talk is cheap
January 16th, 2011
5:15 am
Green Bay dropped a big “Turd” in your dome, and the fans were rushing out in masses from the horrible stink!! Hope someone got a photo of it and sent it to the press so you won’t have to “make up stories” about who did it! WHO DAT, WE DAT, FAILCANTS WILL NEVER DO THAT!!!!!!
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
5:18 am
“Following the 1994 season, he was released by the Saints for salary cap purposes and because his accuracy had started to decline. Following his release by the Saints, Andersen signed with the Atlanta Falcons. He silenced those who felt him to be washed up and was once again named a Pro Bowler during his time in Atlanta. In December 1995 against the Saints, he became the first player in NFL history to kick three field goals of over 50 yards in a single game.”
Sort of ironic, huh? I would Touche myself….But I’m not that unrefined.
Army Dawg in Iraq
January 16th, 2011
5:18 am
Is the state of Ga cursed as far as sports is concerned? I am 50 years old and the Braves have the World Series once in my lifetime. Maybe my grandkids will live to see a winner, I have give up hope for myself.
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
5:23 am
So how did you Saints fans actually carry your huge turd all the way home from Seattle? Falcons won the 2010 NFL South….Saints won their 2010/11 playoff game against the only NFL team to ever make it to the playoffs with a LOSING record…No wait….Something doesn’t exactly sound CORRECT about that, right? I SAID , “Is Dat right? Who Dat? Who Dare? Is Dat right?”
JSS
January 16th, 2011
5:24 am
I hate talking college football… There’s a passing component to the GA Southern triple option… Unfortunately, Paul Johnson doesn’t know how to run it or call it… Navy’s version took off the day he went to Tech…
Well, At Least The Falcons FANS Showed Up!
January 16th, 2011
5:29 am
Count, it isn’t just GT’s option offense, which “usually” performs quite well or they wouldn’t have led the nation in rushing yds/game. You’re leaving out the DEFENSE. Any team’s W-L record will suffer if they can’t stop the opposition from scoring. And GT couldn’t even stop Kansas from seemingly scoring at will…..
Enough fun for me for one night….I’m out….Be safe (or shoot first)….
long way to go
January 16th, 2011
6:09 am
Sorry…my computer must be failing…I thought I was on the Falcon’s “after playoff game” blog. What is all this crap about the forward pass, college football and old field goal kickers?????
They can be fixed but Blank will CERTAINLY NOT do what it takes to fix them. Could the young up and coming NFC Champs need a major overhaul already? YES!!!
1. Either Mularky or Matty Ice (lol) or both need to GO! The ultra-conservative play calling will never get you past the FIRST ROUND of the playoffs. These plays are called either because the Mularky knows no other way and cannot adapt or because he knows that Ryan is very very iffy on long balls and tough reads. Given that Mularky HAD a rep for offensive innovation before coming to the Falcons; I would say that he knows Ryan’s limitations and has been trying to prevent the type of interception fest that went on last night. The third rather intriguing option is that Mularky has been INSTRUCTED by Mike Smith to call the plays that way to protect Ryan, in which case I can’t really blame Mularky.
2.Van Gorder has got to go. It quickly became obvious in this game, as in several recent ones that the only way the birds can stop a high powered O, or a hot QB is to Blitz, Blitz, Blitz! Everyone watching, including the announcers could see that we needed to blitz except BVG. Unless once again he was following Smith’s orders.
3. We obviously need personnel upgrades ALL OVER THE FIELD!
I could go on and on. But without the first two changes, other changes, including player personnel would be futile. Mr. Blank is enamored with his coaching staff and QB due to the moderate success that they have had. So this NEW FALCONS DEBACLE will continue for at least another three years. Then we will start all over again.
Rise Up! Go Birds! Blah, blah…..blah.
what happen
January 16th, 2011
6:10 am
Here what happen Bobby cox showed up at the Dome jinxed us Oh wait Maybe Micheal Vick ghost n Petrino came in n lost it! Nope the Team gets a Grade D for it and folks leavin showed there support also leavin wiener Packers Fans actin like cook cock folks!Bottom line Packs will play chicago in soldier field next sunday after the bears 34-31 2nd overtime in today game…leadin to the NFC title game in soldier field where aaron rodgers will be smack so hard he cry to sidelines done after 2nd quarter n bears roll 51-7! Oh and Pats will win superbowl over bears too.And Micheal Vick will still be a eagle and falcons will be 13-3 in 2011. (if no strike then) The End
Jesse Stone
January 16th, 2011
6:12 am
Dunta Robinson=Peerless (”I hate y’all”) Price=Ed Hartwell= Ike Reese. Wasted cash
dbr
January 16th, 2011
6:15 am
FALCONS AND ALL OF GEORGIA’S OTHER SPORTS TEAMS CHOKE WHEN IT COMES
TO THE BIG STAGE.JUST LIKE WE SAY WITH ALL THE OTHERS MAYBE NEXT YEAR. I READ
WHERE THE FALCONS WANTED THE FANS TO SHOW UP EARLY, I THINK THE FALCONS FORGOT TO SHOW UP AT ALL.
McGarrett
January 16th, 2011
6:20 am
Can’t add much more to this but Falcons simply rolled over, stuck it high in the air and let the “Packers” just slide it on up in there.
what happen
January 16th, 2011
6:28 am
Look just cause we lost we getif M.vick was here be different nope be same look who beat him packers did well i give Packers a hand they won so quit comin in u cars are from the state u live which is here.And all sudden packers fans appear.well they not get in chicago soldier field i bet.they be more bears at home game then so called Green bay fans there..why cause chicago bears go way back in history they may had stunk some but fans were there…well maybe till after won superbowl filled up now.So look for 76,000 ravin bears fans at game not 12,000 so here falcons fans are fair weather anyway the morons who got playoffs seats when saw GB comin they turn into peckerheads um packerheads.Been same as if eagles been here and M.(pit bull) Vick had won make Title game only be 20,590 dummys wearin M.Vick Number 7 jersey see me point folks.So next season if no strike and a 18 Game season now.we be 14-4 next year n make NFL title game for sure.Oh for u fun lovin packer cheeseless heads u get u fondue parted in chicago sunday for title 51-7 as bears do a knock out to u great aaron rodgers for good!Take that peckerheads enjoy see u team whippin like a pit bull bein killed by M. Vick again.
jerry
January 16th, 2011
6:33 am
I have seen very little criticism of Dimitroff and Smith, the architects of this team, and a lot of criticism of the players they have assembled. If you were Arthur Blank, who would you want to see in your office Monday morning?
The Air Force "Falcon"
January 16th, 2011
6:43 am
The Falcons need to get help in the secondary, DE, LT, and at TE if TG retires. This team will be back. I am optomistic going forward!
Jesse Stone
January 16th, 2011
6:47 am
Drop Dunta Robinson and go get the guy from the Raiders whose name I can’t spell
agedcheese
January 16th, 2011
6:47 am
What most teams don’t have that the pack has is depth. McCarthy calls a good game on offense and if the offense plays mistake free they’re hard to stop. When they lose they usually beat themselves. And they have a lot of depth that allows them to consistently rotate good players in on defense.
SFNATL
January 16th, 2011
6:52 am
Let’s do the funky chicken y’all! The Pigeons, I’m mean Falcons season is OVER. Your smug media laughed at the SF Giants & buried coverage of their World Series Win. Mayor Kareem flew the SF pennant on a windless day over ATL city hall & kept me stuck in for a whole week until he decided it was important to clear ice at the dome. Doing the funky chicken today…squawk squak
Is Matt Ryan a big game QB?
January 16th, 2011
6:54 am
The magic 8-ball says no. Matt has regressed. I refuse to use Matty Ice as his signature until he shows up in not one, but many big games. He finished the season poorly, consistently was missing on passes that most NFL QBs make. He does not feel the rush and move in the pocket. As a Falcons fan, I hate to say it and see it, again – but, I think Ryan got us as far as he is going to get us. He looks scared in the pocket and timid outside the pocket.
Matt Ryan has obvious skill and give him credit – he did win the NFC South and go 13-3 this season – a rarity in Falcons history. To be an ELITE QB, you need to step up in big games – see Brady, Peyton, Big Ben and now Aaron Rodgers. He must play with confidence and swagger. In stead, he has his chinstrap on tighter than any QB in the league and is consistently looking to check down on 3rd and manageable.
Everyone knew Ryan would have to go toe-to-toe with Aaron Rodgers. Everyone agreed – he is just not that good when you are in a big game. Let’s hope he takes his helmet off and faces reality.
Enjoy the Pro Bowl, Ryan and Company. Well deserved.
jagfan
January 16th, 2011
6:57 am
Calm down Falcon fans. The Falcons yused to always suck and the only thing you had to look forward to was a high draft choice. Nowadays, they have raised your expectations. At least you were still playing on a weekend when most teams were sitting at home. The team gave you a great ride. Whn some more time paases, you will appreciate this team for what it was. . . not as good as it’s thirteen and three record appeared, but pretty darn good. You are just not ready to play with the big boys yet (i.e Steelers, Packers, Patriots.) But don’t throw the baby out with the bath water! The pain is too fresh. You’ll get over it. You’ve got a good team here. . . just not a great one. . . yet.
same ol game
January 16th, 2011
7:02 am
ok—-right before the half—they throw the ball and they could have kicked a field goal. This might prove that the Falcons schedule was weak. Terrible coaching. They have a great running game and decide that their quarterback is Joe Namath—–not. Again, this coach is starting to act like Mark Richt, and some other coaches who think passing is the religion of football. Well, think again idots. You had the running game and you didnt use it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!——ok losers—–back to the sand box.
Is Matt Ryan a big game QB?
January 16th, 2011
7:14 am
@JagFan – I think David Garrard is better than Matt Ryan. At least he can move out of the pocket and is not afraid of his shadow. The 2010 Falcons and 1998 versions were very similar – run the ball, offer a controlled, check down passing game with limited vertical stretching capability and cross your fingers on defense. Matt Ryan may be as good as Chris Chandler, maybe.
Most QBs start to show their true mettle in the post season and lead up to it. Ryan’s play and QB rating have been in the 65-72 range over the last several weeks. That is not leadership. That is a regressing QB (see Vince Young, et al.). I think Ryan has peaked, plain and simple.
Dave K
January 16th, 2011
7:16 am
It took 45 years but for those of us old enough to remember, finally we Cheeseheads extract some revenge for having the Braves stolen from us.
Corny Hull
January 16th, 2011
7:19 am
Was Arthur Blank at the game? I don’t think he made it on TV. Certainly that had to be a big disappointment for him!!
falcunz
January 16th, 2011
7:20 am
a lot of you folks can down play this all you want but this loss COULD end up being as devastating as the loss to Dallas 30 years ago. if things don’t get off to a good start next year then everything, especially matt ryan, will start to come apart.
Buckeye
January 16th, 2011
7:23 am
We have a process…………Guess we completed step 3. How many steps are there?
Long time Pack fan
January 16th, 2011
7:23 am
Heads up Falcon fans. This was just “one of those games.”
Is Matt Ryan a big game QB?
January 16th, 2011
7:24 am
Additionally…
The NFL is a QB league. QB success in the post season is critical. The Saints were carried by Drew Brees. The Steelers are picked up by Big Ben, time and time again (well, their D is pretty ferocious too – that helps) Ryan has all the weapons – (Turner, White, Gonzalez, sometimes Stenkins) but just can’t get it done.
The O looked very sluggish and inconsistent in the clutch this season. Let me give Ryan credit. He has made some outstanding throws, some of which very few NFL QBs can make. With that being said, it will be followed with a bad miss on a crossing route or something he should do with ease.
Little things people forget like the crappy play Ryan had early in the last Panthers game – it unfortunately reared its ugly head vs. GB. You can’t make those kind of plays in the post season. You must play flawless and when things break down, get your butt out of the pocket and IMPROVISE. (See Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Brees, Peyton, Big Ben, etc.)
Matt is not there, and I am not sure he ever will be. He is a good QB, but is statistically and ability wise right in the middle of the pack for NFL QBs. Is he the worst QB in the playoffs right now? Probably so.
1. Brady
2. Rodgers
3. Big Ben
4. Cutler
5. Flacco
6. Hasselbeck
7. Ryan
8. Sanchez
It is what it is.
Dump the turd birds
January 16th, 2011
7:25 am
Espn just stated that your team is only the second home playoff team to lose by such a large defeat. I hate to rub it in, but I told you guys, until you win a super bowl to shut the hell up. You can only brag, when you have a Lombardi, not before. You guys bragged about having the best record in the NFC. You thought that by having the number one seed, the Lombardi had your name on it. You were wrong falcants fans. For. A fan base whose team is one of 14 teams never to win a Lombardi, you people talked a lot of shit. I hope in the future, you guys learned to shut up, until your team actually wins a super bowl, other wise can one say hater in the house. See you next year, after all the dirty birds never lose in the Georgia dome. Well the saints won there twice over the last two years and the my green bay packers stomped the birds on national tv. Remember people to rise up this morning, and tell the falcons organization that you’ve had enough with this losing team.
Ay
jerry
January 16th, 2011
7:26 am
0-2 in the playoffs, 78 points allowed, no problem, they were just “two of those games”
Dump the turd birds
January 16th, 2011
7:36 am
Rise up, or is it wake up? Trent dilfer was right, the frauds were exposed on national tv. Man I had fun watching that beat down. You stop the run game, you stop the falcants.
Is Matt Ryan a big game QB?
January 16th, 2011
7:37 am
@jerry – how many Falcons defenders would START on other NFL playoff teams? Maybe 2-3?
Abraham, Dunta and maybe Lofton. We simply lack play-makers on that side of the ball. We have depth – lots of very average players, but no one who is going to step up on a crucial play and get it done. Abraham couldn’t do it last night.
We will have to rebuild the D, piece by piece. I think Van Gorder did an unbelievable job with players who are essentially not top tier NFL players. We will continue to get better.
Offensively, another poster had it right. Mularky can’t stretch the field, and is very conservative with play calls. That is partially true, b/c Roddy is likely double covered and Jenkins has hand of stone, historically. We have no help in the slot and Ryan is not mature enough to be an elite, NFL play-making QB. Additionally, Ryan has average arm strength and thus, he struggles throwing downfield, and looks to check down at the first sign of any discomfort. He does not like to get hit. It’s pretty obvious. His pocket presence reminds me of Chris Miller. That is not very complimentary, but it is what I see.
Like it or not, he makes poor reads, inaccurate throws and is pretty average on 3rd and manageble.
bigeasy830
January 16th, 2011
7:39 am
I told my friends who are Falcons fans that their team was not as good as they thought they were. The Falcons could have easily been 8-8, but you are who you are as Mike Ditka put it and they were 13-3. i can’t take anything from them for that. When I say 8-8 I will give you the run down. San Fran game if that idiot for the 49ers would not have fumbled the INT. Tampa had you twice but could not finish it, The Saints missed an easy field goal, and you caught an old ravens team on a short week. You all have the best coaching staff in Football, in the regular season they hide you all weakness. The Falcons win by smoke and mirrors, but in the play-offs, you play a good team that is playing at a high level. The Falcons weakness are exposed then. Matt ryan is not the second coming of Tom Brady he is a good QB but will never be great because of his lack of arm strength. You need to go to the 3-4 scheme and get LB’s that can pressure the QB starting with UGA’s Houston this year. You need bigger CBs. You need another threat at WR. I told a friend of mine before the draft that Dez Bryant would have been a perfect pick for the Falcons. Dez and Roddy on the outside would have been unstoppable. Now, Harry Douglas will be much better next year 2 yrs removed from the injury, but I knew he would not be the player you all wished for this year. Your DT Jerry Peria will be better next year also 2 yrs removed from the injury, but how much better. If NO make some moves to improve their defense they will be a play-off team. Tampa will win the South. They are really building something special down there. The Falcons will not be a play-off team next year. Your QB chokes in the big games. As, you all piled up the wins in the regular season i told many of your fans that if the Falcons did not win a play-off game then it’s back to square one. Well it’s back to square one. You r team, your franchise, your fans are just happy with a few wins in the regular season. i am a Stealers fan, we believe that it’s Super Championship or bust. That’s the mentality that you people need to develop.
I will say it again the Falcons will not make the play-offs next year.
Fresh for 2011, You Suckers.
Matt Ryan will never win a SB
January 16th, 2011
7:42 am
Matt Ryan threw two picks and lost a fumble. His record in the playoffs is now 0-2. He is NOT an elite QB, and he never will be. Great QB’s have the ability to make plays even when the running game isn’t working.
old timer
January 16th, 2011
7:43 am
Boy, these Saints fans are horrible. The win it all last year and the whole country gets behind them. And now they act like this? /Meanwhile, Packer fans try to buck up the Atlanta fans. The difference (between Saints and Packer fans) is that there are no bandwagon Packer fans. We own the team and we are always behind them, win or lose.
flagger
January 16th, 2011
7:43 am
we go beat by the better team,,,somebody’s gotta win somebody’s gotta lose.. thanks falcons
for a good season of entertainment…unless ure the lead dog..the view for everyone else is the same!!!
jason
January 16th, 2011
7:43 am
Though the Saints did lose to a Seattle team with a losing record on the road by five points in one of the most hostile environments in the NFL – the Saints entered that game completely decimated in their offensive backfield. They had their top five running backs on injured reserve including their two starters – Pierre Thomas and Chris Ivory. This same Seattle team that will play Chicago for the right to face the Green Bay team that wiped the floor with you in your dome, also defeated the Bears earlier this season. Their record is very deceiving.
Though it’s true that winning on the road and injuries are a part of the game, sometimes a team can’t overcome a plethora of injuries at one position. Sometimes, teams in the midst of a dynasty can’t overcome a single injury which was exemplified three years ago when Tom Brady went down early in the year and was lost for the season and the Patriots didn’t make the playoffs.
But what’s your excuse? You’re completely healthy, playing at home and Las Vegas has your game against Green Bay as a pick-em. Then you come out and score two touchdowns – one of which was a kickoff return. Then you stand by helplessly as the Packers scored 35 unanswered points. And you should have lost by more had the Packers not doinked a field goal off an upright.
FOX television focuses on both sidelines with 10 minutes left. On one side we see Arthur Blank and some of your players moping and shell-shocked; others simply have their heads in their hands with expressions on their faces as if they’re a bunch of drunks that can barely stumble out of a tavern.
What a pitiful exhibition that was. And you Falcon fans have the gall to sit here insulting the Saints? These same Saints that lost the last three games of their regular season last year and came out in this same round of the playoffs last year and trounced future Hall-of-Famer Kurt Warner and the Arizona Cardinals? These same Saints who the following week defeated another future Hall-of-Famer Brett Farve and the Vikings? These same Saints that then defeated another future Hall-of-Famer Peyton Manning and the Colts by 14 points in the Super Bowl?
If you Falcon fans can digest all of this and can still consider yourself on the same playing field as Drew Brees and the Saints, then you’re not only idiots on the playing field as you demonstrated last night, but also mental retards.
Have a nice summer.
truefanpack
January 16th, 2011
7:44 am
Not going to pick on the team, falcons are a good team. Gonna pick on the dirty bird fair weather fans. You talked trash all week in these posts and you got slammed. You left your team in the 3rd quarter. You would never see an empty seat at Lambeau in this situation, never. I bit my tongue all week reading your posts, talking trash. I am sure the true falcon fan is respectful of the game and opposing team, and doesnt leave them in the middle of the game. Most of these posts are still cheap trash talk not giving any credit to the Pack, still making excuses. You got beat by a hot team, with pretty good depth. Redemption, it feels good coming in to your house and giving back what you gave us in 07. To the true dirty bird fan, falcons will be back. They are a good team.
Patrick
January 16th, 2011
7:45 am
I was at first Green Bay game too. I felt GB was better team that day too, but made a lot of mistakes. Falcons could be 2nd best NFC team, but that isn’t the goal. Great season, looking forward to a nice run ahead like the Braves have been having last 20 years. Go Falcons!
ryan ice
January 16th, 2011
7:49 am
I thought ryan’s “intangibles” were “driving his success.” What success? In two career playoff games, Matty Ice is 0-2 with six turnovers and a safety.
Cheese whiz
January 16th, 2011
7:53 am
Matty ice froze, defense slipped and the the Pack rolled. Falcons are , or were so over-rated. Turner has no star power and what do you expect of a defense led by a Georgia guy.
Samuel
January 16th, 2011
7:59 am
Simply put the coaching staff have some real big decision to make. Mike Mularky and his conservative play calling. And some playmakers on both sides of the ball.
whatizit
January 16th, 2011
8:01 am
What a dumb article. The Falcons had a bad day, and it is called an “epic fail” (a term no journalist should use because it is an idiotic term). They made ATL proud all season, played above expectations and kind of fell apart during the playoffs. How they respond to this game will determine far more than a win or a loss. Like most people, Schultz is writing out of emotion instead of as a journalist. An editor should know better.
Is Matt Ryan a big game QB?
January 16th, 2011
8:04 am
Fellow Dirty Bird fans – truepackfan is not aware of the post season pain and general lack of success we have had here in ATL. He is right that all ATL fans (Braves, Falcons, Hawks) are fair weather and somewhat band waggoners. It was pretty embarrasing that the fans bolted in the 3rd quarter and the dome was essentially empty. But, teams in ATL ask for support – they get it and then they lay an egg – consistently. It’s hard to know and understand how that feels until you live it.
It was a great season with a huge, disappointing loss to end it. Our talent on defense is non-existant, and we have rolled the dice on a QB who is not there. You dont throw 20 picks at Boston College in the ACC if you are a cerebral assassin at QB. I would say the Falcons overachieving in a big way.
I will say this. I have the utmost confidence in Mike Smith and his staff to right he ship. They are NFL lifers, and if they can get some playmakers on D and if Ryan can show ANY pocket presence and guts, we will be back.
We are not a #1 seed. The Pack is. We are better than Seattle, New Orleans and maybe, Philly. I think we match up well with the Bears. Great QBs play in the post season and Super Bowls, with the exception of Trent Dilfer who hitch hiked with the Baltimore defense.
Is it baseball season yet?
Joey
January 16th, 2011
8:05 am
Why blame Matt Ryan?
A QB is only as good as his OC’s game plan. Anyone who can’t see that the Falcons were out-game planed and out-coached are vision impared.
Shiva
January 16th, 2011
8:10 am
The game simply exposed the Falcons for they are. Frauds. The Saints, Bears, Eagles, Giants, as well as the Packers are all better teams and that is just the NFC. Troy Aiken put it best when he said,”The Packers are simply a much better Football team.” The only thing more pathetic last night were their fair weather “fans bailing out in the 3Q- an absolute disgrace.
wiverwat26
January 16th, 2011
8:15 am
#1 seed after a 13-3 season losing 42-21 by a #6 seed = EPIC FAIL! Dirtybird fans have been talking smack all season about New Orleans/Katrina/Fluke season and recently the loss to Seattle. The Saints might have gone one and out but not like this. Who Dat the better team with their rings still sparkling. Karmas a bitch Failclowns.
geno
January 16th, 2011
8:17 am
i said the falcons were a 9-7 team and tonight they proved it…..Matt RyanS arm is not strong enough folks…..good defensive backs know this and take advantage….this guy will never be able to light up a scoreboard like brady, brees, manning and rogers……and it doesnt help when your general manager (td) passes on dez bryant and selects weatherspoon who did nothing this year…. and poor tony Gonzales, never won a playoff game…WHY? . . .because all=pro TEs dont win championships……wheather you like it or not, the NFL is wide reciever driven league….
Chillahill43
January 16th, 2011
8:18 am
So chris owens you now know why you lost your position … Because you cant play you looked like a high school player among men. I hope they send your sorry azz to a far away place. And you dumbazz blitzers how about a little control on your blitzes. That was the most embarassing game of this franchise period bar none. Ice killed atlanta twice this week. Geeze that was pathetic. The defense looked like a Georgia Bulldog defense… Way to man you you bunch of losers… The posers came out tonite thanks for nothing!!!!!
Datacus
January 16th, 2011
8:21 am
WTF
fatz
January 16th, 2011
8:22 am
the stars were aligned this year for a good, but not great, NFL team to get to the super bowl. the “wait til next year” mantra almost NEVER works anymore in the NFL. the schedule will be brutal next year, injuries will catch up with the team, close wins will turn into close losses. and matt ryan is a good B to B+ level NFL QB, but he is no perrenial all-pro. he is too slow evading the rush, cannot make the out-pattern throw with authority, and seems to lose his cool under pressure particularly without a running game. the defense has been a mirage. if you watched the Ravens, Steelers game you saw good defenses, you don’t see that as much in the NFC. The packers could stand up to the AFC in the Super bowl, and Aaron Rodgers is just lights-out confident right now.
there have been comments about fair weather fans. that is the nature of the beast in a sun-belt city that doesn’t have a built in middle-class multi-generation fan base. the folks, like me, who have followed this team from its inception absolutely have no faith in this franchise. last nights egg was exactly what the long-term follower expects out of most atlanta sports franchises. its why the transplants (the metro area was well under a million 50 years ago and is now 6 million +..- all these folks came from somewhere else!) don’t give up their long-term family loyalties to embrace our teams, other than for something to do (an over-priced something to do..)
i have this stupid theory that all the teams that sold out and adopted arena football league uniforms are cursed, and the ones that stayed with their traditional uniforms through thick and thin ultimately succeed. its stupid and i guess you’d say the Pats are an exception- although maybe we won’t apply it to the AFL legacy teams… I hate the falcons uniforms and i guess, to me, it represents the idea of generating ‘buzz” and “glitz” with peripheral things other than gettting the job done on the field.
this team, in this configuration is a 7-10 win a season team, no better. maybe that’s good enough for Arthur’s business plan but it just bores me.
A Fan
January 16th, 2011
8:27 am
Maybe I’m a tool too. The way Green Bay played, I’m not sure any team, even NE could beat them this time. The Falcons are on the right track. I’m thinking they had too much time to game plan. Paralysis by analysis. Maybe more than a few were banged up too. Congrats Packers. I hope you didn’t use all your Mojo on this game. It’s a process, and this is a building block. Maybe we will continue to focus on the process, and not look ahead next time.
Pirl
January 16th, 2011
8:28 am
As a life long Falcon’s Fan I wasn’t disappointed in the early exit. I’ve become accustomed to ATL sports teams folding in big games. After all these years I’ve learned not to expect anything special from the local teams when the post season rolls around. I do feel bad for the fans that haven’t learned this lesson yet. My 13 year old son included.
What's a d a w g?
January 16th, 2011
8:28 am
I hate it, but this is really who I thought the Falcon’s were all season. Sometimes the ball bounces your way. That’s what happened most of the season. The Packers came to town yesterday and exposed us for who we really are. I’m disappointed, but not that surprised. You can take the Falcons out of Atlanta, but you can’t take Atlanta out of the Falcons. This is who we are. This is our fate. I’ve been a Falcons fan for 33 years and always the same. We’re always waiting for next season. It’s getting old. Thank goodness for my Auburn Tigers. War Eagle!
Matt Ryan will never win a SB
January 16th, 2011
8:29 am
To all the Matt Ryan lovers … what happened? Michael Vick won playoff games here in ATL with MUCH less talent than its current roster. Ryan is the best hand-off QB in the leauge, but he will never be a playmaker like other elite QBs.
legionaire
January 16th, 2011
8:30 am
You don’t win 13 games in the NFL by being a bad club. The entire team had an off night. It happens. The D gave a great qb too much time to throw. Next season we will be watching replacement football.
Atticus
January 16th, 2011
8:35 am
GB is the much better team. Birds played above their heads and won a bunch of close games. But they don’t have enough playmakers on defense and they made two critical errors on offense. GB has a TON of talent.
Comment
January 16th, 2011
8:35 am
Falcons Sorry was right. Vick would have won that one last night.
Melted Ice
January 16th, 2011
8:37 am
Melted Ice got exposed last night he finally got in a game were he was more than three points down and he had to throw deep and he cant. Dinking and dunking can only get you so far.
Evan
January 16th, 2011
8:37 am
falcon fans are worse bandwagon jumpers than eagles fans. you guys had a great regular season, probably better than anyone thought you would and unfortunately ran into a buzzsaw. your team is young and will learn from this experience. this will only help.
Chillahill43
January 16th, 2011
8:38 am
Oh and by the way jason youmy friend can justify all you want but the saints got beat by the sorriest team in the nfl playoffs yea atlanta played like crap but for you to live in your fantasy that The Saints are elite . Well elite teams dont lose to Arizona and Seatlle and St Louis. Now do they? Wake up outta your Moronic state of mind!! Elite. Yea and next year when you are outta the playoffs again tell me how elite you and thats sorry azz AINTS team is wake up your dreaming fool!!
RIP-ATL
January 16th, 2011
8:39 am
This team had no heart. Once they got down by 2 TDs going into halftime, they just cashed it in. What a disappointment!
Atticus
January 16th, 2011
8:41 am
Can we please drop “Dirty Birds”!!! This team is a different team, that was ‘98.
Is Matt Ryan a big game QB?
January 16th, 2011
8:41 am
I hope Ryan is just immature. My eyes and gut tell me he is afraid of contact and simply chokes under pressure,even just mild pressure. Our O-line was outstanding this season and did a great job protecting Ryan. So why is he so timid and poor at feeling pocket pressure? He was bailing out all night – more concerned over not getting hit than steeping in and making a throw with authority.
He looks like Chris Miller in the pocket and it pains me to say it.
Is Matt Ryan a big game QB?
January 16th, 2011
8:42 am
Nice post by fatz..You are spot on. Welcome to Atlanta.
Comment
January 16th, 2011
8:43 am
Melted Ice – LOL That guy gets paid a lot of cash and he sucks.
Woodstock Dawg
January 16th, 2011
8:44 am
NOBODY showed up to play last night on either aide of the ball.
Our D was horrible: no pass rush, poor tackling, no coverage – they were almost as pathetic as the offense who couldn’t stay on the field to save their lives.
Green Bay just wanted it more and it really showed on the field.
This was a national embarrassment and the Falcons just validated all of those naysayers who said the 13-3 season was a fluke. Very, very disheartening.
tbake70
January 16th, 2011
8:46 am
It’s really simple.
When the ink is dry on the book of the 2010 NFL Season, these Falcons will stand revealed as a good, opportunistic team that got mistaken for a Super Bowl Contender.
This was never anything better than a Wild Card 5 or 6 seed team, and the signs were there all season long, but I like so many others got caught up in the hype and believed for a moment.
Not a terrible team by any stretch, but also in no way a great one.
Had they lost the 1st New Orleans and San Francisco games, as they wholly deserved to, they would have finished no better than 11-5 and seeded closer to their true potential.
The Falcons today are in much better shape than at almost any other point in their history, aside from occasional high-water marks (1998, 2004).
But membership in the NFL elite is still much work away.
Better luck next year, Birds.
Double Zero Eight
January 16th, 2011
8:48 am
The “ice” melted when the heat was applied.
I hope he is not another Tony Romo. Mularkey’s
stock just went down as far as I am concerned.
The O line looked confused. The defense failed
to make adjustments. Jerry and Anderson were
not legitimate first round picks. The better team
won. They had better players. That 30 million
dollar difference in the salaries apparently made
a difference in the caliber of players.
Henry
January 16th, 2011
8:49 am
The Falcons are a good, but not great team. That 13-3 record mesmerized their fans into thinking they were better than they were. Matt Ryan is a good, but not great QB. Aaron Rodgers, on the other hand, IS a great QB and you saw proof of it last night.
tbake70
January 16th, 2011
8:50 am
@ Comment, 8:35am
If Vick would’ve won last night, why didn’t he beat the Packers LAST week? At home??
Oh, that’s right…sorry to dash your argument with the cold water of logic.
Vick wouldn’t have helped last night. Joe Montana in his prime wouldn’t have helped. Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay were on fire.
Coach Cleats
January 16th, 2011
8:53 am
All along I did not rate Matt Ryan highly entering the postseason.
I had him rated seventh out of the eight starting quarterbacks.
Behind Sanchez at six and ahead of Cutler at eight.
Sanchez has started four games on the road, winning three.
Ryan was 0-1 entering the playoffs.
Cutler has yet to start a playoff game.
whodat70816
January 16th, 2011
8:53 am
Falcons did not have an off night….Packers just took away Turner and Matty melted.
Sure, call it an off night if you need to make yourself feel better, but the Falcons started this game just like they’ve played all the others. Dink and dunk down the field, don’t make too many mistakes, and control the clock and hope you have a bigger score at the end of the 4th.
That’s how they won 13 games in the regular season and that’s how they thought they would win in the postseason.
Green Bay took away the Falcons best two weapons (turner and the clock) and they folded like a paper airplane. I’d like to think the injured Saints team that beat the dirty birds in their house on MNF gave them the game plan, but unlike Matty “Melted” Ice A Rodgers showed signs of being an elite QB and has to get a lot of the credit. Did you see him squeezing that ball into tight places, break away from the pressure the Falcons brought, the way he moved in the pocket? That’s an elite QB Falcon fans….Matty Ice couldn’t even break out the paper bags Saints fans wore in the 70s.
I’ve been saying it all season long, and even on here, the Falcons just aren’t that good. Sure they won 13 games, be happy, but they can’t win when it matters.
Next season the NFC plays the NFC North and I predict the Falcons won’t even win 10 games next season. No NFC West to help out next time.
poopdawg
January 16th, 2011
8:54 am
Schultz, your writing like a GOOBER . 13-3 then 1st rd loss does not equal EPIC FAIL. Disappointing yes but 1 game loss never equals EPIC FAIL. Every athletic game has a winner and a loser thats what makes it so exiciting . Falcons played bad Packers played better. The Falcons did not EPIC FAIL. The only EPIC FAIL is your writings Schultz. Instead of reporting critical plays that occured during the game ( such as Rodgers ability to beat the Falcons blitz by spinning out of trouble) you want to talk about EMBARRASSING and EPIC FAIL. I am sick of Schultz and the rest of the AJC hacks butcher the hometown teams.
Reality Check
January 16th, 2011
8:56 am
Who do we really have on D? GB has 2 lb’s named Hawk and Matthews. Our LBs aren’t close to that caliber of player. Spoon is a rookie and was nonexistent last night.
And our DBs are just undersized and outmanned. Owens shouldn’t be on the field.
Our D line didn’t come to play, and Rodgers did.
Time to spend some money and pick up some playmakers and gamechangers.
Gen Neyland
January 16th, 2011
8:57 am
The fat lady sang and Elvis has left the building. No parades, no rose petals, no brass ring. The seed that was planted last summer rotted on the vine… Maybe a Lock-Out is just what the doctor needs to order up for this team and it’s city. Shoot, from another perspective, we’ve seen what a week off produces. Just think what a whole year off will do. Scary…
Saints > Falcons
January 16th, 2011
8:58 am
1. Saints have a SB ring; FALCLOWNS DO NOT
2. Saints don’t experience EPIC FAILURE as #1 seed; FALCLOWNS DO
3. Saints fans don’t abandon their DOME in the 4th qtr; FALCLOWNS fans DO
4. FALCLOWNS fans are JEALOUS of the SAINTS SB RING? Survey says? 100% of the time!
5. SAINTS will host future Superbowls in the SUPERDOME; GA DOME has NO chance…
There are endless opportunities to tweak the rednecks…FALCLOWNS fans are like puppets – I write something incendiary, their “red” rolls up the neck and I pull the strings….LMAO…How does it feel ATL to NOT have a RING???? “TURRIBLE”, I bet….glad you had the chance to talk smack all last week about the Saints….there is nothing you can say that will change what happened to you last night….you are nothing but FRAUDS….Who Dat got the ring? We Dat got the RING! You have nothing ….stay classy….LMAO….
Buzzman
January 16th, 2011
8:59 am
You can’t blame “Matty” for the lost, you have to blame, The Coach, and Players, nobody was prepared for this game. They still have that “mentally” that the Falcons have always had since the 60’s. when the Smiths had the team. Until they improve on their attitude they will never go to the Superbowl. Maybe a lockout of the NFL will be good. These players are payed too much anyway. When you pay a player millons of dollars you expect them to play. They should be paid on how they perform. If they were, all of the Falcons would owe all of their fans money.
Saints > Falcons
January 16th, 2011
9:00 am
Hey, FAILCANTS, when is your SB parade? I want to be sure not to miss it….LMAO…WHO DAT!!!!!
kaput
January 16th, 2011
9:00 am
Matt Ryan sucked golf balls through garden hoses last night. There is no other way to describe his abortion of a performance.
BOTH interceptions were his fault, as was the offenses inability to move the ball. Without a powerful game, he is average – maybe worse.
LeeS
January 16th, 2011
9:01 am
Was worried about Mularkey leaving for a head coaching job. I worried needlessly. Now who ever hires him needs to worry!
Seattle DOMINATES
January 16th, 2011
9:01 am
Congrats Pack! You obviously have a MUCH better team than the Falcons. Good luck. Hope you go all the way. New Orleans Fans…LOLOL…your brief day in the sun has been over for a week now. Can’t you blog on a N.O. football blog? Oh yeah….your season has been over for a week….Uhhhh….who was dat who beat dem Saints???? SEATTLE ROCKS!!!!….lolol
Gatorman
January 16th, 2011
9:04 am
Oh good gracious Jeff, it wasn’t a colossal failure, just a lesson learned the hard way. Remember, you have to be good enough to get there, but now they need to learn how to finish. I fully expect Gonzalez to retire, as his face should at the end, that he didn’t want to be there. Stay away from Ohio State when drafting receivers (or anything else), and look for speed at the receiver slot to separate from the good defensive backs. Right now only Roddy White should be on this team in two years, as all the rest should be gone. Dunta Robinson is neither a shut down corner or even a good corner, so a young talented corner is needed to go with Grimes. They need a strong pass rusher and a big play receiver, so package your draft picks and either get the big receiver from UGA or the big lineman from Auburn. Either one of these guys would have an immediate impact on the team. Lastly, make Smith understand that the Offensive and Defensive coordinators cannot take them to the super bowl, and start looking for coaches that can.
doyal52
January 16th, 2011
9:05 am
Matt Ryan and Joe Flacco are the two most over rated QB today. They are AVERAGE and not elite. So you should just expect average results.
Ron
January 16th, 2011
9:05 am
It just seemed to me that yes, Aaron Rodgers was incredible, but our defense was not ready to play. Now, that could be many things, but the two main problems that happened, was that we got outcoached, and the guys were not ready to play. That is a coaches responsibility. Overall, I thought their coaches did a better job than our coaches.
hockeyman3944
January 16th, 2011
9:05 am
Yeah…I did “Rise Up!” right after the interception at the half…I rose up to get another beer and switch channels to a PBS re-run about the mating habits of aardvarks…Rise Up…phfft! Outclassed…now maybe Stink Shapiro can shut up..finally! Enough of the patronizing drivel coming from that station…
Uncle Al
January 16th, 2011
9:06 am
I have to disagree with Schultz’s last sentence. Ryan made two *bad* mistakes late in the second quarter… but take them away and we’re kicking a long field goal to try to go into the half up 24-21. If we’re not playing from far behind, I think we keep the game closer in the second half. That being said, I do think the best team won Saturday night.
New Coaches Needed
January 16th, 2011
9:08 am
@LeeS – You got that right buddy. Now if we could find a way to get rid of Van Gorder……..Smith……..Ryan……Jenkins…..Douglas……Owens…….Nicholas….Wire….etc, etc, etc…
But yes….Mularkey gone would be a great start.
Bro Nameth Sports
January 16th, 2011
9:09 am
where are these comments EVERY year in regards to the Braves and Bobby Cox? Be consistant man. I agree that the falcons season means nothing now after that beating but how about enough of the free passes for the Braves and especially Bobby Cox? (yes i know hes gone now)
That game was the worst thing that could have happened. The falcons got behind by multiple scores which means its over since we dont score wuickly.
Someone explain the logic to me of rolling out ryan on that play just before the half where the threw the pick 6? The pack KNOWS we only have to throw it to the sideline. So we decide to roll Ryan out and cut the field down to 30% and give him 1 option to throw to. seems like it makes a lot of sense. Dont get the wrong the throw by Ryan is HORRIBLE but the playcall is just as bad. If thats Ryan call then he should be punched in the face.
http://www.bronamethsports.com
Did Not Pass Go
January 16th, 2011
9:09 am
Rodgers is just lighting it up right now. His ability to evade the tackle gives him too much time and our secondary just can’t cover for that long. The Pack is on big-time roll and we got crushed. Lots of holes to fill if we want to be a consistent playoff contender, especially on the Defensive side of the ball.
Tre'
January 16th, 2011
9:09 am
I’m a Falcon fan by present geography, & I’m concerned at how the media puts so much pressure on these young qb’s, especially the two 3rd yr. guys Matt Ryan & Joe Flacco. Don’t get me wrong, they’re talented, but not game/momentum changing talent. Watching them I think their true gifts are being very efficient even greater managers of the game. Case in point, in both games yesterday neither could lift their teams out of their funks to change the tide of the game. Those are the true hallmarks of a great qb, it’s something that you’re born with. Plus true greatness would NEVER allow itself/it;’s team to be humiliated at home on national T.V. in the playoffs no less, no matter the opponent. I put them both a step ahead of young up-starts Sam Bradford & Josh Freeman. Both of whom have bright futures but, still yet to be decided.
The bottom line is, lighten up on the hype & let these young guys develop at a natural pace and I think the greater dividends will prove out over time.
whodat70816
January 16th, 2011
9:10 am
Uncle Al….
You may have an argument if the Falcons lost by 3, but they lost by 27…..the best team not only won Saturday night, they won in grand fashion!
falcons fan
January 16th, 2011
9:10 am
Please don’t let me ever hear the name Matty ice again. what a choke! Win a playoff game someday! And the denfense? what a joke. Dimitroff has his work cut out for him
Call it like it is
January 16th, 2011
9:10 am
Yes it was a complete Epic failure. No one played. The O-Line, the D-line. All pitiful. They talk about how wishy washy the Atlanta fans are. Well why wouldnt they be. Have the Falcons every given us anything to support them on? One superbowl in their whole history and were showed to be what they are, pretenders. Cant blame the fans we were there in force screaming our guts out, and the Falcons let us down. To come into our house and destroy us, wow. Now we have to live thru the season with this loss, and Ryan, well he is going to Hawaii. Somehow that just seems wrong
mark mcclure
January 16th, 2011
9:11 am
What is everyone upset about??? Does it REALLY matter? At the end the day The New England Patriots, with the greatest QB and coach in NFL history are going to hoist the Lombardi Trophy! Whats it matter???? Teams and fans need to get excited for NEXT year NOT this year, New England has this thing won and it is not even close!
SFNATL
January 16th, 2011
9:11 am
Those thousands of black & red birds falling dead were a bad omen. First the paralyzing “blizzard” that shut down the city & now this. The future of teams with bird mascots doesn’t look promising.
JoeHog
January 16th, 2011
9:13 am
One and Done LOL
Nativebird
January 16th, 2011
9:13 am
Good teams “RISE” to the occasion…this team…these “Smith-Demitroff” teams do not. Falcons are becoming the “Braves” of the NFL…regular season darlings – Can’t win the big one. Big changes needed now, or have fun Falcon fans, resign yourself for years of “almost” making it. If you’re okay with that…knock yourself out.
John
January 16th, 2011
9:15 am
I have been puzzled regarding the apparent disconnect between the Atlanta media and the national media regarding the Falcons.
Other than a bad case of “homerism”, I could not understand why the local media thought the Falcons could win this game.
As a Packers fan from Highlands, NC, I was thrilled at the number (I would bet there were easily 10,000 Packer fans in the Dome last night) fellow Packer fans around me last night. Tickets from secondary sources were easy and inexpensive and this was very telling regarding the level of support for the Falcons in Atlanta. You would have thought this would have been one of the toughest tickets of all time but I am afraid this proves once again that Atlanta is one of the worst pro sports towns in America. The Thrashers will almost certainly be sold and moved at the end of this year – the Hawks can’t draw fleas, the Braves are, at best, a middle of the pack draw in relation to major league baseball attendance and the Falcons, even while going 13-3 had the softest “sellouts” I have ever seen.
Sometimes things are not very complicated. Our quarterback is better than your quarterback – our coaches are better than your coaches. Your fan base is not even considered a “major league” fan base while our fan base defines enthusiasm for pro football.
Atlanta is a good football team – probably 9 or 10 win good. Atlanta is not, and never was, a Super Bowl contender.
Packer Faithful
January 16th, 2011
9:15 am
“todd grantham January 15th, 2011 6:11 pm
How can anybody think that one of Green Bay’s stockholders, that goes around with a piece of plastic cheese on his head could beat an owner like A M who shares a tailor with the President?”
…bet you feel silly right about now. When tailors win super bowls come back to the blog.
There’s a reason most Packer fans stay away from pregame blogs. You might want to consider it, as well. Your IQ would immediately go up 40 points.
georgiadawgg
January 16th, 2011
9:15 am
oooh noodle arm. you couldn’t carry aaron rodgers jock strap.
CheeseHead #1
January 16th, 2011
9:17 am
Why would anyone expect the Falcons to win that game? #16 offense. #16 defense. 1 WR. Old TE. Young QB. One-dimensional RB. No real playmakers on defense. Green Bay pounded a very average ATL team. Better luck next year….You saw a real football team in GB.
Chris
January 16th, 2011
9:18 am
The Falcons are a very solid team that will continue to get better. They can win the close ones because they are so solid and balanced. When the get behind by two scores however, they are just not there yet to comeback against a hot team. Let’s face it, Aaron Rodgers is playing the QB position at a level not seen in sometime (with all due respect to Manning, Brees, and Brady). The Falcons just ran into a buzz saw.
Saints R.E.A.M.
January 16th, 2011
9:18 am
I’ve said it before the Saints beat the Falcons that monday night: Cinderella’s slipper was broken and the clock had struck 12. This team has been walking a tightrope all season…winning games with fraudulent Ref calls & non-catches. When the Saints took away Turner & smothered Roddy & Gonzalez in coverage…there was nothing left for Matt Ice to do but be average. You are not an elite QB when you throw all of your passes to 1 wide receiver. Roddy is targeted WAY too much. Thus that dreadful pick 6 last night.
Matty was awful. Staring down receivers like HE was frozen. Looking right at Charles Woodson blitzing but not throwing the ball away. Late throws to open receivers in the endzone yielding in an interception. Fumbling away the snap from center. Total panic job. Dude is NOT a player.
How does Jenkins lose footing in the endzone on that pick? It’s in a dome, on turf!! What type of slip n slide shoes did he have on??? weird.
Just saying..
January 16th, 2011
9:20 am
Wonder if Arthur’s ready money is making it too easy to buy the Dunta Robinson’s and John Abraham’s, rather than us focusing on finding the Mike Williams’, Legarrette Blount’s, and John Starks’?
mike g
January 16th, 2011
9:21 am
What the game shows is that our Atlanta team is constructed with baleing wire and spit. We have a very average offensive line. The defense is made up of sub-par atheletes. Look at Green Bay’s defense. Young, strong and fast. We are a long way from going to a super bowl.
Call it like it is
January 16th, 2011
9:21 am
Hey Matt Ryan, You threw 3 picks got sack several times and had the biggest loss in playoff history…….What are you going to do now? I’m going to HAWAII!
Bill
January 16th, 2011
9:21 am
Coach Smith and his staff have done a ‘great job’ of piloting the Falcons through what must be considered a sensational season. Through good basic fundamentals, good game plans and encouragement from the bench they created a football team that far overachieved its ability during the year. They were taught them how to win!
The fact that the team could never seem to sustain momentum throughout a total sixty minute game to blow out average opponents like Carolina, Cleveland, etc.is proof positive that there were deficiences in their performance. It was a factor that bothered me all season. I would hope that this coming winter and spring, they will be able to add two defensive lineman, a line backer and two defensive backs (with some size). If they don’t continue to improve, the NFL is going to catch up with them very quickly. Other teams are going to learn a great deal about the Falcons from film reviews this summer and when they review films of the Green Bay game! There are definite holes in their game!
Saints R.E.A.M.
January 16th, 2011
9:22 am
For weeks i have compared Matt Ryan to Trent Dilfer and have listened to you clowns tell me how ridiculous that was…..Really?
He’s still Trent Dilfer status in my book.
Boy do you guys owe Trent Dilfer an apology….he was right on the money about the Falcons!!! He said you couldn’t protect home field when the playoffs started!!!! Biggest blowout of the playoffs this year. Falcons couldn’t have beaten Westlake last night.
ATLBadger
January 16th, 2011
9:22 am
No one probably reads this far down…but from a Packer fan currently living in Atlanta, the Falcons are still a good team. They played a terrible game against a very hot team, but there’s still a lot to like about the Falcons going into the future. Ryan is young and has plenty of time to grow up and play the big games. I have respect for how Blank, Dimitroff, and Smith have turned the organization around after the depths of the 2007 season. I still despise Petrino and Vick because of the way they hosed you guys.
Anyways, lets bring the Lombardi Trophy home to Green Bay!!
chris
January 16th, 2011
9:22 am
At least it was a blowout and we didnt let Rodgers run around for 15 minutes hand gesturing his receivers like Danny White did in 1980 to break our hearts in the fourth quarter; This team is not perfect there are a lot of defeciencies that got exposed tonight; the difference between this team and team’s past is that the management sees that and they will rebound; Ryan is still a kid even though he’s maturing; be patient Falcons fans; getting to the Super Bowl is not an easy task for any franchise unless your the New England Patriots who seem to do it with ease each year; football is football; to be a true fan y ou have to take the good with the bad, we saw the bad tonight, yes it stung and it just leaves you wandering what the hell happened out there but as I said Id almost rather get blown out than to have fought hard all game and lose a heartbreaker in the end; the sting is a bit less on that score
Donovan
January 16th, 2011
9:22 am
I am tired of having friends over to watch the enevitable Falcon disappointment. I am tired of waiting for next year. The season was long and the tease was huge. By half time I was done with this team. A team with a 13-3 record, a home field advantage, and a week off should not be eliminated in the first round. The Falcons are not ready for prime time. Disgraceful for the fans and Atlanta. They broke my heart.
Memphis Mike
January 16th, 2011
9:24 am
Atlanta had a good team this year who overachieved – is that so terrible? I think the necessary tweaks will be made and the Falcons will get better and contend for it all. Remember the Chicago Bulls? They got their azzes handed to them in the playoffs early on and then they matured, got their act together, and won tons of championships. It can happen in Atlanta too.
Re the Saints fans here – after the Seahawks game last week, I’d just shut up and keep sucking that Super Bowl breast from a year ago…..
JDawg
January 16th, 2011
9:25 am
Don’t lose your minds because the Falcons were outplayed and outcoached. The team was upset because no one outside the Atl respected them.
Now they know why. It is strange that no one is throwing the R-E-S-P-E-C-T
hjones
January 16th, 2011
9:26 am
Arthur Blank and Thomas Dimitroff,
The Atlanta Falcons Football Team is a business and someone needs to be fired for this effort. I suggest starting with the Offensive and Defensive Coordinators. CHANGES HAVE TO BE MADE!!!!
Saints R.E.A.M.
January 16th, 2011
9:29 am
Trent Dilfer & Matt Ryan are very similar as Quarterbacks…I said it before and I still think it to be true.
Trent Dilfer is a great analyst and he called it right. He was blasted for weeks about saying the Falcons could be beat…he was so right!
IAW
January 16th, 2011
9:30 am
“I have been puzzled regarding the apparent disconnect between the Atlanta media and the national media regarding the Falcons.”
John you hit it on the head. The anger from the local media about the Falcons not being pick by the national was just plain absurd. It shows the bias for this Falcons regime. It colors their opinions.
jaymike
January 16th, 2011
9:30 am
I grew up in ATL and have seen Falkoon failure before, but last nights game took the cake…I now live in NJ and I can tell you…even if the J—-E—-T—-S…..JETS!…JETS!…JETS!
were losing like the Falkoons did….not a single fan would leave their seats to head home…not until the final whistle! It’s becoming a joke in the national media….(Atlanta Braves Divisional Series..good seats still available…Hawks seats still available….Thrasher seats still available…Falkoon fans (aka FairWeather Fans!) leave b4 the game ends!!
JDawg
January 16th, 2011
9:31 am
Don’t lose your minds because the Falcons were outplayed and outcoached. The team was upset because no one outside the Atl respected them.
Now they know why. It is strange that no one is throwing the R-E-S-P-E-C-T card around today.
I like Matt Ryan and he is a good quarterback. He is not a great quarterback and too much pressure is put on him. The mistake he made last night have been made not only this season but previous seasons – remember the loss to the Cardinals
The same with Turner, even the broadcaster were questioning why a running back can’t catch the ball – it just limits our options, especially since he’s not quick and evasive.
Unfortunately, we keep making the same excuses about the Falcons. Eventually, they will win. Looks at the Saints.
Hit A Single
January 16th, 2011
9:31 am
It goes back to one play right before half. Could have been different maybe. I do no that the Packers wide receivers are a heck of alot faster than the Falcons. Also the O-line did not play well down the stretch. Two areas that need addressing.
Dr. Phil
January 16th, 2011
9:32 am
Pitchers and catchers report to Orlando in four weeks! Time to turn the page.
Wake-up call
January 16th, 2011
9:32 am
schultz…….they have never given us the big one
Saints R.E.A.M.
January 16th, 2011
9:33 am
Jaymike, You are 100% correct. Fans should be ashamed. They gave you a great season & a division championship…and fans walkout on them! Wont stay to at least thank them for a temporary magic carpet ride!!!
Jack Burch
January 16th, 2011
9:34 am
In his 3rd season, Aaron Rodgers was still on the bench behind Brett Favre. In his 3rd season, Matt Ryan went to the playoffs and lost for the second time. I’ll wait awhile longer.
David Granger
January 16th, 2011
9:35 am
Just one season, of course, and you can’t read too much into it. But I wonder if we’re going to have the same situation with the Falcons that we did for so long with the Braves…a great regular season team that routinely fell apart in the playoffs? Regular season is a marathon, while the playoffs are always a sprint.
browndog
January 16th, 2011
9:35 am
All is not lost! Falcons will make improvements in the off-season. Got to find a pass rush if you are going to play with the Pack. Falcons were taken to school last night and hopefully they learn from it. Falcons can not make mistakes and win. On the other hand, Falcons had no answer for Rogers, regardless. He could have passed for 500 easy as he was never pressured. Interesting to see what the off season changes will be. Falcons still growing. Never bought into the argument that they had “arrived”!
Saints R.E.A.M.
January 16th, 2011
9:36 am
Next year will be tough. This year you had your health – for the most part. Putting it together will be a battle…expect 9 wins.
Dan
January 16th, 2011
9:39 am
What a prime example of what happens when two fairly evenly-matched teams meet up, and one brings its “A” game while the other brings its “D-” game. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you. Insert other platitudes and cliches here. A tip of the hat to the Packers for being the ones who brought their “A” game, and here’s hoping everyone among the Falcons, management to players to non-player staff, learn from this nationally televised consumption of ipecac.
Message to Atlanta Defense and Matt Ryan
January 16th, 2011
9:39 am
You failed so miserably and humiliated yourselves and this city so bad that you all should off yourselves. You will never be able to show your sissy faces again in public anyway…so do the right thing and jump off a bridge…LOSERS !!!!!!!!
mowreck
January 16th, 2011
9:39 am
Ok, let me stir things up a bit. Are you listening Mr. Home Depot? I can’t seriously bring myself to cheer for the Falcons as long as they wear those old “Rankin Smith, UGA colors”. Maybe add a little ”GOLD” to that uniform. Red and Gold would be nice. I am sure there are some other Atlanta fans that feel the same way.
Black&GoldSuperBowl
January 16th, 2011
9:40 am
Saints fans everywhere were enjoying the hell out of last night’s demise of the Dirty Birds. Every touchdown by GB was welcomed. Yea we lost but we showed better class that all of the so called Falcon fans…….running over each other to exit the building? HA so tragic. LOL
Did Not Pass Go
January 16th, 2011
9:41 am
We have no stars on D at all. No player like a Clay Matthews or a Troy Polamalu to build a defense around. D Robinson? What a disappointment. Owens? We have decent LBs but not great and that just doesn’t cut it in the NFL. Weatherspoon is a year or two away. Loftin must gave been hurt? Where was the pass rush? Abe, what happened? Bierman? We ran into a buZzsaw and it didn’t help that we also decided not to show up. I think the week off did more harm than good..
mowreck
January 16th, 2011
9:42 am
I also think, that as usual, the Atlanta Media built the Atlanta Falcons up so high they may have flew to high and ran out of oxygen.
Saint Richt
January 16th, 2011
9:42 am
Welcome to the hot seat Mike Smith….hopefully Blank doesn’t turn into the Braves and keep Mike “Bobby Cox” Smith around if he can only win in the regular season.
And Matt Ryan…..get in the gym and strengthen that pop gun arm.
From Where I Sit
January 16th, 2011
9:44 am
It was those GOD AWFUL RED AND BLACK JERSEYS, just like that Losing bunch down the road in ATHENS! GO BACK TO THE BLACK JERSEYS AND STOP TRYIN TO LOOK LIKE UGAY!
Enough Said!
Falcon
January 16th, 2011
9:44 am
Team Is a joke. 100% embarrassment
Hit A Single
January 16th, 2011
9:44 am
When are you Saints fans going back to New Orleans? People in Ark., Ok, and other states lose their homes to disasters but they don’t go looking for handouts from others. The Saints are still looking up at the Falcons in the Division and they will until next year. Get use to it.
No D
January 16th, 2011
9:44 am
The Falcons suck as usual. Always have, always will.
Tilla
January 16th, 2011
9:44 am
It amazes me how a dumb a#* like Timmy can say something like the “Aints still living of the success of last season” Which season are you living off the success of Timmy? The Saints just won the Superbowl (which is what you want right?), you can’t win every year, but to get dismantled at HOME as the # 1 seed and to NEVER have won a Superbowl… Get a ring then you’ll see why Saints fans aren’t nearly as devastated as you are TIMMY!
80sFalcon
January 16th, 2011
9:46 am
Disappointed in the loss. However, being a loyal fan for 35+ years I’ll take a 13-3 season. The team is still growing. We have very young players still learning the game. Ryan’s going to get beat up in the press(deservedly so) but will soldier on. I have to remind myself that he’s only in his third season. GO FALCONS!!!
No D
January 16th, 2011
9:46 am
Saints suck as usual. They are back to their usual crappy selves.
rodbuilder
January 16th, 2011
9:46 am
Seems like the Atlanta sports tradition…good regular season (Braves, Hawks,sometime Thrashers, Falcons), then no show against the “hot” teams in the playoffs. Almost seems like a conspiracy! Let the “flyover” teams win enough in the regular season to keep ticket sales high but make sure the major market teams make the big games for highest market share in January!
DNT1976
January 16th, 2011
9:46 am
As a Buccaneer season ticket holder and someone who attended both Bucs-Falcons games this year, and saw the falcons struglle with a Buccaneer team I feel is still a couple of seasons away, I’m not surprised at the outcome. The Falcons are a good team, on the verge of greatness if they can continue to improve on defense, but not quite there yet. Congrats on a good season.
Jamie
January 16th, 2011
9:47 am
We will always be the FALCANT’S! All Georgia sports teams are a joke!
Realist
January 16th, 2011
9:48 am
I hope the same Falcon fans who gave Michael vick a Hard time as Falcons QB (when had no where near the talent this team had) gives the same if not more critisism to Matt Ryan. Comparison and contrast Vick by his third year took Falcons to NFC championship game, Ryan has yet to win a Playoff game & you give him So much praise (some of it is warrented). BE fair across the board. Tuff loss for the Falcons and embarrassing for the City.
No D
January 16th, 2011
9:48 am
Go home Tampa fan, you suck too.
No D
January 16th, 2011
9:49 am
Why is the city embarrassed? It’s just a stupid game.
Tilla
January 16th, 2011
9:53 am
Hit A Single is another DUMB A$# first of all, Katrina was the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Not just some flooding where people lost homes. Over 1500 people died in Katrina you idiot. You can’t compare a flood to what happened to New Orleans. Those other places were rebuilding a week later, but in New Orleans it took weeks for the water to even go down. Know what you’re talking about before you make dumb a#$ statements. Secondly how are the Saints still looking up at the Falcons. Don’t you get it? It was the regular season, you don’t get rings for that. In the postseason (where it really counts) they were both 0-1, but at least we went out fighting. The Falcons look up at the Saints who are fresh off a Championship. The Falcons have NEVER won a Championship and have been in the league longer than everyone in the division… so who’s looking up to who? Get a ring prick!
pissed off
January 16th, 2011
9:55 am
Pathetic! Rise up? This was without a doubt the most pathetic playoff performance delivered by any Falcon’s team in the history of the franchise, and that is saying a lot. Matt Ryan a upper echelon QB…give me a break. The Falcon franchise the next NE Patriots…in our dreams! I mean the Packers should of lost in Philadelphia if Akers makes two FG’s of 41 & 29 yards. It is hard to believe that this franchise will ever be great when we loss this bad with the number 1 seed and two home games from the Super Bowl. And people wonder why Falcon fan’s are so fickle…just look at our history. Great franchises win in the post season and unfortunately we’re not even close. Again, absolutely pathetic!
suwaneefalcon
January 16th, 2011
9:56 am
I have been an defender of the Falcon’s all year and unlike some of the Saints fans, (seenthisb4, Matt Choke who would not comment for days after their embarrassment) I wanted to come on here for the last time this season and congratulate the Packers. The best team clearly won this game. What I take away from this game is we have big needs on this team if we want to get to the big show. What I have faith in is the front office of this team will not rest on its laurels and make decisions on coaching and players that will get us to that game. So to all you Saints fans who may be on here shooting off your mouth, we lost to the probable NFC champion and you lost to a 7-9 team. Let us keep it in perspective. To the Packer fans, you have a complete team right now, I will be pulling for you to win the Super Bowl. It would be good for Rogers and maybe get rid of the Favre mystique.
I hope all of you enjoy your off season and can’t wait for the draft. In TD I believe!
Scott
January 16th, 2011
9:57 am
The Falcons were the beneficiaries this season of playing an extremely soft schedule. They beat up on the hapless NFC West (4 – 0) where no team had a winning record; beat the Bengals and Browns from the AFC North, both of whom will be picking in the top ten of the NFL draft; and beat the Panthers who are picking first. Remember, Tampa Bay played the same soft schedule so no one knows how good they actually are so eight to ten wins came against really bad, no horrible football teams. The Falcons managed to beat the Saints once and that came during the stretch where the Saints also lost to the Browns. Good football teams do not get taken to the woodshed in their own stadium in the playoffs. Matty Ice has looked a lot like Tony Romo in the playoffs. Both put up great regular season numbers but fail miserably when it counts.
Tilla
January 16th, 2011
9:57 am
No D you’re an idiot. The Falcons are back to their usual crappy selves! Win something and stop TALKING like Roddy White!
freshd
January 16th, 2011
9:57 am
hey Mike Smith, you finally get to coach M Vick in the pro bowl. is mr. home depot going with you, i missed him standing on the sideline last night.
Bruce
January 16th, 2011
9:58 am
I would rather have a losing record than to see the Falcons lay an egg as the number one seed like they did. I have said all yr. that our db’s were not very good. To lay all that money out to Dun Ta (that doesn’t spell Dun Tay) was a joke. He is so overmatched. This season was a waste plus now we get a very low 1st round pick. The Falcons are the joke of the league. No one gave them a chance in the game and for good reason.
icedawg
January 16th, 2011
9:59 am
Falcons definitely need significant improvement on the defensive side of the ball, particularly pass rush and secondary. All is not lost. Most of the pieces are there. It is tough to come so close and fail. As in all failure, what will they learn from it and what adjustments will they make will determine if this was really a profitable season or not.
13-3 and OUT
January 16th, 2011
10:01 am
To all the Falcons fans that have class and dignity (I’m sure there’s a few out there), sorry for your loss.
To all the low class, juvenile falcants trolls that spammed other team’s sites with horrendous trash talk, HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! Karma’s a beeyoch! So you think the Saints are “one and done” losers, huh? Well, that’s highly doubtful (not winning the SB 2 years in a row hardly classifies as “one and done” you idiots), but even if it becomes true in the future, at least they got their ONE! And don’t bother retorting with that “well at least we didn’t lose to a 7-9 team” crap….the Saints went on the road with no week off, with almost no running backs. forgot to bring their defense, and lost by 5 points. The falcants sat at home with the #1 seed, had a week off to rest and prepare, had no significant injuries and got embarrassed by the #6 seed, losing by 27 points!
And to the scumbags that have to look up to see a worms belly that brought up Katrina and called for a repeat, you really need to seek professional psychological help – wishing harm to another human being over a game is truly the worst example of abhorrent behavior imaginable.
Bruce
January 16th, 2011
10:02 am
Vick was not a QB for the Falcons. He was a RB who could throw. Never took the time to do what he needed to be a QB. He was too busy with his thugs and dogs.
marke
January 16th, 2011
10:03 am
Too bad we can’t grade the sports writers !!!! Give the Falcons a break man they had a great year and they are a great team. Still love the Falcons regardless.
whodatdude
January 16th, 2011
10:03 am
Great post, Hickory Avenue. WHOOOO DAT!!!!!! Karma is a B%$*#, Roddy White!! You run your mouth insulting not just a team but a whole city who went through a horrible catastrophe and this is what happens. Enjoy the long offseason man. Losing AT HOME as a #1 SEED by 27 Points??!!!! Are you kidding me??? That has to be a record for futility!!! Falcons will never win a Super Bowl!! But good news, it’s a quick flight to New Orleans if you want to come look at our rings!! Farewell pigeons!!!!
Want a new defense
January 16th, 2011
10:03 am
If you want a REAL championship defense and are not happy with Mularkey and Bobby Cox, ahem, I mean Mike Smith. (Bobby Cox did at least win in the postseason at first + got one World Series)
If you are not satisfied with the hot garbage that TD has drafted…
CALL ARTHUR BLANK home # – (404)237-1666
BIG TIME FAIL
January 16th, 2011
10:04 am
Blank needs to fire Mularkey. Let him go interview somewhere else.
And if one of these qb’s is available in the draft, take them. Ryan has a damn weak arm. Tell the pansy azz to lift some weights. Gawd what a weakling he is. Rogers made him look like a high school qb.
jimbo jones
January 16th, 2011
10:04 am
Rise Up Atlanta! Now sit your butts back down or please exit to your left.
MD
January 16th, 2011
10:04 am
Well this has Happened before, All The Time. Atlanta Teams have NO Players With Heart.There are no Leaders on The Hawks, Falcons, Braves, or whatever team.Show me one Player on any of those teams that will pump the team up or yell at other players for Blowing Games.You get a leader or leaders on your team the Whole Team will Respond. I starting to believe all ATLANTA Teams enjoy getting Their AZZ Whipped on National TV, no one on any team steps up to do anything about it…
Disgusted
January 16th, 2011
10:04 am
The Falcons need to stop pouring Gatorade on the owner, tweeting offensive remarks about Hurricane Katrina, stop puffing out their own chests and actually win the games that count.
If the Seahawks get to the Superbowl, you think anyone will care about their season? You win when it counnts. Or, you’re like the Failclowns. Hell, the stadium EMPTIED AT HALFTIME. People here knew the outcome. It’s much of why I’m a Saints fan. At least they stay in the game.
Tilla
January 16th, 2011
10:04 am
No D the Falcons suck and you suck. Get a ring dude. You have NEVER won anything. BTW the Packer were the 6th seed (bottom) in the playoffs… laugh at that! Storm was 5 years ago, I never got anything form the government, make good money, live nice, and would tell you anything I wanted to say to you to your face and not just TALK ish on a computer like your doing now! Your a low life and wouldn’t say ANYTHING to a New Orleans native if they were. Get a life and stop bashing people for tragedies that were beyond their control. Karma is alive and well, and you never know when the tables will be turned!
Mr. Cheese
January 16th, 2011
10:04 am
It wasn’t the team that embarrassed Atlanta last night, it was the fans. Leaving in the middle of the 3rd???? Someone tuning in during the 4th would have thought it was a Packers home game….except we play football outside where it was meant to be played.
You guys should have stayed around just to show some gratitude for a great season by your team and coaches.
tr8tr
January 16th, 2011
10:05 am
I’m here to come correct about the Packers: Mike Smith was subtly dismissive of the Packers’ talent, and so was Matty “Iced”. The Packers team you faced tonight has been building for years, making correct free agent acquisitions for years (Woodson, Ryan Pickett, Howard Green, Brandon Chillar, Ryan Grant) and making shrewd draft choices for years. Their talent, depth and scheme is no mistake. They assembled a top-flight staff, including a monster of an LB coach in Kevin Greene and the brilliant Dom Capers. Ted Thompson is an NFL-elite talent evaluator, and our depth in almost every position shows.
The Packers utltimately led to the dismantling of two other head coaching jobs this year–Childress and Singletary. They survived through a horrible string of injuries in 2010 and retained their composure. They destroyed an Eagles team, fronted by a man that delivered them a stunning defeat many years previous (I still respect Vick, even with his checkered past).
I was completely nervous about this game as a Packers fan. The Packers suffered very similar defeats in the Playoffs throughout the 90s with Brett Favre at the helm (though obviously not record-setting, apart from his INT totals).
The key is patience: you can make fun of Rodgers all that you want, say that he looks drunk, pick on his bad hair or silly demeanor, but don’t call this game a fluke. The Packers had a tough road this year, perservered, and their youth (Quarless, Shields–who took over for once-talented Al Harris, Crabtree, and Bulaga are all rookies) gained major experience. This result is not a mistake, nor is it a fluke.
It was the aligning of a new NFC dynasty: the Packers will get their 15 IR players back next year (and, admittedly, will lose some players to FA), including stars/starters TEs Finley and Havner, solid safety rookie Morgan Burnett, LBs Nick Barnett and Chillar and Jones, DE Jolly, RB Ryan Grant. They’ll be somewhat active in Free Agency, but not much, as TT doesn’t build using FA. The Packers will have another solid draft to fill depth holes (the #1 draft pick may not even play in 2011).
As for Rodgers, this is just the beginning for him. People have always questioned his ability, and it just strengthens his resolve. Snubbed for the Pro Bowl, he has something to prove in Dallas.
Best of luck next year Falcons; I hope next season the team gets to travel to Lambeau, where all questions of a superior team will be laid to rest on the cold, hard grass of the city that Lombardi built.
You just got destroyed by a better team, in almost every way.
wraithchild (packeraddict.com)
BR5
January 16th, 2011
10:06 am
Lynn Berkner…Did you really just say “should OF BEAT you”???? Hey moron, it’s “should HAVE BEATEN you.” You might want to learn to speak English correctly before you start running your idiotic mouth!
Stinky
January 16th, 2011
10:07 am
I have come to realize that Packers fans are kind of a bunch of mouthy a**holes!
dmcnya
January 16th, 2011
10:07 am
So glad to have grew up in chicago and die heart bears fan other fans of nfl teams can relate to what im bout to say if your die heart you dont jump on and off the bandwagon u stay with your team THE FALCONS r a good team just didnt play good against greenbay heads dont need to roll come back next year make ajustments keep building i never thought they would be green bay because of there schedule to me a very light one towards ends of season MY ADVICE NEXT TIME FALCONS R IN POSITION FOCUS ON ONE GAME AT A TIME AND NOT BOUT MIKE VICK CHOKIN AND DOG FIGHT N MATT RYAN IS GOOD BUT NOT CLOSE TO ARON ROGERS NFC NORTH PLAYS BETTER FOOTBALL
Angus
January 16th, 2011
10:07 am
I now support the Falcons move to Doraville. I’d rather not have an NFL team than witness another embarrassment like last night.
Sid
January 16th, 2011
10:08 am
When they came out of the tunnel I swear I thought to myself, they do not look like they are fired up, looking somewhat timid. Christopher Owens didn’t lose us this game………..at least not all by himself. The Packers dominated in every facet, they wanted it more than we did. Aaron Rogers got hot at the right time of the season. We all knew our defense has improved but still 22nd ranked against the pass. So it was a fun year, winning the NFC South an accomplishment and naturally we all wished our A game had of showed up last night. Congrats to Green Bay more than likely the NFC representative in the Super Bowl. So none of us wanted to lose like that, not so much embarrassing as it was like being strip searched in public. Maybe that trip to Hawaii appeared a little more appealing than Arlington in February. We beat Green Bay in a playoff game at Lambeau, they just returned the favor. Congratulations to the Talon Razor Sharp Atlanta Falcons on an excellent season. So, who do you like in the draft……………..?
Saints Fan
January 16th, 2011
10:08 am
One and done. So much for the Number 1 seed and the Super Bowl goes through Atlanta. It still may for those with connectiong flights.
Falclowns Fans are Classless
January 16th, 2011
10:08 am
Great stat: over the last 30 years only 4 NFC top seeds lost in the first game, with the icing on the cake since the Falcons have now done it twice!!!! EPIC FAILURE = FAILCANTS! Saints rule, we have a ring, you don’t, enough said….stings, huh? so sorry! Who Dat, We Dat! later, losers…
Trent Dilfer
January 16th, 2011
10:09 am
I tried to tell you hillbillies
Superbowl44 Champion Saints
January 16th, 2011
10:09 am
It don’t mean a thing til ya get a ring!! I still see failcants fans wearing superbowl shirts & hats from ‘98. So I can wear my Superbowl 44 CHAMPS shirt & cap FOREVER!!!!! Always remember Failcants Fans ya have to be a CHAMP 1st before ya can be a chump, thats all I heard this week in atlanta about the Saints loss. Champs become chumps. Lol what DRUMMING the Aintlanta failcants took!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! CYA next year at the Superbowl44 champions Saints @ Aintlanta Failcants Game!!!!
ParisD
January 16th, 2011
10:09 am
I’d rather focus on the future:
Falcons have work to do:
1. We need speed on the edges and a receiving threat with speed out of the backfield. This can come from one player. Jerious can’t stay healthy so we need it from the draft. This can open the middle for Turner who needs to become more of a situational back since he can’t catch passes very well or turn the corner. We have given him every chance.
2. We will need to draft another offensive lineman, maybe a better tackle.
3. We need another well rounded tight end to groom pretty quickly. He needs to have some speed.
4. We need help at every level on D: A D-end to replace Abraham as he winds down. Sibury can’t be the answer or we would have seen him on the field more. We need another young and fast LB to complement the Spoon, this can be used to upgrade depth at Middle LB. And we have to find a d-back to start in the nickel with some size and speed.
5. We need a wide receiver that can stretch the field. Remember Tony Martin and Chris Chandler. WE Must stretch the field vertically and horizontally.
COME TO GREEN BAY
January 16th, 2011
10:10 am
As a transplant, from Wisconsin to Atlanta, I was torn last night, but after seeing the disrespect of the fans at the game, I realize this team deserved to lose. Come on up to a Packer home game. Every seat is filled, for every minute of every game, even when its 20 below zero. The fans in Green Bay support their team through thick and thin. Atlanta had a lot to be proud of this year, and when they’re team could have used a pat on the back and a “chin-up kiddo” there was no one there for them. What a farce. I couldn’t believe how empty the stadium was last night. With fair-weather fans like that, you don’t deserve a championship.
UGA '79
January 16th, 2011
10:10 am
All year long the ajc pimps have wrung their little hands as the national pundits belitted the Falcons. Every year there is a team with a gaudy record that it soft and a prime mark to be 1 & done. The only thing that makes Blank’s sideline antics worthwhile is seeing him humiliated. This franchise is a LONG way from being among the NFL elite. Frankly, I don’t think they will ever make it. And, BTW, their fans are deluded, ignorant and as fair-weather as they come.
Yuck
January 16th, 2011
10:11 am
Worst #1 seed ever. What a joke. Ryan is not a top qb. His arm is a joke.
Stupid players saying well we didn’t do this. We came out like this. Duh really.
You got blown out morons. What did you do on your week off? If I am blank, I get rid of half this team, draft another qb and fire the off and def coordintor
Mr. Cheese
January 16th, 2011
10:11 am
“Stinky” – after the beatdown we gave you guys we’re entitled to be mouthy a@@holes….
Tilla
January 16th, 2011
10:11 am
No D I don’t go anywhere for Hurricane season, no matter how much your mom begs me!
freshd
January 16th, 2011
10:12 am
Mattie Ice wet the bed last night. good thing it was cold last night or he would have melted. the falcons can rise up this morning and go clean out their lockers and go play with the housewives of atlanta.
amrchairqb
January 16th, 2011
10:12 am
The Falcons did all they could do. They just aren’t that good. We should trade for the first round pick in 2012 to get Andrew Luck. Matt Ryan CLEARLY doesn’t have what it takes to win in the playoffs. This game was over before it started, and Green Bay wins this matchup 10 out of 10 times.
13-3 and OUT
January 16th, 2011
10:12 am
Hey you morons that keep bringing up Katrina – if you pay any attention you would notice that it is NOT Saints fans that bring it up – it is the classless FalCANTS fans that drag it out and use it as an excuse to make comments any self respecting human being would be ashamed of. And last year it was the MEDIA that blew Katrina all out of proportion – not the Saints fans!
So quit making excuses for your disgusting comments – rise up (LOL!) and become a human being!
All Weather Fan
January 16th, 2011
10:12 am
13 – 3 Epic Fail? The columnists in the AJC are the worst. Why don’t you try and be positive on occasion? This is a team with a solid, young base that will continue to improve.
Murray Fintel
January 16th, 2011
10:14 am
Ya all need to stay behind your team to the end. Player’s and staff could have taken a lot home with them if there had been some fan appreciation at the end of the game. It would have made a difference for next year. The Packer’s went throught some hard times in the 80’s but the fans were always there for them.
Marshall Pryor
January 16th, 2011
10:14 am
I was never too pumped about Michael Turner, even after his tremendous first year with the Falcons, I still wasn’t sold. The guy cannot move east to west to save his life and he most certainly cannot cut quickly into an open hole. If it’s not there as soon as he touches the ball he is going down. The defense was the most horrendous part of last night. I lost count of how many fingers were laid on Rodgers while he would roll out and get the first down. And our scheme was laughable. No telling how many wide open receivers were left just standing in the middle of the field. This looked more like the Van Gorder that left Ga. Southern in shambles. Time for a complete overhaul, ASAP.
InTheShadowofLambeau
January 16th, 2011
10:14 am
I’ve got to say…. Saints fans here are no different than Vikings fans in the Green Bay media. Back in ‘98 when the heavily favored Packers were completely outcoached by “rat face” and Favre was totally outplayed by “Horse Face” in SB32, then Executive VP Ron Wolf said that the Packers were nothing short of a “fart in the wind” … won one year … lose the next. Packers fans knew exactly what he meant… Saints’ fans need to know exactly what that meant too for the Saints are also a “fart in the wind”. Back in ‘95, the Packers lost to the Cowboys in the NFC Championship game… and Michael Irvin said, “Ok…it’s midnight… Cinderella can go home now.” Same for the Saints fans.
Savannah Fan
January 16th, 2011
10:15 am
This season is done-this year will be better than last-It’s better getting there than not -ask any that don’t
Let’s enjoy the run
Always next year...
January 16th, 2011
10:15 am
We went from 115 decibels to 115 fans in the stadium by mid 4th quarter. Got so bad you could hear packer fans chanting “Go Pack Go”. What happens now? Even if we go 13-3 again next year we will be viewed as posers. Would it have been better to lose a close one or to go 2-14 like Panthers?
Come to green bay is a moron
January 16th, 2011
10:15 am
Hey you’re a lying idiot. When you are a #1 seed and you get blown out at home, you think we fans who pay their salaries should give them a ahh keep trying buddy. Get a life dude. First, i’ve seen YOUR fans bolt when you were getting blown out. Ol Brett and his 3 int game ring a bell. Second, your team has a LOOOOONG history and people are on waiting lists to get tickets. Why? I guess they have nothing better to do with their life but to live for their packers. Pathetic. Yes.
So go eat some brie doosh. No one cares about your opinion and no one cares about some athlete who wants to take the day off because it snowed this week and everyone else was off work. lol
and go move back to your crap hole wis khan sin
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SupaSaint
January 16th, 2011
10:16 am
SupaSaint
January 16th, 2011
9:59 am
My…my…my…Such fickle fans…You guys are pothetic. You would never see Saints fans turn on the team like this. We didnt finish were we wanted this year…Hell you guys put up a better record this year as much as that pains me to say.. just thought you guys might still be supporting your team.
but now u see what happens under the big lights….Roddy cant push off defenders to get open and get away with it and jekins didnt even try to hide it
NOTE TO MR. BLANK….you dont need much added to your team you just need some real fans…come to the big easy we will show you how real fans support a team….ex. when the saints came back from seattle (loss) we were at the airport between 2 and 3 am to welcome the team home and thank them for a good year.
Will
January 16th, 2011
10:16 am
As a Packers fan up in WI it seemed to me that the Falcons were cocky and looking past the Packers. All the silly joshing and clowning in pre-game while the Pack was focused and determined.
Most embarrassing for the Falcons was their empty stadium. Not only did the team quit by the start of the 4th quarter but the fans had checked out long before. The Falcons will never be legitimate contenders with a fan base of quitters.
ryan ice
January 16th, 2011
10:18 am
there’s a reason everyone calls atl loserville—their teams choke in every big game, in every sport. the local media and talk radio builds the teams up like they are the best in sports history, then they lay an egg when it matters. Go home chokers–another blown season.
birddroppings
January 16th, 2011
10:18 am
The Katrina jokes by the ATL fans do not represent ALL ATL fans. There are some great fans out there that have become rival friends of Saints fans. I’ve seen them in the dome enjoying the “game” and moving on till the next meeting. And that’s try sportsmanship. But when you have idiots musing about disasters and what they can do to a society what does that show? How immature, callous, and insensitive is that individual? Can you imagine if Sherman had not marched all the way to the sea through ATL? Maybe the Saints WOULD own the Falcons in another way. Now how does that feel?
chsehead66
January 16th, 2011
10:18 am
Very happy to see my Packers kick butt last night, but you Falcon fans that are screaming for your coaches head need to get a grip. This was just one game in a long season. Take heart that your Falcons had a good season. Get BEHIND your team and coaches and look to the future. HAVE PATIENCE! Your team is young and and I;m sure they will learn from this game and improve. Good luck in the future and as for me it’s GO PACK GO!!
ctfalconsfans
January 16th, 2011
10:18 am
I think the positive from last night was that we were destroyed versus losing a close game…
The reason:
We have had many close games that we won this year that we may not win next year…
This blow out shows Blank, McKay, TD and Smith JUST HOW FAR WE ARE FROM BEING AN ELITE NFL TEAM!!!!!
If we had lost a close game everyone in Flowery Branch would just go into the off-season thinking we need to tweak a few iteams. Instead we need a major overhual!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1) Mularkey is terrible!!! Our offense has 5 Pro Bowlers but yet we struggle to score – 2 TD’s last night and one was when GB was in prevent mode.. We struggled all year with this talented offense.
- I question if Turner still has the juice to be our #1 RB.. We need a #2 WR as Jenkins is clearly a #3.
2) Defense – different story as I think Van Gorder has done a decent job with the limited talent we have. TONS OF MISTAKLES, Safety blitz that are perfectly called put neither safety (Williams vs Saints and Owens last night) can’t wrap up..
- The entire D needs to be gutted. Our DB’s and LB’s are not good! D line OK..
We have a lot of work to do in the off-season and it starts today with Mularkey being released and if we need to gut the D, van Gorder can also be released.
Get JOSH DANIELS in here as OC!
Dawg Squeeze
January 16th, 2011
10:18 am
UGA ‘79…”fans are deluded, ignorant and as fair-weather as they come.” Wow. coming from a dawg fan, that’s quite a statement LOL
amrchairqb
January 16th, 2011
10:18 am
@ All Weather Fan – yes, the number one seed rolling in the NFC getting blown out in their first playoff game by historic proportions qualifies as epic failure. The Falcons were never in this game. THEY DIDN’T EVEN FORCE A PUNT! They were lucky it wasn’t 35-7 at the end of the first half. The only two plays keeping the game close were the kickoff return and the Green Bay fumble on their first drive. The Falcons would have lost to any team in the playoffs last night.
Nice arm strength matt ryan
January 16th, 2011
10:18 am
And you think you are nfl caliber. dude you’re a joke. go life weights or cut this loser.
Bruce
January 16th, 2011
10:19 am
To the Packer fans, congratulations. But I seriously doubt that if your team had never won any championships like the Falcons, your butts would not stay in the seats in -20 degree weather to say “good season guys, too bad you had a bad game as the #1 seed”. Futility drains fans. We get glimpses of what might be only to have it pulled away. I will still support them, but not very happy right now.
ATLisNONEandDONE
January 16th, 2011
10:20 am
By the way- for those of you who don’t realize….all of these posts from Saints fans are only retaliation for 2 weeks work of absolute hazing we endured from dozens of trolling ATL fans on our sites. Non stop comments about Katrina, our filthy city, our pity Superbowl, etc etc. Well-like many others have posted, Karma is a bitch!!
Jeff Schultz
January 16th, 2011
10:20 am
Hickory — Yes, obviously the Falcons should have given a more competitive effort, especially with the benefit of a week off.
Tilla
January 16th, 2011
10:21 am
No D your mother should’ve swallowed you instead! I knew I should’ve worn protection! smh
mdawg
January 16th, 2011
10:22 am
Supa Saint,
Your team earned that devotion. The Saints won a Super Bowl. This team will NEVER win a Super Bowl.
I just feel stupid for buying into the fact that they could win a home playoff game. The sad but true fact is that I know that I feel much worse about this loss than anyone on that team. If they had any fear of the agony of defeat then they might have tried a little harder to actually win. At the end of the day most of them are millionaires and that’s all that matters. GA sports are cursed for ever and always. I’m sure my spirit will be somewhat renewed by next season, but at this point I’m seriously considering giving up on being a fan all together.
freshd
January 16th, 2011
10:22 am
will somebody call Samuel Jackson to help the falcons rise up this morning.
greg
January 16th, 2011
10:22 am
I didn’t like anything about the way the game began last night. I didn’t like we lost the coin flip and had to receive right out of the bag. There were many early signs that the game wasn’t going to go our way, but the surefire TD that Jenkins let land right into the arms of the Packers DB in the endzone when he slid was the point I realized this wasn’t going to be our night. How freaky of a play is that anyway?
Not only does the defense have to be heavily addressed in the off season, but we need some receivers other than Roddy to help carry the load. Jenks is great in the two minute drill catching the darts while running out of bounds to stop the clock, but that’s about it in my book.
JC
January 16th, 2011
10:22 am
This was a humiliating and hurtful loss. We’ll stay season ticket holders but my faith in the organization and its ability to put together a solid team on the field is soundly shaken. I knew the Falcons had weaknesses and may not have been fully tested during the season. I knew Green Bay was good, Aaron Rodgers fantastic (I had the privilege of seeing him play at my lama mater Cal), but the Falcons were pathetic. A closer loss would have made me feel a lot better because it would have shown we had some ability to adjust and take advantage of their weaknesses. But no. This was a failure from top to bottom of this organization (except maybe special teams). Just terrible. I hope we learn from our mistakes and the fans don’t have to witness this kind of game again.
Paul
January 16th, 2011
10:23 am
If this was the measuring stick for the type of team that will go to the Superbowl the Falcons will need to rebuild half this team if they want to be winners. Ryan will need to be replaced in two years, he is good but not great. Turner is getting older, fatter and slower by the days, the secondary with all its “improvement” stunk up the field.
Always next year...
January 16th, 2011
10:23 am
Best NOT to hire Josh McDaniels. He Alienated his coaching staff and players. Drove a lot of talent out of Denver. He’d do more harm than good.
RMARRAS
January 16th, 2011
10:24 am
I’m glad Roddy White’s BIG MOUTH got shut down!!! All the trash talking he’s done, for NOTHING!!!! Gotta take those games one-by-one guys. A BYE week doesnt get you staight to the Super Bowl. Did ya’ll even practice that week?????? Oh, I think they still make BROWN PAPER BAGS. Might want to order some!!! GEAUX SAINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr. Cheese
January 16th, 2011
10:25 am
Bruce – I grew up in Atlanta and remember too many braves games where I was there with 2000 other people. Have since lived in a several other large cities, and believe me, most fans don’t desert their teams like Atlanta.
ctfalconsfans
January 16th, 2011
10:26 am
Supa saint – u r a band wagon fan as I have been to MANY aints/Falcons game in New Orleans when ur dome has half full, fans wearing bags on the heads, etc.. You guys just support them when they are winning..
- Yeah aints fans are soo great ..hahahaha
Door Matty Ice
January 16th, 2011
10:27 am
i hate to ask – but did anybody get the WI tag number off that big green bus that ran my friends and me over repeatedly last night? I remember a 12 and maybe a 52.
Help me please…..
Perry
January 16th, 2011
10:27 am
I tbink the Falcons are a lot like the Braves. They play to their potential during the regular season, while most other teams don’t. This means a good regular reason record but a skewed sense of who they really are when they get the best shot from other teams. It is commendable that they are so much more professional than other teams during the regular season, but very disappointing under the big lights of the playoffs.
RUE DAT
January 16th, 2011
10:28 am
Guess the Dome-field advantage didn’t work huh???? Oh, AND the BYE week. GEAUX SAINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
j50th
January 16th, 2011
10:29 am
Falcon fans crowned their team early because of their losing tradition. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to win but your opponent should be able to hear their plays called. The refs use to penalize the home team if the other team couldn’t hear the calls. Sportsmanship is considered old school now. The NFL had to follow the “CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLEING GOONS’. I’m surprised they don’t allow people to throw things on the field. Tell that laughing all-the time jacka$$ Roddy White to start showing some class. Better luck next year.
Comment
January 16th, 2011
10:29 am
For Sale: one RISE UP flag
Summery
January 16th, 2011
10:29 am
Lets sum up the last 1100 comments:
GREEN BAY – Well Done, well played game. The way you looked last night, you deserve to be where you are, hope to see you in the Superbowl. Fans….you still are some of the best fans in the NFL…but DON’T GET COCKY!
SAINTS FANS – Well done, you won a superbowl…LAST YEAR, get over yourselves.
ATLANTA- The team is young, needs a few staff changes, but still a very dangerous team. Unfortunatly, you have the worst fans in the world. Good luck next year Falcons!!
Kap
January 16th, 2011
10:29 am
I tried to tell you people matt ryan was a hyped overrated qb. he won because of a flawed system. last night showed what happens when that system is pulled apart. time for a new qb but they will stick with him for 5 more years and more of this garbage. #1 seed losing like that. nice history making loss losers. get rid of roddy white. the guy is a virus. get rid of half the defense. get rid of turner. he’s slow and overrated. and fire mularkey. go screw up some other team