Short takes: Resiliency, Ryan and turnovers carry Falcons
Thomas DeCoud, here tackling Ryan Mathews, had two interceptions and one fumble recovery.
(I’ll be posting the column soon on today’s Falcons’ win over San Diego, which will focus on quarterback Matt Ryan. Until then, here are my three “short takes” on the game.)
• 1. This was an impressive win on many levels, but no moreso than in the resiliency they showed. They were playing on the road in a short week after a physically punishing win over the Denver Broncos on Monday night, yet they flew to the West Coast and dominated San Diego from the opening drive. It’s only three games into the season but this might have been the strongest sign yet of how good the Falcons can be.
• 2. The Falcons will need to be able to run the ball effectively at some point. But it hasn’t been an issue yet, primarily because of quarterback Matt Ryan. Michael Turner was not a factor when the team built a 20-0 halftime lead — he had only eight carries for 15 yards for a 1.9-yard average through two quarters — but by then Ryan already had thrown for 208 yards and three touchdowns. In Turner’s defense, the offensive line didn’t create many holes. The Falcons can only hope that when Turner’s fourth-quarter touchdown run in mop-up time will signal some sort of break-thru for both he and the line.
• 3. The Falcons are winning in part because they are not beating themselves. The defense forced four San Diego turnovers (including two interceptions and a fumble recovery by safety Thomas DeCoud) and now has 11 takeaways in three games. The team’s only turnover this season was a fourth-quarter interception thrown by Ryan, which leaves the team with a net of plus-10 in turnover differential. DeCoud’s three interceptions already this season are only one short of his career high (four last year).
– Jeff Schultz
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Big Crimson 75
September 23rd, 2012
7:01 pm
Matt Ryan — NFL MVP
Not So Fast
September 23rd, 2012
7:01 pm
Falcons slightly underrated!
Grape Nuts are neither grapes or nuts
September 23rd, 2012
7:02 pm
THird
Back 2 The Brown Paper Bags
September 23rd, 2012
7:04 pm
Where are you ???!
TrishaDishaWarEagle
September 23rd, 2012
7:04 pm
Love me some Matt Ryan!!!!!!!!!
I wish he was still single!!
Grape Nuts are neither grapes or nuts
September 23rd, 2012
7:04 pm
And thanks to the local Fox affiliate for ruining the end of the game.
Back 2 The Brown Paper Bags
September 23rd, 2012
7:05 pm
going to get some din din. Be right back !!
Jamaaliver
September 23rd, 2012
7:05 pm
Geaux Falcs! Our time!!!
TrishaDishaWarEagle
September 23rd, 2012
7:06 pm
Instead of the “heidi” game we dominated the “american dad” game
bart
September 23rd, 2012
7:07 pm
150 miles outside Atlanta yet Fox figures I would prefer watching the Broncos and Texans – message to Fox – get over your Peyton obsession – everyone is not really in love with him the way you guys are.
LovinmesomeFalcons
September 23rd, 2012
7:08 pm
Jeff, why were my comments deleted?
JSS
September 23rd, 2012
7:08 pm
You know the bandwagon is out when the SEC contingent shows their face… They disappeared in January…
ATLFalons86
September 23rd, 2012
7:09 pm
Matt Ryan for MVP- 2nd’d! Falcons flying HIGH!! Who needs a passing game when you got Roddy Julio and Gonzo!!!!
LovinmesomeFalcons
September 23rd, 2012
7:09 pm
This BS Jeff. Nothing I have said could even remotely be considered offensive.
Great Falconi
September 23rd, 2012
7:10 pm
Not much resiliency needed as this game went on. The Falcons manhandled the Bolts. This is one of the more impressive wins Smitty has had since he took over. Loved it.
LovinmesomeFalcons
September 23rd, 2012
7:10 pm
Huh? I can’t figure this out. Why am am I being deleted?
JSS
September 23rd, 2012
7:10 pm
Broncos and Texans because you’re not a local affiliate, on double header days you’re going to get Fox blacked out…
Answer this
September 23rd, 2012
7:11 pm
There he is……..the angry little man who does not like the Falcons or the organization! Lol. You know he was going to post.
LovinmesomeFalcons
September 23rd, 2012
7:12 pm
Jeff, why the hate? I haven’t done anything to warrant it.
Michael WHO???
September 23rd, 2012
7:12 pm
Hey CHOKE where are you. We are waiting for your weekly Ryan sucks…. Never should have let Vick (mr interception) get away venom. Come out from under your rock and show yourself. Don’t hide now. Also saints trolls…. You are welcome to come out from hiding too….
JSS is a Troll
September 23rd, 2012
7:12 pm
Hey, JSS the Troll, is that your mom hollering from the top of the basement stairs!
“Stop fooling around on that computer and come to the table! Your dinner is getting cold! And where’s the rent money???”
DawgNole
September 23rd, 2012
7:12 pm
SCHULTZ: “I’ll be posting the column soon on today’s Falcons’ win over San Diego, which will focus on quarterback Matt Ryan.”
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Choke will hate that.
Michael "Turnover" Vick
September 23rd, 2012
7:12 pm
Im sorry to all my fans for another disgraceful performance. I should have turned the ball over more to let my defense carry me again. Will u be by the phone tonight “choke”? I could really use a good talk….
JSS
September 23rd, 2012
7:13 pm
Networks don’t own satellites…
USMC
September 23rd, 2012
7:13 pm
Great Road Victory for the Falcons!
However, we need to get rid of Michael Turner… He is fat and slow hitting the holes.
His best plays were in “Junk Time”.
Jazquiz Rogers is awesome!
Go Falcons!
JSS
September 23rd, 2012
7:15 pm
WHistling, Momma and basement jokes, gotta love you folks (not)
DawgNole
September 23rd, 2012
7:16 pm
Michael WHO???
September 23rd, 2012
7:12 pm
Hey CHOKE where are you. We are waiting for your weekly Ryan sucks…. Never should have let Vick (mr interception) get away venom. Come out from under your rock and show yourself. Don’t hide now.
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Spineless haters don’t come out from under their rocks.
Woodman
September 23rd, 2012
7:17 pm
Turner being fierce in the 4th is just when we need him. This team might lead every game this year and letting him salt away “smitty ball style” is the only logical place to use him, once the opposing D is gassed.
FalconUGAFan
September 23rd, 2012
7:17 pm
Good game Falcons…Jeff what would a blog be without the usual crowd?
Dave
September 23rd, 2012
7:18 pm
Love my boy Chokiewohkie! Had the great joy today of seeing Michael Vick destroy the Cardinals….oh, wait a minute…….
ramguy68
September 23rd, 2012
7:19 pm
@DawgNole Never should have let Vick (mr interception) get away venom,
Make that Mr Interception/Mr Fumble
USMC
September 23rd, 2012
7:21 pm
How about that Falcon DEFENSE?!?!
We look very well balanced in our attack this year. Good Offense, Good defense, Good Special teams, etc.
I hope the Falcons will keep a low profile during the regular season and come out in the playoffs with a vengeance!
Go Falcons!
Matt Shaub
September 23rd, 2012
7:22 pm
Can you believe they traded me instead of Vick? WTF?
Ivan
September 23rd, 2012
7:22 pm
Another dominating performance by the Falcons.
Dirty Boyd
September 23rd, 2012
7:23 pm
Get ready for a week of national hype. SI cover jinx level hype. Stay grounded. You will not go 16-0. This is a good squad. The Saints are three back. The Panthers are a dumpster fire. The Bucs are meh. The playoffs – barring a season changing injury – seem a lock. Stay in the moment.
Number 7
September 23rd, 2012
7:23 pm
Number 7 has gone from killing dogs to killing the eagles.
suggs
September 23rd, 2012
7:23 pm
Great game Falcons. Loving that defensive scheme.
USMC
September 23rd, 2012
7:25 pm
We are so lucky to have Matt Ryan as our QB. The guy is solid as a rock.
He definitely has the “Field General” mentality down; the guy is like a coach on the field.
Every year he gets better and better!
(I love Michael Vick and wish him well except against the Falcons)
Tyson
September 23rd, 2012
7:28 pm
Matt Ryan has a noodle arm
Back 2 The Brown Paper Bags
September 23rd, 2012
7:29 pm
Ah, He was fired because of illegal dog fights and lying to his employer….
Kramer
September 23rd, 2012
7:31 pm
Tyson, you have a noodle for a brain. Great win and the best pick up of the off season so far has been the two assistant coaches. Both sides of the ball look very strong. Great to be a Falcon and Dawg fan and sucks to be a saints fan right now. Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of terds.
Michael
September 23rd, 2012
7:32 pm
Here come the bandwagon fans again. I do admire the good defense, and Matty Ice accuracy.
tjhook
September 23rd, 2012
7:32 pm
Ooh Wee! Those Dirty Birds looked good today!!
Ivan
September 23rd, 2012
7:34 pm
If Reid is as smart as i think he is, Vick wont be starting by week 6
Once Recent Reader
September 23rd, 2012
7:34 pm
This pretty much is the same Defense as last year . . . . even less with injuries . . .correct? Maybe you folks on this Blog much more familiar with BVG than I am – had it right in your detractions. There seems to be much more aggressiveness – particularly in the secondary. I’m almost expecting a Pick these days – unlike last year just hoping they found a way to get off the field.
Alpharetta Guy
September 23rd, 2012
7:36 pm
I think coaching matters and coaching changes–on both sides of ball–are benefitting the Falcons big time. Seems like the talent & the coaching strategy are meshing really, really nicely. This could be the year.
P Rose
September 23rd, 2012
7:37 pm
Quarterback Rating:
1. Matt Ryan, 117.6
5. Phillip Rivers, 110.7
15. Joe Flacco, 91.9
29. Michael Vick, 66.9
Matt “Choke” Ryan?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Larry
September 23rd, 2012
7:39 pm
Is there a coincidence with a certain regular blogger that bitterly ended his season tickets in 2007 and hates the current white QB to such an extent that he wants him to fail?
Me thinks so!
P Rose
September 23rd, 2012
7:40 pm
Bandwagon fans? Atlanta fans have suffered longer than those in any city in America. Those of us who have stuck by the Falcons and Braves through thick and thin are anything but bandwagon fans, compared to fans of the Cowboys, Steelers, Yankees and Red Sox — especially those who don’t even live in those cities. Atlanta fans have more right to be happy about a winning team than they do. Bandwagon? Go sell it somewhere else.
Tojo
September 23rd, 2012
7:41 pm
Still a lot of areas that can be better (stopping the run, running the ball), and no the Falcons won’t go 16-0. But 3 wins is a great start toward 10, which should win the division easily this year. That team that plays in New Orleans is a disaster.
Yo Vince
September 23rd, 2012
7:48 pm
The best start to finish game I’ve seen from my Birds in a while. Oh yeah, Aints still suck
Mark Richt
September 23rd, 2012
7:49 pm
Kiss my ass
SCFalcon
September 23rd, 2012
7:50 pm
Just savoring the wins and the lack of trolls…………..
Post-It
September 23rd, 2012
7:51 pm
Hey Seen… I know you’re trolling even though you’re not posting. Another pitiful performance by your team today. Hope you were there to witness it!
Yo Vince
September 23rd, 2012
7:52 pm
Ya’ll leave J S S alone. He has to be negitive
Matty Bicep
September 23rd, 2012
7:53 pm
Choke is a coward.
Post-It
September 23rd, 2012
7:53 pm
Jamal Charles!
Yo Vince
September 23rd, 2012
7:54 pm
Anyone that thinks Matt isn’t great, is a total freakin idiot. Love the new coaches. Gonzo is a beast. Where are all the stupid Aint fans?
Post-It
September 23rd, 2012
7:54 pm
Matt Cassel!
Getaway
September 23rd, 2012
7:55 pm
Ok, I took a lot of flack for defending DeCoud and applauding his re-signing. But I saw that ball hawk in him. So, can we give the man, so props now?
DeCoud and Moore, on the rise…
Matty Bicep
September 23rd, 2012
7:56 pm
Yea, Matty has taken it to a new level. Just look at the niners, aints, feebles, and understand, it just aint that easy. EVERY team in the NFL has top level talent. It is about the HC, and QB. Props Smitty and Matty Ryan.
Big Crimson 75
September 23rd, 2012
7:58 pm
21 unanswered by the Chiefs today!!
Mike Vick is terrible. No QB in the NFL has more weapons at his disposal than Vick.
The Eagles are 2 & 1 in-spite of #7. Imagine if Matty Ice had Shady McCoy to take some pressure off.
Matty Bicep
September 23rd, 2012
7:58 pm
Yo, Matty is not great, yet. If today was his last game, where would he rate? But he has potential, and is showing some incredible growth….He is the best QB in the NFL at this moment, but greatness requires SBs, and he has not yet gotten that, but I think he will.
Yo Vince
September 23rd, 2012
7:59 pm
The Aints, faint, caint, taint,
Matty Bicep
September 23rd, 2012
7:59 pm
Get, it is Nolans D. Our scheme puts the safetys in the position to make plays. The days of the cover 2 are over.
Larry
September 23rd, 2012
8:00 pm
Just saw “Seen” and his mate “Hiram” embracing in misery while sipping PBR’s and chewing some pork rinds.
It’s really kind of sad watching these two little ladies crying a puddle over in Hiram.
JSS
September 23rd, 2012
8:02 pm
Ha ha, oh here comes Larry… I knew you could not resist the temptation… And even as I have not even come in your direction and good conscience asked you not to contact me, yet you do… So, do you really want to open that can of worms? Last chance….
jfreak13713
September 23rd, 2012
8:03 pm
Good win! Got to run the ball better because so far they have gotten a lot of turnovers and that not likely to continue at it current rate. With that said I’m not sure how any teams stops the Falcons especially if they can get a solid running game going.
Go Falcons!
Yo Vince
September 23rd, 2012
8:03 pm
Bicep, what are you smokin? He has turned a total train wreck team into a winner. The joke to the leader. I’ve been a fan since the beginning of the franchise, and this is as good as it has been. PERIOD
Falconsfanforlife
September 23rd, 2012
8:19 pm
We are no longer the Dirty Birds, We are now the Atlanta Angry Birds!
DawgNole
September 23rd, 2012
8:26 pm
ramguy68
September 23rd, 2012
7:19 pm
@DawgNole Never should have let Vick (mr interception) get away venom,
Make that Mr Interception/Mr Fumble
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Not my post, but you’re right.
Answer this
September 23rd, 2012
8:27 pm
JSS the tough guy blogger! He will beat you up with stats he pulls from google Larry. Better be careful…last chance! Lol! He has so many files he can open up of all his post (the ones that make him look like a tough guy) and tell you off. But the real deal is that fans were in the blogs putting both feet in his angus. He just shut down. Watch now he is waiting on someone to say something so he can come up with one of his ( or he thinks ) I am superior and smarter than all of you bloggers post! Lol. Take a look at the old blogs during the game and guys were just laying into him. Yet he still won’t admit that he said the Chargers would drill the Falcons this week…think he said something about the Chargers running game and Rivers and a good D. But he wont admit it…he will just keep spewing venom and try to be the blog bully……angry little man! Lol.
DawgNole
September 23rd, 2012
8:28 pm
Dirty Boyd
September 23rd, 2012
7:23 pm
Get ready for a week of national hype. SI cover jinx level hype. Stay grounded. You will not go 16-0.
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Sound advice.
Getaway
September 23rd, 2012
8:28 pm
Falconsfanforlife, I caught that, too! I’m way past done with the Dirty Birds thing anyway. This team ain’t that team.
Post-It
September 23rd, 2012
8:30 pm
JSS… I think you really are Joe Tess. Both of you are equally unintelligible.
Yo Vince
September 23rd, 2012
8:31 pm
JSS and Choke are rubbing baby oil all over each others fat bloatted butts
DawgNole
September 23rd, 2012
8:31 pm
P Rose
September 23rd, 2012
7:40 pm
Bandwagon fans? Atlanta fans have suffered longer than those in any city in America. Those of us who have stuck by the Falcons and Braves through thick and thin are anything but bandwagon fans, compared to fans of the Cowboys, Steelers, Yankees and Red Sox — especially those who don’t even live in those cities. Atlanta fans have more right to be happy about a winning team than they do. Bandwagon? Go sell it somewhere else.
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Excellent post.
rivercard
September 23rd, 2012
8:34 pm
Hate to speak too early , but so far Pat Hill is nothing short of a miracle worker. That OLine was horrid. While it still has a ways to go, the improvement is really encouraging.
Nolan and the D very impressive so far. That D needs a nickname.
dmr
September 23rd, 2012
8:36 pm
I would love to see PHILLIP RIVERS vs. JAY CUTLER in a POUTING CONTEST! The two biggest head case quarterbacks in the NFL! When things don’t get their way, their facial expressions are priceless!
Yo Vince
September 23rd, 2012
8:36 pm
As they prepare for some sweet old man lovin
rivercard
September 23rd, 2012
8:39 pm
dmr – you are so right, although I give Cutler a clear victory. Would hate to be a teammate of either one.
Larry
September 23rd, 2012
8:43 pm
JSS,
Yes, I’ll open the can again…you’re nothing but a bitter, indignant, arrogant man and it shows in every one of your posts. Worse still, somehow for some oddly perverse reason, Jeff Schultz seems to like you even though you do nothing but incessantly disparage the team he gets paid to be objective about, and has banned me and others for far less insulting comments.
The worms are out!
JSS
September 23rd, 2012
8:46 pm
@ Larry…
You asked for it… This will be “delicious!”
Matty Bicep
September 23rd, 2012
8:47 pm
Yo, Ryan has been very good, and, through 3 games, is the best QB in the NFL, but to be great, he has to do it in the post season…..But he has really stepped it up to a new level, I am glad he is our QB, and I think “greatness” just a matter of time.
Answer this
September 23rd, 2012
8:47 pm
Get him Larry….the Angry Birds and the Rise Up Nation has your back!
JSS
September 23rd, 2012
8:50 pm
Post-It
September 23rd, 2012
8:30 pm
“JSS… I think you really are Joe Tess. Both of you are equally unintelligible.”
Snorting powder cocaine has that effect, try detox… In about 18 months you’ll might be to do your A-B-C’s and go potty alone…
JSS
September 23rd, 2012
8:52 pm
Ha ha, sonny stay in your lane… This is grown man blogging… You’ll pee your pants…
Answer this
September 23rd, 2012
8:55 pm
BTW Schultz
Larry has a point…kinda disappointed with how you allow this guy so much freedom……just saying.
Coach T
September 23rd, 2012
8:56 pm
glad to see Julio return to game..huge concern there….toughed up and came back after
murderous hit…..hope he is well….
Answer this
September 23rd, 2012
8:57 pm
Hey angry little man tell us again how the Falcons were going to lose today….stick to subject no need to talk about drugs and that crap…..tell us again about all your stats and insight on the Falcons who you have picked against for the last two weeks! Or was it three? Go ahead tell us.
JSS is a Troll
September 23rd, 2012
9:02 pm
Uh-oh everyone… the big fat journalistic failure is going to “show us all.”
He’s going to show EVERYONE just how smart and better and wonderful and amazing he is.
Stand back, JSS the Troll MUST speak, MUST pontificate, MUST go find a bunch of facts and stats and half-truths that always seem to mysteriously fit his narrow, frustrated world-view.
Stand back, people… JSS the Troll will have your attention and demand you bow to his brilliance, for you are beneath him. You are beneath him and he will crush you underneath the boot heel of his mind!
JSS is a Troll
September 23rd, 2012
9:05 pm
It is amazing that Jeff, usually pretty fair and balanced with the blog, allows a smug, arrogant, self-important blog bully like JSS to continue to act like a douche without any spankings.
At least send him back down into his basement without dinner, Schultzie, so he can continue to live his sad, sad, frustrated, failed life.
I mean, I know the rest of us have jobs to head to in the morning, and JSS just has a full day of whining about how his brilliance is unappreciated by all us “normals” in the world, and how he’ll get even one day and be on top of the world, not the abject failure he currently is.
Mattie Ice
September 23rd, 2012
9:12 pm
Thank god vick is gone. He would never have a season like this or be a leader like MR is
DawgNole
September 23rd, 2012
9:13 pm
JSS is a Troll
September 23rd, 2012
9:05 pm
It is amazing that Jeff, usually pretty fair and balanced with the blog, allows a smug, arrogant, self-important blog bully like JSS to continue to act like a douche without any spankings.
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Same applies to MCR–next to whom JSS is downright civil.
JSS
September 23rd, 2012
9:15 pm
You idiots curse people, insult peoples mother’s and father’s, slide along the ground like snakes and disgrace folks who have nothing to do with blogging and you think Jeff Schultz, Bradley, or Ledbetter are giving someone leeway? You are nuts, Larry got himself banned because he acted like a 3 year old telling people to sodomize themselves and worse… And instead of being a man and growing up and moving on… No, he has been waiting because he was man enough to come on and just understand why his team kept getting their dreams dashed… And don’t let his little problem with playing race matters be forgotten… He just can’t help him self, he was born with a big ole trait of 1920 in his mind!
Now some of you are just hopeless, you spend each day praying this team can win because you have an inner shame of their failures… The rest, it is personal, the three years of being wrong is killing you (inside and out)… “They’ve gotta win, I’m sick of JSS!” Y’all let the school yard butt whippings that you used to jump into gangs to administer to poor invalid kids, the weak, and deers away from a pack follow you to adulthood… I’m laughing at all of you… Not a dime of good sense in the group of you! Is that condescending enough for you?
So unlike your little group of Saints fans that may have gone lick their wounds, you picked the wrong one… Dogs, tear gas, and fire hoses didn’t scare me in utero and you bottom shelf thinkers aren’t capable enough to get the job done in my adult life!
So you conduits to stupidity, tie on your feedbags and call your nurses to change your adult diapers, Secretariat is in his prime!
phil
September 23rd, 2012
9:19 pm
Lol…..
drew
September 23rd, 2012
9:20 pm
Not namings names, but somebody is an arrogant, narcissistic, deuche.
Great game!
LOL at the Aints
September 23rd, 2012
9:25 pm
JSS,, Who is going to read alll that Bilge,, LOL,,, Go Birds,, someone touched a nerve, Ha!
LOL at the Aints
September 23rd, 2012
9:27 pm
@ JSS,, someone has had too much to drink, and it aint me,, (no pun intended) LOL
LOL at the Aints
September 23rd, 2012
9:29 pm
Here is the fact JSS,, as long as the Falcons keep winning,, you’re going to catch He##,, LOL
phil
September 23rd, 2012
9:29 pm
I lol because the obsession with JSS is so silly….
Eric
September 23rd, 2012
9:31 pm
Amazing how much JSS can run his mouth even after being pwned by this Falcons team! Face it loser, this team is for real and as far as I can tell, the best team in the league thus far. Just because you fancy yourself some kind of internet sensation doesn’t give you license to spew idiocy like a Dan Quayle bobble head doll! Just shut up and allow us long suffering Falcons fans a chance to wallow in the limelight of a great Falcons team for once. We had it all today especially on defense. Moore and Decoud may become the best safety tandem in the league…
JSS is a Troll
September 23rd, 2012
9:31 pm
LOL. Wow.
JSS just went Mein Kampf on a bunch of bloggers.
This guy… is really not a good guy. What a failure. What a silly, silly little, petty man.
What a drama queen.
The frustration of his miserable life oozes off the page like so much flotsam and jetsam flowing into a storm drain during a particularly bad storm. Meaning it’s all GARBAGE.
Secretariat? More like bound for the glue factory.
The stink of failure is all over you, JSS the Troll. And the more screeds you write like this, the more you stick your nose in the air, the more you talk down to everyone, the more you act like you know ANYTHING more than the very small amount of nothing you actually know, the more you expose yourself for what you really are.
You laugh at us?
We PITY you. We pity you for your waste of a life. We pity you for your small, petty true self that is constantly at war with your outsized ego that can’t comprehend why you are such a miserable failure.
Let me guess, you got “downsized” from your last job, and blamed it on the economy, right? Couldn’t be that no one could stand you, couldn’t stand to work with you, and couldn’t even stand to be around you, right?
Keep laughing, JSS the Troll. We’ll keep pitying. And yeah, that does, in fact, make us better than YOU.
phil
September 23rd, 2012
9:32 pm
Eric….
Calm thyself.
We look pretty good, but let’s don’t get carried away.
We’re still the Falcons.
LOL at the Aints
September 23rd, 2012
9:33 pm
Who has the obsession? LOL
phil
September 23rd, 2012
9:34 pm
Some scary obsessed folks here….
Bizarre.
Eric
September 23rd, 2012
9:34 pm
Look, the birds were number 3 in the Power Rankings this week. SF lost and Houston looked feeble at the end against a Denver team we humiliated. How can we not be number one in next week’s power rankings?
LOL at the Aints
September 23rd, 2012
9:35 pm
I’m with ya Phil,, just having a little fun,,
San Diego
September 23rd, 2012
9:36 pm
Falcons 3-0
sAints 0-3 and reeling
LOL at the Aints
September 23rd, 2012
9:37 pm
thanks ,, I’ll be here all season,, LOL
Magic City
September 23rd, 2012
9:38 pm
Pam Oliver is soft.
WHERE OH WHERE DID LITTLE SEEN GO
September 23rd, 2012
9:38 pm
Mularkey and Van Gorder must’ve been killing this team.
WHERE OH WHERE DID LITTLE SEEN GO
September 23rd, 2012
9:41 pm
How is Peria Jerry doing so far?
Answer this
September 23rd, 2012
9:42 pm
JsS take your meda and call it a night! And no more Colt 45 with your meds….they don’t mix look at the label it says no alcohol with your meds….and that does not mean rubbing alcohol in your self-inflicted wounds, they are referring to drinking alcoho…..and yet you still wont admit you were wrong, that is why people dont like you….simple not because of your twisted views but because you dont have the guts to admit when you are wrong….bed time angry little man.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
September 23rd, 2012
9:42 pm
Can the falcons win both the NFC south and AFC West? I wonder…
Ivan
September 23rd, 2012
9:43 pm
Has anyone seen choke? Oh hes gone missing again??
Boo Brees
September 23rd, 2012
9:45 pm
HOORAY BIG WORD USAGE!!!!!
ijonathan
September 23rd, 2012
9:48 pm
Did I just read correctly? Someone on this blog comparing the treatment he is receiving here to the civil rights era dogs and water hoses “in utero”?
Schultz, I’m not sure whether that deserves banishment or a blogging pulitzer.
Jeff Schultz
September 23rd, 2012
9:53 pm
Column is posted:
http://blogs.ajc.com/jeff-schultz-blog/2012/09/23/falcons-are-looking-special-and-it-starts-with-matt-ryan/
Yo Vince
September 23rd, 2012
9:54 pm
JSS is superior to all… repeat in the mirror 100 times. Bicep, you know Matty is the best thing to ever happen to the Coons. Right? 4 yrs, 3 games, the talk of the NFL. Winningest QB during that time. Post season will come soon for him. He took over 1 of the worst teams that had NEVER won back to back seasons, remember… I do. You re a good dude though. Not like idiot JSS
SeenThisB4
September 23rd, 2012
10:01 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8E_zMLCRNg
Answer this
September 23rd, 2012
10:06 pm
@SEEN
VERY FUNNY! ROFLMAO!
Falcon 228
September 24th, 2012
7:32 am
Defenses in the past year have adjusted to teams with one or two good receivers. But when you have 3 GREAT receivers and 3 more good receivers it gives a team a huge advantage. Watch the Sunday Ticket Short Cut. Teams are determined to stop our running game. The past 4 years it stopped us down the stretch and in the playoffs.. Now it doesn’t matter. Wear the defense down the first 3 quarters with the passing, Build a lead and watch em start grabbing their pants, getting up real slow, raising their hands to come out and then the holes open. Great game.
JSS
September 24th, 2012
11:12 am
ijonathan
September 23rd, 2012
9:48 pm
“Did I just read correctly? Someone on this blog comparing the treatment he is receiving here to the civil rights era dogs and water hoses “in utero”?”
Nope, it means I have the mental conditioning to stand above the silly pseudo faux psychologists of the AJC blogging set from having been brought up by a person with that amount of gravitas and more…