If last week’s Falcons were for real, we’re about to find out
If Julio Jones, Matt Ryan and Falcons can avoid letdown at Detroit, they'll really have something to celebrate. (Curtis Compton/AJC)
(Online readers: I’m taking the risk of posting this before 11:59.59 p.m. Friday on the assumption the world will still be here at 12:00.01 a.m. Saturday.)
DETROIT — Imagine if the world actually ended on Friday after everybody had finally started to buy into the Falcons?
Alas, life goes on. The Mayans are left to seek a refund from their director of world predictions, Danny Sheridan. The rest of us now watch and see how the Falcons react to acceptance.
That was no small victory last week when the Falcons doubled-over the New York Giants 34-0. If they couldn’t quite make up for last season’s 24-2 playoff loss at New York, they at least finally gave a glimpse of their ceiling. Their quarterback, Matt Ryan, came up big in a big moment. Their offensive line neutralized one of the best front fours in the NFL. Their defense, even without safety William Moore, one of its most important players, and a banged up Asante Samuel and Jonathan Babineaux, handed the Giants their first shutout in 16 years.
But it is equally important how they respond to that victory.
The Detroit Lions are not nearly as bad as a 4-10 record or a six-game losing streak would suggest. They have a dangerous passing connection with local appeal (Matthew Stafford to Calvin Johnson) and talent on both sides of the ball, even if the locker room is a dysfunctional mess and Ndamukong Suh, for all of his skill, seems to have a cranium full of nougat. But this is a game the Falcons should win, especially knowing that a victory (or a tie) would clinch at least a first-round bye in the playoffs.
Great teams don’t just respond well to adversity. They respond when everybody is telling them how great they are.
“This is not the time to go cool,” tight end Tony Gonzalez said. “It’s not the time to think you’ve arrived. Actually, it’s the worst time to have that attitude. You’ve got to make sure we go to the playoffs and keep that same kind of momentum. Maybe we learned that against Carolina. Maybe that loss was something good for us.”
“I think we learned our lesson from the Carolina game,” running back Michael Turner said. “We are not taking anything for granted. We’ve still got work to do. We’ve still got things to get better at. They are going to give us their best shot. We know that.”
Anybody guaranteeing another first-round exit for the Falcons had their eyes closed last week.
Anybody guaranteeing a Super Bowl had their eyes closed in 2008, 2010 and 2011.
Both qualify as silly drivel.
Bottom line: We still don’t know what to expect. We saw both ends of the spectrum in consecutive weeks: falling behind 23-0 and losing to a 3-9 Carolina team, then blowing out the defending Super Bowl champions.
Do you really want to take a strong position one way or the other?
But the Detroit game will tell us something. This is the time of the season when title contenders come together. The carrot of a victory securing a first-round bye — and therefore a week for the Falcons to rest some regulars in the final game against Tampa Bay — should provide all the motivation they need.
Gonzalez again: “I’m anxious to see how we respond after last week. … You can’t dwell on what you’ve done in the past. We set the standard of what we can do against a really good football team. We have to make sure we duplicate that week in and week out. Our focus going into that game was the best it’s been all year. We have to have that type of effort the rest of the season. That’s what good teams do in December.”
And so far, the Falcons are 1-1.
By Jeff Schultz
From the music jukebox, just in case we all are going bye-bye
Otherwise, some recent clicks from my archives
– Falcons’ line on a roll, now gets rematch against Suh
– Haters’ roundup: National view on Falcons has changed (including video)
– Ryan asks for more, gives more at right time for Falcons
– Falcons, Smith know now is time they’re going to be judged
– SEC’s decision to not suspend Dial sends wrong message
– Dale Murphy sounds off on steroid users in Hall of Fame and his own candidacy
– Bobby Petrino finds a school willing to sell its soul
– Falcons give a performance that leaves us wondering again
– “Sack Schultz” unveils Bowl Blowout Contest (from Potato to BCS)
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291 comments Add your comment
DawgNole
December 20th, 2012
6:35 pm
Jason
December 20th, 2012
1:54 pm
If you won’t ban “CHOKE” after all he’s done, you won’t ban me after quoting Bayless.
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Don’t count on it. MCR must have some pictures.
DawgNole
December 20th, 2012
6:50 pm
Greg
December 20th, 2012
2:05 pm
I’m a long suffering ATL sports fan and I believe we can go all the way!
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Now that’s some serious optimism–given that the city’s pro teams have claimed a grand total of ONE championship (’95 Braves) in 156 seasons of competition.
I hope your faith is rewarded.
DawgNole
December 20th, 2012
7:22 pm
Falcon Fan
December 20th, 2012
3:17 pm
There is an unexplained bias in the Media regarding the Falcons ongoing success . . . Getting the media to ackowledge the Falcons would be like pulling Teeth.
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I don’t think it’s unexplained at all. In 46 years, the team has ZERO championships–and in fact has only sniffed a title once, losing to Denver 34-19 in the SB following the 1998 season. As recently as two years ago, the Falcons won 13 games, then took a 4-TD beatdown in their first postseason game at the hands of a 6-loss Packer bunch. With that kind of history, I don’t see how you can legitimately blame the media for its skepticism.
Go DEEP into the playoffs; the respect will come. Win it all, and that respect will be accompanied by accolades.
SCFalcon
December 20th, 2012
7:35 pm
Big Media. Nothing but talking heads trying to look important and smarter than everyone else. Remember the Eaglets starting off number one in the power rankings at the end of the season?
The NFL is much harder to predict these days. Every year some team comes out of the woodwork that no one expected to do well and some so called power house falls flat on their face. I find myself skipping the pre-game shows and just watching the game.
Skip the hype………….
SCFalcon
December 20th, 2012
7:35 pm
Beginning of the season.
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
December 20th, 2012
7:46 pm
Getting whipped by 3-9 Carolina….STATEMENT!
HA HA
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
December 20th, 2012
7:47 pm
DawgNole
No profanity you hear?
HA HA
DawgNole
December 20th, 2012
8:02 pm
Matt “CHOKE” Ryan
December 20th, 2012
7:46 pm
Getting whipped by 3-9 Carolina….STATEMENT!
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I see you FINALLY quit lying about Carolina’s record. What took you so long? Now, if I could just rein you in on all those other lies as well . . . .
DawgNole
December 20th, 2012
8:04 pm
Matt “CHOKE” Ryan
December 20th, 2012
7:47 pm
DawgNole
No profanity you hear?
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Yeah, my bad on that. But my “modified” choice of words for you (”piece of garbage”) was equally accurate.
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
December 20th, 2012
8:15 pm
30-24 48-21 24-2
What kind of LOSER gets shutout in a playoff game?
ha ha
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
December 20th, 2012
8:17 pm
DawgNole
I still see you have not answered the question in reference why a 22 year old Mike Vick won his 1st playoff game, yet the LOSER CHOKE at age 27 still has a big goose egg……
HA HA
SCFalcon
December 20th, 2012
8:17 pm
Hmmmm, skipping over the butt whipping we laid on the Giants last week Choke? Our 12-2 record is an inconvenient truth for you isn’t it?
SCFalcon
December 20th, 2012
8:20 pm
Peyton Manning didn’t win his first three playoff games. He has a ring now. What does Vick have? Oh yeah, a federal criminal record and is about to be released from his second NFL team.
Now that is impressive.
SCFalcon
December 20th, 2012
8:22 pm
Actually Choke, I feel a little sorry for Vick. His mistakes are his own fault. He was never superman, but he could have been set for life and would have been a great role model if he had kept his act clean.
Maybe he can still be after football……
DawgNole
December 20th, 2012
8:34 pm
Matt “CHOKE” Ryan
December 20th, 2012
8:17 pm
DawgNole
I still see you have not answered the question in reference why a 22 year old Mike Vick won his 1st playoff game, yet the LOSER CHOKE at age 27 still has a big goose egg……
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And as I’ve already pointed to you in the previous blog, you still have not addressed the issue of the lies you continue to post in your repeatedly failed attempts to justify your obsession with Ryan and the Falcons.
Michael M.
December 20th, 2012
8:45 pm
I wont even respond to morons…………… Here’s your prediction……………Falcons start slow against the Lions, come on tough late, defeat them, clinch home field, rest the starters next week with the Bucs, lose to the Bucs, everything goes through the Dome……………..playoff experience is a thing of the past, its the Super Bowl this year period!
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
December 20th, 2012
8:56 pm
SCFalcon
December 20th, 2012
8:17 pm
Hmmmm, skipping over the butt whipping we laid on the Giants last week Choke? Our 12-2 record is an inconvenient truth for you isn’t it?
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So what’s more impressive? The win vs the Giants or the whipping
by the 3-9 Panthers the week before?
HA HA
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
December 20th, 2012
8:58 pm
So I guess you guys have no answer to the 27 year old 0-3 LOSER.
Typical….ha ha
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
December 20th, 2012
8:59 pm
48-21 in the Dome……
So much for home field advantage…..
ha ha
DawgNole
December 20th, 2012
9:48 pm
Matt “CHOKE” Ryan
December 20th, 2012
8:58 pm
So I guess you guys have no answer to the 27 year old 0-3 LOSER.
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So I guess you still refuse to tell Jeff and the rest of us why you continue to post lies about Vick, Ryan, Falcons, etc.
Michael M.
December 20th, 2012
10:00 pm
I can’t hardly stand it………the Falcons in the playoffs and Choke keeps on gagging each week………………then another week……….cccccccccccccccccchokeeeeeeeeeeeeee………then the next week…….chhhhhhhhhhhhoke. you are hilarious man..get you a new past time……….this one quit working…………..hehehehehehehehehehe
Michael M.
December 20th, 2012
10:02 pm
next week he or she or it will be gathering more nuts……………..either way………….its the Falcons baby
Terry Bradshaw
December 20th, 2012
10:03 pm
Great article on ESPN.com. I didn’t know this at all. Something like 12 wild card teams have won the past 18 or so Super Bowls! Read it for yourself. It’s on there if you look for it. Pretty scary. I agree you don’t rest players, you do not let up, but that week off has always been the death knoll for this team. Coaching??? Last two Giant Super Bowl victories were as a wild card team as was Green Bay’s last one when they cleaned our clock at home in the Dome. Something to think about…
Terry Bradshaw
December 20th, 2012
10:05 pm
Giants won FIVE straight games on the road to win it all! Great teams know how to get it done. Falcons???
Michael M.
December 20th, 2012
10:08 pm
No comments for the losers…………….let the games be played n see………enough of the negative crap…………it is punch time now……………………………loosahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
December 20th, 2012
10:24 pm
Out scored 72-23 in last 2 playoff games…..
Nothing new here…….
LOSERSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
springerray
December 20th, 2012
10:44 pm
We found out when the Falcons whipped the Giants asses.
Thomas Brown
December 20th, 2012
10:57 pm
Eastern Michigan University.
2-10 football team. Nice.
# 104 Passing Offense
# 103 Total Offense
# 120 Rushing Defense
# 112 Total Defense
# 96 Punt Returns
# 75 Kick-Off Returns
# 85 Turnover Margin
# 119 Sacks
23,341 Total Enrollment in Detroit – the hell hole of the world.
Ypsilanti a suburb 38 miles West of Detroit before you get to Ann Arbor off I-94.
48197 snowing with 27 degrees, Draco.
# 80 Regional University U.S. News and World Report Rankings
Public Institution.
Ranked worse than Northern Michigan University
Ranked worse than Washburn
Ranked worse than University of Central Missouri
Ranked worse than Missouri State University
Ranked worse than Winona State University
Ranked worse than Eastern Illinois University
Ranked worse than Western Illinois University
Ranked worse than Grand Valley State University
Ranked worse than University of Northern Iowa
Ranked worse than Truman State University
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Eastern Michigan University
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hell hole of public education.
Eastern Michigan has dismissed junior forward Detroit native James Still from its basketball team while an assault case against him is awaiting sentencing scheduled for Jan. 8, 2013. Eastern Michigan says Still pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony assault. James Still should not have been allowed on the team in the first place, let alone practice and play in its first two games this season. A 6-foot-10 junior forward, James Still had six points and seven rebounds in 23 minutes in last Friday’s opening victory over Rochester College. He played five minutes in Sunday’s loss at Jacksonville State.
Nice. Just nice.
40 consecutive years with the Eastern Michigan University baseball program, head coach Roger Coryell has been placed on a month-long unpaid administrative leave for misuse of the university’s e-mail system when the Eastern Michigan coach intended to send explicit photos of himself to one of his players’ moms … instead, he hit reply all and everyone got ‘em.
Nice. Just nice.
Detroit Free Press reports the Eastern Michigan University is not doing any good in sports, at all.
Just bad press, only.
Thomas Brown
December 20th, 2012
11:17 pm
Honey boy December 20th, 2012 10:50 pm
“Thomas Brown.. Your so easy to push over the edge… Your not even a challenge…! Someone gets in your face and you fold up like a cheap suit! Loser! You never answered me.. Where was your mighty blog after the Daeg game!! You sat there and spewed meaningless facts and when they got beat, ( in a great game I might add), you were nowhere to be found to back up your BS!!”
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MORE LIES DOESN’T KNOW DIFFERENCE IN YOUR & YOU’RE
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Here is my post from this very blog after we took Marta to the game.
“We end regular season with highest ranked 11-2 team, # 6 in the nation (# 5 Coaches’), and watch as Seth Emerson ranks Ohio State # 3, from which they cannot possibly be ranked higher than the winner of the NC Title Game, as it should be for a program on its 6 NCAA Probation for improper benefits that the NCAA found went all the way back to 2002 – Maurice Clarett tainted national championship.
We play in a bowl game against Nebraska, who up and quit the Big XII and is ranked # 23 AP # 21 Coaches’ in the CapitalOne Bowl Game. When we win, if Vanderbilt can with their 2nd consecutive bowl bid, we can knock Nebraska out of the top 25 and put Vanderbilt into the Top 25, as Vanderbilt is ranked # 27 in AP and # 27 in Coaches’.
In the end, for all the poor sports for Alabama such as 01HAWK, Blackland and others, as Mark Richt summarized : We were knocked off the ball by Alabama’s OL and despite our 21-10 lead after our player of the game Alec Ogletree scored the TD, could not tackle their running backs, whoever they sent out. They kept our defense on the field, and the penalties did hurt.
After that, Alabama had runs of 31, 10 (TD), 32, 15,14, 1 (TD), 10, 11, 7, 3, 5, (Bomb 45-yard TD), and despite Aaron Murray playing well enough to win the game, it was this string of running plays given up with the 21-10 lead that lost the game. Nothing else.
We start 2013 with large numbers of recruits 30 so far and as many as 19 might come in early, opening up a few late openings for lots of top recruits to come join us. We had a fun year. We will have 11 drafted in the NFL draft after this season, all of whom have started for us. Alec Ogletree with 2 tackles in the bowl game goes over 100 tackles for the season, and obviously some team is getting a whale of a football player.
Alec Ogletree could not beat Alabama by himself.
He tried.
It took a team effort and our defense, well, we end the season # 79 in the nation in rushing defense after 13 games. That’s pitiful.
I would have preferred a bowl game against a team who throws the football and cannot run it.
They matched us up with the complete opposite.
We have a month to try to figure out how to have someone not named Alec Ogletree tackle a running back.
They also matched us up against Nebraska because they are # 1 in the nation in Pass Defense.
Aaron Murray will fix that.
I do not see a top team who Nebraska beat, and their loss to 5-Loss Wisconsin in the last game yesterday, is a BAD LOSS.
And, Nebraska did not just lose to 5-Loss Wisconsin, they lost 70-31 yesterday.
And, so where we are 12-2 after we beat Nebraska, is exactly where I said we would be after this 2012 best shot I said we’d have. In fact, we beat the teams exactly I said we would beat. And, we lost to the teams exactly whom I said we would lose to South Carolina and Alabama. I did, however, say that Florida win for us would be over a poor lousy Florida team. The fact that Florida did put together a great season and is ranked ahead of us today, makes this and that win Mark Richt’s best to-date.
I still want to keep Mark Richt. I still love his recruiting. He will take-over the lead starting 2001 when he started here with NFL Drafted Bulldogs 2001-2013 after we dispatch pretender conference Big 10 Nebraska with the 11 players drafted by The League, but they are going into the NFL knowing they cannot tackle on running plays – except for Alec Ogletree, who will play in the secondary in the NFL and whom Erk Russell would have had playing Rover – turning over in his grave as he is at us ending the 13-game season before the bowl game # 79 in the country rush defense.
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# 79 nation Rushing Defense UGA
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We can square the record with Nebraska, a Sun Bowl loss in 1969. Andy Landers’ 5 freshmen performed well and made some baskets to win by double-digits over Georgie tek on TV today to take that record to move Andy Landers’ record vs Georgie tek to 28-3 all-time, much like what Mark Richt is doing to them in football now at 11-1 – both over 90 % UGA wins over Georgie tek.
Vandie plays to play into The Top 25 in Music City New Year’s Eve against NC State, a 7-5 squad who beat FSU along with Florida. Georgie tek 6-7 looks to lose their 8th bowl game in a row at 2pm 12/31/2012 playing in the Sun Bowl against 7-5 Southern California – I presume that is what USC means listed beside them.
LSU has Clempsum Farmers later 12-31 which will be a blow-out. Beat no one Missy State has Northwestern. The New Year’s Games start out with South Carolina playing to knock Michigan out of the top 25 a final time 2012-2013 season. Louisville dispatched to the Sugar Bowl as fodder for Florida. Ole Miss plays Pittsburgh. Best of luck Alabama in a blow-out over Notre Shame with Notre Shame’s losing all-time bowl record, against 1 of the best we were that close against.
Spike had nothing to do with who won the game.
We lost the game because all season long we could not stop the run, ending # 79 in the nation before the bowl game in rush defense, and worse than that after the bowl game.
Aaron Murray played well enough to win the game, and to be the difference in the game – our way.
But instead, after 13 games, we’re # 79 NCAA Rush Defense.”
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Is there anything else you want while you stalk a guy lying that he did not post what you can see clearly was posted ?
Now, what I want to know is when are you going to for the 1st time ever post any post about anything on football Honey boy ?
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Honey boy
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Deadpool
December 20th, 2012
11:23 pm
On The Herd this morning Jason Taylor actually picked the Falcons to go to the Superbowl. Dumb ass Colin Cowherd said that they’d lose to Seattle in their first game.
wisconsinfalcons fan
December 20th, 2012
11:35 pm
I don’t think you have to worry about the falcons being up or what it takes to get up for this game or the play off, they know this game is not a giving the lions will come to play, let’s just stay focus this Saturday one game at a time after two years of first round lost I know there will be more fire in every player and coach here, if we want to be notice on a positive side then we have to go out an take it, no team in the NFL is going to just give it to you, if we want it we got to take it plain an simple, again stay focus and JUST WIN BABY 13-2
Thomas Brown
December 20th, 2012
11:57 pm
Detroit hell hole of the world, JSS’s team.
Mike "CHOKE" Dogs To Death
December 21st, 2012
12:05 am
Matt “CHOKE” Ryan
December 20th, 2012
8:56 pm
So what’s more impressive? The win vs the Giants or the whipping
by the 3-9 Panthers the week before?
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The win vs. the Giants is more impressive. By the way, Pamela, Mike called. He wants you to stop stalking him. Thanks.
HA HA
Mike "CHOKE" Dogs To Death
December 21st, 2012
12:11 am
Mike had a bad season. Very bad. We all know that. But according to Pamela, A/K/A Matt “CHOKE” Ryan, it wasn’t his fault. Just as the Giants obviously had other things on their minds besides football as they were getting spanked by the Falcons, Mike had other things on his mind besides football this season. Like smoking crack and gambling on dogfights. Fortunately, he’ll be unemployed next season, so he’ll have plenty of time for that!
HA HA
Big Ray
December 21st, 2012
12:20 am
Schultz gets paid to question this.
JSS is just a clueless hater.
Choke is a troll.
Two out of three is pretty bad…
Mike "CHOKE" Dogs To Death
December 21st, 2012
12:23 am
Hey Pamela (CHOKE), Mike’s Eagles lost to the Panthers, too!
They also lost to Matt Ryan’s Falcons.
…and the Cardinals.
…and the Steelers.
…and the Lions.
…and the Saints.
…and the Cowboys (twice).
…and the Redskins.
…and the Bengals.
HA HA
Thomas Brown
December 21st, 2012
12:27 am
Michael Vick’s career is over. $ 100 million in debt. 8 issues off-the-field. Felony conviction, plead guilty.# 25 QB in a 32-team league. Fewer TD Passes in 11 years than Matt Ryan in less than half the time. Over 10 points less QB Rating for his career than Matt Ryan. More Pass Attempts and fewer receptions than Matt Ryan. More Play-Off Losses than Matt Ryan.
83-81 Michael Vick’s teams Career includes 3-4 Play-Offs
55-26 Matt Ryan’s teams Career includes 0-3 Play-Offs
6’ 0” Michael Vick age 32 gave San Diego # 5 pick (LaDainian Tomlinson)
6’ 4” Matt Ryan age 27 took with our own # 3 overall pick
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Total Current 5 seasons’ Michael Vick’s teams vs Matt Ryan’s teams
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34-31 Michael Vick’s teams including 1-2 Play-Offs
55-26 Matt Ryan’s teams including 0-3 Play-Offs
Still owes Arthur Blank $ 20 million dollars, and now no one wants Michael Vick.
Duh.
Then, we come on this blog and are told by Choke Ryan, Michael Vick is a better QB than Matt Ryan, when Matt Ryan is the best Falcons’ QB of all-time (includes Michael Vick.)
That is like being told everyday that Detroit (hell hole of the world) is better than Falcons again on this blog today according to JSS.
Thomas Brown
December 21st, 2012
12:32 am
Big Ray December 21st, 2012 12:20 am
“JSS is just a clueless hater. ”
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You left out JSS is also an Indecipherable, Incomprehensible, Illegible, Unreadable, Unreliable, Misleading, Lying, Insincere, Spurious, Inaccurate, Dishonest, Untruthful, False, Two-Faced, Hating, Obsessed and Preoccupied with Falcons and Georgia Bulldogs doing well, Mendacious poster, JSS – the Full of Himself, Thinking His Does Not Stink to High Heaven, Condescending, Contemptuous, Patronizing, Scornful, Pompous, Snooty, Stuck-Up, Snobbish, Egotistical, Cocky, Self-Centered, Arrogant, Big-Headed, Self-Absorbed, Conceited, Self-Important, Self-Loving, Self-Admiring, Vain, Narcissistic, Obscure, Supercilious, Little Snot.
FALCON POWER !
December 21st, 2012
12:42 am
13-2 will do.
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
December 21st, 2012
12:46 am
0-3 in the playoffs…..
HA HA
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
December 21st, 2012
12:47 am
The defense scored more points than CHOKE in the last playoff game………………
ha ha
What a LOSER.
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
December 21st, 2012
12:49 am
30 Million vs 72 Million…
5 playoff wins vs ZERO Playoff wins……
2 Championship Games vs ZERO Championship Games………..
Interesting………….
ha ha
FALCON POWER !
December 21st, 2012
12:50 am
That 34-0 ShutOut was a hell of a Rise Up.
The Falcons defense is for real.
FALCON POWER !
December 21st, 2012
12:54 am
Matt Ryan’s team has the best record in the NFC,
THATS ALL.
Matt Ryan choked the hell out of the NFC.
Thomas Brown
December 21st, 2012
12:54 am
Matt Choke,
Interesting today, December 21, 2012, that you consider Michael Vick the better quarterback than Matt Ryan, when Michael Vick is unemployed # 25 QB whose teams were 83-81 back when he was a QB, with more play-off losses than Matt Ryan, fewer TD Passes in more than twice the time, and a 10 point less QB rating.
That makes you the ONLY one to think so.
How’s that feel ?
Thomas Brown
December 21st, 2012
12:57 am
Michael Vick does not have 5 play-off wins, he’s 3-4
FALCON POWER !
December 21st, 2012
12:59 am
12-2 Matt Ryan is 4-0 vs the NFC East
and 12-2 Matt Ryan is 4-0 against the AFC West
and the Falcons have kicked 12 teams in the ditch.
Thomas Brown
December 21st, 2012
1:01 am
And, Michael Vick is unemployed because no one wants him.
Thomas Brown
December 21st, 2012
1:11 am
Michael Vick has never made it through a full NFL schedule and played in all regular season games. He has been very prone to injury as a result of his playing style, especially when he flushes outside the pocket and scrambles downfield. He has suffered, and been prone to, several concussions the last few seasons, and nagging injuries continue to force him to miss time. And at age 32 with his injury history, it’s uncertain as to how much more abuse Micheal Vick can take as a quarterback and it certainly appears that Michael Vick’s career is over.
Michael Vick stands at an undersized 6′0, a very short height for a quarterback. Few quarterbacks can succeed at such a small height, and forcing Michael Vick to stay in the pocket and forcing him to see over linemen that tower at least three inches over him is a liability that could force Vick to throw unecessary interceptions and flush out of the pocket too early.
More importantly, as we saw this season from Michael Vick, he can be a big turnover machine, as his penchant for turnovers has risen noticeably the last two seasons.
Matt Choke says Michael Vick is better than Matt Ryan and states that Michael Vick has 5 play-off wins. If he did, he would not be unemployed. He doesn’t, and he is.
FALCON POWER !
December 21st, 2012
1:44 am
I’m going to Detroit City, Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves.