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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Put in Timeout by Ken Suguira,Filtered by Mark Bradley, Banned by Bill King, Chip Towers & only slightly loved by Jeff Schultz.
December 21st, 2012
11:33 pm
MV7 won 2 playoff games. MV7 was a NEW beast for defenses to figure-out. MV7 is nothing special anymore. It took a second for the DC’s to figure-out how to beat MV7.
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
December 22nd, 2012
1:39 am
Still waiting for CHOKE to do something for a defensive coordinator to have to figure him out…ha ha
Thomas Brown
December 22nd, 2012
3:30 am
Recruiting impacts NFL Draft Selections, Team Performance, Federal Graduation Rates, Attendance, Rankings in the Polls, and Recruiting explains the lack of Performance Mobility among the 120 FBS Division 1-A football programs.
NFL 53-man rosters are more than 90 % made-up of these collegiate football Recruited Student-Athletes. For their college education everyone is so Proud of, they are provided a Full Ride. A Full Scholarship, which in recent years has begun to take-on proposed NCAA Rules changes to include additional stipends for the Student-Athletes.
59 % of all high school football and basketball players think they will go on to play in college on a Collegiate Scholarship.
A College Degree is valued, according to all studies of it, well over one million dollars, over the lifetime of the future employee. Successful college graduates learn not only their specific chosen field of study, but even more importantly, learn to bond with others who will be successful in life with them comradely; and, they learn how to study. In today’s high-technology world, this is paramount. A football player can only play the game about 10 years, if they are successful. Only a select few go on to play the game until they are long in the tooth, and their actual ability to perform athletically is actually higher when they are younger. They learn how to play the game better, adapting to their lesser athletic ability, with more knowledge of the game. Their ability to perform actually athletically is higher when they are in their prime athletically.
NFL players just get paid more when they are older based upon their previous performance.
And, then they are out of the game because they are no longer able to perform athletically, no matter how much they have learned their positions.
This is when their college degree kicks in for the next 50 years’ of their lives.
It has been said that the NCAA Student-Athlete is raped for their athletic ability, but as a Student-Athlete who performed in the classroom and on the field, I can attest to the value of a college degree. I have been offered many opportunities in life both on this continent and abroad based upon the degree. Doors are opened to us, simply because we know others, who also are graduates of our alma mater. My current position, since 1991, has compensated me $ 3 million; and the job offer was only because I was a college graduate, as a prerequisite to the offer.
Athletes are known for where they attended college.
They are given huge Press Followings in College, and are on TV and Radio, and in newsprint and Internet articles, and now blogs that used to be called forums. It builds their value which they simply cash-in on in the NFL. Without this feeder system, what would the NFL fan do ?
Talk to high school football and basketball athletes, 59 % of whom think they are getting a college scholarship ?
98 of 100 high school athletes never go on to even play their sport in college. That’s college, not the NFL.
Less than 1 of 100 high school athletes even get a Scholarship of any kind to a Division 1 school.
Of 100 ninth-graders, 68 will graduate from high school, and only 18 will graduate from college according to the U.S. Department of Education.
1 of 16,000 high school athletes attains a professional sports’ career.
According to the NCAA, 5.8 percent of all high school football players play the game in college, and of those only 2 percent of college football players go to the Fame and Fortune of the NFL.
.09
.09 of high school football players go to the NFL.
Have a back-up plan so that some grown man can fawn all over you as an NFL football player, for it is only they who do play in the NFL, whom this grown man can kowtow you – that being your goal is life as a football player to have some grown man obsequiously submissively live his life through you, creepy as that is for a grown man. I personally am not of that persuasion; but I see no reason why a grown man cannot do what he wants to do with his life, whatever a grown man’s obsession is with other grown men. More power to him, if that is what he wants from life. Again, it’s not for me; but he is welcome to do as he prefers.
Where the water hits the wheel is this transition from high school football player to college football player. You’re away from home for the 1st time, out in the real world where you have to fend for yourself given all these choices in life; and, instead of one of 68 percent with high school diploma, you are attempting to become 1 of only 18 percent with a college degree.
Let’s face it, the college degree is significantly enhanced in its value, if the college has a successful FBS Division 1-A football program. There are only 85 scholarships available from each of the 120 of these colleges. Only the Top 25 of those, or so, are considered the Most Valuable, and you contribute to that value, which you will cash-in on for the next 50 years. Every year for the next 50 years, you will cash-in on what you contribute to.
Camaraderie. I wear my ring every single solitary day. The others in the companies who I come in contact with daily, recognize me as a person who is in this club. Our fellowship amongst us, is an alliance association of our organizational group. We seek out each other and support each other.
Rodney Garner has been here 15 seasons, and was the 1st hire by Mark Richt, retaining only him from Jim Donnan’s staff. A college football graduate from his alma mater, where he excelled as a student and as a football player, and since, in his chosen profession – although he has rubbed more than a few the wrong way with this treatment of his Defensive Linemen in the Press with what he refers to as his Tough Love.
There are those who would point-out the truth that the State of Georgia has long-since provided the 4th most NFL players behind only California, Florida, and Texas, and Georgia produces 1 per half a million Georgians which is 2nd nationally per capita.
Rodney Garner has recruited the average # 7 recruiting ranking class. His class will be
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RECRUITS TOTALLY UNAFFECTED by Rodney Garner leaving
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Rodney Garner says : “It is the right time,” because he has largely been replaced in recruiting here, anyway; and, because his Position Coaching is being judged HARSHLY with all these NFL Draft Picks after the Nebraska game yet he has personally been wholly unable to teach any of them how to tackle a running back all season long. # 79 in the nation in defending the run, Rodney Garner’s recruits for his own position, have not tackled on running plays all season long.
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NEVER in history UGA out-rushed by Opponents for Season
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2012, for the season, The University of Ground Attack with arguably the Best Running Backs we’ve ever had, will’ve been
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OUT-RUSHED for the season.
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There aren’t teams in The Top 25 who find themselves in this egregious position of being out-rushed for the season. Some of this is attributable to the nature of the game strategies where we attempt to throw the football on every set of downs to begin the game, when the running game would be wearing down our opponents, as they’ve done against us all season long.
Rodney Garner’s defensive linemen have neither sacked the opposing quarterbacks, nor have they tackled on running plays. Rodney Garner has us playing Nebraska with 54 scholarship recruits he recruited here, of the 85-scholarship limit. 2 are injured and he has a transfer-in. 57 is still 28 under the NCAA 85-scholarship limit.
Job Responsibilities :
(1) Recruit
(2) Train DL to stop the run
(3) Train DL to sack opposing quarterbacks
Rodney Garner has other responsibilities. These are just the Most Important Top 3 job responsibilities, and in our best-chance 2012 season, he has FAILED MISERABLY in all 3.
The 2012 recruiting class was under-signed by 28 scholarship recruits. We’re behind the 8-ball trying to sign-up anybody who wants to play at Georgia 2013.
Lose after the season :
D-1-Sanders Commings
D-2-Michael Gilliard
D-3-John Jenkins
D-4-Abry Jones
D-5-Bacarri Rambo
D-6-Christian Robinson
D-7-Branden Smith
D-8-Cornelius Washington
D-9-Shawn Williams
O-10-Tavarres King
O-11-Marlon Brown
O-12-Richard Samuel IV
S-13-Ty Frix
JR-14-Jarvis Jones
JR-15-Alec Ogletree
57 scholarship football players on the roster 2 of which are injured and includes the 1 transfer-in and we lose 15.
42.
That’s HALF of what we’re allowed.
LESS THAN HALF.
42 of 85.
For his job as Recruiting Coordinator for 2012, he gets an F.
What’s he left us with ? The 2013 recruiting class, large on numbers, as explained here now, and at the EXPENSE of our average recruit which is 20 percent worse than it has EVER BEEN.
He has little to work with on Defense 2013, and has a big job teaching them to sack opposing quarterbacks and stop the run, when with all these NFL Draft Picks after the last game coming up, he taught them NOTHING about, EITHER.
# 4 state producing NFL players
# 7 average recruiting ranking
Scout.com and Rivals are the 2 foremost authorities on college football recruiting, and if you average Scout.com and Rivals rankings 2001 through now, Rodney Garner has averaged the # 7 average recruiting ranking for Mark Richt in the Mark Richt era.
He brought us the same numbers for Jim Donnan, too.
He raided this state when Jim Donnan hired him away from the Tennessee vols’ football program where he taught Tight Ends and did recruiting. He was neither a Tight End nor a Defensive Linemen at Auburn as a player.
Rodney Garner was All-SEC at Auburn as an Offensive Linemen.
As for the
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OFF-FIELD ISSUES of his recruits 2001 through today
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Rodney Garner is judged POORLY for those whom he first recruited here, and then second taught them NOTHING about discipline on or off the field.
NFL Players ?
JSS, fawn all over them, for God’s sake you creepy sucker for it.
But he recruited in a hotbed of state talent for the state university, and frankly garnered only a portion of the talent, and not always at the positions of need for this football program, and yes sent large numbers to the NFL for creepy JSS to fawn all over the grown men, 71 of those whom JSS obsesses over Rodney Garner recruited here who were selected in the NFL Drafts just since Mark Richt retained him.
For this, Rodney Garner has my Appreciation because in my hobby, having 71 of that ability, soon to be 82 NFL Draft Selections in the Mark Richt era alone, I have been blessed with
Great Football Players to watch as I root-on my alma mater to further the rep and street cred for me in my profession and to make my hobby fun : Collegiate Football – where the Water Hits the Wheel in the Sport of Football, a game I played as Defensive Back.
Defensive Backs play run support and part of Rodney Garner’s job here was to explain that to the Defensive Backs, how what his DL was doing on pass and on running plays is to enhance their ability to support the run and to stop the pass. He fell short of that, too, in explaining to the secondary how what he was teaching the DL to do, required the secondary to support the stopping of the run game of our opponents.
Right Time.
Rodney Garner will be judged for this season, including the game 10 days from now, and Rodney Garner will have allowed our opponents this 2012 season at UGA University of Ground Attack to be
OUT-RUSHED 2012 SEASON.
Out best-chance and he fell down on EVERY RESPONSIBILITY for his job.
Auburn, joke a football program. Joke the street cred and rep of Auburn in the classrooms and on the football field, today.
1 Fan who for his hobby, meddled in the football program to the detriment of both classroom and football field, and everything else.
Bobby Lowder, whose banking business is his parents and his parents for whom the building on campus is named, not for Bobby Lowder, the half-wit, who caused by himself to have banking regulators shut his parents’ bank down, taken over by BB&T.
April 10, 2012 Bobby Lowder was REMOVED as Auburn University Board of Trustees, but his legacy RUINED Auburn during his entire time he used his PARENT’S MONEY from Colonial Bank, and into the future, as a direct result.
SHAMBLES.
Auburn Football is in SHAMBLES in the classroom and on the football field because of Bobby Lowder.
Rodney Garner wants to go there.
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HAVE AT IT.
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I could care less.
Mark Richt will take over the # 1 spot in the nation in providing
JSS
NFL grown men whom he can fawn all over as a grown man himself. I could care less.
His primary function, for which he was given a bye on his Position Coach responsibilities, as DL coach he has 2012
FAILED.
His position coach job responsibilities 2012, he has
FAILED MISERABLY.
Good Riddance and I am glad he is going to Auburn. Growing up, Auburn was my # 1 Rival. We beat Florida regularly and the JAX games at the stadium where they play the Gator Bowl every year starting 1946, sixty-six years’ ago were fun, beating Florida every time. That has since changed and it is a struggle even in our best seasons’ to beat their worst teams. That, too, changed this one season or they would’ve had their 4th National Championship in 16 seasons. His defensive line did very well that game. That’s 1 game. The entire rest of 2012, his defensive line did next to nothing. Georgia Tech, in my lifetime, 1957 through today, was NEVER a Rival, is not a Rival, and never ever will be in the future, our Rival. Georgia Tech is not in the same class as our Top 10 All-Time Football Program in Wins.
Auburn.
If you think Detroit is a hell hole, Auburn is right there with them.
There will NOT be 1 single recruit to The University of Georgia who will listen to him at Auburn, and go there now that he is there, rather than here. Not 1 will leave us to join him there. Not 1.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out
RODNEY GARNER.
Nothing in this post is anything but my own words, not cut and pasted from ANYWHERE, nor stolen from ANYWHERE, nor copied from anywhere without their permission. It is ORIGINAL WORK I wrote of MY DAMN HOBBY. If it sounds like I know what the hell I am talking about, it’s because this is my hobby. What’s your hobby ? Fawning over grown men ? As a walk-on myself, I understand college and its value, and I understand collegiate sports as the 8th fastest runner in the state of Georgia.
JSS
December 22nd, 2012
4:07 am
^^^^^^^^^
Wake up, you find this mess, well Fishbone said it best on Track 6 of the 1985 EP…
Thomas Brown
December 22nd, 2012
4:20 am
Typical post from you JSS : No one can understand a single post, ever. And, you have a degree in media ? You see ? A degree is NOT a degree. Some have more value than others; and, you NEVER learned that, did you with your degree from the # 80 regional college, Eastern Michigan.
Eric C.
December 22nd, 2012
4:34 am
I’d pay a lot of money to see JSS, Thomas Brown, Lol at the Aints, and MCR put some pads on and go at it on the gridiron. And i’ll make a healthy wager that JSS comes out victorious and exclaims to Thomas Brown, “get the %%%% off my blog!” lol!
JSS
December 22nd, 2012
5:42 am
This knucklehead is just a clown… I had real world credentials before I ever stepped foot on the university campus… “First time away from home on their own,” glad I didn’t have their parents… I’d been to Europe and Asia by 15 without Mommy and Daddy holding my hand and paying my bills… Yeah every degree is not the same, some have even more value, that New Media Master’s allows me to sit around and blog because I can do with 4 people what it used to a production company of hundreds to do and get paid substantial to do it… But because 27 years ago, that supposedly “80th ranked regional ‘college’ university” accented my real world education with new technologies way before they became what is now commonplace, the MIT, Harvard, and even UGA folks came to students of the “hell-hole” to learn… You have a warped idea of Jefferson called “matriculation.”
Sorry, as an ex-athlete, it is your talents (or lack of them) which athletes are known for, the place you played is secondary… Brett Favre (love him or hate him) was never introduced: “Southern Mississippi – Brett Favre!” I guess we’ll have to hear: Southern California/Georgia – Jarvis Jones then? That is silly drivel… They are paid athletes, it not “fawning.” They play a game for money, you need to know the difference… I understand that it is a business first masquerading as sport… The only athletes I “fawn” over are on the athletic track and cross-country course…
Gritsfalcon
December 22nd, 2012
6:11 am
C’mon Schultz, get real. The birds don’t HAVE to have this one. It would help everyone breathe easier if they win but they don’t HAVE to have it. And I don’t think they have anything left to prove to ANYBODY, frankly. I notice just how quite ESPN has been on the falcons’ all week. Either way, I am VERY concerned about Matt Ryan or any other Falcon for that matter against this “cheap shot” defense of Detroit. Let’s first hope Ryan doesn’t get messed up like he did last year in the Motor City; Same goes for the other 21 bird-men. THEN we’ll go for that win; Falcons take ‘em 31-16.
Gritsfalcon
December 22nd, 2012
6:15 am
PS. I thought this article was about the Falcons!? Why is there nearly a full page complaint about whats-his-name Garner and UGA, Auburn? There are other articles about college football in the AJC, go over there and write your “book.” This article was about an NFL team.
Georgia
December 22nd, 2012
8:39 am
I could beat the Lions with a scratch team of nursing home grandmas wearing pajamas. The Lions are finished, they’ve always been finished. They are the Detroit Liars. I’ve been in their locker room. I saw coloring books, balloons, and gaily dressed little daffodils….and that was just the defensive linemen. You should see the secondary. There isn’t a decent jockstrap between them. Falcons 36. Liars 23 (halftime score).
MoTown Mop Up
December 22nd, 2012
8:42 am
In the Jungle,
the Detroit Jungle,
the Lions sleep tonight.
Thomas Brown
December 22nd, 2012
9:05 am
Eric C.,
That really means a lot coming from the likes of you, son.
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Eric C. October 12th, 2012 2:17 am
“If SC can actually pull it out at Baton Rouge and then win at UF, I’d say that they should be #1.”
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You say that Eric C. ?
I think we all know why you run in here to say what you say, don’t we Eric C. ?
Thomas Brown
December 22nd, 2012
9:06 am
Mark Richt era NFL Draft Selections :
Draft : FSU—AL—-FL—LSU—GA—USC
2012.…4……8……2.…..5.…….7…..3
2011.…3……5……4.…..6.…….6…..9
2010.…3.…..7..…..9.…..6.…….5…..7
2009.…1……4..…..3.…..6.…….6…..11
2008.…3……0..…..2.…..7.…….4…..10
2007.…5……3..…..9.…..5.…….5…..5
2006.…8……5..…..3.…..7.…….7…..11
2005.…9……4..…..3.…..3.…….6…..5
2004.…5……4..…..5.…..0.…….4…..4
2003.…6……5..…..8.…..4.…….7…..5
2002.…3……4..…..8.…..5.…….8…..2
2001.…9……3..…..4.…..3.…….6…..3
Total…59….52..…60…..57……71….75
Mark Richt era Recruiting Rankings :
Year FSU—AL—-FL—LSU—GA—USC
2013…16….9…….6……8……3……5
2012…11….2…….5……6…..14…..20
2011…1……7……26…..9.…..5……4
2010…9……4…….1……7…..21……5
2009..18…..2…….21…..3……4……9
2008…8…..1…….12……7……5…..9
2007…33….22……1…..5……17…..2
2006…12….18…….2…..7…..4……1
2005…3….16…….11….19…..4…..6
2004…4….19…….8……2……6…..1
2003..12….45…….4……2…..11…..1
2002…6….37…….20…..15…..9…..12
2001…5….25…….16…..15…..5……7
AVG..11….16…….10……8…..8……6
………FSU—AL—–FL—LSU—-GA–USC
Picks…59….52…….60…..57…..71….75
Rank…11….16…….10……8…….8…..6
goFalcons
December 22nd, 2012
10:14 am
game day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Spot light on the Falcons!!!!!!!!!!! RISE UP
goFalcons
December 22nd, 2012
10:18 am
The only comment I will say about Garner, I remember when we stole him from tennessee. He is the best recruiter and will be missed IMO!!!!!!! GO FALCONS WE NEED THIS GAME! IT IS a game everybody will be watching!!!!!!!!!
goFalcons
December 22nd, 2012
10:28 am
Wow just when I thought JSS was a real clown, he brings up Fishbone! The most ground breaking band that ever exisited, I have to say you have great taste in music!
DawgNole
December 22nd, 2012
10:36 am
Matt “CHOKE” Ryan
December 21st, 2012
11:10 pm
@DawgPile
The day I agree with anything you say will be the day that God forgives you for being stupid..
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He’s forgiven me. But don’t bother agreeing with anything I say, because he’ll never forgive you for your hate-filled, lying, racist, obsessive posts. You’re fortunate that Jeff has–so far.
DawgNole
December 22nd, 2012
10:38 am
IceMan
December 21st, 2012
10:53 pm
Why isn’t it obvious to everyone that Mr. Jeff Shultz is “Choke”?? Or is everyone just playing along?
I enjoy reading this blog nonetheless….
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Just playing along.
DawgNole
December 22nd, 2012
10:39 am
Eric C.
December 22nd, 2012
4:34 am
I’d pay a lot of money to see JSS, Thomas Brown, Lol at the Aints, and MCR put some pads on and go at it on the gridiron. And i’ll make a healthy wager that JSS comes out victorious and exclaims to Thomas Brown, “get the %%%% off my blog!” lol!
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Not sure who’d win. Just know that MCR would lose. He (”she”) is the epitome of a loser.
DawgNole
December 22nd, 2012
10:47 am
Gritsfalcon
December 22nd, 2012
6:11 am
C’mon Schultz, get real. The birds don’t HAVE to have this one. It would help everyone breathe easier if they win but they don’t HAVE to have it.
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Loser mentality.
True in the literal sense, but they still SHOULD play like they have to have it! That’s what CHAMPIONS do. Unfortunately, it’s what the Falcons have NOT done for 46 years, and you’ve seen the results. This year SHOULD be different. We’ll find out soon enough whether or not it WILL be.
goFalcons
December 22nd, 2012
11:01 am
To not think the Falcons are going to win the Super Bowl is just crazy talk! THE FALCONS ARE THE BEST BETTER THEN THE REST……FALCONS ARE THE BEST BETTER THEN THE REST
DawgNole
December 22nd, 2012
11:34 am
goFalcons
December 22nd, 2012
11:01 am
To not think the Falcons are going to win the Super Bowl is just crazy talk! THE FALCONS ARE THE BEST BETTER THEN THE REST……FALCONS ARE THE BEST BETTER THEN THE REST
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It’s not “crazy talk” when they haven’t won it in their entire 46-year existence. Hoping this season is different.
Atlfalconsfan0125
December 22nd, 2012
11:59 am
The Falcons will win tonight.
Weeeeee're still here!
December 22nd, 2012
12:19 pm
Did the Mayans predict super bowl winners? They are officially knocked out of the prediction business.
Weeeeee're still here!
December 22nd, 2012
12:22 pm
Can the History channels, Discovery, CNBC (yes, even they did it), etc., put to rest all the doomsday prophecy shows, now? At least for 2013, please.
And no more Mayan talk allowed….EVER.
I can make a living off this prediction scam business!
December 22nd, 2012
12:24 pm
I predict the Falcons will win the Super Bowl in Feb. 2013
Hello Jeffrey
December 22nd, 2012
12:28 pm
Hell froze over in 1998 (or Jan. ‘99) when the Falcons 1st made the super bowl.
Getting the democrats to stop spending and taxing other peoples money will be the new Falcons objective by winning the super bowl!
Hello Jeffrey
December 22nd, 2012
12:33 pm
Anybody got a new calendar? “Mayan” ended.
Damn, I’m funny!
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
December 22nd, 2012
12:42 pm
@DawgPile
While the great Mike Vick at age 22 tamed the Brett Favre and accomplished what no qb before him ever did – beat Brett Favre and the packers at Lambeau in the playoffs.
Meanwhile at 27 years old the LOSER known as CHOKE the JOKE has a big goose egg…..
ha ha
Put in Timeout by Ken Suguira,Filtered by Mark Bradley, Banned by Bill King, Chip Towers & only slightly loved by Jeff Schultz.
December 22nd, 2012
12:52 pm
Wow MV7 has won 2 playoff games. MV7 is a football GOD for sure.
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
December 22nd, 2012
12:54 pm
While you delusional losers were sleeping and having dreams of the unthinkable, a playoff win, the REAL world was debating whether or not San Fran or Green Bay will raise that Lombardi, as usual, not taking the annual 1 and done crew serious.
I remember a couple of years ago, you losers were laughing at the Saints for losing to Seattle in the 1st round. Now the same fate will be awaiting. That number 2 or 1 defense is no joke, and the beast mode at running back along with the uprising young qb will make short work again vs the underachieving JOKE known as CHOKE.
Maybe this year he will get at least a field goal.
ha ha
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
December 22nd, 2012
12:58 pm
30-24 48-21 24-2, now that is elite…………
ha ha
DawgNole
December 22nd, 2012
12:59 pm
Dang, you up already, MCR? Still sleeping in your own poop? Sure looks like it from your ignorant posts.
LOL at the Aints
December 22nd, 2012
1:22 pm
MCR wears those adult diapers. LOL
All I'm Saying Is...
December 22nd, 2012
2:46 pm
Talk is cheap but the guys are saying all the right things. Let’s see what happens when the lights go up and tonight’s nationally televised game starts. We need to keep working on the running game and let Calvin be Calvin but prevent anyone else from hurting us. Detroit has been beat like a drum this year so there is a ton of film showing how to do it so we should not be out-coached. Our offensive and defensive coordinators ought to be able to develop the right schemes leaving it to the players to just having to execute.
LET’S GO FALCONS!
PlanB
December 22nd, 2012
2:47 pm
Thomas Brown @ I understand your appreciation of a college education but I don’t understand why these grads that will make about $20,000/yr more than high schoolers want them to pay off their student loans.
GO FALCONS!!!!!!!
All I'm Saying Is...
December 22nd, 2012
2:50 pm
Oh, by the way, last time I checked Mike Vick is looking for a job. I wish him the best but our focus is on Detroit and then Tampa Bay (if it still matters). After that, as has been rightly pointed out, Falcons have some demons to exorcise in the playoffs. This has to be the year and I know it will be as these guys now understand that it doesn’t matter who you play or where you play them, you have to show-up, man-up, and step-up your game when the lose-one-and-go-directly-home playoffs begin.
LET’S GO FALCONS!
...... in the Jungle, ..........the Detroit Jungle, ......... the Lions Lose tonight
December 22nd, 2012
3:19 pm
FALCONS win !
FALCONS win !
...... in the Jungle, ..........the Detroit Jungle, the Lions Lose tonight
December 22nd, 2012
3:21 pm
The Falcons are for real.
goFalcons
December 22nd, 2012
4:19 pm
NO CONTEST, THE FALCONS ARE THE BEST
THE FALCONS ARE THE BEST, BETTER THEN THE REST! Falcons 61 Lions 3
JSS
December 22nd, 2012
8:54 pm
There goes Megatron