How cool would it be if Smitty got suspended? Very, I say
Mike Smith calmly asks DeAngelo Hall to take a long walk off a short pier. (AJC photo by Curtis Compton)
I’m not a big fan of mindless violence (or of mindful violence, come to that). I don’t much like movies where things blow up. (I’m more an Ingmar Bergman guy.) That said …
How cool would it be if Mike Smith got suspended for getting into it with DeAngelo Hall?
James Dean cool. Jim Morrison cool. Off-the-charts cool.
The NFL is investigating Sunday’s sideline incident, which got me to thinking. Just imagine the grid cred that would flow from Smith having to sit out one measly game. (Make it against Tampa Bay, though.) He’d be known as the ultimate players’ advocate, the guy willing to square off with the most-disliked guy in the sport. (Perhaps I overstate. There’s still Terrell Owens.)
Smitty would be a hero in his locker room. Heck, he’d be a hero across the whole wide NFL. I mean, who among us has not wanted to lay hands in a harmful way on D-Hall?
Speaking for myself, I’ll confess that D-Hall’s three-penalties-on-one-drive psychodrama against Carolina in 2007 was enough to make me want to put my Bergman movie on pause — “Persona,” I believe it was — and take a poke at him myself. What can I say? The man has that effect on people.
So today I feel happy. (No more Swedish Bergman gloom.) Today I have a new role model:
Two-Fisted Smitty, the one coach willing to get down to the nitty gritty. He’s the man.
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Sonny Clusters
November 9th, 2009
5:22 pm
Clusters don’t believe in violence.
Extremus
November 9th, 2009
5:25 pm
Actually, I kind of hope the whole thing blows over quickly so we can focus on the Carolina game without further distractions. I think that one will be a tough rematch against a team fired up after nearly toppling the Saints.
Falcon fan
November 9th, 2009
5:26 pm
I love this guy. He`s the right coach for this team.
Sonny Clusters
November 9th, 2009
5:27 pm
We was first! We was almost suspended from Parkview back when we was in school but Coach come up big for us with the principal and we just had to do study hall with Coach for about twelve weeks. When DHall crossed that sideline all bets were off.
Mark Bradley
November 9th, 2009
5:28 pm
Clusters was first! Kudos are falling from the sky!
Coach Smitty Supporter & MeAngelo Hater
November 9th, 2009
5:29 pm
I wonder if Coach Smitty knows any “PEACH CLOBBER” (not “cobbler”) recipes for hoodlums like Mr. Hall.
Coach Smitty Supporter & MeAngelo Hater
November 9th, 2009
5:29 pm
I wonder if Coach Smitty knows any “PEACH CLOBBER” (not “cobbler”) recipes for hoodlums like Mr. Hall.
Sonny Clusters
November 9th, 2009
5:30 pm
Smitty is a good coach for the Falcons and they play hard for him. Smitty is a lot different than some other coaches/managers in town. He don’t appear to be a nose picker and you don’t hear a lot of, “C’mon kid” comments. Mostly, he appears to be running his team and expecting to win.
THWGT
November 9th, 2009
5:30 pm
I dont care what the outcome of this situation is…….
it still doesnt take away the fact that Georgia Tech runs a high school offense, is the most overrated team in America, and will have no chance in hell recruiting a QB or WR worth a crap in the near future……
just sayin’
BamaBirDawg
November 9th, 2009
5:31 pm
DeAngry Hall could well bounce Couch Smith for a game or two but in the end… it doesn’t subtract from Mike’s ability or devotion or standing. If anything… it really would be cool. Baseball managers get booted all the time. I like someone who likes my team as much as I do and does what I would do… if I coulda.
Just Sayin'
November 9th, 2009
5:33 pm
Interesting. I wonder if this request will come back to bite D Hall. If it does, would it end his nonsense.? Dang, all I can think about are his poor kids….having him as their role model.
Mark Bradley
November 9th, 2009
5:33 pm
If Smitty had to sit, he’d be only about 150 ejections behind Bobby Cox.
Paul H
November 9th, 2009
5:33 pm
Hall will find someone to tell the teacher on every week if this happens.
Dawg Gone It
November 9th, 2009
5:33 pm
Ingmar Bergman was a hottie, that fo sure. Between her and Grace Kelly, I can’t decide.
mountain_jim
November 9th, 2009
5:33 pm
Agree Extremus. Plus for me at Carolina is the ‘laugh at the inlaws’ at Thanksgiving and Christmas game – we have to win. They would also be back in the wild-card hunt if they beat us, each then 5-4. I am worried about rumours that Baker is going to be out for awhile (again this year), though his backup SVITEK played well. Him first hurting his foot against Dallas explains alot about how bad the left side was caving in during that game.
Mark Bradley
November 9th, 2009
5:35 pm
Ingmar Bergman was a guy. Ingrid Bergman was not a guy.
Sonny Clusters
November 9th, 2009
5:36 pm
Most Falcons coaches in the past was fighting they own players, not somebody on the other team. Van Brocklin and Wages, June Jones and Jeff George. It’s better to be fighting somebody in another color uniform. Besides, Smitty didn’t see nothing but a maroon helmet. Could have been anybody.
Dawg Gone It
November 9th, 2009
5:36 pm
I’m capable of dumbbutt comments like that.
Kid me not
November 9th, 2009
5:37 pm
Coach Smith is a great standup coach. It’s a great chemistry on this team. Losers like Meangelo have no place here.
Clemson538
November 9th, 2009
5:39 pm
This is exactly what Atlanta needed. Mark you actually just hit it right on the ball and im not sure if you realized this. Guys LOVE playing for the braves because Bobby Cox is one of the premier managers, and one of the main factors is that he ALWAYS sticks up for his players no matter what. Every time the braves sign a free agent you hear guys say he is a manager that always sticks up for his players. Mike Smith is the Bobby Cox of the falcons now. Whether you intended to make that point or not, their both the same when it comes to sticking up for their players. Whether or not they will be the same winning wise will remain to be seen. But it will have the same effect as it does with players wanting to play for cox. Premier free agents will WANT to play for Mike Smith because he sticks up for his players!
mudcat
November 9th, 2009
5:39 pm
No pads, no helmet, only a few years away from social security and our coach is going toe-to-toe with the Darth Vader of the NFL. You gotta love it! Punish him? No way! You don’t mess with a guy who has steel balls.
Mark Bradley
November 9th, 2009
5:40 pm
Well said, Sonny C. This was much more fun to watch than June J. versus Jeff G. on Sunday night against the Eagles.
kerryb
November 9th, 2009
5:41 pm
Give me a break. You Tech morons kill me. You have a little success in 20,000 years and you wont shut up. You just barely beat Clemson on a bogus holding call at the end of the game and got saved, you barely beat a Wake Forest team in overtime that Clemson beat the living crap out of 2 weeks ago and you think you are something. I bet if they meet you again in the ACC championship game they are going to clock you this time. Your small offensive line was no match for their large defensive line in that game. I’m not even a Clemson fan and can tell you that you better hope that you don’t meet them again.
Herschel Talker
November 9th, 2009
5:42 pm
FIRE BOOBY COX!
Ohio State fan
November 9th, 2009
5:44 pm
If Urban Meyer had done that you would be calling for his immediate dismissal. And you know!
Stay classy, Bradley. You’re consistent.
Mark Bradley
November 9th, 2009
5:46 pm
I would not be calling for anyone’s dismissal so long as the party of the second part was DeAngelo Hall.
IlliniDawg
November 9th, 2009
5:47 pm
Smith sticks up for his players – and they are the players that he wants to stick up for. That is the key. No way would Smitty stick up for an arrogant a$$ like MeAngelo – primarily because a guy like that would not be on the team. THAT is what I like about Smith – he takes no crap from anybody and will not have a malcontent on his squad – something June Jones, Gerry Glanville, or Jim Mora did not have the balls to do.
CinemaGirl
November 9th, 2009
5:49 pm
Ingmar Bergman? Oh no, Mark Bradley’s an intellectual.
GT_70
November 9th, 2009
5:53 pm
kerryb, what’s your point? Why are you even here? Go back to your double wide and watch old UGA reruns or something.
BugKiller
November 9th, 2009
5:56 pm
You know what they say, right?
Douche bags attract other douche bags.
This explains the VaTech football program.
It also explains the New York Yankees and their fans (most of whom disappeared between 1981 and 1995, making them Bandwagon Douches).
Jim Mora, Mike ConVick, and MeAngelo Hall.
Vick Supporter 2 and his various personalities (Bad News, bigeasy831, and now “Choke”).
Barrack Obama, Joe Biden, and Rahm Emanuel.
Karl Rove and Dick Cheney.
Keith Olberman and Keith Olberman’s Ego.
Rush Limbaugh and Rush Limbaugh’s Ego.
Howard Stern and his Idiot Fans.
Paul Krugman and the other Elitist, Out of Touch, Socialist Douche Bags at the New York Times.
George Clooney, Tim Robbins, Matt Damon, Sean Penn, Janine Garafalo, Michael Moore, and every other Commie Hollywood Celebrity who don’t know their butt from a hole in the ground (basically, every puppet in Team America: World Police).
Yep… the Douche Bag Law of Attraction explains much in our world.
Josh - suffering in sports deprived Louisville
November 9th, 2009
5:56 pm
Good points Mark. If he does get the one-game axe then it had better be against Tampa. We still need to focus.
@THWGT – ummm….remember Calvin Johnson?? What about Demaryius Thomas?? Leading WR in the ACC?? Just sayin’.
Peter
November 9th, 2009
5:56 pm
Poor MeAngelo…… Gosh is anyone in Atlanta really unhappy the guy is Gone ?
He did such a great job not hustling on running plays, I love how he trips over himself so he won’t have to tackle ! I watched him for years avoid making hits as a corner.
Go home and Cry MeAngelo !
"Chef" Tim Dix
November 9th, 2009
5:59 pm
Would be even cooler Mark if the Falcons “fired” him (wink) and a new head coach returned to the sidelines wearing a mask only known as “Coach F.”
BugKiller
November 9th, 2009
6:01 pm
Ooh!
I forgot Scientologists!
Those freaky morons who’ve bought into L. Ron Hubbard’s weirdo Big Scam are some pretty humongous Douche Bags.
Watch out, Tom Cruise! Galactic Lord Xenu is right behind you!!!
Hehe.
John
November 9th, 2009
6:03 pm
This is not an endorsement of D. Hall, but in a one on one fight, I would put my money on Hall. He may have a lot of fire in his belly, but Mike Smith isn’t capable of beating up D. Hall in a real fight with no one around to have his back.
MWC
November 9th, 2009
6:05 pm
The only way coach sits is if he woulda pulled a Woody Hayes on that idiot.
Why is he still in the NFL???
MWC
November 9th, 2009
6:06 pm
John…Duh
"Chef" Tim Dix
November 9th, 2009
6:09 pm
John: You may ( I repeat may) be right but everyone including you and his mother would be pulling for Smitty.
Kyle
November 9th, 2009
6:12 pm
If you are good in life when you die you go to Smitty’s House. I know he has the emotion I have about these games and is mad as I am when we play like sissies against teams with winning records. I’m afraid they are more like you Mark. They get a little to liberal and worried about violence to really be NFL players and go for the throat like the ones that are normally wearing those nice rings come early February.
Mark Bradley
November 9th, 2009
6:12 pm
I’m obviously no intellect, CinemaGirl. I just have this thing for subtitles. And Liv Ullmann.
"Chef" Tim Dix
November 9th, 2009
6:13 pm
Oh Mark even better, what if Smitty broke out a “Sideline Championship Trophy” ala Glanville and California? The possilbilities are both endless and hilarious…
Sonny Clusters
November 9th, 2009
6:14 pm
Depends on how he’s fighting. Not many people know Clusters do martial arts and Coach Smith might do that, too. Say, somebody jumps on a Clusters . . . that’s a mistake. Two chops and a kick and that fight’s over.
Sonny Clusters
November 9th, 2009
6:15 pm
We was always peace loving but could chop a tree in half with one hand. The other hand was the pitching hand and we kept it in our pocket when fighting.
punkie
November 9th, 2009
6:15 pm
@John
To borrow a line:
Hall may be fast, but Smittty can knock him over.
Mark Bradley
November 9th, 2009
6:17 pm
Elvis was a martial arts man, too, Sonny. Which puts you in fine company.
Pi$$onaDawg
November 9th, 2009
6:18 pm
Mark My eyes get tired reading all the sub-titles and I like color not just Black and White. That said. Hall still lives in ATLANTA and says he will meet SMITH. HAHAHAH I think ME-HOLE will run if Mike actually showed-up to kick his but.
Mark Bradley
November 9th, 2009
6:19 pm
I understand, POAD. I’m the only person in the world who prefers subtitles. I am, as we know, odd.
Bryan G.
November 9th, 2009
6:20 pm
Can the AJC give Sonny Clusters his own blog?
punkie
November 9th, 2009
6:20 pm
Hall and Smitty one on one– Dancing With the Stars—don’t laugh.
Mark Bradley
November 9th, 2009
6:20 pm
We probably should give Sonny his own blog. Though he pretty much has taken control of this one.
GREGNORTON
November 9th, 2009
6:20 pm
John, you are serious aren’t you? Either lighten up or find a different blog.
The American Dream
November 9th, 2009
6:21 pm
Who among us would not like to take a swing at Mark Bradley? I vote to suspend Bradley from ever gracing the pages of the AJC again.
"Chef" Tim Dix
November 9th, 2009
6:21 pm
Sonny: Smitty “striking a pose” tooooooooo much!!!
D-Hall = comedy relief
jerome
November 9th, 2009
6:22 pm
This is not a endorsement of Hall. But I don’t believe Smith when he said he didn’t know it was Hall in the melee. He was face to face with him. I think it started from Hall bashing of the GM.
Mark Bradley
November 9th, 2009
6:24 pm
I can tell you that Hall’s claim that Thomas Dimitroff lied to him didn’t sit well with the folks in Flowery Branch. This I know.
"Chef" Tim Dix
November 9th, 2009
6:25 pm
Jerome, I agree and don’t think that Demi and Smitty can’t read or hear.
Dogsbgone
November 9th, 2009
6:26 pm
It sure is funny to see the UGA fans reduced to making snide comments about Tech. Maybe the next time they lose you can celebrate by tearing down the goalposts in Sanford stadium!
Pi$$onaDawg
November 9th, 2009
6:27 pm
DUSTY RHODES we like MARK and the chance to poke fun at him and the other Bloggers. Get over it. I would like to get rid of miss college football for sure. I mean Blowhole is so SEC it ain’t even funny.
Heath
November 9th, 2009
6:27 pm
I think Smitty could cover one on one and lay more wood than Meangelo!!!!!!
pj
November 9th, 2009
6:29 pm
I heart Sonny Clusters.
Deangelo is a shell of a man and belongs in jail.
I got fired up when I saw smitty get after it. That will make all the difference in the world when he is trying to inspire his team on the sidelines in the 4th quarter of a playoff game – watch it happen. The Falcons right now want to KILL for him.
kerryb
November 9th, 2009
6:30 pm
GT 70, Probably live in a nicer house than you. And why do you guys assume that everyone that makes a negative comment about Tech is a UGA fan? You think they are the only ones that don’t like you or that you guys are not significant enough for anyone else not to like you. No, I’m a Falcons fan who gets tired of Tech people coming on a blog for the Falcons and think that everyone cares about Tech. Well, we don’t!
collegeballfan
November 9th, 2009
6:33 pm
Smith getting suspended would be one of the all time Falcon moments.
“Ingrid Bergman was not a guy.”
Only one of the most beautiful women who ever lived. Never more beautiful than the Paris scenes in “Casablanca”.
Pi$$onaDawg
November 9th, 2009
6:34 pm
D. Hall wanting to go hand to hand is like Kimbo Slice calling out Ken Shamrock. The age is the deal breaker. Lek Smith pick a same age size player to go at D. Hall and Smith gets to go against D. Hall’s Dad? The now have a RAW show to sell and make money from.
Matt "Choke" Ryan
November 9th, 2009
6:35 pm
Mark – your rookie pick is really living up to the hype
Good smoke screen with the D Hall situation. The real problem is the leadership of the team. I think Smitty was releasing stress, created by the poor play of his guy that IMPERSONATES the quarterback position.
- Ranked 20th in the NFL in passing
- 4 straight games of decling QB RATINGS
- 4 straight games with at least 1 PICK
- 3 out of 4 last games with less than 200 yards passing
- 135 yards passing in last game
- 68, 66, 46 & 81 QB RATINGS last 4 games
If I was the head coach, that would make me have stress
Wasn’t it you guys saying that Turner was too slow and fat and is the reason for Ryan’s decline?
Well Turner has rushed for 317 yards the last 2 games and ranks 7th in the NFL.
The CHOKE is sinking faster than the Titantic – he ranked a Peyton Like 20th in the NFL. 20th? Is that Turner’s fault?
This “New Face” of the franchise is a JOKE and a failure. How can a team expect to reach the Superbowl if your leader is ranked 20th in the NFL.
But then again, he will still have the support of the fan base, because it’s that old saying “Birds of a feather flock together” and this coop has been raided by the Chicken Hawk
This CHUMP is a bigger BUST than even I predicted
Todd - Dacula
November 9th, 2009
6:36 pm
Too bad that Mike Smith is a big fat liar… And you guys praise him for what you condemn players for. His conduct was totally wrong and he should be punished; to glorify him, it tell me what personalities most of you have.
Raider Fan
November 9th, 2009
6:38 pm
FIRST!
Matt "Choke" Ryan
November 9th, 2009
6:38 pm
The American Dream
November 9th, 2009
6:21 pm
Who among us would not like to take a swing at Mark Bradley? I vote to suspend Bradley from ever gracing the pages of the AJC again.
“That’s funny”
But only THUGS like Smitty and Cable hit women and lose their cool under pressure 
MV7
November 9th, 2009
6:39 pm
HI, it’s Mike, y’know? Eagles are saving me up for my big return to the ATL on December 6th. They are going to let me in for twice as many plays – 2 instead of 1. Y’know?
Pi$$onaDawg
November 9th, 2009
6:40 pm
TODD-Dacula you never lied to your wife/ girlfriend? You never said you didn’t do it when your mom asked what wappened? Now what kind of person are you? Tell the TRUTH. You don’t always tell the truth. What kind of character do you know have. i bet you told your kids that there is a Santa Clause too.
kerryb
November 9th, 2009
6:41 pm
Todd, what are you talking about? A liar about what? Are you saying that he is lying and MeAngelo is telling the truth? Your saying that a guy that has been stealing from NFL teams impersonating a good cornerback is telling the truth. Anyone that watched that incident can tell that the idiot came over to the sidelines because he was waiting to bait the Falcons into an incident. The problem is that he got punked out and he can take it. Just like what happened to him in 2007 when Steve Smith punked him out and he could’nt take it. MeAngelo is a Putz!
Matt "Choke" Ryan
November 9th, 2009
6:42 pm
The person that Smitty should hit is the CHOKE because he is the one making Dimitroff, Smitty and the AJC look like fools when they crowned the CHOKE a Peyton Manning like player after going to the playoffs with the 9th EASIEST schedule and CHOKING in the playoffs.
D Hall was just an escape goat for Smitty to take his built up anger on. He couldn’t hit the Franchise qb, but I bet he wants to
It’s not D Hall’s fault, his qb can’t grow a pair and stop this downward decline.
After week 3 he was in the top 5 in passing, then last week to NUMBER 18 and this week to NUMBER 20.
He is sinking faster than the Titantic.
Cairo
November 9th, 2009
6:42 pm
Mark,
I love our football coach and that fired me up in the stands when I saw it. It is not like Coach Smith hide with that pearly white hair. lol.. It is so much better than that cheerleader coach named after his dad that would say, “Fight, fight, fight” instead of getting down and dirty to fight. He has once again won my respect and hopeful his players and the fans’ as well. Don’t won’t a suspension though.
Pi$$onaDawg
November 9th, 2009
6:43 pm
Matt Choke I think MV7 lost his cool and lied to EVERYBODY but his homeboyz. You did see how quick his BOYZ turned on MV7 didn’t you?
Todd - Dacula
November 9th, 2009
6:43 pm
Hey Matt “Choke” Ryan , you are abolutely correct in your assessment of Matt Ryan; he will always be a less that average QB. The talent is just not there and the fans who want, so badly to have a certain type (and I do be racially) QB, will accept all of his flaws and forgo winning to have the face of the team to rememble the old, deep south. Mike Smith epitomize what the management and certain fans what for the Falcons. To them, winning is not an option. Control is…
Matt "Choke" Ryan
November 9th, 2009
6:45 pm
What I meant to say was only “thugs” kill, maim, and torture dogs like my hero Mike Vick, whom I love so much.
Also, I’m pretty sure DeAngelo Hall, whom I also love, probably went out with Mike Vick in Virginia while at VaTech and with the Falcons, and did some of that dog fighting, too.
They probably met up with the only slightly less handsome Marcus Vick, and killed three or four dogs together.
Imagine, a man who refuses to lay out for a tackle has no problem killing and torturing a 50 pound dog.
It just warms my heart thinking of those three great men killing dogs toghether!
I love you Mike Vick!
jerome
November 9th, 2009
6:45 pm
Todd – I agree, D.Hall was wrong and so was the coach. Although I would say that on both part and we already knew this about Hall it’s CHARACTER (as in character flaw). When adversity slap you in the face that C word get you across that bridge.
Todd - Dacula
November 9th, 2009
6:47 pm
Pi$$onaDawg , he lied to DJ Shockley last sean by saying every QB wold start a pres-season game, thus working with the first team. Joey Harrington, redman and Matt all started a Preseason Game. He lied and I am not a Senator from South carolina
… Becaus eof how the Management felt about Mike Vick, DJ di not stand a chance. Mike Smith is a liar and it undisputable…
Bud Flu
November 9th, 2009
6:47 pm
Heck yeah! Smitty going for the jugular.
I’d run thru a brick wall for Mike Smith.
MV7
November 9th, 2009
6:48 pm
Hi, it’s Mike, y’know? Stats don’t lie. I have not fumbled the clipboard once this season. ONCE. Y’know?
Matt "Choke" Ryan
November 9th, 2009
6:48 pm
Oh, along with Vick Supporter 2, Bad News, FALCONS SORRY, bigeasy831, and Matt “Choke” Ryan, you can also find me posting as:
Todd – Dacula.
Todd was the “whitest” name I could think of, because I wanted to try and fool everyone into thinking that there was more racial diversity in the very small (so far, just me and the voices in my head) pocket of Ryan Haters.
Todd sounds white, right?
Matt "Choke" Ryan
November 9th, 2009
6:49 pm
Todd – Dacula
November 9th, 2009
6:43 pm
Hey Matt “Choke” Ryan , you are abolutely correct in your assessment of Matt Ryan;
How can you pass for 135 yards against a horrible team and nobody sees a problem?
You and I both know the answer why.
This CHUMP is a BUST!
MV7
November 9th, 2009
6:49 pm
Almost as white as Matt…
Matt "Choke" Ryan
November 9th, 2009
6:50 pm
Next I’m going to fake a Latino name.
And then possibly an Eastern European name.
Just letting you know!
I love you so much Mike Vick!
Todd - Dacula
November 9th, 2009
6:50 pm
Sorry guys. I’m a pathetic excuse of humanity. I play the race card because I really have nothing else. Life has slipped by me and I hate anyone that has worked hard and is successful. I will slink away in shame now. I shame my entire race.
MWC
November 9th, 2009
6:51 pm
Hey Choke/VS2,
when are you guys getting married?
Todd - Dacula
November 9th, 2009
6:51 pm
Pi$$onaDawg you and the likes of you built this country on a lie and continue to operate that way. You wold rather loose looking white than win looking black… And no, I never lied to my mama, but I sure did lie to yours… Bu I never loved her and no I am not your daddy; go to Maury and find out who he is…
Pi$$onaDawg
November 9th, 2009
6:52 pm
Mark do you like the Spaghetti Westerns? You know when the wrongly beaten scourge returns to town to kill the people that wronged him. Well, I think that is how D. Hall and MV7 fans see themselves. To those fans YOU AIN’T NO Clint Eastwood.
Matt "Choke" Ryan
November 9th, 2009
6:52 pm
I like talking to myself on these blogs, as it is another way of trolling that the AJC refuses to stop, it is so much fun!
So I make up a bunch of fake names and pretend to agree with myself.
I’m so smart, just like the greatest criminal mastermind the world has ever known.
No, not Lex Luthor! Don’t be silly. I’m talking about Mike Vick!
I love you Mike Vick!
Keep it real
November 9th, 2009
6:52 pm
Come on people, this is a brothas league, take away Turner, Norwood, Snelling, Roddy, Abraham & Gonzalez and you have a bunch of Vanilla Ice fans.
Sorry guys, just keeping it real.
Jean Shonay
November 9th, 2009
6:53 pm
Where are the Mike Smith’s a thug comments? Oh, I am sorry y’all only use that word for every black man. Even President Obama is a thug, let y’all tell it. I just had to speak the truth on this one.
Pi$$onaDawg
November 9th, 2009
6:55 pm
I must agree with choke, Matt has had plenty of chances to prove he is NFL material.
He just isn’t what I thought he was.
I have no choice but to agree that he is a choke and a bust maybe.
TechFan
November 9th, 2009
6:55 pm
I wonder what Bobby Petrino would have done in this situation. Probably would have sent a long letter of distaste to Deangelo Hall with his personal signature on it.
kerryb
November 9th, 2009
6:55 pm
You guys can’t tell when idiots come on a blog a try to bait people into an argument? Choke and the rest of them a real Matty Ice fans but they like to stir the pot.
WOW!
November 9th, 2009
6:57 pm
Obama is a thug……HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
You race baiters are just so damn funny!
Tony G
November 9th, 2009
6:57 pm
I’m a brotha?
Jean Shonay
November 9th, 2009
6:57 pm
Actually I’m wrong sorry folks, but I realize that most of you could care less about color. It’s the character and actions of a man that counts, not the color of his skin. MLK taught me that.
BugKiller
November 9th, 2009
6:58 pm
Okay, Jean, explain to me how Mike Smith is a thug?
The first thing you have, proven by YouTube, is Landry and Ryan both walking away from the sideline.
THEN, you have MeAngelo Hall run into the Falcons’ sideline with the express purpose of instigating the situation.
He wasn’t trying to “pull my teammate out,” as he lied. Landry was already gone. Hall was just there to talk a bunch of crap to guys who had enough of his crap two years ago.
Mike Smith ran up to kick that THUG off of his sideline. Hall had no place there. None at all.
What Smith did was well within the rules.
Then you see Hall shove Mike Smith, just like the thug he is, and THAT’s when Smith really goes off, and it takes three Falcons to pull him away before he takes Hall apart.
So again, when exactly did Smith act wrongly?
Methinks you’re looking at this situation through some colored glasses, Ms. Shonay.
MWC
November 9th, 2009
6:59 pm
As much as I hate that choke character, I also gave Matty a lot of benefit of doubt, but the last 4 weeks are very horrible.
I think he is really choking and even though he has not reached complete bust status, he is nothing close to Mike Vick.
Sorry to admit that.
kerryb
November 9th, 2009
6:59 pm
Choke and those guys live in their Mama’s basement and while she is cooking them dinner they go to the blogs and try to p.o. people. On Sunday they are in front of the TV rooting on Matty Ice and love Mike Smith because the Falcons finally have a coach.
mars
November 9th, 2009
6:59 pm
Good call, Mark. As Sherriff Taylor once said of Barbara Eden, “that is definitely not a boy!”
How can anyone knock Smitty for bouncing an opposing player from 10 yards into his on bench area.?
And, oh, Todd-Dacula? I hate to pick out only one thing from your completely incorrect post, but here goes. When have any of us fans had to accept flaws and forgo winning for the sake of the very, very talented Matt Ryan? I only “rememble” doing that when we had Vick at QB. And, by the way, I was a fan of Vick. I did accept his flaws. And they were manifest. Absolutely legendary flaws!