Live from the Dome: I’m back, and so’s the Burner
Slept fast. Went to Mass. Now I’m back downtown, chatting again. Last night was great fun — fine game, unexpected (at least by me) result, much to discuss. Example: Why did Paul Johnson call four consecutive deep passes with the game on the line? We know his stylized offense doesn’t feature the short or intermediate pass, but what about the ol’ option toss? Did PJ bail out — mixed metaphor alert — on his bread and butter?
I wish I could say I had great hope for another great game here at the Dome, but I don’t. I figure the Falcons beat the Bucs by three touchdowns. I figure the Falcons need to beat the Bucs by three touchdowns just to remind themselves they can still be a playoff-caliber team, recent results notwithstanding.
Four losses in five games will have a chilling effect on a franchise and its fans, and traffic around the Dome seemed unusually light around 11:30. (And I was running late.) Can’t imagine there’ll be a full house today, but I’m bad at predictions. Example: Tech 42, Georgia 27.
Wrongheaded though I am, I hope we can make the most of whatever this day brings. The idea is to talk about the Falcons, but we can certainly accommodate the occasional Tech-UGA submission. So I ask once again: Join me, won’t you?
Oh, and this one actual snippet of news: Michael Turner is in uniform and seems to be moving expeditiously in warmups. He’ll play. And Jerious Norwood is no longer among the inactives. That makes for a full house in the backfield, which isn’t the same thing as a full-house backfield. But it’s a most welcome sign.
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Once "Recent" Reader
November 29th, 2009
4:28 pm
Hello Mr. Charlie . .. ..Choke’s alter-ego:)
BugKiller
November 29th, 2009
4:28 pm
Oh my… the mentally retarded people are coming out of the woodwork!
Do your caregivers know so many of y’all are on the computers?
I think it’s dinner time, why don’t y’all put on your bibs! I think it’s pork chop and applesauce night!
Y’all are so great! It’s such a wonderful thing that y’all have learned how to spell and type!
Y’all are such a inspiration to the rest of us who take our normal mental function for granted.
Fanatic overboard
November 29th, 2009
4:28 pm
9-7 is all you need?? LMAO
lamac66
November 29th, 2009
4:28 pm
Redmon earned his money this game.
Mr Charlie
November 29th, 2009
4:29 pm
Hello
Matt "Choke" Ryan
November 29th, 2009
4:29 pm
Chris Redman just made Matt Ryan a better quarterback.
YES HE DID.
Extremus
November 29th, 2009
4:29 pm
This Falcons team deserves more credit than they’ll likely get for this win, solely based on the fact that by now their sideline looks like a M.A.S.H. unit filled with big names. They overcame a lot of adversity, and a win’s a win regardless of the record of the team you’re playing against. I hope that Matt Ryan will be healthy enough to play against the Eagles, and that the O-line will give him enough protection for a change that he’ll be able to do his job. One thing the Vick fans here can’t argue, we’d miss Ryan a heck of a lot more than the Eagles would their bench-warming backup. It’s not going to come down to or prove “who’s the better quarterback”, folks, though I’m sure the media and a lot of local folks will hype it up to do so; it’ll take a TEAM EFFORT to win for either side.
Just like it did today. GO FALCONS!!!!!!
AJC caters
November 29th, 2009
4:29 pm
Will the AJC have nothing but blogs and articles about MV7 all week!?? LMAO Well..duh! Of course they will!
Once "Recent" Reader
November 29th, 2009
4:30 pm
Gotta run . . ..nice win Falcs!!!! Look forward to reading Mr. Charlie’s and Choke’s “monologue” l8r:)
Mr Charlie
November 29th, 2009
4:30 pm
Yea Mark, get ready for a long week of policing the blogs.
ashman
November 29th, 2009
4:30 pm
Way to go Falcons and gut out a win and overcome adversity!
BugKiller
November 29th, 2009
4:30 pm
Look at all the mentally retarded people using computers!
It’s so inspiring, seeing these people use what mental capacity they have to try and talk about football.
Y’all are so great!
Keep on trying! You’re an inspiration to the rest of us!
Matt "Choke" Ryan
November 29th, 2009
4:30 pm
Like I have been saying all along. Redman could have won last season with that weak schedule and Turner the Burner.
Redman just proved my point. He looked more Peyton like than the CHOKE.
The CHOKE is just hype and after the Eagles leave town next week, he will be blaming another teammate for his problems.
When the team needed their leader, he was crying about a freakin toe injury – Stafford lead his team with a separated shoulder and that’s why his teammates respect him for SUCKING IT UP!
“DUMP THE CHUMP”
Mr Charlie
November 29th, 2009
4:30 pm
Take Care.
AJC caters
November 29th, 2009
4:31 pm
Yeah, the only way Chris Redman made Matt Ryan a better quarterback is because Ryan couldn’t add to his interception numbers again this week. Redman is Ryan’s good doppleganger.
playmeortrademe
November 29th, 2009
4:31 pm
Next week is a playoff game.
1) Both Ryan and Turner will return
2) No one will give two s—- about Vick returning except the stupid media. He is irrelevant to that game he will do nothing. He was 0-1 passing with 2 runs for 4 yard against the Redskins. Andy Reid will not use him in an virtual playoff game and waste critical snaps.
3)
Once "Recent" Reader
November 29th, 2009
4:31 pm
Choke . . . .you do drive me nuts quite a bit . . . .but I do have to admit you do crack me up just as often!
Turner the MVP
November 29th, 2009
4:32 pm
Matt “Choke” Ryan
November 29th, 2009
4:30 pm
Like I have been saying all along. Redman could have won last season with that weak schedule and Turner the Burner.
Redman just proved my point. He looked more Peyton like than the CHOKE.
The CHOKE is just hype and after the Eagles leave town next week, he will be blaming another teammate for his problems.
When the team needed their leader, he was crying about a freakin toe injury – Stafford lead his team with a separated shoulder and that’s why his teammates respect him for SUCKING IT UP!
“DUMP THE CHUMP”
Truth.
Mr Charlie
November 29th, 2009
4:33 pm
This game could have been like in 05 and 06 when the Falcons were fading and we played a bad Green Bay team, and a Bad Cleveland team.
However, with the mighty MV7 at QB, we lost both of those and never played another meaningful game either season.
Even Redmon is better than MV7.
Manny
November 29th, 2009
4:33 pm
Didn’t the Falcons lose last week? (I didn’t watch it. I thought that the Falcons were going to lose the game. Perhaps I was wrong.)
Turner > Dunn
November 29th, 2009
4:33 pm
Why were there so many red seats showing up on TV?? I just saw another commercial for Falcon season tickets……………..ROFLMAO Bet there won’t be any empty seats on Dec 6th!
Once "Recent" Reader
November 29th, 2009
4:33 pm
No sucking up here . . .just speaking the truth!!!! I can either cry or laugh . . .I prefer laughing!
Hawkster
November 29th, 2009
4:34 pm
Wow BugKiller, You really are a true biggot. Do you realize that you have been ranting about mentally challenged people for half an hour???
Mr Charlie
November 29th, 2009
4:34 pm
You confuse me with my brother, Whity the Bossman.
"Chef" Tim Dix
November 29th, 2009
4:35 pm
Anyone up for pie?
BugKiller
November 29th, 2009
4:35 pm
Matt “Choke” Ryan
November 29th, 2009
4:29 pm
Chris Redman just made Matt Ryan a better quarterback.
YES HE DID.
No he still sucks!
Matt "Choke" Ryan
November 29th, 2009
4:35 pm
Bugkiller stop talking about Hawkster and the rest of the window lickers. that is not nice, they cannot help themselves.
Mr Charlie
November 29th, 2009
4:35 pm
Just remember in 05 when we were right where we were at the start of the day, fighting for a playoff spot, playing a bad Green Bay team at home. Remember that Choke?
Mr Charlie
November 29th, 2009
4:36 pm
Remember? Remember?
Ryanreallyis#2
November 29th, 2009
4:38 pm
The coaches removed Matt Ryan from the game because he was sucking from the start….that was the best move of the day.
Frank Wren
November 29th, 2009
4:39 pm
Vick was all hype and still is. After prison he has found a spot where he should have been all along.
Holding a clipboard watching the real men play football.
Meanwhile...be back anon Mark?
November 29th, 2009
4:39 pm
Mark you didn’t mean be back anon, as you’ll come back here anonymously?
What am I missing here? Can anybody enlighten me?
Smitty
November 29th, 2009
4:39 pm
To all the Vick fans and Ryan haters………Vick was cool when he was here, but now Ryan is our QB through the good and the bad!! No matter how relevant Vick will be next Sunday, it still will be a story and exciting to have him back in the Dome.
"Chef" Tim Dix
November 29th, 2009
4:39 pm
OC, DC ass kicking coming from HC after he admits in press conference that maybe we looked over TB towards Philly.
Jimmy
November 29th, 2009
4:40 pm
You Ryan haters are morons.
Matt "Choke" Ryan
November 29th, 2009
4:41 pm
Posting as fake bugkiller. Truly desperate. Am i getting to you, posting as fake you?
WANT A BIG SLICE OF CROW PIE? HOW ABOUT GIVE US MV7′S STATS FOR THE YEAR OR SOMETHING? WHAT? NOTHING TO SAY?
Mr Charlie
November 29th, 2009
4:42 pm
In 2005, a 6-2 Falcon team, heading to the playoffs, lost a home game againts a 1-7 Green Bay team, killing their momentum, causing them to finish 8-8 and unable to bread the curse.
Now, who was the QB again?
JSS
November 29th, 2009
4:44 pm
Congrads to the veteran Chris Redman! Showed how to overcome playing with two 2nd string O-linemen. Show how to play, throw, read, and work the team down the field. Showed how trust the something not worthy of trust (Michael Jenkins), and made not just the big throw, but the little ones on a consistent basis… Solid play, solid back-up, way to go… BTW, pray we never have to play John Wilson…
Trainwreck
November 29th, 2009
4:44 pm
Man I did not enjoy sweating that one out… but I’m glad we won… hope the O returns to full strength for next week
erskine martin
November 29th, 2009
4:44 pm
The Falcons lucked this game out. I have been a fan since ‘66 and it just amazes me how many
mistakes one team can make that makes other teams look like world beaters. I am glad we won today although I sure did a lot of “cussing ” as the game went on.
Dennis
November 29th, 2009
4:44 pm
First off ,will someone please tell Blank to stay off the d@m field until after the game is completely over . He make the falcons and their coaches look weak with all those affectionate huge . The falcons are really hurting i understand that ,but I’m beginning to have second though about coach Smith and his coaching team having what it take to get the falcons to the next level in the NFL .The defense should be strapped next year and rebuilt with real men who have heart , i don’t see out there on the field any more from the falcons . Abraham should be the first to go .
Jimmy
November 29th, 2009
4:44 pm
The O Line played horribly today.
Redman is a seven year vet.
He should make reads quicker.
Ryan is still learning NFL defenses.
He has less than two years experience.
He will improve.
Ryan haters are impatient and unreasonable.
Mr Charlie
November 29th, 2009
4:45 pm
Remember, the “Ryan Haters” are just doing it to get under your skin. They are using the ages old strategy to just try and ruin our day. No reason to let them, you know Matty Ice is the real deal.
Bottom line, todays game was a trap game, we got through it. That is all that matters.
BugKiller
November 29th, 2009
4:45 pm
Wow… look at that!
The mentally retarded people learned that they can fake someone else’s name!
Y’all are so great!
It is true what they say: Only mentally retarded people would stick by Vick after everything he did to this city, this team, the fans, and most importantly, those DOGS.
Poor mentally retarded people. They just don’t know any better!
erskine martin
November 29th, 2009
4:46 pm
Dennis, I agree with you 100%. Abraham is lost and I don’t believe he will ever be found.
Mr Charlie
November 29th, 2009
4:47 pm
Erkstein, yea we “lucked out”, but for the last 30 years, how many teams did you see “luck out” against the Falcons? This is a game we lose every time, (like the 05 game against GB). I would rather be lucky than good any day.
Jimmy
November 29th, 2009
4:47 pm
What is our most pressing need this year?
DB?
Defensive end?
Left tackle?
BugKiller
November 29th, 2009
4:47 pm
Wow… look at that!
The mentally retarded people learned that they can fake someone else’s name!
Y’all are so great!
It is true what they say: Only mentally retarded people would stick by Vick after everything he did to this city, this team, the fans, and most importantly, those DOGS.
Poor mentally retarded people. They just don’t know any better!
Keep on trying, you guys! You’re so inspirational!
Mr Charlie
November 29th, 2009
4:48 pm
Bugkiller,
It is funny when somebody steals your handle, take is as a compliment that you won the debate.
Jimmy
November 29th, 2009
4:48 pm
Mr. Charlie,s
I agree. This has traditionally been a Falcons loss.
But we won.
The D found a way to stop them.
The O found a way to score.
I think this team is getting stronger.
Too bad so many of the players will be gone next year.