Falcons

By Dogbyte

January 9, 2009 11:54 AM | Link to this

My reflection is that as a team and an organization they gave us more than we could have ever realistically expected. And I am confident that TD and Coach Smith will keep things positive and moving forward. “Wait ‘til next year” does not have a hollows ring to it, this year.

By Dogbyte

January 9, 2009 11:57 AM | Link to this

Make that “hollow”.

By Ernest

January 9, 2009 12:09 PM | Link to this

If we can get some ‘playmakers’ on defense via the draft and free agency, we’ve got a chance to consistently be a team battling for a playoff slot.

By The Anti-Vick

January 9, 2009 12:16 PM | Link to this

Could not agree with (One) more. The Falcons never got blown out in a year it was expected. In the games The Falcons lost they were still in it til the end. They crushed the bad teams and beat the NFC South opponents at home and won some big games on the road. And it was done with a rookie GM, rookie HC, rookie QB and a lot of other rookies, and a roster that was more than 50% changed from 2007. Michael Turner was the best FA signing of 2008 and the veterans stepped up after the debacle of 2007.

2009 will pose it challenges (mainly the schedule and no one will take the Falcons lightly) but the the light at end of the tunnel has never been brighter for the long run…

By **Frederick (Bailey) Douglass**

January 9, 2009 12:20 PM | Link to this

I like your style D-Led. I agree, THIS is the biggest difference between these Birds and even those during our previous playoff runs with Vick, Dunn and Crumpler: They competed in EVERY game. That in itself was landmark for this franchise. Key moments from 2008-2009:

1) First pass…first touchdown. Was a sign of things to come, for both Matt Ryan and the Detroit Lions. Prescient.

2) Win in Oakland. Was dominant Atlanta Falcon football…when was the last time we said that!?!?

3)Acquisition of Foxy. Changed our entire season. Foxy became the best cover DB on our team.

4) Bungled punt in Philly…we should have known then that this season would be defined by being “almost there”. Like in AZ, I think Ryan would have taken us down the field to win the game. Three CRITICAL plays defined this season: the bungled punt in philly, inability to stop 3rd and 5 in New Orleans on the Saints’s last drive, and Brooking’s brain spasm on 3rd and 16 in AZ. “Almost, close” plays…but this is the NFL, not horse shoes and hand grenades.

5) Big wins at San Diego and Minnesota. Both teams are still playing and at least one will be moving on to next week (in my opinion). We went to both stadiums and won…during the stretch. Testament to the coaching.

Looking forward to off-season decisions about free agents and draft picks. Priorities are: Keeping line coach and offensive coordinator, TE, DL, LB, OL, FS (need a ball hawk).

FBD

By MVP

January 9, 2009 12:21 PM | Link to this

I think Taylor Mays 6’4” 240 4.28 in the forty Safety from USC and Percey “all World” Havin would be great in a Falcons uniform next year, and if we can land Albert Haynesworth or Julius Peppers or both from free agency, that would be great.

By SRF

January 9, 2009 12:31 PM | Link to this

MVP - I agree that those players would fit great - BUT

Remember that we are now picking near the end of the rounds - so most of those ideal picks may be taken.

This draft is really going to test how well the management can find talent…

By mountain_jim

January 9, 2009 12:52 PM | Link to this

Frederick (Bailey) Douglass - I would add another to your critical play list - Roddy’s end-zone drop of Matts 2nd best throw of the year, causing the loss of the home Denver game, which to his credit he owned up to being responsible for the loss. If he had caught that, we might have had a division win and home playoff game without all the noise and non-called offsides and tipped off snap-count that likely caused the fumble that cost the playoff game.

By D.Ellis

January 9, 2009 12:58 PM | Link to this

Great Season by the Falcons! Hands Down a very pleasent surprise and made Sunday’s watching these birds great once again. Hopefully a good off season will reload for another run into the playoffs next year.

By cb

January 9, 2009 1:17 PM | Link to this

@ SRF you are exactly right about us picking at the end (#25 in first rd) of rounds. In the past I would have been skeptical about our chances of finding any useful personnel additions in this situation. However with Dimitroff calling the shots I feel fairly confident that we will improve the roster via the draft this year as witnessed last year. My greatest reflection of this years’ team is also the FACT that they were prepared to play EVERY WEEK and were competitive EVERY WEEK. Once again congrats to the Falcons Organization this year. Thank you. GO FALCONS!!!!

By D. Orlando Ledbetter

January 9, 2009 1:35 PM | Link to this

GREAT Job FDB: Don’t now how I forgot the first pass. That was classic. Forgot about the punt, too.

Mountain_Jim: Critical plays. The Denver drop was near forgivable. It would have been a tough catch. The playoff drop at Arizona was bizarre. Wide open, nobody around drop.

I stayed away from the draft of purpose. I haven’t done much homework on the draft because of the playoff run. Will get up to speed here soon.

If I could add a tie (for numbers four or five), just the sheer terror that QBs must feel knowing that John Abraham is in the neighborhood. That’s another reflection.

By mountain_jim

January 9, 2009 2:03 PM | Link to this

Yes Orlando the Denver drop would have been a really tough catch, but great players need to make that when the games on the line and the ball is there for the taking. Like the catch Arizona (Fitz?) came down with in the playoff game with 2 Falcons all over him.

By **Frederick (Bailey) Douglass**

January 9, 2009 2:04 PM | Link to this

No doubt…Abe was certainly a terror this year. Did his best to stay healthy too, which is a compliment to him and the coaching staff (again).

Check: Minnesota got handled by Philly, so they are gone (shows how much football I’ve watched since our loss). Either way, we hit the road and beat two playoff teams late in the season when we all were pushing for playoff spots.

The Denver drop was crucial Mountain_Jim, but I’m with D-Led, it was an extremely tough catch. Heck of a throw though…it was like he willed the ball to the precise spot. I think the kid has some “Comeback Joe” in him…which is why I think he would have led us to victory in philly, NO and AZ given the opportunity.

By Chris

January 9, 2009 2:08 PM | Link to this

Fred Douglass Agree with most of your choices, especially the first pass, which just sent chills up my spine. Loved the domination of the Raiders. Win at SD was huge.

However, you may not have heard but Minnesota will not be playing this weekend.

By Mike in Montgomery

January 9, 2009 2:14 PM | Link to this

As a homer type, I would not mind seeing the name Mohammed Massaquoi pop up for the Falcons in the later rounds of the draft.

As for early round picks, there is a good chance of Harvin being there late in the first round if he declares, although I think the Falcons need to be looking for a good play-making LB or big hitting FS in the first round. Don’t really know if any stud lineman will be still on the board at 25, but there might be some good bargain OL or DL in the 2nd or 3rd.

Would love to see Andre Smith in the Black and Red, but to get him the Falcons would have to give up way too much to move up to #1 or 2.

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 9, 2009 2:22 PM | Link to this

Pro Bowlers are supposed to make extremely tough catches.

The Denver game drop and the poorly run route that resulted in an interception in the Philly game… either one could have given the Falcons a first round bye if they had been properly executed.

The Falcons could use a Hines Ward/TJ Houshmandzadeh/Wes Welker type opposite Roddy White — a guy who runs precise routes and catches everything thrown to him, two things White is still unable to do.

By Lance

January 9, 2009 2:33 PM | Link to this

How about Mike Smith getting in the face of the TB player when he stepped on to our sideline? That was classic…

By Mac

January 9, 2009 3:08 PM | Link to this

I’m left with the satisfaction of knowing my favorite team since childhood reached a level of competence we’ve seldom seen. The way they built a better-than-average team gives me great confidence they are only going to get better. This is a solid group from the owner on down.

By Mac

January 9, 2009 3:15 PM | Link to this

One more thing. He doesn’t get enough credit, but Michael Koenen is great. Often his kickoffs don’t get returned and his punts have great hang time to help the coverage snuff the returns. We need to pay that guy.

By Poor McKay

January 9, 2009 3:25 PM | Link to this

Sam Baker (before the injury) keeping EVERYONE off of Ryan. And Clabo/Dahl looking to commit several felony crimes at the end of every whistle. You’ve got to love those “big uglys”.

And Jamaal’s push-ups after his first (and only?) sack.

By bali

January 9, 2009 3:44 PM | Link to this

what a good article. The falcons season was great.Just the way the whole season went was tremendous.How many more weeks before the preseason games begin. Now I get to watch the Hawks and what is left of the Braves., but i don t believe I will be a happy sports fan until the 2009 fooball season kicks off

By The Anti-Vick

January 9, 2009 4:00 PM | Link to this

More positives. This just in: Michael Turner made first team All-Pro and Abe made second team. Congrats!

http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d80dfd4f6&template=with-video&confirm=true

By Uga+Robert Baker=BFF

January 9, 2009 4:04 PM | Link to this

1) Ryan’s 1st career pass/TD pass

2) Beautiful BOMB thrown by Ryan to White against K.C.

3) Going into Green Bay and leaving with a W

4) 11 seconds to victory

5) Jenkins beating D. Hall for a TD(classic)

6) Jenkins beating D. Hall for a TD (yeah, it was that good)

7) Defense steps up against N.O.

8) Beat down against Carolina

9) Win versus Bucs strenghtens playoff hopes

10) Beat Vikings on the road to clinch playoffs

By Reno 911

January 9, 2009 4:20 PM | Link to this

Mac- totally agree on Michael Koenen. Lest we forget that one of the keys to the Falcon’s staying in games with every opponent despite a marginal defense was our Punt coverage, which set an NFL record with fewest return yards allowed. 18-32 teams a year, since, oh, they started playing in the 1930’s. That’s a lot of punt coverage teams, NONE better than this one. And it all starts with having a punter who can (and consistently does) hang it 4+, sometimes 5 seconds. Nice work, Koenen, and nice work coverage guys. One of the “little things” that will never get on sportscenter or deion’s highlights, but wins games. Unfortunately, like a bad long snapper, for example, it’s a thing you only notice it if it’s killing you. But one of the things that championship teams do.

By To Dawgs

January 9, 2009 4:26 PM | Link to this

In the playoff game with Arizona the Falcons got dominated.Ya’ll must have sean a differant game than me.

By Uga+Robert Baker=BFF

January 9, 2009 4:27 PM | Link to this

Najeh Davenpoop: I agree with you on pro bowlers making the tough catch. Did you notice that most of Ryan’s INT’s came while throwing to Roddy. I’m not saying it’s Roddy’s fault because Ryan did make some bad throws(fade route in the end zone and the fly route in the playoffs). Roddy doesn’t run the best of routes(Phi game as you mentioned)and he doesn’t fight for the ball either. Heck of a talent, but he along with Ryan have some work to do in the off-season.

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 9, 2009 4:28 PM | Link to this

To add to what I said earlier, Jenkins needs to go. I love my birds (not as much as my Panthers, ya heard) and I can tell for reals that Mushin Mo up in the Carolinas would be another good addition. Look at what he did for my Panthers this season.

By To Dawgs

January 9, 2009 4:29 PM | Link to this

In the playoff game with Arizona the Falcons got dominated.Ya’ll must have sean a differant game than me.

By Reno 911

January 9, 2009 4:32 PM | Link to this

Without a doubt, for me at least, the final 11 seconds of “no-way-that-just-happened” football against the bears was the best memory of the season. It ranks right up there with the Bartkoski and BJ Tolliver hail marys as best Falcon’s last second miracles of all time.

By Reno 911

January 9, 2009 4:33 PM | Link to this

make that BartkoWski

By Great Falconi

January 9, 2009 4:49 PM | Link to this

Jenkins is a good receiver. He showed a nice pair of hands this year. I expect him to continue to get better with Matt Ryan back there. Harry Douglas should also be better with a season under his belt. It’s kind of hard to knock Roddy White after he’s posted back-to-back 1200-yard-plus seasons. He had a very strong year and is a deserving Pro Bowler.

A talented tight end would go a long way toward opening up the field a bit.

By the way, you sure are picky about a team that you allegedly had forsaken for the Jags, Najeh.

(Hahahaha.)

By The Anti-Vick

January 9, 2009 5:13 PM | Link to this

To add to above Jenkins beating MeAngelo for a TD…

11) MeAngelo getting cut by the Raiders after the Falcons game debacle.

Do not pass Go. Do not collect your entire signing bonus.

By The Whole truth

January 9, 2009 5:16 PM | Link to this

I can already hear the same kind of crying that is going on about Smoltz continuing when the Falcons do the RIGHT thing and release Brooking. But anyone who watched the play when the Cardinals converted 4th and a mile with the game on the line, knows that it is time. He can still tackle but he can’t cover. In the NFL a LB must be able to do both…well.

By falcon21

January 9, 2009 5:17 PM | Link to this

Falcons making playoffs “great”. no vs or vs2 blogging “priceless”

By falcon 2 tha nite

January 9, 2009 5:20 PM | Link to this

Najeh, How can you be a falcon fan and a panther fan? Seems meesed up to me…

By The Whole truth

January 9, 2009 5:25 PM | Link to this

Najeh likes the Falcons. Davenpooplikes the Panthers. Seems simple enough to me.

By SFC Brent Bagley

January 9, 2009 5:29 PM | Link to this

The Falcons gave us a season to remember. Now it’s time to break that consecutive winning season noose and continue the ‘process’ I truly believe the best is yet to come for this franchise.

By SC

January 9, 2009 5:41 PM | Link to this

How about Matt Ryan in the film room the day after the last game of the season?

By littlebird

January 9, 2009 5:48 PM | Link to this

1. The hiring of Thomas D. 2.The hiring of Coach Smith
2. The entire coaching staff put together
3. The cleansing of the me-boys from the roster
4. The drafting of Matt Ryan
5. The signing of Michael Turner
6. The rookie class
7. Preseason mindset of the “new” team
8. Detroit pass set the momentum for the season
9. 11 seconds of the Bear game
10. Winning in the dome
11. The whole team’s performance all year

By falcon21

January 9, 2009 5:58 PM | Link to this

Thats why Matt had such a good season, he has a great work habit.Our other hero QB, I forget his name had no work habit.

By The Anti-Vick

January 9, 2009 6:08 PM | Link to this

Now he just has work duty…

By Gray Mule

January 9, 2009 6:14 PM | Link to this

1-Overcoming 1-15 projected record. 2-First NFL pass = TD. 3-11 SECOND “comeback” win vs Bears. 4-Making the playoffs. 5-Terrible Offensive line coming thru. 6-Great draft. 7.Great free agent signing. 8-Great coach & staff & GM. 9-QB is rookie of the year. 10-great opportunity to have back-to-back winning seasons for the first time - ever.

Pretty nice list, don’t you think.

Gray Mule

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 9, 2009 6:14 PM | Link to this

The only message I posted so far was at 2:22 PM.

I don’t know which bored basement-dwelling individual is jacking my screen name at 4:28 PM, but perhaps they can find some more constructive way to spend their time. Like, I don’t know, jacking off?

Never been a Panthers fan, never will be. Falconi, I still live in Atlanta which means I still get Falcons games on TV, so it’s not like I don’t watch the team. Doesn’t mean I root for them or care whether or not they win.

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 9, 2009 6:19 PM | Link to this

Since the AJC makes us type in an email address when posting, it would be nice if they kept that address on file and only let you post under a certain screen name if the email you enter matched the one on file. Just a suggestion.

By falcon21

January 9, 2009 6:19 PM | Link to this

Oh yeah, now I remember. Thanks A-V.

By Ross

January 9, 2009 6:50 PM | Link to this

I’m sort of relieved - now I can root for Kurt Warner for real :)

Football is a game - so we had 18 weeks of fun instead of 19 - I’m not greedy. It’ll make next year that much more fun. I’m telling you, going deep in the playoffs has drawbacks. Even if you win the Bowl, and we did in St. Louis, the next season is a terrible monkey on your back when you just have gone from suckage to rulage. The Pittsburghs and the New Englands need the postseason - and someday we might - but for now, we had a great run and I think it ended at the right time - and we lost to good guys, not the Bucs or the Panzers or the ‘Queens.

How long is it to training camp?

-drl

By row3

January 9, 2009 6:53 PM | Link to this

Best Falcons memory from 2009

Walking in the dome on Sunday with my head held high, knowing we’re going to compete and play hard for 60 mins. 7-1 at home. Teams will fear playing here now, no more home games for the visiting teams. The lack of opposing fans at our house will be something I will always remember.

By Longtimebirdfan

January 9, 2009 7:09 PM | Link to this

Wow! All I can say is the Falcons far exceeded my expectations this year. It was fun…Of course I wanted to see them beat the Cards but it seemed like they had our number. That happens to even the best teams. I think we need to work on our defense. It seemed like we had too many games where mediocre teams were close to beating us.
I loved how confidet Matty Ice was….So impressive….I also really enjoyed The Burner Turner….I’ll do my best to try and see them in the dome next season!

By The Whole truth

January 9, 2009 7:11 PM | Link to this

Najeh Davenpoop says: “Since the AJC makes us type in an email address when posting, it would be nice if they kept that address on file and only let you post under a certain screen name if the email you enter matched the one on file. Just a suggestion.”

Najeh- This has been suggested over and over. It won’t work without hiring more people for oversight. If your “suggestion” is due to my attempt at “humor”, I withdraw it and will make no more comments that relate to you.

By Joe

January 9, 2009 7:24 PM | Link to this

how about the rainbow TD pass to Roddy White in the kansas city game at the dome? that was a heck of a throw

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 9, 2009 7:28 PM | Link to this

The Whole Truth No worries. Just a couple guys talking, ya know. Just tired of people coming on here jacked up. I mean, I am a Charlotte guy, but living in Atlanta makes it convient now to root on my Falcons…

By Mel in Midtown

January 9, 2009 7:30 PM | Link to this

Now, if we can just keep AB in the owner’s box!

By The Whole truth

January 9, 2009 7:38 PM | Link to this

Still Najeh, I DO change screen names depending on my mood. Normally, no harm—no foul. But, I don’t know you well enough to be inserting myself in to an exchange between you and ???. I will not do so in the future.

Now, not to be arse kissin’: I enjoy your posts. You know some football.

By falcon21

January 9, 2009 7:41 PM | Link to this

AB owns the team.Going to the sidelines with 3 minutes left really cost the Falcons some games . Get real.

By Are you sh--ing me?!

January 9, 2009 7:46 PM | Link to this

Arthur Blank going to the sidelines has cost the Falcons some games?? YOU get real!

By falcon21

January 9, 2009 7:52 PM | Link to this

Yeah I guess AB was out of position on that 3rd and 16 play. You got me. My bad!!!

By Are you sh--ing me?!

January 9, 2009 7:59 PM | Link to this

KB, not AB, was out of position on that 3rd and 16 play. But, you’re right. Your bad!!!

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 9, 2009 7:59 PM | Link to this

The Whole Truth Thanks dude. THough I don’t want to change my screen name. its shows my wit, yo.

By falcon21

January 9, 2009 8:07 PM | Link to this

If AB was in the owner’s box that would not have happened would it.GOSH you are smart.You should be a GM.Thats funny as he#%.

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 9, 2009 8:19 PM | Link to this

“Najeh- This has been suggested over and over. It won’t work without hiring more people for oversight. If your “suggestion” is due to my attempt at “humor”, I withdraw it and will make no more comments that relate to you.”

Nah, my “suggestion” wasn’t addressed at you. It was just addressed at the general fact that someone is jacking my screen name. This is my first post since 6:19 PM and probably my last one today.

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 9, 2009 8:39 PM | Link to this

Stop and get a life. That 8:19 post was that basement garbage.

By Eric C.

January 9, 2009 9:39 PM | Link to this

It has been a strange week…definitely some withdrawl symptoms for me. The Falcons were supposed to win last week…no doubt about it. So the glass is still half empty from my perspective.

My last reflections on the season were seeing a hobbled Milloy get burned twice for TDs, watching a broken hand-off get returned for a TD, seeing Turner get stuffed for 42 yds, noticing the under-utilization of Norwood, watching Ryan throw 2 bad picks, and agonizing over Brooking’s poor defense on the blown 3rd and 16 play.

Taking a look at the big picture, it was still a very gratifying season and getting the first back-to-back winning seasons looks to be in reach. But the schedule will be tougher so a 10-6 record and another wild card berth may be the best we can hope for.

By Westside J.

January 9, 2009 9:42 PM | Link to this

We need to give ODB or FBD his own DAMN BLOG! Good job Folk. I know DOL is your Dog but dont let him off the hook on #56. Anyone who knows football knows that the next play is the most important play. Our Falcons should be playing this weekend. Tons of mistakes in that game Sat. 3rd and 16 was the most important because we still had a chance. In the coming reports we need insight as to what our GM plan to do with the LBs. This aint no kissin contest. Ask the braintrust up there at the Branch some tough questions.

By Westside J.

January 9, 2009 9:43 PM | Link to this

We need to give ODB or FBD his own DAMN BLOG! Good job Folk. I know DOL is your Dog but dont let him off the hook on #56. Anyone who knows football knows that the next play is the most important play. Our Falcons should be playing this weekend. Tons of mistakes in that game Sat. 3rd and 16 was the most important because we still had a chance. In the coming reports we need insight as to what our GM plan to do with the LBs. This aint no kissin contest. Ask the braintrust up there at the Branch some tough questions.

By "Charles", The Original

January 9, 2009 10:10 PM | Link to this

Congratulations to the Arizona Cardinals as they defeated the Atlanta Falcons 30-24 last Saturday in the first round of the playoffs. As I said last Friday, I thought Saturday’s game against the Arizona Cardinals would be decided primarily by turnovers; and it was. After the Falcons turned the football over four times in games on three previous occasions and overcoming the mistakes to prevail, I thought it was about time for other teams to show that they have the stuff it takes to win games under adverse conditions. But unfortunately, the offenders once again were the Atlanta Falcons; and the law of averages with respect to turnovers caught up with us which ultimately sealed our team’s fate.

Looking back at the entirety of season is breathtaking. There are two moments of great anticipation that gives us pause. The Atlanta Falcons @ Lincoln Financial Field is the first and the second one was @ the University of Phoenix Stadium. The stage had been set. The score was 20-14, Eagles. With 2:22 seconds remaining in the game, the Falcons had the football on the minus forty five yard line. Everyone was filled with anticipation as Matt Ryan had an opportunity to lead the Falcons on a game winning drive, 21-20 Falcons…But it didn’t materialize. Although the Falcons had the Eagles down for the kill, officials of the Audubon Society, charged with the preservation of the bald eagle chased the falcons away, and the eagles escaped an almost certain demise.

The second moment of anticipation for people in my circle happened to be the last game of the year. The stage was set. The Arizona Cardinals had the football on the Falcons’ forty eight yard-line, score 30-24, Cardinals. It was third down and sixteen yards to go for a first down. A stop by the Falcons’ defense would give Matt Ryan and the Falcons the football with two minutes remaining on the clock, and the opportunity to drive the team down field for a game winning score, 31-30, Atlanta. But it didn’t materialize; the Arizona Cardinals converted the third down play which ended the NFL season for the Falcons and for me and many of my associates. We are Atlanta Falcons’ fans…

The word is out that the Falcons’ brain trust is already at work preparing for next season. And I’m looking ahead as well. As the Process continues, look for the Atlanta Falcons to win 13 games next year and lose 3 during the regular season. It’s obvious I was a little premature this season, but next season in the playoff, you might as well strike up the band again- and ah 1 and ah 2 and ah 3 and ah - when you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are, anything you heart desires will come to you – Matt Ryan, you and the Atlanta Falcons just won the Super bowl. What are you going to do next? “I’m going to Disney World!”

Have a happy New Year Falcons’ fans. And I’ll see you on down the road; God willing.

By Eric C.

January 9, 2009 10:13 PM | Link to this

Najeh,

I remember really hoping the Falcons would land Mushin back before he went to Chicago…thought the Falcons receivers could really benefit from his leadership and he has great play-making ability. I’d still love to see him in a Falcon uniform, but his years are numbered now.

By Eric C.

January 9, 2009 10:17 PM | Link to this

Sorry…that is Muhsin, not Mushin.

By Henry V111

January 9, 2009 10:23 PM | Link to this

AB has 555 million reasons why he should go o the sidelines if he wants. That idiot John Kincaide started that crap, and a lot of idiots piled on. It is like the other little man on 680 called Perry who started this crap on the Braves vs Smoltz. AB keep going to the sideline, and Braves improve the rotation.

By Vick Supporter

January 9, 2009 10:59 PM | Link to this

January 20th, 2009………….

By KS

January 10, 2009 12:18 AM | Link to this

I see that VS is goin continue to pound his pud till Jan 20….LAMAO!!!

By Vick Supporter

January 10, 2009 12:44 AM | Link to this

@KS

You’re correct. I bet whoever Vick plays for, they will be better than the Falcons.

By eb

January 10, 2009 12:53 AM | Link to this

First of all, Vick won’t play again. Secondly, many things to be happy with and hopeful for with the Falcons. But we all know if that was them facing Carolina tomorrow, Falcons would put up a bigger fight than the soft Cardinals.

By Dixie Dawg

January 10, 2009 1:11 AM | Link to this

good Lord, I come over here to see what’s up on the football side of things, and lo and behold…Vick is still being talked about…

Jeesh…

By Vick Supporter

January 10, 2009 3:13 AM | Link to this

Free Mike Vick B!#*hes

By Crabkilla

January 10, 2009 6:01 AM | Link to this

Beating the Charlotte Kittens in the dome. I just wish we got a game 3 in the playoffs. I hate that expansion team and all of its spineless jellyfish bandwagon fans. I often wonder where their loyalty was before 1995.

By Crabkilla

January 10, 2009 6:10 AM | Link to this

Mike Vick is a stupid turk just like Terrell Owens and Pacman Jones.

By Sly Ty

January 10, 2009 7:37 AM | Link to this

My reflection, is easy, my anger at Matt Ryan being taken instead of Glenn Dorsey, and how stupid I was in wanting Dorsey instead of the Iceman. I had hoped that we could win as “MANY AS 4 OR 5 GAMES” to start the season, but I am so greatful to the Atlanta Falcons Organization for putting together this outstanding FOOTBALL TEAM. Honestly, I am not unhappy about us not being in the playoffs, we will be back.

By bigeasy830

January 10, 2009 9:16 AM | Link to this

The biggest reflection is your QB weakness was exposed by Tampa and he struggled the last 3 weeks of the regular season and the plyy-off game. The fans keep screaming “we need defense”, but continuosly want to draft offensive players. The Matt Ryan will struggle next season, he has a weak arm and teams have seen enough film to defense that college offese that was installed for him. You should have drafted Dorsey then Flacco. I said it at draft time last year and I still say it now. I would have also been happy with Dorsey and Chad Henne. The Falcons lied to Redman to get him to stay in Atlanta. The Falocns will win no more tha 5 games next year against a tougher schedule. I remember fans saying, “why even let a team from the NFC west in the play-offs”. Well that team kicked your teams butt.

Falcons, The Cleveland Browns OF 2009!!

By D. Orlando Ledbetter

January 10, 2009 9:35 AM | Link to this

Dixie Dawg: I’ve come to realize that there’s always a Vick discussion on the blog. JUST NEED the majority to stay on the topic, which is “Reflections on Falcons’ playoff run.”

BTW, I can tell the digital to shut it down when things get out of hand AND I figured out how to delete comments that are border line hate speech. Determined to make this a FOOTBALL BLOG, with hopefully, some meaninful Vick discussions.

Off to the softball practice. Will check back in later during the games.

By The Anti-Vick

January 10, 2009 10:12 AM | Link to this

Focusing on the positive… congrats to Michael Turner for making first team All-Pro! Best FA signing of 2008. And congrats to Abe for making second team.

And for all the shoulda, coulda, wouldas out there here is the positive for who we don’t have (anymore)…

From Don Banks of SI.com, 2008 All-Disappointing Team:

For those of you who wanted to draft Glenn Dorsey: Glenn Dorsey, Chiefs — Dorsey was expected to be a play-making force for Kansas City this season, but the No. 5 overall pick barely registered on the impact radar screen. His season totals of one sack, one forced fumble, and one pass defensed used to be a good quarter for him at LSU. What happened to all that explosiveness that we saw from him as a Tiger?

For those of you who wanted to draft Darren McFadden: Darren McFadden, Raiders — We thought about just retiring this position in Larry Johnson’s honor — the Chiefs running back was our pick in 2007 — but at least L.J. led his team in rushing. As opposed to the over-hyped McFadden, who was billed as the next Adrian Peterson but wound up a distant second on the Raiders rushing charts behind Justin Fargas, and just ahead of the late-charging Michael Bush.

For those of you who whined when MeAngelo was traded: DeAngelo Hall, Raiders/Redskins — The mind boggles at the fact Oakland gave Atlanta second- and fifth-round picks for Hall last offseason, and then handed him a seven-year, $70 million contract that included $24.5 million of guarantees. He got torched so routinely this season that the Raiders released him after just eight games, for which he was paid $8 million. He then signed with the Redskins and resumed his underachieving ways.

Now if we can just unload someone else for some draft picks and cash that is owed in return…

By The Whole truth

January 10, 2009 11:35 AM | Link to this

MV was not mentioned on this particular blog until the “Anti-Vicks” brought him up. Just let it go and it will go.

By The Tower of Power

January 10, 2009 11:42 AM | Link to this

The Anti-Vick makes a GREAT point with his reference to the most disappointing players in the NFL, as determined by Don Banks of SI.

The fact that so many of the “experts” who post on these blogs wanted to draft Dorsey and keep Hall shows how incredibly ignorant some folks in “da ATL” are.

More than likely, the buffoons who whined and sniveled for Dorsey and Hall are the same clowns who continue to mourn the absence of the conVICKted felon and truly despicable human being who once disgraced the uniform of the Atlanta Falcons.

By The Whole truth

January 10, 2009 11:48 AM | Link to this

Way to let it go, Tower of Babel.

By Dogbyte

January 10, 2009 11:58 AM | Link to this

I don’t think it is unfair to say wait and see what TD and Coach Smith accomplish this off-season(FA and Draft)before calling them the greatest thing since sliced pumpernickel. I personally think they are, but operating from the lower end(vs top end)of the pack is going to be more difficult. That 2nd round pick from the Raiders will help, however. Will AB keep the purse strings open to compete in the FA market? I think so.

By The Anti-Vick

January 10, 2009 12:00 PM | Link to this

Wrong! And The Whole Truth is far from it. Start from the top…

By Nuttin' but the truth

January 10, 2009 12:06 PM | Link to this

Don’t you “Anti-Vicks” realize that you are just as boring as the “Pro-Vicks”? Apparently not.

By The Anti-Vick

January 10, 2009 12:15 PM | Link to this

I provide positive input about the Falcons and provide a fair and balanced counterpoint to the Vick supporters only when provoked…

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 1:14 PM | Link to this

MICHAEL TURNER & JOHN ABRAHAM

————CONGRATULATIONS————

MAKING THE ALL PRO TEAM SHOWS LOTS TALENT AND GETTING THE JOB DONE……

———-LEAF NOWHERE ON THE LIST———

BUSTS DON’T MAKE “ALL-PRO”

———-DON’T FORGET————

WATCH THE “TRUE” ROY THIS WEEKEND:)

By The Anti-Vick

January 10, 2009 1:24 PM | Link to this

SO THAT WOULD MAKE YOUR HERO A BUST SINCE HE WAS NEVER ALL-PRO…

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 1:27 PM | Link to this

JOE FLACCO

——STILL IN THE PLAYOFFS——- \

IS HE A ROOKIE TOO?

——-OH WAIT——— \

HE CAN’T READ DEFENSES EITHER :)

By The Anti-Vick

January 10, 2009 1:31 PM | Link to this

APPARENTLY NOT AFTER THROWING 9-23 LAST WEEKEND…

By Nuttin' but the truth

January 10, 2009 2:43 PM | Link to this

There went the neighborhood.

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 10, 2009 3:03 PM | Link to this

I wonder whether this Don Banks had Mario Williams on his 2006 All-Disappointment Team.

Probably, considering that Williams had a mediocre rookie season while Reggie Bush had nearly 1500 total yards and Vince Young took over after an 0-5 start and nearly led his team to the playoffs.

Funny how that worked out.

Oh yeah, and what about those of us who wanted to trade down, accumulate extra draft picks, select 2nd team All-Pro offensive tackle Ryan Clady in the first round and a QB in the 2nd round?

By The Anti-Vick

January 10, 2009 3:03 PM | Link to this

Just here to provide balance. Conversely, if the Falcons had the Ravens D certain people would say their success is only due to the D and he has nothing to do with it.

Matt Ryan. The Present. The Future. Deal with it.

By The Anti-Vick

January 10, 2009 3:12 PM | Link to this

Banks only started All-Disappointment team in 2007. And you’re right about Mario Williams. Too bad it cost the Texans GM his job. Just wish J Anderson would have done the same thing in his second year. Curious to know which QB you wanted in the 2nd round - it seems a lot of people were calling for Brian Brohm. Now talk about someone who could end up being a bust…

By So help me...

January 10, 2009 3:19 PM | Link to this

JANUARY 20TH No that is not “redemption”, that is when I start my vacation. I’m going to the Caribbean. Eat your hearts out!

By Pun 706

January 10, 2009 4:41 PM | Link to this

I think that a “God Fearing” Christian who gets arrested soliciting an undercover cop and having his FATHER IN LAW bail him outta jail the NIGHT BEFORE THE SUPERBOWL disgraced the Falcons more than ANY ATHLETE to date.

By The Anti-Vick

January 10, 2009 5:00 PM | Link to this

He’s definitely my least favorite. We would have won the SB if not for him.

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 10, 2009 5:23 PM | Link to this

You’re right, I was referring to Brohm… considering he has not seen any NFL action yet, it’s way too soon to tell what kind of career he will have, but I think if/when he gets his chance he will prove himself. Of course, I have no way of backing that up right now, so I can only wait and see.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 5:32 PM | Link to this

CRUNCH TIME PERFORMANCE

——-LAST 4 GAMES———

INTERCEPTIONS……..6

FUMBLES……..4

SAFETY………1

GUESS WHO THAT IS :)

By D. Orlando Ledbetter

January 10, 2009 5:44 PM | Link to this

What’s going on in the first game? I’m at this meeting and it’s running long. About to walk out so I can watch some of today’s games.

By The Anti-Vick

January 10, 2009 5:46 PM | Link to this

LAST 33 GAMES

INTERCEPTIONS…..0

FUMBLES…..0

TDS…..0

GUESS WHO THAT IS?

By So help me...

January 10, 2009 5:50 PM | Link to this

10 - 6

Playoffs

ROY

Falcon’s QB for the next decade

*Guess who that is *

In jail and bankrupt. Guess who that is :)

By The Anti-Vick

January 10, 2009 5:51 PM | Link to this

I thought Brohm looked promising too but I heard the knock on him is his attitude. Some compared him to Jeff George - great talent, lousy teammate. I’m sure Bobby “Mr. Warm and Fuzzy” Petrino had some influence on that.

GAME UPDATE: 7 - 7. Titans driving with less than 2 minutes in first half.

By The Anti-Vick

January 10, 2009 5:55 PM | Link to this

10-6? Give them some credit… 11-5!

Matt Ryan. The Present. The Future. DEAL WITH IT.

By So help me...

January 10, 2009 6:01 PM | Link to this

11 - 6 We were both wrong. But not as wrong as you know who.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 6:02 PM | Link to this

Latest News

CBSSports.com TSX STATS LLC Headlines

M. Ryan struggles in playoff game: Falcons rookie QB Matt Ryan opened the regular season by throwing for a touchdown on his first pass. He opened the playoffs with an interception. For the first time this season, Ryan looked like a rookie. And it came at the worst possible time for the Falcons in a 30-24 loss to the Cardinals in a Wild Card playoff game on Saturday. “I don’t think it was nerves or anything like that,” Ryan said. “It was just a poor throw, a poor decision. The guy (Ralph Brown) made a good play. In games like this, hopefully we’re in them in the future, you can’t make those kind of mistakes.” Ryan finished 26-of-40 passing for 199 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions. He also lost a fumble on a handoff. (Updated 01/04/2009).

Injury Report No information available at this time (Updated 1/10/09).

Fantasy Analysis Ryan had one of the most useful Fantasy seasons by a rookie quarterback in recent memory, topping 200 yards passing nine times and throwing more touchdowns (16) than interceptions (11). He clearly has a bright future and will likely progress enough next season to serve as a high-end No. 2 Fantasy QB if not a low-end No. 1. Think of him as somewhat of a sleeper. (Updated 01/04/2009).
QB Matt Ryan has thrown six interceptions over the last five games, including two against the Rams. He also threw a few high passes and missed wide receiver Michael Jenkins on a route in the end zone. But coach Mike Smith doesn’t sense that Ryan’s arm is getting tired. “It’s a long season for everybody, but I see no evidence whatsoever,” Smith said. “He threw the big long ball to Michael Jenkins. I don’t see anything different than what I saw from the first day that he walked on in terms of arm strength.” Ryan started 16 games and completed 265 of 434 passes for 3,440 yards, 16 touchdowns and 11 interceptions for an 87.7 passer rating. He led the Falcons to a 7-1 home record and totaled a career-high with 315 passing yards against New Orleans in Week 14 12/31/2008 Ryan was 26-of-40 for 199 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions in Atlanta’s playoff loss to the Cardinals on Saturday. 01/04/2009 Advice He also was tackled in the end zone for a safety and fumbled the ball on a handoff. It was a disappointing game for Ryan, the AP Offensive Rookie of the Year, who had an outstanding regular season, leading the Falcons back to the playoffs with an 11-5 record after going 4-12 last season. M. Ryan struggles in playoff game: Falcons rookie QB Matt Ryan opened the regular season by throwing for a touchdown on his first pass. He opened the playoffs with an interception. For the first time this season, Ryan looked like a rookie. And it came at the worst possible time for the Falcons in a 30-24 loss to the Cardinals in a Wild Card playoff game on Saturday. “I don’t think it was nerves or anything like that,” Ryan said. “It was just a poor throw, a poor decision. The guy (Ralph Brown) made a good play. In games like this, hopefully we’re in them in the future, you can’t make those kind of mistakes.” Ryan finished 26-of-40 passing for 199 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions. He also lost a fumble on a handoff. (Updated 01/04/2009).

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 6:32 PM | Link to this

WHO IS THIS GUY?

12-5

WON 1ST PLAYOFF GAME

ONLY COST 30-MILLION

NO PRO BOWL RECEIVERS

NO PRO BOWL BACKS

——-NOT A BUST——-

OH DARN IT’S FLACCO :)

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 6:40 PM | Link to this

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED

Atlanta rookie Matt Ryan was intercepted twice, tackled in the end zone for a safety and fumbled the ball away on a botched handoff that the Cardinals returned for a momentum-swinging touchdown.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0901/nfl.playoffs.wild.card/content.3.html

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 10, 2009 6:50 PM | Link to this

This Titans-Ravens game has been really strange… usually when a team controls the line of scrimmage as well as the Titans have done all game, they will be up by two or three scores, but the Titans have allowed the Ravens to hang around. Usually good teams like the Ravens take advantage of such situations.

As far as the Flacco/Ryan comparisons… Flacco is bigger, stronger, more mobile and throws a better deep ball, but Ryan does a better job making his reads quickly and getting rid of the ball on time. I guess it depends on what you value more on a QB… Flacco has more pure playmaking ability, but Ryan is more likely to maintain rhythm and timing with his receivers. Clearly the Falcons and Ravens have shown this year that you can win with either one. Of course, as each player develops their strengths and weaknesses could change.

By crabapplejoe

January 10, 2009 6:52 PM | Link to this

I just want to thank Jockstrap 2 for using the same style/format for his posts….it makes it so much easier to just keep scrolling through and get on to the relevant stuff. Thanks again.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 6:59 PM | Link to this

STARTRIBUNE.COM

Matt Ryan’s 2 interceptions help doom Falcons in 30-24 loss to Arizona

http://www.startribune.com/sports/37048649.html

By The Anti-Vick

January 10, 2009 7:07 PM | Link to this

In April 2007, discovery of the elaborate dog fighting complex he owned in Surry County, Virginia led to criminal investigations by state and federal authorities, massive publicity, suspension from the NFL, loss of promotional agreements, and both federal and state criminal charges. In August, a U.S. federal district court convicted him and several co-defendants of criminal conspiracy. He began serving a time for a 23-month federal prison sentence that fall. In November 2008, he plead guilty to a single Virginia felony, receiving a three-year prison sentence and $2500 fine, suspended upon condition of good behavior. In return for the plea agreements, additional federal and state charges were dropped. He plans to enter a federal half-way house program in early 2009, a procedure often used for transitioning prisoners completing sentences. While there, he will be required to work at an “approved job”, with federal release likely in July 2009. His financial affairs were severely affected by lost income, legal expenses, and litigation, worsened by mismanagement and possibly fraudulent actions by a series of friends and financial advisers. In July 2008, he filed a personal reorganization bankruptcy with assets estimated at $12 million, and liabilities of $20 million, with current income (from prison work) of less than a dollar a day. During the same time, his attorneys estimated continued spending of $30,000 a month to support his mother, brother Marcus, and his three children and their mothers. Five months after initial filing, his attorneys told the court that they were still unable to account for over a million dollars of assets apparently spent during the preceding 2 years. As the judge heard the protests from his creditors about his filings and accountability, Vick’s attorneys told him that Vick “has every reason to believe that upon his release, he will be reinstated into the NFL, resume his career and be able to earn a substantial living”, which would be the primary source of funds to repay his creditors. However, the Newport News Daily Press noted that “some significant obstacles stand in his way.” Among these, are the NFL suspension, a failed drug test, and that he is still under contract to the Falcons, a major unpaid creditor, whose owner indicated Vick wouldn’t be welcome back on the team.

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 10, 2009 7:09 PM | Link to this

Wow… Algernon Darius Crumpler with the killer red-zone turnover.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 7:17 PM | Link to this

CRUNCH TIME PERFORMANCE

——-LAST 4 GAMES———

INTERCEPTIONS……..6

FUMBLES……..4

SAFETY………1

WAY TO GO “ROY” MATTY ICE :)

By The Anti-Vick

January 10, 2009 7:23 PM | Link to this

Baltimore’s D is impressive but Titans D even moreso. If the Titans offense would quit shooting themselves in the foot this game would not be close. Alge, Alge, Alge…

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 7:26 PM | Link to this

WHAT A CLUTCH PASS BY FLACCO

GREAT QBS SHOW UP IN THE PLAYOFFS :)

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 7:38 PM | Link to this

CRUNCH TIME COMPARISONS

———LEAF———-

……0-1 (WATCHING PLAYOFFS)

———FLACCO————-

……2-0 (IN CHAMPIONSHIP GAME)

—————-72-MILLION—————

VS

—————30-MILLION—————-

YOU DO THE MATH :)

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 7:42 PM | Link to this

JOE FLACCO

———FIRST ROOKIE IN NFL HISTORY——-

…..2 PLAYOFF WINS

CONGRATULATIONS “TRUE” ROY :)

By The Anti-Vick

January 10, 2009 7:51 PM | Link to this

GREAT QBS SHOW UP IN THE PLAYOFFS :)

Uh-huh, just like someone in 2004 NFC Championship game against Philadelphia:

11 - 24 136 1 INT

By To Dawgs

January 10, 2009 7:56 PM | Link to this

Joe Flacco the real rookie of the year for the Ravens.

By Back 2 Reality

January 10, 2009 8:01 PM | Link to this

Congratulations to the true ROY Joe Flacco!!!!

By So help me...

January 10, 2009 8:06 PM | Link to this

Anyone want to trade Matty for Joe Flakeo? 100 to one says no. I thought so.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 8:09 PM | Link to this

GOD’S TEAM

TIME TO WATCH CAROLINA TAKE CARE OF WHAT LEAF COULDN’T :)

FLACCO YOU ROCK :)

By So help me...

January 10, 2009 8:15 PM | Link to this

F;accp the “true” ROY? What is that trophy Matt Ryan has on his mantle? Thought so.

By Alfred Einstein

January 10, 2009 8:21 PM | Link to this

The Vickheads seem to enjoys stats. I wonder what they think of these numbers:

32 - where the Falcons’ “passing” offense ranked in Vick’s last season as a free man.

0 - the number of playoff appearances the Falcons made in Vick’s last two seasons as a free man.

2 - the number of seasons Vick has missed because he is a convicted felon.

47 - the average IQ of the fans who continue to support Vick.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 8:23 PM | Link to this

TROPHY DEBATE

OFFENSIVE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR (EATING TURKEY W/MOM)

VS

CHAMPIONSHIP GAME (EARNING MONEY)

YOU DECIDE :)

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 8:27 PM | Link to this

FLACCO—FLACCO—FLACCO—

——END OF STORY :)———

By So help me...

January 10, 2009 8:29 PM | Link to this

Stats are for LOSERS

By VS2's Moma...

January 10, 2009 8:35 PM | Link to this

Honey, Come to dinner. I have your stewed prunes warmed. And quit doing that to yourself. It will make you go blind.

By The Anti-Vick

January 10, 2009 8:38 PM | Link to this

YOUR OWN STATS/LOGIC CONTRADICT ONE ANOTHER.

OFFENSIVE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR (EATING TURKEY W/MOM)

VS

CHAMPIONSHIP GAME (EARNING MONEY)

—————-72-MILLION—————

VS

—————30-MILLION—————-

BUT THE MOST INTRIGUING CONTRADICTION:

$130 MILLION = BANKRUPT?

By stendec

January 10, 2009 8:38 PM | Link to this

I respect Matt Ryan. However, the true NFL Rookie Of The Year Joe Flacco just led his team to a monumental upset victory in Tennessee. Ryan stunk up the joint in Arizona. Looked more like Chris Miller than supposed franchise savior. Maybe he will FedEx that ROY trophy to Flacco. Its rightful owner! I can forgive a lot because of what Ryan delivered this season. That damn safety I cannot. No rookie excuse. Just do not get tackled in the mother (X) end zone! If Flacco takes his team to the Super Bowl they will win it all. No team in the NFC is at the defensive level of Ravens! Sorry, loss to Cards still leaves bitter taste. Completely unacceptable. At any damn level! Oh yeah, wrong guy got Heisman Trophy too. Belongs with a talented quarterback in the Sunshine State. Not a damn Yankee also ran bestard Okie!

By Urologist

January 10, 2009 8:43 PM | Link to this

Slenddick-I wouldn’t brag.

By falcon21

January 10, 2009 8:56 PM | Link to this

stendec, just how stupid are you? That is one of the most stupid things I have ever heard.Falcons have one of the best QB’S for years to come. Deal with it!

By Seven

January 10, 2009 9:02 PM | Link to this

Let’s say for the sake of arguement, Joe Flacco has had a better season than Matt Ryan. Flacco #1 rookie QB, and Ryan #2. Flacco ROY, and Ryan not. Hell, Flacco is quite impressive. No doubt about that. Big arm. He can throw a longer ball than Ryan.

So that leaves Ryan as an exceptional second place rookie QB. Matt leads a poor team to an 11-5 season. Not too bad.

So why would he be attacked by Vick fans? Ryan had nothing to do with Vick. Why would they wish harm upon Ryan?

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 9:10 PM | Link to this

STENDEC

EXCELLENT ANALYSIS

ENOUGH SAID :)

——FLACCO YOU ROCK———-

By falcon21

January 10, 2009 9:26 PM | Link to this

Put Ryan on the Raven’s team and they have a even better year.Raven’s have way more talent than ATL. has.Matt has a better arm than people think,he just knows how to put touch on the ball.Joe Montana will tell you that!

By Seven

January 10, 2009 9:27 PM | Link to this

Falcons aren’t looking so inept in losing to Arizona. Werner-Fitzgerald! Wow.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 9:29 PM | Link to this

JAKE DELHOMME

YEP - MV7 WILL BE A PANTHER :)

GET READY LEAF KISSERS :)

By falcon21

January 10, 2009 9:35 PM | Link to this

Worst team in playoffs ain’t looking to bad tonight.Cards are kicking a$$.

By MWC

January 10, 2009 9:43 PM | Link to this

stendick…explain how Flacco won that game. we really need to know.

By crabapplejoe

January 10, 2009 9:48 PM | Link to this

Oh comeon’ give Stendec a break…at least he didn’t blame the Titans’ loss on Keith Brooking. That is a significant improvement for him. He is almost lucid tonight.

By Marcellius Pratt

January 10, 2009 9:51 PM | Link to this

PFFFFTTTTT! BAAAAAWWWWWWAAAAAA!!!!

Carolina acquiring Dog-hanger? BAAAAAAWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAHHHHAAAAAA!!!

PUnk, you must be smoking your mamma’s crack again.

What team will take all Dog-killa’s debt? All the bankruptcies? All those peoples needs to be payed ni99a! What team gets mixed up in that?

You think Barry Bonds got black-balled. Just wait, little negro.

By The Anti-Vick

January 10, 2009 9:57 PM | Link to this

He also believes in Santa Claus…

Vick’s attorneys told him that Vick “has every reason to believe that upon his release, he will be reinstated into the NFL, resume his career and be able to earn a substantial living”, which would be the primary source of funds to repay his creditors. However, the Newport News Daily Press noted that “some significant obstacles stand in his way.” Among these, are the NFL suspension, a failed drug test, and that he is still under contract to the Falcons, a major unpaid creditor, whose owner indicated Vick wouldn’t be welcome back on the team.

By falcon21

January 10, 2009 10:28 PM | Link to this

vs and vs2 think MV is some kind of a hero,they must have had some really bad parents.Whats wroung with dudes?

By BirdFan

January 10, 2009 10:32 PM | Link to this

To all Vick Supporters, I will give you that when he wasnt killing dogs he was an exciting player to watch, but he wasnt gonna win a Superbowl. Matty Ice will just give him time. Flacco has won because he has one of the best defenses in the league. But bottom line arnt we all Falcons Fans? Im going to pull for whoever is going to take this team to the superbowl, and I think the majority of people will agree that that guy is Matt Ryan. What’r you guys gonna do, quit being Falcons fans and start to follow whoever he ends up with?

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 10:37 PM | Link to this

MY HEROES ARE

MV7

&

JOE FLACCO

ONLY LIKE QBS THAT WIN PLAYOFFS :)

———LEAF————

72-MILLION DOLLAR BUST :)

By falcon21

January 10, 2009 10:40 PM | Link to this

Is any one here glad Matt Ryan is here and Vick is gone? Let me hear it.

By Vick Supporter

January 10, 2009 10:41 PM | Link to this

Long live Flacco…..TRUE ROY

Ryan at home shootin hoops with his not so pretty girlfriend.

Looks like the Panthers need a qb…..but the Falcons will be to scared to let him go to a NFC South team because that will be 2 automatic losses. 10 more days and the real “process”, as mike smith calls it, will begin. Football will be fun to watch again in 09 with Vick being back. Glad I won’t have to watch Ryan’s feather looking passes anymore. Vick 09

By Vick Supporter

January 10, 2009 10:48 PM | Link to this

@falcon21

That’s just like your kind. Myself or VS2 never said anything about your parents. Whether u like what we say or not, we talk football. Like I said, typical of your kind.

By E. G.

January 10, 2009 10:49 PM | Link to this

HEY FALCONS’ FANS

WHEN ARE YOU ALL GOING TO REALIZE THAT MISERY “LUUUUUUVS” COMPANY.

These Vick Supporters only want you all to be miserable and bitter because they are still vindictive and bitter. Don’t join the misery and bitter team.

Rest in God’s peace my brothers, and just thank God that he finally gave us a good coaching staff, GM, and owner.

PEACE TO ALL!!!

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 10:49 PM | Link to this

CRUNCH TIME PERFORMANCE

——-LAST 4 GAMES———

INTERCEPTIONS……..6

FUMBLES……..4

SAFETY………1

WAY TO GO MATTY ICE :)

GUESS THE DEFENSE CAUSED THOSE TURNOVERS TOO :)

By E. G.

January 10, 2009 10:52 PM | Link to this

REMEMBER GUYS

MISERY LOVES COMPANY.

By MWC

January 10, 2009 10:54 PM | Link to this

Yo bros…what happened to Gods team?

By Vick Supporter

January 10, 2009 10:59 PM | Link to this

Vick = 2 playoff wins, MVP Candidate, first qb in NFL History to win at Lambeau Field

Flacco = 2 playoff wins, first rookie in NFL History to win 2 playoff games

Ryan = 72 million. 0-1 in playoffs.

Winner = Vick

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 11:06 PM | Link to this

JANUARY 20, 2009

——-JAKE SAY GOOD-BYE———

SPORTSCENTER UPDATE

MV7 SIGNS WITH CAROLINA……..

FALCONS GO 2-14

LEAF PLACED ON WAIVERS

CAROLINA WINS SUPERBOWL

MV7 COMEBACK PLAYER OF YEAR & MVP

DON’T HATE THE PLAYA..HATE THE GAME :)

By The Landlord

January 10, 2009 11:08 PM | Link to this

Let’s look at Vick’s resume:

“Leader” of the worst passing offense in the NFL.

No playoff appearances in his last two seasons as a free man.

The Ron Mexico incident.

The airport watch incident.

The airport water bottle incident.

The middle finger incident.

The dog fighting incident.

The bankruptcy.

Yeah, Vick’s a real winner.

By Vick Supporter

January 10, 2009 11:15 PM | Link to this

Joe Flacco……in AFC Championship Game

Matt Ryan……..at home eating popcorn, watching playoffs on tv.

By The Warden

January 10, 2009 11:21 PM | Link to this

Michael Vick … in jail, wondering what in the @%&# happened to that $130 million and hoping that the car wash is still hiring.

By falcon21

January 10, 2009 11:36 PM | Link to this

VS I really don’t know what you mean by my kind,maybe you can explain it,but MV is a total loser and he screwed the falcons and the fans.If you stand behind him you are not as smart as I and the others bloggers thought you were.Man don’t support someone in prison,it show’s what you are about.I mean no disrespect to your parents. But come on, the crap you put on here is unreal.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 10, 2009 11:59 PM | Link to this

FLACCO & MV7

PLAYOFF WINNERS

LEAF & HARRINGTON

ZERO PLAYOFF WINS :)

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 11, 2009 12:02 AM | Link to this

I agree with Vick Supporter… not on the doom and gloom scenario for the Falcons’ future, but on Vick to Carolina being a viable scenario. Delhomme is a perfect example of how a below average quarterback can succeed with a good coaching staff, good offensive line, and talent around him. Clearly, though, the Panthers’ window of opportunity with their current team is not gonna be open a whole lot longer, and Delhomme is not the guy who is gonna put them over the top in that time span. They likely don’t have the time to watch a late-first round quarterback develop into a reliable option. So if they are looking to upgrade their QB in free agency, which they should, what better option than a minimum-salary player who has proven he can win games? Carolina’s coach and GM are well-entrenched to the point where they can afford to take the public relations risk, and having been burned by Vick in the past on the field they surely know the advantages he can provide at the QB position. I think it could work.

By The Perfesser

January 11, 2009 12:43 AM | Link to this

Unlike the Vick supporters who are marginally literate buffoons, Davenpoop-for-brains appears to have finished junior high school.

However, although he/she had demonstrated a somewhat limited grasp of the English language, Davenpoop-for-brains continues to show that he/she knows very little knowledge of the NFL.

While Vick was a great athlete and a dangerous runner, he was a very poor passer. As most of you know, in Vick’s last season as a free man, the Falcons ranked DEAD LAST in passing offense.

In addition, as Don Banks of SI pointed out during the dogfighting fiasco, word around the league was that Vick was either too lazy or too stupid to master an entire NFL playbook.

The fact that Vick’s coaches - you know, the guys who were with him EVERY SINGLE DAY on the practice field and in meetings - didn’t trust him enough to allow him to change plays at the line seems to confirm that Vick was/is an intellectual midget.

At the end of the day, the “fans” who value style (and race) over substance will flock to Vick, but no NFL team will be foolish enough to build a team around him.

He has proven himself to be a man of precious little character. And, by the way, he sucks as a passer.

That’s not exactly the kind of guy who will lead a team to an NFL championship.

P.S. All of the Vickheads who are praising Flacco for leading the Ravens to the AFC championship game should send a thank-you note to Barnacle “No Hands” Crumpler for his goal-line fumble.

By Vick Supporter

January 11, 2009 12:43 AM | Link to this

@falcon21

You say that the stuff I say on here is unreal, just because my beliefs aren’t the same as yours,lol. Typical. There’s nothing wrong with supporting Vick, its a free country. Did he let down the Falcons? Yes. Do I care? Nope. I’m all for a man that wants to make amends for his mistakes, black or whatever color, and he deserves to do so. If Vick would have harmed a human being, of course things would be different, but he hurt no one but himself, he didn’t even hurt the falcon fans because he owed you nothing, plus you people never gave a “F” about him anyway. If it was you that fought dogs and went thru what he did, I would support you too.

Now, I see you like to talk about folks parents. Well lets talk about yours. I guess they never taught you any type of compassion except for people of your own kind. I assume they taught you that if anyone makes a mistake in life and goes to prison, they desever to be written off and ridiculed for life, even goes for your own kind…..sorta….depends on what they do. This is just what I’m taking from your “VS your parents ain’t sh!t” comment u made. U call Vick a loser, maybe u should look at yourself. I talk football unless I get some stupid comment like that from people like you. Also, whether your hate filled heart likes it or not, Vick will be back. Delhomme just “picked” his way out of Carolina, but the cowardly falcons will be sure to send Vick out of the conference, like some f’in B’s. They don’t and you falcons fans don’t want any part of #7 on another team. Vickuary 20th, 2009

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 11, 2009 1:20 AM | Link to this

DOGS…YOU TALKING DOGS….DOGS :)

————LETS BE REAL———-

I CARE AS MUCH ABOUT DOGS AS I DO A GOOD STEAK….NOTHING MORE….NOTHING LESS AND THOSE OF YOU THAT TREAT DOGS LIKE YOUR KIDS….WELL MAYBE DOCTOR PHIL CAN BE OF ASSISTANCE…..SUCK IT UP :)

REGULAR SEASON IS JUST WINDOW DRESSING….NOBODY REMEMBERS THE REGULAR SEASON IF YOU DON’T WIN PLAYOFF GAMES AND MV7 HAS WHAT LEAF WILL PROBABLY NEED 10-YEARS TO ACCOMPLISH…..BOTTOM LINE….GET OVER IT HATERS…..YOU CAN HATE, BUT AT THE END OF DAY, HE STILL HAS ZERO PLAYOFF WINS…..

HAVE A GOOD NIGHT AND SQUEEZE THOSE LEAF BOBBLE HEADS TIGHT :)

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 11, 2009 1:57 AM | Link to this

“The fact that Vick’s coaches - you know, the guys who were with him EVERY SINGLE DAY on the practice field and in meetings - didn’t trust him enough to allow him to change plays at the line seems to confirm that Vick was/is an intellectual midget.”

Funny you should mention that, since the one time he defied his coaches and changed a play at the line of scrimmage, it resulted in an accurately thrown touchdown pass.

My fingers hurt from repeatedly educating y’all that the scheme was the reason Vick, the offensive line, and the receivers didn’t play up to their potential during the Jim Moron regime.

Under an intelligent coach like John Fox, assuming Vick is given a chance to drop back and throw like a regular quarterback and establish timing and rhythm with his receivers instead of running bootlegs and moving pocket plays every down, he will do just fine. Prediction guaranteed or your money back.

“At the end of the day, the “fans” who value style (and race) over substance will flock to Vick, but no NFL team will be foolish enough to build a team around him.”

First of all I’m not black or white. Secondly you are right, teams shouldn’t and won’t build around Vick. They will bring him in on a minimum-salary deal to be the missing piece of their offensive puzzle. Otherwise competent teams that currently start players like Jake Delhomme, Tarvaris Jackson, and Kyle Orton at quarterback will look at Vick as a guy who can improve one of their biggest offensive weaknesses, which is a lack of playmaking ability at the quarterback position. Coaches and GMs whose jobs are safe enough to take the public relations risk of signing a guy like Vick will be more than happy to roll the dice, because they know that everything dog-related will be forgotten after the first highlight-reel touchdown.

Sure, Vick brings baggage to any team that signs him. Nobody is gonna hand him a starting job without making him compete for it and earn it in preseason and training camp. But at the same time, the financial investment that will be required to sign him after the Falcons cut him will be very little compared to the production he can provide at quarterback, especially since his debts provide a very obvious incentive to work hard and play well.

“P.S. All of the Vickheads who are praising Flacco for leading the Ravens to the AFC championship game should send a thank-you note to Barnacle “No Hands” Crumpler for his goal-line fumble.”

Funny you should mention this… on the one hand you say Vick sucks as a passer, on the other hand you say his best pass receiver has no hands… but I don’t expect you to comprehend that you are contradicting yourself.

By Pun 706

January 11, 2009 2:07 AM | Link to this

And for all u Carolina fans who blogged when we lost to Arizona, where art thou now?!?? U just got ur a@@es HANDED TO U (at home no less) by a team that hasn’t won a game on the east coast all damn season. On top of that, Bouldin DIDN’T EVEN suit up! Dellhome threw as many INT’s tonight as Matt Ryan done in the last 5 games. Which QB played like a rookie tonight??

By Vick Supporter

January 11, 2009 2:39 AM | Link to this

@Najeh Davenpoop

Man you have some great posts. I get tired of explaining to these clowns too. Don’t know what color you are, I really don’t care. U really know your football.

By JohnGTFan

January 11, 2009 8:12 AM | Link to this

I REALLY hope Vick ends up in Carolina. Would be nice to be able to guarantee 2 wins every year before the games are even played. He’d never find Steve Smith…so what would happen….Smith and Vick would fight during practice, and Smith would knock Vick out with a left cross…and someone will post the video to youtube. NOW THAT IS VIDEO I WANT TO SEE!!! But would be nice to have 4 turnovers each game from Vick twice a season. CAROLINA…SIGN VICK!!!!

By Memphis Raines

January 11, 2009 8:28 AM | Link to this

VICK SUPPORTER

You’re definitely calmer than your counterpart VS2, but you don’t really seem to talk much football. You talk Vick. Or maybe Flacco. Or just anything anti-Matt Ryan or anti-Falcons. That and you talk back to whoever keeps getting you mixed up with VS2. My question is if you support Vick and obviously not the Falcons then why do you keep coming back here of all places? Is is just to keep fostering the dislike you have for the Falcons fans? Why bother with the bitterness of it all and some of the racial tensions. The people who are acting racist and say things about peoples parents surely know they are racist and idiots. So how are you making this better by talking back to them and saying that its typical of their kind, whatever that is. After a while you only sound just like them and you don’t want to sound just like them do you? I’m not saying you wrong just asking you why you keep this up. This is no place to support Vick because you know he won’t play here. Doesn’t make sense to me so I thought I would ask. Maybe you know something I don’t know. Maybe you know Vick and he knows all the support you give him on this blog and appreciates it. I kind of doubt it though. By the way, has the league commissioner said Vick can come back yet, because if he didn’t then there is no redemption until he does, if he does. Assuming that he is allowed to play in the NFL once more, the man can probably play well under a good coach with a good line. But he will have to learn all new stuff other than what he has learned before in the league because he was never taught right to begin with thanks to Mora’s dumb self. Like I say that is if the league commissioner lets him back in. The NFL has a new star every day so it can’t be all about a money and marketing thing I don’t think. I guess you know something I don’t know. Maybe all the sports writers should call you for inside info hee hee. No harm in hoping he comes back though. One thing I heard is that he is more likley to go to the UFL, and the commissioner there said that his chances at going there are at 98 percent. Don’t know how true that is. NFL pays more but is harder on you. One thing people skip on is Vick pays for his kids and their mothers. He has never been deadbeat dad and that’s good. Hope he plays again because somebody has to support them and that’s the best reason to let him play somewhere, so no family starves, as they do not deserve to be punished for what he did wrong.

VICK SUPPORTER 2

You’re confusing because you make no sense half the time. Ok maybe all the time. Every time Ryan does something good, you say it’s because of his recievers or because of his running backs. But with Flacco it’s just “FLACCO ROCKS.” You sure it’s not Flacco’s receivers or Flacco’s running backs making him look good, just like with Ryan? Flacco has one of the NFL best defenses to help him out and a head coach who has experience. Ryan had an sometimes okay defense, sometimes horrible defense and a rookie head coach with a whole different staff and scheme. You said without Vick we couldn’t make the playoffs. But we made the playoffs. You said time for Carolina to take care of what we couldn’t in the playoffs. Carolina got beat way worse than we did by the same Cardinals team. What you got to say about all that? And did Vick go 11-5 and playoffs in his rookie year? No he did not. What you got to say about that? YOU always compare Vicks numbers from his second, third, fourth, and fifth seasons with Ryans first year numbers, as if that’s fair. You say Ryan is a 72 million dollar bust after bringing us to the playoffs and a 11-5 record IN HIS FIRST YEAR. So how bad a bust is 130 million dollars for a guy who left us without a starting level quarterback and is still in jail and even bankrupt? How do you go bankrupt from 130 million dollars, I guess MC HAMMER could tell us, but this is the guy you call your hero? You cheering for a guy whos not even PLAYING? It would be better if you would just attach yourself to Flacco and the Ravens although that won’t be popular if they lose. By the way how many times did Vick take us to the playoffs? Twice. And he won two first round playoff games. Ryan has already been once. All he needs is a second appearance and two wins to match Vick. Not a lot to aspire to when you already made the playoffs your rookie year. If you going to be a Flacco fan then go find the Baltimore blogs. You have a better chance than a Panthers fan because you are wrong every time you say they are going to beat us or they will do better than us. You must have felt really stupid when the Cardinals beat them 33-14. Or will you ignore your own posts like usual. Anquan Boldin didnt even play against the Panthers. How sorry is that. At least we scored 24 points and made it close.

By The Anti-Vick

January 11, 2009 10:13 AM | Link to this

33 - 13. Wow. Kurt Warner for MVP. Larry Fitzgerald proved he’s worth that contract. Definitely takes some of the sting out of last weekend’s loss. Now if the Eagles can just take care of business in NY today it will be Battle of the Birds in the Desert II.

By Joey Porter

January 11, 2009 10:43 AM | Link to this

Looks like Arthur and Dimitroff chose the wrong QB.

Flacco is taller, much stronger, and poised than the other QB.

Flacco clearly understands how to play the position bettter than a lot of veterans.

The guy is simply a winner. Two playoff victories on the road.

Most important attribute of a QB is to manage the game and not make mistakes. Flacco does it very very well.

ROY, COY are on the Ravens team.

By The Whole truth

January 11, 2009 11:07 AM | Link to this

VS2, our village idiot, showed(again)in his 1:20AM post how little he grasps…anything. He lectures us about his attitude towards dogs(a foodstuff and an animal…interesting)and ours, according to him. Look pencil-neck, our attitude towards dogs is NOT the point. It is our utter contempt for those who kill dogs for their and their friend’s amusement that is the point. Try to get someone to explain that to you, will you?

Finally, will you give us(ad nauseum)the statistics of Delhomme, Collins and Jackson who also went one-and-out? We hope not.

By The Whole truth

January 11, 2009 11:31 AM | Link to this

One other point, in general. Do you folks who write these single-spaced 900+ word “tomes” think anyone beside you actually reads them? DOL’s lead is only 420 words and it’s not single-spaced. He gets paid by the word. Do y’all?

By The Anti-Vick

January 11, 2009 11:32 AM | Link to this

If Matt Ryan has to throw only 22 attempts in a game then the Falcons win the game.

Matt Ryan. The Present. The Future. DEAL WITH IT.

By Former STH

January 11, 2009 11:42 AM | Link to this

The Whole truth my azz. Get real, you don’t have utter contempt for those who kill dogs or you’d be all ticked off that the owners of the Steelers franchise do it as a normal part of their dog racing business. You dont have utter contempt for the many players that have been charged and pled to domestic abuse. So get off your soapbox because the hypocrisy is really not strong enough to keep holding you up.

Now if everyone would just compare the level of competition the Ravens faced vs the Falcons, its clear that there MUST have been some bias in Matt Ryan getting that ROY…although, who cares?? Its just a media driven award.

By The Anti-Vick

January 11, 2009 11:43 AM | Link to this

The Whole Truth, I will give you credit. While I’m guilty of it (mainly in response to those who do it themselves) people need to act like they’re writing an email when posting, i.e. less is more. After a few sentences it is very easy to move on past the babbling…

By The Whole truth

January 11, 2009 11:53 AM | Link to this

Former STH I didn’t think they emptied dumpsters on Sunday. But, what else would have woke you up?

By Former STH

January 11, 2009 12:07 PM | Link to this

“If Matt Ryan has to throw only 22 attempts in a game then the Falcons win the game.”

ROFLMAO!! In other words…If Michael Turner carries the offense, then the Falcons win the game….but if Matt Ryan throws more, then the Falcons don’t win the game. LOL!! Well, you use to argue that the QB is ONLY supposed to be throwing and you needed a “real pocket passer”…now you got one and you want to limit his throwing. LOL So then you turn around and place the blame on none other than….a Michael….LOL Guess you had to find some way to get back to that comfort level! You’ll be DAMNED if you blame your golden boy!! LOL

By The Whole truth

January 11, 2009 12:20 PM | Link to this

Anti-Vick I am beginning to see what you mean. But, attempting to debate with demented dumbazzes is a no-win situation.

By The Anti-Vick

January 11, 2009 12:22 PM | Link to this

It’s easy to say when your hero Flacco goes 9-23 against the Dolphins and let’s the D carry him. And 11-22 yesterday as the D once again carries him. Ryan throws less than 20 attempts in some of the Falcons wins this year and the bitter ones like you whine he can’t throw for 200 yards. First year of the Process = GM of the Year, HC of the Year, ROY, Best FA signing of 2008. Things are looking up.

Matt Ryan. The Present. The Future. DEAL WITH IT.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 11, 2009 12:27 PM | Link to this

NFC SOUTH EXPOSED

THE CARDINALS HAVE EXPOSED THE NFC SOUTH FOR THE WEAK DIVISION IT IS.

THOSE WINS VS TAMPA/CAROLINA/SAINTS WERE NOT GOOD WINS, JUST AGAINST A WEAK DIVISION……

YOU CAN ASK THE RAVENS IF THEY CARE MORE ABOUT WINNING THE “ROY” OR “COY” VS PLAYING IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AND SEE WHAT THEY SAY……

AS A 5TH YEAR SENIOR AND CAN’T WIN THE “LOWLY” A.C.C. CHAMPIONSHIP, THAT IS REALLY PATHETIC. I MEAN MV7 WON IT AS A “FRESHMAN” AND WE KNOW HE IS NOT A POCKET PASSER, SO HOW DOES THAT MAKE “LEAF” AS A PRO QB?

——-MV7 AS A PANTHER——-

HE WILL FINALLY HAVE A RECEIVER WHO CAN ACTUALLY CATCH UP TO HIS “DEEP BALL” AND ACTUALLY HOLD ON TO THE BALL.

YOU LEAF KISSERS CAN TALK ALL THE NON-SENSE YOU WANT ON THESE BLOGS, BUT THE BOTTOM LINE YOU CAN’T DEFENSE HIM. YOU COULDN’T EVEN DEFENSE A “GREEN” TAVARIS JACKSON.

———THE BOTTOM LINE———

FLACCO WINS PLAYOFF GAMES

MV7 WINS PLAYOFF GAMES

LEAF CHOKES IN PLAYOFF GAMES

———-AS I SAID ALL SEASON———

72-MILLION DOLLAR BUST

ON WAIVERS BY 2010 :)

By The Whole truth

January 11, 2009 12:32 PM | Link to this

Anti-Vick I can easily agree with all you say. But, when your words are so positive, your screen name is not. How about a change?

Matt Ryan. This year’s ROY. Next year’s MVP

By The Anti-Vick

January 11, 2009 12:40 PM | Link to this

I THINK YOU FORGET THAT TAVARIS JACKSON’S SECOND HALF PERFORMANCE AGAINST THE FALCONS IS ONE HE’D LIKE TO FORGET. HE DID A NICE IMPRESSION OF VICK AS HE MADE POOR THROWS AND POOR DECISIONS AFTER THE D FIGURED HIM OUT.

Feedback on Delhomme from Panther fan that’ll you probably appreciate: Too early to tell. He did take it like a man and no teammates have thrown him under the bus, at least publicly. He is a crapshoot but I don’t know who else is out there. I was thinking the whole time last night that we cannot bench him no matter what because we have no second option. Maybe we will get Ron Mexico when he gets out of the big house. Or what about Leinart, Quinn or some other bench-warmer who wants to start?

By The Anti-Vick

January 11, 2009 12:50 PM | Link to this

The Whole Truth, I will consider a name change. The name is not meant to convey negativity - just here to provide fair and balanced counterpoint to the Vick supporters and Falcons bashers. I don’t attack any of the posters personally - just their opinions. Anti-Vick is meant to convey the opposite of one who is a convict, dope smoker, financially and morally bankrupt. The list could go on but I think you get the point.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 11, 2009 1:03 PM | Link to this

HERE IS SOME GREAT DECISION MAKING

———CHECK THIS OUT—————

CRUNCH TIME PERFORMANCE

——-LAST 4 GAMES———

INTERCEPTIONS……..6

FUMBLES……..4

SAFETY………1

WAY TO GO MATTY ICE :)

By Vick Supporter

January 11, 2009 1:04 PM | Link to this

@Memphis Raines

When I say “typical of their kind”, I mean that. There no need for racial comments on here, but when I get attacked w/racial terms because I defend Vick, as you said, I do say something back. Is it right? Depends. That doesn’t make me racist to defens myself.

You ask why I hate the Falcons? Vick may have let down the franchise by getting in trouble, but I find it funny that no blame gets placed on Mr.Blank, J.Mora, and McKay. Where’s the blame for them? Why is the totality of the situation all Vick’s fault? I hate the falcons for allowing Vick to be a 1 man show. I just find it odd that Ryan comes in and all of a sudden, Blank decides to get the right people make this a “team”. When Vick was here, he’s the only reason anyone came to the games, myself included. I hate that the falcons didn’t do it this way when Vick was here besides trying to sell out the dome. Its my opinion, as well as a lot of others. You should have Najeh break it down for you. Actually, Najeh, I would like to know your opinion on the organizational side of this whole Vick thing. The fans here just blame everything on Vick and look at nothing else. Vick 09

By The AV

January 11, 2009 1:22 PM | Link to this

VS, You make your points in a rational fashion for what is an emotional topic for many. I would counter that Mr. Blank and McKay did try to bring in support for Vick in terms of signing Peerless Price (whom Dan Reeves did not want; no need to discuss) as well as drafting Roddy and Jenkins in the first round. I think for Mr. Blank the hardest part for him is he made Vick the highest paid player (and deservedly so for being a big reason the dome sold out) and then Vick lied to him when the whole dog-fighting scandal started to unravel. His other “scandals” leading up to it had to test the front office patience as well. And by giving Vick the big contract the team limited itself in terms of CAP space so it was really difficult to move beyond a 1 man show.

By falcon21

January 11, 2009 1:34 PM | Link to this

Well said AV.

By NFC South Is a Fraud

January 11, 2009 2:04 PM | Link to this

VS2, they can’t handle it…they don’t want to hear that the golden boy myth is just that, a myth. A story created to feed into their insecurities of what a field general should be. They’ll fight tooth and nail to keep that quarterback position because after that its punters and kickers only.

By Realist

January 11, 2009 2:15 PM | Link to this

AV…for goodness sakes, that lie about “no Cap space” has been debunked time and time again. A quick look at who was signed and for what is all it takes. Seriously…you did not mention Peerless Price as proof of bringing in support. Hell, by his OWN admission, Roddy said he didn’t start trying to be a pro receiver until the 2007 season. Before this past season, when was the last time the Falcons drafted an offensive lineman as high as Sam Baker?

Now all of you viligant supporters of the Falcons, please buy those season tickets, mmkay??

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 11, 2009 2:22 PM | Link to this

NFC SOUTH IS A FRAUD

NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT THAT WAY

THAT IS HILARIOUS

BUT EVENSO, IF YOU LOOK AROUND EVEN AT THE COLLEGE LEVEL, THE BEST QBS COMING OUT OF COLLEGE ARE NOT 1-DIMENSIONAL ANYMORE.

EVEN TEBOW IS MOBILE….EVEN THE “UTES” WITH THAT WILDCAT OFFENSE DESTROYED ALABAMA AND THAT 1-DIMENSION QB….

MV7 HAS SET THE TREND FOR QBS TO COME. THAT’S WHY HE RECEIVED THE LARGEST CONTRACT IN NFL HISTORY….

THAT INCLUDES:

PEYTON MANNING

BRETT FAVRE

TOM BRADY

I WONDER WHY THAT IS :)

By Vick Supporter

January 11, 2009 2:26 PM | Link to this

@AV

I agree w/your point, however, would you have turned down 130 million?? Peerless Price was a horrible signing, we had numerous failed draft picks. When you have a Superstar like Vick signed for a lot of money, like it is on every NFL Team that has a superstar, they build through the draft. Beside Roddy, who didn’t play up to potential during the Vick Era, the Falcons Failed in that aspect. I know it makes no sense to say this, but if we had a guy like Dmitroff building the team and Blank not trying to sign so called “big names” (and Vick not dogfighhting) I think we could have won the SB.

By The Whole truth

January 11, 2009 2:31 PM | Link to this

DOL SAID: ” I’m come to realize that there’s always a Vick discussion on the blog. JUST NEED the majority to stay on the topic, which is ‘Reflections on Falcons’ playoff run’.”

Time to shut this down and clear out the tripe.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 11, 2009 2:48 PM | Link to this

LEAF BUTT KISSERS CAN’T TAKE THE HEAT

——SHUTDOWN A BLOG BECAUSE WHY?——-

YOU CAN’T WIN A DEBATE? NO WONDER THE NORTH WON THE WAR :)

….BUT SERIOUSLY THOUGH…..

TOPICS CAN’T BE DICTATED TO SUIT YOUR FANCY…..MIGHT AS WELL SHUTDOWN BLOGGING PERIOD……SHUTTING DOWN THIS ONE……

———WON’T SOLVE A THING——-

BUT I HAVE GOOD NEWS…..

JANUARY 20, 2009 IS NEAR

FLACCO IS STILL IN THE PLAYOFFS

IF IT DON’T FIT—-MUST ACQUIT :)

By The AV

January 11, 2009 2:55 PM | Link to this

The biggest mistake of Arthur Blank era was firing Dan Reeves and hiring Jim Mora, Jr. Petrino hiring doesn’t even count it was so bad. And of course you don’t turn down 130 million. Pro receivers typically take a few years to develop.

By Medical Director

January 11, 2009 2:58 PM | Link to this

“Leaf butt kissers” Your nose was so far up MV’s butt, his handlers thought you were giving him a colonoscophy.

By Las Vegas Prosecutor

January 11, 2009 3:05 PM | Link to this

“What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas…for at least 15 years.”

By Las Vegas Prosecutor

January 11, 2009 3:10 PM | Link to this

Oh, I forgot. :) :) :)

By The AV

January 11, 2009 3:24 PM | Link to this

Now back to the topic at hand…

Great year for the Falcons. Another highlight was Michael Turner dragging the Chiefs linebacker on his knees for five yards before shaking him off. And then when the linebacker gets up to pursue again Todd McClure (who had caught up with the play) takes him out.

By Actual AV

January 11, 2009 3:28 PM | Link to this

No, the biggest mistake of the Arthur Blank era was drafting Michael Vick. He has brought myriad dissension, and problems to the city and franchise while wasting his God-given talent. He is pitiful, but his supporters are not. Their “hero worship” is ridiculously immature at best, and sick at worst.

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 11, 2009 3:30 PM | Link to this

To follow up on what Vick Supporter said at 1:04 PM… first of all, I will make one thing clear: I don’t blame anyone but Vick for putting himself in a position to go to jail. I think 23 months for dogfighting is a ridiculous sentence in a country where cruelty against other animals is widely accepted, but it’s still Vick’s fault he even put himself in that position.

But as far as “on the field” is concerned I agree with most of what VS said. When Vick was here the entire team was built on a style-over-substance approach. I don’t know how many times I said when Vick was here that the Falcons should spend first round picks on offensive linemen, that they should add size to the D-line to prevent the line from wearing down over the course of the season, that they should change the offensive line’s blocking scheme to one that can generate movement in short yardage situations, that they should acquire a true power running back to complement the speed of Vick, Dunn and Norwood, etc.

I don’t pretend to be some kind of football expert. These are not radical ideas. They are just observations made based on what has worked for every successful NFL team ever. Teams have won Super Bowls with mediocre QBs, mediocre WRs, mediocre secondary players, etc., but no NFL team has ever won a Super Bowl without controlling both lines of scrimmage consistently. Every Super Bowl winner has been able to a) protect the QB, b) open running lanes for the RB, c) get pressure on the opposing QB, and d) stop the run.

The style-over-substance approach was embodied by the coaching staff. If you look at successful coaches like Belichick, Cowher, Dungy, etc. the common thread is that they realize they have playmakers and they put them in the ideal position to succeed. Sure, if you throw 11 NFL-caliber athletes on the field they will make plays every now and then, but if you scheme to put them in the ideal position to succeed, they will make plays consistently.

In contrast, the philosophy of the Mora/Knapp/Donatell regime was that they have talented players and they believe in their scheme, so there’s no need to make adjustments, because it’s on the players to make plays. This is why Mora stuck with running bootlegs and moving pocket plays long after opposing defenses had clued on to them. This is why Donatell refused to blitz even when it became apparent that the front four was not getting any pressure. This is why Knapp refused to change the blocking scheme in short yardage situations even after the Falcons were stuffed time and time again at the goal line. This is why it took the Falcons a good two years of getting gashed on the ground before they signed Grady Jackson — to quote Mora, “size was secondary to scheme”. This is why they didn’t let Vick audible, because in their minds their play calls were fine and if the play didn’t work it’s because the player didn’t “make a play”.

Mora was often asked during press conferences about whether the coaching staff could have made adjustments to the scheme — his standard answer was “guys need to make a play”. That asinine, substance-less response pretty much sums up the attitude of the Mora regime. Nobody felt the effect of this approach more than Vick, the biggest playmaker on the team, and this is the reason why his development as a passer stagnated. Mora and Knapp were content to see him running around “making plays” like a college option QB, instead of investing the time to develop him into a reliable pocket passer. If the scheme calls for the QB to run around all the time, the line won’t be able to pass-protect as well, the wide receivers won’t have any timing with the QB, and the QB will have more pressure in his face, resulting in poor footwork and inaccuracy. On the few occasions when they called traditional pocket-passing plays for Vick on a consistent basis, he responded with the best passing games of his career.

The front office’s insistence on hiring coaches with mediocre qualifications like Mora and Petrino instead of those who’d had more NFL success like Lovie Smith or Ken Whisenhunt only compounded this problem. The Falcons hired Rich McKay at GM from Tampa Bay, but it became pretty apparent that Tim Ruskell was the real brains during McKay’s time in Tampa.

Of course, this year the Falcons finally decided to hire a GM in Dimitroff who has proven he can evaluate talent in the NFL in a successful organization, and a coach in Mike Smith who has gotten results on the field in Baltimore and Jacksonville. And what do you know, the Falcons pick a lineman in the first round, sign a running back who can run in short yardage situations, change the blocking scheme to one where linemen actually push players instead of diving at their knees, change the passing offense to one where the quarterback gets to stand in the pocket and build rhythm and timing with receivers, and change the defensive scheme to one that doesn’t play a prevent zone defense every down.

I was a Falcons fan before Vick came and I was a Vick fan before he joined the Falcons. So yeah, as a Vick fan, it does make me a little frustrated that Vick never had the opportunity to play under a real NFL coaching staff in a real NFL scheme, like Matt Ryan does. And it does make me a little frustrated that fans and the national media are so quick to attribute success and failure to quarterbacks when so many other factors play into the situation.

Sorry for the long post… feel free to skip over it if your attention span isn’t long enough.

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 11, 2009 3:35 PM | Link to this

“No, the biggest mistake of the Arthur Blank era was drafting Michael Vick.”

Vick was drafted during the Taylor Smith era. At least try to get your facts right.

I don’t think firing Dan Reeves was a mistake, because although he was a decent coach, he was not a good evaluator of personnel. But hiring Mora was a complete disaster. I wanted the Falcons to hire Lovie Smith back then, and I stand by that.

By The Whole truth

January 11, 2009 3:37 PM | Link to this

Another tome. I think I will wait for the paper-back edition.

By The AV

January 11, 2009 3:40 PM | Link to this

If I remember correctly wasn’t Vick drafted when Smith family owned the team? Arthur Blank bought the team after his first season.

Back to our original programming….

As was stated above the game is won in the trenches. TD focused on the O on this year and I trust he’ll do the same with the D (starting with the line) in 2009…

By Real AV

January 11, 2009 3:45 PM | Link to this

“At least try to get your facts right.”

That would mute this entire blog.

By ray

January 11, 2009 3:50 PM | Link to this

Vick Supporter,

I understand your anger towards the franchise. Without trying to defend Arthur Blank (who I figure you don’t like too much), I have this opinion to throw out there:

Blank is yet another example of a very wealthy guy who is not a sports guy. He likes sports just fine, but he’s not an expert. Not anymore so than Mark Cuban (owner of the Dallas Mavericks) is a basketball guy. These guys hire “experts”. Some of these guys are more hands-on and ego-driven. Cuban is, and so is Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys owner). Blank hired McKay, who had a nice resume and came from an organization that was currently doing rather well. Blank trusted McKay. And Blank had Vick, who was a marketing magnet, to say the least.

I watched McKay make one mistake after another, and wondered how this dude could mess so much up after doing so well in Tampa. But I digress. I figure McKay had tunnel vision. He couldn’t see the forest for all the red #7 jerseys in the stands (even in other stadiums). And he couldn’t see past all the dollar signs that Vick was generating. So it was probably easy to say that he kept Blank thinking that they would get over the hump and be successful if he just added one other player. If Vick just stayed healthy. He never gave Vick a good line. And, he brought in Mora and Knapp, which were nails in the coffin. Neither one of those clowns knew what the hell to do with Vick.

I think the change you see in Blank is him getting burned one good time. He got burned by McKay, he got burned by Mora, and he and Vick burned each other. Let’s not lie about it, Vick made Blank a hell of a lot of money. He was a rich man’s meal ticket for sure. McKay left him as a lone dog in a sled race. You can’t win a race with just one dog. I think what you see from Blank is a rich businessman recouping and not giving up on his pet project. It’s all about the money. And he learned how to better protect his investment. McKay taught him that.

If you think about it, Dimitroff’s resume is probably no more glowing than McKay’s looked on the surface. Blank learned a hard lesson. But he’s rich enough to recoup from it. Sadly, on the other end of the stick, Vick is not rich enough to make up for his mistake. And I can’t blame Blank for being unhappy with him. Vick should’ve know better, but that’s water on the bridge and both sides are paying their dues for what they did wrong, although naturally (or unnaturally) for Vick, the dues are heavier in proportion. At least Blank says he endorses the idea of Vick returning to the NFL. I don’t know that I’d blame him for not wanting him here, though. In the business world, image accounts for so much (regardless of right and wrong), and Matt Ryan is the new image. The new image that replaces the old one, and at roughly half the cost. Vick and Ryan have nothing to do with one another.

Here’s to hoping Ryan will be great (I think he will), and Vick can return to greatness (jury is still out, he has to make it back first). I agree that Dimitroff would have taken better care of Vick. And I think eventually Blank was going to fire or demote McKay anyway. It just happened sooner rather than later (not soon enough for me). Blank must be an okay dude, because I would have kicked McKay off the premises, not left him to handle marketing and other financial stuff. Just straight KICKED him out.

But hey, that’s just me.

By The AV

January 11, 2009 3:53 PM | Link to this

Reeves was not good as a GM. Which coach out there can handle both? Even Holmgren had to be demoted. But to fire Reeves as coach and bring in Mora Jr. Ugh. At least Reeves commanded respect of his players.

Back to our original programming…

Another good move/highlight of 2008 was signing Jason Elam…

By ray

January 11, 2009 4:10 PM | Link to this

Najeh,

Good post. As far as Blank goes, the money was good, and this guy is a businessman. Money is all there ever is. That, and Vick was a superstar with so much promise. After those playoff wins, it probably looked to Blank like it could be done the way McKay was doing it. Hell, McKay probably had an excuse for everything. I’m not absolving Blank of anything, though. I blame him for McKay. But McKay has no excuse. He did better in Tampa, even though he got another good coach fired (Dungy). He’s a football guy. He should know better. But he screwed things up.

Vick was drafted during the Taylor Smith era. At least try to get your facts right.

That’s just way too much to ask of some people. :)

The Whole Truth,

That’s what scrolling is for. In the meantime, what short, sweet, and succinct insights do you have for us that would perhaps by example, inspire everyone to contribute in a fashion more to your liking?

By The AV

January 11, 2009 4:13 PM | Link to this

Speaking of Arthur Blank one higher up source (owner of another NFL franchise) told me two years ago “Arthur’s a nice guy but he’s surrounded himself with the wrong people and takes bad advice.”

Program note:

Looks like it’s gonna be Battle of the Birds in the Desert II or Battle of the Worst Records in the NFC. Cardinals or the Eagles in the SB. Who woulda thunk it?

By The Whole truth

January 11, 2009 4:16 PM | Link to this

Eli Manning, last year’s Poster Boy, has a worse play-off game than Matt. Does that mean he is a “bust”? And Lurie comes down to the sidelines in the last 3 minutes. Uh oh. That means, according to some, that the Eagles will lose. Not!

By ray

January 11, 2009 4:17 PM | Link to this

The AV,

This is our normal/original programming, or hadn’t you noticed? Heh heh heh!

Never had to try so hard to talk football on a football blog. Ah well…

By The AV

January 11, 2009 4:26 PM | Link to this

Did you notice McNabb had almost the exact same stats (but only 1 TD vs. 2) as Matty did against the Cardinals?

Now you want to talk about brutal fans. If the Eagles had lost….

By JOEBRAVE

January 11, 2009 4:27 PM | Link to this

Hey GODAMMIT SHUT YOUR @SSES UP ABOUT THAT G******* COONVICK!~!!

By ray

January 11, 2009 4:29 PM | Link to this

The Whole Truth,

Good point. But that will be summarily ignored, as it has no bearing on Falcons or Matt Ryan bashing. Heh.

Najeh,

I hear you on animal cruelty. One man’s cruelty is another man’s sport. But until it’s against the law, all we have is our opinions. I don’t know what to say other than I’m a meat eater…

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 11, 2009 4:29 PM | Link to this

ANOTHER 1-DIMENSIONAL QB BITES THE DUST

—-CONGRATULATIONS D MCNABB——-

GREAT JOB :)

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 11, 2009 4:36 PM | Link to this

CRUNCH TIME RESULTS

JOE FLACCO….WINS PLAYOFF GAMES

MV7…..WINS PLAYOFF GAMES

DONAVON MCNABB….WINS PLAYOFF GAMES

ELI MANNING…WINS PLAYOFF GAMES

RYAN LEAF CHOKES IN PLAYOFF GAMES

72-MILLION DOLLAR BUST

By The AV

January 11, 2009 4:38 PM | Link to this

YOU DO REALIZE ANDY REID DUMPED RANDALL CUNNINGHAM (THE ORIGINAL MULTI-DIMENSIONAL QB) SINCE HE COULDN’T FACET THE WEST COAST OFFENSE AND REPLACED HIM WITH DONOVAN MCNABB?

P.S. I’M A DONOVAN MCNABB FAN.

By falcon21

January 11, 2009 4:44 PM | Link to this

D-POOP write a book, just don’t do it on this blog!!!

By Bubba

January 11, 2009 4:47 PM | Link to this

JOEBRAVE You are as classless on this blog as you are on DOB’s. BTW, were you in Deliverance?

By Vick Supporter

January 11, 2009 4:52 PM | Link to this

@Ray

You’re exactly right. Too bad people on here only see what’s in front of him. People always say I just talk about Vick, but I always point this stuff out and I get labeled a racist for not being on the Ryan bandwagon. I was a Falcon fan, but it was painful to watch Vick have to carry the entire franchise by himself. Great post man, exactly right.

By Field General Bias

January 11, 2009 4:58 PM | Link to this

AV, why don’t you pick up the book Third and a Mile and then understand why Randall Cunningham left Philly as opposed to your “he couldn’t facet the WC offense” bull which I’m sure you picked up from one of the myriad of idiots on Bspn.

By Gutenburg

January 11, 2009 5:00 PM | Link to this

Glad to hear “Vick Supporter” liked “Ray’s” essay. Maybe he can condense it for some of us who have a life.

By falcon21

January 11, 2009 5:01 PM | Link to this

Welcome to the D-POOP and VS butt kissing hour!

By Realist

January 11, 2009 5:05 PM | Link to this

AV, why are you lying? How could Andy Reid dump Randall Cunningham when he became the coach of Philly in 1999 and Cunningham had been playing for the Vikings since 1997?? Why you lyin??

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 11, 2009 5:06 PM | Link to this

FIELD GENERAL BIAS

——THAT’S HILARIOUS :)**

By The AV

January 11, 2009 5:09 PM | Link to this

Field General, Do please enlighten us. I’ll let you in on a secret… I was at the Eagles-Panthers game when D McNabb replaced R Cunningham. I got it from the source and not a book or ESPN…

By Field General

January 11, 2009 5:29 PM | Link to this

AV, McNabb was drafted by Philly in 1999……now how could he replace Cunningham who was the starter for the Vikings from 97-99?? You really ought to just admit you lied and then lied some more with that “I was at the game when McNabb replaced Cunningham”….ROFLMAO!!!!

By 3

January 11, 2009 5:33 PM | Link to this

I LOVE MURDERING ANIMALS.

I DON’T THINK A FOOTBALL TEAM IS COMPLETE WITHOUT A FELON AT EVERY POSITION.

I THINK A CAT SHOULD BE DROWNED BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF EVERY NFL GAME.

I ONCE COMPLETED 3 PASSES AGAINST CHICAGO, BUT AM THE BEST QUARTERBACK EVER.

RUNNING QUARTERBACKS THAT CAN’T PASS ACCURATELY WIN EVERY SUPER BOWL

I JUST ELECTROCUTED A PUG FOR FUN.

By VICK SUPPORTER 3

January 11, 2009 5:35 PM | Link to this

I LOVE MURDERING ANIMALS.

I DON’T THINK A FOOTBALL TEAM IS COMPLETE WITHOUT A FELON AT EVERY POSITION.

I THINK A CAT SHOULD BE DROWNED BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF EVERY NFL GAME.

I ONCE COMPLETED 3 PASSES AGAINST CHICAGO, BUT AM THE BEST QUARTERBACK EVER.

RUNNING QUARTERBACKS THAT CAN’T PASS ACCURATELY WIN EVERY SUPER BOWL

I JUST ELECTROCUTED A PUG FOR FUN.

By The AV

January 11, 2009 5:37 PM | Link to this

You got me. Was at the game when McNabb came in and had been told earlier why they dumped Cunningham…

By TERRY

January 11, 2009 5:39 PM | Link to this

AV you are wrong. Cunningham was the starter for the Vikings when they had the 15-1 season but lost to the Falcons who went to the SuperBowl. DMac didnt come out of Syracuse until 99.

By Field General

January 11, 2009 5:50 PM | Link to this

AV, you heard wrong. Who is “they” that would have “dumped” Cunningham? Because Andy Reid became head coach the same year Donovan got drafted and he was with the Packers before he became HC of the Eagles. So that whole “they” who you claim said Cunningham couldn’t facet the west coast offense are obviously a bunch of lying morons. Cunningham’s numbers in 1998 were staggering. Regardless of the offense, no one would make such a stupid azz remark unless they just wanted to completely make it up to suit some other nefarious purpose.

By Randle P. McMurphy

January 11, 2009 5:50 PM | Link to this

This blog makes One flew over the cukoo’s nest a meeting of Mensa International.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 11, 2009 5:54 PM | Link to this

REALIST

——-THAT’S FUNNY——-

I WAS WONDERING THAT MYSELF…..GUESS HE HAS LOST THE LITTLE CREDIBILITY HE HAD :)

By Vick Supporter

January 11, 2009 5:54 PM | Link to this

Welcome to the falcon21 and The AV racist hour!

By Randle P. McMurphy

January 11, 2009 5:54 PM | Link to this

It is also full of what might be found in the bottom of a c-u-c-k-o-o’-s nest.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 11, 2009 6:03 PM | Link to this

VICK SUPPORTER

THEY ARE OUT OF FACTS SO THEY ARE RESORTING TO DISTORTING THE TRUTH :)

———THE TRUTH IS———-

LEAF CHOKES IN THE PLAYOFF

THE EXPERIMENT FAILED AND THEY SHOULD HAVE DRAFTED FLACCO :)

By falcon21

January 11, 2009 6:09 PM | Link to this

VS that was cool man. I give you credit but we are not racist.

By Dr. Frankenstein

January 11, 2009 6:10 PM | Link to this

Talk about “failed experiments”. I tried to install a brain in VS2, but it is too difficult to do…anally.

By The Anti-Vick

January 11, 2009 6:15 PM | Link to this

I said I was wrong. At least I am man enough to admit it as opposed to others on this blog. And then the racist card gets tossed in. Guess when all else fails that’s what you do. Time to go back to the old material…

By The Whole truth

January 11, 2009 6:25 PM | Link to this

I am with you on this one, Anti-Vick. When all else fails…play the race card. I have never made a racial remark on this blog. Stupid is stupid. White or black.

By falcon21

January 11, 2009 6:45 PM | Link to this

Whole truth that is the whole truth.If I say something about Keith Brooking nothing is said except from tech fans.But if I say something about Vick I’M a racist.

By The Whole truth

January 11, 2009 6:55 PM | Link to this

As a matter of fact,, I have ATTACKED(sometimes using one of my other “persona’s”)stupid people who have used racial epithets, etc. on this blog. There is NO excuse for racism, reverse or otherwise, in a public forum. Now, twist that!

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 11, 2009 7:00 PM | Link to this

“If I say something about Keith Brooking nothing is said except from tech fans.But if I say something about Vick I’M a racist.”

No, actually if you say something about Brooking, crabapplejoe will say you hate white people.

By lobo

January 11, 2009 7:32 PM | Link to this

I have a Falcons sweat shirt I was ashamed to wear last season. I had it on alot this season. Nuff said!

By The Whole truth

January 11, 2009 8:07 PM | Link to this

Ben Roethlisberger, a “one-dimensional” QB, just led his team to the Championship game. I wonder how he did that without running around like the proverbial chicken with his head cut off? There he will face a team whose QB, Joe Flacco, is about as mobile as the Washington monument. Who would have thunk it?

By The AV

January 11, 2009 8:57 PM | Link to this

In the other game that Kurt Warner (former Super Bowl MVP whose team beat a mobile QB) sure runs around a lot too. But the real interesting trend is 3 of 4 underdogs/visiting teams beat the #1 or #2 seed/team with bye…

By Realist

January 11, 2009 9:14 PM | Link to this

The WholeTruth? Hardly…..how bout it for those great defenses? How about the schemes? How about the protection? Your myopic viewpoint is so biased I doubt you would have noticed those things. But that’s to be expected from the likes of you, its been expected ever since Fritz Pollard hit the field and probably won’t ever stop.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 11, 2009 9:21 PM | Link to this

BACK TO THE FALCONS “CURRENT” QB

CRUNCH TIME PERFORMANCE

——-LAST 4 GAMES———

INTERCEPTIONS……..6

FUMBLES……..4

SAFETY………1

WAY TO GO MATTY ICE :)

By crabapplejoe

January 11, 2009 9:40 PM | Link to this

Poop wrote: “No, actually if you say something about Brooking, crabapplejoe will say you hate white people.” Poop, that’s not entirely accurate. If you come on here and say that Brooking has never made a solo tackle, and he’s never been a good player or, like Stendec, initially refuse to believe that he was our leading tackler this year…then yes I will say you have a significant anti-white bias. On the other hand, if your come on here and say, gosh KB is 33 and maybe we should be looking to the future…maybe he should take a paycut (like he’s done several times for this franchise) and come back and mentor whoever we get to replace him…and golly gee he is a five time pro-bowler who played on our only SuperBowl team…not to mention he’s never shot anyone in a strip bar… then I will not call you a racist. And you will get extra points if you admit that it was Milloy’s cover on the 3rd & 16 and that Milloy single-handedly lost that game for us…two TDs given up plus the 3rd & 16…and you will admit that Milloy is older than Brooking and has lost 4 steps. Then your get “poster of the week”.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 11, 2009 9:48 PM | Link to this

WITH BROOKIN IN 2007

4-12

WITH MILLOY IN 2008

11-5

By MWC

January 11, 2009 10:04 PM | Link to this

What makes you guys so bitter? I see SD winning that game with LT…Wada ya think?

By crabapplejoe

January 11, 2009 10:06 PM | Link to this

Jockstap 2 wrote: *”WITH BROOKIN IN 2007

4-12

WITH MILLOY IN 2008

11-5*

You see, Poop, this is the type of ignorant crap I’m talking about. Milloy was with the Falcons in 2007 (and 2006 for that matter), but the obvious racist Jockstrap 2 comes on and posts that drivel. If you support that sh** then we also know you are a racist. I call out the anti-white BS…that’s all. Milloy was a complete failure this year and cost us the playoff game…but his “brothas” on the team immediately elected him captain for next year in hopes that Dimitrov wouldn’t do what needs to be done. No such support for KB after his illustrious career as a Falcon on and off the field.

By Vick Supporter

January 11, 2009 10:35 PM | Link to this

MWC, lol. No comment.

By MWC

January 11, 2009 10:42 PM | Link to this

VS no kidding??

By Vick Supporter

January 11, 2009 11:05 PM | Link to this

MWC you’re a clown. I’m not falling for it

By MWC

January 11, 2009 11:12 PM | Link to this

YAWN!!! good night

By ray

January 12, 2009 6:33 AM | Link to this

Gutenberg,

Or whatever your fake name is, I use paragraph breaks, so it shouldn’t be all that hard to follow along. You do read books don’t you? They’re a lot longer than essays. Do come back when you can keep up…if that ever happens. Sorry if I made too much sense for your feeble cognitive abilities, which is what I suspect the real problem is.

As for some of these other clowns, clearly racism will never die. There will always be some dumb a-holes around to promote it. Usually the kind who are way too scared to act like this in public (fearing the beat-down that will surely come), and live their private little feelings on the internet. Heh.

By jeanE

January 12, 2009 8:07 AM | Link to this

Wow, after watching the Cardinals just blow the doors off of Carolina, I don’t feel so bad that we lost to them!! We almost beat them & if obviously wasn’t a fluke that they beat us, they are just on fire! Also, Matt Ryan shouldn’t feel so bad about his 2 picks when a seasoned veterance like Delhomme threw 5, unbelievable! This season was more than I ever thought it would be, I thought before it started, 4-5 wins, max. Then, when we started to win, I wanted more! I am in serious withdrawal! You’re right about them being ready & competing in every single game, what a testament to Mike Smith, his staff & the players. If we had a defense, we might’ve gone far! I know veggie-head (that’s Dimitroff) will assemble some help on the D, we have a few good players just need to fill it out on that side of the ball. Please let Finn play out his contract!!!

By Gutenberg

January 12, 2009 8:45 AM | Link to this

“Ray” or whatever other “fake” name you go by. Oh, that’s not a fake name? It should be. In brief answer to your query: Yes, I read books. I write them,too. I also read essays…if they are worth reading. Yours do not fall into that classification. They just fall.

Once, in a Creative Writing class, we were told by the Prof. that most of the time you should be able to make your point in two paragraphs or less. If not, one of these two reasons might apply:

1. Either you didn’t have your thoughts properly organized.

2. What you said wasn’t worth saying in the first place.

I have exceeded that limit for clarity purposes.

By TheAntiMe

January 12, 2009 9:02 AM | Link to this

I think that the emergence of WR Harry Douglas was a very important factor in the Birds success this year. Not only does he give the offense a legitimate threat of 3 very good receivers (along with Roddy White and Michael Jenkins), but he gave a very much needed boost to special teams as an exciting punt returner who can take it to the house on any given punt return.

By Vick Supporter

January 12, 2009 9:45 AM | Link to this

January 20th, 2009……………

By The Whole truth

January 12, 2009 9:49 AM | Link to this

“It would be nice if you stand by that.” Vick Supporter makes that comment regarding my assertion that I have never made a racial comment on this blog. Well, I don’t appreciate the condescending way you “acknowledge” it. It sounds more like “If you’re not lyin’(and I think you are)…” To which I reply: If you have some evidence that I am lying then produce it. Otherwise, STFU and go on with your charade about a “return” that has as much chance of happening as Steve Bartkowski’s.

By Vick Supporter

January 12, 2009 9:54 AM | Link to this

@The Whole truth

I keep forgetting that you’ve never made a racial comment to anyone on this blog. Forgive me Master.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 12, 2009 10:01 AM | Link to this

GO PANTHERS

AFTER THE PANTHERS(GOD’S TEAM) WINS THE SUPER BOWL THIS YEAR, WE CAN DUMP JAKE AND PICK UP A REAL QB IN VICK.

IMAGINE S. SMITH NUMBERS WITH VICK THROWING TO HIM.

By The Whole truth

January 12, 2009 10:01 AM | Link to this

You are forgiven. Rise, and go and sin no more.

You are forgiven. Rise, and go and sin no more.

By Vick Supporter

January 12, 2009 10:10 AM | Link to this

Free Vick

By Zoo Keeper

January 12, 2009 10:11 AM | Link to this

Hate to break it to you VS@2, but the Panthers lost. But, so did the Lions, Tigers and Leopards.

By @The whole truth

January 12, 2009 10:31 AM | Link to this

Vick’s Supporter

Free Unicorns

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 12, 2009 10:42 AM | Link to this

2009 OFF-SEASON PICK UPS FOR RAIDERS

MV7, T.O. AND OCHO CINCO

NO PICK UPS FOR FALCONS

NOBODY WANTS TO PLAY FOR A TEAM WHO HASN’T BEEN TO NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GM SINCE 2004.

By harleyman

January 12, 2009 10:45 AM | Link to this

While VS2 and vick supporter haven’t convinced anyone other than Najehpoop with their argument about Vick, I will say that they have successfully ruined this blog with their childish banter. Congratulations! You two win. Maybe D LED will recognize you in his annual blog awards.

By Vick Supporter

January 12, 2009 10:51 AM | Link to this

@harleyman

We’re just stating facts that you people fail to see, even though they are proven facts. Your analysis is mostly hate towards a person that never did anything personally to you.

By Vick Supporter

January 12, 2009 10:51 AM | Link to this

@harleyman

We’re just stating facts that you people fail to see, even though they are proven facts. Your analysis is mostly hate towards a person that never did anything personally to you.

By 9-1-1

January 12, 2009 10:55 AM | Link to this

ALERT

A chimpanzee has broken into VS2’s home and is pounding away on his ‘puter while VS2 pounds away on…well, you know. Respond when practical and be sure to wear gloves. That is all 10 -4 and out

By Referee

January 12, 2009 11:03 AM | Link to this

TWEET Double dribble on Vick Supporter. harleyman, take it out on the side. TWEET

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 12, 2009 11:18 AM | Link to this

“While VS2 and vick supporter haven’t convinced anyone other than Najehpoop with their argument about Vick, I will say that they have successfully ruined this blog with their childish banter.”

For whatever it’s worth, I’ve been “ruining this blog” talking about this sh-t for a good four years, long before VS and VS2 showed up.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 12, 2009 11:24 AM | Link to this

GO PANTHERS

HOW CAN MATTY ICE BE A FRANCHISE QB WHEN HE CAN’T EVEN BEAT ARIZONA

IF CAROLINA HAD MV7 THEN THEY WOULD BE PLAYING THE EAGLES

WHAT’S AN NFC CHAMPIONSHIP WITHOUT MV7 PLAYING THE EAGLES

HOW WILL THE FALCONS EVER WIN A NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GM WITHOUT MV7

STAY TUNED……………

By D LED

January 12, 2009 11:27 AM | Link to this

“We’re just stating facts that you people fail to see, even though they are* proven facts*”. CONGRATULATIONS!! That is the most ridiculously unsubstantiated statement of the millennium. Vick Supporter is the man!!

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 12, 2009 11:43 AM | Link to this

VICK SUPPORTER 2

NICE TRY :)

COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT BETTER MYSELF

NO NFC CHAMPIONSHIP SINCE 2004 AND COUNTING……….

By Vick Supporter

January 12, 2009 12:02 PM | Link to this

I will say this……alot of the negative things that people say on here about Vick comes from pure hatred. i can understand the fact that they hate him for dogfighting (they pretty much act like he invented dogfighting). The thing that gets me is this……..I grew up in a small, majority white, town in Oklahoma and the white folks fought dogs on a regular basis. Not trying to be racist, but the media, and alot of white folks, made this bigger than it really is. Although Blacks don’t like dogfighting either, I’m not one to condemn any man for figting dogs. They deserve to do some time (not 2 years in prison and lose everything), but this whole thing was totally overblown. Vick was made an example of, plain and simple. He didn’t help himself by having the “look” that whites despise, i.e, conrows, tatoos, and all that physical stuff that shouldn’t matter. Its really a sad day in our country that dogfighting gets more coverage than the war in Iraq or these oil and water companies that are raising prices for no reason at all. The dogfighting was bad…….the good thing is that we get to witness a once in a lifetime QB make things right for himself and make something positive in his life again. The NFL will be fun to watch again. It was really great to see McNabb carve up the Giants and was able to use his legs to convert big third downs. Vick will do this on a higher level than anyone who’s ever played the game

By The Whole truth

January 12, 2009 12:34 PM | Link to this

It is interesting the Vick’s Supporter begins his latest diatribe with the words I will say…! Those are the operative words of everything he says. Let’s get that straight. They are not facts; but instead what he thinks.

It is also interesting that he closes with a tribute to what McNabb did to the Giants(and it was considerable)with no acknowledgment of what Warner did to the Panthers. Of course there was no “racism” involved. Or was there?

By Vick Supporter

January 12, 2009 12:35 PM | Link to this

Will Delhomme return to Carolina next season? Posted: January 11th, 2009 | Adam Schefter | Tags: Carolina Panthers, Derek Anderson, Jake Delhomme, Michael Vick

Streeter Lecka/Getty Images Tampa Bay is no longer the lone NFC South team expected to be looking for a quarterback this offseason.

With his woeful performance Saturday night, Panthers quarterback Jake Delhomme made Tarvaris Jackson look like Bart Starr.

In fact, the five interceptions Delhomme threw Saturday night were two more than Starr threw in his entire postseason career that consisted of 213 passing attempts. With his 39.1 passer rating (which seemed more like 0.0), Delhomme now is in the conversation for the worst game ever by a quarterback in a big spot.

Now the question becomes what will happen to Delhomme, especially considering that he carries a team-high $11 million salary-cap figure for next season. If the Panthers release Delhomme, they would save a whopping $6.325 million against next season’s salary cap — perhaps enough to pursue another quarterback such as Cleveland’s Derek Anderson or even Michael Vick.

THE BALL IS ABOUT TO START ROLLING VICK 09

By Vick Supporter

January 12, 2009 12:42 PM | Link to this

Will Delhomme return to Carolina next season? Posted: January 11th, 2009 | Adam Schefter | Tags: Carolina Panthers, Derek Anderson, Jake Delhomme, Michael Vick

Streeter Lecka/Getty Images Tampa Bay is no longer the lone NFC South team expected to be looking for a quarterback this offseason.

With his woeful performance Saturday night, Panthers quarterback Jake Delhomme made Tarvaris Jackson look like Bart Starr.

In fact, the five interceptions Delhomme threw Saturday night were two more than Starr threw in his entire postseason career that consisted of 213 passing attempts. With his 39.1 passer rating (which seemed more like 0.0), Delhomme now is in the conversation for the worst game ever by a quarterback in a big spot.

Now the question becomes what will happen to Delhomme, especially considering that he carries a team-high $11 million salary-cap figure for next season. If the Panthers release Delhomme, they would save a whopping $6.325 million against next season’s salary cap — perhaps enough to pursue another quarterback such as Cleveland’s Derek Anderson or even Michael Vick.

THE BALL IS ABOUT TO START ROLLING VICK 09

By Vick Supporter

January 12, 2009 12:46 PM | Link to this

@The Whole truth,lol

You crack me up man, really. Since I failed to mention Warner, I’m a racist,lol. Damn

By K-1 Teacher

January 12, 2009 12:48 PM | Link to this

Vick Supporter watch closely. You push this button once and the words come up on the screen. See? Now, you try it.

By Michael Vick

January 12, 2009 1:02 PM | Link to this

I am trying to get in a carpool going to the Carolina Panthers training camp this summer. If you can help me call:: Fed Pen 300-4725.

By Vick Supporter

January 12, 2009 1:03 PM | Link to this

@The Whole truth,lol

You crack me up man, really. Since I failed to mention Warner, I’m a racist,lol. Damn

By K-1 Teacher

January 12, 2009 1:14 PM | Link to this

Vick Supporter watch closely. You push this button once and the words come up on the screen. See? Now, you try it.

By harleyman

January 12, 2009 1:17 PM | Link to this

@vicksupporter

We’re just stating facts that you people fail to see, even though they are proven facts. Your analysis is mostly hate towards a person that never did anything personally to you.

What you fail to see is that you have stated your facts over and over again like a broken record. You or anyone else are not going to change anyone’s mind about whether you like Vick or not with the back and forth banter. How my analysis of this is hate I do not know. I just like reading the blogs about the current state of the Atlanta Falcons without having to forward through all the nonsense that, believe me, I have memorized by now.

By Vick Supporter

January 12, 2009 1:26 PM | Link to this

@harleyman

Well just ignore me please. It would be greatly appreciated. Really.

By Vick Supporter

January 12, 2009 1:26 PM | Link to this

@harleyman

Well just ignore me please. It would be greatly appreciated. Really.

By Fred Flinstone

January 12, 2009 1:39 PM | Link to this

VS, lets see…a job…A JOB where you camp out on a AJC blog for HOURS. You are so productive! How does one score a job like that? Don’t tell me, now your’re gonna tell us YOU are in charge…LMFAO!!!!! P.S. nobody cares what color you are,only you do. Grow up

By Vick Supporter

January 12, 2009 1:45 PM | Link to this

@Fred Flinstone

I’m very productive, since your’re trying to get in my business. I have what is called an EDUCATION. I’m not driving a bulldozer or doing “construction” like you probably are…..coming home with mud caked all over you,lol. I happen to have a job where I use my brain, to pushing a shovel like you. Its nice to have a nice, confy office. Are you surprised by me actually having a job that pays well? Whats the problem? I can’t help that you can’t blog from your bulldozer

By Fred Flinstone

January 12, 2009 1:55 PM | Link to this

ERRRR…did’nt I just post VS? Man you are so………….

By Mike from NY

January 12, 2009 2:05 PM | Link to this

Besides the team achieving much more than anyone possibly expected (especially on the defensive side of the ball), my most vivid (and recent) memory of this season was the BS safety against the Cards, in spite of the fact he was still upright and completed a pass to Turner that would have gotten at LEAST a TD.

As far as offseason, I’m greedy and want Asomugha, Vilma, Haynesworth and Peppers; draft well, save money by letting Brooking and Boley go; Milloy’s a great leader but depends how reasonable his demands are salary wise whether he goes too. Move Anderson to LB (Terrell Suggs style) and give him a chance there before deeming him a complete bust. How are these things not reasonable or doable?

By Chris

January 12, 2009 2:19 PM | Link to this

Vick Supporter, I think Fred is telling you that you are an idiot

By D.Ellis

January 12, 2009 2:23 PM | Link to this

Actually there is nothing wrong with working with a bulldozer for a living or construction….some of those guys make great pay and might actually enjoy being outdoors instead of an office.

-Also if your job allows it and you can spend about 8-10 hours a day blogging about how horrible or great Matt Ryan is…or how horrible or great Mike Vick was and repeating the same stuff over and over and over and over again then that must be nice as well.

• By the way Fred Flinstone doesn’t work on a bulldozer anyway…or shovel dirt….he works on a dinosaur that shovels rocks….and I’d like to see any of you slide down that tail when the whistle blows….that dudes got skills.

By MWC

January 12, 2009 2:36 PM | Link to this

Ya know, I was just about to blast DOL about this horrific blog again, but D. Ellis has me laughing way too hard right now…Man that was funny as H@ll!!!

By Edd

January 12, 2009 2:39 PM | Link to this

Such a pleasure to watch. I don’t care for Peppers…Get a T. Suggs OR Haynesworth type of impact player . Brooking has lost a step that he didn’t have to start with. Great heart but time to move on. We were in every game, thanks Falcons for the heart. See ya in a few months !!!!!!

By 4th and goal

January 12, 2009 2:58 PM | Link to this

Flinstone: Vick Supporter is a Systems Network Engineer for Crisco, dudes got a good job. I don’t agree with everything he says, but can’t knock him for being educated and supporting his family. Why would you assume he has a bottom feeding job where he can just blog all day? Who cares if he supports Vick.

Everyone: If VS supported Ryan would you still think he was unemployed or sitting at his mom’s computer?

By The Whole truth

January 12, 2009 3:00 PM | Link to this

I just returned for a minute, taking a break from what many on here(VS & VS2 excluded)do, too, which is live a life. I missed some cartoons and a sociology lesson. Having passed that course at the graduate level, I’ll just audit this version. BTW, it made much more sense when I took it, but it could be the age difference.

I loved VS’s racial stereotyping of all whites as construction workers. At least he has moved beyond us all being plantation owners with whips. That’s progress. And I LMAO at VS “publishing” as “K-1 Teacher” and then double-clutching to give himself away.

Got to run, my bulldozer is double parked. And VS, the boss wants you to hurry and pick up the rest of the mail and make some copies.

By LOL @ Vick

January 12, 2009 3:00 PM | Link to this

confy - is not a word. So it would be your education in question.

BTW, we dont miss Vick or Hall or Crumpler.

Great job this year Falcons !

By 4th and goal

January 12, 2009 3:04 PM | Link to this

Derek Watts: STFU man, you’re embarassing our people.

By Everyone

January 12, 2009 3:06 PM | Link to this

YUP..camped out on the computer 24/7 it seems. WHAT A GREAT JOB!!! Listen up slick, it’s old, been old, and dude has issues. GET A LIFE, mabye spend more time with your family???

By MWC

January 12, 2009 3:16 PM | Link to this

I still say that if LT plays, much different outcome. although the Eagles beat up on Zona earlier this year, I kinda like Zona. I think Flacco gets exposed this weekend. I see Ben having a great game, just my simple opinion.

By Eric C.

January 12, 2009 3:17 PM | Link to this

I don’t feel as bad about the Falcons losing to Arizona after watching them dismantle Carolina in Charlotte…wow. If anything, the Falcons played a darn good Arizona team pretty tough in Tempe!

By The Whole truth

January 12, 2009 3:23 PM | Link to this

“Derek Watts” If you are a real person(and not the product of someone’s imagination. That person needing “help” to prove his point[s])I disassociate myself from you and your type, completely. You make trailer trash seem like aristocracy. Feel free to google all words that you need to catch my meaning.

By Chris

January 12, 2009 3:23 PM | Link to this

VS…angry,angry,angry…we need to leave him alone,especially us caucasians, and let him sulk in his room…

By D.Ellis

January 12, 2009 3:31 PM | Link to this

@Vick Supporter-Lets get one thing straight between you and me and no one else on here. So listen real good. WHERE IN MY POST DID I WRITE YOU ( VICK SUPPORTER) SIT ON THE BLOG ALL DAY LONG FOR 8 -10 HOURS A DAY?????????? CAN YOU RE COPY AND POST MY POST WHERE I WROTE THAT?

-MY POST is directed to ALL PEOPLE that sit on here for 8-10 hours a day blogging about the same stupid thing day in and day out. So DON”T call me out unless you got some FACTS as you like to say about HOW I posted what I did. DID I DIRECT MY POST TOWARDS VICK SUPPORTER/ NO I DIDN”T THINK SO. DID I TELL YOU THAT YOU ( VICK SUPPORTER) BLOG ON HERE ALL DAY for 8-10 hours a day???? NOPE SURE DIDN’t.

-DID YOU READ ANYWHERE IN MY POST WHERE I WROTE YOU DON”T DO ANY WORK?

-To answer your question nope I’m employed…I’m an educated man with a great job such as yourself…a job with an office that allows me access to a site like this to shoot the shi^ and see what others think about sports/Falcons

-I never said you couldn’t come back and ridicule people…do waht you have to do my black friend. I was simply pointing out the fact that guys that run bulldoziers and work construction make good money or mgiht enjoy being outdoors. Then was making a joke about Fred Flinstone and getting some laughs.You got a problem with that?

-I said if your job and by that I mean anyone’s job…LIKE MINE…allows you to blog or post all day about the same thing over and over and over and over again then that is “nice” or jsut as good as running a bulldozier or contruction.

NOT EVERY post people post on here is TOWARDS YOU….don’t get to flattered with your self.

By School Marm

January 12, 2009 3:38 PM | Link to this

R-I-D-I-C-U-L-E Fortunately only academia equate the inability to spell with an inadequate education.

By The Whole truth

January 12, 2009 3:45 PM | Link to this

I’m getting out of here! Vick’s Supporter has threatened to get “nasty”. That is almost as frightening as having Richard Simmons say he’s going to throw marshmallows at you. Feet don’t fail me now!!

By D.Ellis

January 12, 2009 3:50 PM | Link to this

Makes sense. It was directed to all people in that conversation. But F*******% it anyway

By D.Ellis

January 12, 2009 3:55 PM | Link to this

The Whole Truth-That post was funny as hel##.

I’m outta here fellas and chickadees….I gotta dip I gotta put in my mouth…while I play in the mud and drive my bulldozier.

-Laugh a little Vick Supporter it’s like milk..it does a body good…see you tomorrow…..same stuff different day.

Later yall

By MWC

January 12, 2009 4:36 PM | Link to this

Can’t help it. D. Ellis is WAY too funny!!! LMAO!!

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 12, 2009 4:52 PM | Link to this

BUST-BUST-BUST

LEAF IS A BUST WAITING TO HAPPEN ON MY FOREHEAD

By Bored with this cr@p

January 12, 2009 5:15 PM | Link to this

Falcon Football Anyone on here ever talk about it??

By mars

January 12, 2009 5:22 PM | Link to this

Peppers is on my wish list. With he and Abe pushing the tackles, our cornerbacks might show some improvement. I hate to admit it, but I’d like to see Tebow plugged in @ tight end (with cameos @ H-back, fullback, and occasionally QB.) We REALLY need linebackers.

Flacco’s is doing a fantastic job. I have nothing negative to say about him. I don’t believe he would have been happy as a Falcon though. Then, no matter how much he won, he would constantly be referred to as a “bust” for no good reason.

“We’re just stating facts that you people fail to see, even though they are proven facts. Your analysis is mostly hate towards a person that never did anything personally to you.” Now, this is a statement that could very easily describe SOME peoples abusive feelings toward Matt Ryan.

By mars

January 12, 2009 5:29 PM | Link to this

So, Tebow’s returning to the Gators, huh? Scratch that off my wish list. Dang!

By Vick Supporter

January 12, 2009 5:34 PM | Link to this

Tebow,lol. I still can’t believe he beat my Sooners

By Dogbyte

January 12, 2009 5:39 PM | Link to this

What if it came down to a choice between Haynesworth or Peppers? Who do you choose? And why?

By mars

January 12, 2009 5:43 PM | Link to this

Despite the fact that he’s a hated Gator, Tebow is an exceptional athlete and football player whose talent would be wasted at quarterback on the pro level. How’s that for irony?

By mars

January 12, 2009 5:57 PM | Link to this

Dogbyte, I’d be happy with either one, with a slight edge to Peppers. Reasons; a)QB’s would lose their minds just thinking about Peppers on one end and Abe on the other, b)we’re stuck with J Anderson (salary cap), and in my opinion he is better suite for DT that DE (possible cause of lack of production), and c) Grady is getting old. He’s not an every down player anymore, and we need to find another huge butt to “nose” up to center. Hayneworth’s not the kind of player to be satisfied with freeing up the MLB. Now on to linebacker. Would the acquisition of either Haynesworth or Peppers leave enough cap room to pursue Suggs?

By The Anti-Vick

January 12, 2009 6:12 PM | Link to this

WOW. Focus on work for a day and this place goes nuts. You obviously don’t need my input. However, hope your boy has better luck getting signed than he has selling his crib.

Bids for Vick’s Sugarloaf home start at $3.2 million The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Monday, January 12, 2009 Falcons’ incarcerated quarterback Michael Vick filed a motion in federal bankruptcy court on Friday officially requesting an auction sale of his Sugarloaf home.

• The property has been shown on over 30 occasions in an attempt to sell. Price does not include dog cages or rape stands.

By Dogbyte

January 12, 2009 7:22 PM | Link to this

Mars—These are my thoughts. Although the Falcon’s needs seem to be more a pass rushing end, I would go with Haynesworth. The reason? He is a destroyer of both run and pass. And having him and Abe on the same side would create blocking problems that few, if any, teams could solve. Other than that, we should re-sign Foxy and Coy Wire and get a lb and safety from the draft.

By Dogbyte

January 12, 2009 7:45 PM | Link to this

Why can’t this blog be more about what Mars and I are attempting to do? We don’t agree, but I am not calling him names…or is he calling me names. We are discussing something that is relative to our team. Try it. You may like it.

By crabapplejoe

January 12, 2009 8:13 PM | Link to this

EDD wrote: “Brooking has lost a step that he didn’t have to start with.” Yeah, that’s why he was selected to five pro-bowls you moron.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 12, 2009 10:36 PM | Link to this

RYAN LEAF’S PRESS SECRETARY

DEAR FAN CLUB:

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL YOU LOYAL FOLLOWERS. THANKS TO YOU, I WAS ABLE TO SCAM YOUR DUMB OWNER OUT OF 72-MILLION DOLLARS EVEN IF I CAN’T READ DEFENSES, THROW MORE THAN 25 YARDS DOWN FIELD.

WHO CARES IF I CHOKE IN THE PLAYOFFS - I’M RICH SUCKERS. SO WHAT JOE FLACCO IS IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME - I’M RICH SUCKERS.

SO WHAT I DIDN’T WIN A PLAYOFF GAME FOR THIS SORRY ORGANIZATION - I’M RICH SUCKERS.

SO WHAT I MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR MIKE VICK TO GO TO CAROLINA AND KICK OUR BUTTS NEXT SEASON - I’M RICH SUCKERS.

FINAL NOTE - THANKS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT SUCKERS :)

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 12, 2009 11:11 PM | Link to this

JAKE DELHOMME

——5 INTERCEPTIONS IN PLAYOFF GAME——

ARE YOU TELLING ME A DROP BACK PASSER CAN’T READ DEFENSES?

THAT’S HILARIOUS :)

By D. Orlando Ledbetter

January 12, 2009 11:27 PM | Link to this

(NOTE TO BLOGGERS: We are happy to host your conversations. We expect that you all will show RESPECT for each other. That means don’t threaten, defame or use racial insults * and keep the chatter from personal attacks. If you think a post violates this guidelines, don’t escalate the situation. We had to close down the blog for a couple of days and will not hesitate to do so again if things get out of control. *So those who persist with racist, defamatory or abusive postings will cause commenting on the blog to be closed. LET’S MAKE THIS A FOOTBALL BLOG and take it in a fundamentally new direction.)

Had to go back and delete some of the nonsense.

—DOL

STICK TO FOOTBALL PLEASE.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 12, 2009 11:28 PM | Link to this

TEAMS ON MV7 RADAR

http://www.sportaphile.com/tag/michael-vick/

——-1 INCLUDES HOUSTON————

TAKING SCHAUB’S JOB…

THAT WOULD BE HILARIOUS :)

By D. Orlando Ledbetter

January 12, 2009 11:38 PM | Link to this

VS2: Checked out that list. It doesn’t have Seattle on it. Mora has hired Greg Knapp and appears to be putting the band back together.

Also, looked up the last 10 No. 25 picks in the draft. It’s a hit (Beason, Carolina) or miss (Freddie Mitchell) spot.

LAST 10 — 25th picks

2008 — Mike Jenkins, CB, Dallas, South Florida

2007 — Jon Beason, MLB, Carolina, Miami

2006 — Santonio Holmes, WR, Pittsburgh, Ohio State

2005 — Jason Campbell, QB, Washington, Auburn

2004 — Ahmad Carroll, CB, Green Bay, Arkansas

2003 — William Joseph, DT, New York Giants, Miami, Fla.

2002 — Charles Grant, DE, New Orleans, Georgia

2001 — Freddie Mitchell, WR, Philadelphia, UCLA (Vick went No. 1. Reggie Wayne went 30th and Todd Heap, 31st.)

2000 — Chris Hovan, DT, Minnesota, Boston College

1999 — Antuan Edwards, CB, Green Bay, Clemson (Tim Couch goes No. 1 to Browns; Patrick Kerney went 30th to ATL)

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 13, 2009 12:05 AM | Link to this

I’ve never been a fan of trying to project based on what picks have been made in a particular slot in the past. The needs and situations of the teams mentioned above were entirely different in every way except for their record the previous season, which could have been a fluke, a sign of things to come, or another successful year in a string of successful years. You could call pretty much any pick somewhat “hit or miss” too, if you look through past history.

Loved this line from VS2’s link: “Why would Oakland sign Michael Vick if they just drafted Jamarcus Russell?? The logical answer to this question is: Because Al Davis is an idiot.”

I sincerely, truly hope that Vick doesn’t sign with Seattle. Dear Lord please don’t curse him with Jim Mora and Greg Knapp again.

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 13, 2009 8:21 AM | Link to this

MY CAROLINA PANTHERS

WHY, OH WHY, DID MY PANTHERS CHOKE IN THE PLAYOFFS?

I WAS FINALLY RIGHT ABOUT LEAF LOSING A GAME AND WAS SO HAPPY HE DIDN’T HAVE A CHANCE TO BRING THE FALCONS FROM BEHIND

SPEAKING OF COMING FROM BEHIND………………..

MV7 WOULD LOOK GREAT IN CAROLINA COLORS

I CAN JUST IMAGINE VICK OVER THROWING STEVE SMITH AND HIM COMING BACK TO THE HUDDLE AND PUNCHING THE GREATEST QB EVER IN THE FACE.

STEVE SMITH ON WHY HE PUNCHED MIKE VICK IN THE FACE: “I JUST WENT BACK TO THE HUDDLE AND ASKED HIM WHAT IN THE HELL HE WAS THINKING THROWING THE BALL SO HARD WHEN I WAS JUST 5 YARDS AWAY. HE JUST STOOD THERE WITH A CONFUSED LOOK ON HIS FACE SO I PUNCHED HIM. HE STARTED ROLLING ON THE GROUND MUMBLING SOMETHING ABOUT HOW HE DOESN’T KNOW WHO HE IS ANYMORE OR SOMETHING CRAZY LIKE THAT.”

By Reality

January 13, 2009 9:06 AM | Link to this

        **TEAMS ON MV7'S RADAR**

                       **NONE**

‘CAUSE HE DOESN’T HAVE ANY RADAR

                  **OR HOUSES**

                     **OR CARS**

                   **OR JEWELRY**

                       **OR DOGS**

                      **OR A TEAM**

              **AIN'T THAT A SHAME**

By AJC LOST IN SPACE

January 13, 2009 9:44 AM | Link to this

Now you want to shut the blogs down. when vick was in the heat of thing why did you not close them down them. Why come to the Neckvile Falcons. The fans and media would throw you under the bus. If you are a black star this is not the place to come. I hope Vick will play in the NFC south. Matt Rayan has been Exposed, weak arm and a punk under pressure! You must move on to win a super bowl look at other X-Falcon . There is greener grass and better fans and teams and money to be made!! 1039 yards rushing 20 TD’s passing no other player in the history of the game has done both in one season only Superman Mike Vick!!!!

By Reality

January 13, 2009 9:55 AM | Link to this

“Lost” in space—Try dropping some bread crumbs along your path. It didn’t work for Hansel and Gretel but you never know.

By AJC LOST IN SPACE

January 13, 2009 10:16 AM | Link to this

Atlanta is great city. Dont blame fans to not cheer for Falcons. Why come they never had 2 back winning seasons. Why come bunch a black stars live here but no 2 back winning seasons. Why come Mike Vick is not hear. What did he so wrong. Superman Mike Vick took his crime like an man. Not some pumk like Rayan. Why come i cant spell Rayan rite way. Whats up with that. Even now. i still cant spell Rayan carrect. Mayb he can give hes money to Vick. Rayan owe Vick that much.

By Reality

January 13, 2009 10:33 AM | Link to this

“The fans and media would throw you under the bus. If you are a black star this is not the place to come. “

PARTIAL LIST OF “BLACK” STARS WHO PLAY FOR THE FALCONS

John Abraham Johnathan Babineux Justin Blalock Thomas Brown Erik Coleman Chauncey Davis Thomas Decoud Harry Douglas Dominique Foxsworth Jamaal Fudge Wayne Gandy Antoine Harris Chris Houston Chevis Jackson Grady Jackson Curtis Lofton Lawyer Milloy Ovie Mughelli Jerious Norwood D J Shockley Michael Turner Roddy White

After looking under every bus in sight, I didn’t find a one of them.

By Reality

January 13, 2009 10:46 AM | Link to this

Don’t feel bad. I can’t spell Mickel Veek, either.

By AJC LOST IN SPACE

January 13, 2009 11:00 AM | Link to this

They throwed Superman Mike Vick undre tha buse. Why dont they throw Rayan under. He has a weak arm and punks under pressure. Vick rushed for 1039 yards and got replaced. Whats up with that. Theres money to be made.

By Spell Check

January 13, 2009 11:14 AM | Link to this

AFC LOST IN SPACE Call me. You need me, bro.

By Nat Turner III

January 13, 2009 11:33 AM | Link to this

DOL - Just what is your criteria for removing comments from this site. I do notice that you have removed some items. But I also notice that you have elected to leave some of the MOST OFFENSIVE racially inflamatory tripe. Please delineate your standards and apply them consistantly. There is nothing worse than a ref/censor with a bias.

By Mike from NY

January 13, 2009 12:10 PM | Link to this

Do we really need to go the racist route on here? Look, I’m from Western NY, but lived in Atlanta for a while several years ago. I’ve been a Falcon’s fan for over 15 yrs (since Jr. High), so here are my observations on both Vick/Ryan and the race issue.

First, I loved Vick when he played for us. There were some games he all but won on his own. BUT, his inability to stay in the pocket and throw first, to read defenses and throw a catchable ball rather than a laser beam every time prevented him from taking things to the next level. If he put those tools together and used his running and general athleticism as a supplement rather than the primary source of his productivity, he’d have been unstoppable. As for the dogfighting thing, I think he was either too compassionate or too stupid to shake some very unsavory people from his past, and he got wrapped up in the dogfighting, for which he is paying his time. Once he’s done with his sentence, he deserves another shot. But you can’t blame Blank for not wanting to be the one to give him that shot; there are too many distractions a la Vick/Burress/Jones/Henry/etc in the league that few owners would want risking big money on given patterns of past transgressions, or even a failure to develop as a quarterback (Vick). Ryan had the best rookie season since Marino, and a better season statistically than Eli Manning and many other qb’s, with a less complete team around him. He doesn’t have the scrambling big-play ability of Vick (who ever has), but he’s already a more complete QB. I actually wanted the Falcons to keep Schaub and trade Vick well before the dogfighing thing, mainly because of Vicks inability to develop his pocket passing ability. This is a football assessment, not a racial one.

As far as people, both white and black, making racist accusations, you’re both ignorant. Don’t assume someone like’s Vick because they’re both black, or don’t assume a black person is unemployed or can’t have a decent job. Conversely, don’t assume someone likes Ryan better because he/they are white. The color of a person’s skin is a random occurrence of birth, and nothing a person should derive pride nor shame from. White’s have done despicable things in this country, but do we really want to whine about things that happened 150 years ago? Find a Jew who hates all Germans because of the Holocaust, and that was much worse and much more recent. Besides, it’s not like the whites invented slavery; everyone has had and kept slaves (including African’s) throughout history. Let’s stop focusing on our superficial differences; let’s stop deriving shame or pride from the random color of our skin. Instead, just try to be a decent person and leave the ignorant people to flounder in their own bubble of stupidity.

By The Anti-Vick

January 13, 2009 12:27 PM | Link to this

Reality, Roddy White was able to crawl out from under the bus Vick threw him (and the other WR’s) under and have back to back 1000+ yard seasons when he had real QB’s throwing to him.

By D.Ellis

January 13, 2009 12:29 PM | Link to this

DOL-

Anyway you think MAys the SAFETY from USC will br around that late in the frist round?

If not what about Gresham the TE from from OU?

If the Falcons did draft Greshem or Pedigrou (sp) the TE from O-state…any chance Mularky implements the TE in the passing game more? That woul open up the sidelines for White /Jenkins

By Reality

January 13, 2009 12:31 PM | Link to this

If some of you people have a problem with posts(and D Led’s attempt to clean this blog up)that’s fine. But, don’t make some generalized statement about “MOST OFFENSIVE racially inflamatory tripe. ” Identify—at least by time posted—the post or posts that offend you. Then, D Led (who doesn’t have time to read all of this crapola)can look at that particular post, or posts, and see if they should be removed. If you don’t have the cajones to do that, then shut up!

By Nat Turner III

January 13, 2009 12:31 PM | Link to this

Mike from NY…I guess your heart is in the right place but:

1. You really should get your facts straight,

and

1. You really are cluless about race relations in this country.

Please read the following excerpt written by one of your White bretheren.

Of National Lies and Racial America By TIM WISE For most white folks, indignation just doesn’t wear well. Once affected or conjured up, it reminds one of a pudgy man, wearing a tie that may well have fit him when he was fifty pounds lighter, but which now cuts off somewhere above his navel and makes him look like an idiot. Indignation doesn’t work for most whites, because having remained sanguine about, silent during, indeed often supportive of so much injustice over the years in this country—the theft of native land and genocide of indigenous persons, and the enslavement of Africans being only two of the best examples—we are just a bit late to get into the game of moral rectitude. And once we enter it, our efforts at righteousness tend to fail the test of sincerity. But here we are, in 2008, fuming at the words of Pastor Jeremiah Wright, of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago—occasionally Barack Obama’s pastor, and the man whom Obama credits with having brought him to Christianity—for merely reminding us of those evils about which we have remained so quiet, so dismissive, so unconcerned. It is not the crime that bothers us, but the remembrance of it, the unwillingness to let it go—these last words being the first ones uttered by most whites it seems whenever anyone, least of all an ‘angry black man’ like Jeremiah Wright, foists upon us the bill of particulars for several centuries of white supremacy. But our collective indignation, no matter how loudly we announce it, cannot drown out the truth. And as much as white America may not be able to hear it (and as much as politics may require Obama to condemn it) let us be clear, Jeremiah Wright fundamentally told the truth. Oh I know that for some such a comment will seem shocking. After all, didn’t he say that America ‘got what it deserved’ on 9/11? And didn’t he say that black people should be singing ‘God Damn America’ because of its treatment of the African American community throughout the years? Well actually, no he didn’t. Wright said not that the attacks of September 11th were justified, but that they were, in effect, predictable. Deploying the imagery of chickens coming home to roost is not to give thanks for the return of the poultry or to endorse such feathered homecoming as a positive good; rather, it is merely to note two things: first, that what goes around, indeed, comes around—a notion with longstanding theological grounding—and secondly, that the U.S. has indeed engaged in more than enough violence against innocent people to make it just a tad bit hypocritical for us to then evince shock and outrage about an attack on ourselves, as if the latter were unprecedented. He noted that we killed far more people, far more innocent civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki than were killed on 9/11 and ‘never batted an eye.’ That this statement is true is inarguable, at least amongst sane people. He is correct on the math, he is correct on the innocence of the dead (neither city was a military target), and he is most definitely correct on the lack of remorse or even self-doubt about the act: sixty-plus years later most Americans still believe those attacks were justified, that they were needed to end the war and ‘save American lives.’ But not only does such a calculus suggest that American lives are inherently worth more than the lives of Japanese civilians (or, one supposes, Vietnamese, Iraqi or Afghan civilians too), but it also ignores the long-declassified documents, and President Truman’s own war diaries, all of which indicate clearly that Japan had already signaled its desire to end the war, and that we knew they were going to surrender, even without the dropping of atomic weapons. The conclusion to which these truths then attest is simple, both in its basic veracity and it monstrousness: namely, that in those places we committed premeditated and deliberate mass murder, with no justification whatsoever; and yet for saying that I will receive more hate mail, more hostility, more dismissive and contemptuous responses than will those who suggest that no body coun t is too high when we’re the ones doing the killing. Jeremiah Wright becomes a pariah, because, you see, we much prefer the logic of George Bush the First, who once said that as President he would ‘never apologize for the United States of America. I don’t care what the facts are.’ And Wright didn’t say blacks should be singing ‘God Damn America.’ He was suggesting that blacks owe little moral allegiance to a nation that has treated so many of them for so long as animals, as persons undeserving of dignity and respect, and which even now locks up hundreds of thousands of non-violent offenders (especially for drug possession), even while whites who do the same crimes (and according to the data, when it comes to drugs, more often in fact), are walking around free. His reference to God in that sermon was more about what God will do to such a nation, than it was about what should or shouldn’t happen. It was a comment derived from, and fully in keeping with, the black prophetic tradition, and although one can surely disagree with the theology (I do, actually, and don’t believe that any God either blesses or condemns na tion states for their actions), the statement itself was no call for blacks to turn on America. If anything, it was a demand that America earn the respect of black people, something the evidence and history suggests it has yet to do. Finally, although one can certainly disagree with Wright about his suggestion that the government created AIDS to get rid of black folks—and I do, for instance—it is worth pointing out that Wright isn’t the only one who has said this. In fact, none other than Bill Cosby (oh yes, that Bill Cosby, the one white folks love because of his recent moral crusade against the black poor) proffered his belief in the very same thing back in the early ’90s in an interview on CNN, when he said that AIDS may well have been created to get rid of people whom the government deemed ‘undesirable’ including gays and racial minorities. So that’s the truth of the matter: Wright made one comment that is highly arguable, but which has also been voiced by white America’s favorite black man, another that was horribly misinterpreted and stripped of all context, and then another that was demonstrably accurate. And for this, he is pilloried and made into a virtual enemy of the state; for this, Barack Obama may lose the support of just enough white folks to cost him the Democratic nomination, and/or the Presidency; all of it, because Jeremiah Wright, unlike most preachers opted for truth. If he had been one of those ‘prosperity ministers’ who says Jesus wants nothing so much as for you to be rich, like Joel Osteen, that would have been fine. Had he been a retread bigot like Falwell was, or Pat Robertson is, he might have been criticized, but he would have remained in good sta nding and surely not have damaged a Presidential candidate in this way. But unlike Osteen, and Falwell, and Robertson , Jeremiah Wright refused to feed his parishioners lies. What Jeremiah Wright knows, and told his flock—though make no mistake, they already knew it—is that 9/11 was neither the first, nor worst act of terrorism on American soil. The history of this nation for folks of color, was for generations, nothing less than an intergenerational hate crime, one in which 9/11s were woven into the fabric of everyday life: hundreds of thousands of the enslaved who died from the conditions of their bondage; thousands more who were lynched (as many as 10,000 in the first few years after the Civil War, according to testimony in the Congressional Record at the time); millions of indigenous persons wiped off the face of the Earth. No, to some, the horror of 9/11 was not new. To some it was not on that day that ‘everything changed.’ To some, everything changed four hundred years ago, when that first ship land ed at what would become Jamestown. To some, everything changed when their ancestors were forced into the hulls of slave ships at Goree Island and brought to a strange land as chattel. To some, everything changed when they were run out of Northern Mexico, only to watch it become the Southwest United States, thanks to a war of annihilation initiated by the U.S. government. To some, being on the receiving end of terrorism has been a way of life. Until recently it was absolutely normal in fact. But white folks have a hard time hearing these simple truths. We find it almost impossible to listen to an alternative version of reality. Indeed, what seems to bother white people more than anything, whether in the recent episode, or at any other time, is being confronted with the recognition that black people do not, by and large, see the world like we do; that black people, by and large, do not view America as white people view it. We are, in fact, shocked that this should be so, having come to believe, apparently, that the falsehoods to which we cling like a kidney patient clings to a dialysis machine, are equally shared by our darker-skinned compatriots. This is what James Baldwin was talking about in his classic 1972 work, No Name in the Street, wherein he noted: ‘White children, in the main, and whether they are rich or poor, grow up with a grasp of reality so feeble that they can very accurately be described as deluded—about themselves and the world they live in. White people have managed to get through their entire lifetimes in this euphoric state, but black people have not been so lucky: a black man who sees the world the way John Wayne, for example, sees it would not be an eccentric patriot, but a raving maniac.’ And so we were shocked in 1987, when Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall declined to celebrate the bicentennial of the Constitution, because, as he noted, most of that history had been one of overt racism and injustice, and to his way of thinking, the only history worth celebrating had been that of the past three or four decades. We were shocked to learn that black people actually believed that a white cop who was a documented racist might frame a black man; and we’re shocked to learn that lots of black folks still perceive the U.S. as a racist nation—we’re literally stunned that people who say they experience discrimination regularly (and who have the social science research to back them up) actually think that those experiences and that data might actually say something about the nation in which they reside. Imagine. Whites are easily shocked by what we see and hear from Pastor Wright and Trinity Church, because what we see and hear so thoroughly challenges our understanding of who we are as a nation. But black people have never, for the most part, believed in the imagery of the ‘shining city on a hill,’ for they have never had the option of looking at their nation and ignoring the mountain-sized warts still dotting its face when it comes to race. Black people do not, in the main, get misty eyed at the sight of the flag the way white people do—and this is true even for millions of black veterans—for they understand that the nation for whom that flag waves is still not fully committed to their own equality. They have a harder time singing those tunes that white people seem so eager to belt out, like ‘God Bless America,’ for they know that whites s ang those words loudly and proudly even as they were enforcing Jim Crow segregation, rioting against blacks who dared move into previously white neighborhoods, throwing rocks at Dr. King and then cheering, as so many did, when they heard the news that he had been assassinated. Whites refuse to remember (or perhaps have never learned) that which black folks cannot afford to forget. I’ve seen white people stunned to the point of paralysis when they learn the truth about lynchings in this country—when they discover that such events were not just a couple of good old boys with a truck and a rope hauling some black guy out to the tree, hanging him, and letting him swing there. They were never told the truth: that lynchings were often community events, advertised in papers as ‘Negro Barbecues,’ involving hundreds or even thousands of whites, who would join in the fun, eat chicken salad and drink sweet tea, all while the black victims of their depravity were being hung, then shot, then burned, and then having their body parts cut off, to be handed out to onlookers. They are stunned to learn that postcards of the e vents were traded as souvenirs, and that very few whites, including members of their own families did or said anything to stop it. Rather than knowing about and confronting the ugliness of our past, whites take steps to excise the less flattering aspects of our history so that we need not be bothered with them. So, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for example, site of an orgy of violence against the black community in 1921, city officials literally went into the town library and removed all reference to the mass killings in the Greenwood district from the papers with a razor blade—an excising of truth and an assault on memory that would remain unchanged for over seventy years. Most white people desire, or perhaps even require the propagation of lies when it comes to our history. Surely we prefer the lies to anything resembling, even remotely, the truth. Our version of history, of our national past, simply cannot allow for the intrusion of fact into a worldview so thoroughly identified with fiction. But that white version of America is not only extraordinarily incomplete, in that it so favors the white experience to the exclusion of others; it is more than that; it is actually a slap in the face to people of color, a re-injury, a reminder that they are essentially irrelevant, their concerns trivial, their lives unworthy of being taken seriously. In that sense, and what few if any white Americans appear capable of grasping at present, is that ‘Leave it Beaver’ and ‘Father Knows Best,’ portray an America so div orced from the reality of the times in which they were produced, as to raise serious questions about the sanity of those who found them so moving, so accurate, so real. These iconographic representations of life in the U.S. are worse than selective, worse than false, they are assaults to the humanity and memory of black people, who were being savagely oppressed even as June Cleaver did housework in heels and laughed about the hilarious hijinks of Beaver and Larry Mondello. These portraits of America are certifiable evidence of how disconnected white folks were—and to the extent we still love them and view them as representations of the ‘good old days’ to which we wish we could return, still are—from those men and women of color with whom we have long shared a nation. Just two months before ‘Leave it to Beaver’ debuted, proposed civil rights legislation was killed thanks to Strom Thurmond’s 24-hour filibuster speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate. One month prior, Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus called out the National Guard to block black students from entering Little Rock Central High; and nine days before America was introduced to the Cleavers, and the comforting image of national life they represented, those black students were finally allowed to enter, amid the screams of enraged, unhinged, vicio usly bigoted white people, who saw nothing wrong with calling children n**** in front of cameras. That was America of the 1950s: not the sanitized version into which so many escape thanks to the miracle of syndication, which merely allows white people to relive a lie, year after year after year. No, it is not the pastor who distorts history; Nick at Nite and your teenager’s textbooks do that. It is not he who casts aspersions upon ‘this great country’ as Barack Obama put it in his public denunciations of him; it is the historic leadership of the nation that has cast aspersions upon it; it is they who have cheapened it, who have made gaudy and vile the promise of American democracy by defiling it with lies. They engage in a patriotism that is pathological in its implications, that asks of those who adhere to it not merely a love of country but the turning of one’s nation into an idol to be worshipped, it not literally, then at least in terms of consequence. It is they—the flag-lapel-pin wearing leaders of this land—who bring shame to the country with their nonsensical suggestions that we are always noble in warfare, always well-intended, and although we occasionally make mistakes, we are never the ones to blame for anything. Nothing that happens to us has anything to do with us at all. It is always about them. They are evil, crazy, fanatical, hate our freedoms, and are jealous of our prosperity. When individuals prattle on in this manner we diagnose them as narcissistic, as deluded. When nations do it—when our nation does—we celebrate it as though it were the very model of rational and informed citizenship. So what can we say about a nation that values lies more than it loves truth? A place where adherence to sincerely believed and internalized fictions allows one to rise to the highest offices in the land, and to earn the respect of millions, while a willingness to challenge those fictions and offer a more accurate counter-narrative earns one nothing but contempt, derision, indeed outright hatred? What we can say is that such a place is signing its own death warrant. What we can say is that such a place is missing the only and last opportunity it may ever have to make things right, to live up to its professed ideals. What we can say is that such a place can never move forward, because we have yet to fully address and come to terms with that which lay behind. What can we say about a nation where white preachers can lie every week from their pulpits without so much as having to worry that their lies might be noticed by the shiny white faces in their pews, while black preachers who tell one after another essential truth are demonized, not only for the stridency of their tone—which needless to say scares white folks, who have long preferred a style of praise and worship resembling nothing so much as a coma—but for merely calling b****** on those whose lies are swallowed whole? And oh yes, I said it: white preachers lie. In fact, they lie with a skill, fluidity, and precision unparalleled in the history of either preaching or lying, both of which histories stretch back a ways and have often overlapped. They lie every Sunday, as they talk about a Savior they have chosen to represent dishonestly as a white man, in every picture to be found of him in their tabernacles, every children’s story book in their Sunday Schools, every Christmas card they’ll send to relatives and friends this December. But to lie about Jesus, about the one they consider God—to bear false witness as to who this man was and what he looked like—is no cause for concern. Nor is it a problem for these preachers to teach and preach that those who don’t believe as they believe are going to hell. Despite the fact that such a belief casts aspersions upon God that are so profound as to defy belief—after all, they imply that God is so fundamentally evil that he would burn non-believers in a lake of eternal fire—many of the white folks who now condemn Jeremiah Wright welcome that theology of hate. Indeed, back when President Bush was the Governor of Texas, he endorsed this kind of thinking, responding to a question about whether Jews were going to go to hell, by saying that unless one accepted Jesus as one’s personal savior, the Bible made it pretty clear that indeed, hell was where you’d be heading. So you can curse God in this way—and to imply such hate on God’s part is surely to curse him—and in effect, curse those who aren’t Christians, and no one says anything. That isn’t considered bigoted. That isn’t considered beyond the pale of polite society. One is not disqualified from becoming President in the minds of millions because they go to a church that says that s** every single week, or because they believe it themselves. And millions do believe it, and see nothing wrong with it whatsoever. So white folks are mad at Jeremiah Wright because he challenges their views about their country. Meanwhile, those same white folks, and their ministers and priests, every week put forth a false image of the God Jeremiah Wright serves, and yet it is whites who feel we have the right to be offended. Pardon me, but something is wrong here, and whatever it is, is not to be found at Trinity United Church of Christ. Tim Wise is the author of: White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son (Soft Skull Press, 2005), and Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White (Routledge: 2005). He can be reached at: timjwise@msn.com This essay originally appeared in Lip

By Mike from NY

January 13, 2009 12:34 PM | Link to this

Here’s my thought’s on free agency and the draft; pending cap numbers and player availability, go after (in this order) Asomugha, Hayneseworth, Vilma and Peppers. Maybe try moving Anderson from DE to OLB (a la Terrell Suggs); bolster O line and LB’s in draft, unless a great Safety or catching/blocking TE too good to pass up is available.

By Reality

January 13, 2009 12:38 PM | Link to this

I’ve got one! January 13, 2009 12:31 PM. I don’t know what it said(who has time to read all of that)but if nothing else, it should exceed word limit.

By neckville- Falcons

January 13, 2009 12:56 PM | Link to this

you call that list stars . only one has a ring and two to the pro bowl. you would not know a star if he fell on your head, you must be A want to be fan or a Dawg fan. You clowns still have a bust at QB.

The BUC Exposed him for what he is (overated) can’t read a defensive and a punk under pressure.all HYPE. Watch next year . You will hear I told you so! Go BUC we have a ring! From 1966 till now nothing but the neckville blues!! As long as they wear red and black they will lose!!

By Mike from NY

January 13, 2009 1:05 PM | Link to this

Here’s my thought’s on free agency and the draft; pending cap numbers and player availability, go after (in this order) Asomugha, Hayneseworth, Vilma and Peppers. Maybe try moving Anderson from DE to OLB (a la Terrell Suggs); bolster O line and LB’s in draft, unless a great Safety or catching/blocking TE too good to pass up is available.

By Mike from NY

January 13, 2009 1:09 PM | Link to this

Here’s my thought’s on free agency and the draft; pending cap numbers and player availability, go after (in this order) Asomugha, Hayneseworth, Vilma and Peppers. Maybe try moving Anderson from DE to OLB (a la Terrell Suggs); bolster O line and LB’s in draft, unless a great Safety or catching/blocking TE too good to pass up is available.

By Howie in Augusta

January 13, 2009 1:14 PM | Link to this

My main reflection was just waiting for the Falcons to go into a 3 or 4 week tailspin and they never did…This season just goes to show you that all you need is to get into the playoffs and anything can happen….Philly and Ariz. in the NFC championship game?????????? I also realize that as promising as this team is that it doesn’t take much to go from 11 -5 to something much worse….the 2009 schedule is going to be tougher and it’ll be more difficult for us to get into the playoffs…I just hope we can get some help on defense…

P.S. Thanks for the blog Orlando….I am a disabled veteran who is retired and enjoy reading other peoples thoughts on the Falcons and other sports issues…..I just hate that people need to use this priviledge we have to sound off on their own personal viewpoints about things most of us aren’t interested in hearing…..

By Mike from NY

January 13, 2009 1:17 PM | Link to this

Here’s my thought’s on free agency and the draft; pending cap numbers and player availability, go after (in this order) Asomugha, Hayneseworth, Vilma and Peppers. Maybe try moving Anderson from DE to OLB (a la Terrell Suggs); bolster O line and LB’s in draft, unless a great Safety or catching/blocking TE too good to pass up is available.

By neckville- Falcons

January 13, 2009 1:33 PM | Link to this

The BUC Exposed Vick for what he is (overated) can’t read a defense and a punk under pressure.all HYPE.Watch next year.You will hear I told you so!Go Falcon we have a QB! From 1966 till now nothing but neckville blues!!

By Reality

January 13, 2009 2:15 PM | Link to this

The blog has a new retard: “neckville- Falcons”. Or, is it one of our usual bunch of suspects using a new name? It really doesn’t matter. “It” is just an automatic skip when scrolling.

By The Anti-Vick

January 13, 2009 2:27 PM | Link to this

DOL, How about a character limit? i’m not talking about certain individuals (even though that might not be a bad idea) but limit how much someone can type (or cut and paste).

By Reality

January 13, 2009 2:50 PM | Link to this

“Anti-Vick” The feds would be after us. These people are severely handicapped(mentally)and cut and pasting is their therapy. Just skip on by.

By Marcus

January 13, 2009 3:01 PM | Link to this

DOL, Who are the Falcons “sweet on” as a play-making safety, esp. since 2 very good ones (Myrone Rolle - FSU and Taylor Mays - Southern Cal) are going to wait until 2010?

By neckville- Falcons

January 13, 2009 3:24 PM | Link to this

Reality, I’m sorry fo insu……….fo insul……….fo insulting you in my earlierer post. I’m sorry i don’t spell rite two. It not yore fault I hate Rayan so much. Hes just week arm and no sence at qb. Maybe one day I like him to Vick, kno what i mean?

By JuliusCesaer

January 13, 2009 3:31 PM | Link to this

I am extremely disappointed with the Falcons playoff run. I know that the Falcons are a better team than the Arizona Cardinals and the Philly Eagles because their record is better than both of them. Its unfortunate because if the Falcons dont turn the ball over against the Cardinals, I think they beat the Cardinals and get to face Philly in the NFC championship game for sweet revenge. I SAID IT BEFORE AND ILL SAY IT AGAIN — THE FALCONS COULD HAVE BEENS SUPERBOWL CHAMPIONS THIS YEAR. Of the NFLs final four teams, Im sure the Falcons can beat all of them. I think the AFC is stronger than the NFC but that notwithstanding the Falcons were good enough to get to the Superbowl. That they are NOT playing in the big game at SuperSunday is a HUGE disappointment. I read somewhere today that the Falcons would like to acquire Julius Peppers. That is a very easy and smooth transaction to accomplish. Simply trade Mike Vick for Julius Peppers straight up and we land one of the greatest defensive players in the history of the NFL. Case closed.

By Reality

January 13, 2009 3:41 PM | Link to this

neckville-Falcons. If your “apology” is for real—it is unnecessary. You are entitled to cheer for whomever you want. And to express your preferences on here. D Led makes the rules. I just try to follow them. Have a nice one.

By Reality

January 13, 2009 3:57 PM | Link to this

JuliusCesaer[sic] Julius Peppers is going to be a free agent. So unless the Panthers re-signed him AND then traded him(unlikely),a trade of Vick for him would be worthless. Hopefully, we can sign him as a free agent and trade Vick for draft choices.

By Reality

January 13, 2009 5:24 PM | Link to this

Hey Anti-Vick. I really like your style. You and I think a lot alike. Think maybe we could get together for some cocktails and conversation (heh-heh). I’m told that I’m very attractive in a Boy George sort of way. I think we both play for the same team, unlike these other retard brutes on this blog. Call me. Toodles.

By Boy George

January 13, 2009 5:31 PM | Link to this

Call you “Toodles”? Really?

By JJ

January 13, 2009 5:56 PM | Link to this

NAT TURNER III - what the f*!!! This is a sports blog and race/religion/wright are not the topic. Who do you think the falcons should draft, rev. wright?

By The Anti-Vick

January 13, 2009 6:09 PM | Link to this

Sorry, The Anti-Vick does not play on the same team as Vick does. He probably makes a good RuPaul in the big house though…

By Vick Supporter

January 13, 2009 7:09 PM | Link to this

January 20th, 2009………

By Mike

January 13, 2009 7:11 PM | Link to this

Peppers is an unristricted free agent so there will not be a trade for him. I think he will be to pricey, and keep the Falcons from filling other voids. I would rather see Suggs here and try to add some depth to the secondary. With Suggs on the other side of Abe, and draft a good DT (I like Raji from BC late in the first round) our D line could be a force. Mike from NY I love the idea of getting Asomugha…but I think I am sure the Raiders will slap the tag on him. Haynesworth is a monster, but has had issues with injuries. I guess we will see how it all pans out. As far as trading Vick for draft choices, I am not sure that is feasible. He has been out of the league for two years now. There will be a lot of uncertainty surrounding his character, and teams will be reluctant to pay to high of a price for him due to the fact he has been out of the game for a couple of years. I think a 4th round pick will be a stretch, a fifth may be more likely. It would be a lot easier to measure if anyone had any certainty as to how sharp he would be once he returned. Maybe someone will be willing to take a risk and give a little more, I mean Denver drafted Clarette in the third, and Oakland took a kicker in the first before…so anything is possible.

By Reality

January 13, 2009 7:20 PM | Link to this

I think most of us, if not all, have been around this blog long enough to recognize “signatures” such as (Heh heh). If not…so what.

By Nostradamus

January 13, 2009 7:55 PM | Link to this

January 20, 2009 That is the date when I predict that…the groundhog will see his shadow. Joke!! Actually, that is the date some small group of idiots in Atlanta Georgia think that some savior will return and lead them to the promised land. Even a bigger joke!! BTW, this is the year of the dog.

By neck-ville Falcons& FANS

January 13, 2009 7:55 PM | Link to this

They should be called the neck-ville (same as loser ville) Falcons. what great player would come to neck-ville. They would be a fool. The media and the neck would throw them under the bus! just read this blog! Sam Baker is a bust, Matt. Ryan is a bust. The only good move the GM at neck-ville made was to bring in Mike Turner! He has been great. But next year the hope will be gone. Look who Neck-ville Falcons will play next year. They will be 6-10. this year was real kind to the necks. They are Exposed now!!! Buc’s rule!!!

By neck-ville Falcons& FANS

January 13, 2009 8:01 PM | Link to this

They should be called the neck-ville (same as loser ville) Falcons. what great player would come to neck-ville. They would be a fool. The media and the neck would throw them under the bus! just read this blog! Sam Baker is a bust, Matt. Ryan is a bust. The only good move the GM at neck-ville made was to bring in Mike Turner! He has been great. But next year the hope will be gone. Look who Neck-ville Falcons will play next year. They will be 6-10. this year was real kind to the necks. They are Exposed now!!! Buc’s rule!!!

By Spell Check

January 13, 2009 8:02 PM | Link to this

neck-ville Falcons & Fan Bro, you sure learned to spell in a hurry. But, you are still a dumbazz.

By Vick Supporter

January 13, 2009 8:14 PM | Link to this

I should say……Vickuary 20th, 2009

By neck-ville Falcons & Fans

January 13, 2009 8:15 PM | Link to this

I are a black man but I is well edicated and hjave a good gob. I are a cystem engineef with plenty of time to screw up this blog. I worsheep the ground Michael Vick walks on. I even gave him some of my dogs for target practice. I hupe Michael returns soon and heps me to get a life.

By A Pirate's Life for Me

January 13, 2009 8:26 PM | Link to this

Buc’s rule? Tampa Bay is the only city in America that celebrates the glory of being a pirate………………..WTF!!

By Producer

January 13, 2009 8:35 PM | Link to this

I am doing a pirates movie in Tampa Bay. Johnnie Gruden will play Peter Pan.

By Walt Disney Lawyers

January 13, 2009 8:46 PM | Link to this

Producer, We’ll be in touch.

By pirate-ville Bucs

January 13, 2009 8:59 PM | Link to this

Why in the world would any Great player go to pirat-ville(same as I’ve fallen and I can’t get up ville) Bucs. Brooks is old and Barber is old. The only good move that coach at pirate-ville made was build his retirement home. What hope awaits you next season? The Black Pearl?

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 13, 2009 10:35 PM | Link to this

I LOVE IT WHEN THEY CALL ME BIG EASY

OH YEAH AND 830

IT AIN’T EASY BEING BIG 830

IT AIN’T EASY BEING CHEESY

HAVE A NICE DAY :)

By bigeasy830

January 14, 2009 4:53 AM | Link to this

By VICK SUPPORTER 2, explain that one to me. It was way over my head.

By bigeasy830 LOST IN SPACE

January 14, 2009 7:57 AM | Link to this

LOL, man that’s some funny sh**. I guess that makes big sleazy so NOTORIOUS. I knew VS2 was funny, but this is priceless.

By Dumb Azz

January 14, 2009 8:33 AM | Link to this

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. THIS IS HILARIOUS HOW DID YOU GET TO BE SO FUNNY? TELL ME AT RECESS

By bigeasy830

January 14, 2009 9:47 AM | Link to this

VS2, I got it, I know you like my post. To the haters, you can call me sleezy all the want, but your old ladies call me the “THE MANTENANCE MAN”. Because I know how to fix it and you can’t. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Fresh for 2009, YOU SUCKERS!!!!!!!

AND That is in tribute to KRSONE, check out Prophets vs Profits best Hip Hop CD in ages.

By Slim Shady

January 14, 2009 10:41 AM | Link to this

bigeasy830

I’m going to perform an experiment on you just to see……………

What a frog looks like when it takes two hits of x-tasy……………

Here’s a mirror, want to take a look and see………………..

Wait, put these sun glasses on, now look in the mirror, what do you have in common?………………….

You’re both green with envy and look like idiots with sun glasses on em’………………..

By Dumb Azz

January 14, 2009 10:52 AM | Link to this

Slim Shady Now THAT’S hilarious!!!! LOLLMAOROFL

By bigeasy830

January 14, 2009 10:57 AM | Link to this

VS and VS2 look like the haters are trying to get us to turn on each other since the cold reality that their GOLDEN BOY QB is a chump, Stay Strong and STAY UNITED.

Fresh for 2009, You SUCKERS!!!!!!!!

By Billy Bob

January 14, 2009 11:02 AM | Link to this

The old lady said some dude calling himself the MANTENANCE(sick)Man came around wanting to know if he could “fix” anything. So, she gave him a couple of cold biscuits and let him take out the trash.

By Slim Shady

January 14, 2009 11:26 AM | Link to this

bigeasy830

I could give a flying fk who you’re united with. Our so called GOLDEN BOY played you like a chump. Made you look like an idot all season. How do your feet taste? Need a tooth pick?

Stay Strong and STAY UNITED. LMAO, how gay is that?

By Billy Bob

January 14, 2009 12:14 PM | Link to this

VS, VS2 and bigeasy830 are “united” in a 3-spoon position. They are waiting for January 20th to make it a foursome.

By Reality

January 14, 2009 12:27 PM | Link to this

I’m signing off for now. Maybe as the FA signings and the draft approaches somebody will want to talk football.

By b

January 14, 2009 12:50 PM | Link to this

How does “one and done” translate to “playoff run”..??…..

By GumbyWilliams

January 14, 2009 2:20 PM | Link to this

The Falcons blew their chance to go to the Superbowl. As I mentioned in an earlier BLOG, the two remainding teams to decide their entry into the superbowl had worse winning percentages than the Falcons this year. In order words, the Falcons had a better record (11-5) than both the Eagles (9-6-1) and Arizona (9-7). This does not mean the Falcons were a superior team but it shows me that they did have the talent to make it to the superbowl and they forfeited that opportunity by playing lousy against the Cardinals. The Falcons played great in quarter #2 against the Cardinals and therefore went into intermission at halftime leading the game 17-14. Then the Falcons came out into the third quarter of the Cardinals playoff game flatter than a pancake and subsequently lost the game to a vastly inferior team. It certainly hurts because most falcons fans are so giddy about Mike Smith (being named coach of the year); Matt Ryan (being named rookie of the year); the Falcons first post-season appearance in a while; Mike Turner finishing the season with over 1500 yards and a pro-bowl appearance; Roddy White finishing the year with over 1000 receiving yards and making the pro-bowl; All of those accomplishments mean nothing unless you at least make it to the superbowl which is where the Falcons failed. I think the Falcons had the BEST overall talent in the league but couldnt prove it on the field because of their inexperience and their being intimidated by other teams. The Falcons could have easily gone 14-2 this season, because I felt that they were badly outplayed in just two games this year; the first carolina game and the first tampa game. The other three losses the Falcons had, Denver, Philly and New Orleans the Falcons should have won those games. In the Atlanta Falcons you are looking at a team that could have and should have won the superbowl this season, but they couldnt because they didnt believe they were good enough to even make the playoffs much less win a playoff game. Its really a shame that they wasted ALL OF THAT TALENT. And what do you think will happen when Michael Vick returns. Vick will probably get his starting job back at quarterback and we will finally make it to the superbowl. Got to be like Mike!

By GumbyWilliams

January 14, 2009 2:20 PM | Link to this

The Falcons blew their chance to go to the Superbowl. As I mentioned in an earlier BLOG, the two remainding teams to decide their entry into the superbowl had worse winning percentages than the Falcons this year. In order words, the Falcons had a better record (11-5) than both the Eagles (9-6-1) and Arizona (9-7). This does not mean the Falcons were a superior team but it shows me that they did have the talent to make it to the superbowl and they forfeited that opportunity by playing lousy against the Cardinals. The Falcons played great in quarter #2 against the Cardinals and therefore went into intermission at halftime leading the game 17-14. Then the Falcons came out into the third quarter of the Cardinals playoff game flatter than a pancake and subsequently lost the game to a vastly inferior team. It certainly hurts because most falcons fans are so giddy about Mike Smith (being named coach of the year); Matt Ryan (being named rookie of the year); the Falcons first post-season appearance in a while; Mike Turner finishing the season with over 1500 yards and a pro-bowl appearance; Roddy White finishing the year with over 1000 receiving yards and making the pro-bowl; All of those accomplishments mean nothing unless you at least make it to the superbowl which is where the Falcons failed. I think the Falcons had the BEST overall talent in the league but couldnt prove it on the field because of their inexperience and their being intimidated by other teams. The Falcons could have easily gone 14-2 this season, because I felt that they were badly outplayed in just two games this year; the first carolina game and the first tampa game. The other three losses the Falcons had, Denver, Philly and New Orleans the Falcons should have won those games. In the Atlanta Falcons you are looking at a team that could have and should have won the superbowl this season, but they couldnt because they didnt believe they were good enough to even make the playoffs much less win a playoff game. Its really a shame that they wasted ALL OF THAT TALENT. And what do you think will happen when Michael Vick returns. Vick will probably get his starting job back at quarterback and we will finally make it to the superbowl. Got to be like Mike!

By Double clutch

January 14, 2009 4:10 PM | Link to this

Hey Bro. You been having to work today? Heh. Heh.

By Old School Falcom

January 14, 2009 4:43 PM | Link to this

TO ALL THE MATTY ICE HATERS

WE KNOW WHY YOU HATE HIM…..AND THAT GIVES US MATTY ICE SUPPORTERS ALOT OF PLEASURE. MATTY ICE WILL BE THE FALCON QB FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT 15 YEARS! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

VICK SUPPORTERS… KEEP UP YOUR HATE…BUT REMEMBER..WE ARE NO LONGER THE FAL- CONS! WE ARE THE MATTY ICE LEAD…RESPECTABLE FALCONS!

MATTY ICE — ROY AND FUTURE SUPER BOWL MVP AND HOF!!

By Old School Falcon

January 14, 2009 4:51 PM | Link to this

TO ALL THE MATTY ICE HATERS

WE KNOW WHY YOU HATE HIM…..AND THAT GIVES US MATTY ICE SUPPORTERS ALOT OF PLEASURE. MATTY ICE WILL BE THE FALCON QB FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT 15 YEARS! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

VICK SUPPORTERS… KEEP UP YOUR HATE…BUT REMEMBER..WE ARE NO LONGER THE FAL- CONS! WE ARE THE MATTY ICE LEAD…RESPECTABLE FALCONS!

MATTY ICE — ROY AND FUTURE SUPER BOWL MVP AND HOF!!

By Old School Falcon

January 14, 2009 4:56 PM | Link to this

TO ALL THE MATTY ICE HATERS

WE KNOW WHY YOU HATE HIM…..AND THAT GIVES US MATTY ICE SUPPORTERS ALOT OF PLEASURE. MATTY ICE WILL BE THE FALCON QB FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT 15 YEARS! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

VICK SUPPORTERS… KEEP UP YOUR HATE…BUT REMEMBER..WE ARE NO LONGER THE FAL- CONS! WE ARE THE MATTY ICE LEAD…RESPECTABLE FALCONS!

MATTY ICE — ROY AND FUTURE SUPER BOWL MVP AND HOF!!

By GoldenRetriever

January 14, 2009 4:56 PM | Link to this

There is a very quick, simple, painless way for the Falcons to snag Julius Peppers. Would you like to know what that is? Simply trade Peppers for Mike Vick. Thats it? That is the biggest no-brainer in the history of the world. vick for peppers or peppers for vick. We dump someone who will never play football again (Vick) for someone who plays with the greatest passion in the NFL (Peppers). No one will object to that trade because Vick was once the highest paid player in the league, so Vick should return one of the games highest paid and most expensive players coming back (Peppers). We could trade for Vick for almost anyone great and that would mean a substantial improvement in the club. Since Vick will probably get cut anyway and we we probably wouldnt get back dog meat for Vick, lets go ahead and trade Vick (while he is still a member of the Falcons roster) for one of the greatest players in the history of the NFL.

By Vet

January 14, 2009 5:18 PM | Link to this

GoldenRetriever You were not one of my brighter “patients” but you have gotten even dumber. As has been said on here 10 times, or more, Peppers is a FA. So, if you “trade” for him all you will get is to watch him walk out the door. If the Falcons are to get Peppers they are going to have to bid for him with other teams. Now, here is a dog biscuit. Sit!!

By Slim Shady

January 14, 2009 5:43 PM | Link to this

bigeasy830

So you think Matt Ryan is a chump. Are you that desperate to make friends with VS and VS2? Here are some of your very own words from the Bird Babe blog titled Defense lets down Falcons:

January 7, 2009 2:54 PM: By bigeasy830, I cannot argue to much about the drafting of this years ROY.

January 8, 2009 10:56 AM: By bigeasy830, I have nothing against Ryan. He was widely considered the best QB in the draft. I really had no problem with them drafting him if not Dorsey or Ellis. I think the only bad move was trading 2 second round picks for Baker.

I now see why you put big in front of easy830. You’re full of sh**!

Stay Strong and STAY UNITED, WOW! LMAO at you!

By neck-ville Falcons& FANS

January 14, 2009 6:41 PM | Link to this

Ryan is a chump Sam Baker is a bigger chump. Two chump in the first round. You clowns still need lineman on both side and this will be your last gift from the powers of the NFL so have a happy off season chump!. You have been Exposed to your weak arm and a real chump under pressure! Roinnie white made Ryan look good till they saw passes were on timing Patton. ONE big tip go to the weight room so you can take a hit chump! Go buc,s

By Whitey

January 14, 2009 7:08 PM | Link to this

chump-chump-chump-chump-chump-chump-chump. See!! I can talk their language. I just don’t use that one word as often as they do. I’ll work on it.

By The truth man

January 14, 2009 7:40 PM | Link to this

I salute Joe Flacco! I’m all for him to do even more. But, the brain-deads on here will not acknowledge that Flacco had a lot more support than Ryan did. Granted, the Falcons on both sides of the ball busted their @sses, but more talented players on other teams busted their’s as well. Reversed, I think Matt would have done as well as Flacco, or better. But, it wasn’t reversed and Flacco did the best with what he had to work with. I am hopeful that TD will give Matt a similar cast to work with next season. Meanwhile, go Flacco!

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 14, 2009 10:47 PM | Link to this

DOWN THE STRETCH

PICKS………..6

FUMBLES……4

SAFETY…..1

THE ONLY REASON LEAF IS NOT BLAMED FOR THIS LOSS IS NOT BECAUSE HE IS A ROOKIE…..IT’S BECAUSE HIS NAME IS NOT MIKE AND HE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO EVEN HOLD MV7 JOCKSTRAP……BUT I’M SURE HE CAN HOLD A CLIP BOARD :)

——EARTH TO ART BLANK———

YOU CAN’T REPLACE “GOD” WITH A “FAKE” POPE

——-JANUARY 20, 2009———

END OF FAILED EXPERIMENT :)

“THANKS FOR PLAYING KIDS”

ART I KNOW YOU ARE NOT HAPPY…..I SAW YOU ON THAT SIDELINE BEFORE THE GAME WAS OVER AND YOU WERE USED TO CELEBRATING A PLAYOFF WIN…..BUT….YOU PROBABLY THOUGHT…..

OH SHOOT HE’S NOT MV7

——-OH DARN IT :)———-

I HATE THOSE RAP LISTENING, FAST MOBILE QUARTERBACKS THAT CAN WIN WITH A SORRY LINE……BUT……

———-CHECK THIS OUT———-

YOU GUYS KEEP BLAMING THE OFFENSIVE LINE…..BUT DIDN’T YOU SAY THIS IS THE SAME LINE THAT MV7 HAD?….INTERESTING…..:)

——-LIKE I SAID ALL SEASON———

72-MILLION DOLLAR BUST

……..IF IT LOOKS LIKE A BUST……

……IF IT SMELLS LIKE A BUST……

——-IT MUST BE A BUST———-

2004 & COUNTING

NO PLAYOFF WINS :)

THINK OF ALL THAT MONEY ART BLANK SPENT TO ERASE THE LEGACY OF THE “GREATEST” FOOTBALL LEGEND……SHALL WE COUNT THE WAYS…..

-BOUGHT THE COMMISSIONER

-BOUGHT A WEAK SCHEDULE

-BOUGHT A PRO BOWL BACK

-BOUGHT A NEW COACH

-BOUGHT A NEW GM

-BOUGHT A NEW COORDINATOR

-USED A COLLEGE OFFENSE

———BUT CHECK THIS OUT———

LEAF STILL SCREWED THAT UP :)

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 15, 2009 1:50 AM | Link to this

DOWN THE STRETCH

PICKS………..6

FUMBLES……4

SAFETY…..1

THE ONLY REASON LEAF IS NOT BLAMED FOR THIS LOSS IS NOT BECAUSE HE IS A ROOKIE…..IT’S BECAUSE HIS NAME IS NOT MIKE AND HE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO EVEN HOLD MV7 JOCKSTRAP……BUT I’M SURE HE CAN HOLD A CLIP BOARD :)

——EARTH TO ART BLANK———

YOU CAN’T REPLACE “GOD” WITH A “FAKE” POPE

——-JANUARY 20, 2009———

END OF FAILED EXPERIMENT :)

“THANKS FOR PLAYING KIDS”

ART I KNOW YOU ARE NOT HAPPY…..I SAW YOU ON THAT SIDELINE BEFORE THE GAME WAS OVER AND YOU WERE USED TO CELEBRATING A PLAYOFF WIN…..BUT….YOU PROBABLY THOUGHT…..

OH SHOOT HE’S NOT MV7

——-OH DARN IT :)———-

I HATE THOSE RAP LISTENING, FAST MOBILE QUARTERBACKS THAT CAN WIN WITH A SORRY LINE……BUT……

———-CHECK THIS OUT———-

YOU GUYS KEEP BLAMING THE OFFENSIVE LINE…..BUT DIDN’T YOU SAY THIS IS THE SAME LINE THAT MV7 HAD?….INTERESTING…..:)

——-LIKE I SAID ALL SEASON———

72-MILLION DOLLAR BUST

……..IF IT LOOKS LIKE A BUST……

……IF IT SMELLS LIKE A BUST……

——-IT MUST BE A BUST———-

2004 & COUNTING

NO PLAYOFF WINS :)

THINK OF ALL THAT MONEY ART BLANK SPENT TO ERASE THE LEGACY OF THE “GREATEST” FOOTBALL LEGEND……SHALL WE COUNT THE WAYS…..

-BOUGHT THE COMMISSIONER

-BOUGHT A WEAK SCHEDULE

-BOUGHT A PRO BOWL BACK

-BOUGHT A NEW COACH

-BOUGHT A NEW GM

-BOUGHT A NEW COORDINATOR

-USED A COLLEGE OFFENSE

———BUT CHECK THIS OUT———

LEAF STILL SCREWED THAT UP :)

By bigeasy830

January 15, 2009 4:25 AM | Link to this

By The truth man, you people don’t understand what it takes to make a championship team. That is why the Falcons will make the play-offs every two or three years and you all will be happy with that. I use to be a Falcon fan but F the Falcons Arthur Blank and Matt Ryan. if the Falcons wanted to build a Super Bowl caliber team they would have drafted a D-lineman, I wanted Dorsey but would have settled for Ellis and drafted a QB in the second round. I wanted Flacco or Henne if they chose to do so. But, I would have been happy with Redman as my starter. What you and some others don’t understand is that Baltimore won only 5 or 6 gaames last year and they missed the play-offs. Joe Flacco madea bigger difference to that team than you all give him credit for. I am not a Falcco bandwagon guy. Check the archives I liked Flacco since before the draft. Now, who’s the brain dead one. We are right and Ryan is the next coming of Danny Weurfell. The last three games of the regular season and the play-off games are true indicators of his skills. He has been exposed. Next season the Falcons will win no more than 5 games. TO those who love to blog about the 2008 record, the 08 season is over for the Falcons. They are sitting at home just like Detroit.

Fresh for 2009, You Suckers!!!!!!

2008 is in the rearview for the Falcons. hahahahaha

By mars

January 15, 2009 7:59 AM | Link to this

Let’s see if Vick Supporter and Najeh Davenpoop have anything to say about Vick Supporter 2’s wild assertions, or if we have a bit of hypocrisy flying around. Bought the commissioner, huh? Anyone demanding proof?……Well?

By The truth man

January 15, 2009 8:23 AM | Link to this

Mars You don’t actually read his rantings, do you?

By Proof & Truth Reader

January 15, 2009 8:38 AM | Link to this

D Led—

Why not on future blogs just put boxes for check marks beside the “original” entry by VS, VS2 and “bigeasy830? Since they say the same thing each time, they can just add a check mark and it will make it easier for the rest of us to scroll past them. How ‘bout it?

By ME

January 15, 2009 9:18 AM | Link to this

VICK SUPPORTER 2 take all that energy your spending on here and go and get yourself a job cause evidently you have nothing but time on your hands….

By igotxx3

January 15, 2009 10:14 AM | Link to this

falcons should draft asher allen

By VICK SUPPORTER 2

January 15, 2009 10:20 AM | Link to this

MONEY COMPARISONS

———72-MILLION———-

VS

————30-MILLION—————-

FALCONS 2007 RECORD…..4-12

RAVENS 2007 RECORD……3-13 (SAME DEFENSE)

———-PLAYOFFS————

LEAF……1 AND DONE

FLACCO……CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

BUST

VS

WINNER

By Slim Shady

January 15, 2009 10:30 AM | Link to this

bigeasy830

You’re so full of crap it’s no wonder you go by the name bigeasy. Your flip flopping @$$ couldn’t pick your own nose let alone a franchise QB. The only credit I give you is being on Flacco’s nuts since the draft. Comparing Ryan to ole’ Danny Boy is like comparing Vick to Akili Smith. Your lameness manifests itself everytime you trash Ryan when in other posts you claim to have no problem with him. At least the Vick Supporters picked a side and stayed on it. You keep screaming about how we should have taken a DT instead of Ryan. Name one d@mn team that has picked a DT in the first round and made him the cornerstone of the franchise. You said that Dorsey’s stats weren’t bad for a rookie DT, but then say Ryan is a chump even though he won ROY, passed for over 3,000 yds, pro bowl alternate, and most importantly helped lead a left for dead franchise to the playoffs. What did you say after the last preseason game this year? Didn’t you say the Falcons would go like 2-14 with Ryan as our starting QB? WOW, you sure do know your football! Not to worry, a lot of people were suprised by the turn around including me, but the sad thing is, you’re still making bogus lame @$$ predictions while still pretending like your just keeping it real. You’re faker than Vick when he was being investigated by the Feds.

By VinceLombardy

January 15, 2009 11:07 AM | Link to this

The VICK SUPPORTERS out there are incredibly stupid. They have some sick, misguided, convoluted belief that Mike Vick will return to the Falcons and take back his starting quarterback job; leaving Ryan to carry the clipboard for Vick, the same way Matt Schaub used to do. VICK SUPPORTERS, your theory is foolish and totally nonsensical. Vick will never return to the NFL ever again. Vick still has to face punishment and suspension from Roger Goddel and Goddel may suspend Vick for 10 years just to make an example out of him. VICK SUPPORTERS please, I am begging you to GIVE UP YOUR SUPPORT FOR VICK because you are simply wasting your time and you are annoying, aggravating, irritating and littering the BLOGS with nonsensical foolishness that will never happen again. Just bag it so that we can all have peace again on the blogwaves. Thanks.

By FredFlinstone

January 15, 2009 12:20 PM | Link to this

Newsflash for Vick Supporters: Mike Vick just escaped from prison and it was announced by carrier pigeon that Vick will return to the starting lineup next year as starting quarterback, moving Matt Ryan (Leaf) to backup quarterback to Vick. Everybody at Once Join In: HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa Merry Christmas, Happy Quanza, Happy New Year, God Bless You and Wake Up from Your Fantasy!

By mars

January 15, 2009 4:59 PM | Link to this

Truth man, I’m just someone who has been accused of not providing proof when stating situations that we all know happened, but that the previous mentioned pair demanded proof in the form of a link to someones written column (as if THAT wouldn’t just be someones opinion, but actual proof). Proof is required when it’s anything they disagree with. When it’s something they DO agree with, then the proof is in the assertion and no more proof is necessary. Everyone else is unfair and must prove their statements unless agreeing with them. “Do as I say, and not as I do.” The definition of hypocrisy.

By mars

January 15, 2009 5:06 PM | Link to this

Truth man, see archives from January 3, 09 Schultz- “This was not how Falcons were supposed to end.” You’ll see what I’m talking about.

By mars

January 15, 2009 5:17 PM | Link to this

Bought a weak schedule, huh? He said it, so it must be true, right VS and Najeh?

By Joey Porter

January 16, 2009 4:12 PM | Link to this

VS2 you have single handedly destroyed the myth about matt ryan. How you accomplished this is remarkable. Arthur blank is looking to pay you to stop these damning posts.

Indeed on the 20th the experiment will be over.

By mars

January 20, 2009 1:45 PM | Link to this

Yeah, wow! That McNabb sure put a hurtin’ on the Cards. Whoa! What a massacre. That should show how weak Matty Ice and the Falcons were, to lose to Arizona! And that Flacco, woo-hoo! Did he ever put it to the Steelers! That should prove who the real Rookie of the Year is. Vick Supporter 2, how DO you do it, man? I’m in awe!

By Eddie

January 22, 2009 9:53 AM | Link to this

It was fun watching the team gel and feed off each other. In the beginning the defense didn’t play that well….but picked it up midseason and played at a higher lever. It was fun and look forward to seeing the Falcons in the playoffs next year!

By johann

January 25, 2009 2:10 PM | Link to this

Playoff run? That wasn’t a playoff run. They made it in, which I am very happy and proud of them for, but a run infers that they won games in the playoffs and moved on. Either way, I am very much looking forward to seeing what our team can do next year. If we can inprove our defense, we may actually have a run in the playoffs. Go falcons